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If you surround and attack a city for a long time, trying to capture it, do not destroy its trees with an ax. You can eat the fruit from the trees, but do not cut them down. These trees are not the enemy, so don't make war against them.

But you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees and use them to build devices to attack the city walls, until the city is captured.

But if you are not pleased with her, you must let her go anywhere she wants. You must not sell her for money or make her a slave, because you have taken away her honor.

But don't leave his body hanging on the tree overnight; be sure to bury him that same day, because anyone whose body is displayed on a tree is cursed by God. You must not ruin the land the Lord your God is giving you as your own.

You may take the young birds, but you must let the mother bird go free. Then things will go well for you, and you will live a long time.

If a man marries a girl and has sexual relations with her but then decides he does not like her,

he might talk badly about her and give her a bad name. He might say, "I married this woman, but when I had sexual relations with her, I did not find that she was a virgin."

The girl's father will say to the elders, "I gave my daughter to this man to be his wife, but now he does not want her.

This man has told lies about my daughter. He has said, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin,' but here is the proof that my daughter was a virgin." Then her parents are to show the sheet to the elders of the city,

But if the things the husband said about his wife are true, and there is no proof that she was a virgin,

If a man meets a virgin in a city and has sexual relations with her, but she is engaged to another man,

But if a man meets an engaged girl out in the country and forces her to have sexual relations with him, only the man who had sexual relations with her must be put to death.

the man found the engaged girl in the country and she screamed, but no one was there to save her.

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

But when evening comes, he must wash himself, and at sunset he may come back into the camp.

You may charge foreigners, but not fellow Israelites. Then the Lord your God will bless everything you do in the land you are entering to take as your own.

But if you do not make the promise, you will not be guilty.

If you go into your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you wish, but do not put any grapes into your basket.

If you go into your neighbor's grainfield, you may pick grain with your hands, but you must not cut down your neighbor's grain with your sickle.

A man might marry a woman but later decide she doesn't please him because he has found something bad about her. He writes out divorce papers for her, gives them to her, and sends her away from his house.