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You may make a foreigner pay what is owed to you, but you must not collect what another Israelite owes you.

But there should be no poor people among you, because the Lord your God will richly bless you in the land he is giving you as your own.

He will bless you if you obey the Lord your God completely, but you must be careful to obey all the commands I am giving you today.

The Lord your God will bless you as he promised, and you will lend to other nations, but you will not need to borrow from them. You will rule over many nations, but none will rule over you.

But give freely to them, and freely lend them whatever they need.

If one of your own people sells himself to you as a slave, whether it is a Hebrew man or woman, that person will serve you for six years. But in the seventh year you must let the slave go free.

But if your slave says to you, "I don't want to leave you," because he loves you and your family and has a good life with you,

But you may eat that animal in your own town. Both clean and unclean people may eat it, as they would eat a gazelle or a deer.

But don't eat its blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

Do not eat it with bread made with yeast. But for seven days eat bread made without yeast, the bread of suffering, because you left Egypt in a hurry. So all your life you will remember the time you left Egypt.

but offer it in the place he will choose to be worshiped. Offer it in the evening as the sun goes down, which is when you left Egypt.

They will not inherit any of the land like their brothers, but they will inherit the Lord himself, as he has promised them.

But you must be innocent in the presence of the Lord your God.

The nations you will force out listen to people who use magic and witchcraft, but the Lord your God will not let you do those things.

But if a prophet says something I did not tell him to say as though he were speaking for me, or if a prophet speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must be killed."

This is the rule for someone who kills another person and runs to one of these cities in order to save his life. But the person must have killed a neighbor without meaning to, not out of hatred.

But if a person hates his neighbor and, after hiding and waiting, attacks and kills him and then runs to one of these cities for safety,

The officers should say to the army, "Has anyone built a new house but not given it to God? He may go home, because he might die in battle and someone else would get to give his house to God.

But if they do not make peace with you and fight you in battle, you should surround that city.

But leave nothing alive in the cities of the land the Lord your God is giving you.