but with whoever stands with us here today before the <sc>Lordsc> our God as well as those not with us here today.<n id="1" />p>

<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>

Then the Levites (because they have no allotment or inheritance with you), the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows of your villages may come and eat their fill so that the <sc>Lordsc> your God may bless you in all the work you do.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.

You must not do anything to the young woman &#8211; she has done nothing deserving of death. This case is the same as when someone attacks another person<n id="1" /> and murders him,

<t /><p class="bodytext">If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man&#8217;s wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband&#8217;s brother must go to her, marry her,<n id="1" /> and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.<n id="2" />

You will feel your way along at noon like the blind person does in darkness and you will not succeed in anything you do;<n id="1" /> you will be constantly oppressed and continually robbed, with no one to save you.

Then the <sc>Lordsc> will make you return to Egypt by ship, over a route I said to you that you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.&#8221;p>

At that time<n id="1" /> my anger will erupt against them<n id="2" /> and I will abandon them and hide my face from them until they are devoured. Many disasters and distresses will overcome<n id="3" /> them<n id="4" /> so that they<n id="5" /> will say at that time, &#8216;Have not these disasters<n id="6" /> overcome us<n id="7" /> because our<n id="8" /> God is not among us<n id="9" />?&#8217;