But you must seek only the place he ¹  chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, ²  and you must go there.

Only the holy things and votive offerings that belong to you, you must pick up and take to the place the Lord will choose. ¹ 

Suppose a prophet or one who foretells by dreams ¹  should appear among you and show you a sign or wonder, ² 

and the sign or wonder should come to pass concerning what he said to you, namely, “Let us follow other gods” – gods whom you have not previously known – “and let us serve them.”

the gods of the surrounding people (whether near you or far from you, from one end of the earth ¹  to the other).

You must not give in to him or even listen to him; do not feel sympathy for him or spare him or cover up for him.

you may convert the tithe into money, secure the money, ¹  and travel to the place the Lord your God chooses for himself.

However, if the servant ¹  says to you, “I do not want to leave ²  you,” because he loves you and your household, since he is well off with you,

When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations.

I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I command.

I will personally hold responsible ¹  anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet ²  speaks in my name.

However, suppose a person hates someone else ¹  and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, ²  and then flees to one of these cities.

and all the elders of that city nearest the corpse ¹  must wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley. ² 

If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail, ¹ 

They must declare to the elders ¹  of his city, “Our son is stubborn and rebellious and pays no attention to what we say – he is a glutton and drunkard.”

Then the father and mother of the young woman must produce the evidence of virginity ¹  for the elders of the city at the gate.

If controversy arises between people, ¹  they should go to court for judgment. When the judges ²  hear the case, they shall exonerate ³  the innocent but condemn ⁴  the guilty.

When ¹  you enter the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you occupy it and live in it,

So we cried out to the Lord, the God of our ancestors, and he ¹  heard us and saw our humiliation, toil, and oppression.

Then he brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.