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and with it the priest shall perform the ritual of purification to remove the man's sin, and God will forgive him.

But in the fifth year you may eat the fruit. If you do all this, your trees will bear more fruit. I am the Lord your God.

"Do not go for advice to people who consult the spirits of the dead. If you do, you will be ritually unclean. I am the Lord your God.

Treat them as you would an Israelite, and love them as you love yourselves. Remember that you were once foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Use honest scales, honest weights, and honest measures. I am the Lord your God, and I brought you out of Egypt.

to say to the people of Israel, "Any of you or any foreigner living among you who gives any children to be used in the worship of the god Molech shall be stoned to death by the whole community.

Keep yourselves holy, because I am the Lord your God.

But I have promised you this rich and fertile land as your possession, and I will give it to you. I am the Lord your God, and I have set you apart from the other nations.

and I brought you out of Egypt to become your God. I am the Lord ."

Do not eat any of the new grain, whether raw, roasted, or baked into bread, until you have brought this offering to God. This regulation is to be observed by all your descendants for all time to come.

When you harvest your fields, do not cut the grain at the edges of the fields, and do not go back to cut the heads of grain that were left; leave them for poor people and foreigners. The Lord is your God.

On that day take some of the best fruit from your trees, take palm branches and limbs from leafy trees, and begin a religious festival to honor the Lord your God.

so that your descendants may know that the Lord made the people of Israel live in simple shelters when he led them out of Egypt. He is the Lord your God.

Then tell the people of Israel that anyone who curses God must suffer the consequences

This law applies to all of you, to Israelites and to foreigners living among you, because I am the Lord your God."

Do not cheat an Israelite, but obey the Lord your God.

Your land must not be sold on a permanent basis, because you do not own it; it belongs to God, and you are like foreigners who are allowed to make use of it.

Do not charge Israelites any interest, but obey God and let them live near you.

This is the command of the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt in order to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.

Do not treat them harshly, but obey your God.