for the Lord your God goes with you to fight on your behalf against your enemies to give you victory.”

If it does not accept terms of peace but makes war with you, then you are to lay siege to it.

The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

You must be blameless before the Lord your God.

However, if the servant says to you, “I do not want to leave you,” because he loves you and your household, since he is well off with you,

But if the man came across the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped her, then only the rapist must die.

but with whoever stands with us here today before the Lord our God as well as those not with us here today.

The Lord spoke face to face with you at the mountain, from the middle of the fire.

You have been rebelling against him from the very first day I knew you!

If you set them free, you must not send them away empty-handed.

‘Cursed is the one who has sexual relations with his mother-in-law.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

The Lord alone was guiding him, no foreign god was with him.

Be keenly aware that just as a parent disciplines his child, the Lord your God disciplines you.

As for the Levites in your villages, you must not ignore them, for they have no allotment or inheritance along with you.

If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets her in the city and has sexual relations with her,

Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and overpowers and rapes her and they are discovered.

You must not return an escaped slave to his master when he has run away to you.

Indeed, he may live among you in any place he chooses, in whichever of your villages he prefers; you must not oppress him.

‘Cursed is the one who commits bestiality.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the Lord your God is making with you today.