(14) You shall not abuse a needy and destitute laborer, whether a fellow Israelite or a stranger in one of the communities of your land. (15) You must pay out the wages due on the same day, before the sun sets, for the worker is needy and urgently depends on it; else a cry to יהוה will be issued against you and you will incur guilt. (16) Parents shall not be put to death for children, nor children be put to death for parents: they shall each be put to death only for their own crime.

(17) You shall not subvert the rights of the stranger or the fatherless; you shall not take a widow’s garment in pawn. (18) Remember that you were a slave in Egypt and that your God יהוה redeemed you from there; therefore do I enjoin you to observe this commandment. (19) When you reap the harvest in your field and overlook a sheaf in the field, do not turn back to get it; it shall go to the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow—in order that your God יהוה may bless you in all your undertakings.

(20) When you beat down the fruit of your olive trees, do not go over them again; that shall go to the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. (21) When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, do not pick it over again; that shall go to the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. (22) Always remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore do I enjoin you to observe this commandment.

(1) When there is a dispute between two parties and they go to law, and a decision is rendered declaring the one in the right and the other in the wrong— (2) if the guilty one is to be flogged, the magistrate shall have the person lie down and shall supervise the giving of lashes, by count, as warranted by the offense. (3) The guilty one may be given up to forty lashes, but not more, lest being flogged further, to excess, your peer be degraded before your eyes. (4) You shall not muzzle an ox while it is threshing.

(5) When brothers dwell together and one of them dies and leaves no offspring, the wife of the deceased shall not become that of another party, outside the family. Her husband’s brother shall unite with her: he shall take her as his wife and perform the levir’s duty. (6) The first child that she bears shall be accounted to the dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out in Israel. (7) But if that party does not want to take his brother’s widow [to wife], his brother’s widow shall appear before the elders in the gate and declare, “My husband’s brother refuses to establish a name in Israel for his brother; he will not perform the duty of a levir.” (8) The elders of his town shall then summon him and talk to him. If he insists, saying, “I do not want to take her,” (9) his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, pull the sandal off his foot, spit in his face, and make this declaration: Thus shall be done to the man who will not build up his brother’s house! (10) And he shall go in Israel by the name of “the family of the unsandaled one.”

(11) If two parties are fighting—one man with another—and the wife of one comes up to save her husband from his antagonist and puts out her hand and seizes him by his genitals, (12) you shall cut off her hand; show no pity. (13) You shall not have in your pouch alternate weights, larger and smaller. (14) You shall not have in your house alternate measures, a larger and a smaller. (15) You must have completely honest weights and completely honest measures, if you are to endure long on the soil that your God יהוה is giving you. (16) For everyone who does those things, everyone who deals dishonestly, is abhorrent to your God יהוה.

(17) Remember what Amalek did to you on your journey, after you left Egypt— (18) how, undeterred by fear of God, he surprised you on the march, when you were famished and weary, and cut down all the stragglers in your rear. (19) Therefore, when your God יהוה grants you safety from all your enemies around you, in the land that your God יהוה is giving you as a hereditary portion, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!

(17) Remember what Amalek did to you on your journey, after you left Egypt— (18) how, undeterred by fear of God, he surprised you on the march, when you were famished and weary, and cut down all the stragglers in your rear. (19) Therefore, when your God יהוה grants you safety from all your enemies around you, in the land that your God יהוה is giving you as a hereditary portion, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!

(1)Shout, O infertile one,You who bore no child!Shout aloud for joy,You who did not travail!For the children of the wife forlornShall outnumber those of the espoused—said GOD. (2)Enlarge the site of your tent,Extend the size of your dwelling,Do not stint!Lengthen the ropes, and drive the pegs firm.(3)For you shall spread out to the right and the left;Your offspring shall dispossess nationsAnd shall people the desolate towns.(4)Fear not, you shall not be shamed;Do not cringe, you shall not be disgraced.For you shall forgetThe reproach of your youth,And remember no moreThe shame of your widowhood.(5)For the One who made you—whose name is “ GOD of Hosts”— Will espouse you.The Holy One of Israel—who is called “God of all the Earth”—Will redeem you.(6) GOD has called you back As a wife forlorn and forsaken.Can one cast off the wife of his youth?—said your God.(7)For a little while I forsook you,But with vast love I will bring you back.(8)In slight anger, for a moment,I hid My face from you;But with kindness everlastingI will take you back in love—said GOD your Redeemer. (9)For this to Me is like the waters of Noah: As I swore that the waters of NoahNevermore would flood the earth,So I swear that I will notBe angry with you or rebuke you.(10)For the mountains may moveAnd the hills be shaken,But my loyalty shall never move from you,Nor My covenant of friendship be shaken—said GOD, who takes you back in love.

(12)Listen to Me, O Jacob,Israel, whom I have called:I am the One—I am the first,And I am the last as well.(13)My own hand founded the earth,My right hand spread out the skies.I call unto them, let them stand up.(14)Assemble, all of you, and listen!Who among you foretold these things: “He whom GOD loves Shall work the divine will against Babylon,And, with divine might, against Chaldea”?(15)I, I predicted, and I called him;I have brought him and he shall succeed in his mission.(16)Draw near to Me and hear this:From the beginning, I did not speak in secret;From the time anything existed, I was there.“And now the Sovereign GOD has sent me, endowed with divine spirit.” (17)Thus said GOD your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel:I the ETERNAL One am your God, Instructing you for your own benefit.Guiding you in the way you should go.(18)If only you would heed My commands!Then your prosperity would be like a river,Your triumph like the waves of the sea.(19)Your offspring would be as many as the sand,Their issue as many as its grains.Their name would never be cut offOr obliterated from before Me.(20)Go forth from Babylon,Flee from Chaldea!Declare this with loud shouting,Announce this,Bring out the word to the ends of the earth!Say: “ GOD has redeemed Jacob—God’s servant!”(21)They have known no thirst,Though they were led through parched places;[God] made water flow for them from the rock,Cleaving the rock so that water gushed forth.