Good News Translation

1 “Prophets or interpreters of dreams may promise a miracle or a wonder,

2 in order to lead you to worship and serve gods that you have not worshiped before. Even if what they promise comes true,

3 do not pay any attention to them. TheLordyour God is using them to test you, to see if you love theLordwith all your heart.

4 Follow theLordand honor him; obey him and keep his commands; worship him and be faithful to him.

5 But put to death any interpreters of dreams or prophets that tell you to rebel against theLord, who rescued you from Egypt, where you were slaves. Such people are evil and are trying to lead you away from the life that theLordhas commanded you to live. They must be put to death, in order to rid yourselves of this evil.

6 “Even your brother or your son or your daughter or the wife you love or your closest friend may secretly encourage you to worship other gods, gods that you and your ancestors have never worshiped.

7 Some of them may encourage you to worship the gods of the people who live near you or the gods of those who live far away.

8 But do not let any of them persuade you; do not even listen to them. Show them no mercy or pity, and do not protect them.

9 Kill them! Be the first to stone them, and then let everyone else stone them too.

10 Stone them to death! They tried to lead you away from theLordyour God, who rescued you from Egypt, where you were slaves.

11 Then all the people of Israel will hear what happened; they will be afraid, and no one will ever again do such an evil thing.

12 “When you are living in the towns that theLordyour God gives you, you may hear

13 that some worthless people of your nation have misled the people of their town to worship gods that you have never worshiped before.

14 If you hear such a rumor, investigate it thoroughly; and if it is true that this evil thing did happen,

15 then kill all the people in that town and all their livestock too. Destroy that town completely.

16 Bring together all the possessions of the people who live there and pile them up in the town square. Then burn the town and everything in it as an offering to theLordyour God. It must be left in ruins forever and never again be rebuilt.

17 Do not keep for yourselves anything that was condemned to destruction, and then theLordwill turn from his fierce anger and show you mercy. He will be merciful to you and make you a numerous people, as he promised your ancestors,

18 if you obey all his commands that I have given you today, and do what he requires.

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A Forbidden Mourning Practice

1 “You are the people of theLordyour God. So when you mourn for the dead, don’t gash yourselves or shave the front of your head, as other people do.

2 You belong to theLordyour God; he has chosen you to be his own people from among all the peoples who live on earth.

Clean and Unclean Animals

3 “Do not eat anything that theLordhas declared unclean.

4 You may eat these animals: cattle, sheep, goats,

5 deer, wild sheep, wild goats, or antelopes—

6 any animals that have divided hoofs and that also chew the cud.

7 But no animals may be eaten unless they have divided hoofs and also chew the cud. You may not eat camels, rabbits, or rock badgers. They must be considered unclean; they chew the cud but do not have divided hoofs.

8 Do not eat pigs. They must be considered unclean; they have divided hoofs but do not chew the cud. Do not eat any of these animals or even touch their dead bodies.

9 “You may eat any kind of fish that has fins and scales,

10 but anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales may not be eaten; it must be considered unclean.

11 “You may eat any clean bird.

12-18 But these are the kinds of birds you are not to eat: eagles, owls, hawks, falcons; buzzards, vultures, crows; ostriches; seagulls, storks, herons, pelicans, cormorants;hoopoes; and bats.

19 “All winged insects are unclean; do not eat them.

20 You may eat any clean insect.

21 “Do not eat any animal that dies a natural death. You may let the foreigners who live among you eat it, or you may sell it to other foreigners. But you belong to theLordyour God; you are his people.

“Do not cook a young sheep or goat in its mother’s milk.

The Law of the Tithe

22 “Set aside a tithe—a tenth of all that your fields produce each year.

23 Then go to the one place where theLordyour God has chosen to be worshiped; and there in his presence eat the tithes of your grain, wine, and olive oil, and the first-born of your cattle and sheep. Do this so that you may learn to honor theLordyour God always.

24 If the place of worship is too far from your home for you to carry there the tithe of the produce that theLordhas blessed you with, then do this:

25 Sell your produce and take the money with you to the one place of worship.

26 Spend it on whatever you want—beef, lamb, wine, beer—and there, in the presence of theLordyour God, you and your families are to eat and enjoy yourselves.

27 “Do not neglect the Levites who live in your towns; they have no property of their own.

28 At the end of every third year bring the tithe of all your crops and store it in your towns.

29 This food is for the Levites, since they own no property, and for the foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your towns. They are to come and get all they need. Do this, and theLordyour God will bless you in everything you do.

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The Seventh Year

1 “At the end of every seventh year you are to cancel the debts of those who owe you money.

2 This is how it is to be done. Each of you who has lent money to any Israelite is to cancel the debt; you must not try to collect the money; theLordhimself has declared the debt canceled.

3 You may collect what a foreigner owes you, but you must not collect what any of your own people owe you.

4 “TheLordyour God will bless you in the land that he is giving you. Not one of your people will be poor

5 if you obey him and carefully observe everything that I command you today.

6 TheLordwill bless you, as he has promised. You will lend money to many nations, but you will not have to borrow from any; you will have control over many nations, but no nation will have control over you.

7 “If in any of the towns in the land that theLordyour God is giving you there are Israelites in need, then do not be selfish and refuse to help them.

8 Instead, be generous and lend them as much as they need.

9 Do not refuse to lend them something, just because the year when debts are canceled is near. Do not let such an evil thought enter your mind. If you refuse to make the loan, they will cry out to theLordagainst you, and you will be held guilty.

10 Give to them freely and unselfishly, and theLordwill bless you in everything you do.

11 There will always be some Israelites who are poor and in need, and so I command you to be generous to them.

The Treatment of Slaves

12 “If any Israelites, male or female, sell themselvesto you as slaves, you are to release them after they have served you for six years. When the seventh year comes, you must let them go free.

13 When you set them free, do not send them away empty-handed.

14 Give to them generously from what theLordhas blessed you with—sheep, grain, and wine.

15 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and theLordyour God set you free; that is why I am now giving you this command.

16 “But your slave may not want to leave; he may love you and your family and be content to stay.

17 Then take him to the door of your house and there pierce his ear; he will then be your slave for life. Treat your female slave in the same way.

18 Do not be resentful when you set slaves free; after all, they have served you for six years at half the cost of hired servants.Do this, and theLordyour God will bless you in all that you do.

The First-Born Cattle and Sheep

19 “Set aside for theLordyour God all the first-born males of your cattle and sheep; don’t use any of these cattle for work and don’t shear any of these sheep.

20 Each year you and your family are to eat them in theLord’s presence at the one place of worship.

21 But if there is anything wrong with the animals, if they are crippled or blind or have any other serious defect, you must not sacrifice them to theLordyour God.

22 You may eat such animals at home. All of you, whether ritually clean or unclean, may eat them, just as you eat deer or antelope.

23 But do not use their blood for food; instead, you must pour it out on the ground like water.

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The Passover

1 “Honor theLordyour God by celebrating Passover in the month of Abib; it was on a night in that month that he rescued you from Egypt.

2 Go to the one place of worship and slaughter there one of your sheep or cattle for the Passover meal to honor theLordyour God.

3 When you eat this meal, do not eat bread prepared with yeast. For seven days you are to eat bread prepared without yeast, as you did when you had to leave Egypt in such a hurry. Eat this bread—it will be called the bread of suffering—so that as long as you live you will remember the day you came out of Egypt, that place of suffering.

4 For seven days no one in your land is to have any yeast in the house; and the meat of the animal killed on the evening of the first day must be eaten that same night.

5-6 “Slaughter the Passover animals at the one place of worship—and nowhere else in the land that theLordyour God will give you. Do it at sunset, the time of day when you left Egypt.

7 Boil the meat and eat it at the one place of worship; and the next morning return home.

8 For the next six days you are to eat bread prepared without yeast, and on the seventh day assemble to worship theLordyour God, and do no work on that day.

The Harvest Festival

9 “Count seven weeks from the time that you begin to harvest the grain,

10 and then celebrate the Harvest Festival, to honor theLordyour God, by bringing him a freewill offering in proportion to the blessing he has given you.

11 Be joyful in theLord’s presence, together with your children, your servants, and the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your towns. Do this at the one place of worship.

12 Be sure that you obey these commands; do not forget that you were slaves in Egypt.

The Festival of Shelters

13 “After you have threshed all your grain and pressed all your grapes, celebrate the Festival of Shelters for seven days.

14 Enjoy it with your children, your servants, and the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your towns.

15 Honor theLordyour God by celebrating this festival for seven days at the one place of worship. Be joyful, because theLordhas blessed your harvest and your work.

16 “All the men of your nation are to come to worship theLordthree times a year at the one place of worship: at Passover, Harvest Festival, and the Festival of Shelters. Each man is to bring a gift

17 as he is able, in proportion to the blessings that theLordyour God has given him.

The Administration of Justice

18 “Appoint judges and other officials in every town that theLordyour God gives you. These men are to judge the people impartially.

19 They are not to be unjust or show partiality in their judgments; and they are not to accept bribes, for gifts blind the eyes even of wise and honest men, and cause them to give wrong decisions.

20 Always be fair and just, so that you will occupy the land that theLordyour God is giving you and so that you will continue to live there.

21 “When you make an altar for theLordyour God, do not put beside it a wooden symbol of the goddess Asherah.

22 And do not set up any stone pillar for idol worship; theLordhates them.

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1 “Do not sacrifice to theLordyour God cattle or sheep that have any defects; theLordhates this.

2 “Suppose you hear that in one of your towns some men or women have sinned against theLordand broken his covenant

3 by worshiping and serving other gods or the sun or the moon or the stars, contrary to theLord’s command.

4 If you hear such a report, then investigate it thoroughly. If it is true that this evil thing has happened in Israel,

5 then take them outside the town and stone them to death.

6 However, they may be put to death only if two or more witnesses testify against them; they are not to be put to death if there is only one witness.

7 The witnesses are to throw the first stones, and then the rest of the people are to stone them; in this way you will get rid of this evil.

8 “It may be that some cases will be too difficult for the local judges to decide, such as certain cases of property rights or of bodily injury or those cases that involve a distinction between murder and manslaughter. When this happens, go to the one place of worship chosen by theLordyour God,

9 and present your case to the levitical priests and to the judge who is in office at that time, and let them decide the case.

10 They will give their decision, and you are to do exactly as they tell you.

11 Accept their verdict and follow their instructions in every detail.

12 Anyone who dares to disobey either the judge or the priest on duty is to be put to death; in this way you will remove this evil from Israel.

13 Then everyone will hear of it and be afraid, and no one else will dare to act in such a way.

Instructions concerning a King

14 “After you have taken possession of the land that theLordyour God is going to give you and have settled there, then you will decide you need a king like all the nations around you.

15 Be sure that the man you choose to be king is the one whom theLordhas chosen. He must be one of your own people; do not make a foreigner your king.

16 The king is not to have a large number of horses for his army, and he is not to send people to Egypt to buy horses,because theLordhas said that his people are never to return there.

17 The king is not to have many wives, because this would make him turn away from theLord; and he is not to make himself rich with silver and gold.

18 When he becomes king, he is to have a copy of the book of God’s laws and teachings made from the original copy kept by the levitical priests.

19 He is to keep this book near him and read from it all his life, so that he will learn to honor theLordand to obey faithfully everything that is commanded in it.

20 This will keep him from thinking that he is better than other Israelites and from disobeying theLord’s commands in any way. Then he will reign for many years, and his descendants will rule Israel for many generations.

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The Share of the Priests

1 “The priestly tribe of Levi is not to receive any share of land in Israel; instead, they are to live on the offerings and other sacrifices given to theLord.

2 They are to own no land, as the other tribes do; their share is the privilege of being theLord’s priests, as theLordhas promised.

3 “Whenever cattle or sheep are sacrificed, the priests are to be given the shoulder, the jaw, and the stomach.

4 They are to receive the first share of the grain, wine, olive oil, and wool.

5 TheLordchose from all your tribes the tribe of Levi to serve him as priests forever.

6 “Any Levite who wants to may come from any town in Israel to the one place of worship

7 and may serve there as a priest of theLordhis God, like the other Levites who are serving there.

8 He is to receive the same amount of food as the other priests, and he may keep whatever his family sends him.

Warning against Pagan Practices

9 “When you come into the land that theLordyour God is giving you, don’t follow the disgusting practices of the nations that are there.

10 Don’t sacrifice your children in the fires on your altars; and don’t let your people practice divination or look for omens or use spells

11 or charms, and don’t let them consult the spirits of the dead.

12 TheLordyour God hates people who do these disgusting things, and that is why he is driving those nations out of the land as you advance.

13 Be completely faithful to theLord.”

The Promise to Send a Prophet

14 Then Moses said, “In the land you are about to occupy, people follow the advice of those who practice divination and look for omens, but theLordyour God does not allow you to do this.

15 Instead, he will send you a prophet like me from among your own people, and you are to obey him.

16 “On the day that you were gathered at Mount Sinai, you begged not to hear theLordspeak again or to see his fiery presence any more, because you were afraid you would die.

17 So theLordsaid to me, ‘They have made a wise request.

18 I will send them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will tell him what to say, and hewill tell the people everything I command.

19 He will speak in my name, and Iwill punish anyone who refuses to obey him.

20 But if any prophet dares to speak a message in my name when I did not command him to do so, he must die for it, and so must any prophet who speaks in the name of other gods.’

21 “You may wonder how you can tell when a prophet’s message does not come from theLord.

22 If a prophet speaks in the name of theLordand what he says does not come true, then it is not theLord’s message. That prophet has spoken on his own authority, and you are not to fear him.

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The Cities of Refuge

1 “After theLordyour God has destroyed the people whose land he is giving you and after you have taken their cities and houses and settled there,

2-3 divide the territory into three parts, each with a city that can be easily reached. Then any of you that kill will be able to escape to one of them for protection.

4 If you accidentally kill someone who is not your enemy, you may escape to any of these cities and be safe.

5 For example, if two of you go into the forest together to cut wood and if, as one of you is chopping down a tree, the ax head comes off the handle and kills the other, you can run to one of those three cities and be safe.

6 If there were only one city, the distance to it might be too great, and the relative who is responsible for taking revenge for the killing might catch you and angrily kill an innocent person. After all, it was by accident that you killed someone who was not your enemy.

7 This is why I order you to set aside three cities.

8 “When theLordyour God enlarges your territory, as he told your ancestors he would, and gives you all the land he has promised,

9 then you are to select three more cities. (He will give you this land if you do everything that I command you today and if you love theLordyour God and live according to his teachings.)

10 Do this, so that innocent people will not die and so that you will not be guilty of putting them to death in the land that theLordis giving you.

11 “But suppose you deliberately murder your enemy in cold blood and then escape to one of those cities for protection.

12 In that case, the leaders of your own town are to send for you and hand you over to the relative responsible for taking revenge for the murder, so that you may be put to death.

13 No mercy will be shown to you. Israel must rid itself of murderers, so that all will go well.

Ancient Property Lines

14 “Do not move your neighbor’s property line, established long ago in the land that theLordyour God is giving you.

Concerning Witnesses

15 “One witness is not enough to convict someone of a crime; at least two witnesses are necessary to prove that someone is guilty.

16 If any of you try to harm another by false accusations,

17 both of you are to go to the one place of worship and be judged by the priests and judges who are then in office.

18 The judges will investigate the case thoroughly; and if you have made a false accusation,

19 you are to receive the punishment the accused would have received. In this way your nation will get rid of this evil.

20 Then everyone else will hear what happened; they will be afraid, and no one will ever again do such an evil thing.

21 In such cases show no mercy; the punishment is to be a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, and a foot for a foot.

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Concerning War

1 “When you go out to fight against your enemies and you see chariots and horses and an army that outnumbers yours, do not be afraid of them. TheLordyour God, who rescued you from Egypt, will be with you.

2 Before you start fighting, a priest is to come forward and say to the army,

3 ‘Men of Israel, listen! Today you are going into battle. Do not be afraid of your enemies or lose courage or panic.

4 TheLordyour God is going with you, and he will give you victory.’

5 “Then the officers will address the men and say, ‘Is there any man here who has just built a house, but has not yet dedicated it? If so, he is to go home. Otherwise, if he is killed in battle, someone else will dedicate his house.

6 Is there any man here who has just planted a vineyard, but has not yet had the chance to harvest its grapes? If so, he is to go home. Otherwise, if he is killed in battle, someone else will enjoy the wine.

7 Is there anyone here who is engaged to be married? If so, he is to go home. Otherwise, if he is killed in battle, someone else will marry the woman he is engaged to.’

8 “The officers will also say to the men, ‘Is there any man here who has lost his nerve and is afraid? If so, he is to go home. Otherwise, he will destroy the morale of the others.’

9 When the officers have finished speaking to the army, leaders are to be chosen for each unit.

10 “When you go to attack a city, first give its people a chance to surrender.

11 If they open the gates and surrender, they are all to become your slaves and do forced labor for you.

12 But if the people of that city will not surrender, but choose to fight, surround it with your army.

13 Then, when theLordyour God lets you capture the city, kill every man in it.

14 You may, however, take for yourselves the women, the children, the livestock, and everything else in the city. You may use everything that belongs to your enemies. TheLordhas given it to you.

15 That is how you are to deal with those cities that are far away from the land you will settle in.

16 “But when you capture cities in the land that theLordyour God is giving you, kill everyone.

17 Completely destroy all the people: the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, as theLordordered you to do.

18 Kill them, so that they will not make you sin against theLordby teaching you to do all the disgusting things that they do in the worship of their gods.

19 “When you are trying to capture a city, do not cut down its fruit trees, even though the siege lasts a long time. Eat the fruit, but do not destroy the trees; the trees are not your enemies.

20 You may cut down the other trees and use them in the siege mounds until the city is captured.

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Concerning Unsolved Murders

1 “Suppose someone is found murdered in a field in the land that theLordyour God is going to give you, and you do not know who killed him.

2 Your leaders and judges are to go out and measure the distance from the place where the body was found to each of the nearby towns.

3 Then the leaders of the town nearest to where the body was found are to select a young cow that has never been used for work.

4 They are to take it down to a spot near a stream that never runs dry and where the ground has never been plowed or planted, and there they are to break its neck.

5 The levitical priests are to go there also, because they are to decide every legal case involving violence. TheLordyour God has chosen them to serve him and to pronounce blessings in his name.

6 Then all the leaders from the town nearest the place where the murdered person was found are to wash their hands over the cow

7 and say, ‘We did not murder this one, and we do not know who did it.

8 Lord, forgive your people Israel, whom you rescued from Egypt. Forgive us and do not hold us responsible for the murder of an innocent person.’

9 And so, by doing what theLordrequires, you will not be held responsible for the murder.

Concerning Women Prisoners of War

10 “When theLordyour God gives you victory in battle and you take prisoners,

11 you may see among them a beautiful woman that you like and want to marry.

12 Take her to your home, where she will shave her head,cut her fingernails,

13 and change her clothes. She is to stay in your home and mourn for her parents for a month; after that, you may marry her.

14 Later, if you no longer want her, you are to let her go free. Since you forced her to have intercourse with you, you cannot treat her as a slave and sell her.

Concerning the First Son’s Inheritance

15 “Suppose a man has two wives and they both bear him sons, but the first son is not the child of his favorite wife.

16 When the man decides how he is going to divide his property among his children, he is not to show partiality to the son of his favorite wife by giving him the share that belongs to the first-born son.

17 He is to give a double share of his possessions to his first son, even though he is not the son of his favorite wife. A man must acknowledge his first son and give him the share he is legally entitled to.

Concerning a Disobedient Son

18 “Suppose someone has a son who is stubborn and rebellious, a son who will not obey his parents, even though they punish him.

19 His parents are to take him before the leaders of the town where he lives and make him stand trial.

20 They are to say to them, ‘Our son is stubborn and rebellious and refuses to obey us; he wastes money and is a drunkard.’

21 Then the men of the city are to stone him to death, and so you will get rid of this evil. Everyone in Israel will hear what has happened and be afraid.

Various Laws

22 “If someone has been put to death for a crime and the body is hung on a post,

23 it is not to remain there overnight. It must be buried the same day, because a dead body hanging on a post brings God’s curse on the land. Bury the body, so that you will not defile the land that theLordyour God is giving you.

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1 “If you see an Israelite’s cow or sheep running loose, do not ignore it; take it back.

2 But if its owner lives a long way off or if you don’t know who owns it, then take it home with you. When its owner comes looking for it, give it to him.

3 Do the same thing if you find a donkey, a piece of clothing, or anything else that an Israelite may have lost.

4 “If an Israelite’s donkey or cow has fallen down, don’t ignore it; help him get the animal to its feet again.

5 “Women are not to wear men’s clothing, and men are not to wear women’s clothing; theLordyour God hates people who do such things.

6 “If you happen to find a bird’s nest in a tree or on the ground with the mother bird sitting either on the eggs or with her young, you are not to take the mother bird.

7 You may take the young birds, but you must let the mother bird go, so that you will live a long and prosperous life.

8 “When you build a new house, be sure to put a railing around the edge of the roof. Then you will not be responsible if someone falls off and is killed.

9 “Do not plant any crop in the same field with your grapevines; if you do, you are forbidden to use either the grapes or the produce of the other crop.

10 “Do not hitch an ox and a donkey together for plowing.

11 “Do not wear cloth made by weaving wool and linen together.

12 “Sew tassels on the four corners of your clothes.

Laws concerning Sexual Purity

13 “Suppose a man marries a young woman and later he decides he doesn’t want her.

14 So he makes up false charges against her, accusing her of not being a virgin when they got married.

15 “If this happens, the young woman’s parents are to take the blood-stained wedding sheet that proves she was a virgin, and they are to show it in court to the town leaders.

16 Her father will say to them, ‘I gave my daughter to this man in marriage, and now he doesn’t want her.

17 He has made false charges against her, saying that she was not a virgin when he married her. But here is the proof that my daughter was a virgin; look at the bloodstains on the wedding sheet!’

18 Then the town leaders are to take the husband and beat him.

19 They are also to fine him a hundred pieces of silver and give the money to the young woman’s father, because the man has brought disgrace on an Israelite woman. Moreover, she will continue to be his wife, and he can never divorce her as long as he lives.

20 “But if the charge is true and there is no proof that she was a virgin,

21 then they are to take her out to the entrance of her father’s house, where the men of her city are to stone her to death. She has done a shameful thing among our people by having intercourse before she was married, while she was still living in her father’s house. In this way you will get rid of this evil.

22 “If a man is caught having intercourse with another man’s wife, both of them are to be put to death. In this way you will get rid of this evil.

23 “Suppose a man is caught in a town having intercourse with a young woman who is engaged to someone else.

24 You are to take them outside the town and stone them to death. She is to die because she did not cry out for help, although she was in a town, where she could have been heard. And the man is to die because he had intercourse with someone who was engaged. In this way you will get rid of this evil.

25 “Suppose a man out in the countryside rapes a young woman who is engaged to someone else. Then only the man is to be put to death;

26 nothing is to be done to the woman, because she has not committed a sin worthy of death. This case is the same as when one man attacks another man and murders him.

27 The man raped the engaged woman in the countryside, and although she cried for help, there was no one to help her.

28 “Suppose a man is caught raping a young woman who is not engaged.

29 He is to pay her father the bride price of fifty pieces of silver, and she is to become his wife, because he forced her to have intercourse with him. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

30 “No man is to disgrace his father by having intercourse with any of his father’s wives.

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