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And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, and his sons and his wife came to Moses, to the wilderness where he camped, at the mount of God.

And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed, and kissed him. And they asked each to his neighbor, as to their welfare. And they came into the tent.

And Moses told his father-in-law all that Jehovah had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt on account of Israel, all the trouble which they had found in the way, and Jehovah had delivered them.

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

When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor. And I make known the statutes of God, and His laws.

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

And Moses sent his father-in-law away, and he went to his own land.

You shall not take the name of Jehovah your God in vain; for Jehovah will not leave unpunished the one who takes His name in vain.

You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male slave, or his slave-girl, or his ox, or his ass, or anything which belongs to your neighbor.

And Moses said to the people, Do not be afraid, for God has come in order to test you, and so that His fear may be on your faces, that you may not sin.

If he comes in with his body, he shall go out with his body. If he was the husband of a wife, his wife shall go out with him.

If his master gives him a wife, and she bears sons or daughters to him, the wife and her children shall belong to her master; and he shall go out with his body.

his master shall bring him to God, and one shall bring him to the door, or to the doorpost; and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

And when a man sells his daughter for a slave-girl, she shall not go out as the male slaves go out.

If she is bad in the eyes of her master who has appointed her for himself, he shall allow her redemption. He shall not have power to sell her to a foreign people, in his deceiving her.

And if he chooses her for his son, he shall do to her as is the custom of daughters.

But he who does not lie in wait, and God lets fall into his hand, I will appoint a place for you where he may flee.

And when a man seethes insolently against his neighbor, to kill him by deceit, you shall take him from My altar to die.

And he who strikes his father or his mother dying shall die.

And he that steals a man and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, dying he shall die.