1 If onebe found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the
field, andit be not known who hath slain him:
2 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which
areround about him that is slain:
3 And it shall be, thatthe city which isnext unto the slain man, even the elders of that city
shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, andwhich hath not drawn in the yoke;
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:
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:
6 And all the elders of that city, that arenext unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over
the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:
7 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen
it.
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.
9 So shalt thou put away the guilt ofinnocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that
which isright in the sight of the LORD.
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,
11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou
wouldest have her to thy wife;
12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her
nails;
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.
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.
15 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children,
boththe beloved and the hated; and ifthe firstborn son be hers that was hated:
16 Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit thatwhich he hath, thathe may not
make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeedthe firstborn:
17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated forthe firstborn, by giving him a double
portion of all that he hath: for he isthe beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is
his.
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:
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;
20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son isstubborn and rebellious, he
will not obey our voice; he isa glutton, and a drunkard.
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.
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:
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 isaccursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy
God giveth thee foran inheritance.
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.
2 And if thy brother benot 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.
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.
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 themup again.
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 areabomination unto the LORD thy God.
6 If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they
beyoung ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take
the dam with the young:
7 Butthou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well
with thee, and thatthou mayest prolong thydays.
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.
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.
10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, asof woollen and linen together.
12 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou
coverest thyself.
13 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
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:
15 Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens ofthe
damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:
16 And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife,
and he hateth her;
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 ofmy daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth
before the elders of the city.
18 And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;
19 And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekelsof silver, and give themunto 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.
20 But if this thing be true, and the tokens ofvirginity be not found for the damsel:
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 If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them
die, boththe man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from
Israel.
23 If a damsel that isa virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and

lie with her;
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, beingin the city; and the man, because
he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
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:
26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there isin the damsel no sin worthyof death: for
as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so isthis matter:
27 For he found her in the field, andthe betrothed damsel cried, and there wasnone to save her.
28 If a man find a damsel that isa virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie
with her, and they be found;
29 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekelsof silver,
and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
30 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
1 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the
congregation of the LORD.
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.
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:
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.
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.
6 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he isthy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian;
because thou wast a stranger in his land.
8 The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their
third generation.
9 When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.
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:
11 But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himselfwith water: and when the sun
is down, he shall come into the camp again.
12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:
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:
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.
15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto
thee:
16 He shall dwell with thee, evenamong you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy
gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
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 areabomination unto the LORD thy God.
19 Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of