Release for Debt Slaves 15:1 At the end of every seven years you must declare a cancellation of debts. 15:2 This is the nature of the cancellation: Every creditor must remit what he has loaned to another person; he must not force payment from his fellow Israelite, for it is to be recognized as “the LORD’s
The Passover-Unleavened Bread Festival 16:1 Observe the month Abib and keep the Passover to the LORD your God, for in that month he brought you out of Egypt by night. 16:2 You must sacrifice the Passover animal (from the flock or the herd) to the LORD your God in the place where he chooses to locate
17:1 You must not sacrifice to him a bull or sheep that has a blemish or any other defect, because that is considered offensive to the LORD your God. 17:2 Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you – in one of your villages that the LORD your God is giving you – who
Provision for Priests and Levites 18:1 The Levitical priests – indeed, the entire tribe of Levi – will have no allotment or inheritance with Israel; they may eat the burnt offerings of the LORD and of his inheritance. 18:2 They will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; the LORD alone is their
Laws Concerning Manslaughter 19:1 When the LORD your God destroys the nations whose land he is about to give you and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and houses, 19:2 you must set apart for yourselves three cities in the middle of your land that the LORD your God is giving you as a
Laws Concerning War with Distant Enemies 20:1 When you go to war against your enemies and see chariotry and troops who outnumber you, do not be afraid of them, for the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, is with you. 20:2 As you move forward for battle, the priest
Laws Concerning Unsolved Murder 21:1 If a homicide victim should be found lying in a field in the land the LORD your God is giving you, and no one knows who killed him, 21:2 your elders and judges must go out and measure how far it is to the cities in the vicinity of the corpse.
Laws Concerning Preservation of Life 22:1 When you see your neighbor’s ox or sheep going astray, do not ignore it; you must return it without fail to your neighbor. 22:2 If the owner does not live near you or you do not know who the owner is, then you must corral the animal at your house
Purity in Public Worship 23:1 A man with crushed or severed genitals may not enter the assembly of the LORD. 23:2 A person of illegitimate birth may not enter the assembly of the LORD; to the tenth generation no one related to him may do so. 23:3 An Ammonite or Moabite may not enter the assembly of
24:1 If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something offensive in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house. 24:2 When she has left him she may go and become someone else’s wife. 24:3 If