Be careful not to overlook the Levites as long as you live in the land.

These you may eat from among water creatures: anything with fins and scales you may eat,

You must be certain to tithe all the produce of your seed that comes from the field year after year.

At the end of every three years you must bring all the tithe of your produce, in that very year, and you must store it up in your villages.

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,

Furthermore, remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and so be careful to observe these statutes.

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

The Lord your God will deliver it over to you and you must kill every single male by the sword.

Then they must proclaim, “Our hands have not spilled this blood, nor have we witnessed the crime.

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

(23:1) A man may not marry his father’s former wife and in this way dishonor his father.

Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam along the way after you left Egypt.

You must stand outside and the person to whom you are making the loan will bring out to you what he is offering as security.

Remember what the Amalekites did to you on your way from Egypt,

You must build the altar of the Lord your God with whole stones and offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God.

You must inscribe on the stones all the words of this law, making them clear.”

“Because you have not served the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have,

He will infect you with all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will persistently afflict you.

Then we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh.