Bible in 90 Days

Do Not Forget Yahweh Your God

8 “The entire commandment that I am commanding you today you shall be careful to do, that you ^(A)may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to give to your fathers. ^2 (B)And you shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has ^(C)led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, ^(D)testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. ³ And He humbled you and let you be hungry and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that ^(E)man does not live by bread alone, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh. ^4 (F)Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years. ^5 (G)Thus you shall know in your heart that Yahweh your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son. ⁶ So you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in His ways and to ^[a]fear Him. ⁷ For ^(H)Yahweh your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills; ⁸ a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; ⁹ a land where you will eat food without scarcity, in which you will not lack anything; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper. ¹⁰ And so ^(I)you will eat and be satisfied, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which He has given you.

¹¹ “^[b]Beware lest you ^(J)forget Yahweh your God by not keeping His commandments and His judgments and His statutes which I am commanding you today; ¹² lest ^(K)you eat and are satisfied and build good houses and live in them, ¹³ and your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and gold multiply, and all that you have multiplies, ¹⁴ and your heart becomes ^[c]lifted up and you ^(L)forget Yahweh your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of ^[d]slavery. ¹⁵ He led you through ^(M)the great and fearsome wilderness, with its ^(N)fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water; He ^(O)brought water for you out of the rock of flint. ¹⁶ In the wilderness He fed you manna ^(P)which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might ^(Q)test you, to do good for you ^[e]in the end, ¹⁷ lest ^(R)you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand made me this wealth.’ ¹⁸ But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for ^(S)it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. ¹⁹ Now it will be, if you ever forget Yahweh your God and walk after other gods and serve them and worship them, ^(T)I testify against you today that you will surely perish. ²⁰ Like the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so ^(U)you shall perish, because you would not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.

Israel Provoked Yahweh

9 “Hear, O Israel! You are crossing over the Jordan today to go in to dispossess ^(V)nations greater and mightier than you, great cities ^[f](W)fortified to heaven, ² a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know and of whom you have heard it said, ‘^(X)Who can stand before the sons of Anak?’ ³ So you shall know today that ^(Y)it is Yahweh your God who is crossing over before you as ^(Z)a consuming fire. He will destroy them, and He will subdue them before you, so that ^(AA)you may dispossess them and make them perish quickly, just as Yahweh has spoken to you.

⁴ “^(AB)Do not say in your heart when Yahweh your God has driven them out before you, saying, ‘Because of my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land,’ but it is ^(AC)because of the wickedness of these nations that Yahweh is dispossessing them before you. ⁵ It is ^(AD)not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you are going to possess their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that Yahweh your God is dispossessing them before you, in order to confirm ^(AE)the ^[g]oath which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

⁶ “So you shall know it is not because of your righteousness that Yahweh your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are ^(AF)a ^[h]stiff-necked people. ⁷ Remember, do not forget how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness; ^(AG)from the day that you went out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh. ⁸ Even ^(AH)at Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was so angry with you that He would have destroyed you. ⁹ When I went up to the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which Yahweh had cut with you, then I remained on the mountain forty days and nights; ^(AI)I neither ate bread nor drank water. ¹⁰ And Yahweh gave me the two tablets of stone ^(AJ)written by the finger of God; and on them were all the words which Yahweh had spoken with you at the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. ¹¹ Now it happened ^(AK)at the end of forty days and nights, that Yahweh gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant. ^12 (AL)Then Yahweh said to me, ‘Arise, go down from here quickly, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They have ^(AM)quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made a molten image for themselves.’ ^13 (AN)Yahweh spoke further to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed, ^[i]they are a ^[j](AO)stiff-necked people. ^14 (AP)Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and ^(AQ)blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and more numerous than they.’

¹⁵ “^(AR)So I turned and came down from the mountain while the mountain was burning with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. ¹⁶ And I saw that you had indeed sinned against Yahweh your God. You had made for yourselves a molten calf; you had turned aside quickly from the way which Yahweh had commanded you. ¹⁷ And I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my hands and shattered them before your eyes. ^18 (AS)And I fell down before Yahweh, ^(AT)as at the first, forty days and nights; ^(AU)I neither ate bread nor drank water ^(AV)because of all your sin which you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of Yahweh to provoke Him to anger. ¹⁹ For ^(AW)I was afraid of the anger and the wrath with which Yahweh was provoked against you in order to destroy you, ^(AX)but Yahweh listened to me that time also. ²⁰ And Yahweh was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him; so I also prayed for Aaron at the same time. ^21 (AY)Now I took your ^[k]sinful thing, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small until it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the brook that came down from the mountain.

²² “Again at ^(AZ)Taberah and at ^(BA)Massah and at ^(BB)Kibroth-hattaavah you provoked Yahweh to wrath. ²³ When Yahweh sent you from ^(BC)Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘^(BD)Go up and possess the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the ^[l]command of Yahweh your God; ^(BE)you did not believe Him, and you did not listen to His voice. ^24 (BF)You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day I knew you.

²⁵ “^(BG)So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and the forty nights, which I ^[m]did because Yahweh had said He would destroy you. ^26 (BH)And I prayed to Yahweh and said, ‘O Lord Yahweh, do not destroy Your people, even Your inheritance, whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a strong hand. ²⁷ Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look at the stiff-neck of this people or at their wickedness or their sin, ²⁸ lest the land from which You brought us say, “^(BI)Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which He had ^[n]promised them and because He hated them He has brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.” ²⁹ Yet they are Your people, even ^(BJ)Your inheritance, whom You have brought out by Your ^(BK)great power and Your outstretched arm.’

The Tablets Rewritten

10 “At that time Yahweh said to me, ‘^(BL)Carve out for yourself two tablets of stone like the former ones, and come up to Me on the mountain, and ^(BM)make an ark of wood for yourself. ^2 (BN)And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets which you shattered, and ^(BO)you shall put them in the ark.’ ³ So ^(BP)I made an ark of acacia wood and ^(BQ)carved out two tablets of stone like the former ones and went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hand. ⁴ And He wrote on the tablets, like the former writing, ^(BR)the Ten ^[o]Commandments ^(BS)which Yahweh had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire ^(BT)on the day of the assembly; and Yahweh gave them to me. ⁵ Then I turned and ^(BU)came down from the mountain and ^(BV)put the tablets in the ark which I had made; ^(BW)and there they are, as Yahweh commanded me.”

⁶ (Now the sons of Israel set out from ^[p]Beeroth ^(BX)Bene-jaakan to Moserah. ^(BY)There Aaron died, and there he was buried, and Eleazar his son ministered as priest in his place. ^7 (BZ)From there they set out to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water. ^8 (CA)At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, to stand before Yahweh ^(CB)to minister for Him and to bless in His name to this day. ^9 (CC)Therefore, Levi does not have a portion or inheritance with his brothers; Yahweh is his inheritance, just as Yahweh your God spoke to him.)

¹⁰ “^(CD)I, moreover, stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights like the first time, and Yahweh listened to me that time also; Yahweh was not willing to destroy you. ¹¹ Then Yahweh said to me, ‘Arise, go on your journey ahead of the people, that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.’

Circumcise Your Heart

¹² “^(CE)So now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God ask from you, but to ^[q]fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all His ways and ^(CF)love Him, and to serve Yahweh your God with ^(CG)all your heart and with all your soul, ¹³ and to keep the commandments of Yahweh and His statutes which I am commanding you today for your good? ¹⁴ Behold, ^(CH)to Yahweh your God belong heaven and the ^[r]highest heavens, ^(CI)the earth and all that is in it. ^15 (CJ)Yet on your fathers did Yahweh set His affection to love them, and He chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as it is this day. ^16 (CK)So circumcise ^[s]your heart, and ^(CL)stiffen your neck no longer. ^17 (CM)For Yahweh your God is the God of gods and the ^(CN)Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the fearsome God ^(CO)who does not show partiality nor ^(CP)take a bribe. ¹⁸ He executes justice for ^(CQ)the orphan and the widow, and shows love for the sojourner by giving him food and clothing. ^19 (CR)So show love for the sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. ²⁰ Yahweh your God you shall fear; Him you shall serve, and to Him you shall ^(CS)cling, and by His name ^(CT)you shall swear. ²¹ He is ^(CU)your praise, and He is your God, who has done these great and fearsome things for you which your eyes have seen. ^22 (CV)Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons in all, ^(CW)and now Yahweh your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Love and Serve Yahweh

11 “You shall therefore ^(CX)love Yahweh your God, and ^(CY)keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments all your days. ² So know this day ^(CZ)that I am not speaking with your sons who have not known and who have not seen the ^[t]discipline of Yahweh your God—His greatness, His strong hand and His outstretched arm, ³ and ^(DA)His signs and His works which He did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land; ⁴ and what He did to Egypt’s army, to its horses and its chariots, ^(DB)when He made the water of the ^[u]Red Sea to ^[v]engulf them while they were pursuing you, and Yahweh made them perish ^[w]utterly; ⁵ and what He did to you in the wilderness until you came to this place; ⁶ and ^(DC)what He did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and ^(DD)every living thing that ^[x]followed them, among all Israel— ⁷ but your own eyes have seen all the great work of Yahweh which He did.

⁸ “You shall therefore keep every commandment which I am commanding you today, ^(DE)so that you may be strong and go in and possess the land into which you are about to cross to possess it; ^9 (DF)so that you may prolong your days on the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, ^(DG)a land flowing with milk and honey. ¹⁰ For the land, into which you are entering to possess it, is not like the land of Egypt from which you came out, where you used to sow your seed and water it with your ^[y]foot like a vegetable garden. ¹¹ But ^(DH)the land into which you are about to cross to possess it, a land of hills and valleys, drinks water from the rain of heaven, ¹² a land for which Yahweh your God cares; ^(DI)the eyes of Yahweh your God are always on it, from the ^[z]beginning even to the end of the year.

¹³ “And it will be that, ^(DJ)if you listen obediently to my commandments which I am commanding you today, ^(DK)to love Yahweh your God and to serve Him ^(DL)with all your heart and all your soul, ¹⁴ that ^[aa](DM)I, Yahweh, will give the rain for your land in its season, the ^[ab](DN)early and ^[ac]late rains, that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your oil. ^15 (DO)And ^[ad]I will give ^[ae]grass in your fields for your cattle, and ^(DP)you will eat and be satisfied. ^16 [af](DQ)Beware lest your hearts be deceived, and you turn away and serve other gods and worship them, ¹⁷ and ^(DR)the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you, and He will ^(DS)shut up the heavens ^(DT)so that there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its fruit; and ^(DU)you will perish quickly from the good land which Yahweh is giving you.

¹⁸ “^(DV)You shall therefore place these words of mine on your heart and on your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as ^[ag]phylacteries between your eyes. ^19 (DW)And you shall teach them to your sons, speaking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up. ^20 (DX)And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, ²¹ so that ^(DY)your days and the days of your sons may be multiplied on the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as ^[ah](DZ)long as the heavens remain above the earth. ²² For if you are ^(EA)careful to keep this entire commandment which I am commanding you to do, ^(EB)to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all His ways, and to ^(EC)cling to Him, ²³ then Yahweh will ^(ED)dispossess all these nations from before you, and you will ^(EE)dispossess nations greater and mightier than you. ^24 (EF)Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours; ^(EG)your border will be from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the river, the river Euphrates, as far as the ^[ai]western sea. ^25 (EH)No man will be able to stand before you; Yahweh your God will put the dread of you and the fear of you on all the land on which you set foot, as He has spoken to you.

A Blessing and a Curse

²⁶ “^(EI)See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: ²⁷ the ^(EJ)blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I am commanding you today; ²⁸ and the ^(EK)curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn aside from the way which I am commanding you today, by walking after other gods which you have not known.

²⁹ “And it will be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, ^(EL)that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. ³⁰ Are they not across the Jordan, west of the way toward the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite ^(EM)Gilgal, beside ^(EN)the ^[aj]oaks of Moreh? ³¹ For you are about to cross the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Yahweh your God is giving you, and ^(EO)you shall possess it and live in it, ³² and you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the judgments which I am setting before you today.

Yahweh’s Chosen Place of Worship

12 “These are the statutes and the judgments which you shall be careful to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess ^(EP)all the days you live on the ^[ak]earth. ² You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the ^(EQ)high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. ^3 (ER)And you shall tear down their altars and shatter their sacred pillars and burn their ^[al]Asherim with fire, and you shall cut the graven images of their gods in pieces and ^(ES)destroy their name from that place. ⁴ You shall not do thus toward Yahweh your God. ^5 (ET)But you shall seek Yahweh at the place which Yahweh your God will choose from all your tribes, to establish His name there for His dwelling, and there you shall come. ⁶ And there you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, ^(EU)your tithes, the ^[am]contribution of your hand, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock. ⁷ There also you and your households shall eat before Yahweh your God, and ^(EV)be glad in all that you send forth your hand to do, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.

⁸ “You shall not do at all what we are doing here today, ^(EW)every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes; ⁹ for you have not as yet come to ^(EX)the resting place and the ^(EY)inheritance which Yahweh your God is giving you. ¹⁰ Now you will cross the Jordan and live in the land which Yahweh your God is giving you to inherit. And ^(EZ)He will give you rest from all your enemies around you so that you live in security. ^11 (FA)Then it will be that the place in which Yahweh your God will choose for His name to dwell, there you shall bring all that I am commanding you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the ^[an]contribution of your hand, and all your choice votive offerings which you will vow to Yahweh. ¹² And you shall ^(FB)be glad before Yahweh your God, you and your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves, and the ^(FC)Levite who is within your gates, since ^(FD)he has no portion or inheritance with you.

¹³ “^(FE)Beware, lest you offer your burnt offerings in every cultic place you see, ¹⁴ but in the place which Yahweh chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I am commanding you.

¹⁵ “^(FF)However, you may sacrifice and eat meat within any of your gates, ^[ao]whatever you desire, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of ^(FG)the gazelle and the deer. ^16 (FH)Only you shall not eat the blood; ^(FI)you are to pour it out on the ground like water. ^17 (FJ)You are not allowed to eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, or the firstborn of your herd or flock, or any of your votive offerings which you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the ^[ap]contribution of your hand. ¹⁸ But ^(FK)you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in ^(FL)the place which Yahweh your God will choose, you and your son and daughter, and your male and female slaves, and the ^(FM)Levite who is within your gates; and you shall ^(FN)be glad before Yahweh your God in all that you send forth your hand to do. ^19 (FO)Beware lest you forsake the Levite all your days upon your land.

²⁰ “When Yahweh your God enlarges your territory ^(FP)as He has promised you, and you say, ‘I will eat meat,’ because ^[aq]you desire to eat meat, then you may eat meat, ^[ar]whatever you desire. ²¹ If the place where Yahweh your God chooses to set His name is too far away from you, then you may sacrifice of your herd and flock which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates ^[as]whatever you desire. ²² Just as a gazelle or a deer is eaten, so you will eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it. ²³ Only be strong in yourselves ^(FQ)not to eat the blood, for the blood is the ^[at]life, and you shall not eat the ^[au]life with the flesh. ²⁴ You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the ground like water. ²⁵ You shall not eat it, so that ^(FR)it may be well with you and your sons after you, for ^(FS)you will be doing what is right in the sight of Yahweh. ^26 (FT)Only your holy things which you may have and your votive offerings, you shall take and go to the place which Yahweh chooses. ²⁷ And ^(FU)you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of Yahweh your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of Yahweh your God, and ^(FV)you shall eat the flesh.

²⁸ “Be careful to listen to all these words which I command you, so that ^(FW)it may be well with you and your sons after you forever, for you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of Yahweh your God.

²⁹ “When ^(FX)Yahweh your God cuts off before you the nations which you are going in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and inhabit their land, ³⁰ beware lest you be ensnared ^[av]to follow them, after they are destroyed before you, and lest you inquire after their gods, saying, ‘How do these nations serve their gods, that I also may do likewise?’ ^31 (FY)You shall not do thus toward Yahweh your God, for every abominable act which Yahweh hates they have done for their gods; for ^(FZ)they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

³² “^[aw](GA)Whatever I am commanding you, you shall be careful to do; ^(GB)you shall not add to nor take away from it.

Stone Those Who Prophesy Against Yahweh

13 “^[ax](GC)If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, ² and the sign or the wonder comes true, concerning which he spoke to you, saying, ‘^(GD)Let us walk after other gods (whom you have not known) and let us serve them,’ ³ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is ^(GE)testing you to find out if ^(GF)you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul. ^4 (GG)You shall walk after Yahweh your God and fear Him; and you shall keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and ^(GH)cling to Him. ⁵ But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be ^(GI)put to death because he has ^[ay]counseled ^[az]rebellion against Yahweh your God who brought you from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of ^[ba]slavery, ^(GJ)to drive you from the way in which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk. ^(GK)So you shall purge the evil from among you.

⁶ “^(GL)If your brother, your mother’s son, or your son or daughter, or the wife ^[bb]you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, ‘^(GM)Let us go and serve other gods’ (whom neither you nor your fathers have known, ⁷ of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end), ^8 (GN)you shall not be willing to accept him or listen to him; ^(GO)and your eye shall not pity him; and you shall not spare him or conceal him. ^9 (GP)But you shall surely kill him; ^(GQ)your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. ¹⁰ So you shall stone him ^[bc]to death because he has sought ^(GR)to drive you from Yahweh your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of ^[bd]slavery. ¹¹ Thus ^(GS)all Israel will hear and be afraid and will never again do such an evil thing among you.

¹² “If you hear in one of your cities, which Yahweh your God is giving you to live in, anyone saying that ¹³ some vile men have gone out from among you and have driven the inhabitants of their city astray, saying, ‘^(GT)Let us go and serve other gods’ (whom you have not known), ¹⁴ then you shall inquire and search out and ask thoroughly. Behold, if it is true and the matter is confirmed, that this abomination has been done among you, ^15 (GU)you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, ^[be]devoting it to destruction and all that is in it and its cattle with the edge of the sword. ^16 (GV)Then you shall gather all its spoil into the middle of its open square and burn the city and all its spoil with fire as a whole burnt offering to Yahweh your God; and it shall be a ^[bf](GW)ruin forever. It shall never be rebuilt. ¹⁷ Now nothing from that which is devoted to destruction shall cling to your hand, in order that Yahweh may turn from ^(GX)His burning anger and ^(GY)grant compassion to you and show compassion to you and ^(GZ)make you multiply, just ^(HA)as He has sworn to your fathers, ^18 [bg]if you will listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, ^[bh]keeping all His commandments which I am commanding you today, ^[bi]and doing what is right in the sight of Yahweh your God.

Clean and Unclean Animals

14 “You are ^(HB)the sons of Yahweh your God; ^(HC)you shall not gash yourselves nor ^[bj]shave your forehead for the sake of the dead. ² For you are ^(HD)a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a ^(HE)people for His ^[bk]treasured possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

³ “^(HF)You shall not eat any abominable thing. ^4 (HG)These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, ^5 [bl]the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. ⁶ And any animal that divides the hoof and has the hoof split in ^[bm]two and ^[bn]chews the cud, among the animals, that one you may eat. ⁷ Nevertheless, you are not to eat of these among those which ^[bo]chew the cud or among those that divide the hoof in ^[bp]two: the camel and the ^[bq]rabbit and the ^[br]shaphan, for though they ^[bs]chew the cud, they do not divide the hoof; they are unclean for you. ⁸ And the pig, because it divides the hoof but does not chew the cud, it is unclean for you. You shall not eat any of their flesh nor touch their carcasses.

⁹ “These you may eat of all that are in water: anything that has fins and scales you may eat, ¹⁰ but anything that does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.

¹¹ “You may eat any clean bird. ¹² But ^(HH)these are the ones which you shall not eat: the ^[bt]eagle and the vulture and the ^[bu]buzzard, ¹³ and the red kite, the falcon, and the kite in their kinds, ¹⁴ and every raven in its kind, ¹⁵ and the ostrich, the owl, the gull, and the hawk in their kinds, ¹⁶ the little owl, the ^[bv]great owl, the white owl, ¹⁷ the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant, ¹⁸ the stork, and the heron in their kinds, and the hoopoe and the bat. ¹⁹ And all the ^[bw]teeming life with wings are unclean to you; they shall not be eaten. ²⁰ You may eat any clean bird.

²¹ “^(HI)You shall not eat anything which dies of itself. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your gates, so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are ^(HJ)a holy people to Yahweh your God. ^(HK)You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

²² “You ^(HL)shall surely tithe all the produce from ^[bx]what you sow, which comes out of the field every year. ²³ And you shall eat in the presence of Yahweh your God, ^(HM)at the place where He chooses for His name to dwell, the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock, so that you may ^(HN)learn to fear Yahweh your God all your days. ²⁴ And if the ^[by]distance is so great for you that you are not able to ^[bz]bring the tithe, since the place where Yahweh your God chooses ^(HO)to set His name is too far away from you when Yahweh your God blesses you, ²⁵ then you shall ^[ca]exchange it for money and bind the money in your hand and go to the place which Yahweh your God chooses. ²⁶ And you may spend the money for whatever your ^[cb]heart desires: for oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink or whatever your ^[cc]heart ^[cd]desires; and ^(HP)there you shall eat in the presence of Yahweh your God and be glad, you and your household. ²⁷ Also you shall not forsake ^(HQ)the Levite who is within your gates, ^(HR)for he has no portion or inheritance among you.

²⁸ “^(HS)At the end of every third year you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in that year and shall deposit it within your gates. ²⁹ And the Levite, ^(HT)because he has no portion or inheritance among you, and ^(HU)the sojourner, the ^[ce]orphan, and the widow who are within your gates, shall come and ^(HV)eat and be satisfied, in order that ^(HW)Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

Remission of Debt Every Seven Years

15 “^(HX)At the end of every seven years you shall ^[cf]grant a remission of debts. ² And this is the manner of remission: every creditor shall release what he has loaned to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother because the remission from Yahweh has been proclaimed. ^3 (HY)From a foreigner you may exact it, but your hand shall release whatever of yours is with your brother. ⁴ However, there will be no needy one among you, since ^(HZ)Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, ⁵ if only you listen obediently to the voice of Yahweh your God, to be careful to do all this commandment which I am commanding you today. ^6 (IA)For Yahweh your God will bless you as He has promised you, and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow; and you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.

⁷ “If there is ^(IB)a needy one among you, one of your brothers, in any of your gates of the towns in your land which Yahweh your God is giving you, ^(IC)you shall not harden your heart nor close your hand from your needy brother; ⁸ but ^(ID)you shall freely open your hand to him and shall generously lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks. ⁹ Beware lest there be a vile ^[cg]thought in your heart, saying, ‘^(IE)The seventh year, the year of the remission of debts, is near,’ and ^(IF)your eye is hostile toward your needy brother, and you give him nothing; then he ^(IG)may cry to Yahweh against you, and it will be a sin in you. ¹⁰ You shall generously give to him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because ^(IH)for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you send forth your hand to do. ^11 (II)For the needy will never cease to be ^[ch]in the land; therefore I am commanding you, saying, ‘You shall freely open your hand to your brother, to your afflicted and needy in your land.’

¹² “^(IJ)If your brother, a Hebrew man or woman, is sold to you, then he shall serve you six years, but in the seventh year you shall ^[ci]let him go to be free from you. ¹³ When you ^[cj]let him go to be free from you, you shall not ^[ck]let him go empty-handed. ¹⁴ You shall furnish him generously from your flock and from your threshing floor and from your wine vat; you shall give to him as Yahweh your God has blessed you. ¹⁵ And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you; therefore I am commanding you ^[cl]this today. ¹⁶ And it will be that, ^(IK)if he says to you, ‘I will not go out from you,’ because he loves you and your household, since he fares well with you; ¹⁷ then you shall take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also you shall do likewise to your maidservant.

¹⁸ “It shall not seem hard in your sight when you ^[cm]let him go to be free from you, for he has given you six years with ^[cn]double the service of a hired man; so Yahweh your God will bless you in whatever you do.

¹⁹ “^(IL)You shall set apart as holy to Yahweh your God all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock; you shall not work with the firstborn of your herd nor shear the firstborn of your flock. ^20 (IM)You and your household shall eat it every year before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh chooses. ^21 (IN)But if it has any defect, such as lameness or blindness, or any serious defect, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God. ²² You shall eat it within your gates; ^(IO)the unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as ^(IP)a gazelle or a deer. ²³ Only ^(IQ)you shall not eat its blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.

The Passover

16 “Keep ^(IR)the month of Abib and ^[co](IS)celebrate the Passover to Yahweh your God, for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night. ² And you shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God from the flock and the herd, in the place where Yahweh chooses for His name to dwell. ^3 (IT)You shall not eat leavened bread with it; seven days you shall eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste), so that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt ^(IU)all the days of your life. ⁴ For seven days no leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory, and ^(IV)none of the flesh which you sacrifice on the evening of the first day shall remain overnight until morning. ⁵ You are not allowed to sacrifice the Passover in any of your gates of the towns which Yahweh your God is giving you; ⁶ but ^(IW)at the place where Yahweh your God chooses for His name to dwell, there you shall sacrifice the Passover in the evening at sunset, at the appointed time that you came out of Egypt. ⁷ And you shall ^(IX)cook and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God chooses. In the morning you are to return to your tents. ⁸ Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and ^(IY)on the seventh day there shall be ^(IZ)a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God; you shall do no work on it.

The Feast of Weeks

⁹ “^(JA)You shall count seven weeks for yourself; you shall begin to count seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain. ¹⁰ Then you shall ^[cp]celebrate the Feast of Weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give just as Yahweh your God blesses you; ¹¹ and you shall ^(JB)be glad before Yahweh your God, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female slaves and ^(JC)the Levite who is within your gates and ^(JD)the sojourner and the ^[cq]orphan and the widow who are in your midst, in the place where Yahweh your God chooses for His name to dwell. ^12 (JE)And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.

The Feast of Booths

¹³ “^(JF)You shall ^[cr]celebrate the Feast of Booths seven days after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and your wine vat; ¹⁴ and you shall ^(JG)be glad in your feast, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female slaves and the Levite and the sojourner and the ^[cs]orphan and the widow who are within your gates. ¹⁵ Seven days you shall celebrate a feast to Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh chooses, because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether glad.

¹⁶ “^(JH)Three times in a year all your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which He chooses, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Booths, and ^(JI)they shall not appear before Yahweh empty-handed. ¹⁷ Every man ^[ct]shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which He has given you.

Do Not Distort Justice

¹⁸ “You shall appoint for yourself judges and officers in all your gates of the towns which Yahweh your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. ^19 (JJ)You shall not distort justice; ^(JK)you shall not ^[cu]be partial, and ^(JL)you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous. ²⁰ Righteousness! Righteousness, you shall pursue, that ^(JM)you may live and possess the land which Yahweh your God is giving you.

²¹ “^(JN)You shall not plant for yourself an ^[cv]Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Yahweh your God, which you shall make for yourself. ^22 (JO)And you shall not set up for yourself a sacred pillar which Yahweh your God hates.

17 “^(JP)You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox or a sheep which has a defect or any ^[cw]blemish, for that is an abominable thing to Yahweh your God.

² “^(JQ)If there is found in your midst, in any of your gates of the towns which Yahweh your God is giving you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, by trespassing against His covenant, ³ and has gone and ^(JR)served other gods and worshiped them, ^(JS)or the sun or the moon or any of the heavenly host, ^(JT)which I have not commanded, ⁴ and if it is told to you and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire thoroughly. Behold, if it is true and the matter is confirmed that this abomination has been done in Israel, ⁵ then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil deed to your gates, that is, the man or the woman, and ^(JU)you shall stone them, and they will die. ^6 (JV)On the mouth of two witnesses or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death; he shall not be put to death on the mouth of one witness. ^7 (JW)The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. ^(JX)So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

Judging Cases

⁸ “^(JY)If any case is too difficult for you to judge, between ^[cx]one kind of homicide or another, between ^[cy]one kind of lawsuit or another, and between ^[cz]one kind of assault or another, being cases of dispute in your gates, then you shall arise and go up to ^(JZ)the place which Yahweh your God chooses. ⁹ So you shall come to ^(KA)the Levitical priest or the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall inquire of them, and they will declare to you the judgment in the case. ¹⁰ And you shall do according to the ^[da]terms of the judgment which they declare to you from that place which Yahweh chooses; and you shall be careful to do according to all that they teach you. ^11 (KB)According to the ^[db]terms of the law which they teach you, and according to the judgment which they tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the word which they declare to you, to the right or the left. ¹² And the man who acts ^(KC)presumptuously by not listening to the priest who stands there to minister to Yahweh your God, or to the judge, that man shall die; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel. ¹³ Then all the people will hear and be afraid and will not act ^(KD)presumptuously again.

Statutes for the King

¹⁴ “When you enter the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and you ^(KE)possess it and live in it, and you say, ‘^(KF)I will set a king over me like all the nations who are around me,’ ¹⁵ you shall surely set a king over you whom Yahweh your God chooses, one ^(KG)from among your brothers you shall set as king over yourselves; you may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your brother. ^16 (KH)Moreover, he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor shall he ^(KI)cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses. ^(KJ)Yahweh has said to you, ‘You shall never again return that way.’ ^17 (KK)And he shall not multiply wives for himself, ^[dc]or else his heart will turn away; nor shall he greatly increase silver and gold for himself.

¹⁸ “Now it will be when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll ^[dd](KL)in the presence of the Levitical priests. ¹⁹ And it shall be with him, and he shall read it ^(KM)all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, ^[de]to carefully observe all the words of this law and these statutes, ²⁰ that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers ^(KN)and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, so that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his sons in the midst of Israel.

The Portion of the Levites

18 “^(KO)The Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel; they shall eat of the offerings to Yahweh by fire and of His inheritance. ^2 (KP)And they shall have no inheritance among their brothers; Yahweh is their inheritance, as He ^[df]promised them.

³ “^(KQ)Now this shall be the legal judgment for the priests taken from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, either an ox or a sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach. ⁴ You shall give him the ^(KR)first fruits of your grain, your new wine and your oil and the first shearing of your sheep. ^5 (KS)For Yahweh your God has chosen him and his sons from all your tribes, to ^(KT)stand to minister in the name of Yahweh all the days.

⁶ “Now if a Levite comes from any of your gates of the towns throughout Israel where he ^(KU)sojourns and comes ^[dg]whenever he desires to the place which Yahweh chooses, ⁷ then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God like all his brothers the Levites who stand there before Yahweh. ^8 (KV)They shall eat ^[dh]equal portions, except what they receive from the sale of their fathers’ estates.

Do Not Imitate Abominations

⁹ “When you enter the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to ^[di](KW)imitate the abominations of those nations. ¹⁰ There shall not be found among you anyone ^(KX)who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one ^(KY)who practices soothsaying or one who interprets omens or a sorcerer, ¹¹ or one who is an enchanter ^(KZ)or a medium or a spiritist or one who inquires of the dead. ¹² For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh; and ^(LA)because of these abominations Yahweh your God will dispossess them from before you. ^13 (LB)You shall be ^[dj]blameless before Yahweh your God. ¹⁴ For those nations, which you shall dispossess, listen to those who ^(LC)practice soothsaying and to diviners, but as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you to do so.

Yahweh Will Raise Up a Prophet

¹⁵ “^(LD)Yahweh your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers; you shall listen to him. ¹⁶ This is ^(LE)according to all that you asked of Yahweh your God in Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God; let me not see this great fire anymore, or I will die.’ ^17 (LF)And Yahweh said to me, ‘They have ^[dk]spoken well. ¹⁸ I will raise up a prophet from among their brothers like you, and ^(LG)I will put My words in his mouth, and ^(LH)he shall speak to them all that I command him. ^19 (LI)And it will be that whoever will not listen to My words which he shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him. ²⁰ But the prophet who speaks a word ^(LJ)presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or ^(LK)which he speaks in the name of other gods, ^[dl]that prophet shall die.’ ²¹ Now ^[dm]you may say in your heart, ‘How will we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken?’ ^22 (LL)When a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh, if the thing does not come about or come true, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it ^(LM)presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.

Statutes About Cities of Refuge

19 “^(LN)When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations, whose land Yahweh your God gives you, and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and in their houses, ^2 (LO)you shall set apart three cities for yourself in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to ^[dn]possess. ³ You shall prepare the ^[do]roads for yourself, and divide into three parts the territory of your land which Yahweh your God will give you to inherit, ^[dp]so that any manslayer may flee there.

⁴ “^(LP)Now this is the case of the manslayer who may flee there and live: when he strikes down his friend ^[dq]without premeditation, ^[dr]not hating him previously— ⁵ as when a man goes into the forest with his friend to cut wood, and his hand ^[ds]swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron head slips off the ^[dt]handle and ^[du]strikes his friend so that he dies—he may flee to one of these cities and live; ⁶ lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer when his heart is ^[dv]angry, and overtake him, because the way is long, and ^[dw]strike down his life, though he was not deserving of death, since he had not hated him previously. ⁷ Therefore, I am commanding you, saying, ‘You shall set apart three cities for yourself.’

⁸ “Now if Yahweh your God ^(LQ)enlarges your territory, just as He has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which He ^[dx]promised to give to your fathers— ⁹ if you ^[dy]be careful to do all this commandment which I am commanding you today, ^(LR)to love Yahweh your God and to walk in His ways all your days—^(LS)then you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three. ¹⁰ So innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of your land which Yahweh your God gives you as an inheritance, and ^(LT)bloodguiltiness be on you.

¹¹ “But ^(LU)if there is a man who hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and rises up against him and strikes down ^[dz]his life so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities, ¹² then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there and give him over into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. ^13 [ea](LV)You shall not pity him, but ^(LW)you shall purge the blood of the innocent from Israel, that it may go well with you.

Statutes About Boundaries and Witnesses

¹⁴ “^(LX)You shall not move your neighbor’s boundary mark, which the ancestors have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to ^[eb]possess.

¹⁵ “^(LY)A single witness shall not rise up against a man on account of any iniquity or any sin ^[ec]which he has committed; at the mouth of two or three witnesses a matter shall be established. ^16 (LZ)If a malicious witness rises up against a man to ^[ed]accuse him of ^[ee]wrongdoing, ¹⁷ then both the men who have the dispute shall stand ^(MA)before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who will be in office in those days. ¹⁸ And the judges ^(MB)shall inquire thoroughly, and behold, if the witness is a false witness and he has ^[ef]accused his brother falsely, ¹⁹ then ^(MC)you shall do to him just as he had intended to do to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you. ^20 (MD)And the rest will hear and be afraid and will never again do such an evil thing among you. ²¹ Thus ^(ME)your eye shall not show pity: ^(MF)life for life, ^(MG)eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Statutes About Warfare

20 “If you go out to battle against your enemies and see ^(MH)horses and chariots and people more numerous than you, ^(MI)do not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt, is with you. ² Now it will be, when you are drawing near to the battle, the priest shall approach and speak to the people. ³ And he shall say to them, ‘Hear, O Israel, you are drawing near to the battle against your enemies today. Do not let your heart be faint. ^(MJ)Do not be afraid, nor be alarmed, nor be in dread before them, ⁴ for Yahweh your God ^(MK)is the one who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.’ ⁵ The officers also shall speak to the people, saying, ‘Who is the man that has built a new house and has not ^(ML)dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it. ⁶ Who is the man that has planted a vineyard and has not ^[eg]begun to use its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man ^[eh]begin to use its fruit. ^7 (MM)And who is the man that is engaged to a woman and has not ^[ei]married her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man ^[ej]marry her.’ ⁸ Then the officers shall speak further to the people and say, ‘^(MN)Who is the man that is afraid and whose heart is faint? Let him go and return to his house, so that ^[ek]he might not make his brothers’ hearts melt like his heart.’ ⁹ Now it will be that when the officers have finished speaking to the people, they shall appoint commanders of armies at the head of the people.

¹⁰ “If you come near a city to fight against it, you shall call for terms of peace. ¹¹ Now it will be that if it ^[el]agrees to make peace with you and opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall become your ^(MO)forced labor and shall serve you. ¹² However, if it does not make peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. ¹³ And Yahweh your God shall give it into your hand, ^(MP)and you shall strike all the males in it with the edge of the sword. ¹⁴ Only the women and the little ones and ^(MQ)the animals and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall plunder for yourself; and you shall consume the spoil of your enemies which Yahweh your God has given you. ¹⁵ Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations ^[em]nearby. ^16 (MR)Only in the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes. ¹⁷ But you shall devote them to destruction, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as Yahweh your God has commanded you, ¹⁸ so that they may not teach you to do ^(MS)according to all their abominations which they have done for their gods, so that you would ^(MT)sin against Yahweh your God.

¹⁹ “If you besiege a city for many days, to make war against it in order to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by swinging an axe against them; for you may eat from them, and you shall not cut them down. ^[en]For is the tree of the field a man, that it should ^[eo]be besieged by you? ²⁰ Only the trees which you know are not trees for food you shall destroy and cut down, that you may build siegeworks against the city that is making war with you until it falls.

Atonement for Innocent Blood

21 “If a slain person is found fallen in the open country in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to ^[ep]possess, and it is not known who has struck him, ² then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure the distance to the cities which are around the slain one. ³ And it shall be that the city which is nearest to the slain man, that is, the elders of that city, shall take a heifer of the herd, which has not been worked and which has not pulled in a yoke; ⁴ and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which has not been plowed or sown, and they shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley. ⁵ Then ^(MU)the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come near, for Yahweh your God has chosen them to minister for Him and to bless in the name of Yahweh; and every dispute and every ^[eq]assault ^[er]shall be settled by them. ⁶ And all the elders of that city ^[es]who are nearest to the slain man shall ^(MV)wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley; ⁷ and they shall answer and say, ‘Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it. ⁸ Atone for Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, O Yahweh, and do not place the guilt of ^(MW)innocent blood in the midst of Your people Israel.’ And the bloodguiltiness shall be atoned for them. ^9 (MX)So you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the eyes of Yahweh.

Statutes About Domestic Relations

¹⁰ “If you go out to battle against your enemies, and ^(MY)Yahweh your God gives them over into your hands and you take them away captive, ¹¹ and see among the captives a beautiful woman and set your affection on her and would take her as a wife for yourself, ¹² then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall ^(MZ)shave her head and ^[et]trim her nails. ¹³ She shall also ^[eu]remove the clothes of her captivity and shall remain in your house and ^(NA)weep for her father and mother a full month; and after that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. ¹⁴ And it will be that, if you do not desire her, then you shall let her go ^[ev]wherever she wishes; but you shall certainly not sell her for money; you shall not ^[ew]mistreat her because you have ^(NB)humbled her.

¹⁵ “If a man has two wives, the one loved and ^(NC)the other ^[ex]unloved, and both the loved and the ^[ey]unloved have borne him sons, if the firstborn son belongs to the ^[ez]unloved, ¹⁶ then it shall be in the day he ^[fa]wills what he has to his sons, he cannot make the son of the loved the firstborn before the son of the ^[fb]unloved, who is the firstborn. ¹⁷ But he shall recognize the firstborn, the son of the ^[fc]unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that ^[fd]he has, for he is the ^(ND)first of his vigor; ^(NE)the legal judgment for the firstborn belongs to him.

¹⁸ “If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will ^(NF)not obey his father or his mother, and when they discipline him, he will not even listen to them, ¹⁹ then his father and mother shall seize him and bring him out to the elders of his city ^[fe]at the gateway of his hometown. ²⁰ Then they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not listen to our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ ^21 (NG)Then all the men of his city shall stone him, and he will die; so ^(NH)you shall purge the evil from your midst, and ^(NI)all Israel will hear of it and fear.

A Man Hanged on a Tree Is Cursed

²² “And if a man has committed a sin, ^(NJ)the judgment of which is death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, ^23 (NK)his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (because ^(NL)cursed of God is he who is hanged), so that you ^(NM)do not make unclean your land which Yahweh your God gives you as an inheritance.

Various Statutes

22 “^(NN)You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep straying away and ^[ff]ignore them; you shall certainly bring them back to your brother. ² And if your brother is not near you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother searches for it; then you shall give it back to him. ³ Thus you shall do with his donkey, and you shall do likewise with his garment, and you shall do likewise with anything lost by your brother, which he has lost and you have found. You are not allowed to ^[fg]ignore them. ⁴ You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down on the way and ^[fh]ignore them; you shall certainly help him to raise them up.

⁵ “A woman shall not wear man’s clothing, nor shall a man put on a woman’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

⁶ “If you happen to come upon a bird’s nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, ^(NO)you shall not take the mother with the young; ⁷ you shall certainly let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, ^(NP)in order that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.

⁸ “When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone falls from it.

⁹ “^(NQ)You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest ^[fi]all the produce of the seed which you have sown and the increase of the vineyard become defiled.

¹⁰ “^(NR)You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

¹¹ “^(NS)You shall not wear a material mixed of wool and flax together.

¹² “^(NT)You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of your garment with which you cover yourself.

Statutes About Sexual Immorality

¹³ “^(NU)If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then ^[fj]turns against her, ¹⁴ and charges her with shameful deeds and brings forth against her a bad name and says, ‘I took this woman, but when I came near her, I did not find her a virgin,’ ¹⁵ then the girl’s father and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of the girl’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate. ¹⁶ Then the girl’s father shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, but he ^[fk]turned against her; ¹⁷ and behold, he has charged her with shameful deeds, saying, “I did not find your daughter a virgin.” But ^[fl]this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city. ¹⁸ So ^(NV)the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him, ¹⁹ and they shall fine him ^[fm]one hundred shekels of silver and give it to the girl’s father because he brought forth a bad name against a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife; he cannot ^[fn]divorce her all his days.

²⁰ “But if this ^[fo](NW)charge is true, that the girl was not found a virgin, ²¹ then they shall bring out the girl to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her, and she will die because she has ^(NX)committed a disgraceful act in Israel by playing the harlot in her father’s house; thus ^(NY)you shall purge the evil from among you.

²² “^(NZ)If a man is found lying with a married woman, then both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel.

²³ “^(OA)If there is a girl who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her, ²⁴ then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them, and they will die; the girl, because she did not cry out in the city, and the man, because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

²⁵ “But if in the field the man finds the girl who is engaged, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lies with her shall die. ²⁶ But you shall do nothing to the girl; there is no sin in the girl worthy of death, for just as a man rises against his neighbor and murders him, so is this case. ²⁷ When he found her in the field, the engaged girl cried out, but there was no one to save her.

²⁸ “^(OB)If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her and they are found, ²⁹ then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wife because he has violated her; he cannot divorce her all his days.

³⁰ “^[fp](OC)A man shall not take his father’s wife so that he will not uncover his father’s skirt.

Those Who May Not Enter the Assembly

23 “^(OD)No one who is ^[fq]emasculated or has his male organ cut off shall enter the assembly of Yahweh. ² No one of illegitimate birth shall enter the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation, none of his seed shall enter the assembly of Yahweh. ^3 (OE)No Ammonite or Moabite shall enter the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation, none of their seed shall ever enter the assembly of Yahweh, ^4 (OF)because they did not meet you with ^[fr]food and water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you ^(OG)Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of ^[fs]Mesopotamia, to curse you. ⁵ Nevertheless, Yahweh your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, but Yahweh your God ^(OH)turned the curse into a blessing for you because Yahweh your God ^(OI)loves you. ^6 (OJ)You shall never seek their peace or their prosperity all your days.

⁷ “You shall not abhor an Edomite, for ^(OK)he is your brother; you shall not abhor an Egyptian, ^(OL)for you were a sojourner in his land. ⁸ The sons of the third generation who are born to them may enter the assembly of Yahweh.

⁹ “When you go out as ^[ft]an army against your enemies, you shall keep yourself from every evil thing.

¹⁰ “^(OM)If there is among you any man who is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, then he must go outside the camp; he may not ^[fu]reenter the camp. ¹¹ But it shall be when evening approaches, he shall bathe himself with water, and at sundown he may ^[fv]reenter the camp.