For anyone who acts dishonestly in these ways is abhorrent to the Lord your God.

Then all the nations will ask, “Why has the Lord done all this to this land? What is this fierce, heated display of anger all about?”

So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna. He did this to teach you that humankind cannot live by bread alone, but also by everything that comes from the Lord’s mouth.

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!

If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail,

Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, and they both bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.

The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his intense anger.

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

If a person commits a sin punishable by death and is executed, and you hang the corpse on a tree,

(23:1) A man may not marry his father’s former wife and in this way dishonor his father.

‘Cursed is the one who disrespects his father and mother.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

a nation of stern appearance that will have no regard for the elderly or pity for the young.

Understand, therefore, that it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God is about to give you this good land as a possession, for you are a stubborn people!

Therefore Levi has no allotment or inheritance among his brothers; the Lord is his inheritance just as the Lord your God told him.

For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God who is unbiased and takes no bribe,

If your fellow Hebrew – whether male or female – is sold to you and serves you for six years, then in the seventh year you must let that servant go free.

However, if the servant says to you, “I do not want to leave you,” because he loves you and your household, since he is well off with you,

Those nations that you are about to dispossess listen to omen readers and diviners, but the Lord your God has not given you permission to do such things.

Then the father and mother of the young woman must produce the evidence of virginity for the elders of the city at the gate.

The judge may sentence him to forty blows, but no more. If he is struck with more than these, you might view your fellow Israelite with contempt.