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28 You shall not malign the judges,[a] nor curse a ruler of your people.

29 You shall not delay bringing offerings from your abundant harvest and from your overflowing wine vats.

You shall present the firstborn of your sons to me. 30 You shall do the same with your cattle and with your sheep. For seven days a newborn animal shall be with its mother. Then on the eighth day you shall present it to me.

31 You are to be men set apart as holy for me. So you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by wild animals. You shall cast it to the dogs.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 22:28 Or blaspheme God. The Hebrew word is elohim, which usually means God, but see John 10:35.