Whatever you vow, you must be careful to do what you have promised, such as what you have vowed to the <sc>Lordsc> your God as a freewill offering.

For you are a people holy<n id="1" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> your God. He<n id="2" /> has chosen you to be his people, prized<n id="3" /> above all others on the face of the earth.p>

I say this<n id="1" /> so you will not corrupt yourselves by making an image in the form of any kind of figure. This includes the likeness of a human male or female,

Suppose a Levite comes by his own free will<n id="1" /> from one of your villages, from any part of Israel where he is living,<n id="2" /> to the place the <sc>Lordsc> chooses

For you are a people holy<n id="1" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> your God. He<n id="2" /> has chosen you to be his people, prized<n id="3" /> above all others on the face of the earth.

whenever a prophet speaks in my<n id="1" /> name and the prediction<n id="2" /> is not fulfilled,<n id="3" /> then I have<n id="4" /> not spoken it;<n id="5" /> the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.&#8221;p>

They are a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites. But the <sc>Lordsc> destroyed the Rephaites<n id="1" /> in advance of the Ammonites,<n id="2" /> so they dispossessed them and settled down in their place.

When you go into the ripe grain fields of your neighbor you may pluck off the kernels with your hand,<n id="1" /> but you must not use a sickle on your neighbor&#8217;s ripe grain.p>

As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.

&#8220;Take this scroll of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the <sc>Lordsc> your God. It will remain there as a witness against you,

You must not hate an Edomite, for he is your relative;<n id="1" /> you must not hate an Egyptian, for you lived as a foreigner<n id="2" /> in his land.

The <sc>Lordsc> your God will give them over to you; he will throw them into a great panic<n id="1" /> until they are destroyed.

(for he<n id="1" /> is a merciful God), he will not let you down<n id="2" /> or destroy you, for he cannot<n id="3" /> forget the covenant with your ancestors that he confirmed by oath to them.p>

<p class="bodytext">You must not oppress a lowly and poor servant, whether one from among your fellow Israelites<n id="1" /> or from the resident foreigners who are living in your land and villages.<n id="2" />

Then they took<n id="1" /> some of the produce of the land and carried it back down to us. They also brought a report to us, saying, &#8220;The land that the <sc>Lordsc> our God is about to give us is good.&#8221;p>

Do not be hostile toward them, because I am not giving you any of their land, not even a footprint, for I have given Mount Seir<n id="1" /> as an inheritance for Esau.

You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice<n id="1" /> the time of a hired worker; the <sc>Lordsc> your God will bless you in everything you do.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">When you come to the land the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you and take it over and live in it and then say, &#8220;I will select a king like all the nations surrounding me,&#8221;

accusing her of impropriety<n id="1" /> and defaming her reputation<n id="2" /> by saying, &#8220;I married this woman but when I had sexual relations<n id="3" /> with her I discovered she was not a virgin!&#8221;

The Amorite inhabitants of that area<n id="1" /> confronted<n id="2" /> you and chased you like a swarm of bees, striking you down from Seir as far as Hormah.<n id="3" />