²An illegitimate child may not come into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants^c may come into the assembly of Yahweh.

³An Ammonite or a Moabite may not come into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants^d may come into the assembly of Yahweh forever,^e ⁴because^f they did not come to meet you with food and with water when you came out of Egypt,^g and also because^h theyⁱ hired Balaam, son of Beor, from Pethor, in Aram Naharaim^j to act against you to curse you. ⁵But Yahweh your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, and Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because Yahweh your God loved you. ⁶You shall not promote their welfare or their prosperity all your days forever.^k

⁷“You shall not abhor an Edomite, because he is your brother; you shall not abhor an Egyptian because you were an alien in his land. ⁸The children^l that are born to them in the third generation may come representing them^m in the assembly of Yahweh.

⁹“Ifⁿ you go out to encamp against your enemies, then you shall guard against doing anything evil.

¹⁰“If there is among you a man that is not clean because of a seminal emission during the night,^o he shall go outside the camp; he shall not come within the camp. ¹¹And then^p toward the coming^q of the evening, he shall bathe with^r water, and at the going down^s of the sun, he may come to the midst of the camp.

¹²“And there shall be for you a designated place outside the camp; and you shall go there to relieve yourself,^t ¹³and a digging tool^u shall be included in addition to your other utensils^v for yourself; and then^w when you relieve yourself^x outside the camp you shall dig with it, and then you shall turn, and you shall cover your excrement. ¹⁴For Yahweh your God is walking about in the midst of your camp to deliver you and to hand your enemies over to you before you,^y and so let your camp be holy, so that he shall not see in it anything indecent,^z and he shall turn away from going with you.^a

¹⁵“And you shall not hand over a slave to his master who has escaped and fled to you from his master. ¹⁶He shall reside with you in your midst in the place that he chooses in one of your towns wherever he pleases;^b you shall not oppress him.

¹⁷“No woman of Israel^c shall be a temple prostitute, and no man of Israel^d shall be a male shrine prostitute. ¹⁸You may not bring the hire^e of a prostitute or the earnings of a male prostitute^f into the house of Yahweh your God, for any vow offerings, because both^g are a detestable thing to Yahweh your God.

¹⁹“You shall not charge your brother interest on money,^h interest onⁱ food, or interest on^j anything that one could lend^k on interest. ²⁰You may lend on interest to the foreigner, but to your countryman^l you may not lend on interest, so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all your undertakings^m in the land where you are going,ⁿ in order to take possession of it.^o

²¹“When you make a vow^p to Yahweh your God, you shall not postpone fulfillment of it,^q for certainly Yahweh your God shall require it from you and if postponed you will incur guilt.^r ²²And if you refrain from vowing,^s you shall not incur guilt.^t ²³The utterance of your lips you must perform diligently^u just as you have vowed freely to Yahweh your God whatever it was that you promised^v with your mouth.

²⁴“When^w you come into the vineyard of your neighbor, then you may eat grapes as you please^x and until you are full,^y but you shall not put any into your container.

²⁵“When^z you come into the standing grain of your neighbor, then you may pluck ears with your hand, but you may not swing^a a sickle among the standing grain of your neighbor.”

24“When^a a man takes a wife and he marries her and then^b she does not please him,^c because he found something objectionable^d and writes her a letter of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her away from his house, ²and she goes from his house, and she goes out and becomes a wife for another man,^e ³and then the second man dislikes her and he writes her a letter of divorce and places it into her hand and sends her from his house, or if the second man dies who took her to himself^f as a wife, ⁴her first husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again^g to become a wife to him after she has been defiled,^h for that is a detestable thing beforeⁱ Yahweh, and so you shall not mislead into sin the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance.

⁵“When^j a man takes a new wife he shall not go out with the army, and he shall not be obligated with anything;^k he shall be free from obligation, to stay at home^l for one year, and he shall bring joy to his wife that he took.

⁶“A person^m shall not takeⁿ a pair of millstones or an upper millstone, for he is taking necessities of life as a pledge.^o

⁷“If a man is caught^p kidnapping somebody from among his countrymen,^q the Israelites,^r and he treats him as a slave or he sells him, then that kidnapper shall die, and so you shall purge the evil from among you.^s

⁸Be watchful^t with respect to^u an outbreak of any infectious skin disease, by being very careful and by acting^v according to all that the priests and the Levites have instructed you, just as I have commanded them, so you shall diligently observe.^w ⁹So remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam on the journey when you went out from Egypt.^x

¹⁰“When you make a loan to your neighbor, a loan of any kind, you shall not go into his house to take his pledge.^y ¹¹You shall wait outside, and the man to whom you are lending, he shall bring the pledge outside to you. ¹²And if he is a needy man, you shall not sleep in his pledge.^z ¹³You shall certainly return the pledge to him as the sun sets,^a so that he may sleep in his cloak and may bless you, and it shall be considered righteousness on your behalf^b before^c Yahweh your God.

¹⁴“You shall not exploit a hired worker, who is needy and poor, from among your fellow men or from among your aliens^d who are in your land and in your towns.^e ¹⁵On his day you shall give his wage, and the sun shall not go down,^f because he is poor and his life depends on it;^g do this so that he does not cry out against you to Yahweh, and you incur guilt.^h

¹⁶“Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, and children shall not be put to death because of their fathers; each one shall be put to death for his own sin. ¹⁷You shall not subvert the rights of an alien or an orphan, and you shall not take as pledge the garment of a widow. ¹⁸And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt and that Yahweh your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do this commandment.

¹⁹“Whenⁱ you reap your harvest in your field and you forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not return to get it, for it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. ²⁰When you beat off the fruit of your olive trees you shall not search through the branches afterward, for it^j shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.

²¹When you harvest grapes, you shall not glean your vineyards again;^k it^l shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow. ²²And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.”

25“When a legal dispute takes place^a between men and they come near to the court, and the judges judge with respect to them, then they shall declare the righteous to be in the right and they shall condemn the wicked, ²then it will happen if the guilty one deserves beating,^b then the judge shall make him lie, and he shall beat him before him,^c according to^d the prescribed number of lashes proportionate to the offense.^e ³He may beat him with forty lashes, and he shall not do more than these, so that he will not beat more in addition to these many blows,^f and your countryman^g would be^h degraded before your eyes.

⁴“You shall not muzzle an ox when he is threshing.ⁱ

⁵“When brothers dwell together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not become the wife of a man of another family;^j her brother-in-law shall have sex with her,^k and he shall take her to himself^l as a wife, and he shall perform his duty as a brother-in-law with respect to her. ⁶And then the firstborn that she bears shall represent his dead brother,^m so that his name is not blotted out from Israel. ⁷But if the man does not want to take his sister-in-law, then his sister-in-law shall go up to the gate, to the elders, and she shall say, ‘My brother-in-law refused to perpetuate his brother’s nameⁿ in Israel, for he is not willing to marry me.’^o ⁸Then the elders of his town shall summon him and speak to him, and if he persists and says, ‘I do not desire to^p marry her’ ⁹then his sister-in-law shall go near him before the eyes of the elders, and she shall pull off his sandal from his foot, and she shall spit in his face, and she shall declare^q and she shall say, ‘This is how it is done to the man who does not build the house of his brother.’ ¹⁰And his family^r shall be called in Israel, ‘The house where the sandal was pulled off.’^s

¹¹“If a man and his brother fight each other and the wife of the one man comes near to rescue her husband from the hand of his attacker and she stretches out her hand and she seizes his genitals, ¹²then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not take pity.

¹³“There shall not be for your use^t in your bag two kinds of stone weights, a large one and a small one.^u ¹⁴There shall not be in your house for your use^v two kinds of measures.^w ¹⁵Rather a full and honest weight shall be for your use;^x there shall be for you a full and honest measure,^y so that your days on the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you may be long. ¹⁶For detestable to^z…

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Footnotes

aLiterally “bruised of crushing”
bLiterally “cut off of male organ”
cLiterally “to him”
dLiterally “to him”
eLiterally “until eternity”
fLiterally “because of the event when”
gLiterally “at your going out of Egypt”
hLiterally “because of the event when”
iHebrew “he,” but with plural meaning
jOr “Mesopotamia” = “between the rivers”
kLiterally “until eternity”
lOr “sons”
mLiterally “for them” or possibly “become members of”
nOr “when”
oLiterally “of the night”
pLiterally “And it will happen/come about that”
qLiterally “turning”
rHebrew “in” but this is instrumental use of this preposition
sThe verb can mean “coming/going” and here it means “going”
tLiterally “and you shall go out there, outside to relieve yourself”
uOr “spade”
vHebrew “utensil”
wLiterally “and it will happen”
xLiterally “at your sitting”
yLiterally “to give your enemies to the face of you”
zLiterally “nakedness of a thing”
aLiterally “from behind/after you”
bLiterally “in your gates good for him”
cLiterally “from the daughters of Israel”
dLiterally “from the sons of Israel”
eLiterally “gift”
fLiterally “the earnings of a dog”
gLiterally “both, the two of them”
hLiterally “You shall not lend on interest to your brother, interest of money”
iHebrew “of”
jHebrew “of”
kOr “can lend”
lOr “brother”
mLiterally “in all the sendings out of your hand”
nLiterally “the land that you are going there”
oLiterally “to take possession”
pLiterally “When/if you vow a vow”
qLiterally “to fulfill it”
rLiterally “it shall become against you as sin”
sLiterally “if you refrain to make a vow”
tLiterally “it shall not become against you as sin”
uLiterally “you must observe and you shall do”
vOr “spoke”
wOr “If”
xLiterally “according to your desire”
yLiterally “to your satiation”
zOr “If”
aLiterally “wave”
aOr “If”
bLiterally “and it will happen”
cLiterally “if not she finds favor in his eyes”
dLiterally “shameful/repulsive thing”
eLiterally “for a man other”
fLiterally “to for him”
gLiterally “to return to take her”
hLiterally “become unclean”
iLiterally “to the face of”
jOr “If”
kLiterally “he shall not come across come over upon him to anything”
lLiterally “for his house”
mHebrew “he”
nOr “require”
oLiterally “for a life he is taking as a pledge”
pLiterally “found”
qOr “brothers”
rLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
sLiterally “from your midst”
tOr “Be careful”
uLiterally “against”
vOr “doing”
wLiterally “so you shall observe to do”
xLiterally “in you to go out from Egypt”
yLiterally “to pledge with respect to his pledge”
z“His pledge” refers to “a garment given as pledge”
aLiterally “as/at the moment of the going out of the sun”
bLiterally “to you”
cLiterally “to the face of”
dHebrew “alien”
eLiterally “gates”
fLiterally “over him”
gLiterally “and to him it is a lifting up with respect to his life/soul”
hLiterally “and it becomes against you as sin
iOr “If”
jThat is, what is left
kLiterally “behind/after you”
lThat is, what is left
aLiterally “shall be”
bLiterally “is a son of beating”
cLiterally “to the face of him”
dLiterally “as”
eLiterally “as is sufficient/necessary, with respect to number, for his wickedness/wicked behavior”
fHebrew “blow”
gOr “brother”
hHebrew “is”
iLiterally “at his threshing”
jOthers: “strange man,” “man outside the family” (NEB)
kLiterally “shall go to her”
lLiterally “to/for him”
mLiterally “he shall stand upon the name of his brother the deceased”
nLiterally “to cause a name to stand for his brother”
oLiterally “to consummate the marriage with the widow of a his brother”
pLiterally “I do not delight in”
qLiterally “respond/answer”
rLiterally “name”
sOr “the house of the man whose sandal was pulled off”
tLiterally “to you”
uLiterally “stone and stone large and small”
vLiterally “for you”
wLiterally “ephah and ephah large and small”
xLiterally “for you”
yLiterally “an ephah”
zOr “for”