You must not do like we are doing here today, with everyone doing what seems best to him,

You must not eat it so that it may go well with you and your children after you; you will be doing what is right in the Lord’s sight.

but whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is ritually impure to you.

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

However, you must not eat its blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.

You may not sacrifice the Passover in just any of your villages that the Lord your God is giving you,

You must eat bread made without yeast for six days. The seventh day you are to hold an assembly for the Lord your God; you must not do any work on that day.

They will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; the Lord alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.

There must never be found among you anyone who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, anyone who practices divination, an omen reader, a soothsayer, a sorcerer,

Now if you say to yourselves, ‘How can we tell that a message is not from the Lord?’ –

You must not pity him, but purge out the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

The rest of the people will hear and become afraid to keep doing such evil among you.

If it does not accept terms of peace but makes war with you, then you are to lay siege to it.

You must not plant your vineyard with two kinds of seed; otherwise the entire yield, both of the seed you plant and the produce of the vineyard, will be defiled.

But if the accusation is true and the young woman was not a virgin,

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

A man with crushed or severed genitals may not enter the assembly of the Lord.

You must not seek peace and prosperity for them through all the ages to come.

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

Indeed, he may live among you in any place he chooses, in whichever of your villages he prefers; you must not oppress him.