Study Desk

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

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go down and tell the people not to break through to look at the Lord. For then many of them would be destroyed.

Moses said to the Lord, "The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai. For You told us, ‘Set places around the mountain that must not be passed, and set it apart as holy.'"

"Do not make for yourselves a god to look like anything that is in heaven above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.

"Do not worship them or work for them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God. I punish the children, even the great-grandchildren, for the sins of their fathers who hate Me.

"Do not use the name of the Lord your God in a false way. For the Lord will punish the one who uses His name in a false way.

For in six days the Lord made the heavens, the earth, the sea and all that is in them. And He rested on the seventh day. So the Lord gave honor to the Day of Rest and made it holy.

"Do not have a desire for your neighbor's house. Do not have a desire for his wife or his male servant, his female servant, or his bull or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor."

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Say this to the people of Israel: ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you from heaven.

Do not make any gods other than Me. Do not make for yourselves gods of silver or gods of gold.

Make an altar of earth for Me, and on it give your burnt and peace gifts in worship, your sheep and cattle. In every place where My name is to be remembered, I will come to you and bring good to you.

If you make an altar of stone for Me, do not build it of cut stones. For if you use an object to cut it, it will be unclean.

If you buy a Hebrew servant, he will work for six years. In the seventh year he will go free, paying nothing.

If she does not please her owner who has taken her for himself, he will take pay for her to be set free. He does not have the right to sell her to a strange people, because he has not been fair to her.

If he takes her for his son, he will act toward her as with a daughter.

And if he will not do these three things for her, then she may go free, without paying any money.

"Whoever steals a man and sells him, or keeps him for himself, will be put to death.

then if he gets up and walks around outside using his walking stick, the one who hit him will not be punished. He will only pay for the loss of his time. And he will take care of him until he is healed.

But if he or she lives a day or two, he will not be punished, for his servant belongs to him.

But if there is other hurt also, then it is life for life,