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And keep in mind the way by which the Lord your God has taken you through the waste land these forty years, so that he might make low your pride and put you to the test, to see what was in your heart and if you would keep his orders or not.

Take care that you do not make your burned offerings in any place you see:

See that you do not give up caring for the Levite as long as you are living in your land.

But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh.

Then give no attention to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God is testing you, to see if all the love of your heart and soul is given to him.

And see that there is no evil thought in your heart, moving you to say to yourself, The seventh year, the year of forgiveness is near; and so looking coldly on your poor countryman you give him nothing; and he will make an outcry to the Lord against you, and it will be judged as sin in you.

Then see that you take as your king the man named by the Lord your God: let your king be one of your countrymen, not a man of another nation who is not one of yourselves.

In answer to the request you made to the Lord your God in Horeb on the day of the great meeting, when you said, Let not the voice of the Lord my God come to my ears again, and let me not see this great fire any more, or death will overtake me.

You are to make ready a way, and see that the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, is marked out into three parts, to which any taker of life may go in flight.

And so I am ordering you to see that three towns are marked out for this purpose.

If among the prisoners you see a beautiful woman and it is your desire to make her your wife;

If you see your brother's ox or his sheep wandering, do not go by without helping, but take them back to your brother.

If you see your brother's ox or his ass falling down on the road, do not go by without giving him help in lifting it up again.

If by chance you see a place which a bird has made for itself in a tree or on the earth, with young ones or eggs, and the mother bird seated on the young ones or on the eggs, do not take the mother bird with the young:

See that you let the mother bird go, but the young ones you may take; so it will be well for you and your life will be long.

For the Lord your God is walking among your tents, to keep you safe and to give up into your hands those who are fighting against you; then let your tents be holy, so that he may see no unclean thing among you, and be turned away from you.

Whatever your lips have said, see that you do it; for you gave your word freely to the Lord your God.

So when the Lord your God has given you rest from all who are against you on every side, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, see to it that the memory of Amalek is cut off from the earth; keep this in mind.

And all the peoples of the earth will see that the name of the Lord is on you, and they will go in fear of you.

So that the things which your eyes have to see will send you out of your minds.