DEUTERONOMY - 20
1 When you go out to war against your enemies, and see horses and
chariots, an army larger than your own, you shall not be afraid of them; for
the Lord your God is with you, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.
2 Before you engage in battle, the priest shall come forward and
speak to the troops,
3 and shall say to them: "Hear, O Israel! Today you are drawing
near to do battle against your enemies. Do not lose heart, or be afraid, or
panic, or be in dread of them;
4 for it is the Lord your God who goes with you, to fight for you
against your enemies, to give you victory."
5 Then the officials shall address the troops, saying, "Has
anyone built a new house but not dedicated it? He should go back to his house,
or he might die in the battle and another dedicates it.
6 Has anyone planted a vineyard but not yet enjoyed its fruit? He
should go back to his house, or he might die in the battle and another be first
to enjoy its fruit.
7 Has anyone become engaged to a woman but not yet married her? He
should go back to his house, or he might die in the battle and another marries
her."
8 The officials shall continue to address the troops, saying,
"Is anyone afraid or disheartened? He should go back to his house, or he
might cause the heart of his comrades to melt like his own."
9 When the officials have finished addressing the troops, then the
commanders shall take charge of them.
10 When you draw near to a town to fight against it, offer it terms of
peace.
11 If it accepts your terms of peace and surrenders to you, then all
the people in it shall serve you at forced labour.
12 If it does not submit to you peacefully, but makes war against
you, then you shall besiege it;
13 and when the Lord your God gives it into your hand, you shall put
all its males to the sword.
14 You may, however, take as your booty the women, the children,
livestock, and everything else in the town, all its spoil. You may enjoy the
spoil of your enemies, which the Lord your God has given you.
15 Thus you shall treat all the towns that are very far from you,
which are not towns of the nations here.
16 But as for the towns of these peoples that the Lord your God is
giving you as an inheritance, you must not let anything that breathes remain
alive.
17 You shall annihilate them—the Hittites and the Amorites, the
Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites—just as the Lord
your God has commanded,
18 so that they may not teach you to do all the abhorrent things that
they do for their gods, and you thus sin against the Lord your God.
19 If you besiege a town for a long time, making war against it in
order to take it, you must not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against
them. Although you may take food from them, you must not cut them down. Are
trees in the field human beings that they should come under siege from
you?
20 You may destroy only the trees that you know do not produce food;
you may cut them down for use in building siege works against the town that
makes war with you, until it falls.
DEUTERONOMY - 21
2 then your elders and your judges shall come out to measure the distances
to the towns that are near the body.
3 The elders of the town nearest the body shall take a heifer that
has never been worked, one that has not pulled in the yoke;
4 the elders of that town shall bring the heifer down to a wadi with
running water, which is neither ploughed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's
neck there in the wadi.
5 Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come forward, for the
Lord your God has chosen them to minister to him and to pronounce blessings in
the name of the Lord, and by their decision all cases of dispute and assault
shall be settled.
6 All the elders of that town nearest the body shall wash their
hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the wadi,
7 and they shall declare: "Our hands did not shed this blood,
nor were we witnesses to it.
8 Absolve, O Lord, your people Israel, whom you redeemed; do not let
the guilt of innocent blood remain in the midst of your people Israel."
Then they will be absolved of bloodguilt.
9 So you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst,
because you must do what is right in the sight of the Lord.
10 When you go out to war against your enemies, and the Lord your God
hands them over to you and you take them captive,
11 suppose you see among the captives a beautiful woman, whom you
desire and want to marry,
12 and so you bring her home to your house: she shall shave her head,
pare her nails,
13 discard her captive's garb, and shall remain in your house a full
month, mourning for her father and mother; after that you may go in to her and
be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
14 But if you are not satisfied with her, you shall let her go free
and not sell her for money. You must not treat her as a slave, since you have dishonoured
her.
15 If a man has two wives, one of them loved and the other disliked,
and if both the loved and the disliked have borne him sons, the firstborn being
the son of the one who is disliked,
16 then on the day when he wills his possessions to his sons, he is
not permitted to treat the son of the loved as the firstborn in preference to
the son of the disliked, who is the firstborn.
17 He must acknowledge as firstborn the son of the one who is disliked,
giving him a double portion of all that he has; since he is the first issue of
his virility, the right of the firstborn is his.
18 If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his
father and mother, who does not heed them when they discipline him,
19 then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring
him out to the elders of his town at the gate of that place.
20 They shall say to the elders of his town, "This son of ours
is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a
drunkard."
21 Then all the men of the town shall stone him to death. So you
shall purge the evil from your midst; and all Israel will hear, and be
afraid.
22 When someone is convicted of a crime punishable by death and is
executed, and you hang him on a tree,
23 his corpse must not remain all night upon the tree; you shall bury
him that same day, for anyone hung on a tree is under God's curse. You must not
defile the land that the Lord your God is giving you for possession.
DEUTERONOMY - 22
1 You shall not watch your neighbour's ox or sheep straying away and ignore them; you shall take them back to their owner.
2 If the owner does not reside near you or you do not know who the owner is, you shall bring it to your own house, and it shall remain with you until the owner claims it; then you shall return it.
3 You shall do the same with a neighbour's donkey; you shall do the same with a neighbour's garment; and you shall do the same with anything else that your neighbour loses and you find. You may not withhold your help.
4 You shall not see your neighbour's donkey or ox fallen on the road and ignore it; you shall help to lift it up.
5 A woman shall not wear a man's apparel, nor shall a man put on a woman's garment; for whoever does such things is abhorrent to the Lord your God.
6 If you come on a bird's nest, in any tree or on the ground, with fledglings or eggs, with the mother sitting on the fledglings or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.
7 Let the mother go, taking only the young for yourself, in order that it may go well with you and you may live long.
8 When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof; otherwise you might have bloodguilt on your house, if anyone should fall from it.
9 You shall not sow your vineyard with a second kind of seed, or the whole yield will have to be forfeited, both the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard itself.
10 You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.
11 You shall not wear clothes made of wool and linen woven together.
12 You shall make tassels on the four corners of the cloak with which you cover yourself.
13 Suppose a man marries a woman, but after going in to her, he dislikes her
14 and makes up charges against her, slandering her by saying, "I married this woman; but when I lay with her, I did not find evidence of her virginity."
15 The father of the young woman and her mother shall then submit the evidence of the young woman's virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.
16 The father of the young woman shall say to the elders: "I gave my daughter in marriage to this man but he dislikes her;
17 now he has made up charges against her, saying, "I did not find evidence of your daughter's virginity.' But here is the evidence of my daughter's virginity." Then they shall spread out the cloth before the elders of the town.
18 The elders of that town shall take the man and punish him;
19 they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver (which they shall give to the young woman's father) because he has slandered a virgin of Israel. She shall remain his wife; he shall not be permitted to divorce her as long as he lives.
20 If, however, this charge is true, that evidence of the young woman's virginity was not found,
21 then they shall bring the young woman out to the entrance of her father's house and the men of her town shall stone her to death, because she committed a disgraceful act in Israel by prostituting herself in her father's house. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
22 If a man is caught lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman as well as the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.
23 If there is a young woman, a virgin already engaged to be married, and a man meets her in the town and lies with her,
24 you shall bring both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry for help in the town and the man because he violated his neighbour's wife. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
25 But if the man meets the engaged woman in the open country, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.
26 You shall do nothing to the young woman; the young woman has not committed an offense punishable by death, because this case is like that of someone who attacks and murders a neighbour.
27 Since he found her in the open country, the engaged woman may have cried for help, but there was no one to rescue her.
28 If a man meets a virgin who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are caught in the act,
29 the man who lay with her shall give fifty shekels of silver to the young woman's father, and she shall become his wife. Because he violated her he shall not be permitted to divorce her as long as he lives.
30 A man shall not marry his father's wife, thereby violating his father's rights.
DEUTERONOMY - 23
1 No one whose testicles are crushed or whose penis is cut off shall be admitted to the assembly of the Lord.
2 Those born of an illicit union shall not be admitted to the assembly of the Lord. Even to the tenth generation, none of their descendants shall be admitted to the assembly of the Lord.
3 No Ammonite or Moabite shall be admitted to the assembly of the Lord. Even to the tenth generation, none of their descendants shall be admitted to the assembly of the Lord,
4 because they did not meet you with food and water on your journey out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam son of Beor, from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you
5 (Yet the Lord your God refused to heed Balaam; the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loved you.)
6 You shall never promote their welfare or their prosperity as long as you live.
7 You shall not abhor any of the Edomites, for they are your kin. You shall not abhor any of the Egyptians, because you were an alien residing in their land.
8 The children of the third generation that are born to them may be admitted to the assembly of the Lord.
9 When you are encamped against your enemies you shall guard against any impropriety.
10 If one of you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, then he shall go outside the camp; he must not come within the camp.
11 When evening comes, he shall wash himself with water, and when the sun has set, he may come back into the camp.
12 You shall have a designated area outside the camp to which you shall go.
13 With your utensils you shall have a trowel; when you relieve yourself outside; you shall dig a hole with it and then cover up your excrement.
14 Because the Lord your God travels along with your camp, to save you and to hand over your enemies to you, therefore your camp must be holy, so that he may not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you
15 Slaves who have escaped to you from their owners shall not be given back to them.
16 They shall reside with you, in your midst, in any place they choose in any one of your towns, wherever they please; you shall not oppress them.
17 None of the daughters of Israel shall be a temple prostitute; none of the sons of Israel shall be a temple prostitute.
18 You shall not bring the fee of a prostitute or the wages of a male prostitute into the house of the Lord your God in payment for any vow, for both of these are abhorrent to the Lord your God.
19 You shall not charge interest on loans to another Israelite, interest on money, interest on provisions, interest on anything that is lent
20 On loans to a foreigner you may charge interest, but on loans to another Israelite you may not charge interest, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all your undertakings in the land that you are about to enter and possess.
21 If you make a vow to the Lord your God, do not postpone fulfiling it; for the Lord your God will surely require it of you, and you would incur guilt
22 But if you refrain from vowing, you will not incur guilt.
23 Whatever your lips utter you must diligently perform, just as you have freely vowed to the Lord your God with your own mouth.
24 If you go into your neighbour's vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, as many as you wish, but you shall not put any in a container.
25 If you go into your neighbour's standing grain, you may pluck the ears with your hand, but you shall not put a sickle to your neighbour's standing grain.
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