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"Work six days a week, but do no work on the seventh day, so that your slaves and the foreigners who work for you and even your animals can rest.

But if you obey him and do everything I command, I will fight against all your enemies.

Use the best wheat flour, but no yeast, and make some bread with olive oil, some without it, and some in the form of thin cakes brushed with oil.

But burn the bull's flesh, its skin, and its intestines outside the camp. This is an offering to take away the sins of the priests.

You must keep the day of rest, because it is sacred. Whoever does not keep it, but works on that day, is to be put to death.

You have six days in which to do your work, but the seventh day is a solemn day of rest dedicated to me. Whoever does any work on that day is to be put to death.

When the people saw that Moses had not come down from the mountain but was staying there a long time, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, "We do not know what has happened to this man Moses, who led us out of Egypt; so make us a god to lead us."

But Moses pleaded with the Lord his God and said, " Lord , why should you be so angry with your people, whom you rescued from Egypt with great might and power?

The next day Moses said to the people, "You have committed a terrible sin. But now I will again go up the mountain to the Lord ; perhaps I can obtain forgiveness for your sin."

Please forgive their sin; but if you won't, then remove my name from the book in which you have written the names of your people."

Now go, lead the people to the place I told you about. Remember that my angel will guide you, but the time is coming when I will punish these people for their sin."

You are going to a rich and fertile land. But I will not go with you myself, because you are a stubborn people, and I might destroy you on the way."

The Lord would speak with Moses face-to-face, just as someone speaks with a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp. But the young man who was his helper, Joshua son of Nun, stayed in the Tent.

Moses said to the Lord , "It is true that you have told me to lead these people to that land, but you did not tell me whom you would send with me. You have said that you know me well and are pleased with me.

but here is a place beside me where you can stand on a rock.

Then I will take my hand away, and you will see my back but not my face."

I keep my promise for thousands of generations and forgive evil and sin; but I will not fail to punish children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation for the sins of their parents."

He said, "Lord, if you really are pleased with me, I ask you to go with us. These people are stubborn, but forgive our evil and our sin, and accept us as your own people."

but you are to buy back every first-born donkey by offering a lamb in its place. If you do not buy it back, break its neck. Buy back every first-born son. "No one is to appear before me without an offering.

"You have six days in which to do your work, but do not work on the seventh day, not even during plowing time or harvest.