These six towns will be places of refuge for the Israelites, and for the foreigner, and for the settler among them, so that anyone who kills any person accidentally may flee there.

You, however, the Lord has selected and brought from Egypt, that iron-smelting furnace, to be his special people as you are today.

Then, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness while the mountain was ablaze, all your tribal leaders and elders approached me.

We will be innocent if we carefully keep all these commandments before the Lord our God, just as he demands.”

You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house and thereby become an object of divine wrath along with it. You must absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is an object of divine wrath.

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

I will write on the tablets the same words that were on the first tablets you broke, and you must put them into the ark.”

Then I turned, went down the mountain, and placed the tablets into the ark I had made – they are still there, just as the Lord commanded me.

Therefore Levi has no allotment or inheritance among his brothers; the Lord is his inheritance just as the Lord your God told him.

Fix these words of mine into your mind and being, and tie them as a reminder on your hands and let them be symbols on your forehead.

Only the holy things and votive offerings that belong to you, you must pick up and take to the place the Lord will choose.

Instead, you must kill him without fail! Your own hand must be the first to strike him, and then the hands of the whole community.

However, there should not be any poor among you, for the Lord will surely bless you in the land that he is giving you as an inheritance,

Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore, I am commanding you to do this thing today.

However, if the servant says to you, “I do not want to leave you,” because he loves you and your household, since he is well off with you,

you shall take an awl and pierce a hole through his ear to the door. Then he will become your servant permanently (this applies to your female servant as well).

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.

The witnesses must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

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