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Then all the men in his town must throw stones at him until he dies. Get rid of the evil among you, because then all the people of Israel will hear about this and be afraid.

If someone is guilty of a sin worthy of death, he must be put to death and his body displayed on a tree.

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.

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.

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

A man must not marry his father's wife; he must not dishonor his father in this way.

No man who has had part of his sex organ cut off may come into the meeting to worship the Lord .

If an escaped slave comes to you, do not hand over the slave to his master.

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.

After she leaves his house, she goes and marries another man,

but her second husband does not like her either. So he writes out divorce papers for her, gives them to her, and sends her away from his house. Or the second husband might die.

A man who has just married must not be sent to war or be given any other duty. He should be free to stay home for a year to make his new wife happy.

If someone owes you something, do not take his two stones for grinding grain—not even the upper one—in place of what he owes, because this is how the person makes a living.

Parents must not be put to death if their children do wrong, and children must not be put to death if their parents do wrong. Each person must die for his own sin.

If two brothers are living together, and one of them dies without having a son, his widow must not marry someone outside her husband's family. Her husband's brother must marry her, which is his duty to her as a brother-in-law.

The first son she has counts as the son of the dead brother so that his name will not be forgotten in Israel.

But if a man does not want to marry his brother's widow, she should go to the elders at the town gate. She should say, "My brother-in-law will not carry on his brother's name in Israel. He refuses to do his duty for me."

the woman must go up to him in front of the leaders. She must take off one of his sandals and spit in his face and say, "This is for the man who won't continue his brother's family!"

If two men are fighting and one man's wife comes to save her husband from his attacker, grabbing the attacker by his sex organs,

the Lord brought us out of Egypt with his great power and strength, using great terrors, signs, and miracles.