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And when your children say to you, 'What do you mean by this service?'

And the people of Israel journeyed from Ram'eses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.

But the people thirsted there for water, and the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?"

And he called the name of the place Massah and Mer'ibah, because of the faultfinding of the children of Israel, and because they put the LORD to the proof by saying, "Is the LORD among us or not?"

and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."

you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,

If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's and he shall go out alone.

But if the slave plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,'

and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation."

Every male among the children of Aaron may eat of it, as decreed for ever throughout your generations, from the LORD's offerings by fire; whoever touches them shall become holy."

You shall not give any of your children to devote them by fire to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

"Say to the people of Israel, Any man of the people of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, who gives any of his children to Molech shall be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

I myself will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, defiling my sanctuary and profaning my holy name.

And if the people of the land do at all hide their eyes from that man, when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death,

"If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a shameful thing, and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people; he has uncovered his sister's nakedness, he shall bear his iniquity.

that he may not profane his children among his people; for I am the LORD who sanctify him."

then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his own family, and return to the possession of his fathers.

And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the year of jubilee, he and his children with him.

And I will let loose the wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number, so that your ways shall become desolate.