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But the people were very thirsty and continued to complain to Moses. They said, "Why did you bring us out of Egypt? To kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?"

but the seventh day is a day of rest dedicated to me. On that day no one is to work—neither you, your children, your slaves, your animals, nor the foreigners who live in your country.

If his master gave him a wife and she bore him sons or daughters, the woman and her children belong to the master, and the man is to leave by himself.

But if the slave declares that he loves his master, his wife, and his children and does not want to be set free,

and I will become angry and kill you in war. Your wives will become widows, and your children will be fatherless.

In your land no woman will have a miscarriage or be without children. I will give you long lives.

I keep my promise for thousands of generations and forgive evil and sin; but I will not fail to punish children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation for the sins of their parents."

But you and your families may eat the breast and the hind leg that are presented as the special gift and the special contribution to the Lord for the priests. You may eat them in any ritually clean place. These offerings have been given to you and your children as the part that belongs to you from the fellowship offerings of the people of Israel.

They shall bring the hind leg and the breast at the time the fat is presented as a food offering to the Lord . These parts belong to you and your children forever, just as the Lord commanded."

Do not hand over any of your children to be used in the worship of the god Molech, because that would bring disgrace on the name of God, the Lord .

to say to the people of Israel, "Any of you or any foreigner living among you who gives any children to be used in the worship of the god Molech shall be stoned to death by the whole community.

If any of you give one of your children to Molech and make my sacred Tent unclean and disgrace my holy name, I will turn against you and will no longer consider you my people.

If a man has intercourse with his uncle's wife, he disgraces his uncle, and he and the woman will pay the penalty; neither one will have children.

Otherwise, his children, who ought to be holy, will be ritually unclean. I am the Lord and I have set him apart as the High Priest."

But a widowed or divorced daughter who has no children and who has returned to live in her father's house as a dependent may eat the food her father receives as a priest. Only a member of a priestly family may eat any of it.

At that time they and their children shall leave you and return to their family and to the property of their ancestors.

You may also buy the children of the foreigners who are living among you. Such children born in your land may become your property,

and you may leave them as an inheritance to your children, whom they must serve as long as they live. But you must not treat any Israelites harshly.

If they are not set free in any of these ways, they and their children must be set free in the next Year of Restoration.

I will bless you and give you many children; I will keep my part of the covenant that I made with you.