For the Lord your God has chosen them and their sons from all your tribes to stand and serve in his name permanently.

You must not oppress a lowly and poor servant, whether one from among your fellow Israelites or from the resident foreigners who are living in your land and villages.

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

On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the Lord your God blesses you in all your villages. Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.

the kite, the black kite, the dayyah after its species,

There you will worship gods made by human hands – wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.

This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.

But the Lord took note and despised them because his sons and daughters enraged him.

But all the livestock and plunder from the cities we kept for ourselves.

“During those days the Israelites traveled from Beeroth Bene-Yaaqan to Moserah. There Aaron died and was buried, and his son Eleazar became priest in his place.

From heaven he spoke to you in order to teach you, and on earth he showed you his great fire from which you also heard his words.

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.

whenever a prophet speaks in my name and the prediction is not fulfilled, then I have not spoken it; the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.”

Then the Levitical priests will approach (for the Lord your God has chosen them to serve him and to pronounce blessings in his name, and to decide every judicial verdict)

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.

you must not fear them. You must carefully recall what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt,

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

You must supply them generously from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress – as the Lord your God has blessed you, you must give to them.

Therefore, cleanse your heart and stop being so stubborn!

the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the falcon after its species,