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"When you go out to battle against those who hate you, and the Lord your God gives them to you, and you make them go with you,

his body must not hang all night on the tree. You should be sure to bury him on the same day (for he who hangs is cursed by God). So do not make your land unclean which the Lord your God is giving you.

"A woman must not wear men's clothing. And a man must not put on women's clothing. For the Lord your God hates whoever does these things.

But the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam. Instead He changed the curse into good for you, because the Lord your God loves you.

Because the Lord your God walks among your tents to set you free and make you win the battle against those who hate you, the place where your tents are must be holy. He must not see anything among you that is unclean and turn away from you.

"No daughter of Israel is to sell the use of her body in worship to a strange god. And no son of Israel is to sell the use of his body for a strange god.

You must not bring the pay of a woman who sells the use of her body or of a man who does sex sins into the house of the Lord your God for any promised gift. For the Lord your God hates both of these.

You may make a stranger pay you for the use of money, but not your brother. So the Lord your God may bring good to you in all you do in the land you are going into to have for your own.

"When you make a promise to the Lord your God, do not be slow to pay it. It would be sin in you, for the Lord your God will be sure to ask you for it.

Be careful to do what you say you are going to do. Keep the promise you have made to the Lord your God because you want to.

then her first husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her for his wife again, because she has become unclean. It is a hated thing to the Lord and you must not bring sin on the land the Lord your God is giving you.

Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam on your way out of Egypt.

Return his coat to him when the sun goes down so he may sleep in it and be thankful for you. You will be doing what is right before the Lord your God.

Remember that you were servants in Egypt, and that the Lord your God set you free. So I am telling you to do this.

"When you gather the grain in your field and have forgotten some of it, do not return to the field to get it. Leave it for the stranger, the child whose parents have died, and the woman whose husband has died. Then the Lord your God will bring good to you in all the work of your hands.

You must have a full and fair weight. You must have a fair way to show how big something is. Then you will live long in the land the Lord your God gives you.

He met you on the way when you were weak and tired. And he fought with those who were behind. He did not fear God.

When the Lord your God gives you rest from all those around you who hate you, in the land the Lord your God gives you for your own, you must forget all about Amalek, so no one under heaven will remember him. Do not forget to do this.

"When you go into the land the Lord your God gives you, it will be yours and you will live in it.

You must take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you gather from the land the Lord your God gives you, and put it in a basket and go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to have His name.