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The oldest code of Hebrew law which has come down to us is contained in Ex 20:22 to Ex 23:33. It receives its name from the expression in Ex 24:7, while its character as a covenant is demonstrated by the promises attached to the keeping of it (Ex 23:20-33). Owing to the confused form in which the Book of Exodus has been transmitted, doubt has been expressed as to the limits of the Book of the Covenant. Some maintain that the words in Ex 24:7 refer only to ch. 23; others would make them include 21
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And God will speak all these words, saying, I am Jehovah thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of servants. read more. There shall be no other God to thee to my face. Thou shalt not make to thee a carved image, and every appearance that is in the heavens above, and that is in the earth beneath, and that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not worship to them, and thou shalt not serve them: for I am Jehovah thy God, a jealous God, striking the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and to the fourth, to them hating me; And doing kindness to thousands to them loving me and to them watching my commands. Thou shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God in vain: for Jehovah will not cleanse him who shall take his name in vain. Remember the day of the Sabbath to consecrate it Six days thou shalt work and do all thy service: And the seventh day the Sabbath to Jehovah thy God: thou shall do no service, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy servant, and thy maid, and thy cattle, and thy stranger which is in thy gates. For six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all which is in them, and he will rest in the seventh day: for this Jehovah praised the seventh day and consecrated it. Honor thy father and thy mother, so that thy days shall be prolon upon the land which Jehovah thy gave to thee. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not testify against thy friend for falsehood. Thou shalt not desire thy friend's house, thou shalt not desire thy friend's wife, and his servant and his maid and his ox and his ass and all which is to thy friend.
And Jehovah will say to Moses, Thus shalt thou say to the sons of Israel, Ye saw that from the heavens I spake with you.
And Jehovah will say to Moses, Thus shalt thou say to the sons of Israel, Ye saw that from the heavens I spake with you.
An altar of earth shalt thou make to me, and sacrifice upon it thy burnt-offering and thy peace, and thy sheep and thy cattle: and in every place where I shall cause my name to be remembered, I will come to thee and bless thee. And if thou shalt make to me an altar of stones, thou shalt not build them, cutting, for didst thou lift up thy sword upon it, and thou shalt defile it. read more. And thou shalt not go up by steps upon mine altar, that thou shalt not uncover thy nakedness upon it
And these the judgments which thou shalt set before them. If thou shalt buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve: and in the seventh he shall go forth free gratuitously. read more. If he shall come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he possessed a wife, and his wife shall go forth with him. If his lord shall give to hint a wife, and she brought to him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be to her lord, and he shall go forth by himself. And if saying, the servant shall say, I loved my lord, my wife and my sons; I will not go forth free: And his lord brought him near to God, and he brought him near to the door, or to the door-post, and his lord pierced his ear with an awl; and he served him forever. And if a man shall sell his daughter for a maid, she shall not go forth as the servants went forth. If evil in the eyes of her lord, he did not betroth her and he ransomed her: to a strange people he shall not have power to sell her, in his acting deceitfully by her. And if to a son he shall betroth her, according to the judgment of daughters he shall do to her. If he shall take to him another, her food and her covering and her cohabitation he shall not take away. And if he shall not do these three to her, she shall go forth gratuitously without silver. He striking a man and he died, dying, he shall die.
He striking a man and he died, dying, he shall die.
He striking a man and he died, dying, he shall die. And when he hunted not after, and God let fall into his hand, and I set to thee a place where he shall flee there. read more. And if a man shall act proudly against his friend to kill him with craftiness, from mine altar shalt thou take him to die. And he striking his father and his mother, dying be shall die.
And he striking his father and his mother, dying be shall die. And he stealing a man, and selling him, and being found in his hand, dying, he shall die.
And he stealing a man, and selling him, and being found in his hand, dying, he shall die. And he making light of his father and his mother, dying, he shall die.
And he making light of his father and his mother, dying, he shall die. And if men shall contend, and a man struck his friend with a stone or with the fist, and he shall not die, and he fell upon the bed: read more. If he shall rise and go forth without upon his support, and he smiting being innocent, only he shall give his resting, and healing, he shall be healed. And if a man shall strike his servant or his maid with a rod, and he died under his hand, avenging, he shall be avenged. But if a day or two days he shall stand, he shall not be avenged, for he is his silver. And if men shall quarrel and strike a woman pregnant, and her child shall go forth, and there shall not be harm, punishing, he shall be punished, as the husband of the woman shall put upon him; and he giving in justice. And if there shall be harm, and he gave soul for soul, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. And if a man strike the eye of his servant or the eye of his maid, and he destroyed it; he shall send him forth free for the sake of his eye.
And if a man strike the eye of his servant or the eye of his maid, and he destroyed it; he shall send him forth free for the sake of his eye. And if the tooth of his servant or the tooth of his maid he shall cast out, he shall send him forth free for his tooth. read more. And if an ox shall push (with the horns) a man or a woman, and he died; stoning, the ox shall be stoned, and he shall not eat his flesh; and the lord of the ox being innocent
And if an ox shall push (with the horns) a man or a woman, and he died; stoning, the ox shall be stoned, and he shall not eat his flesh; and the lord of the ox being innocent And if this ox pushed (with the horns) from yesterday the third day, and being testified to its lord, and he will not watch him and he killed the man or the woman; the ox shall be stoned, and also his lord shall be put to death. read more. If an expiation shall be put upon him, the price of redemption of his soul according to all which shall be put upon him. If he shall push (with his horns) a son, or shall push a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him. If the ox shall push a servant, or a maid, he shall give thirty shekels of silver to his lord, and the ox shall be stoned. And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and shall not cover it, and an ox fall there, or an ass: The lord of the pit shall recompense; he shall turn back silver to his lord and the dead shall be to him. And if a man's ox shall strike the ox of his friend and he died, and they shall sell the living ox and divide the silver, and also the dead ox they shall divide. Or if this ox was known to push from yesterday, the third day, and his lord guarded him not; recompensing, he shall recompense, ox for ox, and the dead shall be to him.
If a man shall steal an ox or a sheep, and slaughter it or sell it, he shall recompense five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. If in breaking in a thief shall be found, and he was smitten and died, no bloods for him. read more. If the sun was risen upon him, bloods for him: recompensing, he shall recompense; if nothing to him, to be sold for his theft. If finding, the theft shall be found in his hand, from an ox to an ass, to a sheep; living, he shall recompense two. If a man shall feed a field or vineyard, and send forth the cattle and feed in another field: from the good of his field and from the good of his vineyard shall he recompense. If fire shall come forth, and find thorns, and it consume the heap of sheaves or stalk of grain, or the field; he having kindled the fire, recompensing, he shall recompense. If a man shall give to his friend silver or vessels to watch, and it was stolen out of the man's house, if the thief shall be found he shall recompense double. If the thief shall not be found, and the lord of the house being brought to God, if he put not forth his hand upon his friend's goods. For every word of transgression, for ox, for ass, for sheep, for garment, for every loss which if this say is his: to God the word of both of them shall come; whom God shall condemn, he shall recompense double to his friend. If a man shall give to his friend an ass or ox or sheep or all cattle to watch; and it died, or being broken or being taken captive, not being seen:
If a man shall give to his friend an ass or ox or sheep or all cattle to watch; and it died, or being broken or being taken captive, not being seen: An oath of Jehovah shall be between them both if he put not forth his hand to his friend's goods; and its lord shall take and he shall not recompense. read more. And if stealing, it shall be stolen from him, he shall recompense to his lord. If tearing in pieces, it shall be torn in pieces, he shall bring it a witness; the torn in pieces he shall not recompense. And if a man shall ask from his friend, and being broken or dying, its lord not with it, recompensing, he shall recompense. If its lord be with it, he shall not recompense: if hired, it came for its hire. If a man shall seduce a virgin who was not betrothed, and lying with her, endowing, he shall endow her to him for a wife. If her father refusing shall refuse to give her to him, he shall weigh the silver according to the dowry of virgins. Thou shalt not preserve alive a sorceress. Every one lying with a quadruped, dying, shall die. He sacrificing to a God except to Jehovah himself alone, shall be devoted to destruction. Thou shalt not treat evil the stranger, and thou shalt not press him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
If thou shalt lend silver to my people being poor with thee, thou shalt not be to him, as lending; ye shall not put interest upon him. If taking in pledge, thou shalt take in pledge the garment of thy friend, at the going down of the sun thou shalt turn it back to him. read more. For it is his covering alone; his garment for his nakedness in which he shall lie; and it was when he shall cry to me, and I heard, for I am compassionate. Thou shalt not make light of God, and thou shalt not curse the chiefs of thy people. Thy fulness and thy tears thou shalt not delay: the first-born of thy sons thou shalt give to me.
Thy fulness and thy tears thou shalt not delay: the first-born of thy sons thou shalt give to me. Thus shalt thou do to thine ox, to thy sheep: seven days shall it be with its mother; in the eighth day thou shalt give it to me. read more. And ye shall be holy men to me, and ye shall not eat flesh torn in pieces in the field; ye shall cast it to the dog.
Thou shalt not take up a false report: thou shalt not put thy hand with the unjust one to be a witness of wrong. Thou shalt not be after multitudes for evil; thou shalt not answer for the multitude to stretch out after multitudes to pervert justice. read more. And the poor one thou shalt not make proud in his cause.
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of thy needy in his cause. From the word of falsehood thou shalt go far away; and the innocent and the just one thou shalt not kill: for I will not justify the unjust one. read more. And thou shalt not take a gift; for the gift will blind the seeing, and will pervert just words.
Six years shalt thou sow thy land, and gather its produce: And the seventh thou shalt remit, and let it be; and the poor of thy people shall eat; and the remains, the beast of the field shall eat. So shalt thou do to thy vineyard and to thy olive tree. read more. Six days thou shalt do thy works, and in the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox shall rest, and thine ass, and the son of thy maid shall be refreshed, and the stranger.
Three times thou shalt keep a festival to me in the year. Thou shalt watch the festival of unleavened: seven days shalt thou eat unleavened as I commanded thee according to the appointment of the month Abib; for in it thou camest forth out of Egypt: and they shall not be seen before me empty. read more. And the festival of the harvest, the first fruits of thy works, which thou shalt sow in the field: and the festival of gathering in the going out of the year, in thy gathering thy works out of the field.
And the festival of the harvest, the first fruits of thy works, which thou shalt sow in the field: and the festival of gathering in the going out of the year, in thy gathering thy works out of the field. Three times in the year every male of thine shall be seen to the face of the Lord Jehovah. read more. Thou shalt not sacrifice upon leaven: the blood of my sacrifice, and the fat of my festival shall not remain over till morning. The sacrifice of the first fruits of thy land thou shalt bring to the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in his mother's milk. Behold, I send a messenger before thee to guard thee in the way, and to bring thee to the place which I prepared.
Behold, I send a messenger before thee to guard thee in the way, and to bring thee to the place which I prepared. Watch from his face, and hear to his voice; thou shalt not rebel against him: he will not lift up your transgression; for my name is in the midst of him.
Watch from his face, and hear to his voice; thou shalt not rebel against him: he will not lift up your transgression; for my name is in the midst of him. For if hearing thou shalt hear to his voice, and to all that I shall speak; and I was an enemy to thine enemies, and I was hostile to thine adversaries.
For if hearing thou shalt hear to his voice, and to all that I shall speak; and I was an enemy to thine enemies, and I was hostile to thine adversaries. For my messenger shall go before thee, and bring thee to the Amorites, and the Hittites and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I destroyed them.
For my messenger shall go before thee, and bring thee to the Amorites, and the Hittites and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I destroyed them.
For my messenger shall go before thee, and bring thee to the Amorites, and the Hittites and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I destroyed them. Thou shalt not worship to their gods, and thou shalt not serve them, and thou shalt not do according to their works: for destroying, thou shalt destroy them, and breaking, thou shalt break in pieces their pillars.
Thou shalt not worship to their gods, and thou shalt not serve them, and thou shalt not do according to their works: for destroying, thou shalt destroy them, and breaking, thou shalt break in pieces their pillars. And serve ye Jehovah your God, and he blessed thy bread, and thy waters; and I turned away disease from the midst of thee.
And serve ye Jehovah your God, and he blessed thy bread, and thy waters; and I turned away disease from the midst of thee. And there shall not be bereaving of children or barren upon thy land: the number of thy days I will fill up.
And there shall not be bereaving of children or barren upon thy land: the number of thy days I will fill up. I will send my terror before thee and I killed all the people which thou shalt come to them; and I gave all thine enemies the back to thee.
I will send my terror before thee and I killed all the people which thou shalt come to them; and I gave all thine enemies the back to thee. And I sent hornets before thee and to drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before thee.
And I sent hornets before thee and to drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before thee.
And I sent hornets before thee and to drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before thee. I will not drive them out from thy face in one year, lest the land shall be desolate, and the beast of the field multiply upon thee.
I will not drive them out from thy face in one year, lest the land shall be desolate, and the beast of the field multiply upon thee.
I will not drive them out from thy face in one year, lest the land shall be desolate, and the beast of the field multiply upon thee. By little and little I will drive them out from thy face, till when thou shalt be fruitful and thou didst inherit the land.
By little and little I will drive them out from thy face, till when thou shalt be fruitful and thou didst inherit the land.
By little and little I will drive them out from thy face, till when thou shalt be fruitful and thou didst inherit the land. And I put thy bounds from the sea of sedge, and even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert even to the river: for I will give into your hand those inhabiting the land, and thou drove them out from before thee.
And I put thy bounds from the sea of sedge, and even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert even to the river: for I will give into your hand those inhabiting the land, and thou drove them out from before thee.
And I put thy bounds from the sea of sedge, and even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert even to the river: for I will give into your hand those inhabiting the land, and thou drove them out from before thee. Thou shalt not make a covenant with them and to their gods.
Thou shalt not make a covenant with them and to their gods. They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they shall cause thee to sin against me: if thou shalt serve their gods, surely shall it be to thee for a snare.
They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they shall cause thee to sin against me: if thou shalt serve their gods, surely shall it be to thee for a snare.
They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they shall cause thee to sin against me: if thou shalt serve their gods, surely shall it be to thee for a snare.
And he will take the book of the covenant and read in the ears of the people: and they will say, All which Jehovah spake we will do, and we will heed.
And he will take the book of the covenant and read in the ears of the people: and they will say, All which Jehovah spake we will do, and we will heed.