Day 65 Deuteronomy 24-27

            More lists of rules.  Don’t muzzle an ox while it’s treading the grain.  Listen to the priests about how to treat skin diseases.  Newly married men get a year off before they can be drafted.  Don’t kidnap other Israelites and sell them into slavery.  Kill Amalekites on sight.

            More rules about dealing with the poor.  Make sure to pay your field hands every night.  Don’t deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless.  Don’t be too thorough harvesting your field; leave a little behind for the poor.

            Then, at the end of all that, Moses tells the elders of the tribes that once they cross the Jordan River, half the tribes go up Mount Ebal to pronounce curses and half go up Gerezim to pronounce blessings.  We only hear the curses here though.  Over a dozen or so stanzas, the Levites and the other Israelites on Mt Ebal curse anyone who abuses the weak, acts with injustice, or sleeps with family members.