Deuteronomy 21:10 – 25:19
Set in a pattern similar to stained glass windows, here are a number of laws. Starting in the left column from the top: the hanged man must be taken down before the sun sets – here the hanged man is in the position seen in the Tarot which was inspired by Kabbalistic thought; below this is the prohibition of favoritism of a husband to the children of a second wife; and below this adultery; and below this that a woman should not dress as a man, and the egg – offspring of a bird – should not be taken away in the mother’s presence.
In the center column from the top: rules against forbidden sexual practices including animals; rape where the woman cries out and can not be heard; mating with a captive of war who first must shave and be allowed to mourn. In the column on the right from the top: the custom of a woman humiliating a man for not performing the leverite marriage by spitting on him and holding a shoe in public; a woman proving her virginity after marriage; the improper action of a woman damaging the genitals of an attacker of her husband; the prohibition of a man wearing woman’s clothing and that an ox and an ass should not be yoked together to do work – a proper place for everything.
