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

If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering.

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

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

You must not do like we are doing here today, with everyone doing what seems best to him,

Every one of you must give as you are able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given 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.

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

“The Levites will call out to every Israelite with a loud voice:

This is the blessing Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.

I furthermore admonished your judges at that time that they should pay attention to issues among your fellow citizens and judge fairly, whether between one citizen and another or a citizen and a resident foreigner.

“Not a single person of this evil generation will see the good land that I promised to give to your ancestors!

He will hand over their kings to you and you will erase their very names from memory. Nobody will be able to resist you until you destroy them.

However, suppose a person hates someone else and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, and then flees to one of these cities.

If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, and regards him as mere property and sells him, that kidnapper must die. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

Fathers must not be put to death for what their children do, nor children for what their fathers do; each must be put to death for his own sin.

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,

You are standing today, all of you, before the Lord your God – the heads of your tribes, your elders, your officials, every Israelite man,

The sword will make people childless outside, and terror will do so inside; they will destroy both the young man and the virgin, the infant and the gray-haired man.