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If a man is found slain in the land which LORD thy God gives thee to possess it ,
lying in the field ,
and it not be known who has smitten him ,
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then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth .
And they shall measure to the cities which are round about him who is slain ,
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and it shall be ,
that the city which is nearest to the slain man ,
even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd ,
which has not been worked with ,
and which has not drawn in the yoke ,
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and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a valley with running water ,
which is neither plowed nor sown ,
and shall break the heifer '
s neck there in the valley .
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And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near ,
for LORD thy God has chosen them to minister to him ,
and to bless in the name of LORD ,
and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be .
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And all the elders of that city ,
who are nearest to the slain man ,
shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley ,
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and they shall answer and say ,
Our hands have not shed this blood ,
neither have our eyes seen it .
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Forgive ,
O LORD ,
thy people Israel whom thou have redeemed ,
and allow no innocent blood [
to remain ]
in the midst of thy people Israel .
And the blood shall be forgiven them .
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So shall thou put away the innocent blood from the midst of thee when thou shall do that which is right in the eyes of LORD .
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When thou go forth to battle against thine enemies ,
and LORD thy God delivers them into thy hands ,
and thou carry them away captive ,
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and see among the captives a beautiful woman ,
and thou have a desire for her ,
and would take her to thee to wife ,
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then thou shall bring her home to thy house .
And she shall shave her head ,
and pare her nails ,
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and she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her ,
and shall remain in thy house ,
and bewail her father and her mother a full month .
And after that thou shall go in to her ,
and be her husband ,
and she shall be thy wife .
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And it shall be ,
if thou have no delight in her ,
then thou shall let her go where she will ,
but thou shall not sell her at all for money .
Thou shall not deal with her as a slave ,
because thou have humbled her .
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If a man has two wives ,
the one beloved ,
and the other regarded inferior ,
and they have borne him sons ,
both the beloved and the one regarded inferior ,
and if the first-born son be hers who was regarded inferior ,
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then it shall be ,
in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has ,
that he may not make the son of the beloved the first-born before the son of the one regarded inferior ,
who is the first-born .
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But he shall acknowledge the first-born ,
the son of the one regarded inferior ,
by giving him a double portion of all that he has ,
for he is the beginning of his strength .
The right of the first-born is his .
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If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son ,
who will not obey the voice of his father ,
or the voice of his mother ,
and ,
though they chasten him ,
will not hearken to them ,
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then his father and his mother shall lay hold on him ,
and bring him out to the elders of his city ,
and to the gate of his place .
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And they shall say to the elders of his city ,
This our son is stubborn and rebellious ,
he will not obey our voice .
He is a glutton ,
and a drunkard .
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And all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones .
So thou shall put away the evil from the midst of thee ,
and all Israel shall hear ,
and fear .
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And if a man has committed a sin worthy of death ,
and he be put to death ,
and thou hang him on a tree ,
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his body shall not remain all night upon the tree ,
but thou shall surely bury him the same day ,
for he who is hanged is accursed of God ,
that thou not defile thy land which LORD thy God gives thee for an inheritance .
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Thou shall not see thy brother '
s ox or his sheep go astray ,
and hide thyself from them .
Thou shall surely bring them again to thy brother .
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And if thy brother be not near to thee ,
or if thou do not know him ,
then thou shall bring it home to thy house ,
and it shall be with thee until thy brother seeks after it ,
and thou shall restore it to him .
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And so shall thou do with his donkey ,
and so shall thou do with his garment ,
and so shall thou do with every lost thing of thy brother '
s ,
which he has lost ,
and thou have found .
Thou may not hide thyself .
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Thou shall not see thy brother '
s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way ,
and hide thyself from them .
Thou shall surely help him to lift them up again .
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A woman shall not wear that which pertains to a man ,
neither shall a man put on a woman '
s garment ,
for whoever does these things is an abomination to LORD thy God .
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If a bird '
s nest chance to be before thee in the way ,
in any tree or on the ground ,
with young ones or eggs ,
and the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs ,
thou shall not take the dam with the young .
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Thou shall surely let the dam go ,
but the young thou may take to thyself ,
that it may be well with thee ,
and that thou may prolong thy days .
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When thou build a new house ,
then thou shall make a guard rail for thy roof ,
that thou not bring blood upon thy house ,
if any man falls from there .
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Thou shall not sow thy vineyard with two kinds of seed ,
lest the whole fruit be forfeited :
the seed which thou have sown ,
and the increase of the vineyard .
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Thou shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together .
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Thou shall not wear a mingled stuff ,
wool and linen together .
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Thou shall make for thee fringes upon the four borders of thy clothing ,
with which thou cover thyself .
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If any man takes a wife ,
and goes in to her ,
and dislikes her ,
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and charges her with shameful things ,
and brings up an evil name upon her ,
and says ,
I took this woman ,
and when I came near to her ,
I did not find in her the tokens of virginity ,
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then the father of the damsel ,
and her mother ,
shall take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel '
s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate .
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And the damsel '
s father shall say to the elders ,
I gave my daughter to this man to wife ,
and he dislikes her .
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And ,
lo ,
he has charged her with shameful things ,
saying ,
I did not find in thy daughter the tokens of virginity ,
and yet these are the tokens of my daughter '
s virginity .
And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the c
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And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him ,
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and they shall fine him a hundred [
shekels ]
of silver ,
and give them to the father of the damsel ,
because he has brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel ,
and she shall be his wife .
He may not put her away all his days .
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But if this thing be true ,
that the tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel ,
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then they shall bring the damsel out to the door of her father '
s house ,
and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones ,
because she has wrought folly in Israel ,
to play the harlot in her father '
s house .
So shall thou
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If a man be found laying with a woman married to a husband ,
then they shall both of them die ,
the man that lay with the woman ,
and the woman .
So shall thou put away the evil from Israel .
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If there be a damsel who is a virgin betrothed to a husband ,
and a man finds her in the city ,
and lays with her ,
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then ye shall bring them both out to the gate of that city .
And ye shall stone them to death with stones ,
the damsel ,
because she did not cry out ,
being in the city ,
and the man ,
because he has humbled his neighbor '
s wife .
So thou
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But if the man finds the damsel who is betrothed in the field ,
and the man forces her ,
and lays with her ,
then only the man who lay with her shall die ,
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but to the damsel thou shall do nothing .
There is in the damsel no sin worthy of death .
For as when a man rises against his neighbor ,
and kills him ,
even so is this matter ,
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for he found her in the field ,
the betrothed damsel cried out ,
and there was none to save her .
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If a man finds a damsel who is a virgin ,
who is not betrothed ,
and lays hold on her ,
and lays with her ,
and they be found ,
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then the man who lay with her shall give to the damsel '
s father fifty [
shekels ]
of silver ,
and she shall be his wife ,
because he has humbled her .
He may not put her away all his days .
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A man shall not take his father '
s wife ,
and shall not uncover his father '
s skirt .
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He who is wounded in the testicles ,
or has his private part cut off ,
shall not enter into the assembly of LORD .
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A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of LORD ,
even to the tenth generation none of his shall enter into the assembly of LORD .
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An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of LORD ,
even to the tenth generation none belonging to them shall enter into the assembly of LORD forever ,
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because they met you not with bread and with water on the way ,
when ye came forth out of Egypt ,
and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia ,
to curse thee .
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Nevertheless LORD thy God would not hearken to Balaam ,
but LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing to thee ,
because LORD thy God loved thee .
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Thou shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days forever .
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Thou shall not abhor an Edomite ,
for he is thy brother .
Thou shall not abhor an Egyptian ,
because thou were a sojourner in his land .
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The sons of the third generation who are born to them shall enter into the assembly of LORD .
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When the army goes forth against thine enemies ,
then thou shall keep thee from every evil thing .
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If there be among you any man ,
who is not clean by reason of an accident by night ,
then he shall go abroad out of the camp .
He shall not come inside the camp .
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But it shall be ,
when evening comes on ,
he shall bathe himself in water ,
and when the sun is down ,
he shall come inside the camp .
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Thou shall have a place also outside the camp ,
where thou shall go forth abroad .
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And thou shall have a paddle among thy weapons ,
and it shall be ,
when thou sit down abroad ,
thou shall dig with it ,
and shall turn back and cover that which comes from thee .
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For LORD thy God walks in the midst of thy camp ,
to deliver thee ,
and to give up thine enemies before thee .
Therefore thy camp shall be holy ,
that he may not see an unclean thing in thee ,
and turn away from thee .
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Thou shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped from his master to thee .
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He shall dwell with thee ,
in the midst of thee ,
in the place which he shall choose within one of thy gates ,
where it pleases him best .
Thou shall not oppress him .
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There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel ,
neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel .
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Thou shall not bring the hire of a harlot ,
or the wages of a dog ,
into the house of LORD thy God for any vow ,
for even both these are an abomination to LORD thy God .
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Thou shall not lend upon interest to thy brother :
interest of money ,
interest of food ,
interest of anything that is lent upon interest .
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To a foreigner thou may lend upon interest ,
but to thy brother thou shall not lend upon interest ,
that LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou put thy hand to ,
in the land where thou go in to possess it .
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When thou shall vow a vow to LORD thy God ,
thou shall not be slack to pay it .
For LORD thy God will surely require it of thee ,
and it would be sin in thee .
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But if thou shall forbear to vow ,
it shall be no sin in thee .
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That which has gone out of thy lips thou shall observe and do ,
according as thou have vowed to LORD thy God ,
a freewill-offering ,
which thou have promised with thy mouth .
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When thou come into thy neighbor '
s vineyard ,
then thou may eat thy fill of grapes at thine own pleasure ,
but thou shall not put any in thy vessel .
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When thou come into thy neighbor '
s standing grain ,
then thou may pluck the ears with thy hand ,
but thou shall not move a sickle to thy neighbor '
s standing grain .
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When a man takes a wife ,
and marries her ,
then it shall be ,
if she finds no favor in his eyes ,
because he has found some unseemly thing in her ,
that he shall write her a bill of divorcement ,
and give it in her hand ,
and send her ou
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And when she has departed out of his house ,
she may go and be another man '
s .
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And if the latter husband dislikes her ,
and writes her a bill of divorcement ,
and gives it in her hand ,
and sends her out of his house ,
or if the latter husband dies ,
who took her to be his wife ,
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her former husband ,
who sent her away ,
may not take her again to be his wife after she is defiled .
For that is abomination before LORD ,
and thou shall not cause the land to sin ,
which LORD thy God gives thee for an inheritance .
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When a man takes a new wife ,
he shall not go out in the army ,
neither shall he be charged with any business .
He shall be free at home one year ,
and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken .
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No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge ,
for he takes life to pledge .
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If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the sons of Israel ,
and he deals with him as a slave ,
or sells him ,
then that thief shall die .
So shall thou put away the evil from the midst of thee .
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Take heed in the disease of leprosy ,
that thou observe diligently ,
and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you .
As I commanded them ,
so ye shall observe to do .
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Remember what LORD thy God did to Miriam by the way as ye came forth out of Egypt .
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When thou do lend thy neighbor any manner of loan ,
thou shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge .
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Thou shall stand outside ,
and the man to whom thou lend shall bring forth the pledge outside to thee .
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And if he is a poor man ,
thou shall not sleep with his pledge .
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Thou shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down ,
that he may sleep in his garment ,
and bless thee .
And it shall be righteousness to thee before LORD thy God .
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Thou shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy ,
whether he be of thy brothers ,
or of thy sojourners that are in thy land within thy gates .
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Thou shall give him his hire in his day ,
neither shall the sun go down upon it ,
for he is poor ,
and sets his heart upon it ,
lest he cry against thee to LORD ,
and it be sin to thee .
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The fathers shall not be put to death for the sons ,
neither shall the sons be put to death for the fathers .
Every man shall be put to death for his own sin .
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Thou shall not distort the justice [
due ]
to the sojourner , [
or ]
to the fatherless ,
nor take the widow '
s raiment to pledge ,
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but thou shall remember that thou were a bondman in Egypt ,
and LORD thy God redeemed thee from there .
Therefore I command thee to do this thing .
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When thou reap thy harvest in thy field ,
and have forgotten a sheaf in the field ,
thou shall not go again to fetch it .
It shall be for the sojourner ,
for the fatherless ,
and for the widow ,
that LORD thy God may bless thee in all th
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When thou beat thine olive tree ,
thou shall not go over the boughs again .
It shall be for the sojourner ,
for the fatherless ,
and for the widow .
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When thou gather of thy vineyard ,
thou shall not glean it behind thee .
It shall be for the sojourner ,
for the fatherless ,
and for the widow .
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And thou shall remember that thou were a bondman in the land of Egypt .
Therefore I command thee to do this thing .
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If there be a controversy between men ,
and they come to judgment ,
and [
they ]
judge them ,
then they shall justify the righteous ,
and condemn the iniquitous .
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And it shall be ,
if the iniquitous man is deserving to be beaten ,
that the judge shall cause him to lay down ,
and to be beaten before his face ,
according to his iniquity ,
by number .
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He may give him forty stripes .
He shall not exceed ,
lest ,
if he should exceed ,
and beat him above these with many stripes ,
then thy brother should seem debased to thee .
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Thou shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [
the grain ].
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If brothers dwell together ,
and one of them dies ,
and has no son ,
the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside to a stranger .
Her husband '
s brother shall go in to her ,
and take her to him to wife ,
and perform the duty of a
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And it shall be ,
that the first-born who she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead ,
that his name be not blotted out of Israel .
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And if the man does not want to take his brother '
s wife ,
then his brother '
s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders ,
and say ,
My husband '
s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel .
He will not perform the duty
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Then the elders of his city shall call him ,
and speak to him .
And if he stands ,
and says ,
I do not want to take her ,
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then his brother '
s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders ,
and loose his shoe from off his foot ,
and spit in his face .
And she shall answer and say ,
So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother '
s h
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And his name shall be called in Israel ,
The house of him who has his shoe loosed .
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When men strive together one with another ,
and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who smites him ,
and puts forth her hand ,
and takes him by the privates ,
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then thou shall cut off her hand .
Thine eye shall have no pity .
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Thou shall not have in thy bag diverse weights ,
a great and a small .
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Thou shall not have in thy house diverse measures ,
a great and a small .
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A perfect and just weight thou shall have ,
a perfect and just measure thou shall have ,
that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee .
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For all who do such things , [
even ]
all who do unrighteously ,
are an abomination to LORD thy God .
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Remember what Amalek did to thee by the way as ye came forth out of Egypt ,
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how he met thee by the way ,
and smote the hindmost of thee ,
all who were feeble behind thee ,
when thou were faint and weary ,
and he feared not God .
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Therefore it shall be ,
when LORD thy God has given thee rest from all thine enemies round about ,
in the land which LORD thy God gives thee for an inheritance to possess it ,
that thou shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from un
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And it shall be ,
when thou have come in to the land which LORD thy God gives thee for an inheritance ,
and possess it ,
and dwell in it ,
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that thou shall take of the first of all the fruit of the ground ,
which thou shall bring in from thy land that LORD thy God gives thee ,
and thou shall put it in a basket ,
and shall go to the place which LORD thy God shall choose to
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And thou shall come to the priest who shall be in those days ,
and say to him ,
I profess this day to LORD thy God ,
that I have come to the land which LORD swore to our fathers to give us .
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And the priest shall take the basket out of thy hand ,
and set it down before the altar of LORD thy God .
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And thou shall answer and say before LORD thy God ,
My father was a Syrian ready to perish ,
and he went down into Egypt ,
and sojourned there ,
few in number .
And he became there a nation ,
great ,
mighty ,
and populous .
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And the Egyptians dealt ill with us ,
and afflicted us ,
and laid upon us hard bondage .
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And we cried to LORD ,
the God of our fathers ,
and LORD heard our voice ,
and saw our affliction ,
and our toil ,
and our oppression .
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And LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand ,
and with an outstretched arm ,
and with great terribleness ,
and with signs ,
and with wonders .
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And he has brought us into this place ,
and has given us this land ,
a land flowing with milk and honey .
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And now ,
behold ,
I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground ,
which thou ,
O LORD ,
have given me .
And thou shall set it down before LORD thy God ,
and worship before LORD thy God .
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And thou shall rejoice in all the good which LORD thy God has given to thee ,
and to thy house ,
thou ,
and the Levite ,
and the sojourner who is in the midst of thee .
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When thou have made an end of tithing all the tithe of thine increase in the third year ,
which is the year of tithing ,
then thou shall give it to the Levite ,
to the sojourner ,
to the fatherless ,
and to the widow ,
that they may eat
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And thou shall say before LORD thy God ,
I have put away the hallowed things out of my house ,
and also have given them to the Levite ,
and to the sojourner ,
to the fatherless ,
and to the widow ,
according to all thy commandment which
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I have not eaten of it in my mourning ,
neither have I put away from it ,
being unclean ,
nor given of it for the dead .
I have hearkened to the voice of LORD my God .
I have done according to all that thou have commanded me .
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Look down from thy holy habitation ,
from heaven ,
and bless thy people Israel ,
and the ground which thou have given us ,
as thou swore to our fathers ,
a land flowing with milk and honey .
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This day LORD thy God commands thee to do these statutes and ordinances .
Thou shall therefore keep and do them with all thy heart ,
and with all thy soul .
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Thou have avouched LORD this day to be thy God ,
and that thou would walk in his ways ,
and keep his statutes ,
and his commandments ,
and his ordinances ,
and hearken to his voice .
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And LORD has avouched thee this day to be a people for his own possession ,
as he has promised thee ,
and that thou should keep all his commandments ,
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and to make thee high above all nations that he has made ,
in praise ,
and in name ,
and in honor ,
and that thou may be a holy people to LORD thy God ,
as he has spoken .
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And Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people ,
saying ,
Keep all the commandment which I command you this day .