² for you are a people holy^(A) to the Lord your God.^(B) Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the Lord has chosen you to be his treasured possession.^(C)

²⁸ At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes^(A) of that year’s produce and store it in your towns,^{(B) 29} so that the Levites (who have no allotment^(C) or inheritance^(D) of their own) and the foreigners,^(E) the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied,^(F) and so that the Lord your God may bless^(G) you in all the work of your hands.

Witnesses Summoned Against Israel

3 Hear this word, people of Israel, the word the Lord has spoken against you^(A)—against the whole family I brought up out of Egypt:^(B)

⁵ She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.”^[a](A) And her child was snatched up^(B) to God and to his throne.