<t /><p class="bodytext">Suppose you should hear in one of your cities, which the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you as a place to live, that

you may convert the tithe into money, secure the money,<n id="1" /> and travel to the place the <sc>Lordsc> your God chooses for himself.

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" />

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).

Then you are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks<n id="1" /> before the <sc>Lordsc> your God with the voluntary offering<n id="2" /> that you will bring, in proportion to how he<n id="3" /> has blessed you.

You must pursue justice alone<n id="1" /> so that you may live and inherit the land the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you.p>

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.

<t /><p class="bodytext">When you enter the land the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations.

I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I command.

<t /><p class="bodytext">When the <sc>Lordsc> your God destroys the nations whose land he<n id="1" /> is about to give you and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and houses,

You must not shed innocent blood<n id="1" /> in your land that the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">You must not encroach on your neighbor&#8217;s property,<n id="1" /> which will have been defined<n id="2" /> in the inheritance you will obtain in the land the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you.<n id="3" />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.

<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.

<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,

Then he brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

You will celebrate all the good things that the <sc>Lordsc> your God has given you and your family,<n id="1" /> along with the Levites and the resident foreigners among you.p>

Then<n id="1" /> he will elevate you above all the nations he has made and you will receive praise, fame, and honor.<n id="2" /> You will<n id="3" /> be a people holy to the <sc>Lordsc> your God, as he has said.p>

The <sc>Lordsc> will cause your enemies who attack<n id="1" /> you to be struck down before you; they will attack you from one direction<n id="2" /> but flee from you in seven different directions.