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and you shall bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

And the Levite that is inside your gates, you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

Nevertheless there shall be no poor with you; (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it;)

For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you: and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.

but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he wants.

You shall surely give to him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.

For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the wages of a hired worker he has served you six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.

Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.

You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in a hurry: that you may remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

Judges and officers you shall make for yourself in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.

You shall not plant for yourself any kind of Asherah pole beside the altar of Yahweh your God, which you shall make for yourself.

Neither shall you set up for yourself a pillar; which Yahweh your God hates.

You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox, or a sheep, wherein is a blemish, [or] anything evil; for that is disgusting to Yahweh your God.

If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy inside your gates; then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose;

For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, him and his sons forever.

For whoever does these things is disgusting to Yahweh: and because of these disgusting things Yahweh your God drives them out from before you.

For these nations that you shall dispossess, listen to psychics and fortune-tellers; but as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you to do so.

you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.