(23:1) A man may not marry his father’s former wife and in this way dishonor his father.

Then he will bring you to the land your ancestors possessed and you also will possess it; he will do better for you and multiply you more than he did your ancestors.

If the Lord your God enlarges your borders as he promised your ancestors and gives you all the land he pledged to them,

Fathers must not be put to death for what their children do, nor children for what their fathers do; each must be put to death for his own sin.

‘Cursed is the one who has sexual relations with his father’s former wife, for he dishonors his father.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

He must eat the same share they do, despite any profits he may gain from the sale of his family’s inheritance.

‘Cursed is the one who disrespects his father and mother.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

When your ancestors went down to Egypt, they numbered only seventy, but now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.

his father and mother must seize him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city.

The young woman’s father must say to the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man and he has rejected her.

the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father’s house. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

Indeed, may the Lord, the God of your ancestors, make you a thousand times more numerous than you are now, blessing you just as he said he would!

“Not a single person of this evil generation will see the good land that I promised to give to your ancestors!

(for he is a merciful God), he will not let you down or destroy you, for he cannot forget the covenant with your ancestors that he confirmed by oath to them.

Moreover, because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants who followed them and personally brought you out of Egypt with his great power

He did not make this covenant with our ancestors but with us, we who are here today, all of us living now.

Do whatever is proper and good before the Lord so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he promised your ancestors,

He delivered us from there so that he could give us the land he had promised our ancestors.

fed you in the desert with manna (which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you.

Then he said to me, “Get up, set out leading the people so they may go and possess the land I promised to give to their ancestors.”