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Do not do wrong to a stranger or make it hard for him. For you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

If you bring them trouble, and they cry out to Me, for sure I will hear their cry.

"If you let any of the poor among My people use your money, do not act toward him like one who is owed money. And do not make him pay you for the use of it.

For that is his only covering. It is his clothing for his body. What else will he sleep in? When he cries out to Me, I will hear him. For I have loving-pity.

Do not lie against someone. And do not kill those who are right and good or those who are not guilty. For I will not free the guilty.

Do not take pay in secret for wrong-doing. For such pay blinds the one who sees well and destroys the words of a good man.

Do not make it hard for a stranger because you know how a stranger feels. You were strangers in the land of Egypt.

"You will plant seeds in your land for six years, and gather the grain.

You will have the special supper of bread without yeast. For seven days you are to eat bread without yeast at the time I tell you in the month of Abib. For you came out of Egypt during this month. And no one will come before Me with nothing in his hands.

Listen to him and obey his voice. Do not turn against him, for he will not forgive your sins, because My name is in him.

For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites. And I will destroy them.

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.

I will drive them out a few at a time, until you become many and take the land for your own.

I will give you the land from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates River. For I will give you power over the people of the land. And you will drive them away from you.

They are not to live in your land, or they will make you sin against Me. If you worship their gods, for sure it will be a trap to you."

Moses wrote all the words of the Lord. He got up early the next morning and built an altar at the base of the mountain, with twelve pillars, one for each of the twelve families of Israel.

Then he took the Book of the Agreement and read it for the people to hear. They said, "We will do all that the Lord has spoken. We will obey."

The Lord said to Moses, "Come up to Me on the mountain and stay there. I will give you the pieces of stone with the Law which I have written for you to teach the people."

The shining-greatness of the Lord rested on Mount Sinai. And the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day He called to Moses from the cloud.

"Tell the people of Israel to take a gift for Me. Receive the gift for Me from every person whose heart makes him willing.