remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
(Deuteronomy)
Chapter 25
Several pieces of Jewish police regulations.

If there be strife between men, let them be brought into court, and let them be judged, and let the righteous be judged, and the wicked condemned.

And if the wicked have deserved to be beaten, the judge shall call him down, and shall smite him before him according to the measure and number of his iniquity.

When forty blows have been given him, he shall not be beaten any more; lest, when more
blows are given, he be beaten too much, and thy brother be abominable in thy sight, 4. Thou shalt not bind up the mouth of the ox that threshes.

If brethren dwell together, and one die without children, then the wife of the deceased shall not take a strange man out of the house, but her brother in law shall put her to sleep, and take her to be married, and marry her.

And the firstborn of her shall be called by the name of his brother that died, that his name be not cut off from Israel.

And if it please not the man to take his sister in law, then she his sister in law shall go up under the gate before the elders, and say, My brother in law refuseth to raise up a name unto his brother in Israel, and will not marry me.

Then the elders of the city shall call for him, and speak unto him. And when he standeth, and saith, I am not pleased to take them,

And his sister in law shall come unto him before the elders, and take off his shoe from off his feet, and spit upon him: and she shall answer and say: So shall it be done unto every man that will not build up his brother’s house.

And his name shall be called in Israel the house of the barefooter.

When two men quarrel together, and one man’s wife runeth to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and seizeth him by his shame, 12. Then shalt thou cut off her hand, and thine eye shall not spare her.

Thou shalt not have two weights in thy sack, great and small; 14. And there shall not be in thine house two bushels, large and small.

Thou shalt have a full and right weight, and a full and right bushel, that thy life may be long in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

For whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto the LORD thy God, as are all they that do evil.

Remember what the Amalekites did unto thee in the way that ye came out of Egypt: 18. How they attacked thee in the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all the weak that followed thee in the rear, when thou wast weary and faint, and feared not God, 19. And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, that thou shalt cut off the remembrance of the Amalekites from under heaven. Remember this!
(Deuteronomy)
Chapter 26
Of the first fruits and tithes.

When thou comest into the land which the LORD thy God shall give thee for an inheritance, and takest it, and dwellest therein,

Then shalt thou take all the firstfruits of the land, which come forth out of the ground, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put them in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there, 3. And thou shalt come unto the priest that is at that time, and say unto him, I confess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come into the land which the LORD sware unto our fathers to give us.

And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.

Then shalt thou answer and say before the LORD thy God, The Syrians sought to destroy my father, which went down into Egypt, and was there a stranger with a few people, and there became great, and strong, and much people.

But the Egyptians dealt evil with us, and compelled us, and laid hard service upon us.

And we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our cry, and saw our affliction, and our anguish, and our distress.

And brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with a great terror, by signs and wonders;

And brought us into this place, and gave us this land, where milk and honey flow in it.

Now therefore I will bring the firstfruits of the land, which thou, LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt leave them before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God, 11. And rejoice in all that the LORD thy God hath given thee, and in thy house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is with thee.

When thou hast gathered together all the tithes of thine income in the third year, which is a tenth year, then thou shalt give unto the Levite, and to the stranger, and to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat in thy gate, and be satisfied.

And thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought that which is holy out of mine house, and have given it unto the Levites, and to the strangers, and to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandment which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them.

I have not eaten thereof in my affliction, neither have I done thereof in uncleanness; I have not given thereof unto the dead: I have been obedient to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done all things as thou hast commanded me.

Look down from thy holy habitation from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey within.

This day doth the LORD thy God grant thee to do according to all these commandments and these statutes, to keep them, and to do them with all thine heart and with all thy soul.

Thou hast spoken unto the LORD this day, that he is thy God, that thou shouldest walk in all his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and obey his voice.

And the LORD hath spoken unto thee this day, that thou shouldest be his own people, as he hath spoken unto thee, to keep all his commandments,

And he shall make thee supreme, and thou shalt be praised, and glorified, and honoured above all nations which he hath made thee: that thou mayest be a holy people unto the LORD
thy God, as he hath said.
(Deuteronomy)
Chapter 27
Memorials of the Children of Israel. Blessing and curse.

And Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.

And it shall come to pass at the time that ye pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD
thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set up great stones, and whitewash them with lime.

And write therein all the words of this law, when thou passest over, that thou mayest come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land flowing with milk and honey within, as the LORD thy fathers’ God hath spoken unto thee.

And it shall come to pass, when ye are passed over Jordan, that ye shall set up such stones (which I command you this day) in mount Ebal, and whitewash them with lime.

And thou shalt build there an altar of stone unto the LORD thy God, and no iron shall pass over it.

Of whole stones shalt thou build this altar unto the LORD thy God, and offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God.

And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and eat there, and rejoice before the LORD thy God.

And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law, plainly and distinctly.

And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying: Mark and hearken, O
Israel. This day thou art become a people of the LORD thy God,

That thou mayest obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do according to his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.

And Moses commanded the people that day, saying:

These shall stand in mount Grisim to bless the people, when ye are gone over Jordan; Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

And these shall stand in mount Ebal to curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and
Naphtali.

And the Levites shall lift up, and say unto every one of Israel with a loud voice: 15. Cursed be he that maketh an idol, or a graven image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the craftsmen’s hands, and setteth it in secret. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

Cursed be he that curseth his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Cursed be he that trammelteth his neighbour’s border. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Cursed be he that maketh a blind man to err in the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Cursed be he that maketh the right of the stranger, the fatherless,