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"If the thief is caught while breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no bloodguiltiness on his account.

"If a man lets a field or vineyard be grazed bare and lets his animal loose so that it grazes in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.

"If a fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes, so that stacked grain or the standing grain or the field itself is consumed, he who started the fire shall surely make restitution.

"You shall not follow the masses in doing evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after a multitude in order to pervert justice;

but on the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the beast of the field may eat. You are to do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.

"Six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you shall cease from labor so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave, as well as your stranger, may refresh themselves.

"I will send hornets ahead of you so that they will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites before you.

So Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words."

So Moses arose with Joshua his servant, and Moses went up to the mountain of God.

"According to all that I am going to show you, as the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furniture, just so you shall construct it.

"You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that with them the table may be carried.

"Three cups shall be shaped like almond blossoms in the one branch, a bulb and a flower, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bulb and a flower—so for six branches going out from the lampstand;

"Then you shall make its lamps seven in number; and they shall mount its lamps so as to shed light on the space in front of it.

"You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and join the curtains to one another with the clasps so that the tabernacle will be a unit.

"You shall make fifty clasps of bronze, and you shall put the clasps into the loops and join the tent together so that it will be a unit.

"You shall put it beneath, under the ledge of the altar, so that the net will reach halfway up the altar.

"Its poles shall be inserted into the rings, so that the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar when it is carried.

"You shall make it hollow with planks; as it was shown to you in the mountain, so they shall make it.

"They shall bind the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord, so that it will be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastpiece will not come loose from the ephod.

"There shall be an opening at its top in the middle of it; around its opening there shall be a binding of woven work, like the opening of a coat of mail, so that it will not be torn.