if you should see among them<n id="1" /> an attractive woman whom you wish to take as a wife,

<p class="bodytext">A woman must not wear men&#8217;s clothing,<n id="1" /> nor should a man dress up in women&#8217;s clothing, for anyone who does this is offensive<n id="2" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> your God.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Suppose a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her,<n id="1" /> and then rejects<n id="2" /> her,

<p class="bodytext">If a man is caught having sexual relations with<n id="1" /> a married woman<n id="2" /> both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge<n id="3" /> evil from Israel.p>

The young woman&#8217;s father must say to the elders, &#8220;I gave my daughter to this man and he has rejected<n id="1" /> her.

<p class="bodytext"><v id="(23:1)" /><n id="1" /> A man may not marry<n id="2" /> his father&#8217;s former<n id="3" /> wife and in this way dishonor his father.<n id="4" />p>

your infants, your wives, and the<n id="1" /> foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water &#8211;

you must bring to your city gates<n id="1" /> that man or woman who has done this wicked thing &#8211; that very man or woman &#8211; and you must stone that person to death.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">When a man is newly married, he need not go into<n id="1" /> the army nor be obligated in any way; he must be free to stay at home for a full year and bring joy to<n id="2" /> the wife he has married.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man&#8217;s wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband&#8217;s brother must go to her, marry her,<n id="1" /> and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.<n id="2" />

At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them<n id="1" /> under divine judgment,<n id="2" /> including even the women and children; we left no survivors.

We put all of these under divine judgment<n id="1" /> just as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon &#8211; every occupied city,<n id="2" /> including women and children.

But your wives, children, and livestock (of which I know you have many) may remain in the cities I have given you.

You must not desire<n id="1" /> another man&#8217;s<n id="2" /> wife, nor should you crave his<n id="3" /> house, his field, his male and female servants, his ox, his donkey, or anything else he owns.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

Furthermore, he must not marry many<n id="1" /> wives lest his affections turn aside, and he must not accumulate much silver and gold.

Or who among you<n id="1" /> has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other,<n id="1" /> and they both<n id="2" /> bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.

<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" />

&#8216;Cursed is the one who has sexual relations with<n id="1" /> his father&#8217;s former wife,<n id="2" /> for he dishonors his father.&#8217;<n id="3" /> Then all the people will say, &#8216;Amen!&#8217;

You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape<n id="1" /> her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.