However, only to your ancestors did he show his loving favor, and he chose you, their descendants, from all peoples – as is apparent today.

then he promises, “I will send rain for your land in its season, the autumn and the spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine, and olive oil.

For you are about to cross the Jordan to possess the land the Lord your God is giving you, and you will possess and inhabit it.

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

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 may eat it in your villages, whether you are ritually impure or clean, just as you would eat a gazelle or an ibex.

You must sacrifice the Passover animal (from the flock or the herd) to the Lord your God in the place where he chooses to locate his name.

You must appoint judges and civil servants for each tribe in all your villages that the Lord your God is giving you, and they must judge the people fairly.

you must bring to your city gates that man or woman who has done this wicked thing – that very man or woman – and you must stone that person to death.

You must then do as they have determined at that place the Lord chooses. Be careful to do just as you are taught.

Those nations that you are about to dispossess listen to omen readers and diviners, but the Lord your God has not given you permission to do such things.

The young woman’s father must say to the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man and he has rejected her.

Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and overpowers and rapes her and they are discovered.

You must not hate an Edomite, for he is your relative; you must not hate an Egyptian, for you lived as a foreigner in his land.

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

“The following tribes must stand to bless the people on Mount Gerizim when you cross the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with olive oil, because the olives will drop off the trees while still unripe.

Then he will bring you to the land your ancestors possessed and you also will possess it; he will do better for you and multiply you more than he did your ancestors.

I declare to you this very day that you will certainly perish! You will not extend your time in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

Surely he loves the people; all your holy ones are in your power. And they sit at your feet, each receiving your words.