Exodus 19–24

In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day ^acame they into the wilderness of Sinai. ²For they were departed from ^bRephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before ^cthe mount. ³And ^dMoses went up unto God, and the Lord ^ecalled unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; ^4fYe have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how ^gI bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself. ⁵Now ^htherefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a ⁱpeculiar treasure unto me above all people: for ^kall the earth is mine: ⁶and ye shall be unto me a ^lkingdom of priests, and a ^mholy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. ⁷And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the Lord commanded him. ⁸And ⁿall the people answered together, and said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord. ⁹And the Lord said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee ^oin a thick cloud, ^pthat the people may hear when I speak with thee, and ^qbelieve thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the Lord.

¹⁰And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and ^rsanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them ^swash their clothes, ¹¹and be ready against the third day: for the third day the Lord ^twill come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. ¹²And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: ^uwhosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death: ¹³there shall not a hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the ^xtrumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount. ¹⁴And Moses ^ywent down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes. ¹⁵And he said unto the people, ^zBe ready against the third day: ^acome not at your wives. ¹⁶And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were ^bthunders and lightnings, and a ^cthick cloud upon the mount, and the ^dvoice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp ^etrembled. ¹⁷And ^fMoses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. ¹⁸And mount Sinai ^gwas altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it ^hin fire: ⁱand the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and ^kthe whole mount quaked greatly. ¹⁹And ^lwhen the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and ^mGod answered him by a voice. ²⁰And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up. ²¹And the Lord said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the Lord ⁿto gaze, and many of them perish. ²²And let the priests also, which come near to the Lord, ^osanctify themselves, lest the Lord ^pbreak forth upon them. ²³And Moses said unto the Lord, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, ^qSet bounds about the mount, and sanctify it. ²⁴And the Lord said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the Lord, lest he break forth upon them. ²⁵So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.

XX.^aAnd ^bGod spake all these words, saying, ^2cI am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. ^3dThou shalt have no other gods before me. ⁴Thou shalt not make unto thee any ^egraven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: ^5fthou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am ^ga jealous God, ^hvisiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; ⁶and ⁱshewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. ^7kThou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. ^8lRemember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. ^9mSix days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: ¹⁰but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, ⁿnor thy stranger that is within thy gates: ¹¹for ^oin six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. ^12pHonour thy father and thy mother: ^qthat thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. ^13rThou shalt not kill. ^14sThou shalt not commit adultery. ^15tThou shalt not steal. ^16uThou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. ^17wThou shalt not covet ^xthy neighbour’s house, ^ythou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

¹⁸And ^zall the people saw the thunderings, and the ^alightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain ^bsmoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. ¹⁹And they said unto Moses, ^cSpeak thou with us, and we will hear: but ^dlet not God speak with us, lest we die. ²⁰And Moses said unto the people, ^eFear not: for God is come to ^fprove you, and ^gthat his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not. ²¹And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto ^hthe thick darkness where God was. ²²And the Lord said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you ⁱfrom heaven. ²³Ye shall not make ^kwith me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold. ²⁴An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all ^lplaces where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will ^mbless thee. ²⁵And ⁿif thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of ^ohewn stone: for if thou ^plift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it. ²⁶Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

XXI.Now these are the judgments which thou shalt ^aset before them. ^2bIf thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. ³If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. ⁴If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself. ^5cAnd if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: ⁶then his master shall bring him unto the ^djudges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall ^ebore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever. ⁷And if a man ^fsell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out ^gas the menservants do. ⁸If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. ⁹And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. ¹⁰If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, ^hand her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. ¹¹And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

¹²ⁱHe that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death. ¹³And ^kif a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then ^lI will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. ¹⁴But if a man come ^mpresumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; ⁿthou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die. ¹⁵And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. ¹⁶And ^ohe that stealeth a man, and ^pselleth him, or if he be ^qfound in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. ¹⁷And ^rhe that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. ¹⁸And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed: ¹⁹if he rise again, and walk abroad ^supon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed. ²⁰And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. ²¹Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for ^the is his money. ²²If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall ^upay as ^xthe judges determine. ²³And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give ^ylife for life, ^24zeye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, ²⁵burning for burning, ^awound for wound, stripe for stripe. ²⁶And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake. ²⁷And if he smite out his manservant’s tooth, or his maidservant’s tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.

²⁸If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then ^bthe ox shall be surely stoned, and his…