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

not to act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves in the shape of any figure: a male or female form,

Be careful not to forget the covenant of the Lord your God that He made with you, and make an idol for yourselves in the shape of anything He has forbidden you.

“When you have children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, and if you act corruptly, make an idol in the form of anything, and do what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, provoking Him to anger,

He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.

Do not make an idol for yourself in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.

and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must completely destroy them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.

Leave Me alone, and I will destroy them and blot out their name under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.’

“The Lord said to me at that time, ‘Cut two stone tablets like the first ones and come to Me on the mountain and make a wooden ark.

“You are sons of the Lord your God; do not cut yourselves or make a bald spot on your head on behalf of the dead,

No one among you is to make his son or daughter pass through the fire, practice divination, tell fortunes, interpret omens, practice sorcery,

The judges are to make a careful investigation, and if the witness turns out to be a liar who has falsely accused his brother,

“When you approach a city to fight against it, you must make an offer of peace.

However, if it does not make peace with you but wages war against you, lay siege to it.

“If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; make sure you return it to your brother.

If you build a new house, make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.

Make tassels on the four corners of the outer garment you wear.

“If you make a vow to the Lord your God, do not be slow to keep it, because He will require it of you, and it will be counted against you as sin.

“When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect what he offers as security.

If the guilty party deserves to be flogged, the judge will make him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes appropriate for his crime.

‘The person who makes a carved idol or cast image, which is detestable to the Lord, the work of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret is cursed.’
And all the people will reply, ‘Amen!’

The Lord will make you prosper abundantly with children, the offspring of your livestock, and your land’s produce in the land the Lord swore to your fathers to give you.

The Lord will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward if you listen to the Lord your God’s commands I am giving you today and are careful to follow them.

The Lord will make pestilence cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land you are entering to possess.

These are the words of the covenant the Lord commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant He had made with them at Horeb.

The Lord your God will make you prosper abundantly in all the work of your hands with children, the offspring of your livestock, and your land’s produce. Indeed, the Lord will again delight in your prosperity, as He delighted in that of your fathers,

Is this how you repay the Lord,
you foolish and senseless people?
Isn’t He your Father and Creator?
Didn’t He make you and sustain you?

I will make My arrows drunk with blood
while My sword devours flesh—
the blood of the slain and the captives,
the heads of the enemy leaders.”