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"Say to the people of Israel, I am the LORD your God.

You shall do my ordinances and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the LORD your God.

You shall not give any of your children to devote them by fire to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you, and never to defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God."

"Say to all the congregation of the people of Israel, You shall be holy; for I the LORD your God am holy.

Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.

And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the LORD your God.

And you shall not swear by my name falsely, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God: I am the LORD.

But in the fifth year you may eat of their fruit, that they may yield more richly for you: I am the LORD your God.

"Do not turn to mediums or wizards; do not seek them out, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.

"You shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the LORD.

The stranger who sojourns with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am the LORD your God.

But I have said to you, 'You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.' I am the LORD your God, who have separated you from the peoples.

They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God; for they offer the offerings by fire to the LORD, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.

They shall not marry a harlot or a woman who has been defiled; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband; for the priest is holy to his God.

You shall consecrate him, for he offers the bread of your God; he shall be holy to you; for I the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy.