Marrying Female Captives – Deuteronomy 21
- Moses instructs the Hebrew people that if a man wants a female captive to be his wife, he should bring her into his home and have her shave her head, pare her nails, and change her clothing. She is to mourn her mother and father for a month, then he may take her as a wife. If he later no longer wants her for a wife, he is to let her go where she wants to go, but is not to sell her or treat her as a slave.
Inheritance Rights of the Firstborn
- If a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, and he has sons by both wives, when he assigns his possessions as inheritance, if the firstborn of the unloved wife is older, the man may not assign the son of the loved wife with more. He is to give the double portion to the son of the unloved wife.
A Rebellious Son
- If a man has a rebellious son, he and his wife are to bring the son to the elders at the gates of the city. There he will be stoned by the people to purge evil from their midst.
A Man Hanged on a Tree Is Cursed
- If a man commites a crime punishable by death and he is hanged, his body is to be removed and buried the same day. A hanged man is cursed by God, and they are not to defile the land by leaving him hanging.
Various Laws – Deuteronomy 22
- Various laws are given regarding a brother's livestock, women wearing men's garments, birds with eggs, building a parapet on the house roof, sowing two types of seed in a vineyard, plowing with an ox and donkey, wearing cloth of wool and linen mixed together, and wearing tassels on garments.
Laws Concerning Sexual Immorality
- Various laws are given regarding if a man claims a woman is not a virgin, if he is found lying with a woman not his wife, if a man lies with a betrothed virgin, if a man rapes a betrothed woman and an unbetrothed virgin, and a man laying with his father's wife.
Those Excluded from the Assembly – Deuteronomy 23
- Moses describes the types of people who are not allowed to enter the assembly (men whose testicles have been crushed or whose male organ has been cut off, anyone born of a forbidden union, Ammonites or Moabites).
- The people are not to abhor Edomites, for they are their brothers, and they are not to abhor Egyptians, because they were sojourners in Egypt. Those born to them in the third generation may enter the assembly of God.
Uncleanness in the Camp
- Laws are given regarding encamping against enemies, nocturnal emission, and defecating. The Lord walks among them in their camp and is not to see anything indecent among them.
Miscellaneous Laws
- More laws are given regarding runaway slaves, women becoming cult prostitutes, charging interest, making vows to the Lord, and taking a neighbor's fruit or grain.
Laws Concerning Divorce – Deuteronomy 24
- Laws are given about divorce.
Miscellaneous Laws – Deuteronomy 24 & 25
- Laws are given regarding newly married men and public duty, taking a mill or upper millstone in a pledge, stealing, leprous disease, taking loans, and oppressing hired workers who are poor and needy. Fathers are not to be put to death for their children's transgressions, or children for their father's transgressions. No one is to pervert justice with regard to sojourners or the fatherless, and when fields are reaped, some is to be left for the widow, the fatherless, and the sojourner.
- Laws are given about beating those guilty of offenses, no more than forty stripes. An ox is not to be muzzled while treading out grain.
Laws Concerning Levirate Marriage
- Laws are giving regarding Levirate marriage (when a wife's husband dies and her husband's brother takes her as a wife).
Miscellaneous Laws
- Laws are given regarding women intervening in their husbands' fights with other men and weights and measures in a bag being the same.
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