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but showing faithful love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commands.

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. You must not do any work—you, your son or daughter, your male or female servant, your livestock, or the resident alien who is within your city gates.

“You speak to us, and we will listen,” they said to Moses, “but don’t let God speak to us, or we will die.”

“But if the slave declares, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I do not want to leave as a free man,’

But if he did not intend any harm, and yet God allowed it to happen, I will appoint a place for you where he may flee.

“When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or his fist, and the injured man does not die but is confined to bed,

“When men get in a fight and hit a pregnant woman so that her children are born prematurely but there is no injury, the one who hit her must be fined as the woman’s husband demands from him, and he must pay according to judicial assessment.

“When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox must be stoned, and its meat may not be eaten, but the ox’s owner is innocent.

the owner of the pit must give compensation; he must pay to its owner, but the dead animal will become his.

But if this happens after sunrise, the householder is guilty of bloodshed. A thief must make full restitution. If he is unable, he is to be sold because of his theft.

“When a man gives his neighbor valuables or goods to keep, but they are stolen from that person’s house, the thief, if caught, must repay double.

“When a man gives his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any other animal to care for, but it dies, is injured, or is stolen, while no one is watching,

But if, in fact, the animal was stolen from his custody, he must make restitution to its owner.

Do the same with your cattle and your flock. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but on the eighth day you are to give them to me.

But during the seventh year you are to let it rest and leave it uncultivated, so that the poor among your people may eat from it and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.

“Do your work for six days but rest on the seventh day so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave as well as the resident alien may be refreshed.

But if you will carefully obey him and do everything I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.

Moses alone is to approach the Lord, but the others are not to approach, and the people are not to go up with him.”

But burn the bull’s flesh, its hide, and its waste outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

Work may be done for six days, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord. Anyone who does work on the Sabbath day must be put to death.