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and let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves: so it shall be easier for yourself, and they shall bear [the burden] with you.

Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples: for all the earth is mine:

And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which Yahweh commanded him.

and be ready against the third day; for the third day Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people on mount Sinai.

And Moses said to Yahweh, The people can't come up to mount Sinai: for you charged us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.

You shall not make for yourself a graven image, nor any likeness [of any thing] that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I Yahweh your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the sons, on the third and on the fourth generation of those that hate me,

You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain; for Yahweh will not hold him innocent that takes his name in vain.

for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.

And Moses said to the people, Don't be afraid: for God has come to prove you, and that his fear may be before you, that you don't sin.

You shall not make me [into anything]. Gods of silver or gods of gold you shall not make for yourselves.

And if you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.

If you buy a Hebrew slave, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

And if he does not do these three things to her, then she shall go out for nothing, without money.

if he rises again, and walks abroad on his staff, then he that smote him shall be innocent: he shall only pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.

Notwithstanding, if he continues a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.

But if any harm follows, then you shall give life for life,

eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

And if a man smites the eye of his male slave, or the eye of his female slave, and destroys it; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.