22¹ Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them back unto thy brother. ² And if thy brother be not near unto thee, and thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thy house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it unto him. ³ And so shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his clothing; and so shalt thou do with everything that is lost of thy brother, which he loseth, and thou findest: thou mayest not hide thyself. ⁴ Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case [help] him to lift them up.

⁵ There shall not be a man's apparel on a woman, neither shall a man put on a woman's clothing; for whoever doeth so is an abomination to Jehovah thy God. ⁶ If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way, in any tree, or upon the ground, with young or with eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: ⁷ thou shalt in any case let the dam go, and thou mayest take the young to thee, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days. ⁸ When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a parapet for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any one should in any wise fall from it. ⁹ Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with [seed of] two sorts, lest the whole of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the produce of thy vineyard, be forfeited. ¹⁰ Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together. ¹¹ Thou shalt not wear a garment of mixed material, [woven] of wool and linen together. ¹² Tassels shalt thou make thee on the four corners of thy clothing, wherewith thou coverest thyself.

Laws concerning Chastity

¹³ If a man take a wife, and go in unto her and hate her, ¹⁴ and charge her with things for scandalous talk, and cause an evil name against her to be spread abroad, and say, This woman have I taken, and I came in unto her, and I did not find her a virgin; ¹⁵ then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate; ¹⁶ and the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man as wife, and he hates her; ¹⁷ and behold, he charges her with things for scandalous talk, saying, I found not thy daughter a virgin; and here are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. ¹⁸ And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him; ¹⁹ and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath caused an evil name to be spread abroad against a virgin in Israel. And she shall remain his wife: he may not put her away all his days. ²⁰ But if this thing is true, [and] virginity hath not been found with the damsel; ²¹ then they shall bring out the damsel unto the entrance of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought infamy in Israel, committing fornication in her father's house; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst. ²² If a man be found lying with a man's wife, they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; and thou shalt put away evil from Israel. ²³ If a damsel, a virgin, be betrothed to some one, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her, ²⁴ then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, [being] in the city, and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst. ²⁵ But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her, then the man only that lay with her shall die; ²⁶ and unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing: there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death; for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and murdereth him, so is this matter; ²⁷ for he found her in the field, the betrothed damsel cried, and there was no one to save her. ²⁸ If a man find a damsel, a virgin, who is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found, ²⁹ then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her; he may not put her away all his days. ³⁰ A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.

Those Excluded from the Congregation

23¹ He that is a eunuch, whether he have been crushed or cut, shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah. ² A bastard shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah; even his tenth generation shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah. ³ An Ammonite or Moabite shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah; even their tenth generation shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah for ever; ⁴ because they met you not with bread and with water on the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor, of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee. ⁵ But Jehovah thy God would not listen to Balaam; and Jehovah thy God turned the curse into blessing unto thee, because Jehovah thy God loved thee. ⁶ Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever. ⁷ Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother. Thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a sojourner in his land. ⁸ Children that are born to them shall come into the congregation of Jehovah in the third generation.

Laws of Sanitation

⁹ When thou goest forth into camp against thine enemies, then keep thee from every evil thing. ¹⁰ If there be with thee a man that is not clean from what hath happened in the night, then shall he go outside the camp; he shall not come inside the camp; ¹¹ and it shall be, towards evening, he shall bathe in water: and at the going down of the sun he may come inside the camp. ¹² Thou shalt have a place also outside the camp, and shalt go forth thither. ¹³ And thou shalt have a shovel amongst thy weapons, and it shall be, when thou sittest down abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which is come from thee. ¹⁴ For Jehovah thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; and thy camp shall be holy, that he see nothing unseemly with thee, and turn away from thee.

Laws of Human Relations

¹⁵ Thou shalt not hand over to his master a bondman that hath escaped from his master unto thee: ¹⁶ he shall dwell with thee, even in thy midst, in the place that he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it seemeth good to him; thou shalt not oppress him. ¹⁷ There shall be no prostitute amongst the daughters of Israel, nor any Sodomite amongst the sons of Israel. ¹⁸ Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, or the price of a dog, into the house of Jehovah thy God for any vow; for even both these are an abomination to Jehovah thy God. ¹⁹ Thou shalt take no interest of thy brother, interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of anything that can be lent upon interest: ²⁰ of a foreigner thou mayest take interest, but of thy brother thou shalt not take interest; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the business of thy hand in the land whither thou goest to possess it. ²¹ When thou vowest a vow to Jehovah thy God, thou shalt not delay to perform it; for Jehovah thy God will certainly require it of thee, and it shall be sin in thee. ²² But if thou forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee. ²³ What is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and do, as thou hast vowed to Jehovah thy God, the voluntary-offering that thou hast promised with thy mouth. ²⁴ When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, thou mayest eat grapes thy fill, according to thy desire, but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel. ²⁵ When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, thou mayest pluck ears with thy hand; but thou shalt not wave the sickle against thy neighbour's standing corn.

24¹ When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, it shall be if she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a letter of divorce, and give it into her hand, and send her out of his house. ² And she shall depart out of his house, and go away, and may become another man's wife. ³ And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a letter of divorce, and give it into her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die who took her as his wife; ⁴ her first husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for it is an abomination before Jehovah; and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

⁵ When a man hath newly taken a wife, he shall not go out with the army, neither shall any kind of business be imposed upon him; he shall be free for his house one year, and shall gladden his wife whom he hath taken. ⁶ No man shall take the hand-mill or the upper millstone in pledge; for it would be taking life in pledge. ⁷ If a man be found who hath stolen one of his brethren of the children of Israel, and who hath treated him as a slave and sold him, that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst. ⁸ Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou take great heed, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them shall ye take heed to do. ⁹ Remember what Jehovah thy God did unto Miriam on the way, after that ye came forth out of Egypt. ¹⁰ When thou dost lend thy brother anything, thou shalt not go into his house to secure his pledge. ¹¹ Thou shalt stand outside, and the man to whom thou hast made a loan shall bring out the pledge to thee without. ¹² And if the man be needy, thou shalt not lie down with his pledge; ¹³ in any case thou shalt return him the pledge at the going down of the sun, that he may sleep in his own upper garment and bless thee; and it shall be righteousness unto thee before Jehovah thy God.

¹⁴ Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant [who is] poor and needy of thy brethren, or of thy sojourners who are in thy land within thy gates: ¹⁵ on his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and his soul yearneth after it; lest he cry against thee to Jehovah, and it be a sin in thee. ¹⁶ The fathers shall not be put to death for the sons, neither shall the sons be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. ¹⁷ Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, [or] of the fatherless; and thou shalt not take in pledge a widow's garment. ¹⁸ And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and that Jehovah thy God redeemed thee from thence; therefore I command thee to do this thing. ¹⁹ When thou reapest thy harvest in thy field, and forgettest a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not return to fetch it; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hands. ²⁰ When thou shakest thine olive-tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. ²¹ When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterwards; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. ²² And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt; therefore I command thee to do this thing.

The Leaders Plot against Jesus

14¹ Now the passover and the [feast of] unleavened bread was after two days. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they might seize him by subtlety and kill him. ² For they said, Not in the feast, lest perhaps there be a tumult of the people.

Jesus Anointed at Bethany

³ And when he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he lay at table, there came a woman having an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly; and having broken the alabaster flask, she poured it out upon his head. ⁴ And there were some indignant in themselves, and saying, Why has this waste been made of the ointment? ⁵ for this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor. And they spoke very angrily at her. ⁶ But Jesus said, Let her alone; why do ye trouble her? she has wrought a good work as to me; ⁷ for ye have the poor always with you, and whenever ye would ye can do them good; but me ye have not always. ⁸ What she could she has done. She has beforehand anointed my body for the burial. ⁹ And verily I say unto you, Wheresoever these glad tidings may be preached in the whole world, what this [woman] has done shall be also spoken of for a memorial of her.

Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

¹⁰ And Judas Iscariote, one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests that he might deliver him up to them; ¹¹ and they, when they heard it, rejoiced, and promised him to give money. And he sought how he could opportunely deliver him up.

Jesus Eats the Passover with His Disciples

¹² And the first day of unleavened bread, when they slew the passover, his disciples say to him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare, that thou mayest eat the passover? ¹³ And he sends two of his disciples, and says to them, Go into the city, and a man shall meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him. ¹⁴ And wheresoever he enters, say to the master of the house, The Teacher says, Where is my guest-chamber where I may eat the passover with my disciples? ¹⁵ and he will shew you a large upper room furnished ready. There make ready for us. ¹⁶ And his disciples went away and came into the city, and found as he had said to them; and they made ready the passover. ¹⁷ And when evening was come, he comes with the twelve. ¹⁸ And as they lay at table and were eating, Jesus said, Verily I say to you, One of you shall deliver me up; he who is eating with me. ¹⁹ And they began to be grieved, and to say to him, one by one, Is it I? [and another, Is it I?] ²⁰ But he answered and said to them, One of the twelve, he who dips with me in the dish. ²¹ The Son of man goes indeed as it is written concerning him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is delivered up; [it were] good for that man if he had not been born. ²² And as they were eating, Jesus, having taken bread, when he had blessed, broke [it], and gave [it] to them, and said, Take [this]: this is my body. ²³ And having taken [the] cup, when he had given thanks, he gave [it] to them, and they all drank out of it. ²⁴ And he said to them, This is my blood, that of the [new] covenant, that shed for many. ²⁵ Verily I say to you, I will no more drink at all of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.

Peter's Denial Foretold

²⁶ And having sung a hymn, they went out to the mount of Olives.