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but he will not hesitate to punish those who hate him.

The Lord will protect you from all sickness, and he will not bring on you any of the dreadful diseases that you experienced in Egypt, but he will bring them on all your enemies.

He made you go hungry, and then he gave you manna to eat, food that you and your ancestors had never eaten before. He did this to teach you that you must not depend on bread alone to sustain you, but on everything that the Lord says.

But now you will see for yourselves that the Lord your God will go ahead of you like a raging fire. He will defeat them as you advance, so that you will drive them out and destroy them quickly, as he promised.

I was afraid of the Lord 's fierce anger, because he was furious enough to destroy you; but once again the Lord listened to me.

But the Lord 's love for your ancestors was so strong that he chose you instead of any other people, and you are still his chosen people.

When your ancestors went to Egypt, there were only seventy of them. But now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

but the land that you are about to enter is a land of mountains and valleys, a land watered by rain.

but a curse, if you disobey these commands and turn away to worship other gods that you have never worshiped before.

"But you are free to kill and eat your animals wherever you live. You may eat as many as the Lord gives you. All of you, whether ritually clean or unclean, may eat them, just as you would eat the meat of deer or antelope.

But you must not eat their blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.

But put to death any interpreters of dreams or prophets that tell you to rebel against the Lord , who rescued you from Egypt, where you were slaves. Such people are evil and are trying to lead you away from the life that the Lord has commanded you to live. They must be put to death, in order to rid yourselves of this evil.

But do not let any of them persuade you; do not even listen to them. Show them no mercy or pity, and do not protect them.

But no animals may be eaten unless they have divided hoofs and also chew the cud. You may not eat camels, rabbits, or rock badgers. They must be considered unclean; they chew the cud but do not have divided hoofs.

Do not eat pigs. They must be considered unclean; they have divided hoofs but do not chew the cud. Do not eat any of these animals or even touch their dead bodies.

but anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales may not be eaten; it must be considered unclean.

But these are the kinds of birds you are not to eat: eagles, owls, hawks, falcons; buzzards, vultures, crows; ostriches; seagulls, storks, herons, pelicans, cormorants; hoopoes; and bats.

"Do not eat any animal that dies a natural death. You may let the foreigners who live among you eat it, or you may sell it to other foreigners. But you belong to the Lord your God; you are his people. "Do not cook a young sheep or goat in its mother's milk.

You may collect what a foreigner owes you, but you must not collect what any of your own people owe you.

The Lord will bless you, as he has promised. You will lend money to many nations, but you will not have to borrow from any; you will have control over many nations, but no nation will have control over you.