Now if you say to yourselves,<n id="1" /> &#8216;How can we tell that a message is not from the <sc>Lordsc>?&#8217;<n id="2" /> &#8211;

you must say to them,<n id="1" /> &#8220;We were Pharaoh&#8217;s slaves in Egypt, but the <sc>Lordsc> brought us out of Egypt in a powerful way.<n id="2" />

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.

<p class="poetry">He said, &#8220;I will reject them,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will see what will happen to them;p> <p class="poetry">for they are a perverse generation,p> <p class="poetry">children<n id="2" /> who show no loyalty.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" />

They must declare to the elders<n id="1" /> of his city, &#8220;Our son is stubborn and rebellious and pays no attention to what we say &#8211; he is a glutton and drunkard.&#8221;

and that you may enjoy long life in the land the <sc>Lordsc> promised to give to your ancestors<n id="1" /> and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

They include the Anakites,<n id="1" /> a numerous<n id="2" /> and tall people whom you know about and of whom it is said, &#8220;Who is able to resist the Anakites?&#8221;

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.

for the <sc>Lordsc> your God, who is present among you, is a jealous God and his anger will erupt against you and remove you from the land.<n id="1" />p>

Or who among you has planted a vineyard and not benefited from it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else benefit from it.

<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" />

In fact, what other great nation has a god so near to them like the <sc>Lordsc> our God whenever we call on him?

Then the elders of the city nearest to the corpse<n id="1" /> must take from the herd a heifer that has not been worked &#8211; that has never pulled with the yoke &#8211;

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> found him<n id="2" /> in a desolate land,p> <p class="poetry">in an empty wasteland where animals howl.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">He continually guarded him<n id="4" /> and taught him;<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">he continually protected him<n id="6" /> like the pupil<n id="7" /> of his eye.p>

Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it?

<t /><p class="bodytext">You must not plant any kind of tree as a sacred Asherah pole<n id="1" /> near the altar of the <sc>Lordsc> your God which you build for yourself.

You must investigate thoroughly and inquire carefully. If it is indeed true that such a disgraceful thing is being done among you,<n id="1" />

However, suppose a person hates someone else<n id="1" /> and stalks him, attacks him, kills him,<n id="2" /> and then flees to one of these cities.

A person of illegitimate birth<n id="1" /> may not enter the assembly of the <sc>Lordsc>; to the tenth generation no one related to him may do so.<n id="2" />p>