The priest shall then look, and if there is a white swelling in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is quick raw flesh in the swelling,

and in the place of the boil there is a white swelling or a reddish-white, bright spot, then it shall be shown to the priest;

then the priest shall order them to tear out the stones with the mark in them and throw them away at an unclean place outside the city.

Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, ‘No person among you may eat blood, nor may any alien who sojourns among you eat blood.’

so that the land will not spew you out, should you defile it, as it has spewed out the nation which has been before you.

‘When you enter the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. Three years it shall be forbidden to you; it shall not be eaten.

You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin; I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt.

‘You are therefore to keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them, so that the land to which I am bringing you to live will not spew you out.

A widow, or a divorced woman, or one who is profaned by harlotry, these he may not take; but rather he is to marry a virgin of his own people,

But if a priest’s daughter becomes a widow or divorced, and has no child and returns to her father’s house as in her youth, she shall eat of her father’s food; but no layman shall eat of it.

who brought you out from the land of Egypt, to be your God; I am the Lord.”

There shall be one standard for you; it shall be for the stranger as well as the native, for I am the Lord your God.’”

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would not be their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.