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And it shall be, if the guilty man deserves punishment, the judge shall cause him to lie down, and have him flogged in his presence, according to his offense, with a certain number of stripes.

When brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not marry to a stranger; but her husbands brother shall take her, and she shall become his wife, and he shall perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her.

And it shall be, that the first-born which she bears shall be named after the name of his brother who is dead, that his name may not be forgotten in Israel.

And if the man refuses to take his brothers wife, then let his brothers wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My brother-in-law refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel, and is unwilling to take me as a wife.

Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him; and if he should rise up and say, I will not take her;

Then his sister-in-law shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and say, So shall it be done to the man who will not raise a family to his brother.

And his name shall be called in Israel, the house of him that has his shoe loosed.

When two brothers are fighting, and the wife of one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hands of his adversary, and puts forth her hand, and seizes him by the private parts;

You shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the land, which you shall bring in from the land which the LORD your God gives you, and shall put it in a basket, and you shall arise and go to the place where the LORD your God chooses to place his name.

You have confessed the LORD this day to be your God, and promised to walk in his ways and to keep his statutes and his judgments and his commandments, and to hearken to his voice;

And the LORD has promised you again this day to be his beloved people, as he had promised you, that you shall keep and do all his commandments;

You shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God, and do his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day.

Cursed be he who reviles his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Cursed be he who removes his neighbors landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Cursed be he who lies with his fathers wife; and thus uncovers his fathers skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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

Cursed be he who smites his neighbor secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.

AND if you shall hearken diligently to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command you this day, the LORD your God will set you on high above all the nations of the earth;

The LORD shall establish you a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you shall keep all the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in his ways.