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Then ^(F1)God said, "Behold, ^(C1)I am going to make a covenant. Before all your people ^(C2)I will perform miracles which have not been ^(F2)produced in all the earth nor among any of the nations; and all the people ^(F3)among whom you live will see the working of the LORD, for it is a fearful thing that I am going to perform with you.

"^(F1)Be sure to comply with what I am commanding you this day: behold, ^(C1)I am going to drive out the Amorite from you, and the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

"^(C1)Be careful that you do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, or it will become a snare in your midst.

"^(C1)But rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their memorial stones, and cut down their ^(F1)(C2)Asherim

—for ^(C1)you shall not worship any other god, because the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God—

otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they would prostitute themselves with their gods and ^(C1)sacrifice to their gods, and someone ^(C2)might invite you ^(F1)to eat of his sacrifice,

and ^(C1)you might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might prostitute themselves with their gods and cause your sons also to prostitute themselves with their gods.

"^(C1)You shall not make for yourself any gods cast in metal.

"You shall keep ^(C1)the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For ^(C2)seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, ^(F1)as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the ^(C3)month of Abib; for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.

"^(C1)The ^(F1)firstborn from every womb belongs to Me, and all your male livestock, the ^(F1)firstborn from ^(F2)cattle and sheep.

"^(C1)You shall redeem with a lamb the firstborn from a donkey; and if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem ^(C2)all the firstborn of your sons. ^(F1)(C3)None are to appear before Me empty-handed.

"You shall work ^(C1)six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during plowing time and harvest you shall rest.

"And you shall celebrate ^(C1)the Feast of Weeks, that is, the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.

"^(C1)Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord ^(F1)GOD, the God of Israel.

"For I will ^(F1)(C1)drive out nations from you and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD your God.

"^(C1)You shall not ^(F1)offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread, ^(C2)nor is the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover to ^(F2)be left over until morning.

"You shall bring ^(C1)the very first of the first fruits of your soil into the house of the LORD your God. "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."

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Then the LORD said to Moses, "^(C1)Write ^(F1)down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made ^(C2)a covenant with you and with Israel."

So he was there with the LORD for ^(C1)forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. And ^(F1)(C2)He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, ^(C3)the Ten ^(F2)Commandments.