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and unto those of the sons of Israel who are near He hath not put forth His hand, and they see God, and eat and drink.

And Moses riseth -- Joshua his minister also -- and Moses goeth up unto the mount of God;

and I have tabernacled in the midst of the sons of Israel, and have become their God,

and they have known that I [am] Jehovah their God, who hath brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I may tabernacle in their midst; I [am] Jehovah their God.

and I fill him [with] the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all work,

And He giveth unto Moses, when He finisheth speaking with him in mount Sinai, two tables of the testimony, tables of stone, written by the finger of God.

And Moses appeaseth the face of Jehovah his God, and saith, `Why, O Jehovah, doth Thine anger burn against Thy people, whom Thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand?

and the tables are the work of God, and the writing is the writing of God, graven on the tables.

and he saith to them, `Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Put each his sword by his thigh, pass over and turn back from gate to gate through the camp, and slay each his brother, and each his friend, and each his relation.'

And Moses turneth back unto Jehovah, and saith, `Oh this people hath sinned a great sin, that they make to themselves a god of gold;

and Jehovah passeth over before his face, and calleth: `Jehovah, Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth,

for ye do not bow yourselves to another god -- for Jehovah, whose name [is] Zealous, is a zealous God.

a molten god thou dost not make to thyself.

`Three times in a year do all thy males appear before the Lord Jehovah, God of Israel;

for I dispossess nations from before thee, and have enlarged thy border, and no man doth desire thy land in thy going up to appear before Jehovah thy God three times in a year.

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

and He doth fill him [with] the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all work,

And every offering -- thy present -- with salt thou dost season, and thou dost not let the salt of the covenant of thy God cease from thy present; with all thine offerings thou dost bring near salt.

`When a prince doth sin, and hath done [something against] one of all the commands of Jehovah his God [regarding things] which are not to be done, through ignorance, and hath been guilty --

`For I [am] Jehovah your God, and ye have sanctified yourselves, and ye have been holy, for I [am] holy; and ye do not defile your persons with any teeming thing which is creeping on the earth;