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But take care, and do not make any agreement with the people of the land where you are going, for it will be a cause of sin to you.

For you are to be worshippers of no other god: for the Lord is a God who will not give his honour to another.

Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.

Make for yourselves no gods of metal.

Keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days your food is to be bread without leaven, as I gave you orders, at the regular time in the month Abib; for in that month you came out of Egypt.

A lamb may be given in payment for the young of an ass, but if you will not make payment for it, its neck will have to be broken. For all the first of your sons you are to make payment. No one is to come before me without an offering.

Six days let work be done, but on the seventh day take your rest: at ploughing time and at the grain-cutting you are to have a day for rest.

For I will send out the nations before you and make wide the limits of your land; and no man will make an attempt to take your land while you go up to give worship to the Lord, three times in the year.

And the Lord said to Moses, Put all these words in writing; for on them is based the agreement which I will make with you.

And for forty days and forty nights Moses was there with the Lord, and in that time he had no food or drink. And he put in writing on the stones the words of the agreement, the ten rules of the law.

But when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, and the shining of his face, they would not come near him for fear.

Then Moses sent for them; and Aaron, with the chiefs of the people, came to him; and Moses had talk with them.

And Moses sent for all the children of Israel to come together, and said to them, This is what the Lord has said and these are his orders.

And oil for the lights, and spices for the holy oil and for the sweet perfumes for burning.

And beryls and jewels to be cut for the ephod and for the priest's bag.

And the support for the lights, with its vessels and its lights and the oil for the light;

And the altar for burning spices, with its rods, and the holy oil and the sweet perfume, and the curtain for the door, at the door of the House;

The hangings for the open space, its pillars and their bases, and the curtain for the doorway;

The nails for the House, and the nails for the open space and their cords;

The robes of needlework for the work of the holy place, the holy robes for Aaron the priest, and the robes for his sons when acting as priests.