Rung 1 of 8
The story
What happens, plainly.
Ki Teitzei is crowded with commandments, and they move from war to home to field to road. A soldier who wants to marry a captive woman must first let her mourn her father and mother for a month in his house. A father may not pass over the firstborn son of the wife he does not love. A wayward and defiant son is brought by both his parents before the elders. A lost animal must be brought home and kept until its owner comes; a fallen one must be helped up. If you find a bird's nest, send the mother away before you take the young. Build a parapet around your roof, do not plow with an ox and a donkey together, and put fringes on the four corners of your garment. Return a poor man's pledged cloak at sundown, pay a worker his wage the same day, leave the forgotten sheaf for the stranger, the orphan and the widow, and do not muzzle an ox while it threshes. If a man dies childless, his brother marries the widow to build up his house, or she pulls off his sandal before the elders. Keep honest weights, and remember what Amalek did to you on the road, when you were weary: do not forget.