When I looked, you had indeed sinned against the <sc>Lordsc> your God and had cast for yourselves a metal calf;<n id="1" /> you had quickly turned aside from the way he<n id="2" /> had commanded you!

so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship<n id="1" /> their gods, causing you to sin against the <sc>Lordsc> your God.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then you responded to me and admitted, &#8220;We have sinned against the <sc>Lordsc>. We will now go up and fight as the <sc>Lordsc> our God has told us to do.&#8221; So you each put on your battle gear and prepared to go up to the hill country.

Then I again fell down before the <sc>Lordsc> for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the <sc>Lordsc> as to enrage him.

<p class="bodytext">A single witness may not testify<n id="1" /> against another person for any trespass or sin that he commits. A matter may be legally established<n id="2" /> only on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry<n id="1" /> her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" /> You must not bring guilt on the land<n id="3" /> which the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you as an inheritance.p>