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A man may not take his father's wife or have sex relations with a woman who is his father's.

One whose father and mother are not married may not come into the meeting of the Lord's people, or any of his family to the tenth generation.

But the Lord your God would not give ear to Balaam, but let the curse be changed into a blessing to you, because of his love for you.

But have no hate for an Edomite, because he is your brother, or for an Egyptian, for you were living in his land.

Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you:

When you go into your neighbour's vine-garden, you may take of his grapes at your pleasure, but you may not take them away in your vessel.

When you go into your neighbour's field, you may take the heads of grain with your hand; but you may not put your blade to his grain.

If a man takes a wife, and after they are married she is unpleasing to him because of some bad quality in her, let him give her a statement in writing and send her away from his house.

A newly married man will not have to go out with the army or undertake any business, but may be free for one year, living in his house for the comfort of his wife.

If a man takes by force one of his countrymen, the children of Israel, using him as his property or getting a price for him, that thief is to be put to death: so you are to put away evil from among you.

If you let your brother have the use of anything which is yours, do not go into his house and take anything of his as a sign of his debt;

If he is a poor man, do not keep his property all night;

But be certain to give it back to him when the sun goes down, so that he may have his clothing for sleeping in, and will give you his blessing: and this will be put to your account as righteousness before the Lord your God.

Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you.

And if the wrongdoer is to undergo punishment by whipping, the judge will give orders for him to go down on his face and be whipped before him, the number of the blows being in relation to his crime.

If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do.

Then the first male child she has will take the rights of the brother who is dead, so that his name may not come to an end in Israel.

But if the man says he will not take his brother's wife, then let the wife go to the responsible men of the town, and say, My husband's brother will not keep his brother's name living in Israel; he will not do what it is right for a husband's brother to do.

Then his brother's wife is to come to him, before the responsible men of the town, and take his shoe off his foot, and put shame on him, and say, So let it be done to the man who will not take care of his brother's name.

And his family will be named in Israel, The house of him whose shoe has been taken off.