If you set them free, you must not send them away empty-handed.

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>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then I sent messengers from the Kedemoth<n id="1" /> Desert to King Sihon of Heshbon with an offer of peace:

Furthermore, the <sc>Lordsc> your God will release hornets<n id="1" /> among them until the very last ones who hide from you<n id="2" /> perish.

The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger<n id="1" /> to die.

<t /><p class="bodytext">If your fellow Hebrew<n id="1" /> &#8211; whether male or female<n id="2" /> &#8211; is sold to you and serves you for six years, then in the seventh year you must let that servant<n id="3" /> go free.<n id="4" />

If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go<n id="1" /> where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell<n id="2" /> her;<n id="3" /> you must not take advantage of<n id="4" /> her, since you have already humiliated<n id="5" /> her.p>

<p class="bodytext">If two men<n id="1" /> get into a hand-to-hand fight, and the wife of one of them gets involved to help her husband against his attacker, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals,<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">They will be starved by famine,p> <p class="poetry">eaten by plague, and bitterly stung;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will send the teeth of wild animals against them,p> <p class="poetry">along with the poison of creatures that crawl in the dust.p>

He did<n id="1" /> all the signs and wonders the <sc>Lordsc> had sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, all his servants, and the whole land,

So all of you approached me and said, &#8220;Let&#8217;s send some men ahead of us to scout out the land and bring us back word as to how we should attack it and what the cities are like there.&#8221;

And when he<n id="1" /> sent you from Kadesh-Barnea and told you, &#8220;Go up and possess the land I have given you,&#8221; you rebelled against the <sc>Lordsc> your God<n id="2" /> and would neither believe nor obey him.

You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice<n id="1" /> the time of a hired worker; the <sc>Lordsc> your God will bless you in everything you do.p>

They will fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman&#8217;s father, for the man who made the accusation<n id="1" /> ruined the reputation<n id="2" /> of an Israelite virgin. She will then become his wife and he may never divorce her as long as he lives.p>

The man who has raped her must pay her father fifty shekels of silver and she must become his wife because he has violated her; he may never divorce her as long as he lives.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.

If the second husband rejects<n id="1" /> her and then divorces her,<n id="2" /> gives her the papers, and evicts her from his house, or if the second husband who married her dies,

her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry<n id="1" /> her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" /> You must not bring guilt on the land<n id="3" /> which the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you as an inheritance.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you<n id="1" /> in everything you undertake<n id="2" /> until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me.<n id="3" />

instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty<n id="1" /> you will serve your enemies whom the <sc>Lordsc> will send against you. They<n id="2" /> will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.