You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice the time of a hired worker; the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.

Then you are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks before the Lord your God with the voluntary offering that you will bring, in proportion to how he has blessed you.

For the Lord your God is a consuming fire; he is a jealous God.

If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering.

When your children ask you later on, “What are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that the Lord our God commanded you?”

We will be innocent if we carefully keep all these commandments before the Lord our God, just as he demands.”

Is this how you repay the Lord, you foolish, unwise people? Is he not your father, your creator? He has made you and established you.

They will fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, for the man who made the accusation ruined the reputation of an Israelite virgin. She will then become his wife and he may never divorce her as long as he lives.

When you finish tithing all your income in the third year (the year of tithing), you must give it to the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows so that they may eat to their satisfaction in your villages.

Look, he has placed the land in front of you! Go up, take possession of it, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, said to do. Do not be afraid or discouraged!”

The Levitical priests – indeed, the entire tribe of Levi – will have no allotment or inheritance with Israel; they may eat the burnt offerings of the Lord and of his inheritance.

The Lord your God has increased your population to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky.

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

As for the Levites in your villages, you must not ignore them, for they have no allotment or inheritance along with you.

You must not show pity; the principle will be a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, and a foot for a foot.

When you go out to do battle with your enemies and the Lord your God allows you to prevail and you take prisoners,

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

You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.

Then Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: “Pay attention to all the commandments I am giving you today.

You will return and obey the Lord, keeping all his commandments I am giving you today.