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He said: I hereby make a covenant. Before all your people I will perform marvels, such as have not been performed in all the earth or in any nation; and all the people among whom you live shall see the work of the
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Observe what I command you today. See, I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
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Take care not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you are going, or it will become a snare among you.
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You shall tear down their altars, break their pillars, and cut down their sacred poles 1
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(for you shall worship no other god, because the
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You shall keep the festival of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Abib; for in the month of Abib you came out from Egypt.
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All that first opens the womb is mine, all your male 2 livestock, the firstborn of cow and sheep.
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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.
No one shall appear before me empty-handed.
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Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in plowing time and in harvest time you shall rest.
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You shall observe the festival of weeks, the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the festival of ingathering at the turn of the year.
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Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the
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You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven, and the sacrifice of the festival of the passover shall not be left until the morning.
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The best of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the
You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
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