Thematic Bible: Laws respecting
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Domestic Donkeys » Laws respecting » Astray, to be brought back to its owners
If you come across the ox or the ass of one who is no friend to you wandering from its way, you are to take it back to him
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If you see your brother's ox or his sheep wandering, do not go by without helping, but take them back to your brother.
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Domestic Donkeys » Laws respecting » First-born of, if not redeemed, to have its neck broken
And for the young of an ass you may give a lamb in payment, or if you will not make payment for it, its neck is to be broken; but for all the first sons among your children, let payment be made.
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A lamb may be given in payment for the young of an ass, but if you will not make payment for it, its neck will have to be broken. For all the first of your sons you are to make payment. No one is to come before me without an offering.
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Domestic Donkeys » Laws respecting » Astray, to be taken care of till its owner appeared
If their owner is not near, or if you are not certain who he is, then take the beast to your house and keep it till its owner comes in search of it, and then you are to give it back to him. Do the same with his ass or his robe or anything which has gone from your brother's keeping and which you have come across: do not keep it to yourself.
Domestic Donkeys » Laws respecting » Not to be yoked with an ox
Do not do your ploughing with an ox and an ass yoked together.
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Domestic Donkeys » Laws respecting » To enjoy the rest of the sabbath
But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day do no work, you or your son or your daughter, or your man-servant or your woman-servant, or your ox or your ass or any of your cattle, or the man from a strange country who is living among you; so that your man-servant and your woman-servant may have rest as well as you.
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Domestic Donkeys » Laws respecting » Not to be coveted
Let not your desire be turned to your neighbour's house, or his wife or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is his.
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Domestic Donkeys » Laws respecting » Fallen under a burden, to be assisted
If you see the ass of one who has no love for you bent down to the earth under the weight which is put on it, you are to come to its help, even against your desire.
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Oxen » Laws respecting » Not to be muzzled when treading out the corn
For it says in the law of Moses, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. Is it for the oxen that God is giving orders?
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Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.
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Oxen » Laws respecting » Straying to be brought back to its owner
If you come across the ox or the ass of one who is no friend to you wandering from its way, you are to take it back to him
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If you see your brother's ox or his sheep wandering, do not go by without helping, but take them back to your brother. If their owner is not near, or if you are not certain who he is, then take the beast to your house and keep it till its owner comes in search of it, and then you are to give it back to him.
Oxen » Laws respecting » Of others not to be coveted
Or let your desire be turned to your neighbour's wife, or his house or his field or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is your neighbour's.
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Let not your desire be turned to your neighbour's house, or his wife or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is his.
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Oxen » Laws respecting » To rest on the sabbath
For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land living among you.
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But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day do no work, you or your son or your daughter, or your man-servant or your woman-servant, or your ox or your ass or any of your cattle, or the man from a strange country who is living among you; so that your man-servant and your woman-servant may have rest as well as you.
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Oxen » Laws respecting » Not to be yoked with an ass in the same plow
Do not do your ploughing with an ox and an ass yoked together.
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Oxen » Laws respecting » Fallen under its burden to be raised up again
If you see your brother's ox or his ass falling down on the road, do not go by without giving him help in lifting it up again.
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Oxen » Laws respecting » Mode of reparation for one, killing another
And if one man's ox does damage to another man's ox, causing its death, then the living ox is to be exchanged for money, and division made of the price of it, and of the price of the dead one. But if it is common knowledge that the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and its owner has not kept it under control, he will have to give ox for ox; and the dead beast will be his.
Oxen » Laws respecting » Killing a man, to be stoned
If an ox comes to be the cause of death to a man or a woman, the ox is to be stoned, and its flesh may not be used for food; but the owner will not be judged responsible. But if the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and the owner has had word of it and has not kept it under control, so that it has been the cause of the death of a man or woman, not only is the ox to be stoned, but its owner is to be put to death. If a price is put on his life, let him make payment of whatever price is fixed. read more.
If the death of a son or of a daughter has been caused, the punishment is to be in agreement with this rule. If the death of a man-servant or of a woman-servant is caused by the ox, the owner is to give their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox is to be stoned.
If the death of a son or of a daughter has been caused, the punishment is to be in agreement with this rule. If the death of a man-servant or of a woman-servant is caused by the ox, the owner is to give their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox is to be stoned.
Oxen » Laws respecting » Of others if lost or hurt through neglect, to be made good
In any question about an ox or an ass or a sheep or clothing, or about the loss of any property which anyone says is his, let the two sides put their cause before God; and he who is judged to be in the wrong is to make payment to his neighbour of twice the value. If a man puts an ass or an ox or a sheep or any beast into the keeping of his neighbour, and it comes to death or is damaged or is taken away, without any person seeing it: If he takes his oath before the Lord that he has not put his hand to his neighbour's goods, the owner is to take his word for it and he will not have to make payment for it. read more.
But if it is taken from him by a thief, he is to make up for the loss of it to its owner. But if it has been damaged by a beast, and he is able to make this clear, he will not have to make payment for what was damaged.
But if it is taken from him by a thief, he is to make up for the loss of it to its owner. But if it has been damaged by a beast, and he is able to make this clear, he will not have to make payment for what was damaged.
Oxen » Laws respecting » Fat of, not to be eaten
Say to the children of Israel: You are not to take any fat, of ox or sheep or goat, for food.
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Oxen » Laws respecting » If stolen to be restored double
If he still has what he had taken, whatever it is, ox or ass or sheep, he is to give twice its value.
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Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » To participate in the rejoicings of the people
And the Levite, because he has no part or heritage in the land, and the man from a strange country, and the child who has no father, and the widow, who are living among you, will come and take food and have enough; and so the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.
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Then you are to be glad before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is with you, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you, in the place marked out by the Lord your God as a resting-place for his name.
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And you will have joy in every good thing which the Lord your God has given to you and to your family; and the Levite, and the man from a strange land who is with you, will take part in your joy.
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Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » To have the gleaning of the harvest
And do not take all the grapes from your vine-garden, or the fruit dropped on the earth; let the poor man, and the man from another country, have these: I am the Lord your God.
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And when you get in the grain from your land, do not let all the grain at the edges of the field be cut, and do not take up the grain which has been dropped in the field; let that be for the poor, and for the man from another country: I am the Lord your God.
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When you get in the grain from your field, if some of the grain has been dropped by chance in the field, do not go back and get it, but let it be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow: so that the blessing of the Lord your God may be on all the work of your hands. When you are shaking the fruit from your olive-trees, do not go over the branches a second time: let some be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow. When you are pulling the grapes from your vines, do not take up those which have been dropped; let them be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow. read more.
Keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt: for this is why I give you orders to do this.
Keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt: for this is why I give you orders to do this.
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Might offer their burnt-offerings on the altar of God
And say to them, If any man of Israel, or any other living among them, makes a burned offering or other offering,
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Say to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel, If any man of the children of Israel, or of another nation living in Israel, makes an offering, given because of an oath or freely given to the Lord for a burned offering;
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And if a man from another country or any other person living among you, through all your generations, has the desire to give an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord, let him do as you do.
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Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Not to work on the sabbath
But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day you are to do no work, you or your son or your daughter, your man-servant or your woman-servant, your cattle or the man from a strange country who is living among you:
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For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land living among you.
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But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day do no work, you or your son or your daughter, or your man-servant or your woman-servant, or your ox or your ass or any of your cattle, or the man from a strange country who is living among you; so that your man-servant and your woman-servant may have rest as well as you.
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Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Not to be vexed or oppressed
Do no wrong to a man from a strange country, and do not be hard on him; for you yourselves were living in a strange country, in the land of Egypt.
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Do not be hard on the man from a strange country who is living among you; for you have had experience of the feelings of one who is far from the land of his birth, because you yourselves were living in Egypt, in a strange land.
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And if a man from another country is living in your land with you, do not make life hard for him;
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Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » To have justice done to them in all disputes
And at that time I gave orders to your judges, saying, Let all questions between your brothers come before you for hearing, and give decisions uprightly between a man and his brother or one from another nation who is with him.
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Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt:
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Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » To be loved
So be kind to the man from a strange country who is living among you, for you yourselves were living in a strange country in the land of Egypt.
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Let him be to you as one of your countrymen and have love for him as for yourself; for you were living in a strange land, in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
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Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » To have the law read to them
Make all the people come together, men and women and children, and anyone from another country who is with you, so that hearing they may become wise in the fear of the Lord your God, and take care to do all the words of this law;
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And he made there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, writing it before the eyes of the children of Israel. And all Israel, those who were Israelites by birth, as well as the men from other lands living with them, and their responsible men and their overseers and judges, took their places round the ark, in front of the priests, the Levites, whose work it was to take up the ark of the Lord's agreement; half of them were stationed in front of Mount Gerizim and half in front of Mount Ebal, in agreement with the orders for the blessing of the children of Israel which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had given. And after, he gave them all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, as it is all recorded in the book of the law; read more.
Reading to all the meeting of Israel, with the women and the children and the men from other lands who were living among them, every word of the orders which Moses had given.
Reading to all the meeting of Israel, with the women and the children and the men from other lands who were living among them, every word of the orders which Moses had given.
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Might purchase hebrew servants subject to release
And if one from another nation living among you gets wealth, and your countryman, at his side, becomes poor and gives himself for money to the man from another nation or to one of his family; After he has given himself he has the right to be made free, for a price, by one of his brothers,
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » The jews might purchase and have them as slaves
But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants. And in addition, you may get, for money, servants from among the children of other nations who are living with you, and from their families which have come to birth in your land; and these will be your property.
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Not to eat blood
And if any man of Israel, or any other living among them, takes any sort of blood for food, my wrath will be turned against that man and he will be cut off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in its blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to take away your sin: for it is the blood which makes free from sin because of the life in it. For this reason I have said to the children of Israel, No man among you, or any others living with you, may take blood as food.
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Not to be chosen as kings in israel
Then see that you take as your king the man named by the Lord your God: let your king be one of your countrymen, not a man of another nation who is not one of yourselves.
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Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Allowed to eat what died of itself
You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.
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Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » The jews might take usury from
From men of other nations you may take interest, but not from an Israelite: so that the blessing of the Lord your God may be on everything to which you put your hand, in the land which you are about to take as your heritage.
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Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Not to eat the passover while uncircumcised
And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, This is the law of the Passover: no man who is not an Israelite is to take of it: But every man's servant, whom he has got for money, may take of it, when he has had circumcision.
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » To be relieved in distress
And if your brother becomes poor and is not able to make a living, then you are to keep him with you, helping him as you would a man from another country who is living among you.
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Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Subject to the civil law
You are to have the same law for a man of another nation living among you as for an Israelite; for I am the Lord your God.
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Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Not to blaspheme God
And he who says evil against the name of the Lord will certainly be put to death; he will be stoned by all the people; the man who is not of your nation and one who is an Israelite by birth, whoever says evil against the holy Name is to be put to death.
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Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Not to practice idolatrous rites
Again, say to the children of Israel, If any man of the children of Israel, or any other man living in Israel, gives his offspring to Molech, he is certainly to be put to death: he is to be stoned by the people of the land;
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Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » To enjoy the benefit of the cities of refuge
For the children of Israel and for the man from another country who is living among them, these six towns are to be safe places, where anyone causing the death of another through error may go in flight.
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Vineyards » Laws respecting » The gleaning of, to be left for the poor
And do not take all the grapes from your vine-garden, or the fruit dropped on the earth; let the poor man, and the man from another country, have these: I am the Lord your God.
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When you are pulling the grapes from your vines, do not take up those which have been dropped; let them be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow.
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Vineyards » Laws respecting » The spontaneous fruit of, not to be gathered during the sabbatical year
That which comes to growth of itself may not be cut, and the grapes of your uncared-for vines may not be taken off; let it be a year of rest for the land.
Let this fiftieth year be the Jubilee: no seed may be planted, and that which comes to growth of itself may not be cut, and the grapes may not be taken from the uncared-for vines.
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Vineyards » Laws respecting » Not to be cultivated in the sabbatical year
But in the seventh year let the land have a rest and be unplanted; so that the poor may have food from it: and let the beasts of the field take the rest. Do the same with your vine-gardens and your olive-trees.
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But let the seventh year be a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord; do not put seed into your land or have your vines cut.
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Vineyards » Laws respecting » Strangers entering, allowed to eat fruit of, but not to take any away
When you go into your neighbour's vine-garden, you may take of his grapes at your pleasure, but you may not take them away in your vessel.
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Vineyards » Laws respecting » Planters of, not liable to military service till they had eaten of the fruit
Or if any man has made a vine-garden without taking the first-fruits of it, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another may not be the first to make use of the fruit.
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Vineyards » Laws respecting » Not to be planted with different kinds of seed
Do not have your vine-garden planted with two sorts of seed: or all of it may become a loss, the seed you have put in as well as the increase.
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Vineyards » Laws respecting » The fruit of new, to be eaten by the owners from the fifth year
But in the fifth year you may take the fruit and the increase of it for your food: I am the Lord your God.
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Vineyards » Laws respecting » The fruit of new, to be holy to the lord in the fourth year
And in the fourth year all the fruit will be holy as a praise-offering to the Lord.
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Vineyards » Laws respecting » The fruit of new, not to be eaten for three years
And when you have come into the land, and have put in all sorts of fruit-trees, their fruit will be as if they had not had circumcision, and for three years their fruit may not be used for food.
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Vineyards » Laws respecting » Compensation in kind to be made for injury done to
If a man makes a fire in a field or a vine-garden, and lets the fire do damage to another man's field, he is to give of the best produce of his field or his vine-garden to make up for it.
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Widow's » Laws respecting » To have a share of the triennial tithe
At the end of every three years take a tenth part of all your increase for that year, and put it in store inside your walls:
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When you have taken out a tenth from the tenth of all your produce in the third year, which is the year when this has to be done, give it to the Levite, and the man from a strange land, and the child without a father, and the widow, so that they may have food in your towns and be full; And say before the Lord your God, I have taken all the holy things out of my house and have given them to the Levite, and the man from a strange land, and him who has no father, and the widow, as you have given me orders: I have kept in mind all your orders, in nothing have I gone against them:
Widow's » Laws respecting » To share in public rejoicings
Then you are to be glad before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is with you, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you, in the place marked out by the Lord your God as a resting-place for his name.
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You are to keep the feast with joy, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you.
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Widow's » Laws respecting » Not to be oppressed
Cursed is he who gives a wrong decision in the cause of a man from a strange land, or of one without a father, or of a widow. And let all the people say, So be it.
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Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.
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Widow's » Laws respecting » When left childless, to be married by their husband's nearest of kin
If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do. Then the first male child she has will take the rights of the brother who is dead, so that his name may not come to an end in Israel.
Widow's » Laws respecting » Raiment of, not to be taken in pledge by creditors
Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt:
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Widow's » Laws respecting » To be allowed to glean in fields and vineyards
When you get in the grain from your field, if some of the grain has been dropped by chance in the field, do not go back and get it, but let it be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow: so that the blessing of the Lord your God may be on all the work of your hands.
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Widow's » Laws respecting » When daughters of priests and childless, to partake of the holy things
But if a priest's daughter is a widow, or parted from her husband, and has no child, and has come back to her father's house as when she was a girl, she may take of her father's bread; but no outside person may do so.
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Widow's » Laws respecting » Not to intermarry with priests
A widow, or one whose husband has put her away, or a common woman of loose behaviour, may not be the wife of a priest; but let him take a virgin from among his people.
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Widow's » Laws respecting » Bound to perform their vows
But an oath made by a widow or one who is no longer married to her husband, and every undertaking she has given, will have force.
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