Devarim
Book 5: Deuteronomy
KI SEITZEI
Chapter 21
Verse 10: If you should go to war
against your enemies,
and Ad-noy, your G-d, puts them
in your hand,
and you capture prisoners from them;
Verse 11: And you see among the prisoners
a beautifully formed woman;
if you desire her,
you may take her as your wife.
Verse 12: You will
bring her into your house
and she will shave her head
and allow her nails to grow.
Verse 13: She must discard
her prisoner's garb
from upon her,
and she will
remain in your home
and weep for her father and her mother
a month of days;
and afterwards you may come to her
and consummate with her,
and she will become your wife.
Verse 14: But it shall come to pass,
that if you do not desire her
you will send her free,
but to sell---
you may not sell her for money;
you may not exploit her
since you have
oppressed her.
Verse 15: If a man has two wives,
one loved and the other hated,
and they bear him sons,
the loved [one] and the hated [one],
and the firstborn son
will be the hated one's.
Verse 16: When the day comes
for him to will to his sons what he owns,
he may not prefer
the son of the loved one
over the son of the hated one---
the firstborn.
Verse 17: Rather, the firstborn son
of the hated one
is he to recognize to give him doublefold
of all that he possesses;
for he is the
first of his power,
he has the rights of primogeniture.
Verse 18: If a man has
a wayward and rebellious son
who does not obey his father
and his mother;
though they chasten him;
he does not listen to them.
Verse 19: His father
and mother are to grasp him
and take him out
to the judges of his city
and to the court in his location.
Verse 20: They will say to the judges of his city,
"This son of ours is wayward and rebellious---
he does not obey---
gluttonous and drunken."
Verse 21: And all the
men of his city will stone him
with stones so that he dies,
and you will eliminate
the evil within you;
and let all Yisroel
hear and be fearful.
Sheini (Second Aliyah)
Verse 22: If a man is guilty
of a capital offense
and is executed;
you shall hang him from a tree.
Verse 23: Do not leave his
corpse overnight
on the tree,
but you are surely to bury him
on that day,
for a hanging corpse is an affront to G-d;
so do not defile your land
that Ad-noy, your G-d,
is giving you as territory.
Chapter 22
Verse 1:
You may not observe your brother's ox
or his sheep lost and conceal yourself from them;
you must surely return them
to your brother.
Verse 2: But if your brother is not near you
or you do not know him,
gather it into your house
and let it stay with you
until your brother seeks it,
when you must
return it to him.
Verse 3: And so are you to do for his donkey,
and so are you to do for his garment,
and so are you to do for any lost object of your brother's
that is lost from him
which you find.
You may not conceal yourself.
Verse 4: Do not observe your brother's donkey
or his ox collapsing on the road
and ignore them.
You must surely lift it up
with him.
Verse 5: A man's attire
may not to be on a woman
nor may a man wear a woman's garment;
for the abomination of Ad-noy, your G-d,
are all who do these [things].
Verse 6: If you should chance upon
a bird's nest before you on the road
in any tree, or on the ground,
[with] fledglings or eggs,
and the mother is sitting on the fledglings
or on the eggs;
do not take the
mother
with her offspring.
Verse 7: You must surely send away the mother
and the offspring take for yourself,
so that you will benefit
and you will live long.
Sh'lishi (Third Aliyah)
Verse 8: When you build a new home,
you are to make a fence for your roof;
and do not place
blood [liability] in your house,
for someone who should fall
may fall from it.
Verse 9: Do not plant in your vineyard mixed species,
lest the expansion becomes obnoxious---
the seed that you
plant---
and the produce of the vineyard.
Verse 10: You may not plow with an ox
and with a donkey together.
Verse 11: Do not don a mixture of threads,
wool and flax together.
Verse 12: Make yourself pendant threads
upon four
corners of your garment
that you cover with.
Verse 13: If a man marries a woman,
and he has relations with her and hates her.
Verse 14: Then berates her with calumnies
and alleges defamation about her,
and he claims,
"I married this woman
and was intimate with her,
and did not find signs of her virginity."
Verse 15: The girl's father and mother will take
and will prove the girl's virginity
to the city judges in the court.
Verse 16: The girl's
father should assert to the judges,
"My daughter
did I marry to this man as a wife
and he hates her.
Verse 17: Look!
He has promulgated
libelous words, claiming
'I did not find
signs of your daughter's virginity.'
But this is [the proof of]
my daughter's virginity."
And let them spread the cloth
before the city judges.
Verse 18: The judges of that city will take the man
and will chastise him.
Verse 19: And they will fine him
one hundred silver [shekels]
and give [them] to the girl's father,
because he defamed
a virgin of Yisroel;
and she shall
remain his wife,
he may not divorce her
all his life.
Verse 20: However, if the allegation is true;
signs of the girl's virginity were not found.
Verse 21: They are to take the girl out
to the entrance of her father's home
and the people of her city will stone her
with stones to death,
because she committed a disgraceful act
against Yisroel
by behaving promiscuously [in] her father's house;
and you will eliminate the evil
within you.
Verse 22: If a man is
found having intercourse
with a woman who is the wife of a man,
even both of them shall die---
the man who had intercourse with the woman
and the woman---
and you will eliminate the evil from Yisroel.
Verse 23: If there will be a virgin girl
married to a man,
and a man encounters her in the city
and has intercourse with her,
Verse 24: You are to
take them both out
to the court of that city
and stone them with stones to death,
the girl for the fact
that she did not scream in the city
and the man for the fact
that he oppressed the wife of his peer;
and you will eliminate
the evil within you.
Verse 25: But if in the field the man encounters
the married girl,
and the man holds her
and had intercourse with her;
then he shall die---
only the man who had intercourse with her.
Verse 26: But to the girl you will not do a thing,
the girl has no death liability;
for, just as if a man rises up against his peer
and murders him, so is this matter.
Verse 27: For he encountered her in the field;
the married girl screamed,
but there was no one to rescue her.
Verse 28: If a man encounters a virgin girl
who was not married
and grabs her and has intercourse with her;
and they are discovered.
Verse 29: The man who had intercourse with her must give
to the girl's father
fifty silver [shekels];
and she shall be his wife,
since he oppressed her;
he may not divorce her all his life.
Chapter 23
Verse 1: A man may not marry
his father's wife,
and may not expose
the edge of his father's garment.
Verse 2: One may not
enter---
with injured or crushed genitals
or with a gash causing spilling---
into Ad-noy's community.
Verse 3: A base-born may not enter
into Ad-noy's community,
even his tenth generation may not enter
into Ad-noy's community.
Verse 4: Neither an Ammonite nor a Moavite may enter
into Ad-noy's community;
even their tenth generation
may not enter
into Ad-noy's community forever.
Verse 5: Because of the matter
that they did not greet you
with bread and water
on the way when you came out of Egypt;
and because he hired against you Bilam
son of Beor from Pesor
in Aram Naharayim to curse you.
Verse 6: Ad-noy, your G-d, was unwilling
to heed Bilam,
and Ad-noy, your G-d, turned
for you
the curse into a blessing,
because Ad-noy, your G-d, loved you.
Verse 7: Do not pursue their peace and their benefit
all your life forever.
Revi'i (Fourth Aliyah)
Verse 8: Do not despise
the Edomite,
for he is your brother;
do not despise the Egyptian,
for you were a stranger in his land.
Verse 9: Children who will be born to them,
in the third generation,
will enter into Ad-noy's community.
Verse 10: When you go
out
to encamp against your enemies
take precautions
from every evil thing.
Verse 11: If there is a man among you
who is not undefiled
[because of] a nocturnal incident;
he must go out of the camp,
he may not enter into the midst of the camp.
Verse 12: As sunset
nears
he is to immerse in water;
and after the sun has set
he may enter the the midst of the camp.
Verse 13: Have a designated place
outside the camp,
and you will go out there to excrete.
Verse 14: And a peg are you to have
in addition to your weapons;
when you need to sit to excrete
dig with it,
then use it again
to cover your excrement.
Verse 15: For Ad-noy, your G-d,
is moving within your camp
to save you and to defeat your enemies
before you,
so your camp must be holy;
let Him not see within you
disgraceful objects
lest He turn away from you.
Verse 16: Do not deliver
a slave to his master,
who escaped to you
from his master.
Verse 17: With you will he live among you,
in the place that he chooses
in any of your cities,
wherever it is good for him;
do not distress him.
Verse 18: There is not to be a harlot
from the daughters of Yisroel;
and there shall not be a male prostitute
from the sons
of Yisroel.
Verse 19: Do not bring a harlot's fee
or payment for a dog
to the house of Ad-noy, your G-d,
in fulfillment of any vow;
because Ad-noy, your G-d's abominations
are even both of them.
Verse 20: You may not
pay usury to your brother,
usury on money, usury on food;
usury on any matter
where it is paid.
Verse 21: You may pay usury to the stranger,
but to your brother do not pay usury;
in order that Ad-noy, your G-d, will bless you
in all your commerce
on the land
that you are coming there to inherit.
Verse 22: If you make
a vow
to Ad-noy, your G-d,
do not delay in discharging it;
for Ad-noy, your G-d, will surely demand it
from you,
and you will be at fault.
Verse 23: But if you desist from vowing,
no fault will be found with you.
Verse 24: Keep what you have articulated;
and perform whatever you vow;
to Ad-noy, your G-d,
voluntarily---
whatever you say with your mouth.
Chamishi (Fifth Aliyah)
Verse 25: When you enter your fellow's vineyard,
you may eat grapes as you desire,
to your satisfaction;
but
you may not place it in your container.
Verse 26: When you enter
your fellow's standing grainstalks,
you may cut off stalks by hand,
but do not lift a sickle
over your fellow's standing grainstalks.
Chapter 24
Verse 1: If a man marries a woman
and consummates with her;
should she not find favor in his eyes
because he found
in her something lecherous,
he is to write for her a document of severance
and place [it] in her hand
and send her from his home.
Verse 2: If she leaves
his home
and goes and becomes [wife] to another man,
Verse 3: If her last husband hates her
and writes for her a document of severance
and places [it] in her hand
and sends her from his house,
or if the latter man dies,
who had taken her as his wife;
Verse 4: Her first husband who divorced her may not
remarry her to be his wife
after her having been defiled,
for it is an abomination before Ad-noy;
and you are not to make liable the land
that Ad-noy, your G-d,
is giving you as territory.
Shishi (Sixth Aliyah)
Verse 5: When a man marries a
new wife,
he is not to be mobilized into the army,
it shall not impose itself over him
in any matter;
he shall be free for his home one year
and he shall bring
joy to the wife he married.
Verse 6: He may not secure as collateral
a mortar or pestle,
for his is taking life as security.
Verse 7: If a man is apprehended
having kidnaped a person from his brothers,
from the
descendants of Yisroel,
and he exploited him and sold him;
that kidnaper is to be put to death
and you will eliminate the evil within you.
Verse 8: Take precautions
with the leprosy affliction
to be extremely careful and to do---
in accordance with everything
that the kohanim the Levites shall instruct you;
as I commanded them
are you to make sure to do.
Verse 9: Remember what Ad-noy, your G-d, did
to Miriam
on the way
when you were going out of Egypt.
Verse 10: If you
become your fellow's creditor
for any amount of debt,
do not enter his house
to take his pledge.
Verse 11: Stand outside,
and the man
from whom you are claiming,
will bring out
the pledge to you outside.
Verse 12: And if he is a poor man,
do not repose
with his collateral [in your possession].
Verse 13: Return are you to return
the pledge to him at sunset,
and he will
sleep with his garment
and bless you;
and it will be to your credit
before Ad-noy, your G-d.
Shevi'i (Seventh Aliyah)
Verse 14: Do not steal from the wage earner
who is poor or destitute;
from your brothers or your converts
who are in your land in your cities.
Verse 15: On its day
give his wage
and let the sun not set upon it,
for he is a poor man,
and he places his life in jeopardy for it;
[so that] he should not complain about you
to Ad-noy,
and you will have a sin.
Verse 16: Fathers shall not be executed
through sons,
and sons shall not be executed
through fathers;
each to be executed for his sin.
Verse 17: Do not be devious
in the judgment of the proselyte or orphan;
and you may not
secure as collateral,
a widow's garment.
Verse 18: Remember
that you were a slave in Egypt,
and Ad-noy, your G-d, redeemed you
from there;
that is why I am commanding you
to do this thing.
Verse 19: When you reap your reaping in your field,
and you forget a
sheaf in the field,
you may not return to take it;
for the proselyte, for the orphan,
and for the widow let it be;
in order that Ad-noy, your G-d, will bless you
in all your endeavors.
Verse 20: When you harvest your olive tree,
you may not strip it of its glory behind you.
for
the proselyte, for the orphan,
and for the widow let it be.
Verse 21: When you harvest your vineyard
you may not harvest pygmy vines
behind you;
for the proselyte, for the orphan,
and for the widow let it be.
Verse 22: Remember
that you were a slave
in the land of Egypt;
that is why I am commanding you to do
this thing.
Chapter 25
Verse 1: If a quarrel should occur among men
and they bring it
to court and they judge them
and they determine who is righteous
and they convict the villain.
Verse 2: Should the wicked one deserve flogging,
the judge shall incline him
and have him
flogged before him
in the amount befitting his crime,
with the number near.
Verse 3: Forty is he to have him flogged,
he may not add;
lest he additionally flog him over these,
a great flogging,
when your brother will be slighted
before you.
Verse 4: You may not muzzle an ox
while it threshes.
Verse 5: If brothers reside
together,
and one of them dies having no son,
let the wife of the dead man not
marry outside [the family]
to a strange man;
her brother-in-law will consummate with her
thus marrying her to be his wife,
and perform levirate marriage with her.
Verse 6: It shall be
that the firstborn,
when she is capable of bearing children,
shall be established
in place of his deceased brother,
so that his name may not be obliterated
from Yisroel.
Verse 7: But if the man will not want to marry
his sister-in-law;
his sister-in-law must go up to the portal,
to the judges, and say,
"My brother-in-law refuses to establish
for his brother a name in Yisroel;
he is unwilling
to do perform levirate marriage with me."
Verse 8: The judges of his city will call him
and converse with him.
He shall stand and say,
"I do not want to marry her."
Verse 9: And his sister-in-law will approach him
in the sight of the judges,
and she will remove his shoe
from upon his foot,
and spit before him;
and she will say aloud,
"This is done to the man
who will not
build his brother's family."
Verse 10: And it will be entitled in Yisroel,
the house of
the divestiture of the shoe.
Verse 11: If men engage in an altercation,
a man and his brother,
and the wife of one approaches
to save her husband from his assailant,
and she puts out her hand
and grasps his genitals,
Verse 12: You shall
sever her hand;
you are not to have compassion.
Verse 13: You are not to have for yourself
in your pouch varying weight-stones,
large and small.
Verse 14: You shall not have
in your house
varying measures,
large and small.
Verse 15: A fully accurate, just weight,
you shall have,
you are to have whole and honest measures;
in order that you live long
on the land
that Ad-noy, your G-d,
is giving you.
Verse 16: Because Ad-noy, your G-d's abomination,
are all who do these [things];
all who do falsehood.
Maftir
Verse 17: Remember what Amalek perpetrated against you
on the way
when you were going out of Egypt.
Verse 18: When they chanced upon you en route
struck down your appendage---
all the feeble ones behind you---
and you were
exhausted and wearied,
and they had no fear of G-d.
Verse 19: When
Ad-noy, your G-d, has given you repose
from all your enemies around,
in the land that Ad-noy, your G-d,
is giving you as territory to inherit,
you shall obliterate the memory of Amalek
from beneath the sky;
do not forget.
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