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Jethro's counsel

CHAP. XIX.

to Moses.

11 Now I know that the Lond is be able to endure, and all this people greater than all gods: for in the thing shall also go to their place in peace. wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.

12 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt-offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law, before God.

13 ¶ And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning until the evening.

24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.

25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

26 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every sinall matter

14 And when Moses' father-in-law they judged themselves.

saw all that he did to the people, he 27 And Moses let his father-in-law said, What is this thing that thou doest depart; and he went his way into his to the people? why sittest thou thyself own land. alone, and all the people stand by thee

from morning unto even?

CHAP. XIX.

15 And Moses said unto his father-in-TN the third month, when the chillaw, Because the people come unto me dren of Israel were gone forth out to inquire of God: of the land of Egypt, the same day 16 When they have a matter they came they into the wilderness of Sinai. come unto me, and I judge between 2 For they were departed from Reone and another; and 1 do make them|phidim, and were come to the desert know the statutes of God,and his laws. of Sinai, and had pitched in the wil 17 And Moses' father-in-law said derness; and there lerael encamped unto him, The thing that thou doest is before the mount. not good.

3 ¶ And Moses went up unto God and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the

18 Tuɔu will surely wear away, both thou and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself children of Israel; alone.

4 Ye have seen what I did unto the 19 Hearken now unto my voice, I: Egyptians, and hong 1 bare you on will give thee counsel, and God shali, eagles' wings, and brought you unto be with thee: Be thou for the people myself. to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God:

20 And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt show them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.

21 Moreover, thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers

of tens:

6 Now therefore if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people; for all the earth is mine :

6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a boly nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

7 T And Moses came, and called for the elders of the people, and laid be fore their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him. 22 And let them judge the people at 3 And all the people answered toall seasons: and it shall be, that every gether, and said, All that the Lonn great matter they shall bring unto hath spoken we will do. And Moses thee; but every small matter they returned the words of the people unto shall judge: so shall it be easier for the Lord. thyself, and they shall bear the birden | 9 Aud the LORD said unto Moses,Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud,that the people may hear when I speak with tace, and believe thee for ever.

with thee.

23 If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt

Covenant of Sinai.

EXODUS.

T'en commandmania And Moses told the words of the peo-come near to the Lond, sanctify nemple unto the Lond. selves, lest the LORD break for upon

10 T And the LORD said unto Moses, them.

Go unto the people, and sauctify them] 23 Ana Moses said unto the Lorn, to-day and to-morrow, and let them The people cannot come up wamount wash their clothes, Sinai; for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.

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11 And be ready against the third day for the third day the Lono will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.

12 And 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: whosoever toucheth the mount shali be surely put to death:

13 There shall not a hand touch it,

but he shall surely be stoned, or shut through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpei soundeth long, they shall come up to

the mount.

14 ¶ And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.

24 And the Lond said unto him, Away, get thee down, and wou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee, but let not the priests and the people break through, to come up unto the Lono, lest lie break forth them. upon 25 So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.

CHAP. XX.

AND God spake all these words, saying,

2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 T Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any 15 And he said unto the people, Bething that is in heaven above, or that ready against the third day; come not is in the earth beneath, or that is in at your wives. the water under the earth:

16 And it came to pass on the third 6 Thou shalt not bow down thyself day, in the morning, that there were to them, nor serve them: for I the thunders, and lightnings, and a thick LonD thy God am a jealous God, viscloud upon the mount, and the voicefiting the iniquity of the fathers upon of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that the children unto the third and fourth all the people that was in the camp generation of them that hate me ; trembled. 6And showing mercy unto thousanda 17 And Moses brought forth the peo- of them that love me, and keep my ple out of the camp to meet with God; commandments.

and they stood at the nether part of the] 7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the Lond

mount.

18 And mount Sinai was altogether will not hold him guiltless that taketh ou a smoke, because the Lond de-his name in vain.

scended upon it in fire; and the smoke 8 Remember the sabbath-day, to keep thereof ascended as the smoke of alit holy.

fumace, and the whole mount quaked 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do greatly. all thy work :

19 And when the voice of the trum pet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.

10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work,thou, northy son,nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy 20 And the LORD came down upon maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: stranger that is within thy gates: and the Lond called Moses up to the 11. For in six days the LORD made top of the mount; and Moses went up. heaven and earth, the sea, and all that 21 Aud the LORD said unto Moses, Goin them is, and rested the seventh day: down, charge the people, lest they wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbreak through unto the LORD to gaze, bath-day, and ballowed it.

and many of them perish.

12 T Honour thy father and thy ino22 And let the priests also which ther; that thy days may be long upon

Idolatry forbidden.

CHAP. XXL

Sundry laws. the land which the LORD thy God then his wife shall go out with him giveth thee.

13 Thou shalt not kill.

14 Thou shalt not commit adultery, 16 Thou shalt not steal

4 If his master bave given him a wife, and she have borne him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself

5 And if the servant shall plainly

16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. 17 Thou shalt not covet thy neigh-say, I love my master, my wife, and bour's house, thou shalt not covet thy my children; I will not go out free: neighbour's wife, nor his man-servant, 6 Then his master shall bring him nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor unto the judges; he shall also bring his ass, nor any thing that is thy neigh. him to the door, or unto the doorpost: bour's. and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall

18 T And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and serve him for ever.

the noise of the trumpet, and the 7 T And if a man sell his daughter to mountain smoking; and when the peo-be a maid-servant, she shall not go out ple saw it, they removed, and stood as the men-servants do.

8 If she please not her master, who

afar off. 19 And they said unto Moses, Speak hath betrothed her to himself, then thou with us, and we will hear: but shall be let her be redeemed: to sell let not God speak with us, lest we die. ber unto a strange nation he shall have 20 And Moses said unto the people, no power, seeing he hath dealt deceit. Fear not: for God is come to prove fully with her. you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

21 And the people stood afar off; and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

22 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

23 Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.

9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

10 If he take him another wife; her food, ber raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall be not diminish. F1 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death. 13 And if a nan lie not in wait, buf 24 Au altar of eart thou shalt God deliver him into his hand; then make unto me, and shalt sacrifice 1 will appoint thee a place whither he thereon thy burnt-ollerings, and thy shall flee.

peace-offerings, thy sheep, and thine 14 But if a man come presumptuousoxen: in all places where I record my ly upon his neighbour, to slay him name I will come unto thee, and I will with guile; thou shalt take him from bless thee. my altar, that he may die.

25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.

26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

NOW

CHAP. XXI

15 T And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

16 T And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. 17 ¶ And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

W these are the judgments 18 T And if men strive together, and which thou shalt set before them. one smite another with a stone, or 2 If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six with his fist, and he die not, but keepyears he shall serve; and in the sev-Jeth his bed:

enth he shall go out free for nothing. 19 If he rise again, and walk abroad 3 If he came in by himself, he shall upon his staff, then shall be that smote go out by himself; if he were married,[him be quit : "only he shall pay for the

Divers lawUS

EXODUS.

and oramANCES.

loss of his time, and shall cause him fit good, and give money unto the to be thoroughly healed. owner of them; and the dead beast

20 ¶ And if a man smite his servant, shall be his. or his maid, with a rod, and he die under bis hand; he shall be surely punished.

21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.

22 If meu strive, and hurt a wo man with child, so that her fruit de: part 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 pay as the judges determine.

23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

26 1 And if a man smite the eye of bis servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; be shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

35 T And if one man's ox hurt an other's that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.

36 Or if it be known that the ox halli used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept linn in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.

CHAP. XXII.

Fa man shall steal an ox, or a sheep 1 and kill it, or sell it, he shall re store five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him,

3 1f the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution: if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for

his theft.

27 And if he smite out his man-ser- 4 If the theft be certainly found in rant's tooth, or his maid-servant's his hand alive, whether it be ox, or tooth; he shall let him go free for his ass, or sheep; he shall restore double. tooth's sake. 5 T If a man shall cause a field or 28 If an ox gore a man or a wo-vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in man, that they die; then the ox shall his beast, and shall feed in another be surely stoned, and his flesh shall man's field; of the best of his own not be eaten; but the owner of the ox field, and of the best of his own vineshall be quit. yard, shall he make restitution. 6 T If fire break out, and catch in thorns so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; be that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

29 But if the ox were wont to push with hus born in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he ath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also] 7 ¶ If a man shall deliver unto his shall be put to death.

30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ran som of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found let him pay double. 8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether be have put his hand unto his neighbour's

31 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto goods. him.

9 For all manner of trespass, wheth32 If the ox shall push a man-ser-er it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for vant, or maid-servant; he shall give raiment, or for any manner of lost unto their master thirty shekels of thing, which another challengeth to silver, and the ox shall be stoned. be his, the cause of both parties shall 33 T And if a man shall open a pit, come before the judges; and whom or if a man shall dig a pit, and not the judges shall condemn, he shall pay cover it, and an ox or an ass fall double unto his neighbour. therein; 10 If a inan deliver unto his neigh34 The owner of the pit shall make bour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or

Moral and

Ceremonial Laros.

29 ¶ Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the first-born of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.

CHAP. XXIII. any beasts, to keep; and it die, or be] burt,or driven away, no man seeing it 11 Then shall an oath of the Lond be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good. 12 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof

13 If it be torn in pieces; then let nim bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn. 14 T And if a man borrow aught of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, be shall surely make it good.

15 But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be a hired thing, it came for his bire.

16 T And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. 17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money ac cording to the dowry of virgins. 18 T Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

19 ¶ Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

20 T He that sacrificeth unto any

god, save unto the LORD only, he shall

30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.

31 And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that istorn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs. CHAP. XXIIL

THOUshalt not raise a false report: THO put not thy hand with the wickfed to be an unrighteous witness.

2 ¶ Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:

3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely belp with him.

6 T Thou shalt not wrest the judg ment of thy poor in his cause.

7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay 21 ¶ Thou shalt neither vex a stran-thou not: for I will not justify the ger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 22 ¶ Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry:

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

25 T If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.

26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down: 27 For that is his covering only; it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear: for I am gracious.

28 T Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.

wicked.

8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

9 T Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, eeeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

10 T And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruit thereof:

11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard 12 T Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid and the stranger may be refreshed.

13 And in all things that I bave said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other

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