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And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he has no part nor inheritance with you.

Verse ConceptsNo Earthly Inheritance

Nevertheless you may kill and eat flesh in all your gates, whatsoever your soul desires, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.

Verse ConceptsKilling Domesticated AnimalsClean And UncleanDeer Etc.Animals Having A SoulDeerEating Meat

Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it upon the earth as water.

Verse ConceptsSanitation, FoodPeople Consuming BloodForbidden FoodEating Meat

But you must eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite that is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all that you put your hands unto.

Verse ConceptsEating Before GodEating Drinking And Rejoicing

Take heed to yourself that you forsake not the Levite as long as you live upon the earth.

Verse ConceptsMastersNeglectPeople Not AbandoningTaking Care Of The Earth

When the LORD your God shall enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh, because your soul longs to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, whatsoever your soul desires.

Verse ConceptsFood DefinedEating Meat

If the place which the LORD your God has chosen to put his name there is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and you shall eat in your gates whatsoever your soul desires.

Verse ConceptsFar From HereA Place For God's Name

Even as the gazelle and the hart is eaten, so you shall eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.

Verse ConceptsClean And UncleanDeer Etc.Deer

Only be sure that you eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and you may not eat the life with the flesh.

Verse ConceptsBlood, as basis of lifePeople Consuming BloodForbidden FoodBloodDeerEating MeatRemoving People From Your Life

You shall not eat it; you shall pour it upon the earth as water.

You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsPeople Consuming BloodPersonal GoodForbidden Food

Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.

Verse ConceptsTemporal BlessingsPersonal GoodObeying God

And the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke unto you, and he says, Let us go after other gods, which you have not known, and let us serve them;

Verse ConceptsUnknown GodsDifferent GodsEncouraged To Serve Foreign godsMan's Words FulfilledFake Friends

You shall not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Verse ConceptsWhole HeartednessFalse Miracles, Nature OfLove For GodMisleading DreamsDo Not Listen!The Need To Love GodFalse Apostles, Prophets And TeachersFinding LoveThe SoulTests

If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;

Verse ConceptsSecrecyEnticersUnknown GodsDifferent GodsEncouraged To Serve Foreign godsShow No MercyMothers Love For Her ChildrenSiblingsMothers And SonsDeath Of A Motheratheism

And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.

Verse ConceptsFear Will Come

Certain men, worthless fellows, are gone out from among you, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known;

Verse ConceptsSatan, Agents OfSatan, As The Enemy Of GodTownAbominations, Judgments OfApostatesUnknown GodsDifferent GodsEncouraged To Serve Foreign gods

Then shall you inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;

Verse ConceptsInvestigatingrumorsresearch

You shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is in it, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.

Verse ConceptsTownExterminationApproval To KillBoth Men And Animals Killed

And there shall cleave none of the accursed thing to your hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion upon you, and multiply you, as he has sworn unto your fathers;

Verse ConceptsGod, Compassion OfGod Multipling PeopleGod Will Show Mercyempathy

When you shall hearken to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.

Verse ConceptsKeep The Commandments!

Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that have cloven hooves; as the camel, and the hare, and the rock badger: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.

Verse ConceptsBadgersAnimals, Types OfUnclean SpiritsRock BadgerUnclean Animals

And the swine, because it divides the hoof, yet chews not the cud, it is unclean unto you: you shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcass.

Verse ConceptsTouchPigsTouching Unclean ThingsUnclean SpiritsEating Forbidden FoodUnclean Animalspork

And whatsoever has not fins and scales you may not eat; it is unclean unto you.

Verse ConceptsUnclean SpiritsUnclean AnimalsFish

And every winged insect is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.

Verse ConceptsInsectsClean And Uncleanbugs

You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you shall give it unto the stranger that is in your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it unto a foreigner: for you are a holy people unto the LORD your God. you shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

Verse ConceptsForeignersFindingMilkRitual LawEcologyStrangersYoung AnimalAnimal MothersDeath Of CreaturesCorpses Of AnimalsLaws Restricting ForeignersForbidden Foodnatural Deathpork

And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it; or if the place is too far from you, which the LORD your God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD your God has blessed you:

Verse ConceptsFar From HereTithes And OfferingMoney Blessingsdistancefriendliness

And the Levite that is within your gates; you shall not forsake him; for he has no part nor inheritance with you.

Verse ConceptsMastersNeglectNeglecting PeopleNo Earthly Inheritancefriendliness

And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lends anything unto his neighbor shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbor, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD'S release.

Verse ConceptsDebtlent

For the LORD your God blesses you, as he promised you: and you shall lend unto many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over you.

Verse ConceptsBeing In DebtLendingAuthority Of DisciplesBorrowingLending And BorrowingFinancesMoney Blessingslentgenocide

Beware that there be not a thought in your wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cries unto the LORD against you, and it be sin in you.

Verse ConceptsSabbatical YearThoughtYearsCancellation Of DeptDo Not Be StingyPeople Forgiving OthersPeople Without MercyHelping The Poor

And if there be any blemish in it, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, you shall not sacrifice it unto the LORD your God.

Verse ConceptsCripplesAnimals, religious role ofBlemishImperfection, And God's PurposesLamenessBlemished Creatures

You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.

Verse ConceptsClean And UncleanDeer Etc.Deer

Only you shall not eat the blood thereof; you shall pour it upon the ground as water.

Verse ConceptsPeople Consuming BloodForbidden Food

Seven weeks shall you number unto you: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as you begin to put the sickle to the grain.

Verse ConceptsNumberingSicklesMore Than One Month

And you shall keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give unto the LORD your God, according as the LORD your God has blessed you:

Verse ConceptsAbility, To GiveFeast Of WeeksGenerosity, Used TowardsAnimal Sacrifice, Free Will OfferingTithesFeast Of Weeks [Pentecost]Free Willinterracial

And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite that is within your gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD your God has chosen to place his name there.

Verse ConceptsOrphansPoverty, Attitudes TowardsWidowsWidows, Should BeRejoicingForeigners Permitted At The FeastsPeople Helping OrphansEating Drinking And RejoicingA Place For God's Name

Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has given you.

Verse ConceptsAbility, To GiveGiving, Of PossessionsAccording To ThingsBlessing Others

You shall not pervert judgment; you shall not show partiality, neither take a bribe: for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

Verse ConceptsFavouritismBlindness, SymbolicInjustice, Hated By GodReward, HumanRighteous, TheMagistratesAvoiding BribesBlindingOther Blinding

That which is altogether just shall you follow, that you may live, and inherit the land which the LORD your God gives you.

Verse Conceptsethics, incentives towardsJustice

You shall not sacrifice unto the LORD your God any bullock, or sheep, in which is a blemish, or any defect: for that is an abomination unto the LORD your God.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsCripplesBlemishImperfection, And God's PurposesAbominations, To GodBlemished CreaturesGod Hating Things

And it be told you, and you have heard of it, and inquired diligently, and, behold, it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination has been done in Israel:

Verse ConceptsInvestigating

At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

Verse ConceptsAgreements, LegalThree WitnessesMurderProof, As EvidenceWitnesses, LegalOnly One PersonTwo Or Threetestimony

You shall surely set him king over you, whom the LORD your God shall choose: one from among your brethren shall you set king over you: you may not set a stranger over you, who is not your brother.

Verse ConceptsForeignersStrangersLaws Restricting ForeignersStrangers in israel

But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: since as the LORD has said unto you, you shall return no more that way again.

Verse ConceptsHorsesKings, Duties OfNeverPeople not returningAcquiring Horses

And it shall be, when he sits upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:

Verse ConceptsScrollsThroneWritingCopies Of Documentslawroyalty

The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, as his inheritance.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityPriests, Institution In Ot TimesNo Earthly InheritancePriestly InheritancePermitted To Eat Offeringspriests

Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he has said unto them.

Verse ConceptsGod Is My PortionNo Earthly Inheritance

Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, who stand there before the LORD.

Verse ConceptsIn God's Name

There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that uses divination, or sorcery, or interprets omens, or is a witch,

Verse ConceptsAstrologyChild sacrificeOccultismHuman SacrificesNecromancyAvoid SorcerySorceryDrugsmagicwitchespracticepsychicsOccultism Being Forbidden

For these nations, which you shall possess, hearkened unto sorcerers, and unto diviners: but as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you so to do.

Verse ConceptsDivination, Practiced ByAvoid SorceryGod ForbiddingSorcery

When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing follows not, nor comes to pass, that is, the thing which the LORD has not spoken, but the prophet has spoken it presumptuously: you shall not be afraid of him.

Verse ConceptsProphecy, Fulfilment Of OtProphecy, Inspiration Of OtUnfulfilled WordDo Not Fear MenThe scripturesProphecyProphecies concerningDivinity

When the LORD your God has cut off the nations, whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses;

Verse ConceptsGod KillingGod Saves From Sin And DeathGod Will Kill The Peoples

And this is the case of the manslayer, who shall flee there, that he may live: Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, whom he hated not in time past;

Verse ConceptsMurderManslaughterNot HatingUnintentional

As when a man goes into the wood with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand swings a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and strikes his neighbor, that he dies; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:

Verse ConceptsForestsToolsWoodCarpentry ToolsFelling TreesSharp ToolsIron Objects

Lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his anger is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated the victim not in time past.

Verse ConceptsMan AvengingNot HatingDeath Of A Family Member

And if the LORD your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn unto your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give unto your fathers;

Verse ConceptsEnlargementborders

If a false witness rises up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;

Verse ConceptsPunishmentsconsequencestestifyingaccusationsapostasy

Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, who shall be in those days;

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesStanding

And the judges shall make diligent inquiry: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;

Verse ConceptsInvestigating

Then shall you do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shall you put the evil away from among you.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentSin, God's Judgment OnEquality Of Punishment

When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, and chariots, and a people more than you, be not afraid of them: for the LORD your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsBattlesTrusting In God's PresenceDoubt, Dealing WithChariotsGod, Present EverywhereWeaponsMinoritiesGod With YouMany EnemiesDo Not Fear MenGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptPrinciples Of WarWarBattlearmy

For the LORD your God is he that goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

Verse ConceptsBattlesGod With YouGod Saving From EnemiesstruggleWarTrusting God's PlanProtection From EnemiesBattle

And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

Verse ConceptsBattlesAgriculture, RestrictionsPossibility Of DeathDedicationMoving To A New Place

And what man is he that has planted a vineyard, and has not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.

Verse ConceptsBattlesEnjoyment, Material ThingsHappinessVineyardPlanting VineyardsCultivationPossibility Of Death

And what man is there that has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

Verse ConceptsBattlesBetrothalMarriage, Customs ConcerningSinglenessEngagementPossibility Of DeathMarriage Between Man And Woman

And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.

Verse ConceptsBattlesCowardiceBad AttitudeFaintingFaint HeartednessFear Of EnemiesFear And WorryBeing Scared

But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shall you take unto yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.

Verse ConceptsSpoils Of WarRules About BootyFamily Conflict

But you shall utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD your God has commanded you:

Verse ConceptsExterminationgenocide

When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy the trees thereof by wielding an ax against them: for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:

Verse ConceptsRespect, For EnvironmentEcological ConcernsFortsTreesFelling TreesSharp ToolsHarming Trees

Only the trees which you know will not be trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it is subdued.

Verse ConceptsBuild, LiterallyFelling TreesHarming Trees

If one be found slain in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess, lying in the field, and it is not known who has slain him:

Verse ConceptsCourtsNot Knowing People

Then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:

And it shall be, that the city which is nearest unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer, which has never been worked, and which has not pulled in the yoke;

Verse ConceptsTownYokesHeifersUnused

And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a valley with flowing water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley:

Verse ConceptsFlowing WaterDislocatingUnused

And all the elders of that city, that are nearest unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley:

Verse ConceptsDislocating

So shall you put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when you shall do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.

Then it shall be, when he makes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, who is indeed the firstborn:

Verse ConceptsReal EstateBirthrights

But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated as the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he has: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.

Verse ConceptsHeirsDouble Portions

And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

Verse ConceptsAlcoholDishonouring ParentsChildren, UngratefulObstinate IndividualsAccused Of Drunkennessrebelliondrunkards

And if a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is to be put to death, and you hang him on a tree:

Verse ConceptsAtonementHangingPeople Hung To Death

His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that your land be not defiled, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.

Verse ConceptsThe AccursedGallowsHangingHumiliationKillingPollutionsOvernightThe Curse Of The LawPeople Hung To DeathBurying places

And if your brother is not near unto you, or if you know him not, then you shall bring it unto your own house, and it shall be with you until your brother seeks after it, and you shall restore it to him again.

Verse ConceptsNot Knowing PeopleFar From Here

You shall not wear a garment of different sorts, as of woolen and linen together.

Verse ConceptsFlaxLinenWoolDressNot MixingMixing MaterialsInstruction About Clothes

And the young woman's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man as a wife, and he hates her;

Verse ConceptsSinglenessGiving In MarriageMarriage Between Man And WomanMarriage KjvFathers And Daughters

But if this thing is true, and the evidence of virginity is not found for the young woman:

Verse Conceptsvirginity

If a young woman that is a virgin be betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

Verse ConceptsLaws Of Sexual UnionDeath Penalty For Sexual SinSex Before MarriageSexual Purityvirginity

But unto the young woman you shall do nothing; there is in the young woman no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and slays him, even so is this matter:

If a man find a young woman that is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

Verse ConceptsRapeLaws Of Sexual UnionYoung MarriageMarriage Kjvvirginity

He that is a eunuch by crushing or mutilation shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsCrushingeunuchsMutilationMale Genitalsmanhoodcrushescutting

You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you shall not abhor an Egyptian; because you were a stranger in his land.

Verse ConceptsOppression, Nature OfRevenge, And RetaliationAbhorOppressing ForeignersNot HatingTwin BrothersStrangers in israel

If there be among you any man, that is unclean by reason of some occurrence in the night, then shall he go outside the camp, he shall not come inside the camp:

Verse ConceptsOutside The CampSemen

But it shall be, when evening comes on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again.

You shall not charge interest to your brother; interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest:

Verse ConceptsBanksInterestLendingFamily Conflictlent

That which is gone out from your lips you shall keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as you have vowed unto the LORD your God, which you have promised with your mouth.

Verse ConceptsLipsAnimal Sacrifice, Free Will OfferingMaking VowsFree WillPromises

Her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.

Verse ConceptsAbominations, Perverse SexualitySecond MarriageDefilementHusband And WifeWifeA Good Husbandspousemarraige

Take heed in a plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.

Verse ConceptsInstructionHygieneKeeping Man's Word

You shall not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of your brethren, or of your strangers that are in your land within your gates:

Verse ConceptsThe NeedyAbuse Of Authority, Warnings AgainstMastersUnkindnessEmployersMasters Duties Towards ServantsAdvantagesForeigners Included In The LawNot Helping The PoorAliens