Bear in mind today that I am not speaking<n id="1" /> to your children who have not personally experienced the judgments<n id="2" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> your God, which revealed<n id="3" /> his greatness, strength, and power.<n id="4" />

Only in the presence of the <sc>Lordsc> your God may you eat these, in the place he<n id="1" /> chooses. This applies to you, your son, your daughter, your male and female servants, and the Levites<n id="2" /> in your villages. In that place you will rejoice before the <sc>Lordsc> your God in all the output of your labor.<n id="3" />

Pay careful attention to all these things I am commanding you so that it may always go well with you and your children after you when you do what is good and right in the sight of the <sc>Lordsc> your God.p>

You must not worship the <sc>Lordsc> your God the way they do!<n id="1" /> For everything that is abhorrent<n id="2" /> to him,<n id="3" /> everything he hates, they have done when worshiping their gods. They even burn up their sons and daughters before their gods!p>

You shall rejoice before him<n id="1" /> &#8211; you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages,<n id="2" /> the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you &#8211; in the place where the <sc>Lordsc> chooses to locate his name.

Then he will not exalt himself above his fellow citizens or turn from the commandments to the right or left, and he and his descendants will enjoy many years ruling over his kingdom<n id="1" /> in Israel.p>

Then the Levitical priests<n id="1" /> will approach (for the <sc>Lordsc> your God has chosen them to serve him and to pronounce blessings in his name,<n id="2" /> and to decide<n id="3" /> every judicial verdict<n id="4" />)

Rather, he must acknowledge the son of the less loved<n id="1" /> wife as firstborn and give him the double portion<n id="2" /> of all he has, for that son is the beginning of his father&#8217;s procreative power<n id="3" /> &#8211; to him should go the right of the firstborn.p>

<p class="bodytext">If you happen to notice a bird&#8217;s nest along the road, whether in a tree or on the ground, and there are chicks or eggs with the mother bird sitting on them,<n id="1" /> you must not take the mother from the young.<n id="2" />

for they did not meet you with food and water on the way as you came from Egypt, and furthermore, they hired<n id="1" /> Balaam son of Beor of Pethor in Aram Naharaim to curse you.

<t /><p class="bodytext">If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man&#8217;s wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband&#8217;s brother must go to her, marry her,<n id="1" /> and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.<n id="2" />

He will withhold from all of them his children&#8217;s flesh that he is eating (since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict<n id="1" /> you in your villages.

Likewise, the most<n id="1" /> tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness,<n id="2" /> will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters,

and will secretly eat her afterbirth<n id="1" /> and her newborn children<n id="2" /> (since she has nothing else),<n id="3" /> because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext"><v id="(28:69)" /><n id="1" /> These are the words of the covenant that the <sc>Lordsc> commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb.<n id="2" />p>

The generation to come &#8211; your descendants who will rise up after you, as well as the foreigner who will come from distant places &#8211; will see<n id="1" /> the afflictions of that land and the illnesses that the <sc>Lordsc> has brought on it.

He said to them, &#8220;Today I am a hundred and twenty years old. I am no longer able to get about,<n id="1" /> and the <sc>Lordsc> has said to me, &#8216;You will not cross the Jordan.&#8217;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the Levitical priests, who carry the ark of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s covenant, and to all Israel&#8217;s elders.

Then their children, who have not known this law,<n id="1" /> will also hear about and learn to fear the <sc>Lordsc> your God for as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">butter from the herdp> <p class="poetry">and milk from the flock,p> <p class="poetry">along with the fat of lambs,p> <p class="poetry">rams and goats of Bashan,p> <p class="poetry">along with the best of the kernels of wheat;p> <p class="poetry">and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.p>