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For I am the Lord your God; sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming creature that moves on the earth.

Therefore I have said to the people of Israel: No person among you shall eat blood, nor shall any alien who resides among you eat blood.

For the life of every creature—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.

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

You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; you shall not bring abomination on yourselves by animal or by bird or by anything with which the ground teems, 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 offerings by fire, the food of their God; therefore they shall be holy.

And say to the people: Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wailed in the hearing of the Lord , saying, ‘If only we had meat to eat! Surely it was better for us in Egypt.' Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you shall eat.

And now, therefore, let the power of the Lord be great in the way that you promised when you spoke, saying,

Therefore you and all your company have gathered together against the Lord . What is Aaron that you rail against him?"

because I have given to the Levites as their portion the tithe of the Israelites, which they set apart as an offering to the Lord . Therefore I have said of them that they shall have no allotment among the Israelites.

But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not trust in me, to show my holiness before the eyes of the Israelites, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them."

Therefore the ballad singers say, "Come to Heshbon, let it be built; let the city of Sihon be established.

Then Balaam said to the angel of the Lord , "I have sinned, for I did not know that you were standing in the road to oppose me. Now therefore, if it is displeasing to you, I will return home."

Therefore say, ‘I hereby grant him my covenant of peace.

Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by sleeping with him.

Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day.

You must therefore be careful to do as the Lord your God has commanded you; you shall not turn to the right or to the left.

Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe them diligently, so that it may go well with you, and so that you may multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord , the God of your ancestors, has promised you.

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who maintains covenant loyalty with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

Therefore, observe diligently the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that I am commanding you today.