If his master gives him a wife and she bears for him sons or daughters, the wife and her children will belong to her master, and [the slave] will go out single.

And if he selects her for his son, he shall do for her according to the regulations for daughters.

If he takes for himself another, he will not reduce her food, her clothing, or her right of cohabitation.

And if he does not do for her these three, she shall go out for nothing; there will not be silver [paid for her].

But if he did not lie in wait {and it was an accident}, I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee.

if he stands and walks about in the outside on his staff, the striker will be unpunished; he will only pay for his inactivity {toward his full recovery}."

If a ransom is set on him, he will pay the redemption money for his life according to all that is set on him.

the owner of the pit will pay restitution; he will pay silver to its owner, but the dead [animal] will be for him.

Or if it was known that it was a goring ox {before} and its owner did not restrain it, he will surely make restitution, an ox in place of the ox, and the dead [one] will be for him.

" 'If a thief is found in the act of breaking in and he is struck and he dies, there is not bloodguilt for him.

(If the sun has risen over him, [there is] bloodguilt for him. He will make full restitution. If {he does not have enough}, he will be sold for his theft.

If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he will weigh out money according to the bride price for the virgin.

because it is his only garment; it is his cloak for his skin. In what will he sleep? {And} when he cries out to me, I will hear, because I [am] gracious.

You will do likewise for your ox and for your sheep and goats; seven days it will be with its mother; on the eighth, you will give it to me.

And you will be men of holiness for me; and you will not eat meat [from] a carcass mangled in the field; you will throw it to the dog.

You will not {follow} a majority for evil, and you will not testify concerning a legal dispute to turn aside after a majority to pervert [justice].

But the seventh you will let it rest and leave it fallow, and the poor of your people will eat, and their remainder the animals of the field will eat. You will do likewise for your vineyard and for your olive trees.

" 'Three times in the year you will hold a festival for me

You will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you will eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you at [the] appointed time, the month of Abib, because in it you came out from Egypt, and {no one will} appear before me empty-handed.

Be attentive to him and listen to his voice; do not rebel against him, because he will not forgive your transgression, for my name is in him

They will not live in your land, lest they cause you to sin against me when you serve their gods, for it will be a snare to you.'"

And Moses wrote all the words of Yahweh, and he rose early in the morning, and he built an altar at the base of the mountain and [set up] twelve memorial stones for the twelve tribes of Israel.

And they saw the God of Israel, and [what was] under his feet [was] like sapphire tile work and like the very heavens for clearness.

And to the elders he said, "Wait for us here until we return to you. And look, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever {has a dispute} will bring [it] to you."

And the glory of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it [for] six days, and he called to Moses on the seventh day from the midst of the cloud.

oil for the lamp, balsam oils for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,

onyx stones and stones for mountings on the ephod and the breast piece.

And make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell in the midst of them,

And you will cast for it four gold rings, and you will put [them] on its four feet, with two rings on its one side and two rings on its second side.

And you will overlay it [with] pure gold, and you will make for it a gold molding all around.

And you will make for it a handbreadth rim all around, and you will make a gold molding for its rim all around.

And you will make four gold rings for it, and you will put the rings on the four corners where its four {legs} [are].

The rings will be near the rim as {holders} for poles to carry the table.

Three almond-flower cups [will be] on the one branch [with] a bud and a blossom, and three almond-flower cups [will be] on the one branch [with] a bud and a blossom--likewise for the six branches going out from the lampstand.

And a bud [will be] under the two branches [that come] from it, and a bud under the two branches from it, and a bud under the two branches from it, [likewise] for the six branches coming out from the lampstand.

The length of the one curtain [will be] twenty-eight cubits, and the width [will be] four cubits [for] the one curtain; one measure [will be] for all the curtains.

"And you will make curtains of goat hair for a tent over the tabernacle; you will make them eleven curtains.

The length of the one curtain [will be] thirty cubits, and the width [will be] four cubits [for] the one curtain; one measure [will be] for [the] eleven curtains.

"And you will make a covering for the tent of red-dyed ram skins and a covering of fine leather [to go] above.

"And you will make the frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood [as] uprights.

You will make two {pegs} for the one frame [for] joining {each to another} [and] likewise for all the frames of the tabernacle.

And you will make the frames for the tabernacle [with] twenty frames for the {south} side.

And you will make forty silver bases under the twenty frames, [with] two bases under the one frame for its two {pegs} and two bases under the {next} frame for its two {pegs}.

And for the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, [there will be] twenty frames

"And for the rear of the tabernacle {on the west} you will make six frames.

And you will make two frames for the tabernacle corners at the rear.

They will be double at the bottom, and they will be completely together on its top to the one ring; it will be likewise for the two of them; they will be for the two corners.

"You will make five bars of acacia wood for the frames on the one side of the tabernacle,

and five bars for the frames on the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames on the side of the tabernacle at the rear {on the west}.

And you will overlay the frames with gold, and you will make their rings of gold [as] {holders} for the bars, and you will overlay the bars with gold.

And you will put the curtain under the clasps, and you will bring the ark of the testimony there inside the curtain, and the curtain will separate for you between the holy and the {most holy place}.

"And you will make for the entrance of the tent a screen of blue and purple and crimson [yarns] and finely twisted linen, [the] work of an embroiderer.

And you will make for the screen five acacia pillars, and you will overlay them with gold [with] their gold hooks, and you will cast for them five bronze bases.

And you will make its pots for removing its fat-soaked ashes and its shovels and its sprinkling bowls and its forks and its fire pans; you will make all its equipment [with] bronze.

And you will make for it a grating, a work of bronze network, and you will make on the network four bronze rings on its four ends.

And you will make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and you will overlay them [with] bronze.

"You will make the courtyard of the tabernacle; for the {south} side [will be] hangings for the courtyard of finely twisted linen, one hundred cubits long for the one side.

And likewise for the north side along the length [will be] hangings one hundred cubits long; and its twenty pillars and their bases [will be] bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their bands [will be] silver.

And the width of the courtyard for the west side [will be] hangings of fifty cubits, their ten pillars and their ten bases.

And the width of the courtyard for the east side, toward sunrise, [will be] fifty cubits.

And hangings for the shoulder [will be] fifteen cubits [with] their three pillars and their three bases.

And fifteen cubits of hangings [will be] for the second shoulder [with] their three pillars and their three bases.

And for the gate of the courtyard [there will be] a screen of twenty cubits of blue and purple and crimson [yarns] and finely twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer; [with] their four pillars and their four bases.

Bronze [will be] for all the equipment of the tabernacle in all its service and all its {pegs} and all the {pegs} of the courtyard.

"And you will command the {Israelites}, and they will bring to you pure, beaten olive oil for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.

"And bring near to you Aaron, your brother, and his sons with him from the midst of the {Israelites} to serve as priests for me--Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron.

And you will make holy garments for Aaron, your brother, for glory and for splendor.

And you will speak to all [the] skilled of heart, whom I have given {a gift of skill}, and they will make the garments of Aaron to consecrate him for his serving as my priest.

And these are the garments that they will make: A breast piece and an ephod and a robe and a tunic of specially woven fabric, a turban and a sash. And they will make holy garments for Aaron your brother, and for his sons to serve as priests for me.

And you will set the two stones on the ephod's shoulder pieces [as] stones of remembrance for the {Israelites}, and Aaron will bear their names before Yahweh on his two shoulder pieces for remembrance.

The stones will be according to the names of the {Israelites}, twelve according to their names, [with] seal engravings, each according to its name they will be for [the] twelve tribes.

And Aaron will bear the names of the {Israelites} in the breast piece of judgment on his heart, when he comes to the sanctuary, for a remembrance before Yahweh continually.

And the opening for his head will be in the middle of it; its opening will have an edge all around, the work of a weaver; it will be like the opening of a sturdy garment for it, [so that] it will not be torn.

And it will be on Aaron for serving, and its sound will be heard at his coming into the sanctuary before Yahweh and at his going out, so that he will not die.

"And you will make a pure gold rosette, and you will engrave on it with seal engravings: "A holy object for Yahweh."

And it will be on the forehead of Aaron, and Aaron will bear the guilt of the holy objects that the {Israelites} will consecrate for all their holy gifts, and it will be on his forehead continually for acceptance for them before Yahweh.

And for the sons of Aaron you will make tunics, and you will make for them sashes and headdresses; you will make them for glory and for splendor.

And you will clothe them--Aaron, your brother, and his sons with him--and you will anoint them and {ordain them} and consecrate them, and they will serve as priests for me.

And make for them undergarments of linen to cover naked flesh; they will be from loins to thigh.

And they will be on Aaron and on his sons when they come to the tent of assembly or when they approach the altar to serve in the sanctuary, so that they will not bear guilt and die. [It is] a lasting statute for him and for his offspring after him.

"And this [is] the thing that you will do for them to consecrate them to serve as a priest for me: Take {one young bull} and two rams without defect

And you will turn into smoke [on] the altar all of the ram; it is a burnt offering for Yahweh; it [is] a smell of appeasement, an offering by fire for Yahweh.

"And you will take the breast section from the ram of ordination that [is] for Aaron, and you will wave it [as] a wave offering before Yahweh. It will be your portion.

And you will consecrate the wave offering breast section and the thigh of the contribution that was waved and that was presented from the ram of the ordination that [is] for Aaron and for his sons.

And it will be for Aaron and for his sons as a lasting rule from the {Israelites}, because it is a contribution, and it will be a contribution from the {Israelites} from their sacrifices of fellowship, their contribution to Yahweh.

"And the holy garments that [are] for Aaron will be for his sons after him in which to anoint them and {to ordain them}.

And they will eat them--[the things] by which atonement was made for them to ordain them to consecrate them--and a stranger will not eat [them] because they are holy objects.

And you will do so for Aaron and for his sons, according to all that I have commanded you; seven days you will ordain them.

"And you will offer a bull for a sin offering every day for the atonement; and you will offer a sin offering on the altar when you make atonement for it, and you will anoint it to consecrate it.

Seven days you will make atonement for the altar, and you will consecrate it, and the altar will be {a most holy thing}. {Anyone who} touches the altar will be holy.

And the second lamb you will offer {at twilight}; you will offer a grain offering and its libation like that of the morning for a fragrance of appeasement, an offering made by fire for Yahweh.

And I will consecrate the tent of assembly and the altar, and Aaron and his sons I will consecrate to serve as priests for me.

"And you will make an altar [for] burning incense; you will make it of acacia wood,

And you will overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides all around and its horns, and you will make for it a gold molding all around.

And you will make two gold rings for it; under its molding {on two opposite sides} you will make [them] as {holders} for poles to carry it with them.

And Aaron will make atonement on its horns one time in the year from the blood of the sin offering of the atonement; one time in the year he will make atonement on it throughout your generations; it is a most holy thing for Yahweh."

"{When you take a census of} the {Israelites} to count them, they will each give the ransom of his life for Yahweh when counting them, and a plague will not be among them when counting them.

This they will give, {everyone who is counted}, the half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, [which is] twenty gerahs per shekel. The half shekel [is] a contribution for Yahweh.

The rich will not give more, and the poor will not give less than the half shekel to give the contribution of Yahweh to make atonement for their lives.

And you will take the atonement money from the {Israelites} and give it to the service of the tent of assembly, and it will be as a memorial for the {Israelites} before Yahweh to make atonement for your lives."