who justly treats the orphan and widow, and who loves resident foreigners, giving them food and clothing.

a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, of olive trees and honey,

Then all the people will hear and be afraid, and not be so presumptuous again.

when your cattle and flocks increase, when you have plenty of silver and gold, and when you have abundance of everything,

The foreigners who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower.

You have seen their detestable things and idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold.)

“Look! I have set before you today life and prosperity on the one hand, and death and disaster on the other.

Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and overpowers and rapes her and they are discovered.

And he brought signs and great, devastating wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on his whole family before our very eyes.

These curses will be a perpetual sign and wonder with reference to you and your descendants.

But the Lord took note and despised them because his sons and daughters enraged him.

Then if you and your descendants turn to the Lord your God and obey him with your whole mind and being just as I am commanding you today,

and he displayed great power and awesome might in view of all Israel.

You must follow the Lord your God and revere only him; and you must observe his commandments, obey him, serve him, and remain loyal to him.

then the Lord will increase your punishments and those of your descendants – great and long-lasting afflictions and severe, enduring illnesses.

May Reuben live and not die, and may his people multiply.

You must obey him and keep his commandments and statutes that I am giving you today.”

So we cried out to the Lord, the God of our ancestors, and he heard us and saw our humiliation, toil, and oppression.

discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, and stay in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may have sexual relations with her and become her husband and she your wife.

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; ignore the stubbornness, wickedness, and sin of these people.