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Moshe led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain.

The LORD said to Moshe, "Go down, charge the people, lest they break through to the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.

All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the shofar, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.

They said to Moshe, "Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don't let God speak with us, lest we die."

"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.

If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, "All that the LORD has spoken will we do, and be obedient."

He didn't lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Yisra'el. They saw God, and ate and drank.

"They shall make a teivah of shittim wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.

You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.

They shall be double beneath, and in like manner they shall be entire to the top of it to one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.

These are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an efod, and a robe, and a coat of checker work, a turban, and a sash: and they shall make holy garments for Aharon your brother, and his sons, that he may minister to me in the Kohen's office.

They shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.

"They shall make the efod of gold, of blue, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skillful workman.

and the fourth row a tarshish, an shoham, and a yashefay: they shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.

They shall bind the breastplate by the rings of it to the rings of the efod with a lace of blue, that it may be on the skillfully woven band of the efod, and that the breastplate may not swing out from the efod.

You shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Tummim; and they shall be on Aharon's heart, when he goes in before the LORD: and Aharon shall bear the judgment of the children of Yisra'el on his heart before the LORD continually.

It shall be on Aharon's forehead, and Aharon shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Yisra'el shall make holy in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.

You shall put them on Aharon your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the Kohen's office.