(10) When you take the field against your enemies, and the ETERNAL your God delivers them into your power and you take some of them captive, (11) and you see among the captives a beautiful woman and you desire her and would take her to wife; (12) and you bring her into your household, and she trims her hair, pares her nails, (13) and discards her captive’s garb; and she spends a month’s time in your household lamenting her father and mother: after that you may come to her and thus become her husband, and she shall be your wife. (14) Then, should you no longer want her, you must release her outright. You must not sell her for money: since you had your will of her, you must not enslave her.

(15) If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him sons, but the first-born is the son of the unloved one— (16) when he wills his property to his sons, he may not treat as first-born the son of the loved one in disregard of the son of the unloved one who is older. (17) Instead, he must accept the first-born, the son of the unloved one, and allot to him a double portion of all he possesses; since he is the first fruit of his vigor, the birthright is his due.

(18) If a man has a wayward and defiant son, who does not heed his father or mother and does not obey them even after they discipline him, (19) his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his town at the public place of his community. (20) They shall say to the elders of his town, “This son of ours is disloyal and defiant; he does not heed us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” (21) Thereupon the people of his town shall stone him to death. Thus you will sweep out evil from your midst: all Israel will hear and be afraid.

(22) If someone is guilty of a capital offense and is put to death, and you impale the body on a stake, (23) you must not let the corpse remain on the stake overnight, but must bury it the same day. For an impaled body is an affront to God: you shall not defile the land that the ETERNAL your God is giving you to possess. (1) If you see your fellow Israelite’s ox or sheep gone astray, do not ignore it; you must take it back to your peer. (2) If your fellow Israelite does not live near you or you do not know who [the owner] is, you shall bring it home and it shall remain with you until your peer claims it; then you shall give it back. (3) You shall do the same with their donkey; you shall do the same with their garment; and so too shall you do with anything that your fellow Israelite loses and you find: you must not remain indifferent. (4) If you see your fellow Israelite’s donkey or ox fallen on the road, do not ignore it; you must raise it together. (5) A woman must not put on man’s apparel, nor shall a man wear woman’s clothing; for whoever does these things is abhorrent to the ETERNAL your God. (6) If, along the road, you chance upon a bird’s nest, in any tree or on the ground, with fledglings or eggs and the mother sitting over the fledglings or on the eggs, do not take the mother together with her young. (7) Let the mother go, and take only the young, in order that you may fare well and have a long life.

(8) When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone should fall from it. (9) You shall not sow your vineyard with a second kind of seed, else the crop—from the seed you have sown—and the yield of the vineyard may not be used. (10) You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. (11) You shall not wear cloth combining wool and linen. (12) You shall make tassels on the four corners of the garment with which you cover yourself.

(13) A man takes a woman to wife and cohabits with her. Then he takes an aversion to her (14) and makes up charges against her and defames her, saying, “This is the woman I took to wife; but when I approached her, I found that she was not a virgin.” (15) In such a case, the father and mother of the young woman shall produce the evidence of the young woman’s virginity before the elders of the town at the gate. (16) And the young woman’s father shall say to the elders, “To this man I gave my own daughter to wife, but he has taken an aversion to her; (17) so he has made up charges, saying, ‘I did not find your daughter a virgin.’ But here is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity!” And they shall spread out the cloth before the elders of the town. (18) The elders of that town shall then take that man and flog him, (19) and they shall fine him a hundred [shekels of] silver and give it to the young woman’s father; for [that man] has defamed a virgin in Israel. Moreover, she shall remain his wife; he shall never have the right to divorce her. (20) But if the charge proves true, the young woman was found not to have been a virgin, (21) then the young woman shall be brought out to the entrance of her father’s house, and the people of her town shall stone her to death; for she did a shameful thing in Israel, committing fornication while under her father’s authority. Thus you will sweep away evil from your midst. (22) If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both of them—the man and the woman with whom he lay—shall die. Thus you will sweep away evil from Israel. (23) In the case of a virgin who is engaged to someone—if another man comes upon her in town and lies with her, (24) you shall take the two of them out 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 neighbor’s wife. Thus you will sweep away evil from your midst. (25) But if the man comes upon the engaged woman in the open country, and he lies with her by force, only the man who lay with her shall die, (26) but you shall do nothing to the young woman. The young woman did not incur the death penalty, for this case is like that of one party attacking and murdering another. (27) He came upon her in the open; though the engaged woman cried for help, there was no one to save her. (28) If a man comes upon a virgin who is not engaged and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered, (29) the man who lay with her shall pay the young woman’s father fifty [shekels of] silver, and she shall be his wife. Because he has violated her, he can never have the right to divorce her.

(1) No man shall marry his father’s former wife, so as to remove his father’s garment. (2) No [man] whose testes are crushed or whose member is cut off shall be admitted into the congregation of GOD. (3) No one misbegotten shall be admitted into the congregation of GOD; no descendant of such, even in the tenth generation, shall be admitted into the congregation of GOD. (4) No Ammonite or Moabite shall be admitted into the congregation of GOD; no descendants of such, even in the tenth generation, shall ever be admitted into the congregation of GOD, (5) because they did not meet you with food and water on your journey after you left Egypt, and because they hired Balaam son of Beor, from Pethor of Aram-naharaim, to curse you.— (6) But the ETERNAL your God refused to heed Balaam; instead, the ETERNAL your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, for the ETERNAL your God loves you.— (7) You shall never concern yourself with their welfare or benefit as long as you live.

(4) No Ammonite or Moabite shall be admitted into the congregation of GOD; no descendants of such, even in the tenth generation, shall ever be admitted into the congregation of GOD, (5) because they did not meet you with food and water on your journey after you left Egypt, and because they hired Balaam son of Beor, from Pethor of Aram-naharaim, to curse you.— (6) But the ETERNAL your God refused to heed Balaam; instead, the ETERNAL your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, for the ETERNAL your God loves you.— (7) You shall never concern yourself with their welfare or benefit as long as you live.

(1)Shout, O infertile one,You who bore no child!Shout aloud for joy,You who did not travail!For the children of the wife forlornShall outnumber those of the espoused—said GOD. (2)Enlarge the site of your tent,Extend the size of your dwelling,Do not stint!Lengthen the ropes, and drive the pegs firm.(3)For you shall spread out to the right and the left;Your offspring shall dispossess nationsAnd shall people the desolate towns.(4)Fear not, you shall not be shamed;Do not cringe, you shall not be disgraced.For you shall forgetThe reproach of your youth,And remember no moreThe shame of your widowhood.(5)For the One who made you—whose name is “GOD of Hosts”—
Will espouse you.The Holy One of Israel—who is called “God of all the Earth”—Will redeem you.(6) GOD has called you back
As a wife forlorn and forsaken.Can one cast off the wife of his youth?—said your God.(7)For a little while I forsook you,But with vast love I will bring you back.(8)In slight anger, for a moment,I hid My face from you;But with kindness everlastingI will take you back in love—said GOD your Redeemer. (9)For this to Me is like the waters of Noah:
As I swore that the waters of NoahNevermore would flood the earth,So I swear that I will notBe angry with you or rebuke you.(10)For the mountains may moveAnd the hills be shaken,But my loyalty shall never move from you,Nor My covenant of friendship be shaken—said GOD, who takes you back in love.

(1)Shout, O infertile one,You who bore no child!Shout aloud for joy,You who did not travail!For the children of the wife forlornShall outnumber those of the espoused—said GOD. (2)Enlarge the site of your tent,Extend the size of your dwelling,Do not stint!Lengthen the ropes, and drive the pegs firm.(3)For you shall spread out to the right and the left;Your offspring shall dispossess nationsAnd shall people the desolate towns.(4)Fear not, you shall not be shamed;Do not cringe, you shall not be disgraced.For you shall forgetThe reproach of your youth,And remember no moreThe shame of your widowhood.(5)For the One who made you—whose name is “GOD of Hosts”—
Will espouse you.The Holy One of Israel—who is called “God of all the Earth”—Will redeem you.(6) GOD has called you back
As a wife forlorn and forsaken.Can one cast off the wife of his youth?—said your God.(7)For a little while I forsook you,But with vast love I will bring you back.(8)In slight anger, for a moment,I hid My face from you;But with kindness everlastingI will take you back in love—said GOD your Redeemer. (9)For this to Me is like the waters of Noah:
As I swore that the waters of NoahNevermore would flood the earth,So I swear that I will notBe angry with you or rebuke you.(10)For the mountains may moveAnd the hills be shaken,But my loyalty shall never move from you,Nor My covenant of friendship be shaken—said GOD, who takes you back in love.