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But you must listen and obey the voice of the Lord your God. Be careful to do all the Law which I am telling you today.

The Lord your God will bring good to you as He has promised. You will let many nations use what belongs to you but you will not use what belongs to them. You will rule over many nations but they will not rule over you.

"In any of the towns in your land the Lord your God is giving you, if there is anyone poor among you, do not let your heart be hard and not be willing to help him.

Give much to him, without being sorry that you do. Because the Lord your God will bring good to you for this, in all your work and in everything you do.

Give him much from your flock, from your grain, and from your wine. Give to him as the Lord your God has given to you.

Remember that you were servants in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God set you free. And so I am telling you today to do this.

It should not be hard for you to set him free for he has worked for you six years. He has been worth twice as much as a man paid to work for you. The Lord your God will bring good to you in whatever you do.

"Set apart for the Lord your God all the first-born males among your cattle and your flock. Do no work with the first-born of your cattle. Do not cut the wool from the first-born of your flock.

You and those of your house will eat it every year before the Lord your God in the place the Lord chooses.

But do not kill it and give it to the Lord your God if it is not perfect, such as not being able to walk or see, or anything else wrong with it.

"Remember the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God. For the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt during the night in the month of Abib.

Give the Passover gift to the Lord your God from the flock and the cattle, in the place where the Lord chooses to put His name.

You are not allowed to give the Passover gift in any of your towns the Lord your God gives you.

But give it at the place where the Lord your God chooses to put His name. You must kill the Passover gift in the evening when the sun goes down, at the time that you came out of Egypt.

Make it ready and eat it in the place the Lord your God chooses. Then return to your tents in the morning.

For six days eat bread made without yeast. On the seventh day there will be a holy meeting to the Lord your God. Do no work on this day.

Then keep the Special Supper of Weeks to the Lord your God by giving a free-will gift. Give as the Lord your God has given to you.

Be full of joy before the Lord your God, you and your son and daughter, your men and women servants, the Levite who is in your town, the stranger, the child whose parents have died, and the woman whose husband has died. Be full of joy in the place where the Lord your God chooses to put His name.

Seven days you will have a special supper to the Lord your God in the place which the Lord chooses. You will be full of joy because the Lord your God will bring good to you in all the food you grow and in all the work you do.

All your males must show themselves before the Lord your God three times a year in the place He chooses, at the Special Supper of Bread Without Yeast, the Special Supper of the First Fruits of the Land, and the Special Supper of Tents. They must not show themselves before the Lord with nothing in their hands.