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!

Now at the end of the forty days and nights the Lord presented me with the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

Stand aside and I will destroy them, obliterating their very name from memory, and I will make you into a stronger and more numerous nation than they are.”

“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.

Teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, as you lie down, and as you get up.

You must follow the Lord your God and revere only him; and you must observe his commandments, obey him, serve him, and remain loyal to him.

If they have any kind of blemish – lameness, blindness, or anything else – you may not offer them as a sacrifice to the Lord your God.

You must not sacrifice to him a bull or sheep that has a blemish or any other defect, because that is considered offensive to the Lord your God.

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

If the Lord your God enlarges your borders as he promised your ancestors and gives you all the land he pledged to them,

You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.

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

then both parties to the controversy must stand before the Lord, that is, before the priests and judges who will be in office in those days.

so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship their gods, causing you to sin against the Lord your God.

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

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.

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.

Then the first son she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.

‘Cursed is the one who has sexual relations with his father’s former wife, for he dishonors his father.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

The man among you who is by nature tender and sensitive will turn against his brother, his beloved wife, and his remaining children.