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Then the LORD said to Moses, "Take for yourself spices—stacte, onycha, and galbanum, spices and pure frankincense; there shall be an equal part of each.

"You shall make incense from it all, a skillful mixture, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, and holy.

"And you shall crush some of it very fine, and put part of it in front of the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you; it shall be most holy to you.

"And the incense which you shall make, you shall not make in the same proportions for yourselves; it shall be holy to you for the LORD.

"Whoever makes any like it, to use as perfume, shall be cut off from his people."

'Therefore you are to keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it must be put to death; for whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people.

'So the sons of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to celebrate the Sabbath throughout their generations as a permanent covenant.'

Now when Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of it; and Aaron made a proclamation and said, "Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD."

"Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants to whom You swore by Yourself, and said to them, 'I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and all this land of which I have spoken I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.'"

"But go now, lead the people where I told you. Behold, My angel shall go before you; nevertheless on the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin."

For the LORD had said to Moses, "Say to the sons of Israel, 'You are an obstinate people; if I were to go up in your midst for just one moment, I would destroy you. So now, take off your jewelry that I may know what I shall do to you.'"

And He said, "My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest."

He further said, "You cannot see My face, for mankind shall not see Me and live!"

Then the LORD said, "Behold, there is a place by Me, and you shall stand there on the rock;

"Then I will take My hand away and you shall see My back, but My face shall not be seen."

—for you shall not worship any other god, because the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God—

"You shall not make for yourself any gods cast in metal.

"You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib; for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.

"You shall redeem with a lamb the firstborn from a donkey; and if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem all the firstborn of your sons. None are to appear before Me empty-handed.

"You shall work six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during plowing time and harvest you shall rest.