No hand is to touch that person, but he is certainly to be stoned or shot; whether animal or person, he is not to live.' They are to approach the mountain only when the ram's horn sounds a long blast."

When Moses went down from the mountain to the people, he consecrated the people, and they washed their clothes.

When morning came on the third day, there was thunder and lightning, with a heavy cloud over the mountain, and the very loud sound of a ram's horn. All the people in the camp trembled.

Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke because the LORD had come down in fire on it. Smoke went up from it like smoke from a kiln, and the whole mountain shook violently.

When the LORD came down on Mount Sinai to the top of the mountain, he summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

"You are not to craft for yourselves an idol or anything resembling what is in the skies above, or on earth beneath, or in the water sources under the earth.

You are not to bow down to them in worship or serve them, because I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the guilt of parents on children, to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

"You are not to misuse the name of the LORD your God, because the LORD will not leave unpunished the one who misuses his name.

because the LORD made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them in six days. Then he rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

"Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

Moses told the people, "Don't be afraid, for God has come to test you, so that you may fear him in order that you don't sin."

You are to make an altar of earth for me, and you are to sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep, and your cattle. Everywhere I cause my name to be remembered, I'll come to you and bless you.

If you make an altar of stone for me, you must not build it of cut stones, because if you strike it with your chisel, you will profane it.

You are not to ascend to my altar on steps, so that your nakedness may not be exposed on it.'"

"When you acquire a Hebrew servant, he is to serve for six years, and in the seventh he is to go out a free man without paying anything.

If he came in by himself, he is to go out by himself. If he was married, his wife is to go out with him.

But if the servant, in fact, says, "I love my master, my wife, and my children, and I won't go out a free man,'

then his master is to bring him before the judges and he is to bring him to the door or to the doorpost. His master is to pierce his ear with an awl, and he is to serve him permanently.

"When a man sells his daughter as a servant, she won't go out as the male servants do.

If he didn't lie in wait, but God let him fall into his reach, then I'll appoint for you a place to which he may flee.

"Whoever kidnaps a person, whether he has sold him or whether the victim is still in his possession, is certainly to be put to death.

"If people quarrel and one strikes the other with a rock or his fist, and he does not die but ends up in bed,

and the injured person then gets up and walks around outside with the help of his staff, the one who struck him is not liable, except that he is to compensate him for his loss of time and take care of his complete recovery.

"If a man strikes the eye of his male or female servant and destroys it, he is to release him as a free man in exchange for his eye.

If he knocks out the tooth of his male or female servant, he is to release him as a free man in exchange for his tooth.

"If an ox gores a man or woman so that they die, the ox is certainly to be stoned and its flesh may not be eaten, but the owner of the ox is free from liability.

If a fine is imposed on him, he may pay all that was imposed on him as a ransom for his life.

If a man opens a pit or digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or donkey falls into it,

"If a man steals an ox or sheep and slaughters it or sells it, he is to repay five oxen for the ox and four sheep for the sheep.

"If a thief is found while breaking into a house, and is struck down and dies, it is not a capital crime in that case,

but if the sun has risen on him, then it is a capital crime in that case. A thief shall certainly make restitution, but if he has nothing, he is to be sold for his theft.

If what was stolen is actually found alive in his possession, whether an ox, a donkey or a sheep, he is to repay double.

"When a man lets a field or vineyard be grazed over or releases his livestock so that they graze in another man's field, he is to make restitution from the best of his field or vineyard.

"When a fire breaks out and spreads into thorn bushes and consumes stacked grain or standing grain or the field, the one who started the fire certainly is to make restitution.

"When a man gives his neighbor money or goods for safekeeping and it's stolen from the neighbor's house, the thief, if found, is to repay double.

"In every ownership dispute involving an ox, donkey, sheep, garment, or anything that is lost where a person says, "This is mine,' the case between the two of them is to come before the judges, and the one that the judges declare guilty is to repay double to his neighbor.

"When a man gives a donkey, ox, sheep, or any animal to his neighbor for safe keeping, and it dies or is injured or is driven away when no one is looking,

the two of them are to take an oath in the LORD's presence that the accused has not taken his neighbor's property. Its owner is to accept this, and the neighbor is not to make restitution.

"When a man borrows an animal from his neighbor, and it's injured or dies while its owner was not with it, he is certainly to make restitution.

"When a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged to be married and has sexual relations with her, he must pay her bride price, and she is to become his wife.

If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he is to pay an amount equal to the bride price for virgins.

"Whoever has sexual relations with an animal is certainly to be put to death.

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

"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.

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 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 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.

"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 oppress the resident alien, because you were aliens in the land of Egypt."

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!"

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.

Three times a year all your males shall appear in the presence of the Lord GOD."

"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,

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 drive them out ahead of you little by little until you increase in numbers and possess the land.

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."

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."

So Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. He got up early in the morning and built an altar with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel at the base of the mountain.

Moses took half the blood and put it in bowls, while he sprinkled the other half on the altar.

Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, "This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD made with you based on all these words."

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."

So Moses got up, along with Joshua his servant, and went up on the mountain of God.

When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it.

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.

When Moses went up on the mountain, he went into the center of the cloud and was on the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights.

"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.

and onyx stones, stones for setting on the ephod and the breast piece.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.