ل The people come to Sinai. Chap. xix. xx. Gods conference with Meses. 24 So Moles hearkened to the voyce of 14 And Mofes went down from the his father in law, & did ally he had faid. mount unto the people, and fan Stified the 25 And Mofes chofe able men out of all people, and they washed their clothes. Ifrach & made them heads over y people, 15 And he laid unto the people, Be rulers of thoufands, rulers of hundreds, ready against the third day: come not at rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. CHAP. ΧΙΧ. your wives. 26 And they judged the people at all 16 And it came to pass on the third feafons: the hard causes they brought unto day in the morning, that there were thunMofes, but every finall matter they judged ders and lightnings, and a thick cloud themselvs. upon the mount, and the voyce of the 27 And Mofes let his father in law de- trumpet exceeding loud: fo that all the part, & he went his way into his own land, people that was in the camp, trembled. 17 And Mofes brought forth the people The people come to Sinai. 3 God message out of the camp to meet with God, and to the people out of the mount. 8 Their they stood at the neither part of mount. anfaer returned. 18 And mount Sinai was altogether on IN N the third moneth, when the children a fimoke because the LORD defcended up Ifrael were gone forth out of the on it in fire and the fmoke thereof afland of Egypt the fame day came they into cended as the finoke of a furnace, and the the wilderness of Sinai. whole mount quaked greatly. 2 For they were departed from Rephi- 19 And when the voyee of the trumpet dim, & were come to the defart of Sinai, founded long, and waxed lowder and and had pitched in the wilderness, and lowder, Mofes spake, and God anfwered there Ifrael camped before the mount. him by a voyce. 3 And Mofes went up unto God, and the 20 And the LORD came down upon LORD called unto him out of the moun-mount Sinai, on the top of the mount:and tain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to house the LORD called Mofes up to the top of the of Jacob, and tell the children of Ifrael. mount; and Mofes went up.. 4 Ye have feen what I did unto the 21 And the LORD said unto Mo'es, Go Egyptians, and bow I bare you on eagles down, charge the people, leaft they breakwings, and brought you unto my felf. through unto the LORD to gaze, and ma 5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my ny of them rerifh. voyce indeed,and keep my covenant, then 22 And let the Priests also which come ye shall be a peculiar treafure unto me near to the LORD, fanctifie themselvs, above all people: for all the earth is mine, least the LORD break forth upon them. 6 And yeshall be unto me a kingdom 23 And Moses said unto the LORD, the of priests, and an holy nation. There are people cannot come up to mount Sinai: the words which thou shalt speak unto for thou chargedit us, faying, Set bounds" the children of Ifrael. 7And Mofes came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him. 8 And all the people answered toge ther, and faid, All that the LORD hath fpoken, we will do. And Mofes returned the words of the people unto the LORD. 9 And the LORD faid unto Mofes, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I fpeak with thee, and beleeve thee for ever. And Mofes told the words of the people unto the LORD. about the mount, and fanctifie it. 24 And the LORD faid unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let no the priests and the people break through, to come up unto the LORD, left he breais forth upon them. 25 So Mofes went down unto the people, and spake unto them. CHAP. XX. The ten commandments. 22 Idolaters forbidden. 24 Of what fort the a.tar Should be. 10 And the LORD faid unto Mofes, A Nd God spake all these words, faying, 21 am the LORD thy God, Which Go unto the people, and sanctifie them to have brought thee out of the land of Eday and to morrow, and let them wam gypt, out of the house of bondage. their clothes: 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before And be ready against the third day: nie. for the third day the LORD will come 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any down in the fight of all the people, upon graven image, or any likeness of any thing mount Sinai. Jis in heaven above, or y isin the earth 12 And thou sha't fet bounds unto the beneath or y is in the water under y earth, people round about, saying, Take heed to 5 Thou shalt not bow down thy felf to your selvs, that ye go not up into the theminor ferve them for I the LORD thy mount, or touch the border of it: whoso- God ama jealous God, vifiting iniquity ever toucheth the mount, shafi be furely of fathers upon y children unto third put to death. and fourth generation of them y hate me: mandments. 13 There shall not a hand touch it, but 6 And shewing mercy unto thousands he shall furely bestoned or shot through, of them that love me, and keep my comwhether it be beaft or man it shall not live when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come to the moune, 7 Thou shalt not take the Name of the LORD thy God in vain, for the LORD will L Several precepts. Exodus. & Remember fabbath day, to keep it holy To But the seventh day is the fabbath of 11 For in fix days the LORD made 12 Honour thy father and thy mother: 16 Thou shalt not bear falfe witness against thy neighbour. 17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours 18 And all the people faw the thun- 19 And they faid unto Mofes, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, left wedie. 20 And Mofes faid unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye fin not. 21 And the people stood afar off, and Mofes drew near unto the thick darkness where God was. 22 And the LorDfaid unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Ifrael, Yehave fees that i have talked with you from heaven. Divers laves. 3. If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself; it he were married, then his wife shall go out with him, 4. If his mafter have given him a wife, and she have born him fons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her mafters, and he shall go out by himself. 5 And if the fervant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children, I will not go out free: 6 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall alfo bring him to the doore, or unto the door-polt, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall ferve him for ever. 7 And if a man fell his daughter to be a maid-fervant, she shall not go out as the men-fervants do. 8 If The please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed; To fell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, feeing he hath dealt deceitfully with 9 And if he have betrothed her unto his fon, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. to If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage shall he not diminish... 11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money 12 Hethat fimiteth a man, fo that he die, shall be surely put to death. 13 And if a man ly not in wait, but God deliver bim into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. 14 Butifa man come prefumptnoufly upon his neighbour, to flay him with guil: thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die. 15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be furely put to death. 16 And he that stealeth a man, and felteth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall furely be put to death. 17 And he that curleth his father, or his mother, shall furely be put to death. 18 And if men strive together, and one finite another with a stone, or with bis fifts. and he die not, but keepeth bis bed; 23 Ye fhall not make & me gods of Giver, Hotothee, and I will bless thee. 25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of fhone, thou shalt not build it of hewen hone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou haft polluted it. 26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not difcovered thereon CHAP. XXI. Laws for men-Servants, 7 for women- thou shalt fet before 2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, fix years he shall ferve, and in the seventh he All go out free for nothing 19 If he rife again, and walk abroad upon his flatf: then shall he that fimote bim, be quit: onely be shall pay for the 20 And ifa man smite his servant, or his maid with a rod, and he die under his hand, he shall be furely punished. 21 Notwithfstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished; for he is his money. 22 If men itrive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: heshall befurely punished according as the womanshusband will lay upon him, and he all pay as the judges determin. 23 And if any mifchief follow, then thou shalt give lite for life, 24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand foot for fot 25 Burns Bivers taves 1 Chap. xxif. 25 Burning for burning; wound for wound, ftripe for stripe. 26 And ifa man fini e the eye of his fervant, or the eye of his maid, hat it perish: he shall let him gofree for his eyes fake. 27 And if he tmite out his man-fervants tooth, or his maid-fervants tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooths fake. 28 Itanox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be furely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten: but the owner of the ox shall be quit. 29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been teftified to his owner, and he hath not kept himin, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner alfo shall be put to death. 30 If there be laid on him a fum of monay, then he shall give for the ranfom of his life, whatsoever is laid upon him. 31 Whether he have gored a fon, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgement shall it be done unto him. 32 If the ox shall push a man-fervant, or a maid-fervant; he shall give unto their mafter thirty shesels of tilver, and the ox hall be ftoned. 33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shalldig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an afs fall therein: 34 The owner of the pit shall make it good, and givemoney unto the owner of them, and the dead beast shall be his. 35 Andifone mans ox hurt anothers hat he die, then they shall fell the live-ox, and divide the money of it, and the dead ox alfo they shall divide. 36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall furely pay ox for ox, and the dead shall be his own. CHAP. ΧΧΙΙ. Of theft. 5. Of dammage. 7 Of trespasSes. 14 Of borrowing. 16 Of fornication. 18 of witch-craft. a man shall steal an ox or a fheep, & Akill it or fellit: he that restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. 2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be fmitten that he die, therefhall no biood be shed for him. 3. If the fun be rifen upon him: there Jhall be loud bed for him: for he should make full restitution: if he have nothing, then he shall be fold for histheft. 4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox or ass, or fheep; he shall restore double. If a man shall cause a field or vine yard to be eaten, & fhall put in his beaft, and shall feed in another mans field: of y best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard shall he make restitution. 6.If fire break out, & catch in thorns, fo thit the ftacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field be confumed therewith: He that kindled the fire, shall furely make reftitution, IF a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it 8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he hath put his hand unto his neighbours goods. 9 For all manner oftrefpafs, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raimest, or for any manner of loft thing, which another challenge hto behis: the caufe of both parties shall come before y judges, and whom the judges shall condeinn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour. 10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an afs, or an ox, or a fheer, or any beafb to kee: and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it: Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not puc his hand unto his neighbours goods: and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good. 12 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof. 13. If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn. 14 And if a man borrow onght of his neighbour, & it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it; he shall furely make it good. 15 But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire. 15 Andifa man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shalt furely endow her to be his wife. 17 Ifher father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. 18 Thou shalt not fuffer a witch to live: 191 Whofoever lieth with a beait, shalt furely be put to death. 20He that facrificeth unto any God, fave unto the LORD onely, he shall be utterly destroyed. 21. Thou shall neither vex a stranger, nor opprefs him: for ye were Itrangers in the land of Egypt. 22 Ye shall not aflict any widow, fatherless child. or 23 If thou aflict them in any wife, and they cry at all unto me, I will furely hear their cry: 24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the fword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatheriefs. 25 If thou lend money to any of my peuple that is poor by thee, thou shalt noc be to him as an ufurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him fury, 26 If thou at all take the neighbours raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the fun goeth down. 27 Forthat is his covering onely, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein fhat he fleep? and it shall coine to pass, when he crieh unto me, y I will hear: for I am graciónas 287 Thou shalt not revile the goda, nut cuff the ruler of thy people, of the Sabbath, Exodus. A bleßing promised.. 2011 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first 17 Three times in the year all thy males of thy ripe fruits & of thy liquors: firft-thalt appear before the LORD God. born of thy fons shalt thou give unto me. 18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my 30 Likewife shalt thou do with thine facrifice with leavened bread, neither that oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it the fat of my facrifice remain untill the fhall be with his dam, on the eight day morning. thou shalt giveit me. 19 The first of the firft-fruits of the 31 And ye shall be holy men unto me: land thou shalt bring into the house of the neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of LORD thy God. Thou shalt not feethe a beafts in § field: ye shall cast it to y dogs. kid in his mothers milk. CHAP. XXIII. 20 Behold, I fend an angel before Of lander and false witness. 12 Of thethee to keep thee in the way, and to bring Sabbath. 13 Ofidolatry. 20 A bleßing thee into the place which I have prepared. promised to the obedient. T Hou shalt not raife a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an uurighteous witness, 21 Beware of him, and obey his voyce, provoke him not: for he will not pardon your tranfgreffions: for my name is in him 22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his voyce, and do all that I speak, then I will 2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evill, neither shalt thou speak in a be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an ause, to decline after many, to wrest adversarie unto thine adverfaries. judgement. 23 For mine angel shall go before thee, 3 Neither shalt thou countenance a and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and poor man in his caufe. the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the 4 If thou meet thine enemies ox or Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the his afs going aftray, thou shalt surely Jebutites: and I will cut them off. bring it back to him again. 24 Thou shalt not bow down to their 5. If thou see the afs of him that hateth gods, norterve them, nor do after their thee, lying under his burden, and wouldest works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow forbear to help him, thou shalt furely help them, and quite brea's down their images. with him. 25 And ye shall ferve the LORD your 6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgement God, and he thall bless thy bread, and thy of thy poor in his caufe. water: and I will takesickness away from 7 Keep thee far from a falfe matter and the midst of thee. the innocent and righteous flay thou not: 26 There shall nothing caft their for I will not justifie the wicked. young, nor be barren in thy land: the nun8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the ber of thy days I will fulfi 11. gift blindeth the wife, and perverteth the 27 I will tend my fear before thee, and words of the righteous. will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine ene mies turn their backs unto thee. Alfo thou shalt not opprefs a stranger; forye know the heart of a stranger, leeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. to And fix years thou shalt fow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof. naanite, & the Hittite from before thee. 28 And I will fend hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Ca But the seventhyear thou shalt let it 29 I will not drive them out from before reft, and lie still, that the poor of thy thee in one year, lelt the land become depeople mayeat, and what they leave, the folate, and the beaft of the field multiply. beafts of the field shall eat. In like man-against thee. ser thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and 30 By little and little I will drive them with thy olive-yard. out from before thee, untill thou be in 12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, & created, and inherit the land. on the feventh day thou shalt reft: that 3t And I will fet thy bounds from the thine ox and thine afs may rest, and the Red-fea even unto the sea of the Philif fon of thy hand-maid, and the stranger tins, and from the defart unto the river: may be refreshed. for I will deliver the inhabitants of the 13. And in all things that I have faid land into your hand; and thou shalt drive anto you, be circumspect: and make no them our before thee. mention of the names of other gods, nei ther let it be heard out of thy mouth. 14 Threetimes thou shalt keep a feaft unto me in the year. 32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in thy land, leaft they make thee fin against me: for if thou unto thee. CHAP. XXIV. 15 Thou shalt keep the feast of untea-ferve their gods, it will furely be a finare vened bread: thou shalt eat unleavened bread feven days, as I commanded thee in the time appointed of the mone habib: for in it thou cameft out from Egypt: and none fhallappear before me empty. 16 And the feaft of harvest, the fi ft-fruits of thy labours, which thou haft fown in the Geld; and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast Ifraet: and worship ye afar off. gathered in thy labours out of the field, 2. And Mofes alone hall come near the. Mofes is called up into the mountain. 3 The people promise obedience. 9 Tha glory of God appeareth. And he faid unro Mofes, Come up unto the LORD, thou and Aaron, Nada's and Abihu, and feventy of the elders of LORD Chap. xxv. Godsglory LORD: but they shall not come nigh, nei-they bring me an ther shall the people go up with him. 3And Mofes came and told all the words of the LORD, & all the judg The mercy feat. offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart, ye 3. And this is the offering which ye shalt the people answered with take of them, gold, and silver, and brafs, the people shall taker my offering. ments: and all one voyce, and faid, All the words which the LORD hathfaid, will we do.. 4 And Mofes wrote all the words of the LORD, and rofe up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Ifrael. And he fent young men of the children of Ifrael; which offered burnt-offerings, and facrificed peace-offerings of oxen unto the LORD. And Moles took half of the blood, 4. And blue, and purple, and fcarict 5. And ram-skins died red, and badgersand fine linen, and goats-hair, skins, and shittim-wood, the e shod and in the breast-plate. 7 Onyx-ftones, and itones to be fet in 6 and put it in balons, and half of he blood patern of all the instruments thereof, he fprinkled on the altar.. 7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: shittim-wood: two cubits and a half shall even so shall ye make it. and they faid, All that the LORD hath be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and faid, will we do, and be obedient. led it on the people, and faid, Behold, the words. 9 'Then went up Mofes and Aaron, Na- 12 And thou shalt caft four rings of gold gold round about. dab and Abihu, and feventy of the elders for it, and put them in the four corners to And they faw the God Ifrael: and of it, and two rings in the other fide of it thereof, & two rings shall be in § one side there was under his feet, as it were a pav of Ifrael. ed work of a faphire-stone, and as it were tim-wood, and overlay them with gold. the body of heaven in bis clearness. 14 And thou shalt put the staves into the 13 And thou shalt make ftaves of shit And upon the nobles of the children rings, by the fides of the ark, that the ark of Ifrael he laid not his hand: alfo they may be born with them. saw God, and did eat and drink. 12. And the LORD faid unto Mofes, the ark: they shall not be taken from it.. Come upto me into the mount, & be there: 15 The staves shall beintherings of and I will give thee tables offtone, and a teftimony which I shall give thee. 16 And thou shalt put into the ark the raw, and commandments which I have 17 And thou shalt make a mercy-feat written; that thou mayeit teach them. of pure gold: two cubits and a half hall 13 And Mofes rofe up, and his minifter be the length thereof, and a cubit and a Jofhuah: and Moles went up into the half the breadth thereof. mount God. 18 And thou shalt make two cherubims.. of gold of beaten work shalt thou make 14 And he faid unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, untill we come again unto them, in the two ends of the mercy-feat. you and beholds Aaron and Hur are with 19 And make one cherub on the one end, you if any man have any matters to do, and the other cherub on the other end: let hini come unto them." 15. And Mofes went up into the mount, cherubims on the two ends thereof. even of the mercy-feat shall ye make the and a cloud covered the moust. 16 And the glory of the LorDabode their wings on high covering the mercy upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered feat with their wings and their faces shall it fix days: and the feventh day he called look one to another: toward the mercyunro Mofes out of the midst of the cloud, fear tha!! the faces of the cherubians be. 17 And the fight of the glory of LORD 21 And thou shalt puty mercy-feat above was like devouring fire on the top of the upon the ark, and in the ark thou shatt mount, iny eyes of the children of Ifrael. put the teftimony that I shall give thee. the cloud, and gat him up in the midst of I wil commune with thee, from above the 18 And Mofes went into the midst of 22 And there I will meet with thee, and and Mofes was in the mount the mount, mercy-feat from between the the en 20 And the cherubims shall stretch forth and fourty nights. CHAP. XXV. bims which are upon the ark of teftimony, of allthings & I will give thee in to The commandment unto children of Ifrael.. The mercy-feat. wo cubits pull be length 23. Thou shalt alfo make a table of Ang the LORD spake unto Mofes, fay- thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, 2.Speak unto the children of Ifracl, that and And thou shalt overlay it with wid and a cubit and a half the height thereof. 22 The table, 31 and sandlestick. Nd gold, |