<p class="bodytext">Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and overpowers and rapes<n id="1" /> her and they are discovered.

But if you seek the <sc>Lordsc> your God from there, you will find him, if, indeed, you seek him with all your heart and soul.<n id="1" />

There must never be found among you anyone who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire,<n id="1" /> anyone who practices divination,<n id="2" /> an omen reader,<n id="3" /> a soothsayer,<n id="4" /> a sorcerer,<n id="5" />

<p class="bodytext">But if the accusation is true and the young woman was not a virgin,

<p class="bodytext">If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets<n id="1" /> her in the city and has sexual relations with<n id="2" /> her,

for the man<n id="1" /> met her in the field and the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her.p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> found him<n id="2" /> in a desolate land,p> <p class="poetry">in an empty wasteland where animals howl.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">He continually guarded him<n id="4" /> and taught him;<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">he continually protected him<n id="6" /> like the pupil<n id="7" /> of his eye.p>

<p class="bodytext">If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something offensive<n id="1" /> in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.

At that time<n id="1" /> my anger will erupt against them<n id="2" /> and I will abandon them and hide my face from them until they are devoured. Many disasters and distresses will overcome<n id="3" /> them<n id="4" /> so that they<n id="5" /> will say at that time, &#8216;Have not these disasters<n id="6" /> overcome us<n id="7" /> because our<n id="8" /> God is not among us<n id="9" />?&#8217;

In your distress when all these things happen to you in the latter days,<n id="1" /> if you return to the <sc>Lordsc> your God and obey him<n id="2" />

If it accepts your terms<n id="1" /> and submits to you, all the people found in it will become your slaves.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">If a homicide victim<n id="1" /> should be found lying in a field in the land the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you,<n id="2" /> and no one knows who killed<n id="3" /> him,

You shall do the same to his donkey, his clothes, or anything else your neighbor<n id="1" /> has lost and you have found; you must not refuse to get involved.<n id="2" />

Moreover, he has raised accusations of impropriety by saying, &#8216;I discovered your daughter was not a virgin,&#8217; but this is the evidence of my daughter&#8217;s virginity!&#8221; The cloth must then be spread out<n id="1" /> before the city&#8217;s elders.

But if the man came across<n id="1" /> the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped<n id="2" /> her, then only the rapist<n id="3" /> must die.

<p class="bodytext">If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites,<n id="1" /> and regards him as mere property<n id="2" /> and sells him, that kidnapper<n id="3" /> must die. In this way you will purge<n id="4" /> evil from among you.p>

Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you &#8211; in one of your villages<n id="1" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you &#8211; who sins before the Lord your God<n id="2" /> and breaks his covenant

Suppose he goes with someone else<n id="1" /> to the forest to cut wood and when he raises the ax<n id="2" /> to cut the tree, the ax head flies loose<n id="3" /> from the handle and strikes<n id="4" /> his fellow worker<n id="5" /> so hard that he dies. The person responsible<n id="6" /> may then flee to one of these cities to save himself.<n id="7" />

Rather, he must acknowledge the son of the less loved<n id="1" /> wife as firstborn and give him the double portion<n id="2" /> of all he has, for that son is the beginning of his father&#8217;s procreative power<n id="3" /> &#8211; to him should go the right of the firstborn.p>

accusing her of impropriety<n id="1" /> and defaming her reputation<n id="2" /> by saying, &#8220;I married this woman but when I had sexual relations<n id="3" /> with her I discovered she was not a virgin!&#8221;