How long, Lord, must I cry for help? But you do not listen! I call out to you, “Violence!” But you do not intervene!

and those who turn their backs on the Lord and do not want the Lord’s help or guidance.”

He replied, “Don’t you know what these are?” And I said, “No, sir.”

“‘It then came about that just as I cried out, but they would not obey, so they will cry out, but I will not listen,’ the Lord Lord who rules over all had said.

“Since, I, the Lord, do not go back on my promises, you, sons of Jacob, have not perished.

But you must not eat meat with its life (that is, its blood) in it.

A foreigner and a hired worker must not eat it.

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

“You must not allow a sorceress to live.

“You must not afflict any widow or orphan.

and you must not show partiality to a poor man in his lawsuit.

“You must not turn away justice for your poor people in their lawsuits.

“You must make no covenant with them or with their gods.

You must not make yourselves molten gods.

“‘When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman, although she is a slave woman designated for another man and she has not yet been ransomed, or freedom has not been granted to her, there will be an obligation to pay compensation. They must not be put to death, because she was not free.

He must not defile himself as a husband among his people so as to profane himself.

You must not rule over him harshly, but you must fear your God.

But the Levites, according to the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them.

But when you assemble the community, you must blow, but you must not sound an alarm.

Indeed, I have received a command to bless; he has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.