5 When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be charged with any related duty. He shall be free at home one year, to be happy with the wife whom he has married.
6 No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in pledge.
7 If someone is caught kidnaping another Israelite, enslaving or selling the Israelite, then that kidnaper shall die. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
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Guard against an outbreak of a leprous 1 skin disease by being very careful; you shall carefully observe whatever the levitical priests instruct you, just as I have commanded them.
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Remember what the
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When you make your neighbor a loan of any kind, you shall not go into the house to take the pledge.
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You shall wait outside, while the person to whom you are making the loan brings the pledge out to you.
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If the person is poor, you shall not sleep in the garment given you as 2 the pledge.
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You shall give the pledge back by sunset, so that your neighbor may sleep in the cloak and bless you; and it will be to your credit before the
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You shall not withhold the wages of poor and needy laborers, whether other Israelites or aliens who reside in your land in one of your towns.
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You shall pay them their wages daily before sunset, because they are poor and their livelihood depends on them; otherwise they might cry to the
16 Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their parents; only for their own crimes may persons be put to death.
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You shall not deprive a resident alien or an orphan of justice; you shall not take a widow's garment in pledge.
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Remember that you were a slave in Egypt and the
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When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be left for the alien, the orphan, and the widow, so that the
1 Suppose two persons have a dispute and enter into litigation, and the judges decide between them, declaring one to be in the right and the other to be in the wrong. 2 If the one in the wrong deserves to be flogged, the judge shall make that person lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of lashes proportionate to the offense. 3 Forty lashes may be given but not more; if more lashes than these are given, your neighbor will be degraded in your sight.
4 You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.