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The best of the first fruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. You shall not cook the meat of a kid in its mothers milk.

And you shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless your bread and your water; and I will take sickness away from your houses.

And they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, clear as the color of the sky.

And he did not harm the elders of the children of Israel; and they saw God, and ate and drank.

And Moses rose up and his minister Joshua; and Moses went up to the mountain of God.

And I will dwell among the children of Israel and will be their God.

And they shall know that I am the LORD their God who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt that I may dwell among them; I am the LORD their God.

And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom and in understanding, and in knowledge and in all manner of workmanship,

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, My sabbaths you must keep; for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am the LORD your God who sanctifies you.

And he gave to Moses, when he had made an end of talking with him on mount Sinai, two tablets of testimony, the stone tablets written by the finger of God.

And he received them, and drew a design, and made it a molten calf; and they said, This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

They have turned aside quickly from the way which I commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, This is your god, O Israel, who has brought you out of the land of Egypt.

But Moses prayed before the LORD his God and said, Not so, O LORD, let not thy wrath kindle against thy people whom thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand.

The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved upon the tablets.

And Moses said to them, Thus says the LORD God of Israel: Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from door to door throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.

So Moses returned to the LORD and said, I beseech thee, O LORD God, truly this people have sinned a great sin and have made for themselves gods of gold.

And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD, The God merciful and compassionate, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

For you shall worship no other god; for the LORD whose name is zealous, is a zealous God.

Three times a year shall all your memorial offerings be brought before the LORD, the God of Israel.

For I will destroy the nations from before you, and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man covet your land when you shall go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in a year.