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but who pays back those who hate him as they deserve and destroys them. He will not ignore those who hate him but will repay them as they deserve!

You must burn the images of their gods, but do not covet the silver and gold that covers them so much that you take it for yourself and thus become ensnared by it; for it is abhorrent to the Lord your God.

So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna. He did this to teach you that humankind cannot live by bread alone, but also by everything that comes from the Lord 's mouth.

For I was terrified at the Lord 's intense anger that threatened to destroy you. But he listened to me this time as well.

The Lord was also angry enough at Aaron to kill him, but at that time I prayed for him too.

When your ancestors went down to Egypt, they numbered only seventy, but now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.

But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there.

but whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is ritually impure to you.

You may exact payment from a foreigner, but whatever your fellow Israelite owes you, you must remit.

For the Lord your God will bless you just as he has promised; you will lend to many nations but will not borrow from any, and you will rule over many nations but they will not rule over you.

but you must sacrifice it in the evening in the place where he chooses to locate his name, at sunset, the time of day you came out of Egypt.

Those nations that you are about to dispossess listen to omen readers and diviners, but the Lord your God has not given you permission to do such things.

"But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.

You must not pity him, but purge out the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

Or who among you has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her."

If it does not accept terms of peace but makes war with you, then you are to lay siege to it.

You must be sure to let the mother go, but you may take the young for yourself. Do this so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life.

accusing her of impropriety and defaming her reputation by saying, "I married this woman but when I had sexual relations with her I discovered she was not a virgin!"

Moreover, he has raised accusations of impropriety by saying, ‘I discovered your daughter was not a virgin,' but this is the evidence of my daughter's virginity!" The cloth must then be spread out before the city's elders.

But if the accusation is true and the young woman was not a virgin,