<t /><p class="bodytext">When the <sc>Lordsc> your God destroys the nations whose land he<n id="1" /> is about to give you and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and houses,

You shall build a roadway and divide into thirds the whole extent<n id="1" /> of your land that the <sc>Lordsc> your God is providing as your inheritance; anyone who kills another person should flee to the closest of these cities.

If the <sc>Lordsc> your God enlarges your borders as he promised your ancestors<n id="1" /> and gives you all the land he pledged to them,<n id="2" />

You must not shed innocent blood<n id="1" /> in your land that the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.<n id="2" />

Or who among you has planted a vineyard and not benefited from it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else benefit from it.

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;

This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">As for the cities of these peoples that<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing<n id="2" /> to survive.

<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,

Do not blame<n id="1" /> your people Israel whom you redeemed, O <sc>Lordsc>, and do not hold them accountable for the bloodshed of an innocent person.&#8221;<n id="2" /> Then atonement will be made for the bloodshed.

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>

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" />

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.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Be careful during an outbreak of leprosy to follow precisely<n id="1" /> all that the Levitical priests instruct you; as I have commanded them, so you should do.

Then<n id="1" /> the first son<n id="2" /> she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.

how they met you along the way and cut off all your stragglers in the rear of the march when you were exhausted and tired; they were unafraid of God.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">When<n id="1" /> you enter the land that the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you occupy it and live in it,

Then<n id="1" /> he will elevate you above all the nations he has made and you will receive praise, fame, and honor.<n id="2" /> You will<n id="3" /> be a people holy to the <sc>Lordsc> your God, as he has said.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: &#8220;Pay attention to all the commandments<n id="1" /> I am giving<n id="2" /> you today.

So when you cross the Jordan you must erect on Mount Ebal<n id="1" /> these stones about which I am commanding you today, and you must cover them with plaster.