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Provisions for the Levites

1 “The Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, will have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They will eat theLord’s fire offerings; that is theirinheritance.

2 Although Levi has no inheritance among his brothers, theLordis his inheritance, as He promised him.

3 This is the priests’ share from the people who offer a sacrifice, whether it is an ox, a sheep, or a goat; the priests are to be given the shoulder, jaws, and stomach.

4 You are to give him the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil,and the first sheared wool of your flock.

5 For Yahweh your God has chosen him and his sons from all your tribes to stand and minister in His name from now on.

6 When a Levite leaves one of your towns where he lives in Israel and wants to go to the place theLordchooses,

7 he may serve in the name of Yahweh his God like all his fellow Levites who minister there in the presence of theLord.

8 They will eat equal portions besides what he has received from the sale of the family estate.

Occult Practices versus Prophetic Revelation

9 “When you enter the land theLordyour God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable customs of those nations.

10 No one among you is to make his son or daughter pass through the fire,practice divination, tell fortunes, interpret omens, practice sorcery,

11 cast spells, consult a medium or a familiar spirit, or inquire of the dead.

12 Everyone who does these things is detestable to theLord, and theLordyour God is driving out the nations before you because of these detestable things.

13 You must be blameless before theLordyour God.

14 Though these nations you are about to drive out listen to fortune-tellers and diviners, theLordyour God has not permitted you to do this.

15 “TheLordyour God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers.You must listen to him.

16 This is what you requested from theLordyour God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, ‘Let us not continue to hear the voice of theLordour God or see this great fire any longer, so that we will not die! ’

17 Then theLordsaid to me, ‘They have spoken well.

18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.

19 I will hold accountable whoever does not listen to My words that he speaks in My name.

20 But the prophet who dares to speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods — that prophet must die.’

21 You may say to yourself, ‘How can we recognize a message theLordhas not spoken? ’

22 When a prophet speaks in theLord’s name, and the message does not come true or is not fulfilled, that is a message theLordhas not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.

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Cities of Refuge

1 “When theLordyour God annihilates the nations whose land He is giving you,so that you drive them out and live in their cities and houses,

2 you are to set apart three cities for yourselves within the land theLordyour God is giving you to possess.

3 You are to determine the distancesand divide the land theLordyour God is granting you as an inheritance into three regions, so that anyone who commits manslaughter can flee to these cities.

4 “Here is the law concerning a case of someone who kills a person and flees there to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally without previously hating him:

5 If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber, and his hand swings the ax to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies, that person may flee to one of these cities and live.

6 Otherwise, the avenger of blood in the heat of his angermight pursue the one who committed manslaughter, overtake him because the distance is great, and strike him dead. Yet he did not deserve to die,since he did not previously hate his neighbor.

7 This is why I am commanding you to set apart three cities for yourselves.

8 If theLordyour God enlarges your territory as He swore to your fathers, and gives you all the land He promised to give them —

9 provided you keep every one of these commands I am giving you today and follow them, loving theLordyour God and walking in His ways at all times — you are to add three more cities to these three.

10 In this way, innocent blood will not be shed, and you will not become guilty of bloodshed in the land theLordyour God is giving you as an inheritance.

11 But if someone hates his neighbor, lies in ambush for him, attacks him, and strikes him fatally, and flees to one of these cities,

12 the elders of his city must send for him, take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood and he will die.

13 You must not look on him with pity but purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, and you will prosper.

Boundary Markers

14 “You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker,established at the start in the inheritance you will receive in the land theLordyour God is giving you to possess.

Witnesses in Court

15 “One witness cannot establish any wrongdoing or sin against a person, whatever that person has done.A fact must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.

16 “If a malicious witnesstestifies against someone accusing him of a crime,

17 the two people in the dispute must stand in the presence of theLordbefore the priests and judges in authority at that time.

18 The judges are to make a careful investigation, and if the witness turns out to be a liar who has falsely accused his brother,

19 you must do to him as he intended to do to his brother. You must purge the evil from you.

20 Then everyone else will hear and be afraid, and they will never again do anything evil like this among you.

21 You must not show pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.

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Rules for War

1 “When you go out to war against your enemies and see horses, chariots, and an army larger than yours,do not be afraid of them, for theLordyour God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt,is with you.

2 When you are about to engage in battle, the priest is to come forward and address the army.

3 He is to say to them: ‘Listen, Israel: Today you are about to engage in battle with your enemies. Do not be cowardly. Do not be afraid, alarmed, or terrified because of them.

4 For theLordyour God is the One who goes with you to fight for youagainst your enemies to give you victory.’

5 “The officers are to address the army, ‘Has any man built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him leave and return home. Otherwise, he may die in battle and another man dedicate it.

6 Has any man planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy its fruit?Let him leave and return home. Otherwise he may die in battle and another man enjoy its fruit.

7 Has any man become engaged to a woman and not married her? Let him leave and return home. Otherwise he may die in battle and another man marry her.’

8 The officers will continue to address the army and say, ‘Is there any man who is afraid or cowardly? Let him leave and return home, so that his brothers’ hearts won’t melt like his own.’

9 When the officers have finished addressing the army, they will appoint military commanders to lead it.

10 “When you approach a city to fight against it, you must make an offer of peace.

11 If it accepts your offer of peace and opens its gates to you, all the people found in it will become forced laborers for you and serve you.

12 However, if it does not make peace with you but wages war against you, lay siege to it.

13 When theLordyour God hands it over to you, you must strike down all its males with the sword.

14 But you may take the women, children, animals, and whatever else is in the city — all its spoil — as plunder. You may enjoy the spoil of your enemies that theLordyour God has given you.

15 This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and are not among the cities of these nations.

16 However, you must not let any living thing survive among the cities of these people theLordyour God is giving you as an inheritance.

17 You must completely destroy them — the Hittite, Amorite, Canaanite, Perizzite, Hivite, and Jebusite — as theLordyour God has commanded you,

18 so that they won’t teach you to do all the detestable things they do for their gods, and you sin against theLordyour God.

19 “When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it in order to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can get food from them. You must not cut them down. Are trees of the field human, to come under siege by you?

20 But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce food. You may cut them down to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.

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Unsolved Murders

1 “If a murder victim is found lying in a field in the land theLordyour God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,

2 your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance from the victim to the nearby cities.

3 The elders of the city nearest to the victim are to get a young cow that has not been yoked or used for work.

4 The elders of that city will bring the cow down to a continually flowing stream, to a place not tilled or sown, and they will break its neck there by the stream.

5 Then the priests, the sons of Levi, will come forward, for Yahweh your God has chosen them to serve Him and pronounce blessings in His name, and they are to give a ruling inevery dispute and case of assault.

6 All the elders of the city nearest to the victim will wash their hands by the stream over the young cow whose neck has been broken.

7 They will declare, ‘Our hands did not shed this blood; our eyes did not see it.

8 Lord, forgive Your people Israel You redeemed, and do not hold the shedding of innocent blood against them.’ Then they will be absolved of responsibility for bloodshed.

9 You must purge from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, for you will be doing what is right in theLord’s sight.

Fair Treatment of Captured Women

10 “When you go to war against your enemies and theLordyour God hands them over to you and you take some of them prisoner, and

11 if you see a beautiful woman among the captives, desire her, and want to take her as your wife,

12 you are to bring her into your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails,

13 remove the clothes she was wearing when she was taken prisoner, live in your house, and mourn for her father and mother a full month. After that, you may have sexual relations with her and be her husband, and she will be your wife.

14 Then if you are not satisfied with her, you are to let her go where she wants, but you must not sell her for money or treat her as merchandise,because you have humiliated her.

The Right of the Firstborn

15 “If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved bear him sons, and if the unloved wife has the firstborn son,

16 when that man gives what he has to his sons as an inheritance, he is not to show favoritism to the son of the loved wife as his firstborn over the firstborn of the unloved wife.

17 He must acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved wife, by giving him two sharesof his estate, for he is the firstfruits of his virility; he has the rights of the firstborn.

A Rebellious Son

18 “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father or mother and doesn’t listen to them even after they discipline him,

19 his father and mother must take hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gateof his hometown.

20 They will say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he doesn’t obey us. He’s a glutton and a drunkard.’

21 Then all the men of his city will stone him to death.You must purge the evil from you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.

Display of Executed People

22 “If anyone is found guilty of an offense deserving the death penalty and is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,

23 you are not to leave his corpse on the tree overnight but are to bury him that day, for anyone hung on a tree is under God’s curse.You must not defile the land theLordyour God is giving you as an inheritance.

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Caring for Your Brother’s Property

1 “If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; make sure you return it to your brother.

2 If your brother does not live near you or you don’t know him, you are to bring the animal to your home to remain with you until your brother comes looking for it; then you can return it to him.

3 Do the same for his donkey, his garment, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.

4 If you see your brother’s donkey or ox fallen down on the road, you must not ignore it; you must help him lift it up.

Preserving Natural Distinctions

5 “A woman is not to wear male clothing, and a man is not to put on a woman’s garment, for everyone who does these things is detestable to theLordyour God.

6 “If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.

7 You may take the young for yourself, but be sure to let the mother go free, so that you may prosper and live long.

8 If you build a new house, make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.

9 Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; otherwise, the entire harvest, both the crop you plant and the produce of the vineyard, will be defiled.

10 Do not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

11 Do not wear clothes made of both wool and linen.

12 Make tassels on the four corners of the outer garment you wear.

Violations of Proper Sexual Conduct

13 “If a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, and comes to hate her,

14 and accuses her of shameful conduct, and gives her a bad name, saying, ‘I married this woman and was intimate with her, but I didn’t find any evidence of her virginity,’

15 the young woman’s father and mother will take the evidence of her virginity and bring it to the city elders at the gate.

16 The young woman’s father will say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, but he hates her.

17 He has accused her of shameful conduct, saying: “I didn’t find any evidence of your daughter’s virginity,” but here is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ They will spread out the cloth before the city elders.

18 Then the elders of that city will take the man and punish him.

19 They will also fine him 100 silver shekels and give them to the young woman’s father, because that man gave an Israelite virgin a bad name. She will remain his wife; he cannot divorce her as long as he lives.

20 But if this accusation is true and no evidence of the young woman’s virginity is found,

21 they will bring the woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from you.

22 “If a man is discovered having sexual relations with another man’s wife, both the man who had sex with the woman and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

23 If there is a young woman who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and has sex with her,

24 you must take the two of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death — the young woman because she did not cry out in the city and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s fiancée. You must purge the evil from you.

25 But if the man encounters an engaged woman in the open country, and he seizes and rapes her, only the man who raped her must die.

26 Do nothing to the young woman, because she is not guilty of an offense deserving death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.

27 When he found her in the field, the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her.

28 If a man encounters a young woman, a virgin who is not engaged, takes hold of her and rapes her, and they are discovered,

29 the man who raped her must give the young woman’s father 50 silver shekels, and she must become his wife because he violated her.He cannot divorce her as long as he lives.

30 “A man is not to marry his father’s wife; he must not violate his father’s marriage bed.

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Exclusion and Inclusion

1 “No man whose testicles have been crushedor whose penis has been cut off may enter theLord’s assembly.

2 No one of illegitimate birth may enter theLord’s assembly; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, may enter theLord’s assembly.

3 No Ammonite or Moabite may enter theLord’s assembly;none of their descendants, even to the tenth generation, may ever enter theLord’s assembly.

4 This is because they did not meet you with food and water on the journey after you came out of Egypt, and because Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim was hired to curse you.

5 Yet theLordyour God would not listen to Balaam, but He turned the curse into a blessing for you because theLordyour God lovesyou.

6 Never seek their peace or prosperity as long as you live.

7 Do not despise an Edomite, because he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you were a foreign resident in his land.

8 The children born to them in the third generation may enter theLord’s assembly.

Cleanliness of the Camp

9 “When you are encamped against your enemies, be careful to avoid anything offensive.

10 If there is a man among you who is unclean because of a bodily emission during the night, he must go outside the camp; he may not come anywhere inside the camp.

11 When evening approaches, he must wash with water, and when the sun sets he may come inside the camp.

12 You must have a place outside the camp and go there to relieve yourself.

13 You must have a digging tool in your equipment; when you relieve yourself, dig a hole with it and cover up your excrement.

14 For theLordyour God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you; so your encampments must be holy. He must not see anything improper among you or He will turn away from you.

Fugitive Slaves

15 “Do not return a slave to his master when he has escaped from his master to you.

16 Let him live among you wherever he wants within your gates. Do not mistreat him.

Cult Prostitution Forbidden

17 “No Israelite woman is to be a cult prostitute, and no Israelite man is to be a cult prostitute.

18 Do not bring a female prostitute’s wages or a male prostitute’searnings into the house of theLordyour God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to theLordyour God.

Interest on Loans

19 “Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or anything that can earn interest.

20 You may charge a foreigner interest, but you must not charge your brother interest, so that theLordyour God may bless you in everything you doin the land you are entering to possess.

Keeping Vows

21 “If you make a vow to theLordyour God, do not be slow to keep it, because He will require it of you, and it will be counted against you as sin.

22 But if you refrain from making a vow, it will not be counted against you as sin.

23 Be careful to do whatever comes from your lips, because you have freely vowed what you promisedto theLordyour God.

Neighbor’s Crops

24 “When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you want until you are full, but you must not put any in your container.

25 When you enter your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.

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Marriage and Divorce Laws

1 “If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds something improper about her, he may write her a divorce certificate, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.

2 If after leaving his house she goes and becomes another man’s wife,

3 and the second man hates her, writes her a divorce certificate, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house or if hedies,

4 the first husband who sent her away may not marry her again after she has been defiled, because that would be detestable to theLord. You must not bring guilt on the land theLordyour God is giving you as an inheritance.

5 “When a man takes a bride, he must not go out with the army or be liable for any duty. He is free to stay at home for one year, so that he can bring joy to the wife he has married.

Safeguarding Life

6 “Do not take a pair of millstones or an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that is like taking a life as security.

7 “If a man is discovered kidnappingone of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from you.

8 “Be careful in a case of infectious skin disease, following carefully everything the Levitical priests instruct you to do. Be careful to do as I have commanded them.

9 Remember what theLordyour God did to Miriam on the journey after you left Egypt.

Consideration for People in Need

10 “When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect what he offers as security.

11 You must stand outside while the man you are making the loan to brings the security out to you.

12 If he is a poor man, you must not sleep in the garment he has given as security.

13 Be sure to return itto him at sunset. Then he will sleep in it and bless you, and this will be counted as righteousness to you before theLordyour God.

14 “Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether one of your brothers or one of the foreigners residing within a townin your land.

15 You are to pay him his wages each day before the sun sets, because he is poor and depends on them.Otherwise he will cry out to theLordagainst you, and you will be held guilty.

16 “Fathers are not to be put to death for their children or children for their fathers; each person will be put to death for his own sin.

17 Do not deny justice to a foreigner or fatherless child, and do not take a widow’s garment as security.

18 Remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and theLordyour God redeemedyou from there. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.

19 “When you reap the harvest in your field, and you forget a sheaf in the field, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that theLordyour God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

20 When you knock down the fruit from your olive tree, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.

21 When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not glean what is left. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.

22 Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.

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Fairness and Mercy

1 “If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court, and the judges will hear their case. They will clear the innocent and condemn the guilty.

2 If the guilty party deserves to be flogged, the judge will make him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes appropriate for his crime.

3 He may be flogged with 40 lashes, but no more. Otherwise, if he is flogged with more lashes than these, your brother will be degraded in your sight.

4 “Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain.

Preserving the Family Line

5 “When brothers live on the same propertyand one of them dies without a son, the wife of the dead man may not marry a stranger outside the family. Her brother-in-law is to take her as his wife, have sexual relations with her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law for her.

6 The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

7 But if the man doesn’t want to marry his sister-in-law, she must go to the elders at the city gateand say, ‘My brother-in-law refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He isn’t willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.’

8 The elders of his city will summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, ‘I don’t want to marry her,’

9 then his sister-in-law will go up to him in the sight of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. Then she will declare, ‘This is what is done to a man who will not build up his brother’s house.’

10 And his family name in Israel will be called ‘The house of the man whose sandal was removed.’

11 “If two men are fighting with each other, and the wife of one steps in to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she puts out her hand and grabs his genitals,

12 you are to cut off her hand. You must not show pity.

Honest Weights and Measures

13 “You must not have two different weightsin your bag, one heavy and one light.

14 You must not have two differing dry measures in your house, a larger and a smaller.

15 You must have a full and honest weight, a full and honest dry measure, so that you may live long in the land theLordyour God is giving you.

16 For everyone who does such things and acts unfairly is detestable to theLordyour God.

Revenge on the Amalekites

17 “Remember what the Amalekites did to you on the journey after you left Egypt.

18 They met you along the way and attacked all your stragglers from behind when you were tired and weary. They did not fear God.

19 When theLordyour God gives you restfrom all the enemies around you in the land theLordyour God is giving you to possess as an inheritance,blot out the memory of Amalek under heaven. Do not forget.

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Giving the Firstfruits

1 “When you enter the land theLordyour God is giving you as an inheritance,and you take possession of it and live in it,

2 you must take some of the first of all the land’s produce that you harvest from the land Yahweh your God is giving you and put it in a container. Then go to the place where theLordyour God chooses to have His name dwell.

3 When you come before the priest who is serving at that time, you must say to him, ‘Today I acknowledge to theLordyourGod that I have entered the land theLordswore to our fathers to give us.’

4 “Then the priest will take the container from your hand and place it before the altar of theLordyour God.

5 You are to respond by saying in the presence of theLordyour God:

My father was a wandering Aramean.He went down to Egypt with a few people and lived there.There he became a great, powerful, and populous nation.

6 But the Egyptians mistreated and afflicted us, and forced us to do hard labor.

7 So we called out to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and theLordheard our cry and saw our misery, hardship, and oppression.

8 Then theLordbrought us out of Egypt with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, with terrifying power, and with signs and wonders.

9 He led us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

10 I have now brought the first of the land’s produce that You,Lord, have given me.

You will then place the container before theLordyour God and bow down to Him.

11 You, the Levite, and the foreign resident among you will rejoicein all the good things theLordyour God has given you and your household.

The Tenth in the Third Year

12 “When you have finished paying all the tenth of your produce in the third year,the year of the tenth, you are to give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied.

13 Then you will say in the presence of theLordyour God:

I have taken the consecrated portion out of my house; I have also given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all the commands You gave me. I have not violated or forgotten Your commands.

14 I have not eaten any of it while in mourning, or removed any of it while unclean, or offered any of it for the dead.I have obeyed theLordmy God; I have done all You commanded me.

15 Look down from Your holy dwelling, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land You have given us as You swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Covenant Summary

16 “TheLordyour God is commanding you this day to follow these statutes and ordinances. You must be careful to follow them with all your heart and all your soul.

17 Today you have affirmed that theLordis your God and that you will walk in His ways, keep His statutes, commands, and ordinances, and obey Him.

18 And today theLordhas affirmed that you are His special people as He promised you, that you are to keep all His commands,

19 that He will elevate you to praise, fame, and glory above all the nations He has made, and that you will be a holy peopleto theLordyour God as He promised.”

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The Law Written on Stones

1 Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, “Keep every command I am giving you today.

2 At the time you cross the Jordan into the land theLordyour God is giving you, you must set up large stones and cover them with plaster.

3 Write all the words of this law on the stones after you cross to enter the land theLordyour God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey,as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you.

4 When you have crossed the Jordan, you are to set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I am commanding you today, and you are to cover them with plaster.

5 Build an altar of stones there to theLordyour God — you must not use any iron tool on them.

6 Use uncut stones to build the altar of theLordyour God and offer burnt offerings to theLordyour God on it.

7 There you are to sacrifice fellowship offerings, eat, and rejoice in the presence of theLordyour God.

8 Write clearly all the words of this law on the plastered stones.”

The Covenant Curses

9 Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel, “Be silent, Israel, and listen! This day you have become the people of theLordyour God.

10 Obey theLordyour God and follow His commands and statutes I am giving you today.”

11 On that day Moses commanded the people,

12 “When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes will stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

13 And these tribes will stand on Mount Ebal to deliver the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

14 The Levites will proclaim in a loud voice to every Israelite:

15 ‘The person who makes a carved idol or cast image, which is detestable to theLord, the work of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret is cursed.’

And all the people will reply, ‘Amen! ’

16 ‘The one who dishonors his father or mother is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen! ’

17 ‘The one who moves his neighbor’s boundary marker is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen! ’

18 ‘The one who leads a blind person astray on the road is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen! ’

19 ‘The one who denies justice to a foreigner, a fatherless child, or a widow is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen! ’

20 ‘The one who sleeps with his father’s wife is cursed, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen! ’

21 ‘The one who has sexual intercourse with any animal is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen! ’

22 ‘The one who sleeps with his sister, whether his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen! ’

23 ‘The one who sleeps with his mother-in-law is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen! ’

24 ‘The one who secretly kills his neighbor is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen! ’

25 ‘The one who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen! ’

26 ‘Anyone who does not put the words of this law into practice is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen! ’

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