4. This is because the Ammonites and Moabites did not give you bread and water when you came out of Egypt. And they hired Balaam son of Beor, from Pethor in Northwest Mesopotamia, to put a curse on you.
5. But the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam. He turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves you.
6. Don’t wish for their peace or success as long as you live.
7. Don’t hate Edomites; they are your close relatives. Don’t hate Egyptians, because you were foreigners in their country.
8. The great-grandchildren of these two peoples may come into the meeting to worship the Lord.
9. When you are camped in time of war, keep away from unclean things.
10. If a man becomes unclean during the night, he must go outside the camp and not come back.
11. But when evening comes, he must wash himself, and at sunset he may come back into the camp.
12. Choose a place outside the camp where people may go to relieve themselves.
13. Carry a tent peg with you, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your dung.
14. The Lord your God moves around through your camp to protect you and to defeat your enemies for you, so the camp must be holy. He must not see anything unclean among you so that he will not leave you.
15. If an escaped slave comes to you, do not hand over the slave to his master.
16. Let the slave live with you anywhere he likes, in any town he chooses. Do not mistreat him.
17. No Israelite man or woman must ever become a temple prostitute.
18. Do not bring a male or female prostitute’s pay to the Temple of the Lord your God to pay what you have promised to the Lord, because the Lord your God hates prostitution.
19. If you loan your fellow Israelites money or food or anything else, don’t make them pay back more than you loaned them.
20. You may charge foreigners, but not fellow Israelites. Then the Lord your God will bless everything you do in the land you are entering to take as your own.
21. If you make a promise to give something to the Lord your God, do not be slow to pay it, because the Lord your God demands it from you. Do not be guilty of sin.