And he gave that place the name Massah and Meribah, because the children of Israel were angry, and because they put the Lord to the test, saying, Is the Lord with us or not?

And Moses' father-in-law said to him, What you are doing is not good.

So Moses took note of the words of his father-in-law, and did as he had said.

And let limits be marked out for the people round the mountain, and say to them, Take care not to go up the mountain or near the sides of it: whoever puts his foot on the mountain will certainly come to his death:

He is not to be touched by a hand, but is to be stoned or have an arrow put through him; man or beast, he is to be put to death: at the long sounding of a horn they may come up to the mountain.

And he said to the people, Be ready by the third day: do not come near a woman.

And Moses said to the Lord, The people will not be able to come up the mountain, for you gave us orders to put limits round the mountain, marking it out and making it holy.

And the Lord said to him, Go down, and you and Aaron may come up; but let not the priests and the people make their way through to the Lord, or he will come on them suddenly.

You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:

You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged a sinner by the Lord

Do not put anyone to death without cause.

Do not be false to the married relation.

Do not take the property of another.

Do not give false witness against your neighbour.

Let not your desire be turned to your neighbour's house, or his wife or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is his.

And they said to Moses, To your words we will give ear, but let not the voice of God come to our ears, for fear death may come on us.

Gods of silver and gods of gold you are not to make for yourselves.

And if you make me an altar of stone do not make it of cut stones: for the touch of an instrument will make it unclean.

And do not go up by steps to my altar, for fear that your bodies may be seen uncovered.

And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do.

If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for himself, let a payment be made for her so that she may go free; her master has no power to get a price for her and send her to a strange land, because he has been false to her.

And if he takes another woman, her food and clothing and her married rights are not to be less.

And if he does not do these three things for her, she has the right to go free without payment.

If, in a fight, one man gives another a blow with a stone, or with the shut hand, not causing his death, but making him keep in bed;

But, at the same time, if the servant goes on living for a day or two, the master is not to get punishment, for the servant is his property.

If an ox comes to be the cause of death to a man or a woman, the ox is to be stoned, and its flesh may not be used for food; but the owner will not be judged responsible.

But if the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and the owner has had word of it and has not kept it under control, so that it has been the cause of the death of a man or woman, not only is the ox to be stoned, but its owner is to be put to death.

But if it is common knowledge that the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and its owner has not kept it under control, he will have to give ox for ox; and the dead beast will be his.

If a thief is taken in the act of forcing his way into a house, and his death is caused by a blow, the owner of the house is not responsible for his blood.

If they do not get the thief, let the master of the house come before the judges and take an oath that he has not put his hand on his neighbour's goods.

If he takes his oath before the Lord that he has not put his hand to his neighbour's goods, the owner is to take his word for it and he will not have to make payment for it.

But if it has been damaged by a beast, and he is able to make this clear, he will not have to make payment for what was damaged.

If a man gets from his neighbour the use of one of his beasts, and it is damaged or put to death when the owner is not with it, he will certainly have to make payment for the loss.

If the owner is with it, he will not have to make payment: if he gave money for the use of it, the loss is covered by the payment.

If a man takes a virgin, who has not given her word to another man, and has connection with her, he will have to give a bride-price for her to be his wife.

If her father will not give her to him on any account, he will have to give the regular payment for virgins.

Do no wrong to a man from a strange country, and do not be hard on him; for you yourselves were living in a strange country, in the land of Egypt.

If you let any of the poor among my people have the use of your money, do not be a hard creditor to him, and do not take interest.

You may not say evil of the judges, or put a curse on the ruler of your people.

Do not keep back your offerings from the wealth of your grain and your vines. The first of your sons you are to give to me.

Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness.

Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision:

But, on the other hand, do not be turned from what is right in order to give support to a poor man's cause.

Do not be hard on the man from a strange country who is living among you; for you have had experience of the feelings of one who is far from the land of his birth, because you yourselves were living in Egypt, in a strange land.

Take note of all these things which I have said to you, and let not the names of other gods come into your minds or from your lips.

Do not give the blood of my offering with leavened bread; and do not let the fat of my feast be kept all night till the morning.

The best of the first-fruits of your land are to be taken into the house of the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk

Give attention to him and give ear to his voice; do not go against him; for your wrongdoing will not be overlooked by him, because my name is in him

Do not go down on your faces and give worship to their gods, or do as they do; but overcome them completely, and let their pillars be broken down.

All your animals will give birth without loss, not one will be without young in all your land; I will give you a full measure of life.

I will not send them all out in one year, for fear that their land may become waste, and the beasts of the field be increased overmuch against you.

Let them not go on living in your land, or they will make you do evil against me: for if you give worship to their gods, it will certainly be a cause of sin to you.

And Moses only may come near to the Lord; but the others are not to come near, and the people may not come up with them.

And he put not his hand on the chiefs of the children of Israel: they saw God, and took food and drink.

And put the network under the shelf round the altar so that the net comes half-way up the altar.

So that the rings on the bag may be fixed to the rings of the ephod by a blue cord and on to the band of the ephod, so that the bag may not come loose from the ephod.

With a hole at the top, in the middle of it; the hole is to be edged with a band to make it strong like the hole in the coat of a fighting-man, so that it may not be broken open.

All those things which were used as offerings to take away sin, and to make them holy to be priests, they may have for food: but no one who is not a priest may have them, for they are holy food.

And if any of the flesh of the offering or of the bread is over till the morning, let it be burned with fire; it is not to be used for food, for it is holy.

It is not to be used for man's flesh, and no other is to be made like it: holy it is, and you are to keep it holy.

Whoever makes any like it, or puts it on one who is not a priest, will be cut off from his people.

You are not to make any perfume like it for yourselves: it is to be kept holy to the Lord.

So you are to keep the Sabbath as a holy day; and anyone not honouring it will certainly be put to death: whoever does any work on that day will be cut off from his people.

Now do not get in my way, for my wrath is burning against them; I will send destruction on them, but of you I will make a great nation.

Why let the Egyptians say, He took them out to an evil fate, to put them to death on the mountains, cutting them off from the earth? Let your wrath be turned away from them, and send not this evil on your people.

And Moses said, It is not the voice of men who are overcoming in the fight, or the cry of those who have been overcome; it is the sound of songs which comes to my ear.

And Aaron said, Let not my lord be angry; you have seen how the purposes of this people are evil.

But now, if you will give them forgiveness--but if not, let my name be taken out of your book.

Go up to that land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, for fear that I send destruction on you while you are on the way.

So the children of Israel took off their ornaments at Mount Horeb, and did not put them on again.

And the Lord had talk with Moses face to face, as a man may have talk with his friend. And when Moses came back to the tents, his servant, the young man Joshua, the son of Nun, did not come away from the Tent.

And Moses said to the Lord, See, you say to me, Be this people's guide on their journey, but you have not made clear to me whom you will send with me. But you have said, I have knowledge of you by name, and you have grace in my eyes.

And Moses said, If you yourself are not going with us, do not send us on from here.

For is not the fact of your going with us the sign that I and this people have grace in your eyes, so that we, that is, I and your people, are separate from all other people on the face of the earth?

But it is not possible for you to see my face, for no man may see me and still go on living.

Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back: but my face is not to be seen.

Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation.

And the Lord said, See, this is what I will undertake: before the eyes of your people I will do wonders, such as have not been done in all the earth or in any nation: and all your people will see the work of the Lord, for what I am about to do for you is greatly to be feared.

But take care, and do not make any agreement with the people of the land where you are going, for it will be a cause of sin to you.

For you are to be worshippers of no other god: for the Lord is a God who will not give his honour to another.

So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,

A lamb may be given in payment for the young of an ass, but if you will not make payment for it, its neck will have to be broken. For all the first of your sons you are to make payment. No one is to come before me without an offering.

No leaven is to be offered with the blood of my offering, and the offering of the Passover feast may not be kept till the morning.

Take the first-fruits of your land as an offering to the house of the Lord your God. Let not the young goat be cooked in its mother's milk

Now when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two stones in his hand, he was not conscious that his face was shining because of his talk with God.

But when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, and the shining of his face, they would not come near him for fear.

And the rings on the bag were fixed to the rings of the ephod by a blue cord, keeping it in place over the band, so that the bag might not get loose, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

So that Moses was not able to go into the Tent of meeting, because the cloud was resting on it, and the House was full of the glory of the Lord.

For the cloud of the Lord was resting on the House by day, and at night there was fire in the cloud, before the eyes of all the people of Israel, and so it was through all their journeys.