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But the seventh year, you are to let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people can eat; and what they leave, the wild animals in the countryside can eat. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.

"For six days, you are to work. But on the seventh day, you are to rest, so that your ox and donkey can rest, and your slave-girl's son and the foreigner be renewed.

But if you listen to what he says and do everything I tell you, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.

these are to be double from the bottom all the way to the top but joined at a single ring. Do the same with both of them; they are to form the two corners.

But the bull's flesh, skin and dung you are to destroy by fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

On six days work will get done; but the seventh day is Shabbat, for complete rest, set apart for Adonai . Whoever does any work on the day of Shabbat must be put to death.

It is a sign between me and the people of Isra'el forever; for in six days Adonai made heaven and earth, but on the seventh day he stopped working and rested.'"

But the moment Moshe got near the camp, when he saw the calf and the dancing, his own anger blazed up. He threw down the tablets he had been holding and shattered them at the base of the mountain.

Now, if you will just forgive their sin! But if you won't, then, I beg you, blot me out of your book which you have written!"

You will go to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I myself will not go with you, because you are such a stiffnecked people that I might destroy you on the way."

Adonai would speak to Moshe face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. Then he would return to the camp; but the young man who was his assistant, Y'hoshua the son of Nun, never left the inside of the tent.

(iii) Moshe said to Adonai , "Look, you say to me, ‘Make these people move on!' But you haven't let me know whom you will be sending with me. Nevertheless you have said, ‘I know you by name,' and also, ‘You have found favor in my sight.'

But Moshe said, "I beg you to show me your glory!"

But my face," he continued, "you cannot see, because a human being cannot look at me and remain alive.

Then I will remove my hand, and you will see my back, but my face is not to be seen."

showing grace to the thousandth generation, forgiving offenses, crimes and sins; yet not exonerating the guilty, but causing the negative effects of the parents' offenses to be experienced by their children and grandchildren, and even by the third and fourth generations."

"Six days you will work, but on the seventh day you are to rest — even in plowing time and harvest season you are to rest.

But Moshe called to them; then Aharon and all the community leaders came back to him, and Moshe spoke to them.

But when he went in before Adonai for him to speak, he would take the veil off until he came out; then, when he came out, he would tell the people of Isra'el what he had been ordered.

But when the people of Isra'el saw Moshe's face, that the skin of Moshe's face shone, he would put the veil back over his face until he went in again to speak with [ Adonai ] . Haftarah Ki Tissa: M'lakhim Alef (1 Kings) 18:1–39 (A); 18:20–39 (S) B'rit Hadashah suggested reading for Parashah Ki Tissa: Luke 11:14 –20; Acts 7:35–8:1; 1 Corinthians 10:1–13; 2 Corinthians 3:1–18