Study Desk

You must set boundaries for the people all around, saying, ‘Take heed to yourselves not to go up on the mountain nor touch its edge. Whoever touches the mountain will surely be put to death!

He said to the people, "Be ready for the third day. Do not go near your wives."

Moses said to the Lord , "The people are not able to come up to Mount Sinai, because you solemnly warned us, ‘Set boundaries for the mountain and set it apart.'"

"You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below.

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the Lord , your God, am a jealous God, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations of those who reject me,

"You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold guiltless anyone who takes his name in vain.

For six days you may labor and do all your work,

For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, and he rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.

Moses said to the people, "Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you so that you do not sin."

You must not make gods of silver alongside me, nor make gods of gold for yourselves.

‘You must make for me an altar made of earth, and you will sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I cause my name to be honored I will come to you and I will bless you.

If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it of stones shaped with tools, for if you use your tool on it you have defiled it.

"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.

If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has dealt deceitfully with her.

If he designated her for his son, then he will deal with her according to the customary rights of daughters.

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.

and then if he gets up and walks about outside on his staff, then the one who struck him is innocent, except he must pay for the injured person's loss of time and see to it that he is fully healed.

However, if the injured servant survives one or two days, the owner will not be punished, for he has suffered the loss.

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

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