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.

These curses will be a perpetual sign and wonder with reference to you and your descendants.

When he sits on his royal throne he must make a copy of this law on a scroll given to him by the Levitical priests.

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

a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, of olive trees and honey,

If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something offensive in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.

They are a nation devoid of wisdom, and there is no understanding among them.

you must select without fail a king whom the Lord your God chooses. From among your fellow citizens you must appoint a king – you may not designate a foreigner who is not one of your fellow Israelites.

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

You must not plow with an ox and a donkey harnessed together.

Then you must affirm before the Lord your God, “A wandering Aramean was my ancestor, and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner with a household few in number, but there he became a great, powerful, and numerous people.

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

You must not sacrifice to him a bull or sheep that has a blemish or any other defect, because that is considered offensive to the Lord your God.

Of Gad he said: Blessed be the one who enlarges Gad. Like a lioness he will dwell; he will tear at an arm – indeed, a scalp.

At the end of every seven years you must declare a cancellation of debts.

There must never be found among you anyone who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, anyone who practices divination, an omen reader, a soothsayer, a sorcerer,

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.

(The Emites used to live there, a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites.

From there they traveled to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a place of flowing streams.

When you approach a city to wage war against it, offer it terms of peace.