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If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it ,
lying in the field ,
and it be not known who hath slain him :
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Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth ,
and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain :
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And it shall be ,
that the city which is next unto the slain man ,
even the elders of that city shall take an heifer ,
which hath not been wrought with ,
and which hath not drawn in the yoke ;
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And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley ,
which is neither eared nor sown ,
and shall strike off the heifer '
s neck there in the valley :
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And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near ;
for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him ,
and to bless in the name of the LORD ;
and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried :
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And all the elders of that city ,
that are next unto the slain man ,
shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded 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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Be merciful ,
O LORD ,
unto thy people Israel ,
whom thou hast redeemed ,
and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel '
s charge .
And the blood shall be forgiven them .
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So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you ,
when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD .
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When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies ,
and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands ,
and thou hast taken them captive ,
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And seest among the captives a beautiful woman ,
and hast a desire unto her ,
that thou wouldest have her to thy wife ;
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Then thou shalt bring her home to thine 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 thine house ,
and bewail her father and her mother a full month :
and after that thou shalt go in unto 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 shalt let her go whither she will ;
but thou shalt not sell her at all for money ,
thou shalt not make merchandise of her ,
because thou hast humbled her .
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If a man have two wives ,
one beloved ,
and another hated ,
and they have born him children ,
both the beloved and the hated ;
and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated :
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Then it shall be ,
when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath ,
that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated ,
which is indeed the firstborn :
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But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn ,
by giving him a double portion of all that he hath :
for he is the beginning of his strength ;
the right of the firstborn is his .
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If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son ,
which will not obey the voice of his father ,
or the voice of his mother ,
and that ,
when they have chastened him ,
will not hearken unto them :
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Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him ,
and bring him out unto the elders of his city ,
and unto the gate of his place ;
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And they shall say unto 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 with stones ,
that he die :
so shalt thou put evil away from among you ;
and all Israel shall hear ,
and fear .
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And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death ,
and he be to 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 shalt in any wise bury him that day ; (
for he that is hanged is accursed of God ;)
that thy land be not defiled ,
which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance .
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Thou shalt not see thy brother '
s ox or his sheep go astray ,
and hide thyself from them :
thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother .
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And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee ,
or if thou know him not ,
then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house ,
and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it ,
and thou shalt restore it to him again .
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In like manner shalt thou do with his ass ;
and so shalt thou do with his raiment ;
and with all lost thing of thy brother '
s ,
which he hath lost ,
and thou hast found ,
shalt thou do likewise :
thou mayest not hide thyself .
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Thou shalt not see thy brother '
s ass or his ox fall down by the way ,
and hide thyself from them :
thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again .
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The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man ,
neither shall a man put on a woman '
s garment :
for all that do so are abomination unto the 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 ,
whether they be young ones ,
or eggs ,
and the dam sitting upon the young ,
or upon the eggs ,
thou shalt not take the dam with the young :
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But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go ,
and take the young to thee ;
that it may be well with thee ,
and that thou mayest prolong thy days .
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When thou buildest a new house ,
then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof ,
that thou bring not blood upon thine house ,
if any man fall from thence .
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Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds :
lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown ,
and the fruit of thy vineyard ,
be defiled .
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Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together .
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Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts ,
as of woollen and linen together .
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Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture ,
wherewith thou coverest thyself .
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If any man take a wife ,
and go in unto her ,
and hate her ,
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And give occasions of speech against her ,
and bring up an evil name upon her ,
and say ,
I took this woman ,
and when I came to her ,
I found her not a maid :
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Then shall the father of the damsel ,
and her mother ,
take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel '
s virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate :
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And the damsel '
s father shall say unto the elders ,
I gave my daughter unto this man to wife ,
and he hateth her ;
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And ,
lo ,
he hath given occasions of speech against her ,
saying ,
I found not thy daughter a maid ;
and yet these are the tokens of my daughter '
s virginity .
And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city .
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And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him ;
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And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver ,
and give them unto the father of the damsel ,
because he hath 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 ,
and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel :
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Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father '
s house ,
and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die :
because she hath wrought folly in Israel ,
to play the whore in her father '
s house :
so shalt thou put evil away from among you .
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If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband ,
then they shall both of them die ,
both the man that lay with the woman ,
and the woman :
so shalt thou put away evil from Israel .
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If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband ,
and a man find her in the city ,
and lie with her ;
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Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city ,
and ye shall stone them with stones that they die ;
the damsel ,
because she cried not ,
being in the city ;
and the man ,
because he hath humbled his neighbour '
s wife :
so thou shalt put away evil from among you .
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But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field ,
and the man force her ,
and lie with her :
then the man only that lay with her shall die :
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But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing ;
there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death :
for as when a man riseth against his neighbour ,
and slayeth him ,
even so is this matter :
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For he found her in the field ,
and the betrothed damsel cried ,
and there was none to save her .
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If a man find a damsel that is a virgin ,
which is not betrothed ,
and lay hold on her ,
and lie with her ,
and they be found ;
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Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel '
s father fifty shekels of silver ,
and she shall be his wife ;
because he hath humbled her ,
he may not put her away all his days .
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A man shall not take his father '
s wife ,
nor discover his father '
s skirt .
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He that is wounded in the stones ,
or hath his privy member cut off ,
shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD .
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A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD ;
even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD .
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An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD ;
even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever :
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Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way ,
when ye came forth out of Egypt ;
and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia ,
to curse thee .
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Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam ;
but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee ,
because the LORD thy God loved thee .
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Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever .
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Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite ;
for he is thy brother :
thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian ;
because thou wast a stranger in his land .
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The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation .
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When the host goeth forth against thine enemies ,
then keep thee from every wicked thing .
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If there be among you any man ,
that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night ,
then shall he go abroad out of the camp ,
he shall not come within the camp :
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But it shall be ,
when evening cometh on ,
he shall wash himself with water :
and when the sun is down ,
he shall come into the camp again .
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Thou shalt have a place also without the camp ,
whither thou shalt go forth abroad :
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And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon ;
and it shall be ,
when thou wilt ease thyself abroad ,
thou shalt dig therewith ,
and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee :
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For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp ,
to deliver thee ,
and to give up thine enemies before thee ;
therefore shall thy camp be holy :
that he see no unclean thing in thee ,
and turn away from thee .
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Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee :
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He shall dwell with thee ,
even among you ,
in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates ,
where it liketh him best :
thou shalt not oppress him .
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There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel ,
nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel .
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Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore ,
or the price of a dog ,
into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow :
for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God .
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Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother ;
usury of money ,
usury of victuals ,
usury of any thing that is lent upon usury :
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Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury ;
but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury :
that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it .
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When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God ,
thou shalt not slack to pay it :
for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee ;
and it would be sin in thee .
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But if thou shalt forbear to vow ,
it shall be no sin in thee .
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That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform ;
even a freewill offering ,
according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God ,
which thou hast promised with thy mouth .
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When thou comest into thy neighbour '
s vineyard ,
then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure ;
but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel .
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When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour ,
then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand ;
but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour '
s standing corn .
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When a man hath taken a wife ,
and married her ,
and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes ,
because he hath found some uncleanness in her :
then let him write her a bill of divorcement ,
and give it in her hand ,
and send her out of his house .
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And when she is departed out of his house ,
she may go and be another man '
s wife .
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And if the latter husband hate her ,
and write her a bill of divorcement ,
and giveth it in her hand ,
and sendeth her out of his house ;
or if the latter husband die ,
which took her to be his wife ;
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Her former husband ,
which sent her away ,
may not take her again to be his wife ,
after that she is defiled ;
for that is abomination before the LORD :
and thou shalt not cause the land to sin ,
which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance .
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When a man hath taken a new wife ,
he shall not go out to war ,
neither shall he be charged with any business :
but he shall be free at home one year ,
and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken .
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No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge :
for he taketh a man '
s life to pledge .
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If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel ,
and maketh merchandise of him ,
or selleth him ;
then that thief shall die ;
and thou shalt put evil away from among you .
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Take heed in the plague 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 the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way ,
after that ye were come forth out of Egypt .
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When thou dost lend thy brother any thing ,
thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge .
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Thou shalt stand abroad ,
and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee .
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And if the man be poor ,
thou shalt not sleep with his pledge :
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In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down ,
that he may sleep in his own raiment ,
and bless thee :
and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God .
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Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy ,
whether he be of thy brethren ,
or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates :
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At his day thou shalt give him his hire ,
neither shall the sun go down upon it ;
for he is poor ,
and setteth his heart upon it :
lest he cry against thee unto the LORD ,
and it be sin unto thee .
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The fathers shall not be put to death for the children ,
neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers :
every man shall be put to death for his own sin .
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Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger ,
nor of the fatherless ;
nor take a widow '
s raiment to pledge :
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But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt ,
and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence :
therefore I command thee to do this thing .
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When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field ,
and hast forgot a sheaf in the field ,
thou shalt not go again to fetch it :
it shall be for the stranger ,
for the fatherless ,
and for the widow :
that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands .
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When thou beatest thine olive tree ,
thou shalt not go over the boughs again :
it shall be for the stranger ,
for the fatherless ,
and for the widow .
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When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard ,
thou shalt not glean it afterward :
it shall be for the stranger ,
for the fatherless ,
and for the widow .
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And thou shalt remember that thou wast 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 unto judgment ,
that the judges may judge them ;
then they shall justify the righteous ,
and condemn the wicked .
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And it shall be ,
if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten ,
that the judge shall cause him to lie down ,
and to be beaten before his face ,
according to his fault ,
by a certain number .
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Forty stripes he may give him ,
and not exceed :
lest ,
if he should exceed ,
and beat him above these with many stripes ,
then thy brother should seem vile unto thee .
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Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn .
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If brethren dwell together ,
and one of them die ,
and have no child ,
the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger :
her husband '
s brother shall go in unto her ,
and take her to him to wife ,
and perform the duty of an husband '
s brother unto her .
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And it shall be ,
that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead ,
that his name be not put out of Israel .
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And if the man like not to take his brother '
s wife ,
then let his brother '
s wife go up to the gate unto the elders ,
and say ,
My husband '
s brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel ,
he will not perform the duty of my husband '
s brother .
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Then the elders of his city shall call him ,
and speak unto him :
and if he stand to it ,
and say ,
I like not to take her ;
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Then shall his brother '
s wife come unto him in the presence of the elders ,
and loose his shoe from off his foot ,
and spit in his face ,
and shall answer and say ,
So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother '
s house .
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And his name shall be called in Israel ,
The house of him that hath his shoe loosed .
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When men strive together one with another ,
and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him ,
and putteth forth her hand ,
and taketh him by the secrets :
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Then thou shalt cut off her hand ,
thine eye shall not pity her .
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Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights ,
a great and a small .
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Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures ,
a great and a small .
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But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight ,
a perfect and just measure shalt thou have :
that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee .
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For all that do such things ,
and all that do unrighteously ,
are an abomination unto the LORD thy God .
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Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way ,
when ye were come forth out of Egypt ;
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How he met thee by the way ,
and smote the hindmost of thee ,
even all that were feeble behind thee ,
when thou wast faint and weary ;
and he feared not God .
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Therefore it shall be ,
when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about ,
in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it ,
that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven ;
thou shalt not forget it .
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And it shall be ,
when thou art come in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance ,
and possessest it ,
and dwellest therein ;
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That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth ,
which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee ,
and shalt put it in a basket ,
and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there .
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And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days ,
and say unto him ,
I profess this day unto the LORD thy God ,
that I am come unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us .
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And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand ,
and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God .
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And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God ,
A Syrian ready to perish was my father ,
and he went down into Egypt ,
and sojourned there with a few ,
and became there a nation ,
great ,
mighty ,
and populous :
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And the Egyptians evil entreated us ,
and afflicted us ,
and laid upon us hard bondage :
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And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers ,
the LORD heard our voice ,
and looked on our affliction ,
and our labour ,
and our oppression :
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And the 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 hath brought us into this place ,
and hath given us this land ,
even a land that floweth with milk and honey .
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And now ,
behold ,
I have brought the firstfruits of the land ,
which thou ,
O LORD ,
hast given me .
And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God ,
and worship before the LORD thy God :
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And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee ,
and unto thine house ,
thou ,
and the Levite ,
and the stranger that is among you .
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When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year ,
which is the year of tithing ,
and hast given it unto the Levite ,
the stranger ,
the fatherless ,
and the widow ,
that they may eat within thy gates ,
and be filled ;
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Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God ,
I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house ,
and also have given them unto the Levite ,
and unto the stranger ,
to the fatherless ,
and to the widow ,
according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me :
I have not transgressed thy commandments ,
neither have I forgotten them :
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I have not eaten thereof in my mourning ,
neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use ,
nor given ought thereof for the dead :
but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God ,
and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me .
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Look down from thy holy habitation ,
from heaven ,
and bless thy people Israel ,
and the land which thou hast given us ,
as thou swarest unto our fathers ,
a land that floweth with milk and honey .
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This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments :
thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart ,
and with all thy soul .
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Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God ,
and to walk in his ways ,
and to keep his statutes ,
and his commandments ,
and his judgments ,
and to hearken unto his voice :
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And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people ,
as he hath promised thee ,
and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments ;
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And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made ,
in praise ,
and in name ,
and in honour ;
and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God ,
as he hath spoken .
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And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people ,
saying ,
Keep all the commandments which I command you this day .