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Then if you are not satisfied with her, you are to let her go where she wants, but you must not sell her or treat her as merchandise, because you have humiliated her.

you are not to leave his corpse on the tree overnight but are to bury him that day, for anyone hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

You may take the young for yourself, but be sure to let the mother go free, so that you may prosper and live long.

and accuses her of shameful conduct, and gives her a bad name, saying, ‘I married this woman and was intimate with her, but I didn’t find any evidence of her virginity,’

The young woman’s father will say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, but he hates her.

He has accused her of shameful conduct, saying: “I didn’t find any evidence of your daughter’s virginity,” but here is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ They will spread out the cloth before the city elders.

But if this accusation is true and no evidence of the young woman’s virginity is found,

But if the man encounters an engaged woman in the open country, and he seizes and rapes her, only the man who raped her must die.

When he found her in the field, the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her.

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

You may charge a foreigner interest, but you must not charge your brother Israelite interest, so that the Lord your God may bless you in everything you do in the land you are entering to possess.

But if you refrain from making a vow, it will not be counted against you as sin.

“When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you want until you are full, but do not put any in your container.

When you enter your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck heads of grain with your hand, but do not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.

“If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, he may write her a divorce certificate, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.

He may be flogged with forty lashes, but no more. Otherwise, if he is flogged with more lashes than these, your brother will be degraded in your sight.

But if the man doesn’t want to marry his sister-in-law, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, ‘My brother-in-law refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He isn’t willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.’

But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, and forced us to do hard labor.

“The Lord will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you from one direction but flee from you in seven directions.

The Lord will open for you his abundant storehouse, the sky, to give your land rain in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.