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"Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak to him. And if he persists and says, 'I do not desire to take her,'

then his brother's widow shall come up to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face; and she shall declare, 'This is what is done to the man who does not build up his brother's house!'

"And in Israel his family shall be called by the name, 'The house of him whose sandal was removed.'

then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.

"You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small.

"You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small.

"You shall have a correct and honest weight; you shall have a correct and honest measure, so that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

"So it shall come about, when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your surrounding enemies in the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, that you shall wipe out the mention of the name Amalek from under heaven; you must not forget.

"Then it shall be, when you enter the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you take possession of it and live in it,

that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground which you bring in from your land that the LORD your God gives you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place where the LORD your God chooses to establish His name.

"And you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, 'I declare today to the LORD my God that I have entered the land which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.'

"Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it before the altar of the LORD your God.

"And you shall respond and say before the LORD your God, 'My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and resided there, few in number; but there he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.

'And now behold, I have brought the first of the produce of the ground which You, LORD have given me.' Then you shall set it before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God;

and you, the Levite, and the stranger who is among you shall rejoice in all the good which the LORD your God has given you and your household.

"When you have finished paying all the tithe of your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the stranger, to the orphan, and to the widow, so that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied.

"And you shall say before the LORD your God, 'I have removed the sacred portion from my house, and have also given it to the Levite, the stranger, the orphan, and the widow, in accordance with all Your commandments which You have commanded me; I have not violated or forgotten any of Your commandments.

"This day the LORD your God commands you to perform these statutes and ordinances. Therefore you shall be careful to perform them with all your heart and with all your soul.

and that He will put you high above all the nations which He has made, for glory, fame, and honor; and that you shall be a consecrated people to the LORD your God, just as He has spoken."

"So it shall be on the day when you cross the Jordan to the land which the LORD your God is giving you, that you shall set up for yourself large stones and coat them with lime