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You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner: for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

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

You shall eat before the LORD your God, in the place which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.

Verse ConceptsLearningFirstbornChoicesGrainReverence, And ObedienceSacred PlacesThe Fear Of The LordTithes And Offeringfriendliness

If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, which the LORD your God shall choose, to set his name there, when the LORD your God shall bless you;

Verse ConceptsFar From HereTithes And OfferingMoney Blessingsdistancefriendliness

then you shall turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose:

Verse ConceptsIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyFinancesTithes And OfferingChanging YourselfGiving BackMoney Blessingsdistancefriendliness

and you shall bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

Verse ConceptsAlcoholdrinkingFamilies, Nature OfAlcohol ConsumptionGetting WineStrong DrinkEating Drinking And RejoicingAlcoholic BeveragesAlcoholicsTithes And OfferingCelebrationMoney BlessingsSaving Moneybeeralcoholismfriendliness

At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates:

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of Possessionsethics, socialAlmsgivingAltruismCharityThree YearsEvery Three YearsTithes And Offeringfriendliness

and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

Verse ConceptsPoverty, Attitudes TowardsSatisfactionSaints, Care For The PoorWidows, Should BeLoving ForeignersGod Will BlessNo Earthly InheritancePeople Helping Orphansfriendliness

This is the way of the release: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because the LORD's release has been proclaimed.

Verse ConceptsDebtlent

Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of your is with your brother your hand shall release.

Verse ConceptsForeignersLaws Restricting ForeignersDebt

However there shall be no poor with you; (for the LORD will surely bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it;)

Verse ConceptsPoor PeopleBlessings, To IsraelLand, As A Divine Responsibility

Beware that there not be a base thought in your 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 cry to the LORD against you, and it be sin to you.

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

For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

Verse ConceptsLiberalityBad LeadershipCommands, in OTPoor PeopleBeggarsLendingPoverty, Remedies ForSuffering, HardshipGenerosity, Used TowardsThe poorHelping The PoorHelping Others In NeedFeeding The Poor

you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as the LORD your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

Verse ConceptsThreshing FloorAccording To Things

It shall be, if he tells you, "I will not go out from you"; because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;

Verse ConceptsPeople Freeing SlavesFamily LoveLove And Family

then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.

Verse ConceptsToolsStaying PutSharp ToolsPiercingsRegulations For Men And Women

It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and the LORD your God will bless you in all that you do.

Verse ConceptsValuesSix YearsHardship

You shall eat it before the LORD your God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, you and your household.

Verse ConceptsSacred PlacesEating Before GodFamily First

If it has any blemish, is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to 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 shall eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.

Verse ConceptsClean And UncleanDeer Etc.Deer

Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground as water.

Verse ConceptsPeople Consuming BloodForbidden Food

Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the LORD your God; for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.

Verse ConceptsDoubt, Dealing WithCelebrationsMonthMonth 1During One NightRegulations For PassoverGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptMonthsCelebrationspringtimecelebrating

You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction; for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that you may remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

Verse ConceptsFeast Of Unleavened BreadHolidaySeven DaysRepulsive FoodHasty Action

No yeast shall be seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither shall any of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning.

Verse ConceptsFeast Of Unleavened BreadSeven DaysOvernight

but at the place which the LORD your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth out of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsSunsetsA Place For God's Nameanniversary

You shall roast and eat it in the place which the LORD your God shall choose: and you shall turn in the morning, and go to your tents.

Verse Conceptscooking

Six days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God; you shall do no work.

Verse ConceptsHolidayThe Seventh Day Of The WeekSix DaysDay 7No Work On Feast Days

and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which the LORD your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

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

and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.

Verse ConceptsWidowsForeigners Permitted At The FeastsPeople Helping OrphansEating Drinking And Rejoicing

and it be told you, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently; and behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel,

Verse ConceptsInvestigating

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

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

When you have come to the land which the LORD your God gives you, and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say, "I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me";

Verse ConceptsLike The Nations

It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law on a scroll, out of that which is before the priests the Levites:

Verse ConceptsScrollsThroneWritingCopies Of Documentslawroyalty

and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;

Verse ConceptsLearningStudentsKings, How They Should ActReading The ScripturesFear God!Keep The Commandments!Reading The Bible

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

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

This shall be the priests' due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.

Verse ConceptsSheepCheeksFood For Priests Defined

For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.

Verse ConceptsLeaders, Spiritual

If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he lives as a foreigner, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which the LORD shall choose;

They shall have like portions to eat, besides that which comes of the sale of his patrimony.

Verse ConceptsEquality In PaymentDividing FoodPermitted To Eat Offerings

For whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you.

Verse ConceptsAbominations, PracticesPollutionsAbominations, To GodGod Hating PeopleThe Lord Will Drive Them OutAbominations

It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

Verse ConceptsResponsibility

When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing doesn't follow, nor happen, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken: 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

you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to possess it.

Verse ConceptsHighwayThree Cities

as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:

Verse ConceptsForestsToolsWoodCarpentry ToolsFelling TreesSharp ToolsIron Objects

if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, besides these three:

Verse ConceptsThree CitiesWalking In The Ways Of GodIf You Keep The CommandmentsThe Need To Love God

But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;

Verse ConceptsWaitingPeople WaitingJudged As Murderers

Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

Verse ConceptsShow No Mercypity

You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess it.

Verse ConceptsFraudCovenant breakersAgriculture, RestrictionsBoundariesCheatingInjustice, Examples OfLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityProperty, LandStonesLandmarksReal EstatePropertyMoving OnConflictMoving To A New Placeborders

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

Verse ConceptsAgreements, LegalConfirmationThree WitnessesdisagreementsMurderProof, As EvidenceRightsWitnesses, LegalOnly One PersonNot AloneTwo Or ThreeGuiltWitnessingBeing Singletestimonytestifyingaccusations

When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and see horses, chariots, a people more than you, you shall not be 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

It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people,

Verse ConceptsHigh Priest, In Ot

The officers shall speak to the people, saying, "What man is there who 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

What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit.

Verse ConceptsBattlesEnjoyment, Material ThingsHappinessVineyardPlanting VineyardsCultivationPossibility Of Death

What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her."

Verse ConceptsBattlesBetrothalMarriage, Customs ConcerningSinglenessEngagementPossibility Of DeathMarriage Between Man And Woman

The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, "What man is there who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother's heart melt as his heart."

Verse ConceptsBattlesCowardiceBad AttitudeFaintingFaint HeartednessFear Of EnemiesFear And WorryBeing Scared

It shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies at the head of the people.

When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.

Verse ConceptsCities Under AttackMaking Peace With EnemiesSurrender

It shall be, if it makes you answer of peace, and opens to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you.

Verse ConceptsForced LabourMaking Peace With Enemies

If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it:

Verse ConceptsCitySiegesThe Nations Attacked

and when the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:

Verse ConceptsDeath Of All MalesMassacres

but the women, and the little ones, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its spoil, you shall take for a prey to 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

When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of you?

Verse ConceptsRespect, For EnvironmentEcological ConcernsFortsTreesFelling TreesSharp ToolsHarming Trees

Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build siege works against the city that makes war with you, until it fall.

Verse ConceptsBuild, LiterallyFelling TreesHarming Trees

If one be found slain in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known who has struck him;

Verse ConceptsCourtsNot Knowing People

and it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn't been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke;

Verse ConceptsTownYokesHeifersUnused

and they shall answer and say, "Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

Verse ConceptsSheddingPlea Of Innocence

It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.

Verse Conceptsdivorce, amongst believersAvoid Divorce

then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn:

Verse ConceptsReal EstateBirthrights

then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;

Verse ConceptsGatesComing To Gates

If your brother isn't near to you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother seek after it, and you shall restore it to him.

Verse ConceptsNot Knowing PeopleFar From Here

you shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take to yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.

Verse ConceptsAnimal LifeHow To Live Long

and behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, 'I did not find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;' and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity." They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

Verse ConceptsDistinctive Clothingaccusationsvirginity

then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father's house: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

Verse ConceptsdisgraceBanishmentPunishment, Legal Aspects OfDeath Penalty For Sexual SinInstructions About StoningsexDeath Of A MotherDeath Of A FatherSex Before MarriageFamily DeathFather And Daughter RelationshipsFathers And Daughtersmistresspremaritalwhoresvirginity

then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she did not cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

Verse ConceptsComing To GatesInstructions About Stoning

because they did not meet you with bread and with water in the way, when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

Verse ConceptsHiringMoney, Attitudes ToUnkindnessInhospitalityNo FoodCursing Israel

but it shall be, when evening comes on, he shall bathe himself in water; and when the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.

and you shall have a spade among your tools; and it shall be, when you sit down outside, you shall dig therewith, and shall turn and cover that which comes from you:

Verse ConceptsHealthDefecationTaking Care Of Your Bodycatspoopmovement

he shall dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best: you shall not oppress him.

Verse ConceptsTroubling Groups Of People

to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.

Verse ConceptsBankruptcyForeignersInterestStrangersLaws Restricting Foreigners

When you shall vow a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not be slack to pay it: for the LORD your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.

Verse ConceptsCovenant breakersdelay, humanOaths, HumanPromises, HumanProcrastinationMaking Vows

But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you.

Verse ConceptsAbstinenceNo Sin

That which is gone out of your lips you shall observe and do; according as you have vowed to the LORD your God, a freewill offering, which you have promised with your mouth.

Verse ConceptsLipsAnimal Sacrifice, Free Will OfferingMaking VowsFree WillPromises

When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat of grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your vessel.

Verse ConceptsFraudCovenant breakersBaskets, Uses OfGrapesVineyard

When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

Verse ConceptsAdultery and Divorcedivorce, in OTdivorce, amongst believersWritingDomestic ViolenceBills Of DivorceDivorce PermittedTroubling IndividualsSecond MarriageMarriage Between Man And WomanInfidelity

If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;

Verse ConceptsDivorce Permitted

Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came forth out of Egypt.

you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.

Verse ConceptsCloaksThe SunSunsetslent

in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you.

Verse ConceptsEveningMastersBusiness EthicsMasters Duties Towards ServantsEmployersSunsetsDebtMoralityGiving Back

When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Verse ConceptsForeignersBinding cornBereaved, Care ForGrainOrphansSowing And ReapingWidowsAutumnAliensSuccess And Hard Work

When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

Verse ConceptsBranches, Types OfDoing Things TwiceOlive Trees

When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

Verse ConceptsGrapesVineyardDoing Things Twice

and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.

Verse ConceptsSin, God's Judgment OnAdvice On Beating People

It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.

Verse ConceptsNames Blotted OutSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, "So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house."

Verse ConceptsFacesSpittingSaliva

When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets;

Verse ConceptsGraspingMale GenitalsFighting One AnotherStrugglesmanhood

You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

Verse ConceptsJust WeightsAccuracyHow To Live Longweightmeasurement