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If one be found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it ,
lying in the field ,
and it isn '
t known who has struck him ;
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then your elders and your judges shall come forth ,
and they shall measure to the cities which are around 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 hasn '
t 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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The priests the sons of Levi shall come near ;
for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister to him ,
and to bless in the name of Yahweh ;
and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be .
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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 ,
Yahweh ,
your people Israel ,
whom you have redeemed ,
and don '
t allow innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel ."
The blood shall be forgiven them .
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So you shall put away the innocent blood from the midst of you ,
when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh .
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When you go forth to battle against your enemies ,
and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands ,
and you carry them away captive ,
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and see among the captives a beautiful woman ,
and you have a desire to her ,
and would take her to you as wife ;
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then you shall bring her home to your house ;
and she shall shave her head ,
and pare her nails ;
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and she shall put the clothing of her captivity from off her ,
and shall remain in your house ,
and bewail her father and her mother a full month :
and after that you shall go in to her ,
and be her husband ,
and she shall be your wife .
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It shall be ,
if you have no delight in her ,
then you shall let her go where she will ;
but you shall not sell her at all for money ,
you shall not deal with her as a slave ,
because you have humbled her .
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If a man have two wives ,
the one beloved ,
and the other hated ,
and they have borne him children ,
both the beloved and the hated ;
and if the firstborn son be hers who was hated ;
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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 firstborn before the son of the hated ,
who is the firstborn :
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but he shall acknowledge the firstborn ,
the son of the hated ,
by giving him a double portion of all that he has ;
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 ,
who will not obey the voice of his father ,
or the voice of his mother ,
and ,
though they chasten him ,
will not listen to them ;
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then shall his father and his mother 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 tell 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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All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones :
so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you ;
and all Israel shall hear ,
and fear .
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If a man have committed a sin worthy of death ,
and he be put to death ,
and you hang him on a tree ;
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his body shall not remain all night on the tree ,
but you shall surely bury him the same day ;
for he who is hanged is accursed of God ;
that you don '
t defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance .
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You shall not see your brother '
s ox or his sheep go astray ,
and hide yourself from them :
you shall surely bring them again to your brother .
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If your brother isn '
t near to you ,
or if you don '
t know him ,
then you shall bring it home to your house ,
and it shall be with you until your brother seek after it ,
and you shall restore it to him .
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So you shall do with his donkey ;
and so you shall do with his garment ;
and so you shall do with every lost thing of your brother '
s ,
which he has lost ,
and you have found :
you may not hide yourself .
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You shall not see your brother '
s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way ,
and hide yourself from them :
you shall surely help him to lift them up again .
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A woman shall not wear men '
s clothing ,
neither shall a man put on women '
s clothing ;
for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God .
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If a bird '
s nest chance to be before you in the way ,
in any tree or on the ground ,
with young ones or eggs ,
and the hen sitting on the young ,
or on the eggs ,
you shall not take the hen with the young :
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you shall surely let the hen go ,
but the young you may take to yourself ;
that it may be well with you ,
and that you may prolong your days .
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When you build a new house ,
then you shall make a battlement for your roof ,
that you don '
t bring blood on your house ,
if any man fall from there .
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You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed ,
lest the whole fruit be forfeited ,
the seed which you have sown ,
and the increase of the vineyard .
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You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together .
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You shall not wear a mixed stuff ,
wool and linen together .
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You shall make yourselves fringes {
or ,
tassles }
on the four borders of your cloak ,
with which you cover yourself .
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If any man takes a wife ,
and goes in to her ,
and hates her ,
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and accuses her of shameful things ,
and brings up an evil name on her ,
and says , "
I took this woman ,
and when I came near to her ,
I didn '
t find in her the tokens of virginity ";
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then shall the father of the young lady ,
and her mother ,
take and bring forth the tokens of the young lady '
s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate ;
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and the young lady '
s father shall tell the elders , "
I gave my daughter to this man to wife ,
and he hates her ;
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and behold ,
he has accused her of shameful things ,
saying , '
I didn '
t find in your daughter the tokens of virginity ;'
and yet these are the tokens of my daughter '
s virginity ."
They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city .
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The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him ;
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and they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver ,
and give them to the father of the young lady ,
because he has brought up an evil name on 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 young lady ;
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then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father '
s house ,
and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones ,
because she has done folly in Israel ,
to play the prostitute in her father '
s house :
so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you .
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If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband ,
then they shall both of them die ,
the man who lay with the woman ,
and the woman :
so you shall put away the evil from Israel .
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If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband ,
and a man find her in the city ,
and lie with her ;
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then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city ,
and you shall stone them to death with stones ;
the lady ,
because she didn '
t cry ,
being in the city ;
and the man ,
because he has humbled his neighbor '
s wife :
so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you .
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But if the man find the lady who is pledged to be married in the field ,
and the man force her ,
and lie with her ;
then the man only who lay with her shall die :
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but to the lady you shall do nothing ;
there is in the lady 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 pledged to be married lady cried ,
and there was none to save her .
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If a man find a lady who is a virgin ,
who is not pledged to be married ,
and lay hold on her ,
and lie with her ,
and they be found ;
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then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady '
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 stones ,
or has his privy member cut off ,
shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh .
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A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh ;
even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of Yahweh .
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An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh ;
even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into the assembly of Yahweh forever :
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because they didn '
t meet you with bread and with water in the way ,
when you came forth out of Egypt ,
and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia ,
to curse you .
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Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn '
t listen to Balaam ;
but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you ,
because Yahweh your God loved you .
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You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever .
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You shall not abhor an Edomite ;
for he is your brother :
you shall not abhor an Egyptian ,
because you lived as a foreigner in his land .
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The children of the third generation who are born to them shall enter into the assembly of Yahweh .
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When you go forth in camp against your enemies ,
then you shall keep yourselves from every evil thing .
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If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of that which happens him by night ,
then shall he go outside of the camp .
He shall not come within 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 within the camp .
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You shall have a place also outside of the camp ,
where you shall go forth abroad :
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and you shall have a paddle among your weapons ;
and it shall be ,
when you sit down abroad ,
you shall dig therewith ,
and shall turn back and cover that which comes from you :
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for Yahweh your God walks in the midst of your camp ,
to deliver you ,
and to give up your enemies before you ;
therefore your camp shall be holy ,
that he may not see an unclean thing in you ,
and turn away from you .
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You shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped from his master to you :
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he shall dwell with you ,
in the midst of you ,
in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates ,
where it pleases him best :
you 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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You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute ,
or the wages of a dog ,
into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow :
for even both these are an abomination to Yahweh your God .
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You shall not lend on interest to your brother ;
interest of money ,
interest of food ,
interest of anything that is lent on interest :
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to a foreigner you may lend on interest ;
but to your brother you shall not lend on interest ,
that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to ,
in the land where you go in to possess it .
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When you shall vow a vow to Yahweh your God ,
you shall not be slack to pay it :
for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you ;
and it would be sin in you .
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But if you shall forbear to vow ,
it shall be no sin in you .
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That which is gone out of your lips you shall observe and do ;
according as you have vowed to Yahweh your God ,
a freewill offering ,
which you have promised with your mouth .
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When you come into your neighbor '
s vineyard ,
then you may eat of grapes your fill at your own pleasure ;
but you shall not put any in your vessel .
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When you come into your neighbor '
s standing grain ,
then you may pluck the ears with your hand ;
but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor '
s standing grain .
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When a man takes a wife ,
and marries her ,
then it shall be ,
if she find no favor in his eyes ,
because he has found some unseemly thing in her ,
that he shall write her a bill of divorce ,
and give it in her hand ,
and send her out of his house .
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When she is departed out of his house ,
she may go and be another man '
s wife .
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If the latter husband hate her ,
and write her a bill of divorce ,
and give it in her hand ,
and send her out of his house ;
or if the latter husband die ,
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 that she is defiled ;
for that is abomination before Yahweh :
and you shall not cause the land to sin ,
which Yahweh your God gives you 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 assigned 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 a life in pledge .
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If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel ,
and he deal with him as a slave ,
or sell him ;
then that thief shall die :
so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you .
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Take heed in the plague of leprosy ,
that you observe diligently ,
and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you :
as I commanded them ,
so you shall observe to do .
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Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam ,
by the way as you came forth out of Egypt .
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When you do lend your neighbor any kind of loan ,
you shall not go into his house to get his pledge .
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You shall stand outside ,
and the man to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge outside to you .
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If he be a poor man ,
you shall not sleep with his pledge ;
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you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down ,
that he may sleep in his garment ,
and bless you :
and it shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God .
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You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy ,
whether he be of your brothers ,
or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates :
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in his day you shall give him his hire ,
neither shall the sun go down on it ;
for he is poor ,
and sets his heart on it :
lest he cry against you to Yahweh ,
and it be sin to you .
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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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You shall not deprive the foreigner ,
or the fatherless of justice ,
nor take a widow '
s clothing in pledge ;
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but you shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt ,
and Yahweh your God redeemed you there :
therefore I command you to do this thing .
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When you reap your harvest in your field ,
and have forgot a sheaf in the field ,
you shall not go again to get it :
it shall be for the foreigner ,
for the fatherless ,
and for the widow ;
that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands .
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When you beat your olive tree ,
you shall not go over the boughs again :
it shall be for the foreigner ,
for the fatherless ,
and for the widow .
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When you harvest your vineyard ,
you shall not glean it after yourselves :
it shall be for the foreigner ,
for the fatherless ,
and for the widow .
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You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt :
therefore I command you to do this thing .
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If there is a controversy between men ,
and they come to judgment ,
and the judges 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 wickedness ,
by number .
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Forty stripes he may give him ,
he shall not exceed ;
lest ,
if he should exceed ,
and beat him above these with many stripes ,
then your brother should seem vile to you .
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You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain .
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If brothers dwell together ,
and one of them die ,
and have no son ,
the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger :
her husband '
s brother shall go in to her ,
and take her to him as wife ,
and perform the duty of a husband '
s brother to her .
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It shall be ,
that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead ,
that his name not be blotted out of Israel .
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If the man doesn '
t 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 of a husband '
s brother to me ."
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Then the elders of his city shall call him ,
and speak to him :
and if he stand ,
and say , "
I don '
t 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 house ."
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His name shall be called in Israel ,
The house of him who has his shoe untied .
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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 strikes him ,
and puts forth her hand ,
and takes him by the secrets ;
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then you shall cut off her hand ,
your eye shall have no pity .
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You shall not have in your bag diverse weights ,
a great and a small .
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You shall not have in your house diverse measures ,
a great and a small .
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You shall have a perfect and just weight .
You shall have a perfect and just measure ,
that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you .
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For all who do such things ,
all who do unrighteously ,
are an abomination to Yahweh your God .
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Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth out of Egypt ;
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how he met you by the way ,
and struck the hindmost of you ,
all who were feeble behind you ,
when you were faint and weary ;
and he didn '
t fear God .
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Therefore it shall be ,
when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around ,
in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it ,
that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky ;
you shall not forget .
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It shall be ,
when you have come in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance ,
and possess it ,
and dwell therein ,
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that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the ground ,
which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you ;
and you shall put it in a basket ,
and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose ,
to cause his name to dwell there .
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You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days ,
and tell him , "
I profess this day to Yahweh your God ,
that I am come to the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us ."
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The priest shall take the basket out of your hand ,
and set it down before the altar of Yahweh your God .
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You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God , "
A Syrian ready to perish was my father ;
and he went down into Egypt ,
and lived there ,
few in number ;
and he became there a nation ,
great ,
mighty ,
and populous .
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The Egyptians dealt ill with us ,
and afflicted us ,
and laid on us hard bondage :
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and we cried to Yahweh ,
the God of our fathers ,
and Yahweh heard our voice ,
and saw our affliction ,
and our toil ,
and our oppression ;
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and Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand ,
and with an outstretched arm ,
and with great terror ,
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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Now ,
behold ,
I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground ,
which you ,
Yahweh ,
have given me ."
You shall set it down before Yahweh your God ,
and worship before Yahweh your God .
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You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has given to you ,
and to your house ,
you ,
and the Levite ,
and the foreigner who is in the midst of you .
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When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year ,
which is the year of tithing ,
then you shall give it to the Levite ,
to the foreigner ,
to the fatherless ,
and to the widow ,
that they may eat within your gates ,
and be filled .
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You shall say before Yahweh your God , "
I have put away the holy things out of my house ,
and also have given them to the Levite ,
and to the foreigner ,
to the fatherless ,
and to the widow ,
according to all your commandment which you have commanded me :
I have not transgressed any of your commandments ,
neither have I forgotten them :
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I have not eaten of it in my mourning ,
neither have I put away of it ,
being unclean ,
nor given of it for the dead :
I have listened to the voice of Yahweh my God ;
I have done according to all that you have commanded me .
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Look down from your holy habitation ,
from heaven ,
and bless your people Israel ,
and the ground which you have given us ,
as you swore to our fathers ,
a land flowing with milk and honey ."
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This day Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances :
you shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart ,
and with all your soul .
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You have declared Yahweh this day to be your God ,
and that you would walk in his ways ,
and keep his statutes ,
and his commandments ,
and his ordinances ,
and listen to his voice :
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and Yahweh has declared you this day to be a people for his own possession ,
as he has promised you ,
and that you should keep all his commandments ;
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and to make you high above all nations that he has made ,
in praise ,
and in name ,
and in honor ;
and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God ,
as he has spoken .
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Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people ,
saying , "
Keep all the commandment which I command you this day .