Only, be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat.

{You must show no pity}: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot."

And {your life shall hang in doubt before you}, and you shall be startled night and day, and you shall not be confident of your life.

I invoke as a witness against you {today} the heaven and the earth: life and death I have set {before you}, blessing and curse. So choose life, so that you may live, you and your offspring,

"When a man takes a new wife he shall not go out with the army, and {he shall not be obligated with anything}; he shall be free from obligation, {to stay at home} for one year, and he shall bring joy [to] his wife that he took.

"{Because} [of the fact] that you did not serve Yahweh your God with joy and with gladness of heart for the abundance of everything,

Call for songs of joy, O nations, [concerning] his people, for the blood of his servants he will avenge, {and he will take reprisals against his foes}, and he will make atonement [for] his land, his people."