Study Desk

"If you ever seize your neighbor's cloak as a pledge, you are to return it to him before the sun sets,

"You shall not curse God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

"You shall not give a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked person to be a malicious witness.

"You shall not follow the crowd in doing evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to join together with a crowd in order to pervert justice;

nor shall you show favor to a poor person in his dispute.

"Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for I will not acquit the guilty.

"You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of the just.

"You shall not oppress a stranger, since you yourselves know the feelings of a stranger, for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

"Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me.

"Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD.

"You shall bring the choice first fruits of your soil into the house of the LORD your God. "You are not to boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.

"I will not drive them out from you in a single year, so that the land will not become desolate and the animals of the field become too numerous for you.

"They shall not live in your land, otherwise they will make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, it is certain to be a snare to you."

Then He said to Moses, "Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and you shall worship at a distance.

and they saw the God of Israel; and under His feet there appeared to be a pavement of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.

But to the elders he said, "Wait here for us until we return to you. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you; whoever has a legal matter, have him approach them."

And to the eyes of the sons of Israel, the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountain top.

"Tell the sons of Israel to take a contribution for Me; from everyone whose heart moves him you shall take My contribution.

"Have them construct a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.

"Now they shall construct an ark of acacia wood two and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high.