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but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you.

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

"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.

"If men have a quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but remains in bed,

"But if there is any further injury, then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life,

"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 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. You are to do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.

"Six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you shall cease from labor so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave, as well as your stranger, may refresh themselves.

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

"You shall not worship their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their deeds; but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their sacred pillars in pieces.

"But you shall serve the LORD 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 the LORD, but they shall not come near, nor shall the people come up with him."

But to the elders he said, "Wait 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."

"But the flesh of the bull and its hide and its refuse, you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

"Thus they shall eat those things by which atonement was made at their ordination and consecration; but a layman shall not eat them, because they are holy.

"But as for you, speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'You shall surely observe My sabbaths; for this is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you.