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When you come near a city to fight against it, then call to it for peace.

And it shall be, if it answers peace to you, and shall open to you, then it shall be that all the people found in it shall be forced laborers for you, and shall serve you.

Only, the women, and the little ones, and the livestock, and all in the city, all its plunder, you shall seize for yourself. And you shall eat the plunder of your enemies which Jehovah your God has given to you.

so that they may not teach you to do according to all their filthy deeds which they have done for their gods; and you would sin against Jehovah your God.

When you shall lay siege to a city many days, to fight against it, to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees in order to force an axe against them. For you shall eat of them, and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree ofthe field a man, that it should be used by you to lay siege?

And the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come near (for Jehovah your God has chosen them to minister to Him, and to bless in the name of Jehovah) and by their mouth shall every controversy and every stroke be tried .

And you shall put away the innocent blood from among you, for you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah.

and you have seen in the captivity a woman of beautiful form, and you desire her, even to take her to you for a wife,

and shall remove the clothing of her captivity from her, and shall live in your house, and shall sorrow for her father and her mother a month of days. Then afterwards you shall go in to her, and shall marry her; and she shall be a wife to you.

And it shall be, if you do not delight in her, you shall send her away at her desire; and you shall not at all sell her for silver; you shall not treat her as a slave, because you have humbled her.

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

his body shall not remain all night on the tree; but burying you shall bury him the same day. For he that is hanged is a reproach to God. And you shall not defile your land which Jehovah your God is giving to you as an inheritance.

There shall not be the thing of a man on a woman, nor shall a man put on a woman's garment. For whoever does these things is an abomination to Jehovah your God.

But in every case you shall let the mother go, and take the young for yourself, so that it may be well with you, and you may prolong your days.

When you build a new house, then you shall make a guard rail for your roof, so that you do not put blood on your house if someone falls from it.

You shall make for yourself tassels on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover.

And the girl's father shall say to the elders, I have given my daughter to this man for a wife, and he hates her.

But if this thing is true that tokens of virginity have not been found for the girl,

then they shall bring out the girl to the door of her father's house. And the men of her city shall stone her with stones, and she shall die; for she has done folly in Israel, to commit fornicationin her father's house. And you shall put awaythe evil from among you.

And you shall do nothing to the girl; the girl has no sin worthy of death; for as when a man rises against his neighbor and murders him, even so is this matter.