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Yet the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam, but he turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lord your God loves you.

For the Lord your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you; so your encampments must be holy. He must not see anything indecent among you or he will turn away from you.

Do not bring a female prostitute’s wages or a male prostitute’s earnings into the house of the Lord your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the Lord your God.

You may charge a foreigner interest, but you must not charge your brother Israelite interest, so that the Lord your God may bless you in everything you do in the land you are entering to possess.

“If you make a vow to the Lord your God, do not be slow to keep it, because he will require it of you, and it will be counted against you as sin.

Be careful to do whatever comes from your lips, because you have freely vowed what you promised to the Lord your God.

the first husband who sent her away may not marry her again after she has been defiled, because that would be detestable to the Lord. You must not bring guilt on the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam on the journey after you left Egypt.

Be sure to return it to him at sunset. Then he will sleep in it and bless you, and this will be counted as righteousness to you before the Lord your God.

Remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you from there. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.

“When you reap the harvest in your field, and you forget a sheaf in the field, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

You must have a full and honest weight, a full and honest dry measure, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

For everyone who does such things and acts unfairly is detestable to the Lord your God.

They met you along the way and attacked all your stragglers from behind when you were tired and weary. They did not fear God.

When the Lord your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, blot out the memory of Amalek under heaven. Do not forget.

“When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you take possession of it and live in it,

take some of the first of all the land’s produce that you harvest from the land the Lord your God is giving you and put it in a basket. Then go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to have his name dwell.

When you come before the priest who is serving at that time, say to him, ‘Today I declare to the Lord your God that I have entered the land the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.’

“Then the priest will take the basket from you and place it before the altar of the Lord your God.

You are to respond by saying in the presence of the Lord your God: