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16 And the third day, when it was morning, there was thunder and lightning and a thick cloud upon the mount and the sound of the trumpet, exceedingly loud, so that all the people who were in the camp were afraid.
17 Then Moses brought the people out of the tents to meet with God. And they stood at the foot of the mount.
18 And Mount Sinai was engulfed in smoke, because the LORD came down upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended, as the smoke of a furnace, and all the mount trembled exceedingly.
19 And when the sound of the trumpet blew long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spoke. And God answered him by voice.
20 For the LORD came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mount. And when the LORD called Moses up onto the top of the mount, Moses went up.
21 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go down and remind the people not to break their boundaries and go up to the LORD to gaze, lest many of them perish.
22 “Also, let the priests who come to the LORD be sanctified, lest the LORD destroy them.”
23 And Moses said to the LORD, “The people cannot come up onto Mount Sinai. For You have charged us, saying, ‘Set boundaries on the mountain, and sanctify it.’”
24 And the LORD said to him, “Go. Get down and come up. You and Aaron with you. But do not let the priests and the people break their boundaries to come up to the LORD, lest He destroy them.”
25 So Moses went down to the people and told them.
20 Then God spoke all these Words, saying,
2 “I am the LORD your God, Who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.
4 “You shall make no graven image, nor any likenesses which are in Heaven above, nor which are in the earth beneath, nor which are in the waters under the earth.
5 “You shall neither bow down to them nor serve them. For I am the LORD your God, a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generations of those who hate Me.
6 “And showing mercy to thousands of those who love Me and keep My Commandments.
7 “You shall not lift up the Name of the LORD your God in a frivolous way. For the LORD will not hold him guiltless who lifts up His Name frivolously.
8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 “Six days shall you labor and do all your work.
10 “But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. On it, you shall not do any work—you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maid, nor your beast, nor your stranger who is within your gates.
11 “For in six days, the LORD made the sky and the earth, the sea, and all that therein are, and rested the seventh day. Therefore, the LORD blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it.
12 “Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be prolonged upon the land which the LORD your God gives you.
13 “You shall not murder.
14 “You shall not commit adultery.
15 “You shall not steal.
16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; nor shall you covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”
18 And all the people saw the thunder and the lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking. And when the people saw it they fled and stood at a distance,
19 and said to Moses, “Talk with us and we will hear! But do not let God talk with us, lest we die!”
20 Then Moses said to the people, “Do not fear. For God has come to test you, and to lay His fear before you, so that you do not sin.”
21 So, the people stood at a distance. But Moses drew near to the darkness where God was.
22 And the LORD said to Moses, “Thus shall you say to the children of Israel: ‘You have seen that I have talked with you from Heaven.
23 ‘You shall not make gods of silver equal to Me, nor gods of gold. You shall not make any.
24 ‘You shall make an altar of earth to Me. And thereupon you shall offer your burnt offerings, and your peace offerings, your sheep, and your oxen. I will come to you and bless you in all places where I shall put the remembrance of My Name.
25 ‘But if you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it from hewn stones. For if you use your tool upon them, you have polluted them.
26 ‘Nor shall you go up to My altar by steps, so that your filthiness is not discovered thereupon.’”
21 “Now, these are the laws which you shall set before them:
2 “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years; and in the seventh, he shall go out free, for nothing.
3 “If he came by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.
4 “If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s. But he shall go out by himself.
5 “But, if the servant says this: ‘I love my master, my wife and my children, I will not go out free,’
6 “then his master shall bring him to the judges and bring him to the door (or to the post) and his master shall pierce his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him forever.
7 “Likewise, if a man sells his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
8 “If she does not please her master, who has betrothed her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no power to sell her to a strange people, seeing he has deceived her.
9 “But, if he has betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of the daughters.
10 “If he takes another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.
11 “And if he does not do these three things for her, then she shall go out free, paying no money.
12 “He who strikes a man, and he dies, shall die the death.
13 “But, if a man did not lie in wait, but God offered him into his hand, then I will appoint a place where he shall flee.
14 “But, if a man comes presumptuously upon his neighbor, to kill him with craftiness, you shalt take him from My altar, so that he may die.
15 “Also, he who strikes his father or his mother, shall die the death.
16 “And, he who steals a man and sells him, or if he is found with him, shall die the death.
17 “And, he who curses his father or his mother, shall die the death.
18 “Also, when men strive together and one strikes another with a stone, or with the fist, and he does not die, but is bedridden,
19 “if he rises again and walks outside with his staff, then he who struck him shall be acquitted. He shall only pay his charges for his idle time and shall pay for his healing.
20 “And if a man strikes his servant (or his maid) with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.
21 “But, if he endures for a day, or two days, he shall not be punished. For he is his money.
13 “Therefore, woe to you, scribes and Pharisees. Hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven before man. For you yourselves do not go in, nor do you allow those who wish entrance to come in.
14 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, even under a pretense of long prayers. Therefore, you shall receive the greater damnation.
15 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, Hypocrites! For you traverse sea and land to make one proselyte. And when he is made, you make him twofold more a child of Hell than you yourselves!
16 “Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the Temple, it is nothing. But whoever swears by the gold of the Temple, he sins.’
17 “You fools, and blind! Which is greater, the gold or the Temple that sanctifies the gold?
18 “And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing. But whoever swears by the offering upon it, sins.’
19 “You fools, and blind! Which is greater, the offering or the altar which sanctifies the offering?
20 “Therefore, whoever swears by the altar, swears by it and by all things thereupon.
21 “And whoever swears by the Temple, swears by it and by Him Who dwells therein.
22 “And the one who swears by Heaven, swears by the throne of God and by Him Who sits thereupon.
23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, Hypocrites! For you tithe mint and anise and cumin, and leave the weightier matters of the law, judgment, and mercy and fidelity. These you ought to have done, and not to have left the other.
24 You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!
25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, Hypocrites! For you make clean the outside of the cup and the platter. But inside they are full of bribery and excess.
26 “You blind Pharisee! First, cleanse the inside of the cup and platter, so that the outside of them may be clean also.
27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, Hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs which appear beautiful outside, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all filthiness.
28 “So are you also. For outward you appear righteous to man, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
29 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, Hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the Prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous,
30 “and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in the blood of the Prophets.’
31 “So then you are witnesses to yourselves that you are the children of those who murdered the Prophets.
32 “And you fill up the measure of your fathers.
33 “O serpents! The generation of vipers! How shall you escape the damnation of Hell!
34 “Therefore, behold, I send to you Prophets, and wise men, and scribes. And some of them you shall kill and crucify. And some of them you shall scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city.
35 “So that upon you may come all the righteous blood that was shed upon the Earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berechiah, whom you killed between the Temple and the altar.
36 “Truly I say to you that all these things shall come upon this generation.
37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem; who kills the Prophets and stones those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together - as the hen gathers her chickens under her wings - and you would not!
38 “Behold, your house shall be left to you desolate.
39 “For I say to you, you shall not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is the One Who comes in the Name of the Lord’.”
28 To You, O LORD, do I cry. O my strength, do not be deaf toward me; lest if You do not answer me, I be like those who go down into the pit.
2 Hear the voice of my petitions when I cry to You, when I hold up my hands toward Your Holy Oracle.
3 Do not draw me away with the wicked and with the workers of iniquity, who speak friendly to their neighbors when malice is in their hearts.
4 Reward them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their inventions. Recompense them for the work of their hands. Render them their reward.
5 For they do not reward the works of the LORD, nor the operation of His hands. Break them down and do not build them up.
6 Praised be the LORD, for He has heard the voice of my petitions.
7 The LORD is my strength and my shield. My heart trusted in Him, and I was helped. Therefore, my heart shall rejoice; and with my song I will praise Him.
8 The LORD is their strength; and He is the strength of the deliverances of His anointed.
9 Save Your people and bless Your inheritance. Feed them, also, and exalt them forever. A Psalm of David.
7 My son, keep my words, and hide my commandments with you.
2 Keep my commandments, and you shall live; and my instruction, as the apple of your eyes.
3 Bind them upon your fingers. Write them upon the tablet of your heart.
4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister”. And call understanding, “kinswoman”.
5 That they may keep you from the strange woman; from the strange who is smooth in her words.
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