to those who keep his covenant, who are careful to obey his commands.

giving him authority to imprison his officials and to teach his advisers.

I will meditate on your precepts and focus on your behavior.

My body trembles because I fear you; I am afraid of your judgments.

צ (Tsade) You are just, O Lord, and your judgments are fair.

Your compassion is great, O Lord. Revive me, as you typically do!

My child, if you receive my words, and store up my commands within you,

Do not accuse anyone without legitimate cause, if he has not treated you wrongly.

The father of your nation sinned; your spokesmen rebelled against me.

They are frightening and terrifying; they decide for themselves what is right.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’

My commandment is this – to love one another just as I have loved you.

He said to them, “You know that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile, yet God has shown me that I should call no person defiled or ritually unclean.

it is not from works, so that no one can boast.

Now this is his uncleanness in regard to his discharge – whether his body secretes his discharge or blocks his discharge, he is unclean. All the days that his body has a discharge or his body blocks his discharge, this is his uncleanness.

So they must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons, acting like prostitutes by going after them. This is to be a perpetual statute for them throughout their generations.

You yourselves must obey my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations, both the native citizen and the resident foreigner in your midst,

“‘You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations, so that the land to which I am about to bring you to take up residence there does not vomit you out.

if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep all my commandments and you break my covenant –

In the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you are to observe it at its appointed time; you must keep it in accordance with all its statutes and all its customs.”