Exodus, starting at chapter 19
{19:1} In the third month after the children of Israel had gone
forth out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the
wilderness of Sinai. {19:2} When they had departed from Rephidim, and
had come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness;
and there Israel encamped before the mountain. {19:3} Moses went up to
God, and the LORD called to him out of the mountain, saying, "This is
what you shall tell the house of Jacob, and tell the children of
Israel: {19:4} 'You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I
bore you on eagles' wings, and brought you to myself. {19:5} Now
therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant,
then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all
the earth is mine; {19:6} and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests,
and a holy nation.' These are the words which you shall speak to the
children of Israel."
{19:7} Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set
before them all these words which the LORD commanded him. {19:8} All
the people answered together, and said, "All that the LORD has spoken
we will do."
Moses reported the words of the people to the LORD. {19:9} The LORD
said to Moses, "Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the
people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you
forever." Moses told the words of the people to the LORD. {19:10} The
LORD said to Moses, "Go to the people, and sanctify them today and
tomorrow, and let them wash their garments, {19:11} and be ready
against the third day; for on the third day the LORD will come down in
the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai. {19:12} You shall set
bounds to the people all around, saying, 'Be careful that you don't go
up onto the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever touches the
mountain shall be surely put to death. {19:13} No hand shall touch
him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is
animal or man, he shall not live.' When the [1>]shofar[<1] sounds
long, they shall come up to the mountain."
{19:14} Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and
sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes. {19:15} He said
to the people, "Be ready by the third day. Don't have sexual relations
with a woman."
{19:16} It happened on the third day, when it was morning, that
there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain,
and the sound of an exceedingly loud [2>]shofar[<2]; and all the
people who were in the camp trembled. {19:17} Moses led the people out
of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the
mountain. {19:18} Mount Sinai, all it, smoked, because the LORD
descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a
furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly. {19:19} When the sound
of the [3>]shofar[<3] grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God
answered him by a voice. {19:20} The LORD came down on Mount Sinai, to
the top of the mountain. The LORD called Moses to the top of the
mountain, and Moses went up.
{19:21} The LORD said to Moses, "Go down, warn the people, lest they
break through to the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish. {19:22}
Let the priests also, who come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves,
lest the LORD break forth on them."
{19:23} Moses said to the LORD, "The people can't come up to Mount
Sinai, for you warned us, saying, 'Set bounds around the mountain, and
sanctify it.'"
{19:24} The LORD said to him, "Go down and you shall bring Aaron up
with you, but don't let the priests and the people break through to
come up to the LORD, lest he break forth on them."
{19:25} So Moses went down to the people, and told them.
{20:1} [4>]God[<4] spoke all these words, saying, {20:2} "I am the
LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the
house of bondage.
{20:3} "You shall have no other gods before me.
{20:4} "You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of
anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth
beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: {20:5} you shall not
bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, the LORD your God,
am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the
children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate
me, {20:6} and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love
me and keep my commandments.
{20:7} "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain,
for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
{20:8} "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. {20:9} You shall
labor six days, and do all your work, {20:10} but the seventh day is a
Sabbath to the LORD your God. You shall not do any work in it, you,
nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female
servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your
gates; {20:11} for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the
sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore
the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.
{20:12} "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be
long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
{20:13} "You shall not murder.
{20:14} "You shall not commit adultery.
{20:15} "You shall not steal.
{20:16} "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
{20:17} "You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not
covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female
servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your
neighbor's."
{20:18} All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings,
the sound of the [5>]shofar[<5], and the mountain smoking. When the
people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance. {20:19} They
said to Moses, "Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don't
let God speak with us, lest we die."
{20:20} Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid, for God has come
to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won't sin."
{20:21} The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the
thick darkness where God was.
{20:22} The LORD said to Moses, "This is what you shall tell the
children of Israel: 'You yourselves have seen that I have talked with
you from heaven. {20:23} You shall most certainly not make alongside
of me gods of silver, or gods of gold for yourselves. {20:24} You
shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your
burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle.
In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will
bless you. {20:25} If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not
build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have
polluted it. {20:26} Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar,
that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.'
{21:1} "Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.
{21:2} "If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in
the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything. {21:3} If he
comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married,
then his wife shall go out with him. {21:4} If his master gives him a
wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children
shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. {21:5} But if
the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my
children. I will not go out free;' {21:6} then his master shall bring
him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and
his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve
him for ever.
{21:7} "If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she
shall not go out as the male servants do. {21:8} If she doesn't please
her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be
redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people,
since he has dealt deceitfully with her. {21:9} If he marries her to
his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter. {21:10} If he takes
another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing,
and her marital rights. {21:11} If he doesn't do these three things
for her, she may go free without paying any money.
{21:12} "One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put
to death, {21:13} but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to
happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee. {21:14}
If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him,
you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
{21:15} "Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely
put to death.
{21:16} "Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found
in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
{21:17} "Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be
put to death.
{21:18} "If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or
with his fist, and he doesn't die, but is confined to bed; {21:19} if
he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him
shall be cleared: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and
shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.
{21:20} "If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he
dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished. {21:21}
Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be
punished, for he is his property.
{21:22} "If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives
birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined
as much as the woman's husband demands and the judges allow. {21:23}
But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life, {21:24} eye
for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, {21:25}
burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.
{21:26} "If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and
destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. {21:27} If
he strikes out his male servant's tooth, or his female servant's
tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
{21:28} "If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall
surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of
the bull shall not be held responsible. {21:29} But if the bull had a
habit of goring in the past, and it has been testified to its owner,
and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the
bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.
{21:30} If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the
redemption of his life whatever is laid on him. {21:31} Whether it has
gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it
shall be done to him. {21:32} If the bull gores a male servant or a
female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their
master, and the ox shall be stoned.
{21:33} "If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn't
cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it, {21:34} the owner of
the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the
dead animal shall be his.
{21:35} "If one man's bull injures another's, so that it dies, then
they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall
also divide the dead animal. {21:36} Or if it is known that the bull
was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it
in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be
his own.
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Footnotes:
[1] {19:13} or, trumpet
[2] {19:16} or, trumpet
[3] {19:19} or, trumpet
[4] {20:1} After "God," the Hebrew has the two letters "Aleph Tav" (the
first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet), not as a word, but as a
grammatical marker.
[5] {20:18} or, trumpet
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