Then he uttered this oracle: “The oracle of Balaam son of Beor; the oracle of the man whose eyes are open;

These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the Israelites in the plains of Moab along the Jordan River opposite Jericho.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range, and see the land I have given to the Israelites.

“‘Their grain offering is to be of finely ground flour mixed with olive oil, three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths of an ephah for the ram,

These six towns will be places of refuge for the Israelites, and for the foreigner, and for the settler among them, so that anyone who kills any person accidentally may flee there.

If he strikes him by throwing a stone large enough that he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

Moreover, you must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; he must surely be put to death.

The Lord your God is about to go ahead of you; he will fight for you, just as you saw him do in Egypt

So the Lord our God did indeed give over to us King Og of Bashan and his whole army and we struck them down until not a single survivor was left.

but who pays back those who hate him as they deserve and destroys them. He will not ignore those who hate him but will repay them as they deserve!

I will write on the tablets the same words that were on the first tablets you broke, and you must put them into the ark.”

a land the Lord your God looks after. He is constantly attentive to it from the beginning to the end of the year.

Instead, you must kill him without fail! Your own hand must be the first to strike him, and then the hands of the whole community.

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.

When he sits on his royal throne he must make a copy of this law on a scroll given to him by the Levitical priests.

The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger to die.

Then the elders of the city nearest to the corpse must take from the herd a heifer that has not been worked – that has never pulled with the yoke –

You must be sure to let the mother go, but you may take the young for yourself. Do this so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life.

If you build a new house, you must construct a guard rail around your roof to avoid being culpable in the event someone should fall from it.

The judge may sentence him to forty blows, but no more. If he is struck with more than these, you might view your fellow Israelite with contempt.