Instead, you must be sure to open your hand to him and generously lend<n id="1" /> him whatever he needs.<n id="2" />

Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the <sc>Lordsc> your God redeemed you; therefore, I am commanding you to do this thing today.

However, if the servant<n id="1" /> says to you, &#8220;I do not want to leave<n id="2" /> you,&#8221; because he loves you and your household, since he is well off with you,

you shall take an awl and pierce a hole through his ear to the door.<n id="1" /> Then he will become your servant permanently (this applies to your female servant as well).

<t /><p class="bodytext">Observe the month Abib<n id="1" /> and keep the Passover to the <sc>Lordsc> your God, for in that month<n id="2" /> he<n id="3" /> brought you out of Egypt by night.

<t /><p class="bodytext">You must appoint judges and civil servants<n id="1" /> for each tribe in all your villages<n id="2" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you, and they must judge the people fairly.<n id="3" />

You must pursue justice alone<n id="1" /> so that you may live and inherit the land the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you.p>

You will go to the Levitical priests and the judge in office in those days and seek a solution; they will render a verdict.

When he sits on his royal throne he must make a copy of this law<n id="1" /> on a scroll<n id="2" /> given to him by the Levitical priests.

Whoever does these things is abhorrent to the <sc>Lordsc> and because of these detestable things<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> your God is about to drive them out<n id="2" /> from before you.

I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I command.

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.

so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship<n id="1" /> their gods, causing you to sin against the <sc>Lordsc> your God.

and all the elders of that city nearest the corpse<n id="1" /> must wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.<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" />

When you see<n id="1" /> your neighbor&#8217;s donkey or ox fallen along the road, do not ignore it;<n id="2" /> instead, you must be sure<n id="3" /> to help him get the animal on its feet again.<n id="4" />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.

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.

You must have a spade among your other equipment and when you relieve yourself<n id="1" /> outside you must dig a hole with the spade<n id="2" /> and then turn and cover your excrement.<n id="3" />

<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.