Chapter 23
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For the LORD your God walks about in the midst of your camp to rescue you and to give your enemies before you, and your camp shall be holy. He shall not see in you the nakedness of a thing and turn from behind you.
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You shall not shut up a servant to his master, who delivers himself to you from his master's people.
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No one of your people shall dwell among you in the place that he will choose in one of your gates. In good to him you shall not oppress.
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There shall not be a cult prostitute among the daughters of Israel, nor among the sons of Israel.
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You shall not bring the wages of a prostitute or the price of a dog into the house of the LORD your God for any vow, for it is an abomination to the LORD your God; both of them also.
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You shall not lend interest to your brother—interest on silver, interest on food, interest on everything that is lent on interest.
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You may lend to a foreigner, but you shall not lend to your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand in the land that you are entering to possess.
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For if you vow a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not delay to pay it, for the LORD your God will require it from you, and it will be sin in you.
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And if you refrain from vowing, there will be no sin in you.
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What goes out of your lips you shall keep and do, just as you vowed to the LORD your God, the freewill offering that you spoke with your mouth.
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When you come into your companion's vineyard and eat grapes as much as you desire, to your satisfaction, you shall not put any into your vessel.
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When you come into your companion's standing grain and pluck heads of grain with your hand, you shall not wield a sickle over your companion's standing grain.
Chapter 24
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When a man takes a woman and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found in her some nakedness of a thing, and he writes her a document of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house.
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And she went out from his house and went and became a wife to another man.
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And if the latter man hates her and writes her a scroll of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man, who took her to himself as a wife, dies.
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Her first husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the LORD. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
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If a man takes a new woman, he shall not go out with the heavenly host, nor shall any matter pass over him; he shall be innocent to his house one year, and he shall gladden his woman whom he has taken.
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He shall not take a pair of millstones or even the upper millstone, for it is his nephesh—he takes.
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If a man finds someone who has stolen a person from his brothers among the sons of Israel, and mistreats him and sells him, then that thief shall die, and you shall purge the evil from your midst.
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Take heed in a stroke of leprosy, to keep very much and to do according to all that the priests the Levites instruct you. As I have commanded you, you shall keep to do.
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Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the way, when you went out from Egypt.
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When you lend your neighbor any pledge, you shall not enter his house to take his pledge.
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You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you have lent shall bring the pledge out to you outside.
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If he is a poor man, you shall not go to sleep while holding his pledge.
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Return it; you shall return his pledge when the sun has set, and he has lain down in his garment. He will bless you, and it will be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.
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You shall not oppress a hired man who is poor and needy, from your brothers or from the stranger who is in your land in your gates.
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On its day you shall give him his wages, and the sun shall not go down on it, because he is poor and he lifts his soul to it, lest he cry out against you to the LORD, and it be sin in you.
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Fathers shall not be put to death for sons, and sons shall not be put to death for fathers; a man shall be put to death for his sin.
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You shall not pervert the justice of a sojourner or an orphan, and you shall not take the garment of a widow as pledge.
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You shall remember that you were a servant in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do this.
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When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not return to take it. It shall be for the stranger, for the orphan, and for the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in every work of your hands.
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When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over it after you; it shall be for the stranger, for the orphan, and for the widow.
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When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean after you; it shall be for the stranger, for the orphan, and for the widow.
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You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt; therefore I am commanding you to do this matter.
Chapter 25
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If there is a dispute between men, and they come to judgment, and they are judged—acquitting the righteous and condemning the wicked—
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And it will be, if the son of the beating is the wicked one, and the judge makes him fall and strikes him before him according to his wickedness in number.
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He shall strike him no more than forty times, lest he exceed it and give him a severe beating, and your brother be despised in your eyes.
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You shall not muzzle an ox while it is threshing.
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For if brothers dwell together and one of them dies, and he has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not go outside to a stranger. Her levirate brother-in-law shall come upon her and take her to himself as a wife and levirate wife.
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And it shall be, the firstborn whom she bears shall arise upon the name of his dead brother, and his name shall not be blotted out from Israel.
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And if the man does not want to take his yevamah, then his yevamah shall go up to the elders and say, "My yevamah—to raise up for his brother a name in Israel—my yevamah is not willing,"
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And the elders of his city called him and spoke to him. And he stood and said, "No, I do not desire to take her."
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And his sister-in-law shall approach him before the eyes of the elders and shall remove his sandal from upon his foot and shall spit in his face and shall answer and shall say, “In this way shall be done to the man who does not build the house of his brother.”
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And its name will be called in Israel, House of the Removing of the Sandal.
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When men strive together, one man and his brother, and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one striking him, and she stretches out her hand and seizes his genitals.
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And you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall not pity.
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You shall not have in your bag a large stone and a small stone.
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You shall not have in your house an ephah and an ephah, one large and one small.
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You shall have a complete and righteous weight and a complete and righteous ephah, so that your days may be prolonged on the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
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For everyone who does these things, everyone who does wrong, is an abomination to the LORD your God.
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Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out from Egypt.
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which happened upon you on the way and attacked you, all the faint ones behind you, when you were faint and weary, and he did not fear God.
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And it will be, when the LORD your God gives you rest from all your enemies around, in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess it, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven—you shall not forget.