Pray to the Lord, for the mighty thunderings and hail are too much! I will release you and you will stay no longer.”

So now, leave me alone so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them, and I will make from you a great nation.”

You must not make yourselves molten gods.

‘Take an offering for the Lord. Let everyone who has a willing heart bring an offering to the Lord: gold, silver, bronze,

“‘You must bring the grain offering that must be made from these to the Lord. Present it to the priest, and he will bring it to the altar.

“‘If his offering for a peace offering sacrifice to the Lord is from the flock, he must present a flawless male or female.

Therefore, I have said to the Israelites: No person among you is to eat blood, and no resident foreigner who lives among you is to eat blood.

He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one profaned by prostitution; he may only take a virgin from his people as a wife.

“‘You must count for yourselves seven weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day you bring the wave offering sheaf; they must be complete weeks.

However, when they confess their iniquity and their ancestors’ iniquity which they committed by trespassing against me, by which they also walked in hostility against me

When it reverts in the jubilee, the field will be holy to the Lord like a permanently dedicated field; it will become the priest’s property.

Now the mixed multitude who were among them craved more desirable foods, and so the Israelites wept again and said, “If only we had meat to eat!

I gave Gilead to Machir.

Stand aside and I will destroy them, obliterating their very name from memory, and I will make you into a stronger and more numerous nation than they are.”

You must not eat it so that it may go well with you and your children after you; you will be doing what is right in the Lord’s sight.

All ritually clean birds you may eat.

You may eat any clean bird.

If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail,

Gather to me all your tribal elders and officials so I can speak to them directly about these things and call the heavens and the earth to witness against them.

These wineskins we filled were brand new, but look how they have ripped. Our clothes and sandals have worn out because it has been a very long journey.”