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but the seventh day is a sabbath of Yahweh your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female slave or your cattle or your sojourner who is within your gates.

Then they said to Moses, "Speak to us yourself, and we will listen; but let not God speak to us, lest we die."

So the people stood at a distance, but Moses came near the dense gloom where God was.

"If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment.

But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out as a free man,'

But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint you a place to which he may flee.

"And if men contend with each other and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but remains in bed,

But if for a day or two he is able to stand, no punishment shall be taken; for he is his property.

But if there is any further injury, then you shall pay life for life,

"And if an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall surely be stoned and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall go unpunished.

But if the sun has risen on him, there will be bloodguiltiness on his account. He shall surely make restitution; if he owns nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

But if it is actually stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner.

But if its owner is with it, he shall not make restitution; if it is hired, it came for its hire.

but on the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the beast of the field may eat. Thus you shall do with your vineyard and your olive grove.

"Six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your maidservant, as well as your sojourner, may refresh themselves.

But if you truly listen to his voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

You shall not worship their gods, you shall not serve them, and you shall not do according to their deeds; but you shall utterly pull them down and shatter their sacred pillars in pieces.

But you shall serve Yahweh your God, and He will bless your bread and your water; and I will remove sickness from your midst.

Moses alone, however, shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near, and the people shall not come up with him."

But to the elders he said, "Remain here for us until we return to you. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you; whoever has a legal matter, let him approach them."