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However, there need be no poor people among you, for in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess as your inheritance, he will richly bless you,
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if only you fully obey the Lord your God and are careful to follow all these commands I am giving you today.
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If anyone is poor among your fellow Israelites in any of the towns of the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward them.
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Then celebrate the Festival of Weeks to the Lord your God by giving a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings the Lord your God has given you.
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Judges
Appoint judges and officials for each of your tribes in every town the Lord your God is giving you, and they shall judge the people fairly.
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Follow justice and justice alone, so that you may live and possess the land the Lord your God is giving you.
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The King
When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”
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Occult Practices
When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.
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Cities of Refuge
When the Lord your God has destroyed the nations whose land he is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their towns and houses,
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then set aside for yourselves three cities in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
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Determine the distances involved and divide into three parts the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that a person who kills someone may flee for refuge to one of these cities.
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Do this so that innocent blood will not be shed in your land, which the Lord your God is giving you as your inheritance, and so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.
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Do not move your neighbor’s boundary stone set up by your predecessors in the inheritance you receive in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
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The judges must make a thorough investigation, and if the witness proves to be a liar, giving false testimony against a fellow Israelite,
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However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.
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Atonement for an Unsolved Murder
If someone is found slain, lying in a field in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who the killer was,
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He must acknowledge the son of his unloved wife as the firstborn by giving him a double share of all he has. That son is the first sign of his father’s strength. The right of the firstborn belongs to him.
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you must not leave the body hanging on the pole overnight. Be sure to bury it that same day, because anyone who is hung on a pole is under God’s curse. You must not desecrate the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
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then her first husband, who divorced her, is not allowed to marry her again after she has been defiled. That would be detestable in the eyes of the Lord. Do not bring sin upon the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
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You must have accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
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When the Lord your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land he is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you shall blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
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Firstfruits and Tithes
When you have entered the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance and have taken possession of it and settled in it,
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take some of the firstfruits of all that you produce from the soil of the land the Lord your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name
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When you have crossed the Jordan into the land the Lord your God is giving you, set up some large stones and coat them with plaster.
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Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you.
