Or who among you has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her.”

Suppose a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, and then rejects her,

The elders of that city must then seize the man and punish him.

I thought this was a good idea, so I sent twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.

You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger to die.

if you should see among them an attractive woman whom you wish to take as a wife,

(23:1) A man may not marry his father’s former wife and in this way dishonor his father.

Then the elders of his city must summon him and speak to him. If he persists, saying, “I don’t want to marry her,”

The priest will then take the basket from you and set it before the altar of the Lord your God.

‘Cursed is the one who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

Then we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh.

Even if your exiles are in the most distant land, from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back.

Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that hovers over its young, so the Lord spread out his wings and took him, he lifted him up on his pinions.

When a man is newly married, he need not go into the army nor be obligated in any way; he must be free to stay at home for a full year and bring joy to the wife he has married.

Then they took some of the produce of the land and carried it back down to us. They also brought a report to us, saying, “The land that the Lord our God is about to give us is good.”

So at that time we took the land of the two Amorite kings in the Transjordan from Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon

You, however, the Lord has selected and brought from Egypt, that iron-smelting furnace, to be his special people as you are today.

you shall take an awl and pierce a hole through his ear to the door. Then he will become your servant permanently (this applies to your female servant as well).

You must not pervert justice or show favor. Do not take a bribe, for bribes blind the eyes of the wise and distort the words of the righteous.