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For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

"You shall be consecrated to me. Therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.

Therefore the people of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a covenant forever.

Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you."

Therefore the people of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward.

Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people."

For I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.

For I am the Lord who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy."

Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood.

For the life of every creature is its blood: its blood is its life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.

You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord .

Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.

"You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.

And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them.

You shall therefore separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the unclean bird from the clean. You shall not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by anything with which the ground crawls, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean.

They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. For they offer the Lord 's food offerings, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.

They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it and die thereby when they profane it: I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

"Therefore you shall do my statutes and keep my rules and perform them, and then you will dwell in the land securely.

And say to the people, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the Lord , saying, "Who will give us meat to eat? For it was better for us in Egypt." Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you shall eat.

Therefore the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had the craving.