Deuteronomy (The Speeches of Moses) - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 195

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16 18 20 21 22 22 21-15 DEUTERONOMY. 22-18 SPEECH VII. @mnzsii: Zaius. When a. man has two wives, and

loves the cme and dislikes the other, and they bear children to him, both the loved and the disliked, and the son ofthe disliked one is the eldest, when it comes to the time for his sons to inherit, he cannot make the sou of his darling the eldest in place of the sou ef the disliked, whois eldest, but he must acknowledge the sou of the disliked, who is the eldest, and give to him two parts of all he possesses, for he is the first fruits of his love. He is justly first-hom. When a man has a disobedient and-

rebellious son, who will not listen to the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, but disobeys them and will not listen to them, his father and mother shall take him and conduct him to the Magistrates of the town, and to the open court, and say tothe This son of ours is disobedient and rebellious, He will not listen to our voice., He is depraved and drunken. Then all the people of his town

shall stone him with stones. and kill, and thatlevil will be burnt out from

your breast,—and Israel will hear and fear. When a person has committed a

crime condemnable to death, you shall kill him and hang him upon a tree. You shall not however leave him upon the tree, but bury him the same day, for GOD abhors the hung, consequently you shall not deiile your- country that your El/ER—L1v1NG GOD has given you to possess. You shall not see the ox or sheep

of your neighbour straying, and hide it from him. You shall drive them back to your neighbour. But if you cannot find your neiglibouiain your vicinity, or do not know him, then you shall preserve them in your own premises; but if it occurs afterwards that your neighbour enquires for them from you, then return them to him. You shall also do the same with his ass, and the same to his clothing, and the same with everything lost thy your neighbour,——-—which- he has lost and you have found. You shall not use them secretly. You shall not see the ass orox of

your neighbour that has fallen on the road, and hide yourself from them. Going to the spot, you shall lift them up for him. A woman shall not wear a man's

dress; and a man shall not dress like a woman, for your Evsa—1.1vmo Gob abhors all who do thus. When you find a bird’s nest before

you in the path, or on any tree, or chicks upon the earth, or eggs, andthe mother sitting upon her chicks, or upon her eggs, you shall not take the mother with her young. You must drive off the mother, _but you may take her young for yourself ;-—so that it may be well with you and you may extend your days. When you build a new house, you

shall make a battlement on the circuit of the roof, so that you may not bring blood upon your house, if anyone falls from it. You- shall not doublegcrop your 9 farm; that would spoil the full de- velopment of the seed you sow, and the produce of the farm. You shall not plough with an ox and an ass yoked together. You shall not weave silk, wool, and flax together. You may make tassels upon the

four corners of the cushions thatyou sit upon. When a man takes a wife, and on

going to her hates her, and puts in- sulting reports upon her, and brings a bad name upon her, bysaying, “ I married this woman, and when I approached her I found she was not · then the father and mother of the girl shall take and bring the maiden, with the proofs of her maidenhood, tothe Magistrates of the village, and the father of the girl shall say to the Magistrates; ‘ I gave my daughter ‘ to this man as a wife, but he hates her; and now he sets up insulting reports, saying, ‘ I did not find yourdaughtera maid} but here is the proof of her chastity! Then they shall spread the garment before the Magistrates of the town, and the Magistrates of the town shall IO II I2 16 18