Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law contend with them.

Tie up the scroll as legal evidence, seal the official record of God’s instructions and give it to my followers.

The same law will apply to the person who is native-born and to the foreigner who lives among you.”

Moses delivered to us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.

Accept instruction from his mouth and store up his words in your heart.

The one who keeps the law is a discerning child, but a companion of gluttons brings shame to his parents.

The one who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

When there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but the one who keeps the law, blessed is he!

The Lord wanted to exhibit his justice by magnifying his law and displaying it.

The law is the same for the sin offering and the guilt offering; it belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it.

One law and one custom must apply to you and to the resident foreigner who lives alongside you.’”

You must have one law for the person who sins unintentionally, both for the native-born among the Israelites and for the resident foreigner who lives among them.

For a long time Israel had no true God, or priest to instruct them, or law.

Her prophets are proud; they are deceitful men. Her priests defile what is holy; they break God’s laws.

“The Lord who rules over all says, ‘Ask the priests about the law.

Pay attention to me, my people! Listen to me, my people! For I will issue a decree, I will make my justice a light to the nations.

ט (Tet) Her city gates have fallen to the ground; he smashed to bits the bars that lock her gates. Her king and princes were taken into exile; there is no more guidance available. As for her prophets, they no longer receive a vision from the Lord.

For this reason the law lacks power, and justice is never carried out. Indeed, the wicked intimidate the innocent. For this reason justice is perverted.

Whenever your countrymen who live in the cities bring a case before you (whether it involves a violent crime or other matters related to the law, commandments, rules, and regulations), warn them that they must not sin against the Lord. If you fail to do so, God will be angry with you and your colleagues; but if you obey, you will be free of guilt.

many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the Lord’s mountain, to the temple of the God of Jacob, so he can teach us his requirements, and we can follow his standards.” For Zion will be the center for moral instruction; the Lord will issue edicts from Jerusalem.