¹ `Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.

³⁵ I [am] Jehovah, I have spoken; if I do not this to all this evil company who are meeting against me; -- in this wilderness they are consumed, and there they die.'

²³ Only be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

²⁴ You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.

²⁵ You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.