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'Now if a man has sexual relations with a woman who is a slave acquired for another man, but who has in no way been redeemed nor given her freedom, there shall be punishment; they shall not, however, be put to death, because she was not free.

'He shall bring his guilt offering to the LORD to the doorway of the tent of meeting, a ram as a guilt offering.

'The priest shall also make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the LORD for his sin which he has committed, and the sin which he has committed will be forgiven him.

'Now when you enter the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. For three years it shall be forbidden to you; it shall not be eaten.

'And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to the LORD.

'But in the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, so that its yield may increase for you; I am the LORD your God.

'You shall not eat any meat with the blood. You shall not practice divination nor soothsaying.

'You shall not round off the hairline of your heads, nor trim the edges of your beard.

'You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead, nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD.

'You shall keep My Sabbaths and revere My sanctuary; I am the LORD.

'You shall stand up in the presence of the grayheaded and honor elders, and you shall fear your God; I am the LORD.

'When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.

'The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.

'You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or volume.

'You shall have accurate balances, accurate weights, an accurate ephah, and an accurate hin; I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt.

'So you shall keep all My statutes and all My ordinances, and do them; I am the LORD.'"

"You shall also say to the sons of Israel: 'Anyone from the sons of Israel or from the strangers residing in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech, shall certainly be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

'You shall consecrate yourselves therefore and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.

'So you shall keep My statutes and practice them; I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

'If there is anyone who curses his father or his mother, he shall certainly be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother, and has brought his own death upon himself.