Exodus 21 - 23
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"Now these are the h rules that you shall set before them.
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i When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.
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If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him.
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If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out alone.
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But j if the slave plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,'
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then his master shall bring him to k God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.
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"When a man l sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.
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If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her.
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If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter.
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If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or m her marital rights.
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And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.
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n "Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death.
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o But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then p I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee.
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But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, q you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
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"Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.
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r "Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found s in possession of him, shall be put to death.
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t "Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.
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"When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist and the man does not die but takes to his bed,
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then if the man rises again and walks outdoors with his staff, he who struck him shall be clear; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall have him thoroughly healed.
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"When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged.
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But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, for the u slave is his money.
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"When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and v he shall pay as the w judges determine.
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But if there is harm, then you shall pay x life for life,
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y eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
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burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
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"When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free because of his eye.
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If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free because of his tooth.
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"When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the z ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall not be liable.
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But if the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has been warned but has not kept it in, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.
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If a a ransom is imposed on him, then v he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed on him.
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If it gores a man's son or daughter, he shall be dealt with according to this same rule.
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If the ox gores a slave, male or female, the owner shall give to their master b thirty shekels of silver, and z the ox shall be stoned.
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"When a man opens a pit, or when a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
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the owner of the pit shall make restoration. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead beast shall be his.
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"When one man's ox butts another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and share its price, and the dead beast also they shall share.
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Or if it is known that the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall repay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his.
Exodus 22
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"If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall repay five oxen for an ox, and c four sheep for a sheep.
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If a thief is found d breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him,
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but if the sun has risen on him, there shall be bloodguilt for him. He shall surely pay. If he has nothing, then e he shall be sold for his theft.
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If the stolen beast f is found alive in his possession, whether it is an ox or a donkey or a sheep, g he shall pay double.
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"If a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over, or lets his beast loose and it feeds in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best in his own field and in his own vineyard.
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"If fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, he who started the fire shall make full restitution.
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"If a man gives to his neighbor money or goods to keep safe, and it is stolen from the man's house, then, if the thief is found, g he shall pay double.
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If the thief is not found, the owner of the house shall come near to God to show whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor's property.
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For every breach of trust, whether it is for an ox, for a donkey, for a sheep, for a cloak, or for any kind of lost thing, of which one says, 'This is it,' the case of both parties shall come before God. The one whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.
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"If a man gives to his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep safe, and it dies or is injured or is driven away, without anyone seeing it,
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h an oath by the Lord shall be between them both to see whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor's property. The owner shall accept the oath, and he shall not make restitution.
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But if i it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner.
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If it is torn by beasts, let him bring it as evidence. He shall not make restitution for what has been torn.
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"If a man borrows anything of his neighbor, and it is injured or dies, the owner not being with it, he shall make full restitution.
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If the owner was with it, he shall not make restitution; if it was hired, it came for its hiring fee.
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j "If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price for her and make her his wife.
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If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, j he shall pay money equal to the k bride-price for virgins.
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l "You shall not permit a sorceress to live.
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m "Whoever lies with an animal shall be put to death.
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n "Whoever sacrifices to any god, other than the Lord alone, shall be devoted to destruction.
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o "You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
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p You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.
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If you do mistreat them, and they q cry out to me, I will surely r hear their cry,
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and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and s your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.
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t "If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him.
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u If ever you take your neighbor's cloak in pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down,
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for that is his only covering, and it is his cloak for his body; in what else shall he sleep? And if he q cries to me, I will hear, for I am v compassionate.
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w "You shall not revile God, nor w curse a ruler of your people.
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"You shall not delay to offer from the fullness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. x The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me.
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y You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep: z seven days it shall be with its mother; on the eighth day you shall give it to me.
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a "You shall be consecrated to me. Therefore b you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by beasts in the field; c you shall throw it to the dogs.
Exodus 23
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d "You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a e malicious witness.
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You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice,
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f nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit.
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g "If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall bring it back to him.
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If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him.
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h "You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit.
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d Keep far from a false charge, and i do not kill the innocent and righteous, for j I will not acquit the wicked.
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k And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.
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l "You shall not oppress a sojourner. You know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
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m "For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield,
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but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.
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n "Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed.
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o "Pay attention to all that I have said to you, and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let it be heard on your lips.
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p "Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me.
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q You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of r Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. s None shall appear before me empty-handed.
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You shall keep t the Feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the u Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor.
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p Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God.
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v "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the fat of my feast remain until the morning.
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"The best of the w firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God. x "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
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y "Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.
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Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; z do not rebel against him, a for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.
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"But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then b I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
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y "When my angel goes before you and brings you c to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, and I blot them out,
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you shall d not bow down to their gods nor serve them, e nor do as they do, but f you shall utterly overthrow them and break their g pillars in pieces.
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You h shall serve the Lord your God, and i he will bless your bread and your water, and j I will take sickness away from among you.
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k None shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the l number of your days.
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I will send m my terror before you and will throw into n confusion all the people against whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
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And o I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.
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p I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you.
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Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and possess the land.
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q And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for r I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
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s You shall make no covenant with them and their gods.
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They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, t it will surely be a snare to you."
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Exodus 24:3
Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the rules. And all the people answered with one voice and said, "All the words that the Lord has spoken we will do.
Deuteronomy 4:14
And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and rules, that you might do them in the land that you are going over to possess.
Deuteronomy 6:1
Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the rules that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it.
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Deuteronomy 15:12
If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
Jeremiah 34:14
At the end of seven years each of you must set free the fellow Hebrew who has been sold to you and has served you six years; you must set him free from your service.' But your fathers did not listen to me or incline their ears to me.
Leviticus 25:39 - 41
If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:
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Deuteronomy 15:16 - 17
But if he says to you, 'I will not go out from you,' because he loves you and your household, since he is well-off with you.
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Psalms 82:6
I said, "You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you.
John 10:34 - 35
Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I said, you are gods'?
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Nehemiah 5:5
Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.
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1 Corinthians 7:5
Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
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Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.
Leviticus 24:17
Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death.
Numbers 35:30 - 31
If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the evidence of witnesses. But no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness.
Matthew 26:52
Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword.
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Deuteronomy 19:4 - 5
This is the provision for the manslayer, who by fleeing there may save his life. If anyone kills his neighbor unintentionally without having hated him in the past -
Numbers 35:22 - 25
But if he pushed him suddenly without enmity, or hurled anything on him without lying in wait
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Numbers 35:11
Then you shall select cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person without intent may flee there.
Deuteronomy 4:41 - 43
Then Moses set apart three cities in the east beyond the Jordan.
Deuteronomy 19:2 - 3
You shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
Joshua 20:2 - 9
Say to the people of Israel, 'Appoint the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses.
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1 Kings 2:28 - 34
When the news came to Joab - for Joab had supported Adonijah although he had not supported Absalom - Joab fled to the tent of the Lord and caught hold of the horns of the altar.
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Deuteronomy 24:7
If a man is found stealing one of his brothers of the people of Israel, and if he treats him as a slave or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
1 Timothy 1:10
The sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine.
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Exodus 22:4
If the stolen beast is found alive in his possession, whether it is an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he shall pay double.
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Leviticus 20:9
For anyone who curses his father or his mother ...
Deuteronomy 27:16
"'Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or ...
Matthew 15:4
For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your ...
Mark 7:10
For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mot...
Proverbs 20:20
If one curses his father or his mother, his lam...
Proverbs 30:11
There are those who curse their fathers and do ...
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Leviticus 25:45 - 46
You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property.
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Deuteronomy 22:18 - 19
Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip him.
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Job 31:11
For that would be a heinous crime; that would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
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Deuteronomy 19:21
Your eye shall not pity. It shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
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Leviticus 24:20
Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever injury he has given a person shall be given to him.
Deuteronomy 19:21
Your eye shall not pity. It shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Matthew 5:38
"You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.'
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Genesis 9:5
And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.
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Exodus 30:12
When you take the census of the people of Israel, then each shall give a ransom for his life to the Lord when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them.
Numbers 35:31 - 32
Moreover, you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall be put to death.
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Exodus 21:22
When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine.
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Zechariah 11:12 - 13
Then I said to them, "If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them." And they weighed out as my wages thirty pieces of silver.
Matthew 26:15
And said, "What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?" And they paid him thirty pieces of silver.
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Exodus 21:28
When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall not be liable.
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2 Samuel 12:6
And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.
Proverbs 6:31
But if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold; he will give all the goods of his house.
Luke 19:8
And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.
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Matthew 24:43
But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.
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Exodus 21:2
When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.
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Exodus 21:16
Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death.
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Exodus 22:1
If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall repay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
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Exodus 22:4
If the stolen beast is found alive in his possession, whether it is an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he shall pay double.
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Hebrews 6:16
For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation.
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Genesis 31:39
What was torn by wild beasts I did not bring to you. I bore the loss of it myself. From my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
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Deuteronomy 22:28 - 29
If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found.
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Exodus 22:16
If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price for her and make her his wife.
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Genesis 34:12
Ask me for as great a bride price and gift as you will, and I will give whatever you say to me. Only give me the young woman to be my wife.
1 Samuel 18:25
Then Saul said, "Thus shall you say to David, 'The king desires no bride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged of the king's enemies.'" Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
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Leviticus 19:26
You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in i...
Leviticus 19:31
Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not ...
Leviticus 20:27
"A man or a woman who is a medium or a necroman...
Deuteronomy 18:10 - 11
There shall not be found among you anyone who b...
1 Samuel 28:3
Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned...
1 Samuel 28:9
The woman said to him, "Surely you know what Sa...
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Leviticus 18:23
And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is perversion.
Leviticus 20:15
If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal.
Deuteronomy 27:21
"'Cursed be anyone who lies with any kind of animal.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
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Numbers 25:2
These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
Numbers 25:7 - 8
When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation and took a spear in his hand
Joshua 23:16
If you transgress the covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them. Then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land that he has given to you.
Deuteronomy 13:1 - 15
If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder.
Deuteronomy 17:2 - 5
If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, in transgressing his covenant.
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Exodus 23:9
You shall not oppress a sojourner. You know the...
Leviticus 19:33
When a stranger sojourns with you in your land,...
Deuteronomy 10:18 - 19
He executes justice for the fatherless and the ...
Jeremiah 7:6
If you do not oppress the sojourner, the father...
Zechariah 7:10
Do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the s...
Malachi 3:5
Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I wi...
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Deuteronomy 24:17
You shall not pervert the justice due to the so...
Deuteronomy 27:19
"'Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due...
Psalms 94:6
They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murd...
Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppress...
Isaiah 1:23
Your princes are rebels and companions of thiev...
Isaiah 10:2
To turn aside the needy from justice and to rob...
Ezekiel 22:7
Father and mother are treated with contempt in ...
Zechariah 7:10
Do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the s...
James 1:27
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God,...
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Job 34:28
So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted -
Luke 18:7
And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?
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Psalms 18:6
In my distress I called upon the Lord ; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.
Psalms 145:19
He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them.
James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
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Psalms 109:9
May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow!
Lamentations 5:3
We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.
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Leviticus 25:35 - 37
If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintai...
Deuteronomy 23:19 - 20
You shall not charge interest on loans to your ...
Nehemiah 5:7
I took counsel with myself, and I brought charg...
Psalms 15:5
Who does not put out his money at interest and ...
Proverbs 28:8
Whoever multiplies his wealth by interest and p...
Ezekiel 18:8
Does not lend at interest or take any profit, w...
Ezekiel 18:13
Lends at interest, and takes profit; shall he t...
Ezekiel 18:17
Withholds his hand from iniquity, takes no inte...
Ezekiel 22:12
In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take...
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Deuteronomy 24:13
You shall restore to him the pledge as the sun ...
Deuteronomy 24:17
You shall not pervert the justice due to the so...
Proverbs 20:16
Take a man's garment when he has put up securit...
Ezekiel 18:7
Does not oppress anyone, but restores to the de...
Ezekiel 18:16
Does not oppress anyone, exacts no pledge, comm...
Amos 2:8
They lay themselves down beside every altar on ...
Proverbs 22:27
If you have nothing with which to pay, why shou...
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Exodus 22:23
If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry.
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Exodus 34:6
The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, "The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
2 Chronicles 30:9
For if you return to the Lord, your brothers and your children will find compassion with their captors and return to this land. For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.
Nehemiah 9:17
They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.
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Acts 23:5
And Paul said, "I did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest, for it is written, 'You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.'
2 Samuel 19:21
Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, "Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the Lord 's anointed?
Ecclesiastes 10:20
Even in your thoughts, do not curse the king, nor in your bedroom curse the rich, for a bird of the air will carry your voice, or some winged creature tell the matter.
Jude 1:8
Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones.
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Acts 23:5
And Paul said, "I did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest, for it is written, 'You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.
2 Samuel 19:21
Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, "Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the Lord 's anointed?
Ecclesiastes 10:20
Even in your thoughts, do not curse the king, nor in your bedroom curse the rich, for a bird of the air will carry your voice, or some winged creature tell the matter.
Jude 1:8
Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones.
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Exodus 13:2
"Consecrate to me all the firstborn. Whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel, both of man and of beast, is mine."
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Deuteronomy 15:19
All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and flock you shall dedicate to the Lord your God. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.
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Leviticus 22:27
When an ox or sheep or goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as a food offering to the Lord.
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Exodus 19:6
And you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.
Leviticus 11:44 - 45
For I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.
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Leviticus 22:8
He shall not eat what dies of itself or is torn by beasts, and so make himself unclean by it: I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 4:14
Then I said, "Ah, Lord God! Behold, I have never defiled myself. From my youth up till now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has tainted meat come into my mouth.
Ezekiel 44:31
The priests shall not eat of anything, whether bird or beast, that has died of itself or is torn by wild animals.
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Matthew 7:6
Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.
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Leviticus 19:11
You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another.
Psalms 15:3
Who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend.
Psalms 101:5
Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.
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Deuteronomy 19:16 - 18
If a malicious witness arises to accuse a perso...
Psalms 35:11
Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of thi...
1 Kings 21:10
And set two worthless men opposite him, and let...
1 Kings 21:13
And the two worthless men came in and sat oppos...
Matthew 26:59 - 61
Now the chief priests and the whole Council wer...
Acts 6:11
Then they secretly instigated men who said, "We...
Acts 6:13
And they set up false witnesses who said, "This...
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Leviticus 19:15
You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
Deuteronomy 1:17
You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.
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Deuteronomy 22:1
You shall not see your brother's ox or his shee...
Deuteronomy 22:4
You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ...
Proverbs 25:21
If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat,...
Matthew 5:44
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray fo...
Romans 12:20
To the contrary, "if your enemy is hungry, feed...
1 Thessalonians 5:15
See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, bu...
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Deuteronomy 27:19
"'Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.
Isaiah 10:1 - 2
Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression.
Jeremiah 5:28 - 29
They have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
Malachi 3:5
Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.
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Exodus 23:1
You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.
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Deuteronomy 27:25
"'Cursed be anyone who takes a bribe to shed innocent blood.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Proverbs 17:26
To impose a fine on a righteous man is not good, nor to strike the noble for their uprightness.
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Exodus 34:7
Keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.
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Deuteronomy 16:19
You shall not pervert justice. You shall not sh...
1 Samuel 8:3
Yet his sons did not walk in his ways but turne...
2 Chronicles 19:7
Now then, let the fear of the Lord be upon you....
Psalms 26:10
In whose hands are evil devices, and whose righ...
Proverbs 17:23
The wicked accepts a bribe in secret to pervert...
Isaiah 1:23
Your princes are rebels and companions of thiev...
Isaiah 5:23
Who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive ...
Isaiah 33:15
He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, ...
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Exodus 22:21
You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
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Leviticus 25:3 - 4
For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits.
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Exodus 20:9
Six days you shall labor, and do all your work.
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Deuteronomy 4:9
Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children -
Joshua 22:5
Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Joshua 23:7
That you may not mix with these nations remaining among you or make mention of the names of their gods or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them.
Hosea 2:17
For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more.
Zechariah 13:2
And on that day, declares the Lord of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more. And also I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness.
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Exodus 23:17
Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God.
Exodus 34:23
Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.
Deuteronomy 16:16
Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths. They shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed.
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Exodus 12:15
Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
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Exodus 13:4
Today, in the month of Abib, you are going out.
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Exodus 34:20
The firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And none shall appear before me empty-handed.
Deuteronomy 16:16
Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths. They shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed.
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Exodus 34:22
You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end.
Leviticus 23:9 - 21
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying.
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Deuteronomy 16:13
You shall keep the Feast of Booths seven days, when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your winepress.
Leviticus 23:34 - 44
Speak to the people of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the Feast of Booths to the Lord.
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Exodus 23:14
Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me.
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Exodus 12:8
They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Exodus 34:25
You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain until the morning.
Leviticus 2:11
No grain offering that you bring to the Lord shall be made with leaven, for you shall burn no leaven nor any honey as a food offering to the Lord.
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Exodus 34:26
The best of the firstfruits of your ground you ...
Leviticus 2:12
As an offering of firstfruits you may bring the...
Leviticus 23:10
Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, ...
Leviticus 23:17
You shall bring from your dwelling places two l...
Numbers 18:12 - 13
All the best of the oil and all the best of the...
Deuteronomy 26:2
You shall take some of the first of all the fru...
Deuteronomy 26:10
And behold, now I bring the first of the fruit ...
Nehemiah 10:35
We obligate ourselves to bring the firstfruits ...
Ezekiel 44:30
And the first of all the firstfruits of all kin...
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Exodus 34:26
The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
Deuteronomy 14:21
You shall not eat anything that has died naturally. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
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Exodus 14:19
Then the angel of God who was going before the ...
Exodus 33:2
I will send an angel before you, and I will dri...
Exodus 33:14
And he said, "My presence will go with you, and...
Joshua 5:13 - 14
When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his ey...
Joshua 6:2
And the Lord said to Joshua, "See, I have given...
Isaiah 63:9
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and t...
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Psalms 78:40
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!
Psalms 78:56
Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God and did not keep his testimonies.
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Exodus 32:34
But now go, lead the people to the place about which I have spoken to you; behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them.
Exodus 34:7
Keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.
Numbers 14:35
I, the Lord, have spoken. Surely this will I do to all this wicked congregation who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.
Joshua 24:19
But Joshua said to the people, "You are not able to serve the Lord, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.
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Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
Deuteronomy 30:7
And the Lord your God will put all these curses on your foes and enemies who persecuted you.
Jeremiah 30:20
Their children shall be as they were of old, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all who oppress them.
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Exodus 23:20
Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.
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Exodus 13:5
And when the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall keep this service in this month.
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Exodus 20:5
You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me.
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Leviticus 18:3
You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes.
Deuteronomy 12:30 - 31
Take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods? - that I also may do the same.
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Exodus 34:13
You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim
Numbers 33:52
Then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their figured stones and destroy all their metal images and demolish all their high places.
Deuteronomy 7:5
But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and chop down their Asherim and burn their carved images with fire.
Deuteronomy 7:25
The carved images of their gods you shall burn with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 12:3
You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire. You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and destroy their name out of that place.
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Deuteronomy 16:22
And you shall not set up a pillar, which the Lord your God hates.
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Deuteronomy 6:13
It is the Lord your God you shall fear. Him you...
Deuteronomy 10:12
And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God re...
Deuteronomy 10:20
You shall fear the Lord your God. You shall ser...
Deuteronomy 11:13
And if you will indeed obey my commandments tha...
Deuteronomy 13:4
You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear...
Joshua 22:5
Only be very careful to observe the commandment...
Matthew 4:10
Then Jesus said to him, "Be gone, Satan! For it...
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Deuteronomy 7:13
He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you.
Deuteronomy 28:5
Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
Deuteronomy 28:8
The Lord will command the blessing on you in your barns and in all that you undertake. And he will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
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Exodus 15:26
Saying, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.
Deuteronomy 7:15
And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you.
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Deuteronomy 7:14
You shall be blessed above all peoples. There shall not be male or female barren among you or among your livestock.
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Job 5:26
You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in its season.
Psalms 55:23
But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.
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Deuteronomy 2:25
This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.
Joshua 2:9
And said to the men, "I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.
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Deuteronomy 7:23
But the Lord your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.
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Deuteronomy 7:20
Moreover, the Lord your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed.
Joshua 24:12
And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out before you, the two kings of the Amorites; it was not by your sword or by your bow.
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Deuteronomy 7:22
The Lord your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.
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Genesis 15:18
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram...
Numbers 34:3
Your south side shall be from the wilderness of...
Deuteronomy 11:24
Every place on which the sole of your foot trea...
Joshua 1:4
From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as ...
1 Kings 4:21
Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Eu...
1 Kings 4:24
For he had dominion over all the region west of...
Psalms 72:8
May he have dominion from sea to sea, and from ...
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Joshua 21:44
And the Lord gave them rest on every side just as he had sworn to their fathers. Not one of all their enemies had withstood them, for the Lord had given all their enemies into their hands.
Judges 1:4
Then Judah went up and the Lord gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand, and they defeated 10,000 of them at Bezek.
Judges 11:21
And the Lord, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them. So Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites, who inhabited that country.
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Exodus 34:12
Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a snare in your midst.
Exodus 34:15
Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice.
Deuteronomy 7:2
And when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.
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Exodus 34:12
Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a snare in your midst.
Deuteronomy 7:16
And you shall consume all the peoples that the Lord your God will give over to you. Your eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.
Joshua 23:13
Know for certain that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the Lord your God has given you.
Judges 2:3
So now I say, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.
Psalms 106:36
They served their idols, which became a snare to them.
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