Deuteronomy (The Speeches of Moses) - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 196
The Five Books of Moses
man, shall not enter a public meet- ing of the Eviziz-Lxvmc. The child of incest shall not enter 23~·xS 22-19 take that man, and punish him, and line him a hundred silvers, and give them to the father of the girl, because he had brought zz. bad name upon a virgin of Israel, but she shall be his wife, he shall not be able tc divorce her for his life. But if that report is true, the proofs
of the chastity of the girl not being found, then they shall take the girl to the outside of the house of her father and kill her, because she has acted disgracefully in Israel, by prostitution in the house of her father. And thus you shall burn that evil from amongst you. When a man is found fornicating
with a married woman,—~—they shall die, both of them. The man who committed adultery with the woman, and the woman. Thus you shall burn that evil from Israel. When a young maiden who is en-
gaged to a man, meets a man in a town, and he fornicates with her, bring both of them to the gate of the town, and stone them with stones, and kill the girl, because she did not cry out in the town; and the man because he has degraded the wife of his neighbour. Thus you shall burn that evil from your breast. But if the man meets the betrothed
girl in the fields, and the man foyer- powers her and ravishes her, then the man alone who has ravished her shall die ;‘ and you shall do nothing to the girl. T he girl has committed no sin for death, for as a man rises against his neighbour and murders him, so is this crime, for he met her in the field,-—and the betrothed girl cried out, but none heard her. When a man meets a young maiden,
who is not engaged, and takes her and seduccs her,-—-when he is dis- covered, that man who corrupted her shall give to the father of the girl
23 A man shall not marry the wife of meeting of the EVER-L1vmG’s for ten generations. An Ammonite and a Moabite shall
not enter a public meeting of the EvER—L1v1N<;’s; they shall never enter into a public meeting of the EvER—L1v1NG’s for ten generations, because they did not supply you with bread and water upon the march when you came from among the Mitzeraim, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from the centre of Aram of the riversi to curse you. But it did not please your EVER- LIVING GOD to listen to Balaam, so your EvuR—L1v1No Gon-turned the cursing into a blessing; for the EvER— L1v1NG, your Gob, loves you. You shall not seek their peace or benefit all your days for ever. You shall not exclude an Edomite,
for he is your brother. You shall not exclude a Mitzerite,,because you were a foreigner in his country. The children that they produce may be naturalized with the Eveiz-uvmo after three generations. When you go to war with your
enemy, keep yourselves from any vile practice. If there happens to be with you a man unclean from any accident at night, let him go outside the camp, and not come into the middle of the camp, and at the approach of evening let him bathe in water, and at the decline of the sun he may enter the heart of the camp. You shall therefore provide a trench near your camp, where you can make a cesspool. You shall also have a spade with
your weapons, so that when you turn yourselves to the cesspool and have evacuated, you can carefully coverup your excrement; for your EvER—L1V- ING Gob marches in company with your camp to protect it, and to defeat your enemies before you, therefore your camps must be clean, that He may not see anything unsightly about you, and turn away. You shall not deliver up a slave who
has taken refuge with you from his master to his master. Let him reside amongst you in the place he chooses, in one of your villages, to benefit himself. You shall not drive him out. You shall not make a prostitute of a daughter of Israel. 1 Mesepotamia.·~··F. F. 1o6 IO II I2 16 :8
