18. If a man  have  a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chastize him, he will not listen to them;

19. Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;

20. And they shall tell the elders of his city, This is our son who is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a  glutton,  and a drunkard.

21. All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of  you; and  all Israel shall hear, and fear.

22. If a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and you hang him on a tree;

23. His body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God; that you don’t defile your land which יהוה your God gives you for an inheritance.

Chapter 22

1. You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring them again to your brother.

2. If your brother isn’t near to you, or if you don’t know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother seek after it, and you shall restore it to him.

3. So shall you do with his donkey; and so shall you do with his garment; and so shall you do with every lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost, and if you have found it: you may not hide yourself .

4. You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again.

5. A woman shall not wear men’s clothing, neither shall a man put on women’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to יהוה your God.

6. If a bird’s nest chance to be before you in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young:

7. You shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take to yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.

8. When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you don’t bring blood on your house, if any man fall from there.

9. You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.

10. You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

11. You shall not wear a mixed stuff, wool and linen together.

12. You shall make you fringes on the four borders of your cloak, with which you cover yourself.

13. If any man take a wife, and go in to her, and hate her,

14. And lay shameful things to her charge, and bring up an evil name  on  her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity;

15. Then shall the father of the young lady, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the young lady’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate;

16. And the young lady’s father shall tell the elders, I gave my daughter to this man as wife, and he hates her;

17. And behold, he has laid shameful things to her charge, saying, I didn’t find in your daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. They shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.

18. The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;

19. And they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

20. But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady;

21. Then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.

22. If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman: so shall you put away the evil from Israel.

23. If there be a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

24. Then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn’t cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

25. But if the man find the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man forces her, and lies with her; then the man only who lays with her shall die:

26. But to the lady you shall do nothing; there is in the lady no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and kills him, even so is this matter;

27. For he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was none to save her.

28. If a man finds a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lays hold on her, and lies with her, and they be found;

29. Then the man who lays with her shall give to the lady’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.

30. A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.

Chapter 23

1. He who is wounded in the testicles, or has his private member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of  יהוה.

2. A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of  יהוה ;  even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of  יהוה .

3. An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of  יהוה;   even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into the assembly of יהוה forever:

4. Because they didn’t meet you with bread and with water in the way, when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

5. Nevertheless יהוה your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam; but יהוה your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because יהוה your God loved you.

6. You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

7. You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother:  You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.

8. The children of the third generation who are born to them shall enter into the assembly of  יהוה .

9. When you go forth to camp against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every evil thing.

10. If there be any among you, who is not clean by reason of what happens to him in the night, then he shall go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:

11. But it shall be, when evening comes on, he shall bathe himself in water; and when the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.

12. You shall have a place also outside of the camp, where you shall go forth abroad:

13. And you shall have a paddle among your weapons; and it shall be, when you sit down abroad, you shall dig with it, and shall turn back and cover that which comes out from you:

14. For יהוה your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you; therefore shall your camp be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.

15. You shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped from his master to you:

16. He shall dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best: you shall not oppress him.

17. There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

18. You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a dog, into the house of יהוה your God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination to יהוה your God.

19. You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest:

20. To a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that יהוה your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.

21. When you shall vow a vow to יהוה your God, you shall not be slack to pay it: for  יהוה your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.

22. But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you.

23. That which is gone out of your lips you shall observe and do; according as you have vowed to יהוה your God, a freewill offering, which you have promised with your mouth.

24. When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat of grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your vessel.

25. When you come into your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor’s standing grain.

Chapter 24

1. When a man takes a  wife,  and marries her, then it shall be, if she  find  no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

2. When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.

3. If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;

4. Her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is  abomination  before  יהוה:  and you shall not cause the land to sin, which יהוה your God gives you for an inheritance.

5. When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

6. No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes a man’s life to pledge.

7. If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he  deal  with him as a  slave,  or sells him; then that thief shall die: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.

8. Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.

9. Remember what יהוה your God did to  Miriam , by the way as you came forth out of Egypt.

10. When you do lend your neighbor any manner of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.

11. You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge outside to you.

12. If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;

13. You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before יהוה your God.

14. You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates:

15. In his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to  יהוה ,  and it  be   sin  to you.

16. The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

17. You shall not wrest the justice due to the foreigner, or to the fatherless, nor take the widow’s clothing to pledge;

18. But you shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt, and יהוה your God redeemed you there: therefore I command you to do this thing.

19. When you reap your harvest in your  field,  and have  forgot  a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that יהוה your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

20. When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

21. When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it after you: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

22. You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.

Chapter 25

1. If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;

2. And it shall be, if the wicked man  be  worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to  be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.

3. Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, that he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you. 

4. You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

5. If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go  in to  her, and take her to him as  wife , and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

6. It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not  be  blotted out of Israel.

7. If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.

8. Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stands, and says, I don’t want to take her;

9. Then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his  face; and  she shall answer and say, So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.

10. His name shall be called in Israel, The house of him who has his shoe untied.

11. When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the privates;

12. Then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.

13. You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.

14. You shall not have in your house different measures, a great and a small.

15. A perfect and a just weight shall you have; a perfect and a just measure shall you have: that your days may be long in the land which יהוה your God gives you.

16. For all who do such things, even all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to יהוה your God.

17. Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth out of Egypt;

18. How he met you by the  way,  and struck the hindmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God.

19. Therefore it shall be, when יהוה your God has given you rest from all your enemies round about, in the land which יהוה your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky; you shall not forget.

Haftarah - Isaiah 54:1-54:10