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day 100 and 57
Suppose a man marries a woman, but after sleeping with her, he turns against her
and publicly accuses her of shameful conduct, saying, when I married this
woman, I discovered she was not a virgin.
Then the woman's father and mother must bring the proof of
her virginity to the elders as they hold court at the town gate.
Her father must say to them, I gave my daughter to this man to be his wife,
and now he has turned against her.
He has accused her of shameful conduct saying, I discovered that your daughter
was not a virgin, but here is the proof of my daughter's virginity.
Then they must spread her bedsheet before the elders.
The elders must then take the man and punish him.
They must also find him 100 pieces of silver, which he must pay to the woman's
father because he publicly accused a virgin of Israel of shameful conduct.
The woman will then remain the man's wife, and he may never divorce her.
But suppose the man's accusations are true and he can show that she was not a virgin.
The woman must be taken to the door of her father's home, and there the men
of the town must stone her to death.
She has committed a disgraceful crime in Israel by being promiscuous
while living in her parents' home.
In this way, you will purge this evil from among you.
If a man is discovered committing adultery, both he and the woman must die.
In this way, you will purge Israel of such evil.
Suppose a man meets a young woman, a virgin who is engaged to be married,
and he has sexual intercourse with her.
If this happens within a town, you must take both of them to the gates
of that town and stone them to death.
The woman is guilty because she did not scream for help.
The man must die because he violated another man's wife.
In this way, you will purge this evil from among you.
But if the man meets the engaged woman out in the country and he rapes
her, then only the man must die.
Do nothing to the young woman.
She has committed no crime worthy of death.
She is as innocent as a murder victim since the man raped her
out in the country, it must be assumed that she screamed, but
there was no one to rescue her.
Suppose a man has intercourse with a young woman who is a virgin
but is not engaged to be married.
If they're discovered he must pay her father 50 pieces of silver, then he
must marry the young woman because he violated her and he may never
divorce her as long as he lives.
A man must not marry his father's former wife for this would violate his father.
If a man's testicles are crushed or his penis is cut off, he may not be
admitted to the assembly of the Lord.
If a person is illegitimate by birth, neither he nor his descendants
for 10 generations may be admitted to the assembly of the Lord.
No ammonite or Moabite, or any of their descendants for 10 generations may be
admitted to the assembly of the Lord.
These nations did not welcome you with food and water when you came out of Egypt.
Instead, they hired Baam sand bor from Phor in distant arra ne to curse you.
But the Lord, your God refused to listen to balam.
He turned the intended curse into a blessing because the Lord, your
God loves you as long as you live.
You must never promote the welfare and prosperity of the Ammonites or Moabites.
Do not detest the Edomites or the Egyptians because the Edomites are
your relatives and you lived as foreigners among the Egyptians.
The third generation of Edomites and Egyptians may
enter the assembly of the Lord.
When you go to war against your enemies, be sure to stay away
from anything that is impure.
Any man who becomes ceremonially defiled because of a nocturnal emission, must
leave the camp and stay away all day.
Toward evening, he must bathe himself, and at sunset he may return to the camp.
You must have a designated area outside the camp where
you can go to relieve yourself.
Each of you must have a spade as part of your equipment
whenever you relieve yourself.
Dig a hole with the spade and cover the excrement.
The camp must be holy for the Lord.
Your God moves around in your camp to protect you and to defeat your enemies.
He must not see any shameful thing among you, or he will turn away from you.
If slaves should escape from their masters and take refuge with you, you
must not hand them over to their masters.
Let them live among you in any town they choose and do not oppress them.
No Israelite whether man or woman may become a temple prostitute.
When you are bringing in offering to fulfill a vow, you must not bring to the
house of the Lord your God, any offering from the earnings of a prostitute.
Whether a man or a woman for both are detestable to the Lord your God,
do not charge interest on the loans you make to a fellow Israelite.
Whether you loan money or food or anything else, you may charge
interest to foreigners, but you may not charge interest to Israelites
so that the Lord your God may bless you in everything you do in the land
you are about to enter and occupy.
When you make a vow to the Lord your God, be prompt in fulfilling whatever
you promised him for the Lord your God demands that you promptly fulfill all
your vows or you will be guilty of sin.
However, it is not a sin to refrain from making a vow, but once you have
voluntarily made a vow, be careful to fulfill your promise to the Lord your God.
When you enter your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but
you must not carry any away in a basket.
And when you enter your neighbor's field of grain, you may pluck the
heads of grain with your hand, but you must not harvest it with a sickle.
Suppose a man marries a woman, but she does not please him.
Having discovered something wrong with her, he writes a document
of divorce, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house.
When she leaves his house, she's free to marry another man.
But if the second husband also turns against her, writes a document of
divorce, hands it to her and sends her away, or if he dies, the first
husband may not marry her again.
For she has been defiled, that would be detestable to the Lord.
You must not bring guilt upon the land.
The Lord your God is giving you as a special possession.
If a newly married man must not be drafted into the army or be given
any other official responsibilities, he must be free to spend one year at
home bringing happiness to the wife.
He is married.
It is wrong to take a set of millstones or even just the upper millstone.
A security for a loan for the owner uses it to make a living.
If anyone kidnaps a fellow Israelite and treats him as a slave or
sells him, the kidnapper must die.
In this way, you will purge the evil from among you in all cases
involving serious skin diseases.
Be careful to follow the instructions of the Levitical priests.
Obey all the commands I have given them.
Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam as you were coming from Egypt.
If you lent anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to pick up
the item He is giving as security.
You must wait outside while he goes in and brings it out to you.
If your neighbor is poor and gives you his cloak, a security for loan,
do not keep the cloak overnight.
Return the cloak to its owner by sunset so he can stay warm
through the night and bless you.
And the Lord your God will count you as righteous.
Never take advantage of poor and destitute laborers, whether
they are fellow Israelites or foreigners living in your towns.
You must pay them their wages each day before sunset because they
are poor and are counting on it.
If you don't, they might cry out to the Lord against you and it
would be counted against you.
As sin, parents must not be put to death for the sins of their children, nor
children for the sins of their parents.
Those deserving to die must be put to death for their own crimes.
True justice must be given to foreigners, living among you and to orphans.
And you must never accept a widow's garment, a security for her debt.
Always remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the Lord your
God redeemed you from your slavery.
That is why I have given you this command when you are harvesting
your crops and forget to bring in a bundle of grain from your field.
Don't go back to get it.
Leave it for the foreigners, orphans, and widows.
Then the Lord your God will bless you and all you do.
When you beat the olives from your olive trees, don't go over the bows twice.
Leave the remaining olives for the foreigners, orphans, and widows when
you gather the grapes in your vineyard.
Don't glean the vines after they are picked.
Leave the remaining grapes for the foreigners, orphans, and widows.
Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt, and that is
why I am giving you this command.
Suppose two people take a dispute to court, and the judges declare that
one is right and the other is wrong.
If the person in the wrong is sentenced to be flogged, the judge
must command him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with a number
of lashes appropriate to the crime.
But never give more than 40 lashes.
More than 40 lashes would publicly humiliate your neighbor.
You must not muzzle an ox to keep it from eating as it treads out the grain.
If two brothers are living together on the same property and one of them dies
without a son, his widow may not be married to anyone from outside the family.
Instead, her husband's brother should marry her and have intercourse with her
to fulfill the duties of a brother-in-law.
The first son she bears to him will be considered the son of the
dead brother, so that his name will not be forgotten in Israel.
But if the man refuses to marry his brother's widow, she must
go to the town gate and say to the elders, assembled there.
My husband's brother refuses to preserve his brother's name in Israel.
He refuses to fulfill the duties of a brother-in-law by marrying me.
The elders of the town will then summon him and talk with him if he still refuses
and says, I don't want to marry her.
The widow must walk over to him in the presence of the elders, pull his sandal
from his foot and spit in his face.
Then she must declare, this is what happens to a man who refuses
to provide his brother with children ever afterward in Israel.
His family will be referred to as the family of the man
whose sandal was pulled off.
If two Israelite men get into a fight and the wife of one tries to rescue her
husband by grabbing the testicles of the other man, you must cut off her hand.
Show her no pity.
You must use accurate scales when you weigh out merchandise and you
must use full and honest measures.
Yes, always use honest weights and measures so that you may
enjoy a long life in the land.
The Lord your God is giving you.
All who cheat with dishonest weights and measures are
detestable to the Lord your God.
Never forget what the Amalekites did to you as you came from Egypt.
They attacked you when you were exhausted and weary, and they struck
down those who were straggling behind.
They had no fear of God.
Therefore, when the Lord your God has given you rest from all your
enemies in the land, he is giving you as a special possession, you
must destroy the Amalekites and erase their memory from under heaven.
Never forget this.
When you enter the land, the Lord your God has given you as a special possession and
you have conquered it and settled there, put some of the first produce from each
crop, you harvest into a basket and bring it to the designated place of worship.
The place.
The Lord your God chooses for his name to be honored.
Go to the priest in charge at that time and say to him, with this
gift, I acknowledge to the Lord your God, that I have entered the land.
He swore to our ancestors.
He would give us.
The priest will then take the basket from your hand and set it before
the altar of the Lord your God.
You must then say in the presence of the Lord your God.
My ancestor Jacob was a wandering aian who went to live as a foreigner in Egypt.
His family arrived few in number, but in Egypt, they
became a large and mighty nation.
When the Egyptians oppressed and humiliated us by making us
their slaves, we cried out to the Lord, the God of our ancestors.
He heard our cries and saw our hardship, toil, and oppression.
So the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand and powerful
arm with overwhelming terror and with miraculous signs and wonders.
He brought us to this place and gave us this land flowing with milk and honey.
And now, oh Lord, I have brought you the first portion of the harvest
you have given me from the ground.
Then place the produce before the Lord your God, and bow to the
ground and worship before him.
Afterward, you may go and celebrate because of all the
good things the Lord your God has given to you and your household.
Remember to include the Levites and the foreigners living among you in
the celebration every third year.
You must offer a special tithe of your crops.
In this year of the special tithe.
You must give your tithes to the Levites, foreigners, orphans,
and widows, so that they will have enough to eat in your towns.
Then you must declare in the presence of the Lord your God.
I have taken the sacred gift from my house and have given it to the Levites
foreigners, orphans, and widows.
Just as you commanded me.
I have not violated or forgotten any of your commands.
I have not eaten any of it while in mourning.
I have not handled it while I was ceremonially unclean, and I have
not offered any of it to the dead.
I have obeyed the Lord my God, and have done everything you commanded me.
Now look down from your holy dwelling place in heaven and bless your
people, Israel and the land you swore to our ancestors to give us a land
flowing with milk and honey today.
The Lord your God has commanded you to obey all these decrees and regulations.
So be careful to obey them wholeheartedly.
You have declared today that the Lord is your God and you have promised
to walk in his ways and to obey his decrees, commands and regulations,
and to do everything he tells you.
The Lord has declared today that you are his people, his own special
treasure, just as he promised, and that you must obey all his commands, and
if you do, he will set you high above all the other nations he has made.
Then you will receive praise, honor, and renno.
You will be a nation that is holy to the Lord your God, just as he promised.
This concludes today's immerse reading experience.
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