1. Go d spoke all these words, saying,

2. "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

3. "You shall have no other gods before me.

4. "You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

5. you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

6. and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

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

8. "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

9. You shall labor six days, and do all your work,

10. but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;

11. for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.

12. "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

13. "You shall not murder.

14. "You shall not commit adultery.

15. "You shall not steal.

16. "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

17. "You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."

18. All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.

19. They said to Moses, "Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don't let God speak with us, lest we die."

20. Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won't sin."

21. The people stayed at a distance, and Moses came near to the thick darkness where God was.

22. The LORD said to Moses, "This is what you shall tell the children of ISRAEL: 'You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

23. You shall most certainly not make alongside of me gods of silver, or gods of gold for yourselves.

24. You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.

25. 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.

26. You shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.'

1. "Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.

2. "If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

3. If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.

4. If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

5. But if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;'

6. then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.

7. "If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.

8. If she doesn't please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.

9. If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter.

10. If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.

11. If he doesn't do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.

12. "One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

13. but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.

14. If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

15. "Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

16. "Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

17. "Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

18. "If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but is confined to bed;

19. if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.

20. "If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

21. Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.

22. "If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman's husband demands and the judges allow.

23. But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,

24. eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

25. burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.

26. "If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

27. If he strikes out his male servant's tooth, or his female servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

28. "If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its meat shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible.

29. But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.

30. If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him.

31. Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.

32. If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

33. "If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn't cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,

34. the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.

35. "If one man's bull injures another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal.

36. Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.

1. "If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

2. If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him.

3. If the sun has risen on him, guilt of bloodshed shall be for him; he shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

4. If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.

5. "If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard.

6. "If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

7. "If a man delivers to his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man's house; if the thief is found, he shall pay double.

8. If the thief isn't found, then the master of the house shall come near to God, to find out if he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods.

9. For every matter of trespass, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, about which one says, 'This is mine,' the cause of both parties shall come before God. He whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.

10. "If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no man seeing it;

11. the oath of the LORD shall be between them both, whether he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.

12. But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner.

13. If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. He shall not make good that which was torn.

14. "If a man borrows anything of his neighbor's, and it is injured, or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.

15. If its owner is with it, he shall not make it good. If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease.

16. "If a man entices a virgin who isn't pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

17. If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

18. "You shall not allow a sorceress to live.

19. "Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to death.

20. "He who sacrifices to any god, except to the LORD only, shall be utterly destroyed.

21. "You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

22. "You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

23. If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

24. and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

25. "If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.

26. If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,

27. for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

28. "You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

29. "You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses."You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me.

30. You shall do likewise with your cattle and with your sheep. Seven days it shall be with its mother, then on the eighth day you shall give it to me.

31. "You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any meat that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs.

1. "You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

2. "You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.

3. You shall not favor a poor man in his cause.

4. "If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.

5. If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don't leave him, you shall surely help him with it.

6. "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

7. "Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

8. "You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

9. "You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

10. "For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase,

11. but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

12. "Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant, and the alien may be refreshed.

13. "Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don't invoke the name of other gods or even let them be heard out of your mouth.

14. "You shall observe a feast to me three times a year.

15. You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty.

16. And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.

17. Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord God.

18. "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. The fat of my feast shall not remain all night until the morning.

19. The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God."You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

20. "Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.

21. Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don't provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.

22. But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.

23. For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.

24. You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.

25. You shall serve the LORD your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.

26. No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

27. I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

28. I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.

29. I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you.

30. Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land.

31. I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.

32. You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

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

1. He said to Moses, "Come up to The LORD, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of ISRAEL; and worship from a distance.

2. Moses alone shall come near to The LORD, but they shall not come near. The people shall not go up with him."

3. Moses came and told the people all The LORD's words, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, "All the words which the LORD has spoken will we do."

4. Moses wrote all The LORD's words, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of ISRAEL.

1. The LORD said to Moses in Mount Sinai,

2. "Speak to the children of ISRAEL, and tell them, 'When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to The LORD.

3. You shall sow your field six years, and you shall prune your vineyard six years, and gather in its fruits;

4. but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to The LORD. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

5. What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and you shall not gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.

6. The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.

7. For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.

8. "'You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years.

9. Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.

10. You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.

11. That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines.

12. For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field.

13. "'In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.

14. "'If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

15. According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.

16. According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you.

17. You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am the LORD your God.

18. "'Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.

19. The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

20. If you said, "What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase";

21. then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear fruit for the three years.

22. You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth year, until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.

23. "'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

24. In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.

25. "'If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold.

26. If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it;

27. then let him reckon the years since its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.

28. But if he isn't able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.

29. "'If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it has been sold. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption.

30. If it isn't redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be released in the Jubilee.

31. But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be accounted for with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.

32. "'Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.

33. The Levites may redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, and it shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of ISRAEL.

34. But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

35. "'If your brother has become poor, and his hand can't support himself among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.

36. Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.

37. You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

38. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

39. "'If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

40. As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee:

41. then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.

42. For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.

43. You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

44. "'As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.

45. Moreover of the children of the aliens who live among you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in your land; and they will be your property.

46. You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them may you take your slaves forever; but over your brothers the children of ISRAEL you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.

47. "'If an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member of the stranger's family;

48. after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him;

49. or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself.

50. He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale shall be according to the number of years; he shall be with him according to the time of a hired servant.

51. If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

52. If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption.

53. As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him. He shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.

54. If he isn't redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee, he, and his children with him.

55. For to me the children of ISRAEL are servants; they are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

1. "'You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up an engraved image or a pillar, and you shall not place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am the LORD your God.

2. "'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am The LORD.

3. "'If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

4. then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

5. Your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

6. "'I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid. I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

7. You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

8. Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

9. "'I will have respect for you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.

10. You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new.

11. I will set my tent among you, and my soul won't abhor you.

12. I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.

13. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright.

14. "'But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments;

15. and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;

16. I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

17. I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.

18. "'If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.

19. I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass.

20. Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

21. "'If you walk contrary to me, and won't listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.

22. I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. Your roads will become desolate.

23. "'If by these things you won't be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me;

24. then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.

25. I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

26. When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.

27. "'If you in spite of this won't listen to me, but walk contrary to me;

28. then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.

29. You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

30. I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.

31. I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.

32. I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.

33. I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

34. Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies' land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

35. As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn't have in your Sabbaths, when you lived on it.

36. "'As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.

37. They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues. You will have no power to stand before your enemies.

38. You will perish among the nations. The land of your enemies will eat you up.

39. Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.

40. "'If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,

41. I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity;

42. then I will remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land.

43. The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them: and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.

44. Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God;

45. but I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am The LORD.'"

46. These are the statutes, ordinances and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of ISRAEL in Mount Sinai by Moses.