speak unto the people.

And say unto them: Israel, hearken! Ye go this day to battle against your enemies. Let not your heart be troubled; fear not, nor be dismayed, nor be afraid of them; 4. For the LORD your God goeth with you, to fight for you with your enemies, to save you.

And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, Whosoever hath built a new house, and hath not yet dedicated it, let him go and dwell in his house, lest he die in battle, and another dedicate it.

Whosoever hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet made it common, let him go and tarry at home, lest he die in the war, and another make it common.

Whosoever hath trusted a wife unto him, and hath not yet brought her home, let him go and tarry at home, lest he die in battle, and another bring her home.

And the officers shall continue to speak unto the people, saying: Whosoever is afraid and fainthearted, let him go and tarry at home, lest he also make his brethren’s heart faint, as his heart is.

And when the officers have reasoned with the people, they shall set the captains before the people at the head.

When thou comest before a city to dispute with it, then thou shalt offer peace unto it.

If she answer thee peaceably, and open unto thee, then all the people that are found within shall be interestable unto thee, and subject unto thee.

But if she will not deal peaceably with thee, and will have war with thee, besiege her.

And when the LORD thy God giveth them into thine hand, then shalt thou smite all that is male therein with the edge of the sword;

Without the wives, and the children, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, and all the spoil, thou shalt divide among thyself: and thou shalt eat of the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy GOD hath given thee.

So shalt thou do unto all the cities that are very far from thee, and are not of the cities of these nations.

But in the cities of these nations, which the LORD thy God shall give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt not suffer any to live that hath breath,

But thou shalt utterly destroy them, even the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, as the LORD thy God commanded thee, 18. Lest they teach you all the abominations which they do unto their gods, and ye sin against the LORD your God.

If thou lie a long time before a city, against which thou contendest to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees, to cut them down with the axe: for thou mayest eat thereof; therefore thou shalt not cut them down. For it is wood in the field, and not man, that it may be a stronghold before thee.

And those trees, which thou knowest not to eat of, thou shalt destroy, and cut them down, and build them strong holds against the city that warreth with thee, until thou be mighty over it.
(Deuteronomy)
Chapter 21
Of unknown manslaughter, captive females, the right of the firstborn, disobedient sons, hanged men.

When a man is found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess, and he lieth in the field, and it is not known who slew him,

Then thy elders and thy judges shall go forth, and measure of the slain unto the cities that are
round about.

Whichever city is next, the elders thereof shall take a young heifer of the oxen, that one hath not wrought, nor pulled at the yoke,

And they shall bring her down to a gravelly ground, which is neither wrought nor sown, and there shall cut off her neck at the bottom.

Then shall the priests come, the children of Levi: for the LORD thy God hath chosen them to minister unto him, and to praise his name: and after their mouth shall all things be done, and all hurt.

And all the elders of that city shall come near unto the slain, and wash their hands over the young heifer, whose neck is cut off at the bottom,

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

Be merciful unto thy people Israel, whom thou, O LORD, hast redeemed: lay not innocent blood upon thy people Israel. So shall they be reconciled above the blood.

So shalt thou put away the innocent blood from thee, that thou mayest do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.

When thou goest forth to battle against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God delivereth them into thine hand, that thou mayest carry away their captives, 11. And when thou seest a fair woman among the captives, thou hast a desire for her, that thou mayest take her to wife,

Bring her into thine house, and shave off her hair, and trim her nails.

And put off her garments wherein she is bound, and let her sit in thine house, and weep for her father and for her mother one moon; and afterward sleep with her, and take her in marriage, and let her be thy wife.

But if thou delight not in her, then thou shalt let her go whithersoever she goeth, and shalt not sell her for money, nor put her away, because thou hast humbled her.

If a man have two wives, the one whom he loveth, and the other whom he hateth, and they bear him children, both the loving and the adversary: the firstborn shall be of the adversary, 16. And when the time cometh for him to divide the inheritance unto his children, he cannot make the son of the beloved the firstborn son for the firstborn son of the hostile, 17. But he shall know the son of the hostile for the firstborn, that he may give him double all that is present: for he is his firstborn, and the right of the firstborn is his.

If a man have a wayward and disobedient son, which will not obey his father’s voice, nor his mother’s voice; and if they chasten him, he will not obey them,

Then his father and his mother shall take him, and bring him unto the elders of the city, and unto the gate of that place.

And say unto the elders of the city, This our son is wayward, and disobedient, and will not obey our voice, and is a glutton and a drunkard.

Then shall all the people of that city stone him, that he die: and thou shalt put away the wicked from thee, that all Israel may hear and fear.

If a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and be put to death by being hanged on a tree,

Then his body shall not remain upon the wood overnight, but thou shalt bury him that day: for he that is hanged is accursed with God, lest thou pollute thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
(Deuteronomy)
Chapter 22
Many a law is recorded.

When thou seest thy brother’s oxen or sheep go astray, thou shalt not depart from them, but shalt bring them again unto thy brother.

And if thy brother be not nigh thee, and thou know him not, then thou shalt take them into thine house, and they shall be with thee, until thy brother seek them, and then thou shalt restore them unto him.

So shalt thou do with his ass, and with his garment, and with all that is lost, which thy brother hath lost, and thou findest it: thou canst not escape it.

If thou seest thy brother’s ass or his ox falling by the way, thou shalt not depart from him, but shalt help him up.

A woman shall not wear man’s apparel, neither shall a man put on woman’s apparel: for whosoever doeth these things is an abomination to the LORD thy God.

If thou find in the way a bird’s nest in a tree, or in the earth, with young, or with eggs, and the mother sit upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the mother with the young, 7. But let the mother fly, and take the young, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest live long.

When thou buildest a new house, make an awning for it upon thy roof, lest thou bring blood upon thine house, when any man falleth down.

Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds, lest thou sanctify the seed which thou hast sown beside the fruit of the vineyard.

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

Thou shalt not put on a garment of wool and linen mingled together.

Thou shalt make thee small lappets in the four parts of thy cloak, that thou mayest cover thyself.

If a man take a wife, and be sorry for her, when he hath put her to sleep, 14. And he layeth a vile thing upon her, and maketh an evil cry against her, saying, I have taken this woman, and when I went in unto her, I found her not a virgin: 15. Then the damsel’s father and her mother shall take her, and bring forth the damsel’s maidenhead before the elders of the city at the gate.

And the damsel’s father shall say unto the elders, I have given my daughter to this man to wife; now is he grieved against her.

And he layeth a shameful thing upon her, saying, I found not thy daughter a virgin: here is my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the garments before the elders of