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19 In the third month following the children of Israel’s going out of the land of Egypt, on that same day, they came into the wilderness of Sinai.
2 For they departed from Rephidim and came to the desert of Sinai and camped in the wilderness. It was there Israel camped before the Mount.
3 But Moses went up to God. For the LORD had called from out of the Mount to him, saying, “Thus shall you say to the House of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel,
4 ‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians. And I carried you upon eagle’s wings and have brought you to Me.
5 ‘Now, therefore, if you will indeed hear My voice, and keep My Covenant, then you shall be My chief treasure above all people (though all the Earth is Mine).
6 ‘You shall also be to Me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”
7 Then, Moses came and called for the elders of the people. And to them he proposed all these things which the LORD commanded him.
8 And the people all answered together, and said, “All that the LORD has commanded, we will do.” And Moses reported the words of the people to the LORD.
9 And the LORD said to Moses, “Lo, I will come to you in a thick cloud, so that the people may hear while I talk with you, and so that they may also believe you forever.” For Moses had told the words of the people to the LORD.
10 Moreover, the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and sanctify them, today and tomorrow; and let them wash their clothes.
11 “And let them be ready on the third day. For on the third day the LORD will come down, in the sight of all the people, upon Mount Sinai.
12 “And you shall set boundaries all around the people, saying, ‘Be careful that you do not go up to the mount, nor touch the border of it. Whoever touches the mount shall surely die.’
13 “No hand shall touch it, or he shall be stoned to death or struck through with arrows. Whether beast or man, he shall not live. When the horn blows long, they shall come up onto the mountain.”
14 Then Moses went down from the mount to the people and sanctified the people. And they washed their clothes.
15 And he said to the people, “Be ready on the third day. And do not come near your wives.”
16 And the third day, when it was morning, there was thunder and lightning and a thick cloud upon the mount and the sound of the trumpet, exceedingly loud, so that all the people who were in the camp were afraid.
17 Then Moses brought the people out of the tents to meet with God. And they stood at the foot of the mount.
18 And Mount Sinai was engulfed in smoke, because the LORD came down upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended, as the smoke of a furnace, and all the mount trembled exceedingly.
19 And when the sound of the trumpet blew long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spoke. And God answered him by voice.
20 For the LORD came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mount. And when the LORD called Moses up onto the top of the mount, Moses went up.
21 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go down and remind the people not to break their boundaries and go up to the LORD to gaze, lest many of them perish.
22 “Also, let the priests who come to the LORD be sanctified, lest the LORD destroy them.”
23 And Moses said to the LORD, “The people cannot come up onto Mount Sinai. For You have charged us, saying, ‘Set boundaries on the mountain, and sanctify it.’”
24 And the LORD said to him, “Go. Get down and come up. You and Aaron with you. But do not let the priests and the people break their boundaries to come up to the LORD, lest He destroy them.”
25 So Moses went down to the people and told them.
20 Then God spoke all these Words, saying,
2 “I am the LORD your God, Who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.
4 “You shall make no graven image, nor any likenesses which are in Heaven above, nor which are in the earth beneath, nor which are in the waters under the earth.
5 “You shall neither bow down to them nor serve them. For I am the LORD your God, a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generations of those who hate Me.
6 “And showing mercy to thousands of those who love Me and keep My Commandments.
7 “You shall not lift up the Name of the LORD your God in a frivolous way. For the LORD will not hold him guiltless who lifts up His Name frivolously.
8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 “Six days shall you labor and do all your work.
10 “But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. On it, you shall not do any work—you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maid, nor your beast, nor your stranger who is within your gates.
11 “For in six days, the LORD made the sky and the earth, the sea, and all that therein are, and rested the seventh day. Therefore, the LORD blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it.
12 “Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be prolonged upon the land which the LORD your God gives you.
13 “You shall not murder.
14 “You shall not commit adultery.
15 “You shall not steal.
16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; nor shall you covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”
18 And all the people saw the thunder and the lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking. And when the people saw it they fled and stood at a distance,
19 and said to Moses, “Talk with us and we will hear! But do not let God talk with us, lest we die!”
20 Then Moses said to the people, “Do not fear. For God has come to test you, and to lay His fear before you, so that you do not sin.”
21 So, the people stood at a distance. But Moses drew near to the darkness where God was.
22 And the LORD said to Moses, “Thus shall you say to the children of Israel: ‘You have seen that I have talked with you from Heaven.
23 ‘You shall not make gods of silver equal to Me, nor gods of gold. You shall not make any.
24 ‘You shall make an altar of earth to Me. And thereupon you shall offer your burnt offerings, and your peace offerings, your sheep, and your oxen. I will come to you and bless you in all places where I shall put the remembrance of My Name.
25 ‘But if you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it from hewn stones. For if you use your tool upon them, you have polluted them.
26 ‘Nor shall you go up to My altar by steps, so that your filthiness is not discovered thereupon.’”
21 “Now, these are the laws which you shall set before them:
2 “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years; and in the seventh, he shall go out free, for nothing.
3 “If he came by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.
4 “If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s. But he shall go out by himself.
5 “But, if the servant says this: ‘I love my master, my wife and my children, I will not go out free,’
6 “then his master shall bring him to the judges and bring him to the door (or to the post) and his master shall pierce his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him forever.
7 “Likewise, if a man sells his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
8 “If she does not please her master, who has betrothed her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no power to sell her to a strange people, seeing he has deceived her.
9 “But, if he has betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of the daughters.
10 “If he takes another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.
11 “And if he does not do these three things for her, then she shall go out free, paying no money.
12 “He who strikes a man, and he dies, shall die the death.
13 “But, if a man did not lie in wait, but God offered him into his hand, then I will appoint a place where he shall flee.
14 “But, if a man comes presumptuously upon his neighbor, to kill him with craftiness, you shalt take him from My altar, so that he may die.
15 “Also, he who strikes his father or his mother, shall die the death.
16 “And, he who steals a man and sells him, or if he is found with him, shall die the death.
17 “And, he who curses his father or his mother, shall die the death.
18 “Also, when men strive together and one strikes another with a stone, or with the fist, and he does not die, but is bedridden,
19 “if he rises again and walks outside with his staff, then he who struck him shall be acquitted. He shall only pay his charges for his idle time and shall pay for his healing.
20 “And if a man strikes his servant (or his maid) with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.
21 “But, if he endures for a day, or two days, he shall not be punished. For he is his money.
22 “Also, if men strive and hurt a woman with child, so that her child departs from her, but death does not follow, he shall surely be punished according to the woman’s husband’s demands, or he shall pay as the judges determine.
23 “But, if death does follow, then you shall pay life for life,
24 “eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25 “burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
26 “And if a man strikes his servant in the eye, or his maid in the eye, and has destroyed it, he shall let him go free because of his eye.
27 “Also, if he knocks out his servant’s tooth, or his maid’s tooth, he shall let him go out free because of his tooth.
28 “If an ox gores a man or a woman so that he dies, the ox shall be stoned to death and his flesh shall not be eaten. But the owner of the ox shall be acquitted.
29 If the ox was known to push in times past and it has been told to his master and he has not controlled him. And if afterward, he kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned; and his owner shall die also.
30 “If a sum of money is imposed upon him, then he shall pay the ransom for his life, whatever shall be laid upon him.
31 “Whether it has gored a son or gored a daughter, it shall be judged in the same manner.
32 “If the ox gores a servant or a maid, he shall give their master thirty shekels of silver; and the ox shall be stoned.
33 “And when a man opens a well (or when he digs a pit) and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls therein,
34 “the owner of the pit shall make it good, giving money to the owner thereof. And the dead beast shall become his.
35 “And if a man’s ox hurts his neighbor’s ox, so that he dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide the money thereof; and they shall also divide the dead ox.
36 “Or if it is known that the ox tended to push in times past, and his master has not controlled him, he shall pay ox for ox; but the dead shall become his own.”
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