This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">As for the cities of these peoples that<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing<n id="2" /> to survive.

Instead you must utterly annihilate them<n id="1" /> &#8211; the Hittites,<n id="2" /> Amorites,<n id="3" /> Canaanites,<n id="4" /> Perizzites,<n id="5" /> Hivites,<n id="6" /> and Jebusites<n id="7" /> &#8211; just as the <sc>Lordsc> your God has commanded you,

<t /><p class="bodytext">If a homicide victim<n id="1" /> should be found lying in a field in the land the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you,<n id="2" /> and no one knows who killed<n id="3" /> him,

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.

If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go<n id="1" /> where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell<n id="2" /> her;<n id="3" /> you must not take advantage of<n id="4" /> her, since you have already humiliated<n id="5" /> her.p>

You shall do the same to his donkey, his clothes, or anything else your neighbor<n id="1" /> has lost and you have found; you must not refuse to get involved.<n id="2" />

But if the man came across<n id="1" /> the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped<n id="2" /> her, then only the rapist<n id="3" /> must die.

Then<n id="1" /> the first son<n id="2" /> she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.

how they met you along the way and cut off all your stragglers in the rear of the march when you were exhausted and tired; they were unafraid of God.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">When<n id="1" /> you enter the land that the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you occupy it and live in it,

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.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: &#8220;Pay attention to all the commandments<n id="1" /> I am giving<n id="2" /> you today.

So when you cross the Jordan you must erect on Mount Ebal<n id="1" /> these stones about which I am commanding you today, and you must cover them with plaster.

You must obey him<n id="1" /> and keep his commandments and statutes that I am giving you today.&#8221;

&#8216;Cursed is the one<n id="1" /> who makes a carved or metal image &#8211; something abhorrent<n id="2" /> to the <sc>Lordsc>, the work of the craftsman<n id="3" /> &#8211; and sets it up in a secret place.&#8217; Then all the people will say, &#8216;Amen!&#8217;<n id="4" />

&#8216;Cursed is the one who refuses to keep the words of this law.&#8217; Then all the people will say, &#8216;Amen!&#8217;p>

The <sc>Lordsc> will decree blessing for you with respect to your barns and in everything you do &#8211; yes, he will bless you in the land he<n id="1" /> is giving you.

The <sc>Lordsc> will designate you as his holy people just as he promised you, if you keep his commandments<n id="1" /> and obey him.<n id="2" />

The <sc>Lordsc> will greatly multiply your children,<n id="1" /> the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land which he<n id="2" /> promised your ancestors<n id="3" /> he would give you.