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He whose testicles are crushed or whose male member is cut off shall not enter the assembly of the LORD .
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No bastard shall enter the assembly of the LORD ;
even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the LORD .
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No Ammonite or Moabite shall enter the assembly of the LORD ;
even to the tenth generation none belonging to them shall enter the assembly of the LORD for ever ;
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because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way ,
when you came forth out of Egypt ,
and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Be '
or from Pethor of Mesopota '
mia ,
to curse you .
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Nevertheless the LORD your God would not hearken to Balaam ;
but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you ,
because the LORD your God loved you .
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You shall not seek their peace or their prosperity all your days for ever .
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You shall not abhor an E '
domite ,
for he is your brother ;
you shall not abhor an Egyptian ,
because you were a sojourner in his land .
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The children of the third generation that are born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD .
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When you go forth against your enemies and are in camp ,
then you shall keep yourself from every evil thing .
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If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of what chances to him by night ,
then he shall go outside the camp ,
he shall not come within the camp ;
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but when evening comes on ,
he shall bathe himself in water ,
and when the sun is down ,
he may come within the camp .
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You shall have a place outside the camp and you shall go out to it ;
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and you shall have a stick with your weapons ;
and when you sit down outside ,
you shall dig a hole with it ,
and turn back and cover up your excrement .
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Because the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp ,
to save you and to give up your enemies before you ,
therefore your camp must be holy ,
that he may not see anything indecent among you ,
and turn away from you .
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You shall not give up to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you ;
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he shall dwell with you ,
in your midst ,
in the place which he shall choose within one of your towns ,
where it pleases him best ;
you shall not oppress him .
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There shall be no cult prostitute of the daughters of Israel ,
neither shall there be a cult prostitute of the sons of Israel .
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You shall not bring the hire of a harlot ,
or the wages of a dog ,
into the house of the LORD your God in payment for any vow ;
for both of these are an abomination to the LORD your God .
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You shall not lend upon interest to your brother ,
interest on money ,
interest on victuals ,
interest on anything that is lent for interest .
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To a foreigner you may lend upon interest ,
but to your brother you shall not lend upon interest ;
that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land which you are entering to take possession of it .
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When you make a vow to the LORD your God ,
you shall not be slack to pay it ;
for the LORD your God will surely require it of you ,
and it would be sin in you .
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But if you refrain from vowing ,
it shall be no sin in you .
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You shall be careful to perform what has passed your lips ,
for you have voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God what you have promised with your mouth .
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When you go into your neighbor '
s vineyard ,
you may eat your fill of grapes ,
as many as you wish ,
but you shall not put any in your vessel .
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When you go into your neighbor '
s standing grain ,
you may pluck the ears with your hand ,
but you shall not put a sickle to your neighbor '
s standing grain .
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When a man takes a wife and marries her ,
if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her ,
and he writes her a bill of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house ,
and she departs out of his house ,
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and if she goes and becomes another man '
s wife ,
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and the latter husband dislikes her and writes her a bill of divorce and puts 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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then her former husband ,
who sent her away ,
may not take her again to be his wife ,
after she has been defiled ;
for that is an abomination before the LORD ,
and you shall not bring guilt upon the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance .
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When a man is newly married ,
he shall not go out with the army or be charged with any business ;
he shall be free at home one year ,
to be happy with his wife whom he has taken .
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No man shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge ;
for he would be taking a life in pledge .
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If a man is found stealing one of his brethren ,
the people of Israel ,
and if he treats him as a slave or sells him ,
then that thief shall die ;
so you shall purge the evil from the midst of you .
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Take heed ,
in an attack of leprosy ,
to be very careful to do according to all that the Levitical priests shall direct you ;
as I commanded them ,
so you shall be careful to do .
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Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the way as you came forth out of Egypt .
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When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort ,
you shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge .
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You shall stand outside ,
and the man to whom you make the loan shall bring the pledge out to you .
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And if he is a poor man ,
you shall not sleep in his pledge ;
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when the sun goes down ,
you shall restore to him the pledge that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you ;
and it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God .
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You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy ,
whether he is one of your brethren or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns ;
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you shall give him his hire on the day he earns it ,
before the sun goes down (
for he is poor ,
and sets his heart upon it );
lest he cry against you to the LORD ,
and it be sin in you .
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The fathers shall not be put to death for the children ,
nor 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 pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless ,
or take a widow '
s garment in pledge ;
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but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you from there ;
therefore I command you to do this .
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When you reap your harvest in your field ,
and have forgotten a sheaf in the field ,
you shall not go back to get it ;
it shall be for the sojourner ,
the fatherless ,
and the widow ;
that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands .
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When you beat your olive trees ,
you shall not go over the boughs again ;
it shall be for the sojourner ,
the fatherless ,
and the widow .
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When you gather the grapes of your vineyard ,
you shall not glean it afterward ;
it shall be for the sojourner ,
the fatherless ,
and the widow .
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You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt ;
therefore I command you to do this .
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If there is a dispute between men ,
and they come into court ,
and the judges decide between them ,
acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty ,
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then if the guilty man deserves to be beaten ,
the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with a number of stripes in proportion to his offense .
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Forty stripes may be given him ,
but not more ;
lest ,
if one should go on to beat him with more stripes than these ,
your brother be degraded in your sight .
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You shall not muzzle an ox when it 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 shall not be married outside the family to a stranger ;
her husband '
s brother shall go in to her ,
and take her as his wife ,
and perform the duty of a husband '
s brother to her .
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And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his brother who is dead ,
that his name may not be blotted out of Israel .
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And if the man does not wish 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 perpetuate his brother '
s 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 persists ,
saying , `
I do not wish to take her ,'
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then his brother '
s wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders ,
and pull his sandal 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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And the name of his house shall be called in Israel ,
The house of him that had his sandal pulled off .
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When men fight with one another ,
and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him ,
and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts ,
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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 two kinds of weights ,
a large and a small .
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You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures ,
a large and a small .
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A full and just weight you shall have ,
a full and just measure you shall have ;
that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you .
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For all who do such things ,
all who act dishonestly ,
are an abomination to the LORD your God .
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Remember what Am '
alek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt ,
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how he attacked you on the way ,
when you were faint and weary ,
and cut off at your rear all who lagged behind you ;
and he did not fear God .
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Therefore when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies round about ,
in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess ,
you shall blot out the remembrance of Am '
alek from under heaven ;
you shall not forget .
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When you come into the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance ,
and have taken possession of it ,
and live in it ,