You must not worship the Lord your God the way they worship.

“The Levites will call out to every Israelite with a loud voice:

When your ancestors went down to Egypt, they numbered only seventy, but now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.

Of Benjamin he said: The beloved of the Lord will live safely by him; he protects him all the time, and the Lord places him on his chest.

(The Emites used to live there, a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites.

Be careful not to say, “My own ability and skill have gotten me this wealth.”

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

Now if you say to yourselves, ‘How can we tell that a message is not from the Lord?’ –

You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.

At that time my anger will erupt against them and I will abandon them and hide my face from them until they are devoured. Many disasters and distresses will overcome them so that they will say at that time, ‘Have not these disasters overcome us because our God is not among us?’

You complained among yourselves privately and said, “Because the Lord hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us!

So we turned away from our relatives the descendants of Esau, the inhabitants of Seir, turning from the desert route, from Elat and Ezion Geber, and traveling the way of the Moab wastelands.

There must not be a scrap of yeast within your land for seven days, nor can any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain until the next morning.

You will then eat your own offspring, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege by which your enemies will constrict you.

Then I again fell down before the Lord for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the Lord as to enrage him.

to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property.

Anyone who accidentally killed someone without hating him at the time of the accident could flee to one of those cities and be safe.

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

Now write down for yourselves the following song and teach it to the Israelites. Put it into their very mouths so that this song may serve as my witness against the Israelites!

He said, “I will reject them, I will see what will happen to them; for they are a perverse generation, children who show no loyalty.