“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
Take no revenge and cherish no grudge against your own people. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.
honor your father and your mother’; and ‘you shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”
The Lord, your God, would not listen to Balaam but turned his curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord, your God, loves you.
However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
Even my trusted friend, who ate my bread, has raised his heel against me.
“You have heard that it was said to your ancestors, ‘You shall not kill; and whoever kills will be liable to judgment.’
Bear in mind what Amalek did to you on the journey after you left Egypt,
No one born of an illicit union may come into the assembly of the Lord, nor any descendant of such even to the tenth generation may come into the assembly of the Lord.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’
This is the commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.