<p class="bodytext">If you build a new house, you must construct a guard rail<n id="1" /> around your roof to avoid being culpable<n id="2" /> in the event someone should fall from it.p>

These curses<n id="1" /> will be a perpetual sign and wonder with reference to you and your descendants.<n id="2" />p>

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.

<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" />

a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, of olive trees and honey,

<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.

<p class="poetry">They are a nation devoid of wisdom,p> <p class="poetry">and there is no understanding among them.p>

you must select without fail<n id="1" /> a king whom the <sc>Lordsc> your God chooses. From among your fellow citizens<n id="2" /> you must appoint a king &#8211; you may not designate a foreigner who is not one of your fellow Israelites.<n id="3" />

The <sc>Lordsc> our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

You must not plow with an ox and a donkey harnessed together.

Then you must affirm before the <sc>Lord your Godsc>, &#8220;A wandering<n id="1" /> Aramean<n id="2" /> was my ancestor,<n id="3" /> and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner with a household few in number,<n id="4" /> but there he became a great, powerful, and numerous people.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;The Levites will call out to every Israelite<n id="1" /> with a loud voice:

You must not sacrifice to him<n id="1" /> a bull or sheep that has a blemish or any other defect, because that is considered offensive<n id="2" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> your God.

<t /><p class="poetry">Of Gad he said:p> <p class="poetry">Blessed be the one who enlarges Gad.p> <p class="poetry">Like a lioness he will dwell;p> <p class="poetry">he will tear at an arm &#8211; indeed, a scalp.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">At the end of every seven years you must declare a cancellation<n id="1" /> of debts.

There must never be found among you anyone who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire,<n id="1" /> anyone who practices divination,<n id="2" /> an omen reader,<n id="3" /> a soothsayer,<n id="4" /> a sorcerer,<n id="5" />

<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>

(The Emites<n id="1" /> used to live there, a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites.

From there they traveled to Gudgodah,<n id="1" /> and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah,<n id="2" /> a place of flowing streams.

<p class="bodytext">When you approach a city to wage war against it, offer it terms of peace.