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Do not pity him. It will be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

"When you go to battle against those who hate you and see more horses and war-wagons and soldiers than you have, do not be afraid of them. For the Lord your God, Who brought you from the land of Egypt, is with you.

For the Lord your God is the One Who goes with you. He will fight for you against those who hate you. And He will save you.'

If they agree to make peace with you and open their gates to you, all the people who are found there will be made to work for you and serve you.

Take for yourselves what is left, the women, the children, all the animals, and all that is in the city. Use what is left of those who fought against you, which the Lord your God has given you.

But in the cities of these nations that the Lord your God is giving you for your own, do not leave alive anything that breathes.

Then they will not teach you to do all the hated and sinful things they have done for their gods, and make you sin against the Lord your God.

"When you stay around a city a long time, to make war against it and take it, do not destroy its trees with the ax. You may eat from them but do not cut them down. For are trees of the field men that they should be killed?

"If a person has been killed and is found lying in a field in the land the Lord your God is giving you for your own and it is not known who killed him,

Then the religious leaders, the sons of Levi, will come near for the Lord your God has chosen them to serve Him and to bring good in the name of the Lord. Every question about what is right and every fight will be decided upon by them.

and you see a beautiful woman and have a desire for her as a wife,

She will change the clothes she wore when you took her away, and stay in your house. She will have sorrow for her father and mother for one month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband and she will be your wife.

If you are not pleased with her, you should let her go wherever she wants. But do not sell her for money or act as if she were a servant because you have put her to shame.

on the day when the man divides what he has for his sons, he cannot make the first-born of his loved wife the first-born before the son of the wife who is not loved, who is the first-born.

his body must not hang all night on the tree. You should be sure to bury him on the same day (for he who hangs is cursed by God). So do not make your land unclean which the Lord your God is giving you.

If your brother is not home, or if you do not know who he is, then bring the animal to your house. Keep it there until your brother looks for it. Then return it to him.

"A woman must not wear men's clothing. And a man must not put on women's clothing. For the Lord your God hates whoever does these things.

Be sure to let the mother go. But you may take the young for yourself. Then it will go well with you, and you will live long.

The girl's father will say to the leaders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man for a wife. But he turned against her.

Then you must bring them both to the gate of that city and kill them with stones. Put the girl to death because she did not cry for help in the city, and the man because he has sinned against his neighbor's wife. So you will get rid of the sin from among you.