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DEUTERONOMY:
CHAPTER 22-25
DEUTERONOMY:
CHAPTER 22
Sundry Laws
1 "You shall not see your countryman's ox or
his sheep straying away, and pay no attention to them; you shall certainly
bring them back to your countryman.
2 "If your countryman is not near you, or if
you do not know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and
it shall remain with you until your countryman looks for it; then you
shall restore it to him.
3 "Thus you shall do with his donkey, and you
shall do the same with his garment, and you shall do likewise with anything
lost by your countryman, which he has lost and you have found. You are
not allowed to neglect them.
4 "You shall not see your countryman's donkey
or his ox fallen down on the way, and pay no attention to them; you
shall certainly help him to raise them up.
5 "A woman shall not wear man's clothing,
nor shall a man put on a woman's clothing; for whoever does these things
is an abomination to the LORD your God.
6 "If you happen to come upon a bird's
nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or
eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall
not take the mother with the young;
7 you shall certainly let the mother go, but
the young you may take for yourself, in order that it may be well with
you and that you may prolong your days.
8 "When you build a new house, you shall
make a parapet for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt
on your house if anyone falls from it.
9 "You shall not sow your vineyard with
two kinds of seed, or all the produce of the seed which you have sown
and the increase of the vineyard will become defiled.
10 "You shall not plow with an ox and
a donkey together.
11 "You shall not wear a material mixed
of wool and linen together.
12 "You shall make yourself tassels on
the four corners of your garment with which you cover yourself.
Laws on Morality
13 "If any man takes a wife and goes in
to her and then turns against her,
14 and charges her with shameful deeds and publicly
defames her, and says, 'I took this woman, but when I came near
her, I did not find her a virgin,'
15 then the girl's father and her mother shall
take and bring out the evidence of the girl's virginity to the
elders of the city at the gate.
16 "The girl's father shall say to the elders,
'I gave my daughter to this man for a wife, but he turned against her;
17 and behold, he has charged her with shameful
deeds, saying, "I did not find your daughter a virgin." But this is
the evidence of my daughter's virginity.' And they shall spread the
garment before the elders of the city.
18 "So the elders of that city shall take the
man and chastise him,
19 and they shall fine him a hundred shekels
of silver and give it to the girl's father, because he publicly defamed
a virgin of Israel. And she shall remain his wife; he cannot divorce
her all his days.
20 "But if this charge is true, that the
girl was not found a virgin,
21 then they shall bring out the girl to the
doorway of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her
to death because she has committed an act of folly in Israel by playing
the harlot in her father's house; thus you shall purge the evil from
among you.
22 "If a man is found lying with a married
woman, then both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman,
and the woman; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel.
23 "If there is a girl who is a virgin
engaged to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies
with her,
24 then you shall bring them both out to the
gate of that city and you shall stone them to death; the girl, because
she did not cry out in the city, and the man, because he has violated
his neighbor's wife. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.
25 "But if in the field the man finds
the girl who is engaged, and the man forces her and lies with her, then
only the man who lies with her shall die.
26 "But you shall do nothing to the girl; there
is no sin in the girl worthy of death, for just as a man rises against
his neighbor and murders him, so is this case.
27 "When he found her in the field, the engaged
girl cried out, but there was no one to save her.
28 "If a man finds a girl who is a virgin,
who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her and they are discovered,
29 then the man who lay with her shall give to
the girl's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become
his wife because he has violated her; he cannot divorce her all his
days.
30 "A man shall not take his father's
wife so that he will not uncover his father's skirt.
DEUTERONOMY:
CHAPTER 23
Persons Excluded
from the Assembly
1 "No one who is emasculated or has his male
organ cut off shall enter the assembly of the LORD.
2 "No one of illegitimate birth shall enter the
assembly of the LORD; none of his descendants,
even to the tenth generation, shall enter the assembly of the LORD.
3 "No Ammonite or Moabite shall enter the assembly
of the LORD; none of their descendants,
even to the tenth generation, shall ever enter the assembly of the LORD,
4 because they did not meet you with food and
water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired
against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse
you.
5 "Nevertheless, the LORD
your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, but the LORD
your God turned the curse into a blessing for you because the LORD
your God loves you.
6 "You shall never seek their peace or their
prosperity all your days.
7 "You shall not detest an Edomite, for
he is your brother; you shall not detest an Egyptian, because you were
an alien in his land.
8 "The sons of the third generation who are born
to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
9 "When you go out as an army against
your enemies, you shall keep yourself from every evil thing.
10 "If there is among you any man who
is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, then he must go outside
the camp; he may not reenter the camp.
11 "But it shall be when evening approaches,
he shall bathe himself with water, and at sundown he may reenter the
camp.
12 "You shall also have a place outside
the camp and go out there,
13 and you shall have a spade among your tools,
and it shall be when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and
shall turn to cover up your excrement.
14 "Since the LORD your
God walks in the midst of your camp to deliver you and to defeat your
enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy; and He must not
see anything indecent among you or He will turn away from you.
15 "You shall not hand over to his master
a slave who has escaped from his master to you.
16 "He shall live with you in your midst, in
the place which he shall choose in one of your towns where it pleases
him; you shall not mistreat him.
17 "None of the daughters of Israel shall
be a cult prostitute, nor shall any of the sons of Israel be a cult
prostitute.
18 "You shall not bring the hire of a harlot
or the wages of a dog into the house of the LORD
your God for any votive offering, for both of these are an abomination
to the LORD your God.
19 "You shall not charge interest to your
countrymen: interest on money, food, or anything that may be
loaned at interest.
20 "You may charge interest to a foreigner, but
to your countrymen you shall not charge interest, so that the LORD
your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land which you
are about to enter to possess.
21 "When you make a vow to the LORD
your God, you shall not delay to pay it, for it would be sin in you,
and the LORD your God will surely require it
of you.
22 "However, if you refrain from vowing, it would
not be sin in you.
23 "You shall be careful to perform what goes
out from your lips, just as you have voluntarily vowed to the LORD
your God, what you have promised.
24 "When you enter your neighbor's vineyard,
then you may eat grapes until you are fully satisfied, but you shall
not put any in your basket.
25 "When you enter your neighbor's standing
grain, then you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not
wield a sickle in your neighbor's standing grain.
DEUTERONOMY:
CHAPTER 24
Law of Divorce
1 "When a man takes a wife and marries her, and
it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found
some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and
puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house,
2 and she leaves his house and goes and becomes
another man's wife,
3 and if the latter husband turns against her
and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand
and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took
her to be his wife,
4 then her former husband who sent her
away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, since she has
been defiled; for that is an abomination before the LORD,
and you shall not bring sin on the land which the LORD
your God gives you as an inheritance.
5 "When a man takes a new wife, he shall
not go out with the army nor be charged with any duty; he shall be free
at home one year and shall give happiness to his wife whom he has taken.
Sundry Laws
6 "No one shall take a handmill or an
upper millstone in pledge, for he would be taking a life in pledge.
7 "If a man is caught kidnapping any of
his countrymen of the sons of Israel, and he deals with him violently
or sells him, then that thief shall die; so you shall purge the evil
from among you.
8 "Be careful against an infection of
leprosy, that you diligently observe and do according to all that the
Levitical priests teach you; as I have commanded them, so you shall
be careful to do.
9 "Remember what the LORD
your God did to Miriam on the way as you came out of Egypt.
10 "When you make your neighbor a loan
of any sort, you shall not enter his house to take his pledge.
11 "You shall remain outside, and the man to
whom you make the loan shall bring the pledge out to you.
12 "If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep
with his pledge.
13 "When the sun goes down you shall surely return
the pledge to him, that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you; and
it will be righteousness for you before the LORD
your God.
14 "You shall not oppress a hired servant
who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your countrymen
or one of your aliens who is in your land in your towns.
15 "You shall give him his wages on his day before
the sun sets, for he is poor and sets his heart on it; so that he will
not cry against you to the LORD and it become
sin in you.
16 "Fathers shall not be put to death
for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their
fathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin.
17 "You shall not pervert the justice
due an alien or an orphan, nor take a widow's garment in pledge.
18 "But you shall remember that you were a slave
in Egypt, and that the LORD your God redeemed
you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.
19 "When you reap your harvest in your
field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back
to get it; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow,
in order that the LORD your God may bless you
in all the work of your hands.
20 "When you beat your olive tree, you shall
not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan,
and for the widow.
21 "When you gather the grapes of your
vineyard, you shall not go over it again; it shall be for the alien,
for the orphan, and for the widow.
22 "You shall remember that you were a slave
in the land of Egypt; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.
DEUTERONOMY:
CHAPTER 25
Sundry Laws
1 "If there is a dispute between men and they
go to court, and the judges decide their case, and they justify the
righteous and condemn the wicked,
2 then it shall be if the wicked man deserves
to be beaten, the judge shall then make him lie down and be beaten in
his presence with the number of stripes according to his guilt.
3 "He may beat him forty times but no
more, so that he does not beat him with many more stripes than these
and your brother is not degraded in your eyes.
4 "You shall not muzzle the ox while he
is threshing.
5 "When brothers live together and one
of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married
outside the family to a strange man. Her husband's brother shall
go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of
a husband's brother to her.
6 "It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears
shall assume the name of his dead brother, so that his name will not
be blotted out from Israel.
7 "But if the man does not desire to take his
brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the
elders and say, 'My husband's brother refuses to establish a name for
his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband's
brother to me.'
8 "Then the elders of his city shall summon him
and speak to him. And if he persists and says, 'I do not desire
to take her,'
9 then his brother's wife shall come to him in
the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in
his face; and she shall declare, 'Thus it is done to the man who does
not build up his brother's house.'
10 "In Israel his name shall be called, 'The
house of him whose sandal is removed.'
11 "If two men, a man and his countryman,
are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her
husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her
hand and seizes his genitals,
12 then you shall cut off her hand; you shall
not show pity.
13 "You shall not have in your bag differing
weights, a large and a small.
14 "You shall not have in your house differing
measures, a large and a small.
15 "You shall have a full and just weight; you
shall have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged
in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
16 "For everyone who does these things, everyone
who acts unjustly is an abomination to the LORD
your God.
17 "Remember what Amalek did to you along
the way when you came out from Egypt,
18 how he met you along the way and attacked
among you all the stragglers at your rear when you were faint and weary;
and he did not fear God.
19 "Therefore it shall come about when the LORD
your God has given you rest from all your surrounding enemies, in the
land which the LORD your God gives you as an
inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from
under heaven; you must not forget. |
