“And these are the laws that you shall set before them:
“The optimal term of employment is
six years; all employees shall be terminated during the seventh year,
with severance pay. Any family member may also be employed, but the
termination of family members shall coincide. If employees marry, their
subsequent termination shall coincide. But if employees declare, "We
love our job, and our family: We do not wish to leave," employers
shall take them before a court of at least ten judges. In the court, the
employer shall pierce the employees lapel with their insignia; and the
employment shall remain for life.
“Employees under the age of twenty-one
shall not be employed as long as adults are. If they prove unacceptable,
they must return to the full support of their parents or guardians; they
shall not have the right to switch jobs. But if they are married, they
shall be treated as adults. Marriage may be to one individual, male of
female, of one's choice. All employees shall be granted sufficient income
for food, clothing, and personal time. If an employer fails to provide
any of these three, the employment contract may be terminated prematurely with
severance.
“Anyone who kills another shall be
imprisoned for life. If the act was not by design, but it came about by
accident, the court will assign a place to which the individual may relocate.
“When a person schemes against
another and kills treacherously, you shall take that person from even the most
remote of potential sanctuaries to be imprisoned.
“An individual who harms either of
one's parents or guardians shall be imprisoned.
“One who kidnaps another – whether
to obtain ransom or not – shall be imprisoned.
“A person who treats with contempt
either of one's parents or guardians shall be imprisoned.”
“When
someone drives a vehicle with ice or another solid objects on it not tied down,
and the ice or object flies off and damages another vehicle, the driver of the
former vehicle must make restitution; that driver shall pay the price of
repair to the latter vehicle's steward.
“When an animal injures a neighbor's
animal and it dies, the former animal's steward shall restore the animal with a
new one of comparable worth. If, however, it is known that the former pet
was in the habit of killing, and its steward has failed to guard it, the
violent animal's owner must euthanize the animal, and must also restore a live
pet to the neighbor.
“When someone steals an animal or a
vehicle, and slaughters it or sells it, that individual shall pay five animals
for the animal, and four vehicles for the vehicle. (22) (If the thief is
encountered while breaking in at night, and is killed, manslaughter does not
apply in this case. If during the day, the charges of manslaughter do
apply.) Restitution must be made; if the thief lacks the means,
then future wages shall be garnished. But if what was stolen – whether
vehicle or animal – is recovered intact, then only double shall be paid.
“When someone lets their livestock loose
to graze in another's land, and so allows a field or a vineyard to be grazed
bare, the animals' steward must make restitution for the impairment of
that field or vineyard.
“When a fire is started and spreads to a
fence line, so that stacked, standing, or growing produce is consumed, the one
who started the fire must make restitution.
“When someone gives money or goods to
another for safekeeping, and they are stolen from the individual's home – if
the thief is caught, double shall be paid; if the thief is not caught,
the owner of the house shall depose before a panel of judges that no hand was
laid on the other’s property. In all charges of misappropriation –
pertaining to an animal, a vehicle, clothing, or any other loss, whereof one
party alleges, "This is it" – the case of both parties shall come
before a panel of judges: the one who the panel declares guilty shall pay
double to the other.
“When a person gives to another a vehicle
or an animal to guard, and it is damaged, or the animal dies, or is injured
with no witness about, an oath before YHVH shall decide between the two of them
that the entrusted one has not laid hands on the property of the other;
the original steward must acquiesce, and no restitution shall be made.
But if the vehicle or animal was stolen, the entrusted person shall make
restitution to the original steward. If the animal was torn by beasts,
what is left shall be shown as evidence; what has been torn by beasts
need not be replaced.
“When someone borrows an animal from
another and it dies or is injured, its original steward not being with it, the
borrower must make restitution. If its steward was with it, no
restitution need be made; but if it was hired, the steward is entitled to
the hire.
“If two people who are not engaged
seduce each other and lie together, they must marry. If not, the two must
continue to share resources in support of the resulting family.
“You shall not tolerate magic.
“Whoever lies with an animal shall be as
if dead.
“Whoever thinks they give to One other
than YHVH alone shall be banished.”
“I am sending an
agent before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I
have made ready. Pay heed to ze and obey
heer. Do not defy heer, for ze will not
pardon your offenses, since My Name is in heer;
but if you obey heer and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your
enemies and a friend to your friends.
“When My agent
goes before you and brings you to the Canadians, the Sudanese, the Yarekites,
the Turkish, the Moroccans, and the Iraqis, and I subsume them, you shall not
bow down to their beliefs in worship or follow their practices, but shall tear
them down and smash their dogma to bits.
You shall serve YHVH your One, and Ze will bless your bread and your
water. And I will remove sickness from
your midst. No woman in your land shall
miscarry or be barren. I will let you
enjoy the full count of your days.
“I will send
forth My respect before you, and I will throw into order all the people among
whom you come, and I will make all your enemies question themselves before
you. I will send knowledge ahead of you,
and it shall illuminate before you the Moroccans, the Turkish, and the
Sudanese. I will not illuminate them all
before you in a single year, lest the land become chaotic and the wildly
unaffiliated multiply to you hurt. I
will illuminate them before you little by little, until you have increased and
accepted care of the land. I will set
your borders from the Sea of Reeds to the Sea of Amerika, and from the
wilderness to the Euphrates; for I will
illuminate the inhabitants of the land unto your ways and you will understand
them. But you shall make no covenant
with them and their beliefs. Their
beliefs shall not remain in your land, lest they cause you to err against
Me; for if you serve their beliefs – it
will prove a snare to you.”
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