This shall be the priests’ fair allotment from the people who offer sacrifices, whether bull or sheep – they must give to the priest the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach.

When the Lord your God destroys the nations whose land he is about to give you and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and houses,

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

When you see your neighbor’s ox or sheep going astray, do not ignore it; you must return it without fail to your neighbor.

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 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.

You must obey him and keep his commandments and statutes that I am giving you today.”

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

‘Cursed is the one who refuses to keep the words of this law.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

The Lord will plague you with deadly diseases until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess.

then the Lord will increase your punishments and those of your descendants – great and long-lasting afflictions and severe, enduring illnesses.

“(For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we crossed through the nations as we traveled.

Then people will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

“Take this scroll of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God. It will remain there as a witness against you,

He said to his father and mother, “I have not seen him,” and he did not acknowledge his own brothers or know his own children, for they kept your word, and guarded your covenant.

He buried him in the land of Moab near Beth Peor, but no one knows his exact burial place to this very day.

You replied to me that what I had said to you was good.

You were not willing to go up, however, but instead rebelled against the Lord your God.

When the Lord heard you, he became angry and made this vow:

You stood before the Lord your God at Horeb and he said to me, “Assemble the people before me so that I can tell them my commands. Then they will learn to revere me all the days they live in the land, and they will instruct their children.”