So that you may not be turned to evil ways and make for yourselves an image in the form of any living thing, male or female,

You will have greater blessings than any other people: no male or female among you or among your cattle will be without offspring.

If the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name is far away from you, then take from your herds and from your flocks which the Lord has given you, as I have said, and have a meal of it in the towns where you may be living.

But year by year you and all your house are to take a meal of it before the Lord, in the place of his selection.

And when the Lord your God has given it into your hands, let every male in it be put to death without mercy.

Then the first male child she has will take the rights of the brother who is dead, so that his name may not come to an end in Israel.

And to her baby newly come to birth, and to the children of her body; for having no other food, she will make a meal of them secretly, because of her bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.