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"For every breach of trust, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any lost thing about which one says, 'This is it,' the case of both parties shall come before the judges; he whom the judges condemn shall pay double to his neighbor.

"If a man gives his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep for him, and it dies or is hurt or is driven away while no one is looking,

"If it is all torn to pieces, let him bring it as evidence; he shall not make restitution for what has been torn to pieces.

"If its owner is with it, he shall not make restitution; if it is hired, it came for its hire.

"If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged, and lies with her, he must pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

"If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the dowry for virgins.

"You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

for that is his only covering; it is his cloak for his body. What else shall he sleep in? And it shall come about that when he cries out to Me, I will hear him, for I am gracious.

"Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for I will not acquit the guilty.

"You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of the just.

"You shall not oppress a stranger, since you yourselves know the feelings of a stranger, for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

"You shall sow your land for six years and gather in its yield,

"You shall observe 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.

"Be on your guard before him and obey 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 completely destroy them.

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

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

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

Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. 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 the LORD 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."