who justly treats<n id="1" /> the orphan and widow, and who loves resident foreigners, giving them food and clothing.

<t /><p class="bodytext">If a person commits a sin punishable by death and is executed, and you hang the corpse<n id="1" /> on a tree,

<p class="bodytext">You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow&#8217;s garment as security for a loan.

&#8216;Cursed is the one who perverts justice for the resident foreigner, the orphan, and the widow.&#8217; Then all the people will say, &#8216;Amen!&#8217;

<t /><p class="bodytext">You must appoint judges and civil servants<n id="1" /> for each tribe in all your villages<n id="2" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you, and they must judge the people fairly.<n id="3" />

You must not pervert justice or show favor. Do not take a bribe, for bribes blind the eyes of the wise and distort<n id="1" /> the words of the righteous.<n id="2" />

This shall be the priests&#8217; fair allotment<n id="1" /> from the people who offer sacrifices, whether bull or sheep &#8211; they must give to the priest the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach.

<p class="poetry">As for the Rock,<n id="1" /> his work is perfect,p> <p class="poetry">for all his ways are just.p> <p class="poetry">He is a reliable God who is never unjust,p> <p class="poetry">he is fair<n id="2" /> and upright.p>

Otherwise the blood avenger will chase after the killer in the heat of his anger, eventually overtake him,<n id="1" /> and kill him,<n id="2" /> though this is not a capital case<n id="3" /> since he did not hate him at the time of the accident.

Rather, he must acknowledge the son of the less loved<n id="1" /> wife as firstborn and give him the double portion<n id="2" /> of all he has, for that son is the beginning of his father&#8217;s procreative power<n id="3" /> &#8211; to him should go the right of the firstborn.p>