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    Deuteronomy, chapter 4

    1: "And now, O Israel, give heed to the statutes and the ordinances which I teach you, and do them; that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, gives you.
    2: You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it; that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
    3: Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Ba'al-pe'or; for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all the men who followed the Ba'al of Pe'or;
    4: but you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive this day.
    5: Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land which you are entering to take possession of it.
    6: Keep them and do them; for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, `Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
    7: For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?
    8: And what great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you this day?
    9: "Only take heed, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your children's children --
    10: how on the day that you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, `Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children so.'
    11: And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, while the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, wrapped in darkness, cloud, and gloom.
    12: Then the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire; you heard the sound of words, but saw no form; there was only a voice.
    13: And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, that is, the ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
    14: And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land which you are going over to possess.
    15: "Therefore take good heed to yourselves. Since you saw no form on the day that the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire,
    16: beware lest you act corruptly by making a graven image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
    17: the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,
    18: the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth.
    19: And beware lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and worship them and serve them, things which the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.
    20: But the LORD has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of his own possession, as at this day.
    21: Furthermore the LORD was angry with me on your account, and he swore that I should not cross the Jordan, and that I should not enter the good land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.
    22: For I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but you shall go over and take possession of that good land.
    23: Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make a graven image in the form of anything which the LORD your God has forbidden you.
    24: For the LORD your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
    25: "When you beget children and children's children, and have grown old in the land, if you act corruptly by making a graven image in the form of anything, and by doing what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, so as to provoke him to anger,
    26: I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess; you will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.
    27: And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you.
    28: And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of men's hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
    29: But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
    30: When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to the LORD your God and obey his voice,
    31: for the LORD your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers which he swore to them.
    32: "For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of.
    33: Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live?
    34: Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
    35: To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides him.
    36: Out of heaven he let you hear his voice, that he might discipline you; and on earth he let you see his great fire, and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.
    37: And because he loved your fathers and chose their descendants after them, and brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power,
    38: driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as at this day;
    39: know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.
    40: Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which the LORD your God gives you for ever."
    41: Then Moses set apart three cities in the east beyond the Jordan,
    42: that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without being at enmity with him in time past, and that by fleeing to one of these cities he might save his life:
    43: Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland for the Reubenites, and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manas'sites.
    44: This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel;
    45: these are the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt,
    46: beyond the Jordan in the valley opposite Beth-pe'or, in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel defeated when they came out of Egypt.
    47: And they took possession of his land and the land of Og the king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who lived to the east beyond the Jordan;
    48: from Aro'er, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, as far as Mount Si'rion (that is, Hermon),
    49: together with all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.

    Deuteronomy, chapter 5

    1: And Moses summoned all Israel, and said to them, "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your hearing this day, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them.
    2: The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
    3: Not with our fathers did the LORD make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive this day.
    4: The LORD spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire,
    5: while I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD; for you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up into the mountain. He said:
    6: "`I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
    7: "`You shall have no other gods before me.
    8: "`You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;
    9: you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
    10: but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
    11: "`You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
    12: "`Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.
    13: Six days you shall labor, and do all your work;
    14: but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your manservant, or your maidservant, or your ox, or your ass, or any of your cattle, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your manservant and your maidservant may rest as well as you.
    15: You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out thence with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day.
    16: "`Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you; that your days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with you, in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
    17: "`You shall not kill.
    18: "`Neither shall you commit adultery.
    19: "`Neither shall you steal.
    20: "`Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor.
    21: "`Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; and you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's.'
    22: "These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly at the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and he added no more. And he wrote them upon two tables of stone, and gave them to me.
    23: And when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
    24: and you said, `Behold, the LORD our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire; we have this day seen God speak with man and man still live.
    25: Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, we shall die.
    26: For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of fire, as we have, and has still lived?
    27: Go near, and hear all that the LORD our God will say; and speak to us all that the LORD our God will speak to you; and we will hear and do it.'
    28: "And the LORD heard your words, when you spoke to me; and the LORD said to me, `I have heard the words of this people, which they have spoken to you; they have rightly said all that they have spoken.
    29: Oh that they had such a mind as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their children for ever!
    30: Go and say to them, "Return to your tents."
    31: But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandment and the statutes and the ordinances which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess.'
    32: You shall be careful to do therefore as the LORD your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
    33: You shall walk in all the way which the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land which you shall possess.

    Deuteronomy, chapter 6

    1: "Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the ordinances which the LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it;
    2: that you may fear the LORD your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
    3: Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them; that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
    4: "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD;
    5: and you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
    6: And these words which I command you this day shall be upon your heart;
    7: and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
    8: And you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
    9: And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
    10: "And when the LORD your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, with great and goodly cities, which you did not build,
    11: and houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, and cisterns hewn out, which you did not hew, and vineyards and olive trees, which you did not plant, and when you eat and are full,
    12: then take heed lest you forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
    13: You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve him, and swear by his name.
    14: You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are round about you;
    15: for the LORD your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
    16: "You shall not put the LORD your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah.
    17: You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
    18: And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may go well with you, and that you may go in and take possession of the good land which the LORD swore to give to your fathers
    19: by thrusting out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has promised.
    20: "When your son asks you in time to come, `What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances which the LORD our God has commanded you?'
    21: then you shall say to your son, `We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;
    22: and the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and grievous, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and all his household, before our eyes;
    23: and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in and give us the land which he swore to give to our fathers.
    24: And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as at this day.
    25: And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.'

    Deuteronomy, chapter 7

    1: "When the LORD your God brings you into the land which you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Gir'gashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites, seven nations greater and mightier than yourselves,
    2: and when the LORD your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them; then you must utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, and show no mercy to them.
    3: You shall not make marriages with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons.
    4: For they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods; then the anger of the LORD would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.
    5: But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Ashe'rim, and burn their graven images with fire.
    6: "For you are a people holy to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth.
    7: It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love upon you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples;
    8: but it is because the LORD loves you, and is keeping the oath which he swore to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
    9: Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
    10: and requites to their face those who hate him, by destroying them; he will not be slack with him who hates him, he will requite him to his face.
    11: You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day.
    12: "And because you hearken to these ordinances, and keep and do them, the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love which he swore to your fathers to keep;
    13: he will love you, bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.
    14: You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
    15: And the LORD will take away from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict upon you, but he will lay them upon all who hate you.
    16: And you shall destroy all the peoples that the LORD your God will give over to you, your eye shall not pity them; neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.
    17: "If you say in your heart, `These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?'
    18: you shall not be afraid of them, but you shall remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt,
    19: the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the LORD your God brought you out; so will the LORD your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
    20: Moreover the LORD your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed.
    21: You shall not be in dread of them; for the LORD your God is in the midst of you, a great and terrible God.
    22: The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little; you may not make an end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.
    23: But the LORD your God will give them over to you, and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.
    24: And he will give their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under heaven; not a man shall be able to stand against you, until you have destroyed them.
    25: The graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire; you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, or take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it; for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.
    26: And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house, and become accursed like it; you shall utterly detest and abhor it; for it is an accursed thing.

    Deuteronomy, chapter 8

    1: "All the commandment which I command you this day you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to give to your fathers.
    2: And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
    3: And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but that man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD.
    4: Your clothing did not wear out upon you, and your foot did not swell, these forty years.
    5: Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the LORD your God disciplines you.
    6: So you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, by walking in his ways and by fearing him.
    7: For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills,
    8: a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey,
    9: a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.
    10: And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land he has given you.
    11: "Take heed lest you forget the LORD your God, by not keeping his commandments and his ordinances and his statutes, which I command you this day:
    12: lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses and live in them,
    13: and when your herds and flocks multiply, and your silver and gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied,
    14: then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage,
    15: who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock,
    16: who fed you in the wilderness with manna which your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end.
    17: Beware lest you say in your heart, `My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.'
    18: You shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may confirm his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day.
    19: And if you forget the LORD your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly warn you this day that you shall surely perish.
    20: Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
     
     

    Deuteronomy, chapter 13

    1: "If a prophet arises among you, or a dreamer of dreams, and gives you a sign or a wonder,
    2: and the sign or wonder which he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, `Let us go after other gods,' which you have not known, `and let us serve them,'
    3: you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams; for the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
    4: You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear him, and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and cleave to him.
    5: But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to make you leave the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.
    6: "If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, `Let us go and serve other gods,' which neither you nor your fathers have known,
    7: some of the gods of the peoples that are round about you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other,
    8: you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him;
    9: but you shall kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
    10: You shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
    11: And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and never again do any such wickedness as this among you.
    12: "If you hear in one of your cities, which the LORD your God gives you to dwell there,
    13: that certain base fellows have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of the city, saying, `Let us go and serve other gods,' which you have not known,
    14: then you shall inquire and make search and ask diligently; and behold, if it be true and certain that such an abominable thing has been done among you,
    15: you shall surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, destroying it utterly, all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword.
    16: You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square, and burn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God; it shall be a heap for ever, it shall not be built again.
    17: None of the devoted things shall cleave to your hand; that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he swore to your fathers,
    18: if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, keeping all his commandments which I command you this day, and doing what is right in the sight of the LORD your God.

    Deuteronomy, chapter 14

    1: "You are the sons of the LORD your God; you shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.
    2: For you are a people holy to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth.
    3: "You shall not eat any abominable thing.
    4: These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
    5: the hart, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain-sheep.
    6: Every animal that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two, and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.
    7: Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cloven you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, are unclean for you.
    8: And the swine, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.
    9: "Of all that are in the waters you may eat these: whatever has fins and scales you may eat.
    10: And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
    11: "You may eat all clean birds.
    12: But these are the ones which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
    13: the buzzard, the kite, after their kinds;
    14: every raven after its kind;
    15: the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk, after their kinds;
    16: the little owl and the great owl, the water hen
    17: and the pelican, the carrion vulture and the cormorant,
    18: the stork, the heron, after their kinds; the hoopoe and the bat.
    19: And all winged insects are unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.
    20: All clean winged things you may eat.
    21: "You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the alien who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. "You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
    22: "You shall tithe all the yield of your seed, which comes forth from the field year by year.
    23: And before the LORD your God, in the place which he will choose, to make his name dwell there, you shall eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstlings of your herd and flock; that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.
    24: And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to bring the tithe, when the LORD your God blesses you, because the place is too far from you, which the LORD your God chooses, to set his name there,
    25: then you shall turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and go to the place which the LORD your God chooses,
    26: and spend the money for whatever you desire, oxen, or sheep, or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves; and you shall eat there before the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household.
    27: And you shall not forsake the Levite who is within your towns, for he has no portion or inheritance with you.
    28: "At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your produce in the same year, and lay it up within your towns;
    29: and the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.

    Deuteronomy, chapter 15

    1: "At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release.
    2: And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the LORD's release has been proclaimed.
    3: Of a foreigner you may exact it; but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand shall release.
    4: But there will be no poor among you (for the LORD will bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess),
    5: if only you will obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all this commandment which I command you this day.
    6: For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
    7: "If there is among you a poor man, one of your brethren, in any of your towns within your land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother,
    8: but you shall open your hand to him, and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.
    9: Take heed lest there be a base thought in your heart, and you say, `The seventh year, the year of release is near,' and your eye be hostile to your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the LORD against you, and it be sin in you.
    10: You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him; because for this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.
    11: For the poor will never cease out of the land; therefore I command you, You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in the land.
    12: "If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
    13: And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty-handed;
    14: you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your wine press; as the LORD your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.
    15: You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today.
    16: But if he says to you, `I will not go out from you,' because he loves you and your household, since he fares well with you,
    17: then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your bondman for ever. And to your bondwoman you shall do likewise.
    18: It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for at half the cost of a hired servant he has served you six years. So the LORD your God will bless you in all that you do.
    19: "All the firstling males that are born of your herd and flock you shall consecrate to the LORD your God; you shall do no work with the firstling of your herd, nor shear the firstling of your flock.
    20: You shall eat it, you and your household, before the LORD your God year by year at the place which the LORD will choose.
    21: But if it has any blemish, if it is lame or blind, or has any serious blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.
    22: You shall eat it within your towns; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as though it were a gazelle or a hart.
    23: Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.
     
     

    Deuteronomy, chapter 22

    1: "You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and withhold your help from them; you shall take them back to your brother.
    2: And if he is not near you, or if you do not know him, you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother seeks it; then you shall restore it to him.
    3: And so you shall do with his ass; so you shall do with his garment; so you shall do with any lost thing of your brother's, which he loses and you find; you may not withhold your help.
    4: You shall not see your brother's ass or his ox fallen down by the way, and withhold your help from them; you shall help him to lift them up again.
    5: "A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman's garment; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God.
    6: "If you chance to come upon a bird's nest, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting upon the young or upon the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young;
    7: you shall let the mother go, but the young you may take to yourself; that it may go well with you, and that you may live long.
    8: "When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house, if any one fall from it.
    9: "You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole yield be forfeited to the sanctuary, the crop which you have sown and the yield of the vineyard.
    10: You shall not plow with an ox and an ass together.
    11: You shall not wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together.
    12: "You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself.
    13: "If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and then spurns her,
    14: and charges her with shameful conduct, and brings an evil name upon her, saying, `I took this woman, and when I came near her, I did not find in her the tokens of virginity,'
    15: then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the tokens of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate;
    16: and the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, `I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he spurns her;
    17: and lo, he has made shameful charges against her, saying, "I did not find in your 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 city.
    18: Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip him;
    19: and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought an evil name upon a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
    20: But if the thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young woman,
    21: then they shall bring out the young woman 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 by playing the harlot in her father's house; so you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.
    22: "If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman; so you shall purge the evil from Israel.
    23: "If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her,
    24: then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife; so you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.
    25: "But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.
    26: But to the young woman you shall do nothing; in the young woman there is no offense punishable by death, for this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his neighbor;
    27: because he came upon her in the open country, and though the betrothed young woman cried for help there was no one to rescue her.
    28: "If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,
    29: then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her; he may not put her away all his days.
    30: "A man shall not take his father's wife, nor shall he uncover her who is his father's.

    Deuteronomy, chapter 23

    1: "He whose testicles are crushed or whose male member is cut off shall not enter the assembly of the LORD.
    2: "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.
    3: "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;
    4: 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.
    5: 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.
    6: You shall not seek their peace or their prosperity all your days for ever.
    7: "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.
    8: The children of the third generation that are born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
    9: "When you go forth against your enemies and are in camp, then you shall keep yourself from every evil thing.
    10: "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;
    11: but when evening comes on, he shall bathe himself in water, and when the sun is down, he may come within the camp.
    12: "You shall have a place outside the camp and you shall go out to it;
    13: 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.
    14: 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.
    15: "You shall not give up to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you;
    16: 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.
    17: "There shall be no cult prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a cult prostitute of the sons of Israel.
    18: 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.
    19: "You shall not lend upon interest to your brother, interest on money, interest on victuals, interest on anything that is lent for interest.
    20: 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.
    21: "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.
    22: But if you refrain from vowing, it shall be no sin in you.
    23: 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.
    24: "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.
    25: 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.