If you afflict them in any way and they cry to me, I will surely hear their cry,

and the one who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may reenter the camp.

If a man inflicts an injury on his fellow citizen, just as he has done it must be done to him –

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth – just as he inflicts an injury on another person that same injury must be inflicted on him.

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and behaves unfaithfully toward him,

“‘If any person sins unintentionally, then he must bring a yearling female goat for a purification offering.

The one who burns it must wash his clothes in water and bathe himself in water. He will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

But if he should nullify them after he has heard them, then he will bear her iniquity.”

Now if you say to yourselves, ‘How can we tell that a message is not from the Lord?’ –

If a person commits a sin punishable by death and is executed, and you hang the corpse on a tree,

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

‘Cursed is the one who disrespects his father and mother.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

a nation of stern appearance that will have no regard for the elderly or pity for the young.

The Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Isn’t David hiding on the hill of Hakilah near Jeshimon?”

He gives his chosen king magnificent victories; he is faithful to his chosen ruler, to David and to his descendants forever!”

I, the servant of my lord the king, give it all to the king!” Araunah also told the king, “May the Lord your God show you favor!”

“Foreigners, who do not belong to your people Israel, will come from a distant land because of your reputation.

Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope?

Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?

Is not their excess wealth taken away from them? They die, yet without attaining wisdom.