BRAGADAYJAH 578

BRAGADAYJAH 578

Mercy Towards the Poor

The Lord commanded that when you lend anything to one of your neighbor, you are not to go into his house to fetch it out; instead, wait outside until he brings it out to you.  And if he is poor, you must not sleep with his pledge if it is something he needs to keep him warm or to cover himself with or lie on; in any such case you must return it to him before the sun goes down that he may sleep with his own raiment and bless you and so the Lord would hold you righteous in His sight. Do not oppress the hired servant who is poor and needy, be it be one of your brethren, or a stranger who is dwelling in the land. Or within your gate.  At the appointed time you must pay him his wages before the sun goes down; for he is poor and sets his heart upon his wages, so that he does not cry unto the Lord and it be counted sin against you.

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BRAGADAYJAH 577

BRAGADAYJAH 577

Further Regulations about Forgiveness and Mercy

So now the Lord commanded, when a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out to War, neither shall be charged with any business, but he shall be free at home for one year to give cheer to his wife whom he has taken.  No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone to pledge, for he takes a man’s life to pledge.  If a man be found stealing any of the brethren of the children of Israel and makes merchandise of him or sells him, then that man shall be put to death, so that evil may be put away.  Take heed in the plague of leprosy, and observe diligently and do all the priests and Levites shall teach you to do; as they have been commanded to do, you also must do as they command you.

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BRAGADAYJAH 576

BRAGADAYJAH 576

The Mosaic Law of Divorce

When a man marries a wife, and he eventually stops loving her, because he has found some uncleanness in her, then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and put it in her hand and send her out of his house.  And when she is gone, she may go and be another man’s wife.  And if the latter husband also hates her, and writes her a bill of divorcement and gives it to her in her hand, and sends her out of his house, or if the second husband dies, her former husband may not take her again to be his wife after she has been defiled for that is abomination before the Lord and would bring sin into the land.

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BRAGADAYJAH 575

BRAGADAYJAH 575

Instructions Regarding Vows, and Necessity.

And when you make a vow unto the Lord your God, you must not be slack to keep it; for the Lord your God will require it of you, and it would be a sin not to perform it. But if you shall refuse to make the vow in the first place, that would be no sin in doing so. Whatever you have vowed with your mouth you must be careful to perform it, even if it is a freewill offering which you promise to the Lord your God, you must be careful to perform it.

When you come upon your neighbors vineyard, you may eat grapes to your full; but you must not gather and carry any away. And when you come upon the standing grain of your neighbor, then you may puck the ears with your hands; but you must not move a sickle into your neighbors standing grain.

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BRAGADAYJAH 574

BRAGADAYJAH 574

Uncleanness Forbidden

When the host goes forth against the enemy, keep yourself from every unclean thing. If there is among you any man that is not clean be reason of uncleanness that came upon him by night, then he shall go abroad out of the camp; he shall not come within the camp.  But when the evening approaches, he shall wash himself with water and when the evening is come, he shall enter into the camp.  Also thou shalt have a place outside the camp where you go abroad; and thou shalt have a shovel with you and when you ease yourself you shall cover it up. For the Lord your God walks in the midst of the camp to save you and to deliver up your enemies to your hands; therefore the camp shall be holy.  If you find a slave who has ran away from his master, do not deliver him up to him, but let him dwell with you in the place he finds refuge and you must not oppress him.. There shall be no harlots of the daughters of Israel and no sodomite among her sons. Thou shall not bring any of the hire of a harlot, or the price of a dog into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow; both are an abomination unto the Lord thy God.

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BRAGADAYJAH 573

BRAGADAYJAH 573

Regulations against Certain People

He who is wounded in the stones or who has his private member cut off shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord. A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord even unto his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord.  An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord even unto their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the Lord forever. Because they met you not with bread and water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor, of Mesopotamia to curse you, even though the Lord your God did not hearken unto Balaam, but tuned the curse into a blessing because the Lord your God loves you. Do not seek to make peace with them ever.  You must not abhor an Edomite, because he is your brother.  You must not abhor the Egyptian, because you were once a sojourner in his land.

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BRAGADAYJAH 572

BRAGADAYJAH 572

Punishment for Infidelity

If a girl who is a virgin is betrothed unto a husband and a man finds her in the city and lies with her, then both of them shall be stoned with stones so that they die. The damsel is punished because she did not cry out for help or otherwise resist, and the man because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife.  But if a man meets a damsel in the field and forces himself on her and lies with her, then the man alone shall be put to death; but unto the damsel shall nothing be done; for she has committed no sin worthy of death. Just as when a man rises up against his neighbor and slays him, so is the man he assaults a damsel in the field. But if a man finds in the field a damsel who has not been betrothed and lies with her, then he shall pay unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver and she shall be his wife because he has humbled her; he shall not put her away all the days of his life.

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