H9002–/וְ–v

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.

וְהַטַּ֨ף (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַבְּהֵמָ֜ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְכֹל֩ (וְ) ve. “and”

Give them up to the curse; the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has given you orders:

וְהָאֱמֹרִי֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַפְּרִזִּ֔י (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַיְבוּסִ֑י (וְ) ve. “and”

If in war a town is shut in by your armies for a long time, do not let its trees be cut down and made waste; for their fruit will be your food; are the trees of the countryside men for you to take up arms against them?

וְאֹת֖וֹ (וְ) ve. “and”

Then your responsible men and your judges are to come out, and give orders for the distance from the dead body to the towns round about it to be measured;

וְשֹׁפְטֶ֑יךָ (וְ) ve. “and”

And they are to take the cow into a valley where there is flowing water, and which is not ploughed or planted, and there the neck of the cow is to be broken:

וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”

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:

וּלְבָרֵ֖ךְ (וּ) u. “and”וְעַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And all the responsible men of that town which is nearest to the dead man, washing their hands over the cow whose neck was broken in the valley,

וְכֹ֗ל (וְ) ve. “and”

Will say, This death is not the work of our hands and our eyes have not seen it.

וְעֵינֵ֖ינוּ (וְ) ve. “and”

Have mercy, O Lord, on your people Israel whom you have made free, and take away from your people the crime of a death without cause. Then they will no longer be responsible for the man's death.

וְאַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

So you will take away the crime of a death without cause from among you, when you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

וְאַתָּ֗ה (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאַ֨חַר (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וּמָכֹ֥ר (וּ) u. “and”

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:

וְהָאַחַ֣ת (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַשְּׂנוּאָ֑ה (וְ) ve. “and”

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:

וּמוֹרֶ֔ה (וּ) u. “and”וּבְק֣וֹל (וּ) u. “and”וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

Then let his father and mother take him to the responsible men of the town, to the public place;

וְאִמּ֑וֹ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And say to them, This son of ours is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, he will not give attention to us; he gives himself up to pleasure and strong drink.

וּמֹרֶ֔ה (וּ) u. “and”וְסֹבֵֽא׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

Then he is to be stoned to death by all the men of the town: so you are to put away the evil from among you; and all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear.

וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְיִרָֽאוּ׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

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

וְכִֽי־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Do not let his body be on the tree all night, but put it to rest in the earth the same day; for the man who undergoes hanging is cursed by God; so do not make unclean the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.

וְלֹ֤א (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וְאִם־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וְכֵ֧ן (וְ) ve. “and”וְכֵ֣ן (וְ) ve. “and”וְכֵ֣ן (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

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:

וְהָאֵ֤ם (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”