Or who among you has planted a vineyard and not benefited from it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else benefit from it.

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.”

This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.

As for the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing to survive.

so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship their gods, causing you to sin against the Lord your God.

If a homicide victim should be found lying in a field in the land the Lord your God is giving you, and no one knows who killed him,

If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail,

When you see your neighbor’s ox or sheep going astray, do not ignore it; you must return it without fail to your neighbor.

You shall do the same to his donkey, his clothes, or anything else your neighbor has lost and you have found; you must not refuse to get involved.

When you see your neighbor’s donkey or ox fallen along the road, do not ignore it; instead, you must be sure to help him get the animal on its feet again.

If you build a new house, you must construct a guard rail around your roof to avoid being culpable in the event someone should fall from it.

Moreover, he has raised accusations of impropriety by saying, ‘I discovered your daughter was not a virgin,’ but this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity!” The cloth must then be spread out before the city’s elders.

You must never bring the pay of a female prostitute or the wage of a male prostitute into the temple of the Lord your God in fulfillment of any vow, for both of these are abhorrent to the Lord your God.

When you make a vow to the Lord your God you must not delay in fulfilling it, for otherwise he will surely hold you accountable as a sinner.

When you go into the ripe grain fields of your neighbor you may pluck off the kernels with your hand, but you must not use a sickle on your neighbor’s ripe grain.

The judge may sentence him to forty blows, but no more. If he is struck with more than these, you might view your fellow Israelite with contempt.

Then the first son she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.

how they met you along the way and cut off all your stragglers in the rear of the march when you were exhausted and tired; they were unafraid of God.

‘Cursed is the one who refuses to keep the words of this law.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

But you must not turn away from all the commandments I am giving you today, to either the right or left, nor pursue other gods and worship them.