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Deut 6:5; Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

Deut 6:15; for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the land.

Deut 12:5; But you are to seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his Name there for his dwelling. To that place you must go;

Deut 12:6; there bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, what you have vowed to give and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

Deut 12:7; There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your families shall eat and shall rejoice in everything you have put your hand to, because the LORD your God has blessed you.

Deut 12:30; and after they have been destroyed before you, be careful not to be ensnared by inquiring about their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? We will do the same.”

Deut 18:1; The priests, who are Levites—indeed the whole tribe of Levi—are to have no allotment or inheritance with Israel. They shall live on the offerings made to the LORD by fire, for that is their inheritance.

Deut 18:2; They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the LORD is their inheritance, as he promised them.

Deut 18:3; This is the share due the priests from the people who sacrifice a bull or a sheep: the shoulder, the jowls and the inner parts.

Deut 18:4; You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine and oil, and the first wool from the shearing of your sheep,

Deut 18:5; for the LORD your God has chosen them and their descendants out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the LORD'S name always.

Deut 18:6; If a Levite moves from one of your towns anywhere in Israel where he is living, and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose,

Deut 18:7; he may minister in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who serve there in the presence of the LORD.

Deut 18:8; He is to share equally in their benefits, even though he has received money from the sale of family possessions.

Deut 18:9; When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.

Deut 18:10; Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft,

Deut 18:11; or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead.

Deut 18:12; Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD, and because of these detestable practices the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you.

Deut 18:13; You must be blameless before the LORD your God.

Deut 18:14; The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery or divination. But as for you, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.

Deut 18:15; The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him.

Deut 18:16; For this is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die.”

Deut 18:17; The LORD said to me: “What they say is good.

Deut 18:18; I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.

Deut 18:19; If anyone does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name, I myself will call him to account.

Deut 18:20; But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded him to say, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, must be put to death.”

Deut 18:21; You may say to yourselves, “How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the LORD?”

Deut 18:22; If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD does not take place or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.

Deut 19:1; When the LORD your God has destroyed the nations whose land he is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their towns and houses,

Deut 19:2; then set aside for yourselves three cities centrally located in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

Deut 19:3; Build roads to them and divide into three parts the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that anyone who kills a man may flee there.

Deut 19:4; This is the rule concerning the man who kills another and flees there to save his life—one who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without malice aforethought.

Deut 19:5; For instance, a man may go into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and as he swings his ax to fell a tree, the head may fly off and hit his neighbor and kill him. That man may flee to one of these cities and save his life.

Deut 19:6; Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue him in a rage, overtake him if the distance is too great, and kill him even though he is not deserving of death, since he did it to his neighbor without malice aforethought.

Deut 19:7; This is why I command you to set aside for yourselves three cities.

Deut 19:8; If the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he promised on oath to your forefathers, and gives you the whole land he promised them,

Deut 19:9; because you carefully follow all these laws I command you today—to love the LORD your God and to walk always in his ways—then you are to set aside three more cities.

Deut 19:10; Do this so that innocent blood will not be shed in your land, which the LORD your God is giving you as your inheritance, and so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.

Deut 19:11; But if a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him, assaults and kills him, and then flees to one of these cities,

Deut 19:12; the elders of his town shall send for him, bring him back from the city, and hand him over to the avenger of blood to die.

Deut 19:13; Show him no pity. You must purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, so that it may go well with you.

Deut 19:14; Do not move your neighbor's boundary stone set up by your predecessors in the inheritance you receive in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

Deut 19:15; One witness is not enough to convict a man accused of any crime or offense he may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Deut 19:16; If a malicious witness takes the stand to accuse a man of a crime,

Deut 19:17; the two men involved in the dispute must stand in the presence of the LORD before the priests and the judges who are in office at the time.

Deut 19:18; The judges must make a thorough investigation, and if the witness proves to be a liar, giving false testimony against his brother,

Deut 19:19; then do to him as he intended to do to his brother. You must purge the evil from among you.

Deut 19:20; The rest of the people will hear of this and be afraid, and never again will such an evil thing be done among you.

Deut 19:21; Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Deut 20:1; When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be afraid of them, because the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with you.

Deut 20:2; When you are about to go into battle, the priest shall come forward and address the army.

Deut 20:3; He shall say: “Hear, O Israel, today you are going into battle against your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not be terrified or give way to panic before them.

Deut 20:4; For the LORD your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.”

Deut 20:5; The officers shall say to the army: “Has anyone built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else may dedicate it.

Deut 20:6; Has anyone planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy it? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else enjoy it.

Deut 20:7; Has anyone become pledged to a woman and not married her? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else marry her.”

Deut 20:8; Then the officers shall add, “Is any man afraid or fainthearted? Let him go home so that his brothers will not become disheartened too.”

Deut 20:9; When the officers have finished speaking to the army, they shall appoint commanders over it.

Deut 20:10; When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace.

Deut 20:11; If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you.

Deut 20:12; If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city.

Deut 20:13; When the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it.

Deut 20:14; As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the LORD your God gives you from your enemies.

Deut 20:15; This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

Deut 20:16; However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.

Deut 20:17; Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you.

Deut 20:18; Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the LORD your God.

Deut 20:19; When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit. Do not cut them down. Are the trees of the field people, that you should besiege them?

Deut 20:20; However, you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees and use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls.

Deut 21:1; If a man is found slain, lying in a field in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,

Deut 21:2; your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance from the body to the neighboring towns.

Deut 21:3; Then the elders of the town nearest the body shall take a heifer that has never been worked and has never worn a yoke

Deut 21:4; and lead her down to a valley that has not been plowed or planted and where there is a flowing stream. There in the valley they are to break the heifer's neck.

Deut 21:5; The priests, the sons of Levi, shall step forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to minister and to pronounce blessings in the name of the LORD and to decide all cases of dispute and assault.

Deut 21:6; Then all the elders of the town nearest the body shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley,

Deut 21:7; and they shall declare: “Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it done.

Deut 21:8; Accept this atonement for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, O LORD, and do not hold your people guilty of the blood of an innocent man.” And the bloodshed will be atoned for.

Deut 21:9; So you will purge from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the LORD.

Deut 21:10; When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives,

Deut 21:11; if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife.

Deut 21:12; Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails

Deut 21:13; and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife.

Deut 21:14; If you are not pleased with her, let her go wherever she wishes. You must not sell her or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.

Deut 21:15; If a man has two wives, and he loves one but not the other, and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the wife he does not love,

Deut 21:16; when he wills his property to his sons, he must not give the rights of the firstborn to the son of the wife he loves in preference to his actual firstborn, the son of the wife he does not love.

Deut 21:17; He must acknowledge the son of his unloved wife as the firstborn by giving him a double share of all he has. That son is the first sign of his father’s strength. The right of the firstborn belongs to him.

Deut 21:18; If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him,

Deut 21:19; his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town.

Deut 21:20; They shall say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard.”

Deut 21:21; Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.

Deut 21:22; If a man guilty of a capital offense is put to death and his body is hung on a tree,

Deut 21:23; you must not leave his body on the tree overnight. Be sure to bury him that same day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not desecrate the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

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