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Presence of God upon the mount. CHAP. XX.

The ten commandments.

12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the earth beneath, or that is in the water under people round about, saying, Take heed to the earth:

yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to or touch the border of it: whosoever touch- them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy eth the mount shall be surely put to death: God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity 13 There shall not an hand touch it, but of the fathers upon the children unto the he shall surely be stoned or shot through: third and fourth generation of them that whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: hate me; when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.

14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.

6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name

15 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your in vain.

wives.

8 Remember the sabbath-day to keep it

16 And it came to pass on the third holy. day in the morning, that there were thun- 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all ders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon thy work: the mount, and the voice of the trumpet 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of exceeding loud; so that all the people that the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do was in the camp trembled. any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daugh

17 And Moses brought forth the people ter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, out of the camp to meet with God; and nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is they stood at the nether part of the mount. within thy gates:

18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a 11 For in six days the LORD made heasmoke, because the LORD descended upon ven and earth, the sea and all that in them it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole the LORD blessed the sabbath-day, and halmount quaked greatly. lowed it.

19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a

voice.

20 And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.

21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.

22 And let the priests also which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.

23 And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.

24 And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through, to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them.

25 So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them. CHAP. XX.

12 Honour thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

13 Thou shalt not kill.

14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15 Thou shalt not steal.

16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

18 ¶ And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar of.

19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.

20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

AND God spake all these words, saying, 22 And the LORD said unto Moses;

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Israel; Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

23 Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods

4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any of gold. graven image, or any likeness of any thing 24 ¶ An altar of earth thou shalt make that is in heaven above, or that is in the unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy

Sundry lawos

EXODUS. and ordinances. burnt-offerings, and thy peace-offerings, thy | 19 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where his staff, then shall he that smote him be I record my name I will come unto thee, quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his and I will bless thee. time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly

25 And if thou wilt make me an altar healed. of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.

26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

Now

CHAP. XXI.

TOW these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.

4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters;

20 ¶ And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.

21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.

22 ¶ If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

25 Burning for burning, wound for

the wife and her children shall be her mas-wound, stripe for stripe. ter's, and he shall go out by himself.

26 And if a man smite the eye of his

5 And if the servant shall plainly say, servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; I love my master, my wife, and my chil- he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. dren; I will not go out free: 27 And if he smite out his man-servant's

6 Then his master shall bring him unto tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth; he shall the judges: he shall also bring him to the let him go free for his tooth's sake. door, or unto the door-post: and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.

7¶ And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.

8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughers.

10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage shall he not diminish.

11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money. 12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

28 ¶ If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.

30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

31 Whether he have ored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.

32 If the ox shall push a man-servant, or maid-servant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

33 ¶ And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;

13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. 34 The owner of the pit shall make it 14 But if a man come presumptuously good, and give money unto the owner of upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; them; and the dead beast shall be his. thou shait take him from mine altar, that he may die.

15 ¶ And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

16 ¶ And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

17 And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

18 ¶ And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:

35 ¶ And if one man's ox hurt another's that he die, then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it, and the dead or also they shall divide.

36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead shall be his own. CHAP. XXII.

F a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and

oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

Sundry laws

CHAP. XXIII.

and ordinances. 2 If a thief be found breaking up, and save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly be smitten that he die, there shall no blood destroyed.

be shed for him.

21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger,

3 If the sun be risen upon him there shall nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in be blood shed for him: for he should make the land of Egypt. full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, sheep; he shall restore double.

or

22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry

5 If a man shall cause a field or vine- 24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I yard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, will kill you with the sword; and your and shall feed in another man's field of the wives shall be widows, and your children best of his own field, and of the best of his fatherless. own vineyard shall he make restitution.

25 ¶ If thou lend money to any of my

6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not so that the stacks of corn, or the standing be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou corn, or the field be consumed therewith; lay upon him usury.

he that kindled the fire shall surely make 26 ¶ If thou at all take thy neighbour's restitution. raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

7 ¶ If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.

8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's goods.

27 For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

28 ¶ Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.

29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the 9 For all manner of trespass, whether it first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or the first-born of thy sons shalt thou give for any manner of lost thing which another unto me.

challengeth to be his: the cause of both 30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine parties shall come before the judges; and oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it whom the judges shall condemn, he shall shall be with his dam; on the eighth day pay double unto his neighbour. thou shalt give it me.

10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour 31 ¶ And ye shall be holy men unto me: an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the away, no man seeing it:

11 Then shall an oath of the LORD be

between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.

12 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.

13 If it be torn in pieces; then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn.

14 And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good.

15 But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.

16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to

live.

Whosoever lieth with a beast shall

dogs.

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CHAP. XXIII.

HO thine hand with the wicked to be shalt not raise a false report: put

not

unrighteous witness.

2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:

3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

4 ¶ If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.

6 ¶ Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

8 ¶ And thou shalt take no gift; for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

9 ¶ Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of

19 surely be put to death. 20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, Egypt.

An Angel is promised.

EXODUS.

The glory of God appears. 10 ¶ And six years thou shalt sow thy 27 I will send my fear before thee, and land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: will destroy all the people to whom thou 11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it shalt come, and I will make all thine enerest and lie still; that the poor of thy peo-mies turn their backs unto thee. ple may eat: and what they leave the beasts 28 And I will send hornets before thee, of the field shall eat. In like manner thou which shall drive out the Hivite, the Cashalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy naanite, and the Hittite from before thee. oliveyard. 29 I will not drive them out from before

12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, thee in one year; lest the land become deand on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that solate, and the beast of the field multiply thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son against thee.

of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be 30 By little and little I will drive them refreshed. out from before thee, until thou be increased, 13 ¶ And in all things that I have said and inherit the land. unto you be circumspect: and make no 31 And I will set thy bounds from the mention of the names of other gods, nei-Red sea even unto the sea of the Philisther let it be heard out of thy mouth. tines, and from the desert unto the river:

14 Three times thou shalt keep a for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land feast unto me in the year. into your hand; and thou shalt drive them

15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unlea-out before thee. vened bread (thou shalt cat unleavened 32 Thou shalt make no covenant with bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in them nor with their gods.

the time appointed of the month Abib; for 33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none they make thee sin against me: for if thou shall appear before me empty :) serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.

CHAP. XXIV.

16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in thy field: and the feast of ingathering, AND he said unto Moses, Come up unwhich is in the end of the year, when thou to the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nahast gathered in thy labours out of the dab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders field. of Israel; and worship ye afar off.

17 Three times in the year all thy males ahall appear before the LORD God.

18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread: neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.

19 The first of the first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

20 ¶ Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

2 And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.

3¶ And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.

4 ¶ And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, 5 And he sent young men of the chilprovoke him not; for he will not pardon dren of Israel, which offered burnt-offeryour transgressions: for my name is in him. ings, and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen 22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his unto the LORD.

voice, and do all that I speak; then I will 6 And Moses took half of the blood, and be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an put it in basins; and half of the blood he adversary unto thine adversaries. sprinkled on the altar.

23 For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off.

7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.

8 And Moses took the blood, and sprink24 Thou shalt not bow down to their led it on the people, and said, Behold the gods, nor serve them, nor do after their blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow made with you concerning all these words. them, and quite break down their images. 9 ¶ Then went up Moses, and Aaron, 25 And ye shall serve the LORD your Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elGod, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy ders of Israel: water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.

10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.

11 And upon the nobles of the children

The offering for the tabernacle. CHAP. XXV. of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God and did eat and drink.

The golden candlestick.

14 And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.

15 The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it. 16 And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. 17¶ And thou shalt make a mercy-seat

12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them. 13 And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall of God. be the length thereof, and a cubit and a

14 And he said unto the elders, Tarry half the breadth thereof. ye here for us, until we come again unto 18 And thou shalt make two cherubims you and behold, Aaron and Hur are with of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make you: if any man have any matters to do, let them, in the two ends of the mercy-seat. him come unto them.

15 And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.

16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.

18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

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CHAP. XXV.

19 And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy-seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.

20 And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercyseat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercyseat shall the faces of the cherubims be.

21 And thou shalt put the mercy-seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.

22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cheru

ND the LORD spake unto Moses, say-bims which are upon the ark of the testiing, mony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.

3 And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass, 4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,

5 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim-wood,

6 Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,

7 Onyx-stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breast-plate.

8 And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

23 ¶ Thou shalt also make a table of shittim-wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

24 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.

25 And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand-breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.

26 And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.

9 According to all that I shew thee, after 27 Over against the border shall the the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pat-rings be for places of the staves to bear the tern of all the instruments thereof, even so table. shall ye make it.

28 And thou shalt make the staves of

10 And they shall make an ark of shittim-wood, and overlay them with gold, shittim-wood: two cubits and a half shall that the table may be borne with them. be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half 29 And thou shalt make the dishes therethe breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half of, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, the height thereof. and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure

11 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold shalt thou make them. gold, within and without shalt thou overlay 30 And thou shalt set upon the table it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold shew-bread before me alway. round about.

31 And thou shalt make a candlestick

12 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold of pure gold: of beaten work shall the for it, and put them in the four corners candlestick be made: his shaft, and his thereof; and two rings shall be in the one branches, his bowls, his knops, and his side of it, and two rings in the other side of it. flowers, shall be of the same.

13 And thou shalt make staves of shittimwood, and overlay them with gold.

32 And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candle

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