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Sell us food to eat and water to drink for their price in silver. Only let us pass through on foot—
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Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.
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Then the Lord spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of words but saw no form; there was only a voice.
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The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the Lord will drive you.
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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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Fear the Lord your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name.
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Offer them only at the place the Lord will choose in one of your tribes, and there observe everything I command you.
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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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if only you fully obey the Lord your God and are careful to follow all these commands I am giving you today.
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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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On the testimony of two or three witnesses a person is to be put to death, but no one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.
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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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Do not plant two kinds of seed in your vineyard; if you do, not only the crops you plant but also the fruit of the vineyard will be defiled.
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But if out in the country a man happens to meet a young woman pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die.
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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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In the morning you will say, “If only it were evening!” and in the evening, “If only it were morning!”—because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see.
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I am making this covenant, with its oath, not only with you
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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
