But he added, &#8220;You cannot see my face, for no one can<n id="1" /> see me and live.&#8221;<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;If your brother<n id="1" /> becomes impoverished and is indebted to you,<n id="2" /> you must support<n id="3" /> him; he must live<n id="4" /> with you like a foreign resident.<n id="5" />

Do not take interest or profit from him,<n id="1" /> but you must fear your God and your brother must live<n id="2" /> with you.

The mother of the child said, &#8220;As certainly as the <sc>Lordsc> lives and as you live, I will not leave you.&#8221; So Elisha<n id="1" /> got up and followed her back.p>

So you must keep<n id="1" /> my statutes and my regulations; anyone who does so will live by keeping them.<n id="2" /> I am the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Make a poisonous snake and set it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks<n id="1" /> at it, he will live.&#8221;

So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole, so that if a snake had bitten someone, when he looked at the bronze snake he lived.<n id="1" />p>

He replied, &#8220;While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept because I thought,<n id="1" /> &#8216;Perhaps<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc> will show pity and the child will live.

<p class="bodytext">But I replied, &#8220;Should a man like me run away? Would someone like me flee to the temple in order to save his life?<n id="1" /> I will not go!&#8221;

engages in usury and charges interest. Will he live? He will not! Because he has done all these abominable deeds he will certainly die.<n id="1" /> He will bear the responsibility for his own death.<n id="2" />p>

I gave them my statutes<n id="1" /> and revealed my regulations to them. The one<n id="2" /> who carries<n id="3" /> them out will live by them!<n id="4" />

These are the ones who now take oaths<n id="1" /> in the name of the sinful idol goddess<n id="2" /> of Samaria.p> <p class="poetry">They vow,<n id="3" /> &#8216;As surely as your god<n id="4" /> lives, O Dan,&#8217; or &#8216;As surely as your beloved one<n id="5" /> lives, O Beer Sheba!&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">But they will fall down and not get up again.&#8221;p>

And the <sc>Lordsc> God said, &#8220;Now<n id="1" /> that the man has become like one of us,<n id="2" /> knowing<n id="3" /> good and evil, he must not be allowed<n id="4" /> to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.&#8221;

Anyone who accidentally killed someone<n id="1" /> without hating him at the time of the accident<n id="2" /> could flee to one of those cities and be safe.

You said, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> our God has shown us his great glory<n id="1" /> and we have heard him speak from the middle of the fire. It is now clear to us<n id="2" /> that God can speak to human beings and they can keep on living.

Now this is the law pertaining to one who flees there in order to live,<n id="1" /> if he has accidentally killed another<n id="2" /> without hating him at the time of the accident.<n id="3" />

Suppose he goes with someone else<n id="1" /> to the forest to cut wood and when he raises the ax<n id="2" /> to cut the tree, the ax head flies loose<n id="3" /> from the handle and strikes<n id="4" /> his fellow worker<n id="5" /> so hard that he dies. The person responsible<n id="6" /> may then flee to one of these cities to save himself.<n id="7" />

<p class="bodytext">Taking an oath, David again<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Your father is very much aware of the fact<n id="2" /> that I have found favor with you, and he has thought,<n id="3" /> &#8216;Don&#8217;t let Jonathan know about this, or he will be upset.&#8217; But as surely as the <sc>Lordsc> lives and you live, there is about one step between me and death!&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Now, my lord, as surely as the <sc>Lordsc> lives and as surely as you live, it is the <sc>Lordsc> who has kept you from shedding blood and taking matters into your own hands. Now may your enemies and those who seek to harm my lord be like Nabal.

<p class="bodytext">But Ittai replied to the king, &#8220;As surely as the <sc>Lordsc> lives and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king is, whether dead or alive,<n id="1" /> there I<n id="2" /> will be as well!&#8221;