Indeed, it was the very hand of the Lord that eliminated them from within the camp until they were all gone.

So it was that after all the military men had been eliminated from the community,

These words I am commanding you today must be kept in mind,

you must say to them, “We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt in a powerful way.

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

Furthermore, remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and so be careful to observe these statutes.

They will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; the Lord alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.

As you move forward for battle, the priest will approach and say to the soldiers,

Then, when the officers have finished speaking, they must appoint unit commanders to lead the troops.

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

But if the accusation is true and the young woman was not a virgin,

If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets her in the city and has sexual relations with her,

When evening arrives he must wash himself with water and then at sunset he may reenter the camp.

When you beat your olive tree you must not repeat the procedure; the remaining olives belong to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.

When you gather the grapes of your vineyard you must not do so a second time; they should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.

Then, if the guilty person is sentenced to a beating, the judge shall force him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of blows his wicked behavior deserves.

The sky above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron.

Your carcasses will be food for every bird of the sky and wild animal of the earth, and there will be no one to chase them off.

You will become an occasion of horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule to all the peoples to whom the Lord will drive you.

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.