You must supply them generously<n id="1" /> from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress &#8211; as the <sc>Lordsc> your God has blessed you, you must give to them.

They<n id="1" /> will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites;<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc> alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.

<p class="poetry">I wish that they were wise and could understand this,p> <p class="poetry">and that they could comprehend what will happen to them.&#8221;p>

Instead, you must be sure to open your hand to him and generously lend<n id="1" /> him whatever he needs.<n id="2" />

Furthermore, he must not marry many<n id="1" /> wives lest his affections turn aside, and he must not accumulate much silver and gold.

(the Sidonians<n id="1" /> call Hermon Sirion<n id="2" /> and the Amorites call it Senir),<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">His people have been unfaithful<n id="1" /> to him;p> <p class="poetry">they have not acted like his children<n id="2" /> &#8211; this is their sin.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They are a perverse<n id="4" /> and deceitful generation.p>

Rather, he must acknowledge the son of the less loved<n id="1" /> wife as firstborn and give him the double portion<n id="2" /> of all he has, for that son is the beginning of his father&#8217;s procreative power<n id="3" /> &#8211; to him should go the right of the firstborn.p>

but who pays back those who hate<n id="1" /> him as they deserve and destroys them. He will not ignore<n id="2" /> those who hate him but will repay them as they deserve!

who justly treats<n id="1" /> the orphan and widow, and who loves resident foreigners, giving them food and clothing.

These you may eat from among water creatures: anything with fins and scales you may eat,

but whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is ritually impure to you.

As for the Levites in your villages, you must not ignore them, for they have no allotment or inheritance along with you.

You must give them the best of your<n id="1" /> grain, new wine, and olive oil, as well as the best of your wool when you shear your flocks.

you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge<n id="1" /> evil from among you.

Indeed, he may live among you in any place he chooses, in whichever of your villages<n id="1" /> he prefers; you must not oppress him.p>

Then the elders of his city must summon him and speak to him. If he persists, saying, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to marry her,&#8221;

You must by all means lend<n id="1" /> to him and not be upset by doing it,<n id="2" /> for because of this the <sc>Lordsc> your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you attempt.

<t /><p class="bodytext">If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man&#8217;s wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband&#8217;s brother must go to her, marry her,<n id="1" /> and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.<n id="2" />

So the <sc>Lordsc> our God did indeed give over to us King Og of Bashan and his whole army and we struck them down until not a single survivor was left.<n id="1" />