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

This is the blessing Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.

you must bring to your city gates that man or woman who has done this wicked thing – that very man or woman – and you must stone that person to death.

The person who pays no attention to the priest currently serving the Lord your God there, or to the verdict – that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel.

Moreover, the officers are to say to the troops, “Who among you has built a new house and not dedicated it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else dedicate it.

If a man is caught having sexual relations with a married woman both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge evil from Israel.

If the second husband rejects her and then divorces her, gives her the papers, and evicts her from his house, or if the second husband who married her dies,

I furthermore admonished your judges at that time that they should pay attention to issues among your fellow citizens and judge fairly, whether between one citizen and another or a citizen and a resident foreigner.

He will hand over their kings to you and you will erase their very names from memory. Nobody will be able to resist you until you destroy them.

some evil people have departed from among you to entice the inhabitants of their cities, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods” (whom you have not known before).

I will personally hold responsible anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet speaks in my name.

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

then both parties to the controversy must stand before the Lord, that is, before the priests and judges who will be in office in those days.

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.

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

Then all the men of his city must stone him to death. In this way you will purge out wickedness from among you, and all Israel will hear about it and be afraid.

If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, and regards him as mere property and sells him, that kidnapper must die. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

Fathers must not be put to death for what their children do, nor children for what their fathers do; each must be put to death for his own sin.

‘Cursed is the one who makes a carved or metal image – something abhorrent to the Lord, the work of the craftsman – and sets it up in a secret place.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.