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Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest, so that your ox and your donkey may have relief, and your homeborn slave and the resident alien may be refreshed.

But if you listen attentively to his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.

you shall not bow down to their gods, or worship them, or follow their practices, but you shall utterly demolish them and break their pillars in pieces.

Moses alone shall come near the Lord ; but the others shall not come near, and the people shall not come up with him."

they shall be separate beneath, but joined at the top, at the first ring; it shall be the same with both of them; they shall form the two corners.

its twenty pillars and their twenty bases shall be of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be of silver.

Likewise for its length on the north side there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, their pillars twenty and their bases twenty, of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be of silver.

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

They themselves shall eat the food by which atonement is made, to ordain and consecrate them, but no one else shall eat of them, because they are holy.

Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord ; whoever does any work on the sabbath day shall be put to death.

But Moses implored the Lord his God, and said, "O Lord , why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

But he said, "It is not the sound made by victors, or the sound made by losers; it is the sound of revelers that I hear."

On the next day Moses said to the people, "You have sinned a great sin. But now I will go up to the Lord ; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin."

But now, if you will only forgive their sin—but if not, blot me out of the book that you have written."

But the Lord said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book.

But now go, lead the people to the place about which I have spoken to you; see, my angel shall go in front of you. Nevertheless, when the day comes for punishment, I will punish them for their sin."

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, or I would consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people."

Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. Then he would return to the camp; but his young assistant, Joshua son of Nun, would not leave the tent.

Moses said to the Lord , "See, you have said to me, ‘Bring up this people'; but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.'

But," he said, "you cannot see my face; for no one shall see me and live."