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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.

"If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, he will work for you six years. But you must set him free in the seventh year.

But he may say to you, ‘I will not leave you,' because he loves you and those of your house and gets along well with you.

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.

But do not eat its blood. You must pour it out on the ground like water.

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.

If two or three people tell what they know against this person, he who is to die must be put to death. But he should not be put to death if only one person speaks against him.

For these nations that you are about to take listen to those who do witchcraft and use secret ways. But the Lord your God has not allowed you to do so.

But that man of God will die who is not careful and speaks in My name what I did not tell him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods.'

Or else the one who is angry will want to punish him for the killing, and will catch him and kill him. But the killer should not be put to death, because he had not hated the man in the past.

"But there might be a man who hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, goes against him, and hurts him so that he dies. After this he might run to one of these cities.

But if they do not make peace with you and fight against you, you must take the city in battle.

But in the cities of these nations that the Lord your God is giving you for your own, do not leave alive anything that breathes.

"When you stay around a city a long time, to make war against it and take it, do not destroy its trees with the ax. You may eat from them but do not cut them down. For are trees of the field men that they should be killed?

If you are not pleased with her, you should let her go wherever she wants. But do not sell her for money or act as if she were a servant because you have put her to shame.

Be sure to let the mother go. But you may take the young for yourself. Then it will go well with you, and you will live long.

and says that she did sinful acts and puts her to shame before others and says, ‘I took this woman, but when I came near her, I found that she had been with another man,'

The girl's father will say to the leaders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man for a wife. But he turned against her.

He said she has done sinful acts, saying, "I found that your daughter has been with another man." But I brought what will prove that my daughter has not been with another man.' And they will spread the clothing in front of the leaders of the city.