So at that time we took the land of the two Amorite kings in the Transjordan from Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">This is the land we brought under our control at that time: The territory extending from Aroer<n id="1" /> by the Wadi Arnon and half the Gilead hill country with its cities I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites.<n id="2" />

Moreover, at that same time the <sc>Lordsc> commanded me to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to keep in the land which you are about to enter and possess.<n id="1" />p>

Today realize and carefully consider that the <sc>Lordsc> is God in heaven above and on earth below &#8211; there is no other!

So realize that the <sc>Lordsc> your God is the true God,<n id="1" /> the faithful God who keeps covenant faithfully<n id="2" /> with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

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>

Moreover, he said to me, &#8220;I have taken note of these people; they are a stubborn<n id="1" /> lot!

For I was terrified at the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s intense anger<n id="1" /> that threatened to destroy you. But he<n id="2" /> listened to me this time as well.

<t /><p class="bodytext">At that same time the <sc>Lordsc> said to me, &#8220;Carve out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones and come up the mountain to me; also make for yourself a wooden ark.<n id="1" />

Therefore Levi has no allotment or inheritance<n id="1" /> among his brothers;<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc> is his inheritance just as the <sc>Lordsc> your God told him.

You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars,<n id="1" /> burn up their sacred Asherah poles,<n id="2" /> and cut down the images of their gods; you must eliminate their very memory from that place.

However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself<n id="1" /> &#8211; you must not eat the life with the meat!

You must not sacrifice to him<n id="1" /> a bull or sheep that has a blemish or any other defect, because that is considered offensive<n id="2" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> your God.

You must then do as they have determined at that place the <sc>Lordsc> chooses. Be careful to do just as you are taught.

For the <sc>Lordsc> your God has chosen them and their sons from all your tribes to stand<n id="1" /> and serve in his name<n id="2" /> permanently.

and all the elders of that city nearest the corpse<n id="1" /> must wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.<n id="2" />

Moreover, he has raised accusations of impropriety by saying, &#8216;I discovered your daughter was not a virgin,&#8217; but this is the evidence of my daughter&#8217;s virginity!&#8221; The cloth must then be spread out<n id="1" /> before the city&#8217;s elders.

You must not hate an Edomite, for he is your relative;<n id="1" /> you must not hate an Egyptian, for you lived as a foreigner<n id="2" /> in his land.

<p class="bodytext">If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites,<n id="1" /> and regards him as mere property<n id="2" /> and sells him, that kidnapper<n id="3" /> must die. In this way you will purge<n id="4" /> evil from among you.p>

That is why the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s anger erupted against this land, bringing on it all the curses<n id="1" /> written in this scroll.