For the Lord your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks, springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills,

the blessing if you take to heart the commandments of the Lord your God that I am giving you today,

But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there.

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.

you may convert the tithe into money, secure the money, and travel to the place the Lord your God chooses for himself.

You will go to the Levitical priests and the judge in office in those days and seek a solution; they will render a verdict.

When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations.

I will personally hold responsible anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet speaks in my name.

However, suppose a person hates someone else and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, and then flees to one of these cities.

and all the elders of that city nearest the corpse must wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.

They must declare to the elders of his city, “Our son is stubborn and rebellious and pays no attention to what we say – he is a glutton and drunkard.”

Then the father and mother of the young woman must produce the evidence of virginity for the elders of the city at the gate.

If controversy arises between people, they should go to court for judgment. When the judges hear the case, they shall exonerate the innocent but condemn the guilty.

When you enter the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you occupy it and live in it,

So we cried out to the Lord, the God of our ancestors, and he heard us and saw our humiliation, toil, and oppression.

Then he brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Then Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel: “Be quiet and pay attention, Israel. Today you have become the people of the Lord your God.

When you came to this place King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to make war and we defeated them.

So the Lord has uprooted them from their land in anger, wrath, and great rage and has deported them to another land, as is clear today.”