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Your eyes shall not pity him, but you shall kill him, and thus purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

And your eye shall not pity; but life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

But if it will not surrender to you, but will make war with you, then you shall besiege it;

But the women and the little ones and the cattle and all that is in the city, even all its spoil, you shall plunder for yourselves; and you shall eat of the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God gives you.

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

But you shall utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD your God has commanded you;

And 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 make a harlot of her, for sake of a gain, because you have humbled her.

But the first-born, the son of the hated, he must receive double portion of all that he has; for he is the first of his children; and the right of the first-born is his.

His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you shall bury him the same day (for he who shall revile God shall be crucified), and you shall not defile your land, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.

YOU shall not see your brothers ox or his sheep go astray, and disregard them; but you shall surely bring them back to your brother.

You shall not see your enemys ass or his ox fallen down by the way, and turn away your eyes from them; but you shall surely help him to lift them up again.

But you shall surely let the mother go, and take the young for yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may live long.

But if this thing is true, and the tokens of virginity are not found for the damsel;

But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and seize her by force, and lie with her; then the man only who lay with her shall die:

But to the damsel you shall do nothing; because there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death; for as when a man rises against his neighbor and slays him, even so is this case.

Nevertheless the LORD your God would not hearken to Balaam; but the LORD your God turned his curses into blessings to you, because the LORD your God loved you.

But when the evening comes on, he shall bathe himself with water; and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again.

But he shall dwell with you in the place which he shall choose in one of your towns, where it pleases him best; you shall not oppress him.

To a foreigner you may lend with interest; but to your brother you shall not lend with interest, that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you set your hand to in the land which you shall go in to possess.

But if you are unwilling to make a vow, then it shall be no sin in you.