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And Joshua broke the power of Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

And Jethro the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done to Moses, and to Israel his people; that Jehovah had brought Israel out of Egypt.

And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came to Moses with his sons and his wife into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mountain of God.

And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other [after] their welfare, and went into the tent.

And Moses told his father-in-law all that Jehovah had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake; all the trouble that had befallen them on the way, and [how] Jehovah had delivered them.

And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to enquire of God.

When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between one and another; and I make known [to them] the statutes of God, and his laws.

And Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.

And Moses sent away his father-in-law, and he departed into his land.

Thou shalt not idly utter the name of Jehovah thy God; for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that idly uttereth his name.

Thou shalt not desire thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not desire thy neighbour's wife, nor his bondman, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour's.

And Moses said to the people, Fear not; for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before you, that ye sin not.

If he came in alone, he shall go out alone: if he had a wife, then his wife shall go out with him.

If his master have given him a wife, and she have borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out alone.

then his master shall bring him before the judges, and shall bring him to the door, or to the door-post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall be his bondman for ever.

And if a man shall sell his daughter as a handmaid, she shall not go out as the bondmen go out.

And if he have appointed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the law of daughters.

But if he have not lain in wait, and God have delivered [him] into his hand, I will appoint thee a place to which he shall flee.

But if a man act wantonly toward his neighbour, and slay him with guile, thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

And he that striketh his father, or his mother, shall certainly be put to death.