These you may eat from among water creatures: anything with fins and scales you may eat,

every raven after its species,

Then Moses went with Joshua son of Nun and recited all the words of this song to the people.

The Lord was king over Jeshurun, when the leaders of the people assembled, the tribes of Israel together.

However, it was not until the first day of the eleventh month of the fortieth year that Moses addressed the Israelites just as the Lord had instructed him to do.

You must not worship the Lord your God the way they do! For everything that is abhorrent to him, everything he hates, they have done when worshiping their gods. They even burn up their sons and daughters before their gods!

When such a person hears the words of this oath he secretly blesses himself and says, “I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit.” This will destroy the watered ground with the parched.

The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

You must not make use of the name of the Lord your God for worthless purposes, for the Lord will not exonerate anyone who abuses his name that way.

When your children ask you later on, “What are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that the Lord our God commanded you?”

Then I turned, went down the mountain, and placed the tablets into the ark I had made – they are still there, just as the Lord commanded me.

The Lord will designate you as his holy people just as he promised you, if you keep his commandments and obey him.

Gather to me all your tribal elders and officials so I can speak to them directly about these things and call the heavens and the earth to witness against them.

If you think, “These nations are more numerous than I – how can I dispossess them?”

When you eat your fill, when you build and occupy good houses,

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.”

Now pay attention to all the commandments I am giving you today, so that you may be strong enough to enter and possess the land where you are headed,

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,

When he sits on his royal throne he must make a copy of this law on a scroll given to him by the Levitical priests.

However, suppose a person hates someone else and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, and then flees to one of these cities.