Appoint for yourselves wise, understanding, and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will make them your leaders.

The plan seemed good to me, so I selected 12 men from among you, one man for each tribe.

“You answered me, ‘We have sinned against the Lord. We will go up and fight just as the Lord our God commanded us.’ Then each of you put on his weapons of war and thought it would be easy to go up into the hill country.

until the Lord gives rest to your brothers as He has to you, and they also take possession of the land the Lord your God is giving them across the Jordan. Then each of you may return to his possession that I have given you.

“Each year you are to set aside a tenth of all the produce grown in your fields.

Each year you and your family are to eat it before the Lord your God in the place the Lord chooses.

You are to pay him his wages each day before the sun sets, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be held guilty.

“Fathers are not to be put to death for their children or children for their fathers; each person will be put to death for his own sin.

“If two men are fighting with each other, and the wife of one steps in to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she puts out her hand and grabs his genitals,

Indeed He loves the people.
All Your holy ones are in Your hand,
and they assemble at Your feet.
Each receives Your words.