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

A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor should a man dress up in women’s clothing, for anyone who does this is offensive to the Lord your God.

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

If a man is caught having sexual relations with a married woman both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge evil from Israel.

The young woman’s father must say to the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man and he has rejected her.

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

your infants, your wives, and the foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water –

you must bring to your city gates that man or woman who has done this wicked thing – that very man or woman – and you must stone that person to death.

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.

If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man’s wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband’s brother must go to her, marry her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.

At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them under divine judgment, including even the women and children; we left no survivors.

We put all of these under divine judgment just as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon – every occupied city, including women and children.

But your wives, children, and livestock (of which I know you have many) may remain in the cities I have given you.

You must not desire another man’s wife, nor should you crave his house, his field, his male and female servants, his ox, his donkey, or anything else he owns.”

Furthermore, he must not marry many wives lest his affections turn aside, and he must not accumulate much silver and gold.

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 has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, and they both bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.

If two men get into a hand-to-hand fight, and the wife of one of them gets involved to help her husband against his attacker, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals,

‘Cursed is the one who has sexual relations with his father’s former wife, for he dishonors his father.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.