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and My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

"If you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, you are not to act as a creditor to him; you shall not charge him interest.

"You shall not curse God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

"You shall not hold back the offering from your entire harvest and your wine. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to Me.

"You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep. It shall be with its mother for seven days; on the eighth day you shall give it to Me.

"You shall be holy people to Me, therefore you shall not eat any flesh torn to pieces in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.

"You shall not give a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked person to be a malicious witness.

"You shall not follow the crowd in doing evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to join together with a crowd in order to pervert justice;

nor shall you show favor to a poor person in his dispute.

"If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying helpless under its load, you shall not leave it helpless for its owner; you must arrange the load with him.

"You shall not pervert the justice due to your needy brother in his dispute.

"You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of the just.

"You shall not oppress a stranger, since you yourselves know the feelings of a stranger, for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

"Now you shall sow your land for six years and gather in its yield,

but in the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie uncultivated, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the animal of the field may eat. You are to do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.

"For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you shall cease from labor so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave, as well as the stranger residing with you, may refresh themselves.

"Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me.

"You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in that month you came out of Egypt. And no one is to appear before Me empty-handed.

"Also you shall keep the Feast of the Harvest of the first fruits of your labors from what you sow in the field; also the Feast of the Ingathering at the end of the year when you gather in the fruit of your labors from the field.

"Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD.