Take care, then, to do whatever the Lord your God has given you orders to do; let there be no turning away to the right hand or to the left.

When the Lord your God makes wide the limit of your land, as he has said, and you say, I will take flesh for my food, because you have a desire for it; then you may take whatever flesh you have a desire for.

And with the money get whatever you have a desire for, oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your soul's desire may be: and make a feast there before the Lord your God, and be glad, you and all your house;

This is how it is to be done: every creditor is to give up his right to whatever he has let his neighbour have; he is not to make his neighbour, his countryman, give it back; because a general forgiveness has been ordered by the Lord.

But let your hand be open to give him the use of whatever he is in need of.

And you are to be guided by the decision they give in the place named by the Lord, and do whatever they say:

I will give them a prophet from among themselves, like you, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he will say to them whatever I give him orders to say.

Let him go on living among you in whatever place is most pleasing to him: do not be hard on him.

Whatever your lips have said, see that you do it; for you gave your word freely to the Lord your God.

If such a man, hearing the words of this oath, takes comfort in the thought that he will have peace even if he goes on in the pride of his heart, taking whatever chance may give him: