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For you are a holy nation to the Lord your God. The Lord has chosen you to be His own nation out of all the nations on the earth.

Before the Lord your God, at the place He chooses to put His name, you may eat the tenth part of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the first-born of your cattle and your flock. Then you may learn to fear the Lord your God always.

If the place where the Lord your God chooses to put His name is too far away for you to bring the tenth part of all the good things you have received,

This is the way you are to do it: Every man who has loaned money must forget the debt. He cannot make his neighbor and his brother pay it because the Lord has said that all should be forgotten.

Then take a sharp tool and put it through his ear into the door. And he will be your servant forever. Do the same with your woman servant.

Give the Passover gift to the Lord your God from the flock and the cattle, in the place where the Lord chooses to put His name.

But give it at the place where the Lord your God chooses to put His name. You must kill the Passover gift in the evening when the sun goes down, at the time that you came out of Egypt.

Be full of joy before the Lord your God, you and your son and daughter, your men and women servants, the Levite who is in your town, the stranger, the child whose parents have died, and the woman whose husband has died. Be full of joy in the place where the Lord your God chooses to put His name.

He must not take many wives for himself or his heart may turn away. And he must not gather much silver and gold for himself.

"When he sits on the throne of his nation, he should write this Law for himself in a book in front of the Levite religious leaders.

It should be kept with him and he should read it all the days of his life. Then he will learn to fear the Lord his God, by being careful to obey all the words of these Laws.

And he will not think he is better than his brothers. He will not turn aside from the Law, to the right or to the left, so that he and his children may live long in his nation in Israel.

For the Lord your God has chosen him and his sons from all your families, to stand and serve in the name of the Lord forever.

then he may work in the name of the Lord his God, like all his brother Levites who stand there before the Lord.

There must not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire, or uses secret ways, or does witchcraft, or tells the meaning of special things, or is a witch,

I will give them a man who speaks for God like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth. And he will make known to them all that I tell him.

When a man who speaks for God speaks in the name of the Lord, and what he says does not come true, that word is not from the Lord. The man has spoken on his own. Do not be afraid of him.

"This is the law of the person who kills another and runs to a city to save his life. He might have killed his friend without meaning to, a friend he did not hate in the past.

He could have gone among the trees with his friend to cut wood. As he was using his ax to cut down a tree, the ax head could have come off the stick and hit his friend, killing him. Then he may run to one of these cities and live.

if you are careful to obey all the Laws I tell you today. Love the Lord your God. Walk in His ways always. Then you will add three other cities to these three.