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"You shall speak to the Israelites, saying, 'Whoever curses his God will bear his sin [through his own death].

'You shall have one standard of law for the stranger among you as well as for the native, for I am the LORD your God.'"

'You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God [with profound reverence]; for I am the LORD your God.

'Do not charge him usurious interest, but fear your God [with profound reverence], so your countryman may [continue to] live among you.

'I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.

'You shall not rule over him with harshness (severity, oppression), but you are to fear your God [with profound reverence].

'For the children of Israel are My servants; My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

'You shall not make idols for yourselves, nor shall you erect an image, a sacred pillar or an obelisk, nor shall you place any figured stone in your land so that you may bow down to it; for I am the LORD your God.

'I will walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people.

'I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would not be their slaves; and I broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk upright [with heads held high as free men].

'Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so despise them as to destroy them, breaking My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.

'But I will, for their sake, [earnestly] remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I have brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.'"

'He shall not make himself [ceremonially] unclean for his father, mother, brother, or sister, when they die, because [the responsibility for] his separation to God is on his head.

"When you go to war in your land against the enemy that attacks you, then sound an alarm with the trumpets, so that you may be remembered before the LORD your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.

"Also in the day of rejoicing, and in your appointed feasts, and at the beginnings of your months, you shall sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifice of your peace offerings; and they shall be as a reminder of you before your God. I am the LORD your God."

Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him; and He took some of the Spirit who was upon Moses and put Him upon the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied [praising God and declaring His will], but they did not do it again.

So a young man ran and told Moses and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying [extolling the praises of God and declaring His will] in the camp."

So that place was named Kibroth-hattaavah (the graves of greediness), because there they buried the people who had been greedy [for more than the manna that God provided them].

So Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, "Heal her please, O God, I plead with You!"

and they put him in custody, because it had not been explained [by God] what should be done to him.