9. Count seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing corn.
10. Then celebrate the Festival of Weeks to the Lord your God by giving a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings the Lord your God has given you.
11. And rejoice before the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name – you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites in your towns, and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows living among you.
12. Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and follow carefully these decrees.
13. Celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing-floor and your winepress.
14. Be joyful at your festival – you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns.
9. Go to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office at that time. Enquire of them and they will give you the verdict.
10. You must act according to the decisions they give you at the place the Lord will choose. Be careful to do everything they instruct you to do.
11. Act according to whatever they teach you and the decisions they give you. Do not turn aside from what they tell you, to the right or to the left.
12. Anyone who shows contempt for the judge or for the priest who stands ministering there to the Lord your God is to be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.
13. All the people will hear and be afraid, and will not be contemptuous again.
14. When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, ‘Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,’