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For he found her in the field, and the betrothed girl cried out, but no one saved her.

You shall not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not despise an Egyptian, for you were an alien in his land;

For Jehovah your God walks in the middle of your camp to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you; therefore your camp shall be holy, so that He may see no unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.

You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the price of a dog, into the house of Jehovah your God for any vow; for even both of these are an abomination to Jehovah your God.

When you shall vow a vow to Jehovah your God, you shall not delay to perform it; for Jehovah your God will certainly require it of you, and it shall be sin to you.

her former husband who sent her away is not to take her again to be his wife, after she is defiled. For it is a hateful thing before Jehovah, and you shall not cause the land to sin which Jehovah your God is giving to you as an inheritance.

When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, and he shall not be given any thing to do . He shall be free at his own house for one year, and shall gladden his wife whom he has taken.

No one shall take in pledge the lower and upper millstone, for he is taking a man's life to pledge.

In the same day you shall give him his hire; do not let the sun go down on it. For he is poor, and has lifted up his heart on it; that he not cry against you to Jehovah, and it be sin against you.

The fathers shall not die for sons, and sons shall not die for fathers; they each shall die for his own sin.

But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and Jehovah your God redeemed you from there. For that reason I command you to do this thing.

When you cut down your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not turn back to take it. It shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow; so that Jehovah your God shall bless you in all the workof your hand.

When you beat your olive tree, you shall not search the branch behind you. It shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.

When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward. It shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.

then it shall be, if the wrongdoer is a son of stripes, the judge shall cause him to fall down. And one shall strike him before his face, enough for his wickedness, by number.

If brothers live together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not go outside to a strange man; her brother-in-law shall go in to her, and take her to himself for a wife, and shall perform the duty of the levirate;

and it shall be, the first-born which she bears shall rise up for his dead brother's name, and his name shall not be wiped out of Israel.

And the elders of his city shall call for him and shall speak to him. And he shall stand and say, I have no desire to take her.

For anyone doing these things is hateful to Jehovah your God, everyone doing unrighteously.

I have not eaten of it in my mourning; nor have I put any of it away for uncleanness; nor have I given of it for the dead. I have listened to the voice of Jehovah my God. I have done according to all that You have commanded me.