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And they judged the people at all times: and whatsoever was of greater difficulty they referred to him, and they judged the easier cases only.

For departing out of Raphidim, and coming to the desert of Sinai, they camped in the same place, and there Israel pitched their tents over against the mountain.

And Moses came down from the mount to the people, and sanctified them. And when they had washed their garments,

And when Moses had brought them forth to meet God, from the place of the camp, they stood at the bottom of the mount.

He said unto him: Go down, and charge the people; lest they should have a mind to pass the limits to see the Lord, and a very great multitude of them should perish.

And all the people saw the voices and the flames, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mount smoking; and being terrified and struck with fear, they stood afar off,

He that striketh his bondman, or bondwoman, with a rod, and they die under his hands, shall be guilty of the crime.

If an ox gore a man or a woman, and they die, he shall be stoned: and his flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

But if the ox was wont to push with his horn yesterday, and the day before, and they warned his master, and he did not shut him up, and he shall kill a man or a woman: then the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.

And if they set a price upon him, he shall give for his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

If one man’s ox gore another man’s ox, and he die: they shall sell the live ox, and shall divide the price, and the carcass of that which died they shall part between them:

If a man deliver money, or any vessel unto his friend to keep, and they be stolen away from him that received them: if the thief be found, he shall restore double:

To do any fraud, either in ox, or in ass, or sheep, or raiment, or any thing that may bring damage: the cause of both parties shall come to the gods: and if they give judgment, he shall restore double to his neighbour.

If you hurt them, they will cry out to me, and I will hear their cry:

And Moses alone shall come up to the Lord, but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people come up with him.

And he sent young men of the children of Israel, and they offered holocausts, and sacrificed pacific victims of calves to the Lord.

And taking the book of the covenant, he read it in the hearing of the people: and they said: All things that the Lord hath spoken, we will do, we will be obedient.

And they saw the God of Israel: and under his feet as it were a work of sapphire stone, and as the heaven, when clear.

Neither did he lay his hand upon those of the children of Israel, that retired afar off, and they saw God, and they did eat and drink.

And they shall make me a sanctuary, and I will dwell in the midst of them: