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Do not follow the crowd when it does what is wrong; and don't allow the popular view to sway you into offering testimony for any cause if the effect will be to pervert justice.

Keep away from fraud, and do not cause the death of the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.

You are not to receive a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clearsighted and subverts the cause of the righteous.

"You are not to oppress a foreigner, for you know how a foreigner feels, since you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

"For six years, you are to sow your land with seed and gather in its harvest.

"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.

"Three times a year, you are to observe a festival for me.

Keep the festival of matzah: for seven days, as I ordered you, you are to eat matzah at the time determined in the month of Aviv; for it was in that month that you left Egypt. No one is to appear before me empty-handed.

I will not drive them out from before you in one year, which would cause the land to become desolate and the wild animals too many for you.

I will set your boundaries from the Sea of Suf to the sea of the P'lishtim and from the desert to the [Euphrates] River, for I will hand the inhabitants of the land over to you, and you will drive them out from before you.

To the leaders he said, "Stay here for us, until we come back to you. See, Aharon and Hur are with you; whoever has a problem should turn to them."

(A: Maftir) The glory of Adonai stayed on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day he called to Moshe out of the cloud.

Moshe entered the cloud and went up on the mountain; he was on the mountain forty days and nights. Haftarah Mishpatim: Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 34:8–22; 33:25–26 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Mishpatim: Mattityahu (Matthew) 5:38–42; 15:1–20; Mark 7:1–23; Acts 23:1–11; Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 9:15–22; 10:28–39

"Tell the people of Isra'el to take up a collection for me — accept a contribution from anyone who wholeheartedly wants to give.

oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;

onyx stones and other stones to be set, for the ritual vest and breastplate.

Cast four gold rings for it, and attach them to its four feet, two rings on each side.

(ii) "You are to make a cover for the ark out of pure gold; it is to be three-and-three-quarters feet long and two-and-a-quarter feet high.

You are to make two k'ruvim of gold. Make them of hammered work for the two ends of the ark-cover.

Make one keruv for one end and one keruv for the other end; make the k'ruvim of one piece with the ark-cover at its two ends.