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• The Jews may make use of their own kind of food and their own laws as formerly, and none of them is to be molested in any way for any unwitting offences. (2 Maccabees 11, 31)

• Having thus committed the outcome to the Creator of the world, and having exhorted his soldiers to fight bravely to the death for the laws, the Temple, the city, their country and their way of life, he encamped his army near Modein. (2 Maccabees 13, 14)

• a breed that, laying claim to purity, has not yet been cleansed of its filth; (Proverbs 30, 12)

• loving her means keeping her laws, attention to her laws guarantees incorruptibility, (Wisdom of Solomon 6, 18)

• For I am your servant, son of your serving maid, a feeble man, with little time to live, with small understanding of justice and the laws. (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 5)

• they no longer retain any purity in their lives or their marriages, one treacherously murdering another or wronging him by adultery. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 24)

• I have directed my soul towards her, and in purity I have found her; having my heart fixed on her from the outset, I shall never be deserted; (Ecclesiasticus 51, 20)

• The earth is defiled by the feet of its inhabitants, for they have transgressed the laws, violated the decree, broken the everlasting covenant. (Isaiah 24, 5)

• Listen to me, you who know what saving justice means, a people who take my laws to heart: do not fear people's taunts, do not be alarmed by their insults, (Isaiah 51, 7)

• They seek for me day after day, they long to know my ways, like a nation that has acted uprightly and not forsaken the law of its God. They ask me for laws that are upright, they long to be near God: (Isaiah 58, 2)

• Even the stork in the sky knows the appropriate season; turtledove, swallow and crane observe their time of migration. But my people do not know Yahweh's laws!" ' (Jeremiah 8, 7)

• Yahweh says this, "If I have not created day and night and fixed the laws governing heaven and earth, (Jeremiah 33, 25)