"Whoever strikes his father or his mother must surely be put to death.

"Whoever kidnaps someone and sells him, or is caught still holding him, must surely be put to death.

"Whoever treats his father or his mother disgracefully must surely be put to death.

"If men fight, and one strikes his neighbor with a stone or with his fist and he does not die, but must remain in bed,

"If a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a staff so that he or she dies as a result of the blow, he will surely be punished.

However, if the injured servant survives one or two days, the owner will not be punished, for he has suffered the loss.

"If a man strikes the eye of his male servant or his female servant so that he destroys it, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.

If he knocks out the tooth of his male servant or his female servant, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.

"If an ox gores a man or a woman so that either dies, then the ox must surely be stoned and its flesh must not be eaten, but the owner of the ox will be acquitted.

But if the ox had the habit of goring, and its owner was warned, and he did not take the necessary precautions, and then it killed a man or a woman, the ox must be stoned and the man must be put to death.

If the ox gores a son or a daughter, the owner will be dealt with according to this rule.

If the ox gores a male servant or a female servant, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver, and the ox must be stoned.

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

Or if it is known that the ox had the habit of goring, and its owner did not take the necessary precautions, he must surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal will become his.

"If a man steals an ox or a sheep and kills it or sells it, he must pay back five head of cattle for the ox, and four sheep for the one sheep.

If the stolen item should in fact be found alive in his possession, whether it be an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he must pay back double.

"If a man grazes his livestock in a field or a vineyard, and he lets the livestock loose and they graze in the field of another man, he must make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.

"If a fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes, so that stacked grain or standing grain or the whole field is consumed, the one who started the fire must surely make restitution.

"If a man gives his neighbor money or articles for safekeeping, and it is stolen from the man's house, if the thief is caught, he must repay double.

In all cases of illegal possessions, whether for an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any kind of lost item, about which someone says 'This belongs to me,' the matter of the two of them will come before the judges, and the one whom the judges declare guilty must repay double to his neighbor.

If a man gives his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep, and it dies or is hurt or is carried away without anyone seeing it,

"If a man borrows an animal from his neighbor, and it is hurt or dies when its owner was not with it, the man who borrowed it will surely pay.

"You must not wrong a foreigner nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

"You must not afflict any widow or orphan.

and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless.

"If you lend money to any of my people who are needy among you, do not be like a moneylender to him; do not charge him interest.

If you do take the garment of your neighbor in pledge, you must return it to him by the time the sun goes down,

"You must not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.

"Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats. You must give me the firstborn of your sons.

You must also do this for your oxen and for your sheep; seven days they may remain with their mothers, but give them to me on the eighth day.

"If you encounter your enemy's ox or donkey wandering off, you must by all means return it to him.

"You must not turn away justice for your poor people in their lawsuits.

Keep your distance from a false charge -- do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I will not justify the wicked.

"You must not oppress a foreigner, since you know the life of a foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

"For six years you are to sow your land and gather in its produce.

But in the seventh year you must let it lie fallow and leave it alone so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave any animal in the field may eat; you must do likewise with your vineyard and your olive grove.

For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, in order that your ox and your donkey may rest and that your female servant's son and any hired help may refresh themselves.

"Pay attention to do everything I have told you, and do not even mention the names of other gods -- do not let them be heard on your lips.

"Three times in the year you must make a pilgrim feast to me.

You are to observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread; seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you, at the appointed time of the month of Abib, for at that time you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before me empty-handed.

"You are also to observe the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors that you have sown in the field, and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year when you have gathered in your harvest out of the field.

At three times in the year all your males will appear before the Lord God.

The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the Lord your God. "You must not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

Take heed because of him, and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgressions, for my name is in him.

But if you diligently obey him and do all that I command, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will be an adversary to your adversaries.

"You must not bow down to their gods; you must not serve them or do according to their practices. Instead you must completely overthrow them and smash their standing stones to pieces.

You must serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will remove sickness from your midst.

No woman will miscarry her young or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

"I will send my terror before you, and I will destroy all the people whom you encounter; I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

I will not drive them out before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild animals multiply against you.

I will set your boundaries from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the River, for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

"You must make no covenant with them or with their gods.

They must not live in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you."

Moses came and told the people all the Lord's words and all the decisions. All the people answered together, "We are willing to do all the words that the Lord has said,"

He took the Book of the Covenant and read it aloud to the people, and they said, "We are willing to do and obey all that the Lord has spoken."

He told the elders, "Wait for us in this place until we return to you. Here are Aaron and Hur with you. Whoever has any matters of dispute can approach them."

"Tell the Israelites to take an offering for me; from every person motivated by a willing heart you are to receive my offering.

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

"They are to make an ark of acacia wood -- its length is to be three feet nine inches, its width two feet three inches, and its height two feet three inches.

You are to overlay it with pure gold -- both inside and outside you must overlay it, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold over it.

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

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

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

"You are to make an atonement lid of pure gold; its length is to be three feet nine inches, and its width is to be two feet three inches.

You are to make two cherubim of gold; you are to make them of hammered metal on the two ends of the atonement lid.

Make one cherub on one end and one cherub on the other end; from the atonement lid you are to make the cherubim on the two ends.

The cherubim are to be spreading their wings upward, overshadowing the atonement lid with their wings, and the cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the atonement lid.

You are to put the atonement lid on top of the ark, and in the ark you are to put the testimony I am giving you.

I will meet with you there, and from above the atonement lid, from between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will command you for the Israelites.

"You are to make a table of acacia wood; its length is to be three feet, its width one foot six inches, and its height two feet three inches.

You are to overlay it with pure gold, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold for it.

You are to make a surrounding frame for it about three inches broad, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold for its frame.

You are to make four rings of gold for it and attach the rings at the four corners where its four legs are.

The rings are to be close to the frame to provide places for the poles to carry the table.

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

You are to make its plates, its ladles, its pitchers, and its bowls, to be used in pouring out offerings; you are to make them of pure gold.

You are to set the Bread of the Presence on the table before me continually.

"You are to make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand is to be made of hammered metal; its base and its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its blossoms are to be from the same piece.

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

Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on one branch, and three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on the next branch, and the same for the six branches extending from the lampstand.

On the lampstand there are to be four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms,

"You are to make its seven lamps, and then set its lamps up on it, so that it will give light to the area in front of it.

Its trimmers and its trays are to be of pure gold.

Now be sure to make them according to the pattern you were shown on the mountain.

"The tabernacle itself you are to make with ten curtains of fine twisted linen and blue and purple and scarlet; you are to make them with cherubim that are the work of an artistic designer.

Five curtains are to be joined, one to another, and the other five curtains are to be joined, one to another.

You are to make loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in one set, and in the same way you are to make loops in the outer edge of the end curtain in the second set.

You are to make fifty loops on the one curtain, and you are to make fifty loops on the end curtain which is on the second set, so that the loops are opposite one to another.

You are to make fifty gold clasps and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle is a unit.

"You are to make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle; you are to make eleven curtains.

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

You are to make fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in one set and fifty loops along the edge of the curtain that joins the second set.

You are to make fifty bronze clasps and put the clasps into the loops and join the tent together so that it is a unit.

"You are to make a covering for the tent out of ram skins dyed red and over that a covering of fine leather.

"You are to make the frames for the tabernacle out of acacia wood as uprights.

with two projections per frame parallel one to another. You are to make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.

So you are to make the frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side,

and you are to make forty silver bases to go under the twenty frames -- two bases under the first frame for its two projections, and likewise two bases under the next frame for its two projections;

You are to make two frames for the corners of the tabernacle on the back.

So there are to be eight frames and their silver bases, sixteen bases, two bases under the first frame, and two bases under the next frame.