DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 13
Deuteronomy 13:1 `When there ariseth in your midst a prophet, or a dreamer of a dream, and he hath given unto thee a sign or wonder,
13:2 and the sign and the wonder hath come which he hath spoken of unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods (which thou hast not known), and serve them,
13:3 thou dost not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or unto that dreamer of the dream, for YHWH your God is trying you, to know whether ye are loving YHWH your God with all your heart, and with all your soul;
13:4 after YHWH your God ye walk, and Him ye fear, and His commands ye keep, and to His voice ye hearken, and Him ye serve, and to Him ye cleave.
13:5 `And that prophet, or that dreamer of the dream, is put to death, for he hath spoken apostacy against YHWH your God (who is bringing you out of the land of Egypt, and hath ransomed you out of a house of servants), to drive you out of the way in which YHWH thy God hath commanded thee to walk, and thou hast put away the evil thing from thy midst.
13:6 `When thy brother -- son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend who [is] as thine own soul -- doth move thee, in secret, saying, Let us go and serve other gods -- (which thou hast not known, thou and thy fathers,
13:7 of the gods of the peoples who [are] round about you, who are near unto thee, or who are far off from thee, from the end of the earth even unto the end of the earth) --
13:8 thou dost not consent to him, nor hearken unto him, nor doth thine eye have pity on him, nor dost thou spare, nor dost thou cover him over.
13:9 `But thou dost surely kill him; thy hand is on him, in the first place, to put him to death, and the hand of all the people last;
Deuteronomy 13:10 and thou hast stoned him with stones, and he hath died, for he hath sought to drive thee away from YHWH thy God, who is bringing thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants;
13:11 and all Israel do hear and fear, and add not to do like this evil thing in thy midst.
13:12 `When thou hearest, in one of thy cities which YHWH thy God is giving to thee to dwell there, [one] saying,
13:13 Men, sons of worthlessness, have gone out of thy midst, and they force away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known --
13:14 and thou hast enquired, and searched, and asked diligently, and lo, truth; the thing is established; this abomination hath been done in thy midst:
13:15 `Thou dost surely smite the inhabitants of that city by the mouth of the sword; devoting it, and all that [is] in it, even its cattle, by the mouth of the sword;
13:16 and all its spoil thou dost gather unto the midst of its broad place, and hast burned with fire the city and all its spoil completely, before YHWH thy God, and it hath been a heap age-during, it is not built any more;
13:17 and there doth not cleave to thy hand any of the devoted thing, so that YHWH doth turn back from the fierceness of His anger, and hath given to thee mercies, and loved thee, and multiplied thee, as He hath sworn to thy fathers,
13:18 when thou dost hearken to the voice of YHWH thy God, to keep all his commands which I am commanding thee to-day, to do that which [is] right in the eyes of YHWH thy God.
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 14
Deuteronomy 14:1 `Sons ye [are] to YHWH your God; ye do not cut yourselves, nor make baldness between your eyes for the dead;
14:2 for a holy people [art] thou to YHWH thy God, and on thee hath YHWH fixed to be to Him for a people, a peculiar treasure, out of all the peoples who [are] on the face of the ground.
14:3 `Thou dost not eat any abominable thing;
14:4 `this [is] the beast which ye do eat: ox, lamb of the sheep, or kid of the goats,
14:5 hart, and roe, and fallow deer, and wild goat, and pygarg, and wild ox, and chamois;
14:6 and every beast dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft into two hoofs, bringing up the cud, among the beasts -- it ye do eat.
14:7 `Only, this ye do not eat, of those bringing up the cud, and of those dividing the cloven hoof: the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit, for they are bringing up the cud but the hoof have not divided; unclean they [are] to you;
14:8 and the sow, for it is dividing the hoof, and not [bringing] up the cud, unclean it [is] to you; of their flesh ye do not eat, and against their carcase ye do not come.
14:9 `This ye do eat of all that [are] in the waters; all that hath fins and scales ye do eat;
Deuteronomy 14:10 and anything which hath not fins and scales ye do not eat; unclean it [is] to you.
14:11 `Any clean bird ye do eat;
14:12 and these [are] they of which ye do not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
14:13 and the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after its kind,
14:14 and every raven after its kind;
14:15 and the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after its kind;
14:16 the [little] owl, and the [great] owl, and the swan,
14:17 and the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant,
14:18 and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the lapwing, and the bat;
14:19 and every teeming thing which is flying, unclean it [is] to you; they are not eaten;
Deuteronomy 14:20 any clean fowl ye do eat.
14:21 `Ye do not eat of any carcase; to the sojourner who [is] within thy gates thou dost give it, and he hath eaten it; or sell [it] to a stranger; for a holy people thou [art] to YHWH thy God; thou dost not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
14:22 `Thou dost certainly tithe all the increase of thy seed which the field is bringing forth year by year;
14:23 and thou hast eaten before YHWH thy God, in the place where He doth choose to cause His name to tabernacle, the tithe of thy corn, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herd, and of thy flock, so that thou dost learn to fear YHWH thy God all the days.
14:24 `And when the way is too much for thee, that thou art not able to carry it -- when the place is too far off from thee which YHWH thy God doth choose to put His name there, when YHWH thy God doth bless thee; --
14:25 then thou hast given [it] in money, and hast bound up the money in thy hand, and gone unto the place on which YHWH thy God doth fix;
14:26 and thou hast given the money for any thing which thy soul desireth, for oxen, and for sheep, and for wine, and for strong drink, and for any thing which thy soul asketh, and thou hast eaten there before YHWH thy God, and thou hast rejoiced, thou and thy house.
14:27 As to the Levite who [is] within thy gates, thou dost not forsake him, for he hath no portion and inheritance with thee.
14:28 `At the end of three years thou dost bring out all the tithe of thine increase in that year, and hast placed [it] within thy gates;
14:29 and come in hath the Levite (for he hath no part and inheritance with thee), and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who [are] within thy gates, and they have eaten, and been satisfied, so that YHWH thy God doth bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou dost.
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 15
Deuteronomy 15:1 `At the end of seven years thou dost make a release,
15:2 and this [is] the matter of the release: Every owner of a loan [is] to release his hand which he doth lift up against his neighbour, he doth not exact of his neighbour and of his brother, but hath proclaimed a release to YHWH;
15:3 of the stranger thou mayest exact, and that which is thine with thy brother doth thy hand release;
15:4 only when there is no needy one with thee, for YHWH doth greatly bless thee in the land which YHWH thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance to possess it.
15:5 `Only, if thou dost diligently hearken to the voice of YHWH thy God, to observe to do all this command which I am commanding thee to-day,
15:6 for YHWH thy God hath blessed thee as He hath spoken to thee; and thou hast lent [to] many nations, and thou hast not borrowed; and thou hast ruled over many nations, and over thee they do not rule.
15:7 `When there is with thee any needy one of one of thy brethren, in one of thy cities, in thy land which YHWH thy God is giving to thee, thou dost not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy needy brother;
15:8 for thou dost certainly open thy hand to him, and dost certainly lend him sufficient for his lack which he lacketh.
15:9 `Take heed to thee lest there be a word in thy heart -- worthless, saying, Near [is] the seventh year, the year of release; and thine eye is evil against thy needy brother, and thou dost not give to him, and he hath called concerning thee unto YHWH, and it hath been in thee sin;
Deuteronomy 15:10 thou dost certainly give to him, and thy heart is not sad in thy giving to him, for because of this thing doth YHWH thy God bless thee in all thy works, and in every putting forth of thy hand;
15:11 because the needy one doth not cease out of the land, therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Thou dost certainly open thy hand to thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy one, in thy land.
15:12 `When thy brother is sold to thee, a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, and he hath served thee six years -- then in the seventh year thou dost send him away free from thee.
15:13 And when thou dost send him away free from thee, thou dost not send him away empty;
15:14 thou dost certainly encircle him out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy wine-vat; [of] that which YHWH thy God hath blessed thee thou dost give to him,
15:15 and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt, and YHWH thy God doth ransom thee; therefore I am commanding thee this thing to-day.
15:16 `And it hath been, when he saith unto thee, I go not out from thee -- because he hath loved thee, and thy house, because [it is] good for him with thee --
15:17 then thou hast taken the awl, and hast put [it] through his ear, and through the door, and he hath been to thee a servant age-during; and also to thy handmaid thou dost do so.
15:18 `It is not hard in thine eyes, in thy sending him away free from thee; for the double of the hire of an hireling he hath served thee six years, and YHWH thy God hath blessed thee in all that thou dost.
15:19 `Every firstling that is born in thy herd and in thy flock -- the male thou dost sanctify to YHWH thy God; thou dost not work with the firstling of thine ox, nor shear the firstling of thy flock;
Deuteronomy 15:20 before YHWH thy God thou dost eat it year by year, in the place which YHWH doth choose, thou and thy house.
15:21 `And when there is in it a blemish, lame, or blind, any evil blemish, thou dost not sacrifice it to YHWH thy God;
15:22 within thy gates thou dost eat it, the unclean and the clean alike, as the roe, and as the hart.
15:23 Only, its blood thou dost not eat; on the earth thou dost pour it as water.
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 16
Deuteronomy 16:1 `Observe the month of Abib -- and thou hast made a passover to YHWH thy God, for in the month of Abib hath YHWH thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night;
16:2 and thou hast sacrificed a passover to YHWH thy God, of the flock, and of the herd, in the place which YHWH doth choose to cause His name to tabernacle there.
16:3 `Thou dost not eat with it any fermented thing, seven days thou dost eat with it unleavened things, bread of affliction; for in haste thou hast come out of the land of Egypt; so that thou dost remember the day of thy coming out of the land of Egypt all days of thy life;
16:4 and there is not seen with thee leaven in all thy border seven days, and there doth not remain of the flesh which thou dost sacrifice at evening on the first day till morning.
16:5 `Thou art not able to sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates which YHWH thy God is giving to thee,
16:6 except at the place which YHWH thy God doth choose to cause His name to tabernacle -- there thou dost sacrifice the passover in the evening, at the going in of the sun, the season of thy coming out of Egypt;
16:7 and thou hast cooked and eaten in the place on which YHWH thy God doth fix, and hast turned in the morning, and gone to thy tents;
16:8 six days thou dost eat unleavened things, and on the seventh day [is] a restraint to YHWH thy God; thou dost do no work.
16:9 `Seven weeks thou dost number to thee; from the beginning of the sickle among the standing corn thou dost begin to number seven weeks,
Deuteronomy 16:10 and thou hast made the feast of weeks to YHWH thy God, a tribute of a free-will offering of thy hand, which thou dost give, as YHWH thy God doth bless thee.
16:11 And thou hast rejoiced before YHWH thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and the Levite who [is] within thy gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who [are] in thy midst, in the place which YHWH thy God doth choose to cause His name to tabernacle there,
16:12 and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in Egypt, and hast observed and done these statutes.
16:13 `The feast of booths thou dost make for thee seven days, in thine in-gathering of thy threshing-floor, and of thy wine-vat;
16:14 and thou hast rejoiced in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who [are] within thy gates.
16:15 Seven days thou dost feast before YHWH thy God, in the place which YHWH doth choose, for YHWH thy God doth bless thee in all thine increase, and in every work of thy hands, and thou hast been only rejoicing.
16:16 `Three times in a year doth every one of thy males appear before YHWH thy God in the place which He doth choose -- in the feast of unleavened things, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths; and they do not appear before YHWH empty;
16:17 each according to the gift of his hand, according to the blessing of YHWH thy God, which He hath given to thee.
16:18 `Judges and authorities thou dost make to thee within all thy gates which YHWH thy God is giving to thee, for thy tribes; and they have judged the people -- a righteous judgment.
16:19 Thou dost not turn aside judgment; thou dost not discern faces, nor take a bribe, for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Deuteronomy 16:20 Righteousness -- righteousness thou dost pursue, so that thou livest, and hast possessed the land which YHWH thy God is giving to thee.
16:21 `Thou dost not plant for thee a shrine of any trees near the altar of YHWH thy God, which thou makest for thyself,
16:22 and thou dost not raise up to thee any standing image which YHWH thy God is hating.
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 17
Deuteronomy 17:1 `Thou dost not sacrifice to YHWH thy God ox or sheep in which there is a blemish -- any evil thing; for it [is] the abomination of YHWH thy God.
17:2 `When there is found in thy midst, in one of thy cities which YHWH thy God is giving to thee, a man or a woman who doth the evil thing in the eyes of YHWH thy God by transgressing His covenant,
17:3 and he doth go and serve other gods, and doth bow himself to them, and to the sun, or to the moon, or to any of the host of the heavens, which I have not commanded --
17:4 and it hath been declared to thee, and thou hast heard, and hast searched diligently, and lo, truth; the thing is established; this abomination hath been done in Israel --
17:5 `Then thou hast brought out that man, or that woman, who hath done this evil thing, unto thy gates -- the man or the woman -- and thou hast stoned them with stones, and they have died.
17:6 By the mouth of two witnesses or of three witnesses is he who is dead put to death; he is not put to death by the mouth of one witness;
17:7 the hand of the witnesses is on him, in the first place, to put him to death, and the hand of all the people last; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.
17:8 `When anything is too hard for thee for judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke -- matters of strife within thy gates -- then thou hast risen, and gone up unto the place on which YHWH thy God doth fix,
17:9 and hast come in unto the priests, the Levites, and unto the judge who is in those days, and hast inquired, and they have declared to thee the word of judgment,
Deuteronomy 17:10 and thou hast done according to the tenor of the word which they declare to thee ([they] of that place which YHWH doth choose; and thou hast observed to do according to all that they direct thee.
17:11 `According to the tenor of the law which they direct thee, and according to the judgment which they say to thee thou dost do; thou dost not turn aside from the word which they declare to thee, right or left.
17:12 And the man who acteth with presumption, so as not to hearken unto the priest (who is standing to serve there YHWH thy God), or unto the judge, even that man hath died, and thou hast put away the evil thing from Israel,
17:13 and all the people do hear and fear, and do not presume any more.
17:14 `When thou comest in unto the land which YHWH thy God is giving to thee, and hast possessed it, and dwelt in it, and thou hast said, Let me set over me a king like all the nations which [are] round about me, --
17:15 thou dost certainly set over thee a king on whom YHWH doth fix; from the midst of thy brethren thou dost set over thee a king; thou art not able to set over thee a stranger, who is not thy brother.
17:16 `Only, he doth not multiply to himself horses, nor cause the people to turn back to Egypt, so as to multiply horses, seeing YHWH hath said to you, Ye do not add to turn back in this way any more.
17:17 And he doth not multiply to himself wives, and his heart doth not turn aside, and silver and gold he doth not multiply to himself -- exceedingly.
17:18 `And it hath been, when he sitteth on the throne of his kingdom, that he hath written for himself the copy of this law, on a book, from [that] before the priests the Levites,
17:19 and it hath been with him, and he hath read in it all days of his life, so that he doth learn to fear YHWH his God, to keep all the words of this law, and these statutes, to do them;
Deuteronomy 17:20 so that his heart is not high above his brethren, and so as not to turn aside from the command, right or left, so that he prolongeth days over his kingdom, he and his sons, in the midst of Israel.
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 18
Deuteronomy 18:1 `There is not to the priests the Levites -- all the tribe of Levi -- a portion and inheritance with Israel; fire-offerings of YHWH, even His inheritance, they eat,
18:2 and he hath no inheritance in the midst of his brethren; YHWH Himself [is] his inheritance, as He hath spoken to him.
18:3 `And this is the priest's right from the people, from those sacrificing a sacrifice, whether ox or sheep, he hath even given to the priest the leg, and the two cheeks, and the stomach;
18:4 the first of thy corn, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy flock, thou dost give to him;
18:5 for on him hath YHWH thy God fixed, out of all thy tribes, to stand to serve in the name of YHWH, He and his sons continually.
18:6 `And when the Levite cometh from one of thy cities out of all Israel, where he hath sojourned, and hath come with all the desire of his soul unto the place which YHWH doth choose,
18:7 then he hath ministered in the name of YHWH his God, like all his brethren, the Levites, who are standing there before YHWH,
18:8 portion as portion they do eat, apart from his sold things, with the fathers.
18:9 `When thou art coming in unto the land which YHWH thy God is giving to thee, thou dost not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations:
Deuteronomy 18:10 there is not found in thee one causing his son and his daughter to pass over into fire, a user of divinations, an observer of clouds, and an enchanter, and a sorcerer,
18:11 and a charmer, and one asking at a familiar spirit, and a wizard, and one seeking unto the dead.
18:12 `For the abomination of YHWH [is] every one doing these, and because of these abominations is YHWH thy God dispossessing them from thy presence.
18:13 Perfect thou art with YHWH thy God,
18:14 for these nations whom thou art possessing, unto observers of clouds, and unto diviners, do hearken; and thou -- not so hath YHWH thy God suffered thee.
18:15 `A prophet out of thy midst, out of thy brethren, like to me, doth YHWH thy God raise up to thee -- unto him ye hearken;
18:16 according to all that thou didst ask from YHWH thy God, in Horeb, in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not add to hear the voice of YHWH my God, and this great fire let me not see any more, and I die not;
18:17 and YHWH saith unto me, They have done well that they have spoken;
18:18 a prophet I raise up to them, out of the midst of their brethren, like to thee; and I have given my words in his mouth, and he hath spoken unto them all that which I command him;
18:19 and it hath been -- the man who doth not hearken unto My words which he doth speak in My name, I require [it] of him.
Deuteronomy 18:20 `Only, the prophet who presumeth to speak a word in My name -- that which I have not commanded him to speak -- and who speaketh in the name of other gods -- even that prophet hath died.
18:21 `And when thou sayest in thy heart, How do we know the word which YHWH hath not spoken? --
18:22 that which the prophet speaketh in the name of YHWH, and the thing is not, and cometh not -- it [is] the word which YHWH hath not spoken; in presumption hath the prophet spoken it; -- thou art not afraid of him.
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 19
Deuteronomy 19:1 `When YHWH thy God doth cut off the nations, whose land YHWH thy God is giving to thee, and thou hast succeeded them, and dwelt in their cities, and in their houses,
19:2 three cities thou dost separate for thee in the midst of thy land which YHWH thy God is giving to thee to possess it.
19:3 Thou dost prepare for thee the way, and hast divided into three parts the border of thy land which YHWH thy God doth cause thee to inherit, and it hath been for the fleeing thither of every man-slayer.
19:4 `And this [is] the matter of the man-slayer who fleeth thither, and hath lived: He who smiteth his neighbour unknowingly, and is not hating him heretofore,
19:5 even he who cometh in with his neighbour into a forest to hew wood, and his hand hath driven with an axe to cut the tree, and the iron hath slipped from the wood, and hath met his neighbour, and he hath died -- he doth flee unto one of these cities, and hath lived,
19:6 lest the redeemer of blood pursue after the man-slayer when his heart is hot, and hath overtaken him (because the way is great), and hath smitten him -- the life, and he hath no sentence of death, for he is not hating him heretofore;
19:7 therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Three cities thou dost separate to thee.
19:8 `And if YHWH thy God doth enlarge thy border, as He hath sworn to thy fathers, and hath given to thee all the land which He hath spoken to give to thy fathers --
19:9 when thou keepest all this command to do it, which I am commanding thee to-day, to love YHWH thy God, and to walk in His ways all the days -- then thou hast added to thee yet three cities to these three;
Deuteronomy 19:10 and innocent blood is not shed in the midst of thy land which YHWH thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance, and there hath been upon thee blood.
19:11 `And when a man is hating his neighbour, and hath lain in wait for him, and risen against him, and smitten him -- the life, and he hath died, and he hath fled unto one of these cities,
19:12 then the elders of his city have sent and taken him from thence, and given him into the hand of the redeemer of blood, and he hath died;
19:13 thine eye hath no pity on him, and thou hast put away the innocent blood from Israel, and it is well with thee.
19:14 `Thou dost not remove a border of thy neighbour, which they of former times have made, in thine inheritance, which thou dost inherit in the land which YHWH thy God is giving to thee to possess it.
19:15 `One witness doth not rise against a man for any iniquity, and for any sin, in any sin which he sinneth; by the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three witnesses, is a thing established.
19:16 `When a violent witness doth rise against a man, to testify against him apostacy,
19:17 then have both the men who have the strife stood before YHWH, before the priests and the judges who are in those days,
19:18 and the judges have searched diligently, and lo, the witness [is] a false witness, a falsehood he hath testified against his brother:
19:19 `Then ye have done to him as he devised to do to his brother, and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst,
Deuteronomy 19:20 and those who are left do hear and fear, and add not to do any more according to this evil thing in thy midst;
19:21 and thine eye doth not pity -- life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 20
Deuteronomy 20:1 `When thou goest out to battle against thine enemy, and hast seen horse and chariot -- a people more numerous than thou -- thou art not afraid of them, for YHWH thy God [is] with thee, who is bringing thee up out of the land of Egypt;
20:2 and it hath been, in your drawing near unto the battle, that the priest hath come nigh, and spoken unto the people,
20:3 and said unto them, Hear, Israel, ye are drawing near to-day to battle against your enemies, let not your hearts be tender, fear not, nor make haste, nor be terrified at their presence,
20:4 for YHWH your God [is] He who is going with you, to fight for you with your enemies -- to save you.
20:5 `And the authorities have spoken unto the people, saying, Who [is] the man that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? -- let him go and turn back to his house, lest he die in battle, and another man dedicate it.
20:6 `And who [is] the man that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not made it common? -- let him go and turn back to his house, lest he die in battle, and another man make it common.
20:7 `And who [is] the man that hath betrothed a woman, and hath not taken her? -- let him go and turn back to his house, lest he die in battle, and another man take her.
20:8 `And the authorities have added to speak unto the people, and said, Who [is] the man that is afraid and tender of heart? -- let him go and turn back to his house, and the heart of his brethren doth not melt like his heart;
20:9 and it hath come to pass as the authorities finish to speak unto the people, that they have appointed princes of the hosts at the head of the people.
Deuteronomy 20:10 `When thou drawest near unto a city to fight against it, then thou hast called unto it for Peace,
20:11 and it hath been, if Peace it answer thee, and hath opened to thee, then it hath come to pass -- all the people who are found in it are to thee for tributaries, and have served thee.
20:12 `And if it doth not make peace with thee, and hath made with thee war, then thou hast laid siege against it,
20:13 and YHWH thy God hath given it into thy hand, and thou hast smitten every male of it by the mouth of the sword.
20:14 Only, the women, and the infants, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, thou dost seize for thyself, and thou hast eaten the spoil of thine enemies which YHWH thy God hath given to thee.
20:15 So thou dost do to all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
20:16 `Only, of the cities of these peoples which YHWH thy God is giving to thee [for] an inheritance, thou dost not keep alive any breathing;
20:17 for thou dost certainly devote the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as YHWH thy God hath commanded thee,
20:18 so that they teach you not to do according to all their abominations which they have done to their gods, and ye have sinned against YHWH your God.
20:19 `When thou layest siege unto a city many days, to fight against it, to capture it, thou dost not destroy its trees to force an axe against them, for of them thou dost eat, and them thou dost not cut down -- for man's [is] the tree of the field -- to go in at thy presence in the siege.
Deuteronomy 20:20 Only, the tree, which thou knowest that it [is] not a fruit-tree, it thou dost destroy, and hast cut down, and hast built a bulwark against the city which is making with thee war till thou hast subdued it.
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 21
Deuteronomy 21:1 `When one is found slain on the ground which YHWH thy God is giving to thee to possess it -- fallen in a field -- it is not known who hath smitten him,
21:2 then have thine elders and thy judges gone out and measured unto the cities which [are] round about the slain one,
21:3 and it hath been, the city which [is] near unto the slain one, even the elders of that city have taken a heifer of the herd, which hath not been wrought with, which hath not drawn in the yoke,
21:4 and the elders of that city have brought down the heifer unto a hard valley, which is not tilled nor sown, and have beheaded there the heifer in the valley.
21:5 `And the priests, sons of Levi, have come nigh -- for on them hath YHWH thy God fixed to serve Him, and to bless in the name of YHWH, and by their mouth is every strife, and every stroke --
21:6 and all the elders of that city, who are near unto the slain one, do wash their hands over the heifer which is beheaded in the valley,
21:7 and they have answered and said, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen --
21:8 receive atonement for Thy people Israel, whom Thou hast ransomed, O YHWH, and suffer not innocent blood in the midst of Thy people Israel; and the blood hath been pardoned to them,
21:9 and thou dost put away the innocent blood out of thy midst, for thou dost that which [is] right in the eyes of YHWH.
Deuteronomy 21:10 `When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and YHWH thy God hath given them into thy hand, and thou hast taken captive its captivity,
21:11 and hast seen in the captivity a woman of fair form, and hast delighted in her, and hast taken to thee for a wife,
21:12 then thou hast brought her in unto the midst of thy household, and she hath shaved her head, and prepared her nails,
21:13 and turned aside the raiment of her captivity from off her, and hath dwelt in thy house, and bewailed her father and her mother a month of days, and afterwards thou dost go in unto her and hast married her, and she hath been to thee for a wife:
21:14 `And it hath been -- if thou hast not delighted in her, that thou hast sent her away at her desire, and thou dost not at all sell her for money; thou dost not tyrannize over her, because that thou hast humbled her.
21:15 `When a man hath two wives, the one loved and the other hated, and they have borne to him sons (the loved one and the hated one), and the first-born son hath been to the hated one;
21:16 then it hath been, in the day of his causing his sons to inherit that which he hath, he is not able to declare first-born the son of the loved one, in the face of the son of the hated one -- the first-born.
21:17 But the first-born, son of the hated one, he doth acknowledge, to give to him a double portion of all that is found with him, for he [is] the beginning of his strength; to him [is] the right of the first-born.
21:18 `When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious -- he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them --
21:19 then laid hold on him have his father and his mother, and they have brought him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place,
Deuteronomy 21:20 and have said unto the elders of his city, Our son -- this one -- is apostatizing and rebellious; he is not hearkening to our voice -- a glutton and drunkard;
21:21 and all the men of his city have stoned him with stones, and he hath died, and thou hast put away the evil out of thy midst, and all Israel do hear and fear.
21:22 `And when there is in a man a sin -- a cause of death, and he hath been put to death, and thou hast hanged him on a tree,
21:23 his corpse doth not remain on the tree, for thou dost certainly bury him in that day -- for a thing lightly esteemed of God [is] the hanged one -- and thou dost not defile thy ground which YHWH thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance.
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 22
Deuteronomy 22:1 `Thou dost not see the ox of thy brother or his sheep driven away, and hast hidden thyself from them, thou dost certainly turn them back to thy brother;
22:2 and if thy brother [is] not near unto thee, and thou hast not known him, then thou hast removed it unto the midst of thy house, and it hath been with thee till thy brother seek it, and thou hast given it back to him;
22:3 and so thou dost to his ass, and so thou dost to his garment, and so thou dost to any lost thing of thy brother's, which is lost by him, and thou hast found it; thou art not able to hide thyself.
22:4 `Thou dost not see the ass of thy brother, or his ox, falling in the way, and hast hid thyself from them; thou dost certainly raise [them] up with him.
22:5 `The habiliments of a man are not on a woman, nor doth a man put on the garment of a woman, for the abomination of YHWH thy God [is] any one doing these.
22:6 `When a bird's nest cometh before thee in the way, in any tree, or on the earth, brood or eggs, and the mother sitting on the brood or on the eggs, thou dost not take the mother with the young ones;
22:7 thou dost certainly send away the mother, and the young ones dost take to thyself, so that it is well with thee, and thou hast prolonged days.
22:8 `When thou buildest a new house, then thou hast made a parapet to thy roof, and thou dost not put blood on thy house when one falleth from it.
22:9 `Thou dost not sow thy vineyard [with] divers things, lest the fulness of the seed which thou dost sow, and the increase of the vineyard, be separated.
Deuteronomy 22:10 `Thou dost not plow with an ox and with an ass together.
22:11 `Thou dost not put on a mixed cloth, wool and linen together.
22:12 `Fringes thou dost make to thee on the four skirts of thy covering with which thou dost cover [thyself].
22:13 `When a man taketh a wife, and hath gone in unto her, and hated her,
22:14 and laid against her actions of words, and brought out against her an evil name, and said, This woman I have taken, and I draw near unto her, and I have not found in her tokens of virginity:
22:15 `Then hath the father of the damsel -- and her mother -- taken and brought out the tokens of virginity of the damsel unto the elders of the city in the gate,
22:16 and the father of the damsel hath said unto the elders, My daughter I have given to this man for a wife, and he doth hate her;
22:17 and lo, he hath laid actions of words, saying, I have not found to thy daughter tokens of virginity -- and these [are] the tokens of the virginity of my daughter! and they have spread out the garment before the elders of the city.
22:18 `And the elders of that city have taken the man, and chastise him,
22:19 and fined him a hundred silverlings, and given to the father of the damsel, because he hath brought out an evil name on a virgin of Israel, and she is to him for a wife, he is not able to send her away all his days.
Deuteronomy 22:20 `And if this thing hath been truth -- tokens of virginity have not been found for the damsel --
22:21 then they have brought out the damsel unto the opening of her father's house, and stoned her have the men of her city with stones, and she hath died, for she hath done folly in Israel, to go a-whoring [in] her father's house; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.
22:22 `When a man is found lying with a woman, married to a husband, then they have died even both of them, the man who is lying with the woman, also the woman; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of Israel.
22:23 `When there is a damsel, a virgin, betrothed to a man, and a man hath found her in a city, and lain with her;
22:24 then ye have brought them both out unto the gate of that city, and stoned them with stones, and they have died: -- the damsel, because that she hath not cried, [being] in a city; and the man, because that he hath humbled his neighbour's wife; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.
22:25 `And if in a field the man find the damsel who is betrothed, and the man hath laid hold on her, and lain with her, then hath the man who hath lain with her died alone;
22:26 and to the damsel thou dost not do anything, the damsel hath no deadly sin; for as a man riseth against his neighbour and hath murdered him -- the life, so [is] this thing;
22:27 for in a field he found her, she hath cried -- the damsel who is betrothed -- and she hath no saviour.
22:28 `When a man findeth a damsel, a virgin who is not betrothed, and hath caught her, and lain with her, and they have been found,
22:29 then hath the man who is lying with her given to the father of the damsel fifty silverlings, and to him she is for a wife; because that he hath humbled her, he is not able to send her away all his days.
Deuteronomy 22:30 `A man doth not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 23
Deuteronomy 23:1 `One wounded, bruised, or cut in the member doth not enter into the assembly of YHWH;
23:2 a bastard doth not enter into the assembly of YHWH; even a tenth generation of him doth not enter into the assembly of YHWH.
23:3 `An Ammonite and a Moabite doth not enter into the assembly of YHWH; even a tenth generation of them doth not enter into the assembly of YHWH -- to the age;
23:4 because that they have not come before you with bread and with water in the way, in your coming out from Egypt, and because he hath hired against thee Balaam son of Beor, of Pethor of Aram-Naharaim, to revile thee;
23:5 and YHWH thy God hath not been willing to hearken unto Balaam, and YHWH thy God doth turn for thee the reviling to a blessing, because YHWH thy God hath loved thee;
23:6 thou dost not seek their peace and their good all thy days -- to the age.
23:7 `Thou dost not abominate an Edomite, for thy brother he [is]; thou dost not abominate an Egyptian, for a sojourner thou hast been in his land;
23:8 sons who are begotten of them, a third generation of them, doth enter into the assembly of YHWH.
23:9 `When a camp goeth out against thine enemies, then thou hast kept from every evil thing.
Deuteronomy 23:10 `When there is in thee a man who is not clean, from an accident at night -- then he hath gone out unto the outside of the camp -- he doth not come in unto the midst of the camp --
23:11 and it hath been, at the turning of the evening, he doth bathe with water, and at the going in of the sun he doth come in unto the midst of the camp.
23:12 `And a station thou hast at the outside of the camp, and thou hast gone out thither without,
23:13 and a nail thou hast on thy staff, and it hath been, in thy sitting without, that thou hast digged with it, and turned back, and covered thy filth;
23:14 for YHWH thy God is walking up and down in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give thine enemies before thee, and thy camp hath been holy, and He doth not see in thee the nakedness of anything, and hath turned back from after thee.
23:15 `Thou dost not shut up a servant unto his lord, who is delivered unto thee from his lord;
23:16 with thee he doth dwell, in thy midst, in the place which he chooseth within one of thy gates, where it is pleasing to him; thou dost not oppress him.
23:17 `There is not a whore among the daughters of Israel, nor is there a whoremonger among the sons of Israel;
23:18 thou dost not bring a gift of a whore, or a price of a dog, into the house of YHWH thy God, for any vow; for the abomination of YHWH thy God [are] even both of them.
23:19 `Thou dost not lend in usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of food, usury of anything which is lent on usury.
Deuteronomy 23:20 To a stranger thou mayest lend in usury, and to thy brother thou dost not lend in usury, so that YHWH thy God doth bless thee in every putting forth of thy hand on the land whither thou goest in to possess it.
23:21 `When thou vowest a vow to YHWH thy God, thou dost not delay to complete it; for YHWH thy God doth certainly require it from thee, and it hath been in thee -- sin.
23:22 `And when thou forbearest to vow, it is not in thee a sin.
23:23 The produce of thy lips thou dost keep, and hast done [it], as thou hast vowed to YHWH thy God; a free-will-offering, which thou hast spoken with thy mouth.
23:24 `When thou comest in unto the vineyard of thy neighbour, then thou hast eaten grapes, according to thy desire, thy sufficiency; but into thy vessel thou dost not put [any].
23:25 When thou comest in among the standing-corn of thy neighbour, then thou hast plucked the ears with thy hand, but a sickle thou dost not wave over the standing-corn of thy neighbour.
Deuteronomy 1-12 - Deuteronomy 24-34