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So Moses went down from the mountain to the people. He set the people apart to be holy, and they washed their clothes.

So Moses went down to the people and told them.

For in six days the Lord made the heavens, the earth, the sea and all that is in them. And He rested on the seventh day. So the Lord gave honor to the Day of Rest and made it holy.

"Honor your father and your mother, so your life may be long in the land the Lord your God gives you.

Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid. God has come to test you, so you may have enough fear of Him to keep you from sinning."

And do not go up on steps to My altar, so no part of your body may be seen without being covered.'

"Whoever hits a man so that he dies will be put to death.

"When a man hits his male or female servant with a stick so that he or she dies, he will be punished.

"If men fight with each other and hit a woman who is going to have a child so that she loses her baby but no other hurt comes to her, he must pay whatever the woman's husband says he must, as agreed upon by the judges.

"If one man's bull hurts another's so that it dies, they will sell the live bull and divide the price so they will each have the same. And they will divide the dead bull.

If the robber is caught while breaking in, and is hit so that he dies, the owner of the house is not guilty for his blood.

"When a fire starts and spreads to thorn bushes so as to burn up picked grain or standing grain or the field itself, he who started the fire will pay for the loss.

You will be holy men to Me. So you will not eat any flesh torn to pieces in the field. You will throw it to the dogs.

But in the seventh year you will let the land rest without planting. So your people who are in need may eat. Whatever they leave, the animals may eat. You are to do the same with your grape-fields and olive trees.

You will work six days and rest on the seventh day. So your bull and your donkey may rest. And the son of your female servant, and the stranger, may get their strength again.

I will not move them out of your way in one year. So the land will not become a waste, and the animals of the field become too many for you.

So Moses took the blood and put some on the people. He said, "See, the blood of the agreement, which the Lord has made with you in these words."

Let them make a holy place for Me, so I may live among them.

Put fifty of these pieces on the one curtain. And put fifty on the side of the other curtain, so that the pieces meet each other.

Make fifty hooks of gold and join the curtains together with the hooks so the meeting tent will be as one.