<p class="poetry">Their heart is slipping;p> <p class="poetry">soon they will be punished for their guilt.p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> will break their altars;p> <p class="poetry">he will completely destroy their fertility pillars.p>

Every firstling<n id="1" /> of a donkey you must redeem<n id="2" /> with a lamb, and if you do not redeem it, then you must break its neck.<n id="3" /> Every firstborn of<n id="4" /> your sons you must redeem.p>

Now the firstling<n id="1" /> of a donkey you may redeem with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, then break its neck.<n id="2" /> You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons.p> <p class="bodytext">&#8220;No one will appear before me empty-handed.<n id="3" />p>

and all the elders of that city nearest the corpse<n id="1" /> must wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.<n id="2" />

and bring the heifer down to a wadi with flowing water,<n id="1" /> to a valley that is neither plowed nor sown.<n id="2" /> There at the wadi they are to break the heifer&#8217;s neck.

<p class="poetry">The one who slaughters a bull also strikes down a man;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the one who sacrifices a lamb also breaks a dog&#8217;s neck;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the one who presents an offering includes pig&#8217;s blood with it;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">the one who offers incense also praises an idol.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">They have decided to behave this way;<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">they enjoy these disgusting practices.<n id="6" />p>