And He, Jesus, when He began to minister, was about  ¹thirty years old, being,  ²so it was thought, the  ³son of  ⁴Joseph, the son of Heli,

The son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph,

The son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai,

The son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Josech, the son of Joda,

The son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of  ¹Zerubbabel, the son of Salathiel, the son of Neri,

The son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmadam, the son of Er,

The son of Joshua, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi,

The son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim,

The son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of  ¹Nathan, the son of David,

The son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon,

The son of Aminadab, the son of Aram, the son of Hezron, the son of Pharez, the son of Judah,

The son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

The son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Sala,

The son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

The son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Maleleel, the son of Cainan,

The son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of  ¹Adam, the  ²son of  ³God.

When you go forth into  ¹battle against your enemies, and you see horse and chariot, a people more numerous than you, you shall not fear them; for Jehovah your God is with you, He who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

And when you draw near to the battle, the priest shall approach and speak to the people,

And he shall say to them, Hear, O Israel! You are drawing near to the battle against your enemies today. Do not let your heart fail; do not be afraid or alarmed or terrified of them.

For it is Jehovah your God who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

And the officers shall speak to the people, saying, Is there any man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.

Is there any man who has planted a vineyard and has not  ¹partaken of it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man partake of it.

Is there any man who has gotten engaged to a woman and has not taken her to himself? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man take her to himself.

And the officers shall speak further to the people and say, Is there any man who is  ¹afraid and whose heart fails? Let him go and return to his house, so that the heart of his brothers does not melt like his heart.

And when the officers have finished speaking to the people, they shall appoint commanders of the armies at the head of the people.

When you draw near to a city to fight against it, you shall proclaim peace to it.

And if it responds with peace to you and opens its gates to you, all the people found within it shall become your forced labor; and they shall serve you.

But if it does not make peace with you, but rather engages in battle with you, you shall besiege it.

And when Jehovah your God delivers it into your hand, you shall slay every male in it with the edge of the sword.

But the women and the little ones and the beasts and all that is in the city, that is, all its spoil, you shall take as your plunder; and you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which Jehovah your God has given you.

Thus shall you do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not among the cities of these nations.

But of the cities of these peoples which Jehovah your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not allow anything that breathes to live;

But you must utterly  ¹destroy them: the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, just as Jehovah your God has commanded you,

So that they do not teach you to do according to all their abominations which they do for their gods and you sin against Jehovah your God.

When you besiege a city for many days, battling against it to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down. For is the tree of the field a man, that it should be besieged by you?

However, a tree that you know is not a tree for food, you shall destroy and cut down, so that you may build a siegework against the city, which engages you in battle, until it falls.

If a slain man is found lying in the field in the land which Jehovah your God is giving you to possess, it not being known who slew him,

Then your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance to the cities that surround the slain man.

And the city that is nearest the slain man, that is, the elders of that city, shall take a heifer of the herd which has not been worked and has not drawn the yoke;

And the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a river valley that flows continually, which has not been plowed or sown, and break the neck of the heifer there in the river valley.

And the priests, the sons of Levi, shall draw near; for Jehovah your God has chosen them to minister to Him and to bless in the name of Jehovah, and by their word shall every dispute and every assault be settled.

And all the elders of that city that is nearest the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the river valley.

And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, nor have our eyes seen it done.

Cover Your people Israel, whom You have ransomed, O Jehovah, and do not set the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of Your people Israel. And the guilt of the blood shall be covered from them.

Thus you shall utterly remove the guilt of the innocent blood from your midst, for you do what is right in the sight of Jehovah.

When you go out to fight against your enemies and Jehovah your God delivers them into your hands and you take them captive,

And you see a beautiful woman among the captives and desire her and would take her to yourself as a wife;

You shall bring her within your house, and she shall shave her head, trim her nails,

And take her clothes of captivity away from her. And she shall dwell in your house and mourn her father and mother for a full month. And afterward you shall go in unto her and be her husband, and she shall be a wife to you.

And if after a time you do not delight in her, you shall let her go wherever she wishes. But you must not sell her for money; you shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.

If a man has two wives, one beloved and the other despised, and both the beloved and the despised have borne him sons; and if the firstborn son is of the despised woman;

Then in the day when he gives what he has to his sons as his inheritance, he may not make the son of the beloved woman the firstborn instead of the son of the despised one, who is the firstborn.

But he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the despised woman, giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the firstfruits of his vigor; the right of the firstborn is his.

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, one who does not listen to the voice of his father nor to the voice of his mother; and though they chastise him, he does not listen to them;

Then his father and mother shall seize him and bring him forth to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place.

And they shall say to the elders of his city, This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not listen to our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.

Then all the men of his city shall stone him with stones so that he dies. Thus you shall utterly remove the evil from your midst, and all Israel will hear and will fear.

And if in a man there is a sin, a cause worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you  ¹hang him on a tree;

His corpse shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you must bury him on that day. For he who is hanged is  ¹accursed of God, and you shall not defile your land, which Jehovah your God gives you as an inheritance.

You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep straying and neglect them; you must return them to your brother.

And if your brother is not nearby you, or if you do not know who he is, you shall bring it to your house. And it shall be with you until your brother demands it; then you shall return it to him.

And thus shall you do with his donkey; and thus shall you do with his clothing; and thus shall you do with any of your brother's lost things, which he has lost and you have found. You may not neglect them.

You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen by the way and neglect them; you must lift them up with him.

A woman shall not put on a man's clothing, nor shall a man wear a woman's garment; for everyone who does these things is an abomination to Jehovah your God.

If you happen to come upon a bird's nest in the way, in any tree or on the ground, and in it are young birds or eggs, and the mother sitting upon the young birds or upon the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.

You must let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may go well with you and that you may extend your days.

When you build a new house, you shall make a low wall around the edge of your roof so that you do not put the guilt of blood on your house if someone falls from it.

You shall not sow your vineyard with  ¹two kinds of seed, lest the full produce, the seed which you sow, be forfeited to the sanctuary, as well as the increase of the vineyard.

You shall not  ¹plow with an ox and a donkey together.

You shall not wear clothing of mixed materials, of wool and linen together.

You shall make  ¹twisted cords upon the four corners of your garment with which you cover yourself.