² “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, ^(A)When you come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving you,

¹⁰ “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, ^(A)When you come into the land that I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of ^(B)the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest,

^18 (A)“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land to which I bring you

² “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into ^(A)the land that I give you, the land shall keep a Sabbath to the Lord.

⁹ for you have not as yet come to ^(A)the rest and to the inheritance that the Lord your God is giving you.

The Lord's Chosen Place of Worship

12 ^(A)“These are the statutes and rules that you shall be careful to do in the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, ^(B)all the days that you live on the earth.

A Chosen People

7 “When the ^(A)Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, ^(B)the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations ^(C)more numerous and mightier than you, ^2 (D)and when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must ^(E)devote them to complete destruction.^{[a] (F)}You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.

³⁴ “When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you ^(A)for a possession, and I put a case of leprous disease in a house in the land of your possession,