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97 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 23,24; Psalms 94 1. No man whose private parts have been wounded or cut off may come into the meeting of the Lord's people.
2. One whose father and mother are not married may not come into the meeting of the Lord's people, or any of his family to the tenth generation.
3. No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their people to the tenth generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's people:
4. Because they gave you no bread or water on your way, when you came out of Egypt: and they got Balaam, the son of Peor, from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to put curses on you.
5. But the Lord your God would not give ear to Balaam, but let the curse be changed into a blessing to you, because of his love for you.
; AB church Lausanne

96 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 21,22; Psalms 92,93 1. If, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you come across the dead body of a man in the open country, and you have no idea who has put him to death:
2. 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;
3. 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;
4. 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:
5. 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:
; AB church Lausanne

95 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 19,20; Psalms 90,91 1. When the nations, whose land the Lord your God is giving you, have been cut off by him, and you have taken their place and are living in their towns and in their houses;
2. You are to have three towns marked out in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.
3. 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.
4. This is to be the rule for anyone who goes in flight there, after causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate;
5. For example, if a man goes into the woods with his neighbour for the purpose of cutting down trees, and when he takes his axe to give a blow to the tree, the head of the axe comes off, and falling on to his neighbour gives him a wound causing his death; then the man may go in flight to one of these towns and be safe:
; AB church Lausanne

94 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 17,18; Psalms 89 1. No ox or sheep which has a mark on it or is damaged in any way may be offered to the Lord your God: for that is disgusting to the Lord your God.
2. If there is any man or woman among you, in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you, who does evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, sinning against his agreement,
3. By becoming a servant of other gods and worshipping them or the sun or the moon or all the stars of heaven, against my orders;
4. If word of this comes to your ears, then let this thing be looked into with care, and if there is no doubt that it is true, and such evil has been done in Israel;
5. Then you are to take the man or woman who has done the evil to the public place of your town, and they are to be stoned with stones till they are dead.
; AB church Lausanne

93 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 15,16; Psalms 88 1. At the end of every seven years there is to be a general forgiveness of debt.
2. This is how it is to be done: every creditor is to give up his right to whatever he has let his neighbour have; he is not to make his neighbour, his countryman, give it back; because a general forgiveness has been ordered by the Lord.
3. A man of another nation may be forced to make payment of his debt, but if your brother has anything of yours, let it go;
4. But there will be no poor among you; for the Lord will certainly give you his blessing in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage;
5. If only you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to keep all these orders which I give you today.
; AB church Lausanne