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You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.

You are to go to the Levitical priests and to the judge who presides at that time. Inquire of them, and they will give you a verdict in the case.

according to the terms of law they give and the verdict they proclaim. Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from the decision they declare to you.

Then the rest of the people will hear and be afraid, and they will never again do anything so evil among you.

If they accept your offer of peace and open their gates, all the people there will become forced laborers to serve you.

But if they refuse to make peace with you and wage war against you, lay siege to that city.

so that they cannot teach you to do all the detestable things they do for their gods and cause you to sin against the LORD your God.

and they shall declare, "Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.

And now he has accused her of shameful conduct, saying, 'I discovered your daughter was not a virgin.' But here is the proof of her virginity." And they shall spread out the cloth before the city elders.

They are also to fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman's father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. And she shall remain his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.

If a man encounters a virgin who is not pledged in marriage, and he overpowers her and rapes her, and they are discovered,

For they did not meet you with food and water on your way out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to curse you.

If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court to be judged, so that the innocent may be acquitted and the guilty condemned.

how they met you on your journey when you were tired and weary, and they attacked all your stragglers; they had no fear of God.

When you have finished laying aside a tenth of all of your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you are to give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat and be filled within your gates.

Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will stand in awe of you.

You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.

All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the commandments and statutes He gave you.

They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.

They will besiege all your cities, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen in all the land. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you.