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Do nothing to the young woman, because she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.

the man who raped her must pay the young woman's father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.

Yet the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, and the LORD turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.

Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.

If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside.

You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.

If you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not be slow to keep it, because He will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin.

Be careful to follow through on what comes from your lips, because you have freely vowed to the LORD your God with your own mouth.

If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.

Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one's livelihood as security.

You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

The LORD will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand, until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the wickedness you have committed in forsaking Him.

You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.

You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.

You will have olive trees throughout your territory, but you will never anoint yourself with oil, because the olives will drop off.

You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.

Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,

refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children that he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and hardship your enemy will impose on all your cities.

the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and dire straits your enemy will impose on you in all your cities.

You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.