Then the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you that you have beaten me these three times?”

Balak said to Balaam, “Did I not send again and again to you to summon you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to honor you?”

Balaam said to Balak, “Station yourself by your burnt offering, and I will go off; perhaps the Lord will come to meet me, and whatever he reveals to me I will tell you.” Then he went to a deserted height.

The Lord replied to Moses, “Take Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is such a spirit, and lay your hand on him;

In your distress when all these things happen to you in the latter days, if you return to the Lord your God and obey him

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

You must not make for yourself an image of anything in heaven above, on earth below, or in the waters beneath.

Do whatever is proper and good before the Lord so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he promised your ancestors,

Be sure you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments, ordinances, and statutes that I am giving you today.

and who brought you through the great, fearful desert of venomous serpents and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow from a flint rock and

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!

Then he said to me, “Get up, set out leading the people so they may go and possess the land I promised to give to their ancestors.”

for you have not yet come to the final stop and inheritance the Lord your God is giving you.

Only the holy things and votive offerings that belong to you, you must pick up and take to the place the Lord will choose.

Suppose you should hear in one of your cities, which the Lord your God is giving you as a place to live, that

However, there should not be any poor among you, for the Lord will surely bless you in the land that he is giving you as an inheritance,

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.

you shall take an awl and pierce a hole through his ear to the door. Then he will become your servant permanently (this applies to your female servant as well).

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 must pursue justice alone so that you may live and inherit the land the Lord your God is giving you.