Now at the end of the forty days and nights the <sc>Lordsc> presented me with the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

I will write on the tablets the same words<n id="1" /> that were on the first tablets you broke, and you must put them into the ark.&#8221;

Then I turned, went down the mountain, and placed the tablets into the ark I had made &#8211; they are still there, just as the <sc>Lordsc> commanded me.p>

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.

Fix these words of mine into your mind and being,<n id="1" /> and tie them as a reminder on your hands and let them be symbols<n id="2" /> on your forehead.

Only the holy things and votive offerings that belong to you, you must pick up and take to the place the <sc>Lordsc> will choose.<n id="1" />

Instead, you must kill him without fail!<n id="1" /> Your own hand must be the first to strike him,<n id="2" /> and then the hands of the whole community.

However, there should not be any poor among you, for the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> will surely bless<n id="2" /> you in the land that he<n id="3" /> is giving you as an inheritance,<n id="4" />

Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the <sc>Lordsc> your God redeemed you; therefore, I am commanding you to do this thing today.

However, if the servant<n id="1" /> says to you, &#8220;I do not want to leave<n id="2" /> you,&#8221; because he loves you and your household, since he is well off with you,

you shall take an awl and pierce a hole through his ear to the door.<n id="1" /> Then he will become your servant permanently (this applies to your female servant as well).

If they have any kind of blemish &#8211; lameness, blindness, or anything else<n id="1" /> &#8211; you may not offer them as a sacrifice to the <sc>Lordsc> your God.

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.

The witnesses<n id="1" /> must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people<n id="2" /> are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge evil from among you.p>

You will go to the Levitical priests and the judge in office in those days and seek a solution; they will render a verdict.

When he sits on his royal throne he must make a copy of this law<n id="1" /> on a scroll<n id="2" /> given to him by the Levitical priests.

<t /><p class="bodytext">The Levitical priests<n id="1" /> &#8211; indeed, the entire tribe of Levi &#8211; will have no allotment or inheritance with Israel; they may eat the burnt offerings of the <sc>Lordsc> and of his inheritance.<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.

I will personally hold responsible<n id="1" /> anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet<n id="2" /> speaks in my name.p>

You shall build a roadway and divide into thirds the whole extent<n id="1" /> of your land that the <sc>Lordsc> your God is providing as your inheritance; anyone who kills another person should flee to the closest of these cities.