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together. 12 Thou shalt make thee fringes vpon not betrothed, and take her, and lye with her, and
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the foure quarters of thy vesture, wherewith they be founde, Then the man that lay with her,
thou couerest thy selfe. 13 If a man take a wife, shall giue vnto the maydes father fiftie shekels of
and when he hath lyen with her, hate her, 14 And siluer: and she shalbe his wife, because he hath
laye slaunderous thinges vnto her charge, and humbled her: he can not put her away all his life.
bring vp an euill name vpon her, and say, I tooke 30 No man shall take his fathers wife, nor shall
this wife, and when I came to her, I found her not vncouer his fathers skirt.
a mayde, 15 Then shall the father of the mayde
and her mother take and bring the signes of the 23
maydes virginitie vnto the Elders of the citie to 1 None that is hurt by bursting, or that hath
the gate. 16 And the maydes father shall say vnto his priuie member cut off, shall enter into the
the Elders, I gaue my daughter vnto this man Congregation of the Lord. 2 A bastard shall not
to wife, and he hateth her: 17 And lo, he layeth enter into the Congregation of the Lord: euen to
slaunderous things vnto her charge, saying, I his tenth generation shall he not enter into the
founde not thy daughter a mayde: loe, these are Congregation of the Lord. The Ammonites and
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the tokens of my daughters virginitie: and they the Moabites shall not enter into the Congrega-
shall spreade the vesture before the Elders of the tion of the Lord: euen to their tenth generation
citie. 18 Then the Elders of the citie shall take that shall they not enter into the Congregation of the
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manandchastisehim, Andshallcondemnehim Lord for euer, Because they met you not with
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in an hundreth shekels of siluer, and giue them bread and water in the way, when yee came out
vnto the father of the mayde, because he hath of Egypt, and because they hyred against thee
brought vp an euill name vpon a mayde of Israel: Balaam the sonne of Beor, of Pethor in Aram-
and she shalbe his wife, and he may not put her naharaim, to curse thee. 5 Neuerthelesse, the
away all his life. 20 But if this thing be true, that Lord thy God would not hearkenvnto Balaam, but
the mayde be not found a virgine, 21 Then shall the Lord thy God turned the curse to a blessing
they bring forth the mayde to the doore of her vnto thee, because the Lord thy God loued thee.
fathers house, and the men of her citie shall stone 6 Thou shalt not seeke their peace nor their
her with stones to death: for shee hath wrought prosperitie all thy dayes for euer. 7 Thou shalt
follie in Israel, by playing ye whore in her fathers not abhorre an Edomite: for he is thy brother,
house: so thou shalt put euill away from among neither shalt thou abhorre an Egyptian, because
you. 22 If a man be found lying with a woman thouwastastragerinhisland. Thechildrenthat
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marryed to a man, then they shall dye euen both are begotten of them in their thirde generation,
twaine: towit, themanthatlaywiththewife, and shall enter into the Congregation of the Lord.
the wife: so thou shalt put away euil from Israel. 9 When thou goest out with the host against thine
23 If a maid be betrothed vnto an husband, and enemies, keepe thee then from all wickednesse.
a man finde her in the towne and lye with her, 10 If there be among you any that is vncleane by
24 Then shall yee bring them both out vnto the that which commeth to him by night, he shall
gates of the same citie, and shall stone them with goe out of the hoste, and shall not enter into
stones to death: the mayde because she cried not, the hoste, 11 But at euen he shall wash him selfe
being in the citie, and the man, because he hath with water, and when the sunne is downe, he
humbled his neighbours wife: so thou shalt put shall enter into the hoste. 12 Thou shalt haue a
away euill from among you. 25 But if a man finde place also without the hoste whither thou shalt
a betrothed mayde in the field, and force her, and resort, 13 And thou shalt haue a paddle among
lye with her, then the man that lay with her, shall thy weapons, and when thou wouldest sit downe
dye alone: 26 And vnto the mayd thou shalt do without, thou shalt shalt digge therewith, and
nothing, because there is in the mayde no cause returning thou shalt couer thine excrements.
of death: for as when a man riseth against his 14 For the Lord thy God walketh in the mids of thy
neighbour and woundeth him to death, so is this campe to deliuer thee, and to giue thee thine en-
matter. 27 For he found her in the fieldes: the emies before thee: therefore thine hoste shalbe
betrothed mayde cryed, and there was no man holy, that he see no filthie thing in thee and turne
to succour her. 28 If a man finde a mayde that is away from thee. 15 Thou shalt not deliuer the
seruant vnto his master, which is escaped from