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

you must set apart for yourselves three cities in the middle of your land that the Lord your God is giving you as a possession.

Go and tell them, ‘Return to your tents!’

At that same time the Lord said to me, “Carve out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones and come up the mountain to me; also make for yourself a wooden ark.

You must appoint judges and civil servants for each tribe in all your villages that the Lord your God is giving you, and they must judge the people fairly.

You must not plant any kind of tree as a sacred Asherah pole near the altar of the Lord your God which you build for yourself.

If it accepts your terms and submits to you, all the people found in it will become your slaves.

You must be sure to let the mother go, but you may take the young for yourself. Do this so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life.

Your ox will be slaughtered before your very eyes but you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be stolen from you as you watch and will not be returned to you. Your flock of sheep will be given to your enemies and there will be no one to save you.

You will then eat your own offspring, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege by which your enemies will constrict you.

You must not have any other gods besides me.

You must not erect a sacred pillar, a thing the Lord your God detests.

You are to have a place outside the camp to serve as a latrine.

You must not have in your bag different stone weights, a heavy and a light one.

You must not have in your house different measuring containers, a large and a small one.

You must have an accurate and correct stone weight and an accurate and correct measuring container, so that your life may be extended in the land the Lord your God is about to give you.

They will besiege all of your villages until all of your high and fortified walls collapse – those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the Lord your God has given you.

be careful not to forget the Lord who brought you out of Egypt, that place of slavery.

You will eat your fill and then praise the Lord your God because of the good land he has given you.

and to keep the Lord’s commandments and statutes that I am giving you today for your own good?