you shall most certainly set a king over you whom the Lord your God chooses. You shall set a king over you from among your countrymen (brothers); you may not choose a foreigner [to rule] over you who is not your countryman.

The man who is most refined and well-bred among you will be cruel and hostile toward his brother and toward the wife he cherishes and toward the rest of his children who remain,

but with those [future Israelites] who are not here with us today, as well as with those who stand here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God

The Lord said to me, ‘They have spoken well.

You shall not pity him [the guilty one], but you shall purge the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

You shall certainly let the mother go, but you may take the young for yourself, so that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.