He<n id="1" /> buried him in the land of Moab near Beth Peor, but no one knows his exact burial place to this very day.

If you set them free, you must not send them away empty-handed.

&#8216;Cursed is the one who moves his neighbor&#8217;s boundary marker.&#8217; Then all the people will say, &#8216;Amen!&#8217;

Be on guard so that you do not forget the covenant of the <sc>Lordsc> your God that he has made with you, and that you do not make an image of any kind, just as he<n id="1" /> has forbidden<n id="2" /> you.

You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house and thereby become an object of divine wrath<n id="1" /> along with it.<n id="2" /> You must absolutely detest<n id="3" /> and abhor it,<n id="4" /> for it is an object of divine wrath.p>

instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty<n id="1" /> you will serve your enemies whom the <sc>Lordsc> will send against you. They<n id="2" /> will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.

Today he will affirm that you are his people and that he is your God,<n id="1" /> just as he promised you and as he swore by oath to your ancestors<n id="2" /> Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the <sc>Lordsc> destroyed in his intense anger.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="poetry">And this is the blessing<n id="1" /> to Judah. He said,p> <p class="poetry">Listen, O <sc>Lordsc>, to Judah&#8217;s voice,p> <p class="poetry">and bring him to his people.p> <p class="poetry">May his power be great,p> <p class="poetry">and may you help him against his foes.p>

<p class="poetry">He has selected the best part for himself,p> <p class="poetry">for the portion of the ruler<n id="1" /> is set aside<n id="2" /> there;p> <p class="poetry">he came with the leaders<n id="3" /> of the people,p> <p class="poetry">he obeyed the righteous laws of the <sc>Lordsc>p> <p class="poetry">and his ordinances with Israel.p>

Rather it is because of his<n id="1" /> love<n id="2" /> for you and his faithfulness to the promise<n id="3" /> he solemnly vowed<n id="4" /> to your ancestors<n id="5" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> brought you out with great power,<n id="6" /> redeeming<n id="7" /> you from the place of slavery, from the power<n id="8" /> of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Then you must come to the place the <sc>Lordsc> your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing<n id="1" /> everything I am commanding you &#8211; your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared,<n id="2" /> and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him.<n id="3" />

Then when<n id="1" /> many disasters and distresses overcome them<n id="2" /> this song will testify against them,<n id="3" /> for their<n id="4" /> descendants will not forget it.<n id="5" /> I know the<n id="6" /> intentions they have in mind<n id="7" /> today, even before I bring them<n id="8" /> to the land I have promised.&#8221;

Be careful lest you entertain the wicked thought that the seventh year, the year of cancellation of debts, has almost arrived, and your attitude<n id="1" /> be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite<n id="2" /> and you do not lend<n id="3" /> him anything; he will cry out to the <sc>Lordsc> against you and you will be regarded as having sinned.<n id="4" />

You shall rejoice before him<n id="1" /> &#8211; you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages,<n id="2" /> the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you &#8211; in the place where the <sc>Lordsc> chooses to locate his name.

Anyone who accidentally killed someone<n id="1" /> without hating him at the time of the accident<n id="2" /> could flee to one of those cities and be safe.

And today the <sc>Lordsc> has declared you to be his special people (as he already promised you) so you may keep all his commandments.

The <sc>Lordsc> will afflict you in your knees and on your legs with painful, incurable boils &#8211; from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the <sc>Lordsc> your God is making with you today.<n id="1" />

Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way,<n id="1" /> and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad,<n id="2" /> will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.