You may not sacrifice the Passover in just any of your villages<n id="1" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you,

Indeed, he may live among you in any place he chooses, in whichever of your villages<n id="1" /> he prefers; you must not oppress him.p>

for you may do so<n id="1" /> only in the place the <sc>Lordsc> chooses in one of your tribal areas &#8211; there you may do everything I am commanding you.<n id="2" />p>

However, it was not until<n id="1" /> the first day of the eleventh month<n id="2" /> of the fortieth year<n id="3" /> that Moses addressed the Israelites just as<n id="4" /> the <sc>Lordsc> had instructed him to do.

<t /><p class="bodytext">If a fellow Israelite<n id="1" /> from one of your villages<n id="2" /> in the land that the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you should be poor, you must not harden your heart or be insensitive<n id="3" /> to his impoverished condition.<n id="4" />

Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you &#8211; in one of your villages<n id="1" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you &#8211; who sins before the Lord your God<n id="2" /> and breaks his covenant