And I said to you, ‘You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God gives us.

Then all of you came near me, and said, ‘Let us send men before us, that they may explore the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up and the cities into which we shall come.’

When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to the Lord your God and obey his voice,

“When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances which the Lord our God has commanded you?’

The Second Pair of Tablets

“At that time the Lord said to me, ‘Hew two tables of stone like the first, and come up to me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.

For the land which you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your feet, like a garden of vegetables;

for you have not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord your God gives you.

and the sign or wonder which he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’

Regulations concerning Tithes

“You shall tithe all the yield of your seed, which comes forth from the field year by year.

and the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled; that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.

Limitations of Royal Authority

“When you come to the land which the Lord your God gives you, and you possess it and dwell in it, and then say, ‘I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are round about me’;

“And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, where he lives—and he may come when he desires—to the place which the Lord will choose,

Child-Sacrifice, Divination, and Magic Prohibited

“When you come into the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.

when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word which the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you need not be afraid of him.

And when you draw near to the battle, the priest shall come forward and speak to the people,

then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure the distance to the cities which are around him that is slain;

And the priests the sons of Levi shall come forward, for the Lord your God has chosen them to minister to him and to bless in the name of the Lord, and by their word every dispute and every assault shall be settled.

“If you chance to come upon a bird’s nest, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting upon the young or upon the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young;

“If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of what chances to him by night, then he shall go outside the camp, he shall not come within the camp;

but when evening comes on, he shall bathe himself in water, and when the sun is down, he may come within the camp.

“If there is a dispute between men, and they come into court, and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,

First Fruits and Tithes

“When you come into the land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance, and have taken possession of it, and live in it,

And you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time, and say to him, ‘I declare this day to the Lord your God that I have come into the land which the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.’

And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God.

Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.