Study Desk

And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh-barnea, He said, "Go up and possess the land I have given you." But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You neither believed Him nor obeyed Him.

But they are Your people, Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your great power and outstretched arm."

"And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

But the land you are entering to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven.

But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods,

but a curse if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.

But whenever you wish, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Those who are clean or unclean may eat it, as they would a gazelle or deer,

but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

But you are to take your holy things and your vow offerings and go to the place the LORD will choose.

Present the meat and blood of your burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD your God. The blood of your other sacrifices must be poured out beside the altar of the LORD your God, but you may eat the meat.

and if the sign or wonder he has spoken to you comes about, but he says, "Let us follow other gods (which you have not known) and let us worship them,"

But of those that chew the cud or have divided hooves, you are not to eat the following: the camel, the rabbit, or the rock badger. Although they chew the cud, they do not have hooves. They are unclean for you,

but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.

but these you may not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

But you may eat any clean bird.

But if the distance is too great for you to carry that with which the LORD your God has blessed you, because the place where the LORD your God will choose to put His Name is too far away,

You may collect something from a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you.

When the LORD your God blesses you as He has promised, you will lend to many nations but borrow from none; you will rule over many nations but be ruled by none.

But if your servant says to you, 'I do not want to leave you,' because he loves you and your household and is well off with you,

But if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.