Instead, you must be sure to open your hand to him and generously lend him whatever he needs.

There will never cease to be some poor people in the land; therefore, I am commanding you to make sure you open your hand to your fellow Israelites who are needy and poor in your land.

All of these cities were fortified by high walls, gates, and locking bars; in addition there were a great many open villages.

The Lord will open for you his good treasure house, the heavens, to give you rain for the land in its season and to bless all you do; you will lend to many nations but you will not borrow from any.

or what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth in the middle of the Israelite camp and swallowed them, their families, their tents, and all the property they brought with them.

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

for the man met her in the field and the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her.

But if the man came across the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped her, then only the rapist must die.

If a homicide victim should be found lying in a field in the land the Lord your God is giving you, and no one knows who killed him,

You must gather all of its plunder into the middle of the plaza and burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It will be an abandoned ruin forever – it must never be rebuilt again.

All these blessings will come to you in abundance if you obey the Lord your God:

But to this very day the Lord has not given you an understanding mind, perceptive eyes, or discerning ears!

but who pays back those who hate him as they deserve and destroys them. He will not ignore those who hate him but will repay them as they deserve!

For I was terrified at the Lord’s intense anger that threatened to destroy you. But he listened to me this time as well.

So we cried out to the Lord, the God of our ancestors, and he heard us and saw our humiliation, toil, and oppression.

As for me, I stayed at the mountain as I did the first time, forty days and nights. The Lord listened to me that time as well and decided not to destroy you.

Today you have declared the Lord to be your God, and that you will walk in his ways, keep his statutes, commandments, and ordinances, and obey him.

He said to his father and mother, “I have not seen him,” and he did not acknowledge his own brothers or know his own children, for they kept your word, and guarded your covenant.