dourh - Deuteronomy:21-26

dourh@Deuteronomy:21:1 @ Then there shall be found in the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee, the corpse of a man slain, and it is not known who is guilty of the murder,

dourh@Deuteronomy:21:2 @ Thy ancients and judges shall go out, and shall measure from the place where the body lieth the distance of every city round about:

dourh@Deuteronomy:21:3 @ And the ancients of that city which they shall perceive to be nearer than the rest, shall take a heifer of the herd, that hath not drawn in the yoke, nor ploughed the ground,

dourh@Deuteronomy:21:4 @ And they shall bring her into a rough and stony valley, that never was ploughed, nor sown: and there they shall strike off the head of the heifer:

dourh@Deuteronomy:21:5 @ And the priests the sons of Levi shall come, whom the Lord thy God hath chosen to minister to him, and to bless in his name, and that by their word every matter should be decided, and whatsoever is clean or unclean should be judged.

dourh@Deuteronomy:21:6 @ And the ancients of that city shall come to the person slain, and shall wash their hands over the heifer that was killed in the valley,

dourh@Deuteronomy:21:7 @ And shall say: Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.

dourh@Deuteronomy:21:8 @ Be merciful to thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, O Lord, and lay not innocent blood to their charge, in the midst of thy people Israel. And the guilt of blood shall be taken from them:

dourh@Deuteronomy:21:9 @ And thou shalt be free from the innocent's blood, that was shed, when thou shalt have done what the Lord hath commanded thee.

dourh@Deuteronomy:21:10 @ If thou go out to fight against thy enemies, and the Lord thy God deliver them into thy hand, and thou lead them away captives,

dourh@Deuteronomy:21:11 @ And seest in the number of the captives a beautiful woman, and lovest her, and wilt have her to wife,

dourh@Deuteronomy:21:12 @ Thou shalt bring her into thy house: and she shall shave her hair, and pare her nails,

dourh@Deuteronomy:21:13 @ And shall put off the raiment, wherein she was taken: and shall remain in thy house, and mourn for her father and mother one month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and shalt sleep with her, and she shall be thy wife.

dourh@Deuteronomy:21:14 @ Rut if afterwards she please thee not, thou shalt let her go free, but thou mayst not sell her for money nor oppress her by might because thou hast humbled her.

dourh@Deuteronomy:21:15 @ If a man have two wives, one beloved, and the other hated, and they have had children by him, and the son of the hated be the firstborn,

dourh@Deuteronomy:21:16 @ And he meaneth to divide his substance among his sons: he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn, and prefer him before the son of the hated.

dourh@Deuteronomy:21:17 @ But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, and shall give him a double portion of all he hath: for this is the first of his children, and to him are due the first birthrights.

dourh@Deuteronomy:21:18 @ If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the commandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth obedience:

dourh@Deuteronomy:21:19 @ They shall take him and bring him to the ancients of his city, and to the gate of judgment,

dourh@Deuteronomy:21:20 @ And shall say to them: This our son is rebellious and stubborn, he slighteth hearing our admonitions, he giveth himself to revelling, and to debauchery and banquetings:

dourh@Deuteronomy:21:21 @ The people of the city shall stone him: and he shall die, that you may take away the evil out of the midst of you, and all Israel hearing it may be afraid.

dourh@Deuteronomy:21:22 @ When a man hath committed a crime for which he is to be punished with death, and being condemned to die is hanged on a gibbet:

dourh@Deuteronomy:21:23 @ His body shall not remain upon the tree, but shall be buried the same day: for he is accursed of God that hangeth on a tree: and thou shalt not defile thy land, which the Lord thy God shall give thee in possession.

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:1 @ Thou shalt not pass by if thou seest thy brother's ox, or his sheep go astray: but thou shalt bring them back to thy brother.

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:2 @ And if thy brother be not nigh, or thou know him not: thou shalt bring them to thy house, and they shall be with thee until thy brother seek them, and receive them.

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:3 @ Thou shalt do in like manner with his ass, and with his raiment, and with every thing that is thy brother's, which is lost: if thou find it, neglect it not as pertaining to another.

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:4 @ If thou see thy brother's ass or his ox to be fallen down in the way, thou shalt not slight it, but shalt lift it up with him.

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:5 @ A woman shall not be clothed with man's apparel, neither shall a man use woman's apparel: for he that doeth these things is abominable before God.

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:6 @ If thou find as thou walkest by the way, a bird's nest in a tree, or on the ground, and the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs: thou shalt not take her with her young:

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:7 @ But shalt let her go, keeping the young which thou hast caught: that it may be well with thee, and thou mayst live a long time.

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:8 @ When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a battlement to the roof round about: lest blood be shed in thy house, and thou be guilty, if any one slip, and fall down headlong.

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:9 @ Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest both the seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of the vineyard, be sanctified together.

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:10 @ Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together.

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:11 @ Thou shalt not wear a garment that is woven of woollen and linen together.

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:12 @ Thou shalt make strings in the hem at the four corners of thy cloak, wherewith thou shalt be covered.

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:13 @ If a man marry a wife, and afterwards hate her,

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:14 @ And seek occasions to put her away, laying to her charge a very ill name, and say: I took this woman to wife, and going in to her, I found her not a virgin:

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:15 @ Her father and mother shall take her, and shall bring with them the tokens of her virginity to the ancients of the city that are in the gate:

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:16 @ And the father shall say: I gave my daughter unto this man to wife: and because he hateth her,

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:17 @ He layeth to her charge a very ill name, so as to say: I found not thy daughter a virgin: and behold these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the ancients of the city:

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:18 @ And the ancients of that city shall take that man, and beat him,

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:19 @ Condemning him besides in a hundred sides of silver, which he shall give to the damsel's father, because he hath defamed by a very ill name a virgin of Israel: and he shall have her to wife, and may not put her away all the days of his life.

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:20 @ But if what he charged her with be true, and virginity be not found in the damsel:

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:21 @ They shall cast her out of the doors of her father's house, and the men of the city shall stone her to death, and she shall die: because she hath done a wicked thing in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee.

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:22 @ If a man lie with another man's wife, they shall both die, that is to say, the adulterer and the adulteress: and thou shalt take away the evil out of Israel.

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:23 @ If a man have espoused a damsel that is a virgin, and some one find her in the city, and lie with her,

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:24 @ Thou shalt bring them both out to the gate of that city, and they shall be stoned: the damsel, because she cried not out, being in the city: the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife. And thou shalt take away the evil from the midst of thee.

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:25 @ But if a man find a damsel that is betrothed, in the field, and taking hold of her, lie with her, he alone shall die:

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:26 @ The damsel shall suffer nothing, neither is she guilty of death: for as a robber riseth against his brother, and taketh away his life, so also did the damsel suffer:

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:27 @ She was alone in the field: she cried, and there was no man to help her.

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:28 @ If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, who is not espoused, and taking her, lie with her, and the matter come to judgment:

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:29 @ He that lay with her shall give to the father of the maid fifty sides of silver, and shall have her to wife, because he hath humbled her: he may not put her away all the days of his life.

dourh@Deuteronomy:22:30 @ No man shall take his father's wife, nor remove his covering.

dourh@Deuteronomy:23:1 @ An eunuch, whose testicles are broken or cut away, or yard cut off, shall not enter into the church of the Lord.

dourh@Deuteronomy:23:2 @ A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation.

dourh@Deuteronomy:23:3 @ The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation shall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever:

dourh@Deuteronomy:23:4 @ Because they would not meet you with bread and water in the way, when you came out of Egypt: hand because they hired against thee Balaam, the son of Beer, from Mesopotamia in Syria, to curse thee.

dourh@Deuteronomy:23:5 @ And the Lord thy God would not hear Balaam, and he turned his cursing into thy blessing, because he loved thee.

dourh@Deuteronomy:23:6 @ Thou shalt not make peace with them, neither shalt thou seek their prosperity all the days of thy life for ever.

dourh@Deuteronomy:23:7 @ Thou shalt not abhor the Edomite, because he is thy brother: nor the Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.

dourh@Deuteronomy:23:8 @ They that are born of them, in the third generation shall enter into the church of the Lord.

dourh@Deuteronomy:23:9 @ When thou goest out to war against thy enemies, thou shalt keep thyself from every evil thing.

dourh@Deuteronomy:23:10 @ If there be among you any man, that is defiled in a dream by night, he shall go forth out of the camp.

dourh@Deuteronomy:23:11 @ And shall not return, before he be washed with water in the evening: and after sunset he shall return into the camp.

dourh@Deuteronomy:23:12 @ Thou shalt have a place without the camp, to which thou mayst go for the necessities of nature,

dourh@Deuteronomy:23:13 @ Carrying a paddle at thy girdle. And when thou sittest down, thou shalt dig round about, and with the earth that is dug up thou shalt cover

dourh@Deuteronomy:23:14 @ That which thou art eased of: (for the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thy enemies to thee:) and let thy camp be holy, and let no uncleanness appear therein, lest he go away from thee.

dourh@Deuteronomy:23:15 @ Thou shalt not deliver to his master the servant that is fled to thee.

dourh@Deuteronomy:23:16 @ He shall dwell with thee ill the place that shall please him, and shall rest, in one of thy cities: give him no trouble.

dourh@Deuteronomy:23:17 @ There shall be no whore among the daughters of Israel, nor whoremonger among the sons of Israel.

dourh@Deuteronomy:23:18 @ Thou shalt not offer the hire of a strumpet, nor the price of a dog, in the house of the Lord thy God, whatsoever it be that thou hast vowed: because both these are an abomination to the Lord thy God.

dourh@Deuteronomy:23:19 @ Thou shalt not lend to thy brother money to usury, nor corn, nor any other thing:

dourh@Deuteronomy:23:20 @ But to the stranger. To thy brother thou shalt lend that which he wanteth, without usury: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all thy works in the land, which thou shalt go in to possess.

dourh@Deuteronomy:23:21 @ When thou hast made a vow to the Lord thy God, thou shalt not delay to pay it: because the Lord thy God will require it. And if thou delay, it shall be imputed to thee for a sin.

dourh@Deuteronomy:23:22 @ If thou wilt not promise, thou shalt be without sin.

dourh@Deuteronomy:23:23 @ But that which is once gone out of thy lips, thou shalt observe, and shalt do as thou hast promised to the Lord thy God, and hast spoken with thy own will and with thy own mouth.

dourh@Deuteronomy:23:24 @ Going into thy neighbour's vineyard, thou mayst eat as many grapes as thou pleasest: but must carry none out with thee:

dourh@Deuteronomy:23:25 @ If thou go into thy friend's corn, thou mayst break the ears, and rub them in thy hand: but not reap them with a sickle.

dourh@Deuteronomy:24:1 @ If a man take a wife, and have her, and she find not favour in his eyes, for some uncleanness: he shall write a bill of divorce, and shall give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

dourh@Deuteronomy:24:2 @ And when she is departed, and marrieth another husband,

dourh@Deuteronomy:24:3 @ And he also hateth her, and hath given her a bill of divorce, and hath sent her out of his house or is dead:

dourh@Deuteronomy:24:4 @ The former husband cannot take her again to wife: because she is defiled, and is become abominable before the Lord: lest thou cause thy land to sin, which the Lord thy God shall give thee to possess.

dourh@Deuteronomy:24:5 @ When a man hath lately taken a wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall any public business be enjoined him, but he shall be free at home without fault, that for one year he may rejoice with his wife.

dourh@Deuteronomy:24:6 @ Thou shalt not take the nether, nor the upper millstone to pledge: for he hath pledged his life to thee.

dourh@Deuteronomy:24:7 @ If ally man be found soliciting his brother of the children of Israel, and selling him shall take a price, he shall be put to death, and thou shalt take away the evil from the midst of thee.

dourh@Deuteronomy:24:8 @ Observe diligently that thou incur not the stroke of the leprosy, but thou shalt do whatsoever the priests of the Levitical race shall teach thee, according to what I have commanded them, and fulfil thou it carefully.

dourh@Deuteronomy:24:9 @ Remember what the Lord your God did to Mary, in the way when you came out of Egypt.

dourh@Deuteronomy:24:10 @ When thou shalt demand of thy neighbour any thing that he oweth thee, thou shalt not go into his house to take away a pledge:

dourh@Deuteronomy:24:11 @ But then shalt stand without, and he shall bring out to thee what he hath.

dourh@Deuteronomy:24:12 @ But if he be poor, the pledge shall not lodge with thee that night,

dourh@Deuteronomy:24:13 @ But thou shalt restore it to him presently before the going down of the sun: that he may sleep in his own raiment and bless thee, and thou mayst have justice before the Lord thy God.

dourh@Deuteronomy:24:14 @ Thou shalt not refuse the hire of the needy, and the poor, whether he be thy brother, or a stranger that dwelleth with thee in the land, and is within thy gates:

dourh@Deuteronomy:24:15 @ But thou shalt pay him the price of his labour the same day, before the going down of the sun, because he is poor, and with it maintaineth his life: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it be reputed to thee for a sin.

dourh@Deuteronomy:24:16 @ The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children for the fathers, but every one shall die for his own sin.

dourh@Deuteronomy:24:17 @ Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger nor of the fatherless, neither shalt thou take away the widow's raiment for a pledge.

dourh@Deuteronomy:24:18 @ Remember that thou wast a slave in Egypt, and the Lord thy God delivered thee from thence. Therefore I command thee to do this thing.

dourh@Deuteronomy:24:19 @ When thou hast reaped the corn in thy field, and hast forgot and left a sheaf, thou shalt not return to take it away: but thou shalt suffer the stranger, and the fatherless and the widow to tabs it away: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands.

dourh@Deuteronomy:24:20 @ If thou have gathered the fruit of thy olive trees, thou shalt not return to gather whatsoever remaineth on the trees: but shalt leave it for the stranger, for the fatherless, and the widow.

dourh@Deuteronomy:24:21 @ If thou make the vintage of thy vineyard, thou shalt not gather the clusters that remain, but they shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.

dourh@Deuteronomy:24:22 @ Remember that thou also wast a bondman in Egypt, and therefore I command thee to do this thing.

dourh@Deuteronomy:25:1 @ If there be a controversy between men, and they call upon the judges: they shall give the prize of justice to him whom they perceive to be just: and him whom they find to be wicked, they shall condemn of wickedness.

dourh@Deuteronomy:25:2 @ And if they see that the offender be worthy of stripes: they shall lay him down, and shall cause him to be beaten before them. According to the measure of the sin shall the measure also of the stripes be:

dourh@Deuteronomy:25:3 @ Yet so, that they exceed not the number of forty: lest thy brother depart shamefully torn before thy eyes.

dourh@Deuteronomy:25:4 @ Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out thy corn on the floor.

dourh@Deuteronomy:25:5 @ When brethren dwell together, and one of them dieth without children, the wife of the deceased shall not marry to another: but his brother shall take her, and raise up seed for his brother:

dourh@Deuteronomy:25:6 @ And the first son he shall have of her he shall call by his name, that his name be not abolished out of Israel.

dourh@Deuteronomy:25:7 @ But if he will not take his brother's wife, who by law belongeth to him, the woman shall go to the gate of the city, and call upon the ancients, and say: My husband's brother refuseth to raise up his brother's name in Israel: and will not take me to wife.

dourh@Deuteronomy:25:8 @ And they shall cause him to be sent for forthwith, and shall ask him. If he answer: I will not take her to wife:

dourh@Deuteronomy:25:9 @ The woman shall come to him before the ancients, and shall take off his shoe from his foot, and spit in his face, and say: So shall it be done to the man that will not build up his brother's house:

dourh@Deuteronomy:25:10 @ And his name shall be called in Israel, the house of the unshod.

dourh@Deuteronomy:25:11 @ If two men have words together, and one begin to fight against the other, and the other's wife willing to deliver her husband out of the hand of the stronger, shall put forth her hand, and take him by the secrets,

dourh@Deuteronomy:25:12 @ Thou shalt cut off her hand, neither shalt thou be moved with any pity in her regard.

dourh@Deuteronomy:25:13 @ Thou shalt not have divers weights in thy bag, a greater and a less:

dourh@Deuteronomy:25:14 @ Neither shall there be in thy house a greater bushel and a less.

dourh@Deuteronomy:25:15 @ Thou shalt have a just and a true weight, and thy bushel shall be equal and true: that thou mayest live a long time upon the land which the Lord thy God shall give thee.

dourh@Deuteronomy:25:16 @ For the Lord thy God abhorreth him that doth these things, and he hateth all injustice.

dourh@Deuteronomy:25:17 @ Remember what Amalec did to thee in the way when thou camest out of Egypt:

dourh@Deuteronomy:25:18 @ How he met thee: and slew the hindmost of the army, who sat down, being weary, when thou wast spent with hunger and labour, and he feared not God.

dourh@Deuteronomy:25:19 @ Therefore when the Lord thy God shall give thee rest, and shall have subdued all the nations round about in the land which he hath promised thee: thou shalt blot out his name from under heaven. See thou forget it not.

dourh@Deuteronomy:26:1 @ And when thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God will give thee to possess, and hast conquered it, and dwellest in it:

dourh@Deuteronomy:26:2 @ Thou shalt take the first of all thy fruits, and put then? in a basket, and shalt go to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may be invocated there:

dourh@Deuteronomy:26:3 @ And thou shalt go to the priest that shall be in those days, and say to him: I profess this day before the Lord thy God, that I am come into the land, for which he swore to our fathers, that he would give it us.

dourh@Deuteronomy:26:4 @ And the priest taking the basket at thy hand, shall set it before the altar of the Lord thy God:

dourh@Deuteronomy:26:5 @ And thou shalt speak thus in the sight of the Lord thy God: The Syrian pursued my father, who went down into Egypt, and sojourned there in a very small number, and grew into a nation great and strong and of an infinite multitude.

dourh@Deuteronomy:26:6 @ And the Egyptians afflicted us, and persecuted us, laying on us most grievous burdens:

dourh@Deuteronomy:26:7 @ And we cried to the Lord God of our fathers: who heard us, and looked down upon our af

dourh@Deuteronomy:26:9 @ And brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand, and a stretched out arm, with great terror, with signs and wonders:

dourh@Deuteronomy:26:10 @ And brought us into this place, and gave us this land flowing with milk and honey.

dourh@Deuteronomy:26:11 @ And therefore now I offer the firstfruits of the land which the Lord hath given me. And thou shalt leave them in the sight of the ford thy God, adoring the Lord thy God.

dourh@Deuteronomy:26:12 @ And thou shalt feast in all the good things which the Lord thy God hath given thee, and thy house, thou and the Levite, and the stranger that is with thee.

dourh@Deuteronomy:26:13 @ When thou hast made an end of tithing all thy fruits, in the third year of tithes thou shalt give it to the Levite, and to the stranger, and to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled:

dourh@Deuteronomy:26:14 @ And thou shalt speak thus in the sight of the Lord thy God: I have taken that which was sanctified out of my house, and I have given it to the Levite, and to the stranger, and to the fatherless, and to the widow, as thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments nor forgotten thy precepts.

dourh@Deuteronomy:26:15 @ I have not eaten of them is my mourning, nor separated them for any uncleanness, nor spent any thing of them in funerals. I have obeyed the voice of the Lord my God, and have done all things as thou hast commanded me.

dourh@Deuteronomy:26:16 @ Look from thy sanctuary, and thy high habitation of heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou didst swear to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.

dourh@Deuteronomy:26:17 @ This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these commandments and judgments: and to keep and fulfil them with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.

dourh@Deuteronomy:26:18 @ Thou hast chosen the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways and keep his ceremonies, and precepts, end judgments, and obey his command.

dourh@Deuteronomy:26:19 @ And the Lord hath chosen thee this day, to be his peculiar people, as he hath spoken to thee, and to keep all his commandments:

dourh@Deuteronomy:26:20 @ And to make thee higher than all nations which he hath created, to his own praise, and name, and glory: that thou mayst be a holy people of the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken.

dourh@Deuteronomy:27:1 @ And Moses with the ancients of Israel commanded the people, saying: Keep every commandment that I command you this day.