for you may do so only in the place the Lord chooses in one of your tribal areas – there you may do everything I am commanding you.

Only the holy things and votive offerings that belong to you, you must pick up and take to the place the Lord will choose.

When the Lord your God eliminates the nations from the place where you are headed and you dispossess them, you will settle down in their land.

You must follow the Lord your God and revere only him; and you must observe his commandments, obey him, serve him, and remain loyal to him.

You must stone him to death because he tried to entice you away from the Lord your God, who delivered you from the land of Egypt, that place of slavery.

Suppose you should hear in one of your cities, which the Lord your God is giving you as a place to live, that

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

if you carefully obey him by keeping all these commandments that I am giving you today.

Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore, I am commanding you to do this thing today.

Observe the month Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for in that month he brought you out of Egypt by night.

You must sacrifice the Passover animal (from the flock or the herd) to the Lord your God in the place where he chooses to locate his name.

Then you are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks before the Lord your God with the voluntary offering that you will bring, in proportion to how he has blessed you.

You must appoint judges and civil servants for each tribe in all your villages that the Lord your God is giving you, and they must judge the people fairly.

You must pursue justice alone so that you may live and inherit the land the Lord your God is giving you.

You must not plant any kind of tree as a sacred Asherah pole near the altar of the Lord your God which you build for yourself.

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.

You must then do as they have determined at that place the Lord chooses. Be careful to do just as you are taught.

The Levitical priests – indeed, the entire tribe of Levi – will have no allotment or inheritance with Israel; they may eat the burnt offerings of the Lord and of his inheritance.

When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations.

You shall build a roadway and divide into thirds the whole extent of your land that the Lord your God is providing as your inheritance; anyone who kills another person should flee to the closest of these cities.