Indeed, it was the very hand of the Lord that eliminated them from within the camp until they were all gone.

He will hand over their kings to you and you will erase their very names from memory. Nobody will be able to resist you until you destroy them.

For the land where you are headed is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, a land where you planted seed and which you irrigated by hand like a vegetable garden.

On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the Lord your God blesses you in all your villages. Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.

Instead, you must kill him without fail! Your own hand must be the first to strike him, and then the hands of the whole community.

Instead, you must be sure to open your hand to him and generously lend him whatever he needs.

There will never cease to be some poor people in the land; therefore, I am commanding you to make sure you open your hand to your fellow Israelites who are needy and poor in your land.

You must not show pity; the principle will be a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, and a foot for a foot.

When you go into the ripe grain fields of your neighbor you may pluck off the kernels with your hand, but you must not use a sickle on your neighbor's ripe grain.

If two men get into a hand-to-hand fight, and the wife of one of them gets involved to help her husband against his attacker, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals,

then you must cut off her hand -- do not pity her.

"Look! I have set before you today life and prosperity on the one hand, and death and disaster on the other.

For I raise up my hand to heaven, and say, 'As surely as I live forever,

I will sharpen my lightning-like sword, and my hand will grasp hold of the weapon of judgment; I will execute vengeance on my foes, and repay those who hate me!

He said:The Lord came from Sinai and revealed himself to Israel from Seir. He appeared in splendor from Mount Paran, and came forth with ten thousand holy ones. With his right hand he gave a fiery law to them.