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to which anyone who had killed a person could flee if they had unintentionally killed a neighbor without malice aforethought. They could flee into one of these cities and save their life.
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so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the Lord your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life.
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But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
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then take an awl and push it through his earlobe into the door, and he will become your servant for life. Do the same for your female servant.
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Do not eat it with bread made with yeast, but for seven days eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left Egypt in haste—so that all the days of your life you may remember the time of your departure from Egypt.
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It is to be with him, and he is to read it all the days of his life so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and follow carefully all the words of this law and these decrees
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For instance, a man may go into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and as he swings his ax to fell a tree, the head may fly off and hit his neighbor and kill him. That man may flee to one of these cities and save his life.
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Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
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You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life.
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You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life.
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The Offer of Life or Death
Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.
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See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction.
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This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live
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and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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“See now that I myself am he! There is no god besides me. I put to death and I bring to life, I have wounded and I will heal, and no one can deliver out of my hand.
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They are not just idle words for you—they are your life. By them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
