but shall have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD he is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.

And this is the duty of the priests, of the people and of them that offer, whether it be ox or sheep: They must give unto the priest, the shoulder and the two cheeks and the maw,

the first fruits of thy corn, wine and oil, and the first of thy sheep shearing must thou give him.

For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes to stand and to minister in the name of the LORD: both him and his sons forever.

If a Levite come out of any of thy cities or any place of Israel, where he is a sojourner, and come with all the lust of his heart unto the place which the LORD hath chosen:

And they shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh to him of the patrimony of his elders.

When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, see that thou learn not to do after the abominations of these nations.

For all that do such things are abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth cast them out before thee.

For these nations which thou shalt conquer hearken unto makers of dismal days and bruterers. But the LORD thy God permitteth not that to thee.

The LORD thy God will stir up a Prophet among you: even of thy brethren, like unto me, and unto him ye shall hearken

And the LORD said unto me, 'They have well spoken;

I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren like unto thee and will put my words into his mouth and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

And whosoever will not hearken unto the words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

But the prophet which shall presume to speak ought in my name which I commanded him not to speak, and he that speaketh in the name of strange gods, the same prophet shall die.'

And if thou say in thine heart, 'How shall I know that which the LORD hath not spoken?'

When the LORD thy God hath destroyed the nations whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou hast conquered them and dwellest in their cities and in their houses;

Thou shalt prepare the way and divide the coasts of thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts that whosoever committeth murder may flee thither.

And this is the cause of the slayer that shall flee thither and be saved: If he smite his neighbour ignorantly and hated him not in time past;

as when a man goeth unto the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and as his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe, the head slippeth from the helve and smiteth his neighbour that he die; the same shall flee unto one of the same cities and be saved.

Lest the executer of blood follow after the slayer while his heart is hot and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him, and yet there is no cause worthy of death in him, inasmuch as he hated not his neighbour in time past.

And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coasts as he hath sworn unto thy fathers and give thee all the land which he said he would give unto thy fathers

- so that thou keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, that thou love the LORD thy God and walk in his ways ever - then thou shalt add three cities more unto those three,

that innocent blood be not shed in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, and so blood come upon thee.

But and if there be any man that hateth his neighbour and layeth await for him and riseth against him and smiteth him that he die, and fleeth unto any of these cities;

Then let the elders of his city send and fetch him thence and deliver him into the hands of the justice of blood, and he shall die.

Let thine eye have no pity on him, and so thou shalt put away innocent blood from Israel, and happy art thou.

then let both the men which strive together stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges which shall be in those days,

and let the judges enquire a good. And if the witness be found false and that he hath given false witness against his brother,

then shall ye do unto him as he had thought to do unto his brother, and so thou shalt put evil away from thee.

And other shall hear and fear and shall henceforth commit no more any such wickedness among you.

And let thine eye have no compassion, but life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.

When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses and chariots and people more than thou, be not afeared of them, for the LORD thy God is with thee which brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

And when ye are come nigh unto battle, let the priest come forth and speak unto the people,

and say unto them, 'Hear Israel, ye are come unto battle against your enemies, let not your hearts faint, neither fear nor be amazed nor a dread of them.

For the LORD thy God goeth with you to fight for you against your enemies and to save you.'

And let the officers speak unto the people, saying, 'If any man have built a new house and have not dedicate it, let him go and return to his house lest he die in the battle, and another dedicate it.

And if any man have planted a vineyard and have not made it common, let him go and return again unto his house, lest he die in the battle and another make it common.

And if any man be betrothed unto a wife and have not taken her, let him go and return again unto his house, lest he die in the battle and another take her.'

And let the officers speak further unto the people, and say, 'If any man fear and be fainthearted, let him go and return unto his house, lest his brother's heart be made faint as well as his.'

And when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, let them make captains of war over them.

When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, offer them peace.

And if they answer thee again peaceably, and open unto thee, then let all the people that is found therein be tributaries unto thee and serve thee.

But and if they will make no peace with thee, then make war against the city and besiege it.

And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, smite all the males thereof with the edge of the sword,

save the women and the children and the cattle and all that is in the city and all the spoil thereof take unto thyself and eat the spoil of thine enemies which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Thus thou shalt do unto all the cities which are a great way off from thee and not of the cities of these nations.

But shalt destroy them without redemption, both the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perezites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee,

that they teach you not to do after all their abominations which they do unto their gods, and so should sin against the LORD your God.

When thou hast besieged a city long time in making war against it to take it, destroy not the trees thereof, that thou wouldest thrust an axe unto them. For thou mayest eat of them, and therefore destroy them not. For the trees of the fields are no men that they might come against thee to besiege thee.

Neverthelater those trees which thou knowest that men eat not of them, thou mayest destroy and cut them down and make bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be overthrown.

If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, and lieth in the fields, and not known who hath slain him:

Then let thine elders and thy judges come forth and meet unto the cities that are round about the slain.

And let the elders of that city which is next unto the slain man, take a heifer that is not laboured with nor hath drawn in the yoke,

and let them bring her unto a valley where is neither earing nor sowing, and strike off her head there in the valley.

Then let the priests the sons of Levi come forth - for the LORD thy God hath chosen them to minister and to bless in the name of the LORD and therefore at their mouth shall all strife and plague be tried.

And all the elders of the city that is next to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the plain,

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

Be merciful LORD unto thy people Israel which thou hast delivered and put not innocent blood unto thy people Israel: and the blood shall be forgiven them.'

And so shalt thou put innocent blood from thee, when thou shalt have done that which is right in the sight of the LORD.

When thou goest to war against thine enemies and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands and thou hast taken them captive,

and seest among the captives a beautiful woman and hast a fantasy unto her that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;

then bring her home to thine house and let her shave her head and pare her nails

and put her raiment that she was taken in from her, and let her remain in thine house and beweep her father and her mother a month long and after that go in unto her and marry her and let her be thy wife.

And if thou have no favour unto her, then let her go whither she lusteth: for thou mayest not sell her for money nor make chevisance of her, because thou hast humbled her.

If a man have two wives, one loved and another hated, and they have borne him children, both the loved and also the hated;

But he shall know the son of the hated for his firstborn, that he give him double of all that he hath. For he is the first of his strength, and to him belongeth the right of the firstbornship.

If any man have a son that is stubborn, and disobedient, that he will not hearken unto the voice of his father and voice of his mother, and they have taught him nurture, but he would not hearken unto them:

Then let his father and his mother take him and bring him out unto the elders of that city and unto the gate of that same place,

and say unto the elders of the city, 'This, our son, is stubborn and disobedient and will not hearken unto our voice; he is a rioter and a drunkard.'

Then let all the men of that city stone him with stones unto death. And so thou shalt put evil away from thee, and all Israel shall hear and fear.

If a man have committed a trespass worthy of death and is put to death for it and hanged on tree:

If thou see thy brother's ox or sheep go astray, thou shalt not withdraw thyself from them: But shalt bring them home again unto thy brother.

If thy brother be not nigh unto thee or if thou know him not, then bring them unto thine own house and let them be with thee, until thy brother ask after them, and then deliver him them again.

In like manner shalt thou do with his ass, with his raiment and with all lost things of thy brother which he hath lost and thou hast found, and thou mayest not withdraw thyself.

The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto the man, neither shall a man put on woman's raiment. For all that do so, are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

If thou chance upon a bird's nest by the way, in whatsoever tree it be or on the ground, whether they be young or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs: thou shalt not take the mother with the young.

But shalt in any wise let the dam go and take the young, that thou mayest prosper and prolong thy days.

When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a battlement unto the roof, that thou lade not blood upon thine house, if any man fall thereof.

Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together.

Thou shalt not wear a garment made of wool and flax together.

If a man take a wife, and when he hath lain with her hate her,

and lay shameful things unto her charge and bring up an evil name upon her and say, 'I took this wife, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid':

Then let the father of the damsel and the mother bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity, unto the elders of the city, even unto the gate.

And let the damsel's father say unto the elders, 'I gave my daughter unto this man to wife and he hateth her:

and lo, he layeth shameful things unto her charge saying: I found not thy daughter a maid. And yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity.' And let them spread the vesture before the elders of the city.

Then let the elders of that city take that man and chastise him,

and merce him in a hundred sicles of silver and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a maid in Israel. And she shall be his wife, and he may not put her away all his days.

But and if the thing be of a surety that the damsel be not found a virgin,

let them bring her unto the door of her father's house, and let the men of that city stone her with stones to death, because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house. And so thou shalt put evil away from thee.

If a man be found lying with a woman that hath a wedded husband, they shall die: both the man that lie with the wife, and also the wife. So shalt thou put away evil from Israel.

If a maid be handfasted unto a husband, and then a man find her in the town and lay with her,

then ye shall bring them both out unto the gates of that same city and shall stone them with stones to death: The damsel because she cried not, being in the city, and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife; and thou shalt put away evil from thee.

But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field and force her and lie with her: Then the man that lay with her shall die alone,

and unto the damsel thou shalt do no harm, because there is in the damsel no cause of death. For as when a man riseth against his neighbour and slayeth him, even so is this matter.

For he found her in the fields and the betrothed damsel cried: but there was no man to help her.

If a man find a maid that is not betrothed and take her and lie with her and be found:

Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty sicles of silver. And she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her, and he may not put her away all his days.

None that is gelded, or hath his privy members cut off, shall come into the congregation of the LORD.

And he that is a whore's child shall not come in the congregation of the LORD; no, in the tenth generation he shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

The Ammonites and the Moabites shall not come into the congregation of the LORD; no, not in the tenth generation, no they shall never come in to the congregation of the LORD,