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This is according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die.”

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Yahweh said to me, “They have well said that which they have spoken.

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I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

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It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

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But the prophet, who shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.”

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If you say in your heart, “How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken?”

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when a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh, if the thing doesn’t follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken: the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you shall not be afraid of him.

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When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations, whose land Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses;

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you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.

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You shall prepare you the way, and divide the borders of your land, which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee there.

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This is the case of the manslayer, that shall flee there and live: whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and didn’t hate him in time past;

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as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:

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lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn’t hate him in time past.

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Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for yourselves.

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If Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;

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if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, besides these three:

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that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.

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But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;

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then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

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Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

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You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.

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One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

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If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,

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then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;

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and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;

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then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

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Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of you.

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Your eyes shall not pity; life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

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When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and see horses, and chariots, [and] a people more than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

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It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people,

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and shall tell them, “Hear, Israel, you draw near this day to battle against your enemies: don’t let your heart faint; don’t be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;

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for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”

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The officers shall speak to the people, saying, “What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

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What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit.

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What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.”

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The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, “What man is there who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother’s heart melt as his heart.”

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It shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies at the head of the people.

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When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.

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It shall be, if it makes you answer of peace, and opens to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you.

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If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it:

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and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:

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but the women, and the little ones, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its spoil, you shall take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.

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Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

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But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;

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but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has commanded you;

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that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.

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When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of you?

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Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it fall.

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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 [to remain] 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 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.