<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you &#8211; from your fellow Israelites;<n id="1" /> you must listen to him.

You must never bring the pay of a female prostitute<n id="1" /> or the wage of a male prostitute<n id="2" /> into the temple of the <sc>Lordsc> your God in fulfillment of any vow, for both of these are abhorrent to the <sc>Lordsc> your God.p>

Instead, the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy<n id="1" /> is one of hills and valleys, a land that drinks in water from the rains,<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">Israel lives in safety,p> <p class="poetry">the fountain of Jacob is quite secure,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">in a land of grain and new wine;p> <p class="poetry">indeed, its heavens<n id="2" /> rain down dew.<n id="3" />p>

I furthermore admonished your judges at that time that they<n id="1" /> should pay attention to issues among your fellow citizens<n id="2" /> and judge fairly,<n id="3" /> whether between one citizen and another<n id="4" /> or a citizen and a resident foreigner.<n id="5" />

You must not tremble in their presence, for the <sc>Lordsc> your God, who is present among you, is a great and awesome God.

You must not pervert justice or show favor. Do not take a bribe, for bribes blind the eyes of the wise and distort<n id="1" /> the words of the righteous.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">His people have been unfaithful<n id="1" /> to him;p> <p class="poetry">they have not acted like his children<n id="2" /> &#8211; this is their sin.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They are a perverse<n id="4" /> and deceitful generation.p>

Then the <sc>Lordsc> spoke to you from the middle of the fire; you heard speech but you could not see anything &#8211; only a voice was heard.<n id="1" />

Stand aside<n id="1" /> and I will destroy them, obliterating their very name from memory,<n id="2" /> and I will make you into a stronger and more numerous nation than they are.&#8221;p>

You may eat it in your villages,<n id="1" /> whether you are ritually impure or clean,<n id="2" /> just as you would eat a gazelle or an ibex.

<p class="poetry">How can one man chase a thousand of them,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and two pursue ten thousand;p> <p class="poetry">unless their Rock had delivered them up,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and the <sc>Lordsc> had handed them over?p>

When such a person<n id="1" /> hears the words of this oath he secretly<n id="2" /> blesses himself<n id="3" /> and says, &#8220;I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit.&#8221;<n id="4" /> This will destroy<n id="5" /> the watered ground with the parched.<n id="6" />

<p class="bodytext">(That also is considered to be a land of the Rephaites.<n id="1" /> The Rephaites lived there originally; the Ammonites call them Zamzummites.<n id="2" />

All of these cities were fortified by high walls, gates, and locking bars;<n id="1" /> in addition there were a great many open villages.<n id="2" />

Indeed, may the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of your ancestors, make you a thousand times more numerous than you are now, blessing you<n id="1" /> just as he said he would!

a land the <sc>Lordsc> your God looks after.<n id="1" /> He is constantly attentive to it<n id="2" /> from the beginning to the end of the year.<n id="3" />

But the <sc>Lordsc> your God refused to listen to Balaam and changed<n id="1" /> the curse to a blessing, for the <sc>Lordsc> your God loves<n id="2" /> you.

<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>

I thought this was a good idea,<n id="1" /> so I sent<n id="2" /> twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.