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And the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to serve Him and pronounce blessings in His name and to give a ruling in every dispute and case of assault.

when that man assigns his inheritance to his sons he must not appoint the son of the beloved wife as the firstborn over the son of the unloved wife.

Instead, he must acknowledge the firstborn, the son of his unloved wife, by giving him a double portion of all that he has. For that son is the firstfruits of his father's strength; the right of the firstborn belongs to him.

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother, or listen to them when disciplined,

his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,

Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.

If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,

And you shall do the same for his donkey, his cloak, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.

They are also to fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman's father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. And she shall remain his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.

you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death-the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor's wife. You must purge the evil from among you.

Do nothing to the young woman, because she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.

the man who raped her must pay the young woman's father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.

A man is not to marry his father's wife, so that he will not dishonor his father's marriage bed.

No one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the LORD, nor may any of his descendants, even to the tenth generation.

Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.

Do not return a slave to his master if he has taken refuge with you.

Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress him.

If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.

If, after leaving his house, she goes and becomes another man's wife,

and the second man hates her, writes her a certificate of divorce, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house, or if he dies,