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And the officers shall speak to the people, saying, What man is there that has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, or else if he dies in the battle, another will man dedicate it.

And what man is there that has planted a vineyard, and has not used the fruit thereof? let him go and return to his house, or else if he dies in the battle, another man will use the fruit thereof.

And what man is there that has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house, or else if he dies in the battle, another man will take her.

And the officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted? let him go and return to his house, lest his brothers' heart melt as his heart.

then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved the first-born before the son of the hated, who is the first-born:

but he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the first-born is his.

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them;

then his father and his mother shall lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;

and they shall say to the elders of his city, This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

And all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he that is hanged is accursed of God; that you do not defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.

You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring them again to your brother.

And so you shall do with his donkey; and so you shall do with his garment; and so you shall do with every lost thing of your brother's, which he has lost, and you have found: you may not hide yourself.

You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again.

and they shall fine him a hundred [shekels] of silver, and give them to the father of the damsel, because he has brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the damsel, because she didn't cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

but to the damsel you shall do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and slays him, even so is this matter;

then the man that lays with her shall give to the damsel's father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.

A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.

He that is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh.