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

You must not return an escaped slave to his master when he has run away to you.

When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you may not go into his house to claim what he is offering as security.

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

Then he will bring you to the land your ancestors possessed and you also will possess it; he will do better for you and multiply you more than he did your ancestors.

Then Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.

For I raise up my hand to heaven, and say, ‘As surely as I live forever,

When Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel

No prophet ever again arose in Israel like Moses, who knew the Lord face to face.

You must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer, for the Lord your God will be testing you to see if you love him with all your mind and being.

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.

“Listen, Israel! Today you are moving forward to do battle with your enemies. Do not be fainthearted. Do not fear and tremble or be terrified because of them,

If there is someone among you who is impure because of some nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp; he may not reenter it immediately.

You must go to the priest in office at that time and say to him, “I declare today to the Lord your God that I have come into the land that the Lord promised to our ancestors to give us.”

For after I have brought them to the land I promised to their ancestors – one flowing with milk and honey – and they eat their fill and become fat, then they will turn to other gods and worship them; they will reject me and break my covenant.

However, you did not approach the land of the Ammonites, the Wadi Jabbok, the cities of the hill country, or any place else forbidden by the Lord our God.

(for he is a merciful God), he will not let you down or destroy you, for he cannot forget the covenant with your ancestors that he confirmed by oath to them.

Today realize and carefully consider that the Lord is God in heaven above and on earth below – there is no other!

for the Lord your God, who is present among you, is a jealous God and his anger will erupt against you and remove you from the land.

You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house and thereby become an object of divine wrath along with it. You must absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is an object of divine wrath.