These are the ones you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,

Surely he loves the people; all your holy ones are in your power. And they sit at your feet, each receiving your words.

Furthermore, the Lord your God will release hornets among them until the very last ones who hide from you perish.

I am speaking to you because you are the ones who saw all the great deeds of the Lord!

So I made an ark of acacia wood and carved out two stone tablets just like the first ones. Then I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

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.

He said:The Lord came from Sinai and revealed himself to Israel from Seir. He appeared in splendor from Mount Paran, and came forth with ten thousand holy ones. With his right hand he gave a fiery law to them.

your infants, your wives, and the foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water –

Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way, and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad, will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.

But your wives, children, and livestock (of which I know you have many) may remain in the cities I have given you.

If you happen to notice a bird’s nest along the road, whether in a tree or on the ground, and there are chicks or eggs with the mother bird sitting on them, you must not take the mother from the young.

At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them under divine judgment, including even the women and children; we left no survivors.

However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city – all its plunder – you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the Lord your God has given you.

It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant by oath,

Gather the people – men, women, and children, as well as the resident foreigners in your villages – so they may hear and thus learn about and fear the Lord your God and carefully obey all the words of this law.

I will write on the tablets the same words that were on the first tablets you broke, and you must put them into the ark.”

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.

how they met you along the way and cut off all your stragglers in the rear of the march when you were exhausted and tired; they were unafraid of God.

They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods they had not known; to new gods who had recently come along, gods your ancestors had not known about.

Bear in mind today that I am not speaking to your children who have not personally experienced the judgments of the Lord your God, which revealed his greatness, strength, and power.