H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

You are to make ready a way, and see that the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, is marked out into three parts, to which any taker of life may go in flight.

וְהָיָ֕ה (הָיָ֕ה) ha.Yah “it will be”

So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be responsible.

וְהָיָ֥ה (הָיָ֥ה) ha.Yah “it will be”

But if any man has hate for his neighbour, and waiting for him secretly makes an attack on him and gives him a blow causing his death, and then goes in flight to one of these towns;

יִהְיֶ֥ה yih.Yeh “he will be”

Then the two men, between whom the argument has taken place, are to come before the Lord, before the priests and judges who are then in power;

יִהְי֖וּ yih.Yu “they will be”

And when you are on the point of attacking, let the priest come forward and say to the people,

וְהָיָ֕ה (הָיָ֕ה) ha.Yah “it will be”

Then, after saying these words to the people, let the overseers put captains over the army.

וְהָיָ֛ה (הָיָ֛ה) ha.Yah “it will be”

And if it gives you back an answer of peace, opening its doors to you, then all the people in it may be put to forced work as your servants.

וְהָיָה֙ (הָיָה֙) ha.Yah “it will be”וְהָיָ֞ה (הָיָ֞ה) ha.Yah “it will be”יִהְי֥וּ yih.Yu “they will become”

But the women and the children and the cattle and everything in the town and all its wealth, you may take for yourselves: the wealth of your haters, which the Lord your God has given you, will be your food.

יִהְיֶ֥ה yih.Yeh “it will be”

And whichever town is nearest to the body, the responsible men of that town are to take from the herd a young cow which has never been used for work or put under the yoke;

וְהָיָ֣ה (הָיָ֣ה) ha.Yah “it will be”

Then the priests, the sons of Levi, are to come near; for they have been marked out by the Lord your God to be his servants and to give blessings in the name of the Lord; and by their decision every argument and every blow is to be judged:

יִהְיֶ֖ה yih.Yeh “it will be”

And let her take off the dress in which she was made prisoner and go on living in your house and weeping for her father and mother for a full month: and after that you may go in to her and be her husband and she will be your wife.

וְהָיְתָ֥ה (הָיְתָ֥ה) ha.ye.Tah “she will become”

But if you have no delight in her, you are to let her go wherever she will; you may not take a price for her as if she was your property, for you have made use of her for your pleasure.

וְהָיָ֞ה (הָיָ֞ה) ha.Yah “it will be”

If a man has two wives, one greatly loved and the other hated, and the two of them have had children by him; and if the first son is the child of the hated wife:

תִהְיֶ֨יןָ tih.Yei.na “they will belong”וְהָיָ֛ה (הָיָ֛ה) ha.Yah “he will belong”

Then when he gives his property to his sons for their heritage, he is not to put the son of his loved one in the place of the first son, the son of the hated wife:

וְהָיָ֗ה (הָיָ֗ה) ha.Yah “it will be”יִהְיֶ֖ה yih.Yeh “it will belong”

If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment:

יִהְיֶ֣ה yih.Yeh “he will belong”

If a man does a crime for which the punishment is death, and he is put to death by hanging him on a tree;

יִהְיֶ֣ה yih.Yeh “it will be”

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.

וְהָיָ֣ה (הָיָ֣ה) ha.Yah “it will be”

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.

יִהְיֶ֤ה yih.Yeh “it will be”

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.

תִהְיֶ֣ה tih.Yeh “she will become”

But if what he has said is true, and she is seen to be not a virgin,

הָיָ֔ה ha.Yah “it was”

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;

יִהְיֶה֙ yih.Yeh “he will be”

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.

תִהְיֶ֣ה tih.Yeh “she will become”

But have no hate for an Edomite, because he is your brother, or for an Egyptian, for you were living in his land.

הָיִ֥יתָ ha.Yi.ta “you were”

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:

יִהְיֶ֤ה yih.Yeh “he will be”יִהְיֶ֥ה yih.Yeh “he will be”

But when evening comes near, let him take a bath: and after sundown he may come back to the tents.

וְהָיָ֥ה (הָיָ֥ה) ha.Yah “it will be”