Study Desk

I will be standing before you there on the rock in Horeb, and you will strike the rock, and water will come out of it so that the people may drink." And Moses did so in plain view of the elders of Israel.

They will judge the people under normal circumstances, and every difficult case they will bring to you, but every small case they themselves will judge, so that you may make it easier for yourself, and they will bear the burden with you.

The Lord said to Moses, "I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people may hear when I speak with you and so that they will always believe in you." And Moses told the words of the people to the Lord .

Moses said to the people, "Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you so that you do not sin."

And you must not go up by steps to my altar, so that your nakedness is not exposed.'

"Whoever strikes someone so that he dies must surely be put to death.

"If a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a staff so that he or she dies as a result of the blow, he will surely be punished.

"If a man strikes the eye of his male servant or his female servant so that he destroys it, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.

"If an ox gores a man or a woman so that either dies, then the ox must surely be stoned and its flesh must not be eaten, but the owner of the ox will be acquitted.

If the ox of one man injures the ox of his neighbor so that it dies, then they will sell the live ox and divide its proceeds, and they will also divide the dead ox.

"If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guilt for him.

"If a fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes, so that stacked grain or standing grain or the whole field is consumed, the one who started the fire must surely make restitution.

But in the seventh year you must let it lie fallow and leave it alone so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave any animal in the field may eat; you must do likewise with your vineyard and your olive grove.

The Lord said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain and remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commandments that I have written, so that you may teach them."

Let them make for me a sanctuary, so that I may live among them.

You are to make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that the table may be carried with them.

"You are to make its seven lamps, and then set its lamps up on it, so that it will give light to the area in front of it.

You are to make fifty loops on the one curtain, and you are to make fifty loops on the end curtain which is on the second set, so that the loops are opposite one to another.

You are to make fifty gold clasps and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle is a unit.

You are to make fifty bronze clasps and put the clasps into the loops and join the tent together so that it is a unit.