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12:1 These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in
 the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all
 the days that ye live upon the earth.
12:2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye
 shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the
 hills, and under every green tree:
12:3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn
 their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their
 gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
12:4 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.
12:5 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your
 tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and
 thither thou shalt come:
12:6 And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices,
 and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your
 freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:
12:7 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice
 in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD
 thy God hath blessed thee.
12:8 Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every
 man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.
12:9 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which
 the LORD your God giveth you.
12:10 But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD
 your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your
 enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;
12:11 Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to
 cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command
 you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave
 offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:
12:12 And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and
 your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite
 that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance
 with you.
12:13 Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every
 place that thou seest:
12:14 But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes,
 there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all
 that I command thee.
12:15 Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates,
 whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD
 thy God which he hath given thee:  the unclean and the clean may eat
 thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
12:16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as
 water.
12:17 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy
 wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor
 any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave
 offering of thine hand:
12:18 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the
 LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy
 manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates:
  and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest
 thine hands unto.
12:19 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou
 livest upon the earth.
12:20 When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised
 thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat
 flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
12:21 If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there
 be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock,
 which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt
 eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
12:22 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: 
 the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
12:23 Only be sure that thou eat not the blood:  for the blood is the
 life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
12:24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
12:25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy
 children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight
 of the LORD.
12:26 Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take,
 and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose.
12:27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood,
 upon the altar of the LORD thy God:  and the blood of thy sacrifices shall
 be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the
 flesh.
12:28 Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go
 well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest
 that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.
12:29 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee,
 whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest
 in their land;
12:30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after
 that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after
 their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods?  even so will I
 do likewise.
12:31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God:  for every abomination to
 the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their
 sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it:  thou shalt not add
 thereto, nor diminish from it.

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13:1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth
 thee a sign or a wonder,
13:2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee,
 saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us
 serve them;
13:3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer
 of dreams:  for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the
 LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
13:4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his
 commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto
 him.
13:5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death;
 because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which
 brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of
 bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded
 thee to walk in.  So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
13:6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or
 the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice
 thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not
 known, thou, nor thy fathers;
13:7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh
 unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto
 the other end of the earth;
13:8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall
 thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal
 him:
13:9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to
 put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
13:10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath
 sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of
 the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
13:11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such
 wickedness as this is among you.
13:12 If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God
 hath given thee to dwell there, saying,
13:13 Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you,
 and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and
 serve other gods, which ye have not known;
13:14 Then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and,
 behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination
 is wrought among you;
13:15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of
 the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle
 thereof, with the edge of the sword.
13:16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street
 thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every
 whit, for the LORD thy God:  and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not
 be built again.
13:17 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand:  that
 the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show thee mercy,
 and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy
 fathers;
13:18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all
 his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right
 in the eyes of the LORD thy God.

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14:1 Ye are the children of the LORD your God:  ye shall not cut
 yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
14:2 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath
 chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations
 that are upon the earth.
14:3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
14:4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat:  the ox, the sheep, and the
 goat,
14:5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and
 the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
14:6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two
 claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.
14:7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of
 them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the
 coney:  for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they
 are unclean unto you.
14:8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud,
 it is unclean unto you:  ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their
 dead carcase.
14:9 These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters:  all that have fins
 and scales shall ye eat:
14:10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is
 unclean unto you.
14:11 Of all clean birds ye shall eat.
14:12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat:  the eagle, and the
 ossifrage, and the osprey,
14:13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,
14:14 And every raven after his kind,
14:15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after
 his 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 her kind, and the lapwing, and the
 bat.
14:19 And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you:  they
 shall not be eaten.
14:20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
14:21 Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself:  thou shalt give
 it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou
 mayest sell it unto an alien:  for thou art an holy people unto the LORD
 thy God.  Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
14:22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field
 bringeth forth year by year.
14:23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he
 shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine,
 and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that
 thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.
14:24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to
 carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God
 shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed
 thee:
14:25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine
 hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose:
14:26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth
 after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for
 whatsoever thy soul desireth:  and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy
 God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,
14:27 And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him;
 for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.
14:28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of
 thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:
14:29 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,)
 and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy
 gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God
 may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.

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15:1 At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.
15:2 And this is the manner of the release:  Every creditor that lendeth
 ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of
 his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD'S release.
15:3 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again:  but that which is thine
 with thy brother thine hand shall release;
15:4 Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly
 bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an
 inheritance to possess it:
15:5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to
 observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.
15:6 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee:  and thou
 shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt
 reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.
15:7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of
 thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not
 harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
15:8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him
 sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
15:9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The
 seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil
 against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the
 LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
15:10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when
 thou givest unto him:  because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall
 bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
15:11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land:  therefore I command
 thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy
 poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
15:12 And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto
 thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him
 go free from thee.
15:13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him
 go away empty:
15:14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy
 floor, and out of thy winepress:  of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath
 blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
15:15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt,
 and the LORD thy God redeemed thee:  therefore I command thee this thing to
 day.
15:16 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee;
 because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;
15:17 Then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through his ear unto the
 door, and he shall be thy servant for ever.  And also unto thy maidservant
 thou shalt do likewise.
15:18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from
 thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving
 thee six years:  and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou
 doest.
15:19 All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou
 shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God:  thou shalt do no work with the
 firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.
15:20 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place
 which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.
15:21 And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind,
 or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy
 God.
15:22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates:  the unclean and the clean person
 shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
15:23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the
 ground as water.

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16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God:
  for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt
 by night.
16:2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of
 the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place
 his name there.
16:3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat
 unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction:  for thou
 camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste:  that thou mayest remember
 the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy
 life.
16:4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast
 seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou
 sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.
16:5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which
 the LORD thy God giveth thee:
16:6 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name
 in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of
 the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
16:7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God
 shall choose:  and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.
16:8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread:  and on the seventh day
 shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God:  thou shalt do no work
 therein.
16:9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee:  begin to number the seven
 weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.
16:10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a
 tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto
 the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
16:11 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and
 thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that
 is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow,
 that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to
 place his name there.
16:12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt:  and thou
 shalt observe and do these statutes.
16:13 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that
 thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
16:14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy
 daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the
 stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
16:15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the
 place which the LORD shall choose:  because the LORD thy God shall bless
 thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore
 thou shalt surely rejoice.
16:16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy
 God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread,
 and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles:  and they shall
 not appear before the LORD empty:
16:17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the
 LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
16:18 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the
 LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes:  and they shall judge the
 people with just judgment.
16:19 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither
 take a gift:  for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the
 words of the righteous.
16:20 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest
 live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
16:21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of
 the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
16:22 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God
 hateth.

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17:1 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep,
 wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness:  for that is an
 abomination unto the LORD thy God.
17:2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy
 God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of
 the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,
17:3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the
 sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
17:4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired
 diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such
 abomination is wrought in Israel:
17:5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have
 committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman,
 and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
17:6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is
 worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall
 not be put to death.
17:7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death,
 and afterward the hands of all the people.  So thou shalt put the evil away
 from among you.
17:8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood
 and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being
 matters of controversy within thy gates:  then shalt thou arise, and get
 thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;
17:9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge
 that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall show thee the
 sentence of judgment:
17:10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place
 which the LORD shall choose shall show thee; and thou shalt observe to do
 according to all that they inform thee:
17:11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and
 according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do:  thou
 shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall show thee, to the
 right hand, nor to the left.
17:12 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the
 priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the
 judge, even that man shall die:  and thou shalt put away the evil from
 Israel.
17:13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more
 presumptuously.
17:14 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee,
 and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a
 king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;
17:15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God
 shall choose:  one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee:
  thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.
17:16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to
 return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses:  forasmuch as
 the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
17:17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not
 away:  neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
17:18 And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that
 he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is
 before the priests the Levites:
17:19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of
 his life:  that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the
 words of this law and these statutes, to do them:
17:20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn
 not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left:  to
 the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his
 children, in the midst of Israel.

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18:1 The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no
 part nor inheritance with Israel:  they shall eat the offerings of the LORD
 made by fire, and his inheritance.
18:2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren:  the
 LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.
18:3 And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that
 offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto
 the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.
18:4 The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and
 the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.
18:5 For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to
 minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.
18:6 And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he
 sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which
 the LORD shall choose;
18:7 Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his
 brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD.
18:8 They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the
 sale of his patrimony.
18:9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee,
 thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
18:10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or
 his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an
 observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
18:11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a
 necromancer.
18:12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD:  and
 because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from
 before thee.
18:13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.
18:14 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers
 of times, and unto diviners:  but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not
 suffered thee so to do.
18:15 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of
 thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;
18:16 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in
 the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the
 LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
18:17 And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they
 have spoken.
18:18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto
 thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all
 that I shall command him.
18:19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my
 words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
18:20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which
 I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other
 gods, even that prophet shall die.
18:21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the
 LORD hath not spoken?
18:22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow
 not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken,
 but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously:  thou shalt not be afraid
 of him.

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19:1 When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy
 God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities,
 and in their houses;
19:2 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land,
 which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
19:3 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which
 the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every
 slayer may flee thither.
19:4 And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he
 may live:  Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in
 time past;
19:5 As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and
 his hand fetcheth a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head
 slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he
 shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:
19:6 Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is
 hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he
 was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.
19:7 Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for
 thee.
19:8 And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy
 fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy
 fathers;
19:9 If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command
 thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then
 shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:
19:10 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God
 giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.
19:11 But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise
 up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of
 these cities:
19:12 Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and
 deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
19:13 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of
 innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
19:14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time
 have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that
 the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
19:15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for
 any sin, in any sin that he sinneth:  at the mouth of two witnesses, or at
 the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
19:16 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him
 that which is wrong;
19:17 Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand
 before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those
 days;
19:18 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition:  and, behold, if the
 witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his
 brother;
19:19 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his
 brother:  so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
19:20 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth
 commit no more any such evil among you.
19:21 And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for
 eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

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20:1 When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses,
 and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them:  for
 the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of
 Egypt.
20:2 And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest
 shall approach and speak unto the people,
20:3 And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto
 battle against your enemies:  let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do
 not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;
20:4 For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you
 against your enemies, to save you.
20:5 And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is
 there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it?  let him go
 and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man
 dedicate it.
20:6 And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet
 eaten of it?  let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in
 the battle, and another man eat of it.
20:7 And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken
 her?  let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and
 another man take her.
20:8 And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall
 say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted?  let him go and
 return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his
 heart.
20:9 And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto
 the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.
20:10 When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim
 peace unto it.
20:11 And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee,
 then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be
 tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.
20:12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against
 thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
20:13 And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou
 shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
20:14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in
 the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and
 thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath
 given thee.
20:15 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from
 thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
20:16 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give
 thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:
20:17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the
 Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the
 Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:
20:18 That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they
 have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.
20:19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it
 to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an ax
 against them:  for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them
 down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the
 siege:
20:20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat,
 thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against
 the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.

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21:1 If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee
 to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain
 him:
21:2 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure
 unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:
21:3 And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man,
 even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been
 wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke;
21:4 And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough
 valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's
 neck there in the valley:
21:5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy
 God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD;
 and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:
21:6 And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man,
 shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:
21:7 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood,
 neither have our eyes seen it.
21:8 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed,
 and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge.  And the
 blood shall be forgiven them.
21:9 So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you,
 when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
21:10 When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy
 God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,
21:11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto
 her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;
21:12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her
 head, and pare her nails;
21:13 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall
 remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: 
 and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall
 be thy wife.
21:14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let
 her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou
 shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.
21:15 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have
 born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn
 son be hers that was hated:
21:16 Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he
 hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the
 son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:
21:17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by
 giving him a double portion of all that he hath:  for he is the beginning
 of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
21:18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the
 voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have
 chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
21:19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him
 out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
21:20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is
 stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and
 a drunkard.
21:21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: 
 so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and
 fear.
21:22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put
 to death, and thou hang him on a tree:
21:23 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in
 any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;)
 that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an
 inheritance.

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22:1 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide
 thyself from them:  thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy
 brother.
22:2 And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not,
 then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee
 until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.
22:3 In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with
 his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost,
 and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise:  thou mayest not hide thyself.
22:4 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way,
 and hide thyself from them:  thou shalt surely help him to lift them up
 again.
22:5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither
 shall a man put on a woman's garment:  for all that do so are abomination
 unto the LORD thy God.
22:6 If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on
 the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon
 the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:
22:7 But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to
 thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy
 days.
22:8 When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for
 thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from
 thence.
22:9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds:  lest the fruit of
 thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.
22:10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
22:11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and
 linen together.
22:12 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture,
 wherewith thou coverest thyself.
22:13 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
22:14 And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name
 upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her
 not a maid:
22:15 Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring
 forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in
 the gate:
22:16 And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter
 unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;
22:17 And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I
 found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my
 daughter's virginity.  And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of
 the city.
22:18 And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;
22:19 And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give
 them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil
 name upon a virgin of Israel:  and she shall be his wife; he may not put
 her away all his days.
22:20 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found
 for the damsel:
22:21 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's
 house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: 
 because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's
 house:  so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
22:22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they
 shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the
 woman:  so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
22:23 If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man
 find her in the city, and lie with her;
22:24 Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye
 shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried
 not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his
 neighbour's wife:  so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
22:25 But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force
 her, and lie with her:  then the man only that lay with her shall die:
22:26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no
 sin worthy of death:  for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and
 slayeth him, even so is this matter:
22:27 For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and
 there was none to save her.
22:28 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and
 lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
22:29 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father
 fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath
 humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
22:30 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's
 skirt.

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23:1 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off,
 shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
23:2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to
 his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
23:3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the
 LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the
 congregation of the LORD for ever:
23:4 Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye
 came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son
 of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
23:5 Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the
 LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD
 thy God loved thee.
23:6 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for
 ever.
23:7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother:  thou shalt
 not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.
23:8 The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the
 congregation of the LORD in their third generation.
23:9 When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from
 every wicked thing.
23:10 If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of
 uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the
 camp, he shall not come within the camp:
23:11 But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself with
 water:  and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again.
23:12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go
 forth abroad:
23:13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when
 thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn
 back and cover that which cometh from thee:
23:14 For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver
 thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be
 holy:  that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.
23:15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped
 from his master unto thee:
23:16 He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he
 shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best:  thou shalt not
 oppress him.
23:17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of
 the sons of Israel.
23:18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into
 the house of the LORD thy God for any vow:  for even both these are
 abomination unto the LORD thy God.
23:19 Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury
 of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
23:20 Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou
 shalt not lend upon usury:  that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all
 that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess
 it.
23:21 When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack
 to pay it:  for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it
 would be sin in thee.
23:22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.
23:23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even
 a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God,
 which thou hast promised with thy mouth.
23:24 When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat
 grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy
 vessel.
23:25 When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou
 mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle
 unto thy neighbour's standing corn.