And now when you eat and drink, are you not doing so for yourselves?’”

I am committed to peace, ¹  but when I speak, they want to make war. ² 

“‘When you sacrifice a peace offering sacrifice to the Lord, you must sacrifice it so that it is accepted for you. ¹ 

When a foreigner resides ¹  with you in your land, you must not oppress him.

When you sacrifice a thanksgiving offering to the Lord, you must sacrifice it so that it is acceptable for your benefit. ¹ 

If you set them free, you must not send them away empty-handed.

If you refrain from making a vow, it will not be sinful.

“What is mankind ¹  that you make so much of them, ²  and that you pay attention ³  to them?

What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

that you may take them to their borders and perceive the pathways to their homes? ¹ 

Is it at your command ¹  that the eagle soars, and builds its nest on high?

“If a man sells his daughter ¹  as a female servant, ²  she will not go out as the male servants do.

But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly, ¹  you will take him even from my altar that he may die.

Now, if such a carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, ¹  it is clean,

but if water is put on the seed and such a carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.

If the man with a discharge spits on a person who is ceremonially clean, ¹  that person must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

“‘If your brother ¹  becomes impoverished and is indebted to you, ²  you must support ³  him; he must live ⁴  with you like a foreign resident. ⁵ 

“‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service. ¹ 

And when you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or a sacrifice for discharging a vow or as a peace offering to the Lord,

Now if you say to yourselves, ¹  ‘How can we tell that a message is not from the Lord?’ ²  –