for the man met her in the field and the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her.

Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and overpowers and rapes her and they are discovered.

When you go out as an army against your enemies, guard yourselves against anything impure.

When you enter the vineyard of your neighbor you may eat as many grapes as you please, but you must not take away any in a container.

When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you may not go into his house to claim what he is offering as security.

When you beat your olive tree you must not repeat the procedure; the remaining olives belong to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.

When you gather the grapes of your vineyard you must not do so a second time; they should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.

For anyone who acts dishonestly in these ways is abhorrent to the Lord your God.

All these blessings will come to you in abundance if you obey the Lord your God:

Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you belong to the Lord, and they will respect you.

“You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.

You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them.

You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with olive oil, because the olives will drop off the trees while still unripe.

You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity.

For their vine is from the stock of Sodom, and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes contain venom, their clusters of grapes are bitter.

For I raise up my hand to heaven, and say, ‘As surely as I live forever,

Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window. (Her house was built as part of the city wall; she lived in the wall.)

Joshua told the people, “Ritually consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will perform miraculous deeds among you.”

Whenever the Israelites were strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them.

They were assigned to the Kohathite clans of the Levites who were descendants of Aaron, for the first lot belonged to them.