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They said to Moses, "You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak with us, lest we die."

The people kept their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.

"If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he will go out free without paying anything.

But if the servant should declare, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,'

But if he does not do it with premeditation, but it happens by accident, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.

But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly, you will take him even from my altar that he may die.

"If men fight, and one strikes his neighbor with a stone or with his fist and he does not die, but must remain in bed,

"If men fight and hit a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no serious injury, he will surely be punished in accordance with what the woman's husband demands of him, and he will pay what the court decides.

But if there is serious injury, then you will give a life for a life,

"If an ox gores a man or a woman so that either dies, then the ox must surely be stoned and its flesh must not be eaten, but the owner of the ox will be acquitted.

But if the ox had the habit of goring, and its owner was warned, and he did not take the necessary precautions, and then it killed a man or a woman, the ox must be stoned and the man must be put to death.

But if it was stolen from him, he will pay its owner.

You must also do this for your oxen and for your sheep; seven days they may remain with their mothers, but give them to me on the eighth day.

If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen under its load, you must not ignore him, but be sure to help him with it.

But in the seventh year you must let it lie fallow and leave it alone so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave any animal in the field may eat; you must do likewise with your vineyard and your olive grove.

For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, in order that your ox and your donkey may rest and that your female servant's son and any hired help may refresh themselves.

But if you diligently obey him and do all that I command, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will be an adversary to your adversaries.

But to Moses the Lord said, "Come up to the Lord , you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from a distance.

Moses alone may come near the Lord , but the others must not come near, nor may the people go up with him."

But he did not lay a hand on the leaders of the Israelites, so they saw God, and they ate and they drank.