However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself<n id="1" /> &#8211; you must not eat the life with the meat!

<t /><p class="bodytext"><v id="(13:1)" /><n id="1" /> You<n id="2" /> must be careful to do everything I am commanding you. Do not add to it or subtract from it!<n id="3" />

Thus all Israel will hear and be afraid; no longer will they continue to do evil like this among you.<n id="1" />p>

Also the pig is ritually impure to you; though it has divided hooves,<n id="1" /> it does not chew the cud. You may not eat their meat or even touch their remains.

<t /><p class="bodytext">You must set apart<n id="1" /> for the <sc>Lordsc> your God every firstborn male born to your herds and flocks. You must not work the firstborn of your bulls or shear the firstborn of your flocks.

You must not pervert justice or show favor. Do not take a bribe, for bribes blind the eyes of the wise and distort<n id="1" /> the words of the righteous.<n id="2" />

You must not shed innocent blood<n id="1" /> in your land that the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.<n id="2" />

You must not show pity; the principle will be a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, and a foot for a foot.<n id="1" />p>

Or who among you has planted a vineyard and not benefited from it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else benefit from it.

Or who among you<n id="1" /> has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail,<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">A woman must not wear men&#8217;s clothing,<n id="1" /> nor should a man dress up in women&#8217;s clothing, for anyone who does this is offensive<n id="2" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> your God.p>

<p class="bodytext">If you build a new house, you must construct a guard rail<n id="1" /> around your roof to avoid being culpable<n id="2" /> in the event someone should fall from it.p>

Then<n id="1" /> the first son<n id="2" /> she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.

how they met you along the way and cut off all your stragglers in the rear of the march when you were exhausted and tired; they were unafraid of God.<n id="1" />

But you must not turn away from all the commandments I am giving<n id="1" /> you today, to either the right or left, nor pursue other gods and worship<n id="2" /> them.p>

But to this very day the <sc>Lordsc> has not given you an understanding mind, perceptive eyes, or discerning ears!<n id="1" />

They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they did not know and that he did not permit them to worship.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;This commandment I am giving<n id="1" /> you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it too remote.

And it is not across the sea, as though one must say, &#8220;Who will cross over to the other side of the sea and get it for us and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?&#8221;