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On his day you shall give his wage, and the sun shall not go down, because he is poor and his life depends on it; do this so that he does not cry out against you to Yahweh, and you incur guilt.

"Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, and children shall not be put to death because of their fathers; each one shall be put to death for his own sin.

"When brothers dwell together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not become the wife of a man of another family; her brother-in-law shall have sex with her, and he shall take her to himself as a wife, and he shall perform his duty as a brother-in-law with respect to her.

And then the firstborn that she bears shall represent his dead brother, so that his name is not blotted out from Israel.

But if the man does not want to take his sister-in-law, then his sister-in-law shall go up to the gate, to the elders, and she shall say, ‘My brother-in-law refused to perpetuate his brother's name in Israel, for he is not willing to marry me.'

Then the elders of his town shall summon him and speak to him, and if he persists and says, ‘I do not desire to marry her'

then his sister-in-law shall go near him before the eyes of the elders, and she shall pull off his sandal from his foot, and she shall spit in his face, and she shall declare and she shall say, ‘This is how it is done to the man who does not build the house of his brother.'

And his family shall be called in Israel, ‘The house where the sandal was pulled off.'

"If a man and his brother fight each other and the wife of the one man comes near to rescue her husband from the hand of his attacker and she stretches out her hand and she seizes his genitals,

then you shall take from the firstfruit of all the fruit of the ground that you harvest from your land that Yahweh your God is giving to you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose to make his name to dwell there.

Yahweh you have declared today to be for you as your God, and to go in his ways and to observe his rules and his commandments and his regulations and to listen to his voice.

And Yahweh has declared you today to be for him as a people, a treasured possession, as he promised to you, and that you are to observe all his commandments,

and that he then will set you high above all the nations that he has made for his praise and for fame and for honor and for you to be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he promised."

And listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and observe his commandments and his rules that I am commanding you today."

‘Cursed be the one who dishonors his father or his mother.' And all of the people shall say, ‘Amen.'

‘Cursed be the one who moves the boundary marker of his neighbor.' And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.'

‘Cursed be the one who lies with the wife of his father, because he has dishonored his father's bed.' And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.'

‘Cursed be the one who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.' And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.'

‘Cursed be the one who lies with his mother-in-law.' And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.'

‘Cursed be the one who strikes down his neighbor in secret.' And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.'