28 “Do not blaspheme God[a](A) or curse(B) the ruler of your people.(C)

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

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

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

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 22:28 Or Do not revile the judges
  2. Exodus 22:29 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.

28 (A)“You shall not revile God, nor (B)curse a ruler of your people.

29 “You shall not delay to offer from the fullness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. (C)The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me. 30 (D)You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep: (E)seven days it shall be with its mother; on the eighth day you shall give it to me.

31 (F)“You shall be consecrated to me. Therefore (G)you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by beasts in the field; (H)you shall throw it to the dogs.

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