Study Desk

Do the same with your cattle and your flock. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but on the eighth day you are to give them to me.

You must not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and corrupts the words of the righteous.

“Sow your land for six years and gather its produce.

“Do your work for six days but rest on the seventh day so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave as well as the resident alien may be refreshed.

Observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, because you came out of Egypt in that month. No one is to appear before me empty-handed.

Be attentive to him and listen to him. Do not defy him, because he will not forgive your acts of rebellion, for my name is in him.

For my angel will go before you and bring you to the land of the Amorites, Hethites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out.

I will set your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River. For I will place the inhabitants of the land under your control, and you will drive them out ahead of you.

They must not remain in your land, or else they will make you sin against me. If you serve their gods, it will be a snare for you.”

And Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. He rose early the next morning and set up an altar and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel at the base of the mountain.

The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and stay there so that I may give you the stone tablets with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”

He told the elders, “Wait here for us until we return to you. Aaron and Hur are here with you. Whoever has a dispute should go to them.”

The glory of the Lord settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day he called to Moses from the cloud.

“Tell the Israelites to take an offering for me. You are to take my offering from everyone who is willing to give.

oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;

and onyx along with other gemstones for mounting on the ephod and breastpiece.

“They are to make a sanctuary for me so that I may dwell among them.

Cast four gold rings for it and place them on its four feet, two rings on one side and two rings on the other side.

Make a three-inch frame all around it and make a gold molding for it all around its frame.

Make four gold rings for it, and attach the rings to the four corners at its four legs.