Study Desk

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. Your slaves must rest just as you do.

Teach them to your children. Repeat them when you are at home and when you are away, when you are resting and when you are working.

"In times to come your children will ask you, ‘Why did the Lord our God command us to obey all these laws?'

Do not marry any of them, and do not let your children marry any of them,

because then they would lead your children away from the Lord to worship other gods. If that happens, the Lord will be angry with you and destroy you at once.

He will love you and bless you, so that you will increase in number and have many children; he will bless your fields, so that you will have grain, wine, and olive oil; and he will bless you by giving you many cattle and sheep. He will give you all these blessings in the land that he promised your ancestors he would give to you.

Remember that the Lord your God corrects and punishes you just as parents discipline their children.

Remember today what you have learned about the Lord through your experiences with him. It was you, not your children, who had these experiences. You saw the Lord 's greatness, his power, his might,

Teach them to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you are resting and when you are working.

Then you and your children will live a long time in the land that the Lord your God promised to give to your ancestors. You will live there as long as there is a sky above the earth.

Be joyful there in his presence, together with your children, your servants, and the Levites who live in your towns; remember that the Levites will have no land of their own.

You and your children, together with your servants and the Levites who live in your towns, are to eat these offerings only in the presence of the Lord your God, in the one place of worship chosen by the Lord your God. And you are to be happy there over everything that you have done.

Do not worship the Lord your God in the way they worship their gods, for in the worship of their gods they do all the disgusting things that the Lord hates. They even sacrifice their children in the fires on their altars.

Be joyful in the Lord 's presence, together with your children, your servants, and the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your towns. Do this at the one place of worship.

Enjoy it with your children, your servants, and the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your towns.

Don't sacrifice your children in the fires on your altars; and don't let your people practice divination or look for omens or use spells

You may, however, take for yourselves the women, the children, the livestock, and everything else in the city. You may use everything that belongs to your enemies. The Lord has given it to you.

When the man decides how he is going to divide his property among his children, he is not to show partiality to the son of his favorite wife by giving him the share that belongs to the first-born son.

"Parents are not to be put to death for crimes committed by their children, and children are not to be put to death for crimes committed by their parents; people are to be put to death only for a crime they themselves have committed.

"The Lord will bless you with many children, with abundant crops, and with many cattle and sheep.