&#8216;Cursed<n id="1" /> is the one who disrespects<n id="2" /> his father and mother.&#8217; Then all the people will say, &#8216;Amen!&#8217;

his father and mother must seize him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city.

<p class="bodytext">If you happen to notice a bird&#8217;s nest along the road, whether in a tree or on the ground, and there are chicks or eggs with the mother bird sitting on them,<n id="1" /> you must not take the mother from the young.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail,<n id="1" />

You must be sure<n id="1" /> to let the mother go, but you may take the young for yourself. Do this so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life.p>

Then the father and mother of the young woman must produce the evidence of virginity<n id="1" /> for the elders of the city at the gate.

&#8216;Cursed is the one who has sexual relations with his sister, the daughter of either his father or mother.&#8217; Then all the people will say, &#8216;Amen!&#8217;

<p class="poetry">He said to his father and mother, &#8220;I have not seen him,&#8221;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and he did not acknowledge his own brothersp> <p class="poetry">or know his own children,p> <p class="poetry">for they kept your word,p> <p class="poetry">and guarded your covenant.p>

Honor<n id="1" /> your father and your mother just as the <sc>Lordsc> your God has commanded you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it may go well with you in the land that he<n id="2" /> is about to give you.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Suppose your own full brother,<n id="1" /> your son, your daughter, your beloved wife, or your closest friend should seduce you secretly and encourage you to go and serve other gods<n id="2" /> that neither you nor your ancestors<n id="3" /> have previously known,<n id="4" />

You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages<n id="1" /> and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the <sc>Lordsc> your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother&#8217;s milk.<n id="2" />p>

discard the clothing she was wearing when captured,<n id="1" /> and stay<n id="2" /> in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may have sexual relations<n id="3" /> with her and become her husband and she your wife.