You must celebrate the Festival of Temporary Shelters ¹  for seven days, at the time of the grain and grape harvest. ² 

Then they must proclaim, “Our hands have not spilled this blood, nor have we ¹  witnessed the crime. ² 

his father and mother must seize him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city.

When evening arrives he must wash himself with water and then at sunset he may reenter the camp.

And these other tribes must stand for the curse on Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

You must set apart ¹  for the Lord your God every firstborn male born to your herds and flocks. You must not work the firstborn of your bulls or shear the firstborn of your flocks.

You must eat bread made without yeast for six days. The seventh day you are to hold an assembly for the Lord your God; you must not do any work on that day. ¹ 

At the end of every three years you must bring all the tithe of your produce, in that very year, and you must store it up in your villages.

You must appoint judges and civil servants ¹  for each tribe in all your villages ²  that the Lord your God is giving you, and they must judge the people fairly. ³ 

For I will proclaim the name ¹  of the Lord; you must acknowledge the greatness of our God.

and he ¹  delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate ²  them. Make no treaty ³  with them and show them no mercy!

You must not eat any yeast with it; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, symbolic of affliction, for you came out of Egypt hurriedly. You must do this so you will remember for the rest of your life the day you came out of the land of Egypt.

If there is someone among you who is impure because of some nocturnal emission, ¹  he must leave the camp; he may not reenter it immediately.

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

Every one of you must give as you are able, ¹  according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you.

The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you – from your fellow Israelites; ¹  you must listen to him.

You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.

You must build the altar of the Lord your God with whole stones and offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God.

You must not pervert justice or show favor. Do not take a bribe, for bribes blind the eyes of the wise and distort ¹  the words of the righteous. ² 

You must not do like we are doing here today, with everyone ¹  doing what seems best to him,