<t /><p class="bodytext">There must never be a sacred prostitute<n id="1" /> among the young women<n id="2" /> of Israel nor a sacred male prostitute<n id="3" /> among the young men<n id="4" /> of Israel.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Listen, Israel: The <sc>Lordsc> is our God, the <sc>Lordsc> is one!<n id="1" />

His family name will be referred to<n id="1" /> in Israel as &#8220;the family<n id="2" /> of the one whose sandal was removed.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

Do not blame<n id="1" /> your people Israel whom you redeemed, O <sc>Lordsc>, and do not hold them accountable for the bloodshed of an innocent person.&#8221;<n id="2" /> Then atonement will be made for the bloodshed.

<p class="bodytext">Then Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel: &#8220;Be quiet and pay attention, Israel. Today you have become the people of the <sc>Lordsc> your God.

<t /><p class="bodytext">This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites.<n id="1" />

These are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that Moses spoke to the Israelites after he had brought them out of Egypt,

You must not pity him, but purge out the blood of the innocent<n id="1" /> from Israel, so that it may go well with you.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;The Levites will call out to every Israelite<n id="1" /> with a loud voice:

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Moses went<n id="1" /> and spoke these words<n id="2" /> to all Israel.

So on that day Moses wrote down this song and taught it to the Israelites,

Then Moses recited the words of this song from start to finish in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel.p>

<p class="poetry">When the Most High<n id="1" /> gave the nations their inheritance,p> <p class="poetry">when he divided up humankind,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he set the boundaries of the peoples,p> <p class="poetry">according to the number of the heavenly assembly.<n id="3" />p>

When Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel

<t /><p class="bodytext">This is the blessing Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> was king over Jeshurun,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">when the leaders of the people assembled,p> <p class="poetry">the tribes of Israel together.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">They will teach Jacob your ordinancesp> <p class="poetry">and Israel your law;p> <p class="poetry">they will offer incense as a pleasant odor,p> <p class="poetry">and a whole offering on your altar.p>

No prophet ever again arose in Israel like Moses, who knew the <sc>Lordsc> face to face.<n id="1" />

and he displayed great power<n id="1" /> and awesome might in view of all Israel.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Moses called all the people of Israel together and said to them:<n id="1" /> &#8220;Listen, Israel, to the statutes and ordinances that I am about to deliver to you today; learn them and be careful to keep them!