He will say, “Where are their gods, the rock in whom they sought security,

If a false witness testifies against another person and accuses him of a crime,

You must cook and eat it in the place the Lord your God chooses; you may return the next morning to your tents.

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

You must stand outside and the person to whom you are making the loan will bring out to you what he is offering as security.

Instead, you must kill him without fail! Your own hand must be the first to strike him, and then the hands of the whole community.

you may convert the tithe into money, secure the money, and travel to the place the Lord your God chooses for himself.

If they have any kind of blemish – lameness, blindness, or anything else – you may not offer them as a sacrifice to the Lord your God.

You must not sacrifice to him a bull or sheep that has a blemish or any other defect, because that is considered offensive to the Lord your God.

The witnesses must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

For the Lord your God has chosen them and their sons from all your tribes to stand and serve in his name permanently.

If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, and regards him as mere property and sells him, that kidnapper must die. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.

Get up, make your way across Wadi Arnon. Look! I have already delivered over to you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Go ahead! Take it! Engage him in war!

But King Sihon of Heshbon was unwilling to allow us to pass near him because the Lord our God had made him obstinate and stubborn so that he might deliver him over to you this very day.

You must burn the images of their gods, but do not covet the silver and gold that covers them so much that you take it for yourself and thus become ensnared by it; for it is abhorrent to the Lord your God.

For if you carefully observe all of these commandments I am giving you and love the Lord your God, live according to his standards, and remain loyal to him,

Every place you set your foot will be yours; your border will extend from the desert to Lebanon and from the River (that is, the Euphrates) as far as the Mediterranean Sea.

Then you must come to the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing everything I am commanding you – your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him.

Only in the presence of the Lord your God may you eat these, in the place he chooses. This applies to you, your son, your daughter, your male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages. In that place you will rejoice before the Lord your God in all the output of your labor.