22¹ If you see your brother's ox or his sheep wandering, do not go by without helping, but take them back to your brother. ² If their owner is not near, or if you are not certain who he is, then take the beast to your house and keep it till its owner comes in search of it, and then you are to give it back to him. ³ Do the same with his ass or his robe or anything which has gone from your brother's keeping and which you have come across: do not keep it to yourself. ⁴ If you see your brother's ox or his ass falling down on the road, do not go by without giving him help in lifting it up again.

⁵ It is not right for a woman to be dressed in man's clothing, or for a man to put on a woman's robe: whoever does such things is disgusting to the Lord your God. ⁶ If by chance you see a place which a bird has made for itself in a tree or on the earth, with young ones or eggs, and the mother bird seated on the young ones or on the eggs, do not take the mother bird with the young: ⁷ See that you let the mother bird go, but the young ones you may take; so it will be well for you and your life will be long. ⁸ If you are building a house, make a railing for the roof, so that the blood of any man falling from it will not come on your house. ⁹ Do not have your vine-garden planted with two sorts of seed: or all of it may become a loss, the seed you have put in as well as the increase. ¹⁰ Do not do your ploughing with an ox and an ass yoked together. ¹¹ Do not have clothing made of two sorts of thread, wool and linen together. ¹² On the four edges of your robe, with which your body is covered, put ornaments of twisted threads.

Laws concerning Chastity

¹³ If any man takes a wife, and having had connection with her, has no delight in her, ¹⁴ And says evil things about her and gives her a bad name, saying, I took this woman, and when I had connection with her it was clear to me that she was not a virgin: ¹⁵ Then let the girl's father and mother put before the responsible men of the town, in the public place, signs that the girl was a virgin: ¹⁶ And let the girl's father say to the responsible men, I gave my daughter to this man for his wife, but he has no love for her; ¹⁷ And now he has put shame on her, saying that she is not a virgin; but here is the sign that she is a virgin. Then they are to put her clothing before the responsible men of the town. ¹⁸ Then the responsible men of the town are to give the man his punishment; ¹⁹ They will take from him a hundred shekels of silver, which are to be given to the father of the girl, because he has given an evil name to a virgin of Israel: she will go on being his wife, he may never put her away all his life. ²⁰ But if what he has said is true, and she is seen to be not a virgin, ²¹ Then they are to make the girl come to the door of her father's house and she will be stoned to death by the men of the town, because she has done evil and put shame on Israel, by acting as a loose woman in her father's house: so you are to put away evil from among you. ²² If a man is taken in the act of going in to a married woman, the two of them, the man as well as the woman, are to be put to death: so you are to put away the evil from Israel. ²³ If a young virgin has given her word to be married to a man, and another man meeting her in the town, has connection with her; ²⁴ Then you are to take the two of them to the doorway of the town, and have them stoned to death; the young virgin, because she gave no cry for help, though it was in the town, and the man, because he has put shame on his neighbour's wife: so you are to put away evil from among you. ²⁵ But if the man, meeting such a virgin in the open country, takes her by force, then only the man is to be put to death; ²⁶ Nothing is to be done to the virgin, because there is no cause of death in her: it is the same as if a man made an attack on his neighbour and put him to death: ²⁷ For he came across her in the open country, and there was no one to come to the help of the virgin in answer to her cry. ²⁸ If a man sees a young virgin, who has not given her word to be married to anyone, and he takes her by force and has connection with her, and discovery is made of it; ²⁹ Then the man will have to give the virgin's father fifty shekels of silver and make her his wife, because he has put shame on her; he may never put her away all his life. ³⁰ A man may not take his father's wife or have sex relations with a woman who is his father's.

Those Excluded from the Congregation

23¹ No man whose private parts have been wounded or cut off may come into the meeting of the Lord's people. ² One whose father and mother are not married may not come into the meeting of the Lord's people, or any of his family to the tenth generation. ³ No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their people to the tenth generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's people: ⁴ Because they gave you no bread or water on your way, when you came out of Egypt: and they got Balaam, the son of Peor, from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to put curses on you. ⁵ But the Lord your God would not give ear to Balaam, but let the curse be changed into a blessing to you, because of his love for you. ⁶ Do nothing for their peace or well-being for ever. ⁷ But have no hate for an Edomite, because he is your brother, or for an Egyptian, for you were living in his land. ⁸ Their children in the third generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's people.

Laws of Sanitation

⁹ When you go out to war and put your tents in position, keep from every evil thing. ¹⁰ If any man among you becomes unclean through anything which has taken place in the night, he is to go out from the tent-circle and keep outside it: ¹¹ But when evening comes near, let him take a bath: and after sundown he may come back to the tents. ¹² Let there be a place outside the tent-circle to which you may go; ¹³ And have among your arms a spade; and when you have been to that place, let that which comes from you be covered up with earth: ¹⁴ For the Lord your God is walking among your tents, to keep you safe and to give up into your hands those who are fighting against you; then let your tents be holy, so that he may see no unclean thing among you, and be turned away from you.

Laws of Human Relations

¹⁵ Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you: ¹⁶ Let him go on living among you in whatever place is most pleasing to him: do not be hard on him. ¹⁷ No daughter of Israel is to let herself be used as a loose woman for a strange god, and no son of Israel is to give himself to a man. ¹⁸ Do not take into the house of the Lord your God, as an offering for an oath, the price of a loose woman or the money given to one used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: for these two things are disgusting to the Lord your God. ¹⁹ Do not take interest from an Israelite on anything, money or food or any other goods, which you let him have: ²⁰ From men of other nations you may take interest, but not from an Israelite: so that the blessing of the Lord your God may be on everything to which you put your hand, in the land which you are about to take as your heritage. ²¹ When you take an oath to the Lord, do not be slow to give effect to it: for without doubt the Lord your God will make you responsible, and will put it to your account as sin. ²² But if you take no oath, there will be no sin. ²³ Whatever your lips have said, see that you do it; for you gave your word freely to the Lord your God. ²⁴ When you go into your neighbour's vine-garden, you may take of his grapes at your pleasure, but you may not take them away in your vessel. ²⁵ When you go into your neighbour's field, you may take the heads of grain with your hand; but you may not put your blade to his grain.

24¹ If a man takes a wife, and after they are married she is unpleasing to him because of some bad quality in her, let him give her a statement in writing and send her away from his house. ² And when she has gone away from him, she may become another man's wife. ³ And if the second husband has no love for her and, giving her a statement in writing, sends her away; or if death comes to the second husband to whom she was married; ⁴ Her first husband, who had sent her away, may not take her back after she has been wife to another; for that is disgusting to the Lord: and you are not to be a cause of sin in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.

⁵ A newly married man will not have to go out with the army or undertake any business, but may be free for one year, living in his house for the comfort of his wife. ⁶ No one is to take, on account of a debt, the stones with which grain is crushed: for in doing so he takes a man's living. ⁷ If a man takes by force one of his countrymen, the children of Israel, using him as his property or getting a price for him, that thief is to be put to death: so you are to put away evil from among you. ⁸ In connection with the leper's disease, take care to keep and do every detail of the teaching of the priests, the Levites: as I gave them orders, so you are to do. ⁹ Keep in mind what the Lord your God did to Miriam on the way, when you came out of Egypt. ¹⁰ If you let your brother have the use of anything which is yours, do not go into his house and take anything of his as a sign of his debt; ¹¹ But keep outside till he comes out and gives it to you. ¹² If he is a poor man, do not keep his property all night; ¹³ But be certain to give it back to him when the sun goes down, so that he may have his clothing for sleeping in, and will give you his blessing: and this will be put to your account as righteousness before the Lord your God.

¹⁴ Do not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need, if he is one of your countrymen or a man from another nation living with you in your land. ¹⁵ Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you. ¹⁶ Fathers are not to be put to death for their children or children for their fathers: every man is to be put to death for the sin which he himself has done. ¹⁷ Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt: ¹⁸ But keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God made you free: for this is why I give you orders to do this. ¹⁹ When you get in the grain from your field, if some of the grain has been dropped by chance in the field, do not go back and get it, but let it be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow: so that the blessing of the Lord your God may be on all the work of your hands. ²⁰ When you are shaking the fruit from your olive-trees, do not go over the branches a second time: let some be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow. ²¹ When you are pulling the grapes from your vines, do not take up those which have been dropped; let them be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow. ²² Keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt: for this is why I give you orders to do this.

The Leaders Plot against Jesus

14¹ It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes made designs how they might take him by deceit and put him to death: ² But they said, Not while the feast is going on, for fear there may be trouble among the people.

Jesus Anointed at Bethany

³ And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, seated at table, there came a woman with a bottle of perfumed oil of great price; and when the bottle was broken she put the perfume on his head. ⁴ But some of them were angry among themselves, saying, For what purpose has this oil been wasted? ⁵ We might have got more than three hundred pence for it, and given the money to the poor. And they said things against her among themselves. ⁶ But Jesus said, Let her be; why are you troubling her? she has done a kind act to me. ⁷ The poor you have ever with you, and whenever you have the desire you may do them good: but me you have not for ever. ⁸ She has done what she was able: she has put oil on my body to make it ready for its last resting-place. ⁹ And truly I say to you, Wherever the good news goes out through all the earth, what this woman has done will be talked of in memory of her.

Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

¹⁰ And Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, so that he might give him up to them. ¹¹ And hearing what he said, they were glad, and gave him their word to make him a payment of money. And he took thought how he might best give him up to them.

Jesus Eats the Passover with His Disciples

¹² And on the first day of unleavened bread, when the Passover lamb is put to death, his disciples said to him, Where are we to go and make ready for you to take the Passover meal? ¹³ And he sent two of his disciples, and said to them, Go into the town, and there will come to you a man with a vessel of water: go after him; ¹⁴ And wherever he goes in, say to the owner of the house, The Master says, Where is my guest-room, where I may take the Passover with my disciples? ¹⁵ And he will take you up himself to a great room with a table and seats: there make ready for us. ¹⁶ And the disciples went out and came into the town, and saw that it was as he had said: and they made ready the Passover. ¹⁷ And when it was evening he came with the twelve. ¹⁸ And while they were seated taking food, Jesus said, Truly I say to you, One of you will be false to me, one who is taking food with me. ¹⁹ They were sad, and said to him one by one, Is it I? ²⁰ And he said to them, It is one of the twelve, one who is putting his bread with me into the same plate. ²¹ The Son of man goes, even as the Writings say of him: but cursed is that man through whom the Son of man is given up! It would have been well for that man if he had never been given birth. ²² And while they were taking food, he took bread, and after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to them, and said, Take it: this is my body. ²³ And he took a cup, and when he had given praise, he gave it to them: and they all had a drink from it. ²⁴ And he said to them, This is my blood of the testament, which is given for men. ²⁵ Truly I say to you, I will take no more of the fruit of the vine till the day when I take it new in the kingdom of God.

Peter's Denial Foretold

²⁶ And after a song of praise to God they went out to the Mountain of Olives.