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You shall have one law for the alien and for the citizen: for I am the Lord your God.

Speak to the people of Israel and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land shall observe a sabbath for the Lord .

You shall not cheat one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, to be your God.

For to me the people of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

You shall make for yourselves no idols and erect no carved images or pillars, and you shall not place figured stones in your land, to worship at them; for I am the Lord your God.

You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord .

I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be their slaves no more; I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.

Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, or abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God;

but I will remember in their favor the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, to be their God: I am the Lord .

for all the firstborn are mine; when I killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated for my own all the firstborn in Israel, both human and animal; they shall be mine. I am the Lord .

But you shall accept the Levites for me—I am the Lord —as substitutes for all the firstborn among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites as substitutes for all the firstborn among the livestock of the Israelites.

Accept the Levites as substitutes for all the firstborn among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites as substitutes for their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am the Lord .

Also on your days of rejoicing, at your appointed festivals, and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over your sacrifices of well-being; they shall serve as a reminder on your behalf before the Lord your God: I am the Lord your God.

Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they come weeping to me and say, ‘Give us meat to eat!'

I am not able to carry all this people alone, for they are too heavy for me.

But Moses said, "The people I am with number six hundred thousand on foot; and you say, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat for a whole month'!

"Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites; from each of their ancestral tribes you shall send a man, every one a leader among them."

Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving you,

Speak to the Israelites and say to them: After you come into the land to which I am bringing you,