Make sure you do not offer burnt offerings in any place you wish,

Be careful not to overlook the Levites as long as you live in the land.

You must not eat it so that it may go well with you and your children after you; you will be doing what is right in the Lord’s sight.

You may exact payment from a foreigner, but whatever your fellow Israelite owes you, you must remit.

You may not sacrifice the Passover in just any of your villages that the Lord your God is giving you,

You must count seven weeks; you must begin to count them from the time you begin to harvest the standing grain.

You must celebrate the Festival of Temporary Shelters for seven days, at the time of the grain and grape harvest.

Every one of you must give as you are able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you.

The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you – from your fellow Israelites; you must listen to him.

Therefore, I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.

You must not pity him, but purge out the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

if you should see among them an attractive woman whom you wish to take as a wife,

You shall make yourselves tassels for the four corners of the clothing you wear.

Remember what the Amalekites did to you on your way from Egypt,

You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with olive oil, because the olives will drop off the trees while still unripe.

You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity.

Your life will hang in doubt before you; you will be terrified by night and day and will have no certainty of surviving from one day to the next.

The Lord responded to Joshua, “Get up! Why are you lying there face down?

The Lord said to him, “You are safe! Do not be afraid! You are not going to die!”

“So all the trees said to the thornbush, ‘You come and be our king!’