29 “Do not hold back offerings(A) from your granaries or your vats.[a]

“You must give me the firstborn of your sons.(B) 30 Do the same with your cattle and your sheep.(C) Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but give them to me on the eighth day.(D)

31 “You are to be my holy people.(E) So do not eat the meat of an animal torn by wild beasts;(F) throw it to the dogs.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 22:29 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.

29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.

30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.

31 And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.

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