17 verses
1Don't see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them. You must surely return them to your brother. 2If your brother isn't near to you, or if you don't know him, then bring it home to your house, and keep it with you until your brother comes looking for it, then restore it to him. 3Do this with his donkey. Do this with his garment. Do this with every lost thing of your brother's, which he has lost and you have found. You may not hide yourself. 4Don't hide yourself from your brother's donkey or his ox you see fallen down on the road. You must surely help him to lift them up again.
5A woman mustn't wear men's clothing, nor may a man put on women's clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
6If you come across a bird's nest on the road, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, don't take the hen with the young. 7You must surely let the hen go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.
8When you build a new house, make a railing around your roof, so that you don't bring blood [guilt] on your house if anyone falls from there.
9Don't sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, otherwise all the fruit will be defiled, the seed which you have sown, and the produce of the vineyard. 10Don't plow with an ox and a donkey together. 11Don't wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.
12Make yourselves fringes on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself.
13If any man gets a wife, and goes in to her, [but then] hates her, 14accuses her of shameful things, gives her a bad name, and says, "I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn't find her [to be a] virgin;" 15then the young lady's father and mother are to go and get [the evidence] of the young lady's virginity and bring [it] to the elders of the city in the gate. 16The young lady's father is to tell the elders, "I gave my daughter to this man as his wife, and he hates her. 17Look, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, 'I didn't find your daughter to be a virgin;' and yet this is the evidence of my daughter's virginity." They are to spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
21 verses
1The vision of Obadiah. This is what LordOfMine Yahweh says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, "Arise, and let's rise up against her in battle. 2Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised. 3The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, 'Who will bring me down to the ground?' 4Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there," says Yahweh. 5"If thieves came to you, if robbers by night - oh, what disaster awaits you - wouldn't they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn't they leave some gleaning grapes? 6How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out! 7All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him."
8"Won't I in that day," says Yahweh, "destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau? 9Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter. 10For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever. 11In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them. 12But don't look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don't rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don't speak proudly in the day of distress. 13Don't enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don't look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity. 14Don't stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don't deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress. 15For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head. 16For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been. 17But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions. 18The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau." Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.
19Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead. 20The captives of this army of the children of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev. 21Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be Yahweh's.
13 verses
1Jude, a servant of Jesus AnointedOne, and brother of James, to those who are called 'selflessly-loved', sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus AnointedOne: 2May mercy, peace and selfless-love be multiplied to you.
3Dear-ones, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. 4For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus AnointedOne.
5Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that ForeverOne, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn't believe. 6Angels who didn't keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day. 7Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire. 8Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings. 9But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, "May ForeverOne rebuke you!" 10But these speak evil of whatever things they don't know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like creatures without reason. 11Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah's rebellion. 12These are hidden rocky reefs in your selfless-love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 13wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
