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So Moses heeded the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he had said.

So they judged the people at all times; the hard cases they brought to Moses, but they judged every small case themselves.

For they had departed from Rephidim, had come to the Wilderness of Sinai, and camped in the wilderness. So Israel camped there before the mountain.

So Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before them all these words which the LORD commanded him.

Then all the people answered together and said, "All that the LORD has spoken we will do." So Moses brought back the words of the people to the LORD.

And the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I come to you in the thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and believe you forever." So Moses told the words of the people to the LORD.

So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes.

Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled.

So Moses went down to the people and spoke to them.

And Moses said to the people, "Do not fear; for God has come to test you, and that His fear may be before you, so that you may not sin."

So the people stood afar off, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.

"He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.

"And if a man beats his male or female servant with a rod, so that he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

"If men fight, and hurt a woman with child, so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no harm follows, he shall surely be punished accordingly as the woman's husband imposes on him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

But if the ox tended to thrust with its horn in times past, and it has been made known to his owner, and he has not kept it confined, so that it has killed a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned and its owner also shall be put to death.

"If one man's ox hurts another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide the money from it; and the dead ox they shall also divide.

If the thief is found breaking in, and he is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt for his bloodshed.

"If fire breaks out and catches in thorns, so that stacked grain, standing grain, or the field is consumed, he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after many to pervert justice.

"So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you.