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10When you go out to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands and you carry them away captive, 11and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you are attracted to her, and want to have [her as your] wife, 12then take her home to your house, and have her shave her head and trim her nails. 13She is to take off the clothing of her captivity, and remain in your house, and mourn her father and her mother for a full month. After that you may go in to her, and marry her, and she'll be your wife. 14If you have no delight in her, then you must let her go wherever she wants. Don't [even think about] selling her for money, don't deal with her as a slave, because you have humiliated her.
15If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other hated, and they have borne him children, [both the] loved [one and the] hated, and if the firstborn son [belongs to the] hated, 16then in the day that he causes his sons to inherit what he has, he may not give the son of the beloved the rights of the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is [in fact] the firstborn; 17but he is to acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.
18If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them, 19then his father and his mother are to take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place. 20They are to tell the elders of his city, "This [man,] our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard." 21All the men of his city are to stone him to death with stones. In this way you'll purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear [of it] and be afraid.
22If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, 23his body must not remain all night on the tree, but you must surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don't defile your land which Yahweh your God is giving you for an inheritance.
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4Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail, 5Saying, 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit; 6that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'" 7Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, "Surely I will never forget any of their works. 8Won't the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt. 9In that day," says LordOfMine Yahweh, "I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day. 10I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day. 11Behold, the days come," says LordOfMine Yahweh, "that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Yahweh. 12They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will run back and forth to seek the word of Yahweh, and will not find it. 13In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint for thirst. 14Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, 'As your god, Dan, lives;' and, 'As the way of Beersheba lives;' they will fall, and never rise up again."
1I saw LordOfMine standing beside the altar, and he said, "Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape. 2Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down. 3Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them. 4Though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good. 5For LordOfMine, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt. 6It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name. 7Are you not like the children of the Ethiopians to me, children of Israel?" says Yahweh. "Haven't I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir? 8Behold, the eyes of LordOfMine Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," says Yahweh. 9"For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth. 10All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, 'Evil won't overtake nor meet us.' 11In that day I will raise up the fallen tent of David, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old; 12that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations who are called by my name," says Yahweh who does this. 13"Behold, the days come," says Yahweh, "that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the one treading grapes him who sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the mountains, and flow from the hills. 14I will bring my people Israel back from captivity, and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them. They shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. 15I will plant them on their land, and they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them," says Yahweh your God.
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1The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I selflessly-love in truth; and not only me, but also all those who know the truth; 2for the truth's sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever: 3Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus AnointedOne, the Son of the Father, in truth and selfless-love.
4I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, just as we have received commandment from the Father [to do]. 5Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but what we had from the beginning, that we selflessly-love one another. 6This is selfless-love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don't confess that Jesus AnointedOne came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the against-anointed-one. 8Watch yourselves, that we don't lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward. 9Whoever transgresses and doesn't remain in the teaching of AnointedOne, doesn't have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. 10If anyone comes to you, and doesn't bring this teaching, don't receive him into your house, and don't welcome him, 11for he who welcomes him participates in his evil actions.
12Having many things to write to you, I don't want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full. 13The children of your chosen sister greet you. [*Absolutely].
1The elder, to dear Gaius whom I selflessly-love in truth.
2Dear-ones, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers. 3For I rejoiced greatly when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth. 4I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth.
5Dear-ones, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers. 6They have testified about your selfless-love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a way worthy of God, 7because for the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles. 8So we ought to receive such as these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.
9I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn't accept what we say. 10So if I come, I will call attention to his actions which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.
11Dear-ones, don't imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn't seen God. 12Demetrius has the testimony of all, and of the truth itself; yes, we also testify, and you know that our testimony is true.
13I had many things to write to you, but I am unwilling to write to you with ink and pen; 14but I hope to see you soon. Then we will speak face to face. Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends by name.
