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"Now you shall sow your land for six years and gather in its produce,

You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. And none shall appear before Me empty-handed.

Keep watch of yourself before him and listen to his voice; do not be rebellious toward him, for he will not pardon your transgression, since My name is in him.

For My angel will go before you and bring you in to the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I will annihilate them.

I will not drive them out before you in a single year, lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.

And I will set your boundary from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out from before you.

They shall not live in your land, lest they make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you."

And Moses wrote down all the words of Yahweh. Then he arose early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

Now Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to Me on the mountain and remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commandment which I have written for their instruction."

But to the elders he said, "Remain here for us until we return to you. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you; whoever has a legal matter, let him approach them."

And the glory of Yahweh dwelt on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days; and on the seventh day He called to Moses from the midst of the cloud.

"Speak with the sons of Israel so that they take a contribution for Me; from every man whose heart is willing you shall take My contribution.

oil for lighting, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,

onyx stones, and setting stones for the ephod and for the breastpiece.

And let them make a sanctuary for Me, that I may dwell among them.

You shall cast four gold rings for it and fasten them on its four feet, and two rings shall be on one side of it and two rings on the other side of it.

There I will meet with you; and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, I will speak to you about all which I will command you for the sons of Israel.

You shall make for it a rim of a handbreadth around it; and you shall make a gold border for the rim around it.

You shall make four gold rings for it and put rings on the four corners which are on its four feet.

The rings shall be close to the rim as holders for the poles to carry the table.