"You are not to mistreat any widow or orphan.

If you do mistreat them, they'll certainly cry out to me, and I'll immediately hear their cry.

"If you loan money to my people, to the poor among you, don't be like a creditor to them and don't impose interest on them.

If you take your neighbor's coat as collateral, you are to return it to him by sunset,

for it's his only covering; it's his outer garment, for what else can he sleep in? And when he cries out to me, I'll hear him, for I am gracious.

"You are not to blaspheme God or curse a ruler of your people.

"You are not to hold back the fullness of your harvest and the outflow of your wine presses. You are to give to me the firstborn of your sons.

You are to do the same with your oxen and your sheep. They shall be with their mother for seven days and then on the eighth day you are to give them to me.

"You are to be people set apart for me. You are not to eat flesh torn apart in the field; you are to throw it to the dogs."

"You are not to spread a false report, nor are you to join forces with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

You are not to follow the majority in doing wrong, and you are not to testify in a lawsuit so as to follow the majority and pervert justice.

You are not to show partiality to a poor man in his lawsuit.

"If you come across your enemy's ox or donkey wandering off, you are to certainly return it to him.

If you see your enemy's donkey lying helpless under its load, you must not abandon it; rather, you are certainly to return it to him.

"You are not to pervert justice for the poor among you in their lawsuits.

Stay far away from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent or the righteous, because I won't acquit the guilty.

You are not to take a bribe because a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and distorts the words of the righteous.

You are not to oppress the resident alien, because you were aliens in the land of Egypt."

"You are to sow your land and gather its crops for six years,

but you are to let it rest the seventh year, leaving it unplanted. The poor of your people may eat from it, and the wild animals may eat what they leave. You are to do the same with your vineyards and olive groves.

You are to do your work for six days, but on the seventh day you are to refrain from work so that your ox and donkey may rest, and so the son of your maidservant and the alien may be refreshed.

"Be careful about everything I've told you, and don't mention the name of other gods. Don't let them be heard in your mouth!"

"Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival for me.

You are to observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month Abib, because in it you came out of Egypt. No one is to appear before me empty handed.

You are to observe the Festival of Harvest, celebrating the first fruits of your work in planting the field, and the Festival of Tabernacles at the end of the year, when you gather the fruit of your work from the field.

"You are not to offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, and you are not to let the fat portion of my sacrifice remain overnight until morning.

"You are to bring the best of the first fruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. "You are not to boil a young goat in its mother's milk."

"Look, I'm sending an angel in front of you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place I've prepared.

Be careful! Be sure to obey him. Don't rebel against him, because he won't forgive your transgression, since my Name is in him.

Indeed, if you carefully obey him and do everything that I say, then I'll be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries,

because my angel will go ahead of you and will bring you to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I'll annihilate them.

You are not to bow down to their gods or serve them. You are not to follow their practices, but you are to overthrow them completely and smash their sacred stones to pieces.

You are to serve the LORD your God, and he will bless your food and water, and I'll remove sickness from you.

No woman will miscarry or be barren in your land, and I'll make every day of your life complete.

"I'll go ahead of you and terrorize all the people to whom you are coming. I'll confuse your enemies and make them turn their backs on you and run away.

I won't drive them out before you in a single year, so that the land does not become desolate and so that wild animals do not overrun you.

"I'll set your borders from the Reed Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the River, bringing the inhabitants of the land under your control, and you are to drive them out ahead of you.

You are not to make a covenant with them or with their gods.

They are not to live in your land. Otherwise they will cause you to sin against me. If you worship their gods, it will become a snare for you."

The LORD told Moses, "Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and 70 of the elders of Israel, and worship at a distance.

Only Moses is to approach the LORD, but the others are not to approach; the people are not to come up with him."

Then Moses came and reported all the words of the LORD and all the statutes to the people, and they all answered with one voice, "We will do everything that the LORD has decreed."

He sent young Israeli men to offer up burnt offerings and sacrifice bulls as peace offerings to the LORD.

He took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They said, "We will put into practice and obey everything that the LORD has decreed."

Because God did not punish the Israeli leaders, they looked at God, yet lived to eat and drink.

Then the LORD told Moses, "Go up to me on the mountain and stay there. I'll give you stone tablets with the instruction and law that I've written to teach the people."

He told the elders, "Wait here for us until we return to you. Look, Aaron and Hur are with you, and whoever has a dispute, let him come to them."

The glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. Then on the seventh day he called to Moses from within the cloud.

To the Israelis the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on top of the mountain.

"Tell the Israelis to take an offering for me, and you are to accept my offering from every person whose heart moves him to give.

This is the offering that you are to accept from them: gold, silver, and bronze;

This is how you are to make it: according to all that I'm showing you, according to the pattern for the tent and the pattern for all its furnishings."

"They are to make an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high.

You are to overlay it with pure gold you are to overlay it inside and outside and you are to make a gold molding around it.

You are to cast four rings for it and put them on its four feet, two rings on one side of it and two rings on its other side.

You are to make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

You are to put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark with which to carry it.

The poles are to remain in the rings of the ark and are not to be removed from it.

You are to put the Testimony that I will give you into the ark.

"You are to make a Mercy Seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

You are to make two cherubim of gold; you are to make them of hammered work at the two ends of the Mercy Seat.

Place one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end. You are to make the cherubim at the two ends of the Mercy Seat, and of one piece with it.

The cherubim are to spread their wings upward, covering the Mercy Seat with their wings and facing each other. The faces of the cherubim is to be turned toward the Mercy Seat.

You are to put the Mercy Seat on top of the ark, and put the Testimony that I'll give you into the ark.

I'll meet with you there, and I'll tell you all my commandments for the Israelis from above the Mercy Seat, from between the two cherubim that are on the Ark of the Testimony."

"You are to make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide, and one and a half cubits high.

You are to overlay it with pure gold, and put a gold molding around it.

You are to make a rim one handbreadth in width around it, and you are to make a gold molding around the rim.

You are to make four gold rings for it, and put the rings on the four corners where its four feet are.

The rings are to be close to the rim as holders for the poles to carry the table.

You are to make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold so the table can be carried with them.

You are to make its plates, dishes, jars, and bowls from which libations will be poured, and you are to make them of pure gold.

You are to put the bread of the Presence on the table before me continuously."

"You are to make a lamp stand of pure gold: the lamp stand and its base and stem shall be of hammered work, and its cups, calyxes, and flowers are to be of one piece with it.

Six branches are to extend from its sides, three branches of the lamp stand from one side of it and three branches of the lamp stand from its other side.

Three cups shaped like almond blossoms with calyxes and flowers are to be on one branch and three cups shaped like almond blossoms with calyxes and flowers are to be on the other branch, and so for the six branches extending from the lamp stand.

"On the lamp stand itself there are to be four cups shaped like almond blossoms with their calyxes and flowers.

A calyx is to be under the two branches that extend out of the stem; a calyx is to be under the next pair of branches that extend out of the stem; and a calyx is to be under the last pair of branches that extend out of the stem, and so for the six branches extending from the lamp stand.

Their calyxes and their branches are to be of one piece with it; all of it is to be made of one piece of hammered work of pure gold.

"You are to make seven lamps for it, and its lamps are to be mounted so as to give light in front of it.

Its tongs and trays are to be of pure gold.

The lamp stand together with all its furnishings is to be made from a talent of pure gold.

Now see that you make them according to the pattern for them which you are being shown on the mountain."

"You are to make the tent with ten curtains of fine woven linen and with blue, purple, and scarlet material. You are to make them with cherubim skillfully worked into them.

The length of each curtain is to be 28 cubits, the width of each curtain four cubits, and all the curtains are to have the same measurements.

"Five of the curtains are to be joined together, and the other five curtains are to be joined together.

You are to make loops of blue material along the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set, and likewise you are to make loops along the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set.

You are to make 50 loops in the one curtain, and you are to make 50 loops along the edge of the curtain that is in the second set, with the loops opposite each other.

Then you are to make 50 gold clasps, and join the curtains to each other with the clasps so that the tent will be one piece.

"You are to make curtains of goat hair for a tent over the tent. You are to make eleven curtains.

The length of each curtain is to be 30 cubits, and the width of each curtain two cubits; the measurements of each of the eleven curtains is to be the same.

You are to join five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and you are to double over the sixth curtain at the front of the tent.

You are to make 50 loops along the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set, and 50 loops along the edge of the curtain of the other set.

You are to make 50 bronze clasps, put the clasps into the loops, and join the tent together so that it will be one piece.

As for the excess that remains of the curtains of the tent the half curtain that remains is to hang over the back of the tent.

The half cubit that remain on either end of the length of the curtains of the tent is to hang over each side of the tent to cover it.

"You are to make a cover for the tent of ram skins dyed red and a covering of dolphin skins above that.

"You are to make upright boards of acacia wood for the tent.

Each board is to be ten cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

Each board is to have two pegs joined to one another, and you are to do this for all the boards of the tent.