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And Moses bringeth out the people to meet God from the camp, and they station themselves at the lower part of the mount,

and the sound of the trumpet is going on, and very strong; Moses speaketh, and God doth answer him with a voice.

`And God speaketh all these words, saying,

I [am] Jehovah thy God, who hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants.

Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, [am] a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third [generation], and on the fourth, of those hating Me,

`Thou dost not take up the name of Jehovah thy God for a vain thing, for Jehovah acquitteth not him who taketh up His name for a vain thing.

and the seventh day [is] a Sabbath to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not do any work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and thy cattle, and thy sojourner who is within thy gates, --

`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

and say unto Moses, `Speak thou with us, and we hear, and let not God speak with us, lest we die.'

And Moses saith unto the people, `Fear not, for to try you hath God come, and in order that His fear may be before your faces -- that ye sin not.'

And the people stand afar off, and Moses hath drawn nigh unto the thick darkness where God [is].

then hath his lord brought him nigh unto God, and hath brought him nigh unto the door, or unto the side-post, and his lord hath bored his ear with an awl, and he hath served him -- to the age.

as to him who hath not laid wait, and God hath brought to his hand, I have even set for thee a place whither he doth flee.

`If the thief is not found, then the master of the house hath been brought near unto God, whether he hath not put forth his hand against the work of his neighbour;

for every matter of transgression, for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, for any lost thing of which it is said that it is his; unto God cometh the matter of them both; he whom God doth condemn, he repayeth double to his neighbour.

`He who is sacrificing to a god, save to Jehovah alone, is devoted.

`God thou dost not revile, and a prince among thy people thou dost not curse.

the beginning of the first-fruits of thy ground thou dost bring into the house of Jehovah thy God; thou dost not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

`And ye have served Jehovah your God, and He hath blessed thy bread and thy water, and I have turned aside sickness from thine heart;

and they see the God of Israel, and under His feet [is] as the white work of the sapphire, and as the substance of the heavens for purity;