Exodus 24

CHAPTER 24

1 He said to Drawn (Moses), “Come up to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah), you, Light Bringer (Aaron), Generous (Nadab), and He Is My Father (Abihu), and seventy of the elders of God Prevails (Israel); and worship afar off.

2 Drawn (Moses) alone will come near I AM (the LORD, Yehovah): but they will not come near; neither will the people go up with him.”

3 Then Drawn (Moses) came and told the people all the words of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) and all the judgments. And all the people answered with one voice saying, “All the words which I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) has said will we do.”

4 Drawn (Moses) wrote down all the words of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah), and rose up early in the morning. He built an altar under the hill and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of God Prevails (Israel).

5 He sent young men of the children of God Prevails (Israel), to offer burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah).

6 Drawn (Moses) took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

7 Then he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, “All that I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) has said will we do, and be obedient.”

8 So Drawn (Moses) took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant, which I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) has made with you concerning all these words.”

9 Then Drawn (Moses), Light Bringer (Aaron), Generous (Nadab), He Is My Father (Abihu) and seventy of the elders of God Prevails (Israel) went up:

10 And they saw the God of God Prevails (Israel). Under His feet was a paved work of a sapphire stone, like the substance of heaven in clearness.

11 Upon the nobles of the children of God Prevails (Israel) He laid not his hand. They also saw God, and did eat and drink.

12 I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) said to Drawn (Moses), “Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give you tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that you may teach them.”

13 Drawn (Moses) rose up with his minister I AM is Salvation (Joshua). Then Drawn (Moses) went up into the mount of God.

14 He said to the elders, “Wait here for us, until we come again to you. Light Bringer (Aaron) and Cavern (Hur) are with you. If any man have any matters to do, let him come to them.”

15 Then Drawn (Moses) went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.

16 And the glory of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) stayed on Mount Thorny (Sinai), and the cloud covered it six days. On the seventh day he called to Drawn (Moses) out of the midst of the cloud.

17 The sight of the glory of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of God Prevails (Israel).

18 Drawn (Moses) went into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mount: and Drawn (Moses) was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

Exodus 23

1 You will not raise a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

2 You will not follow a multitude to do evil; neither will you alter your witness in a trial to follow the crowd and pervert justice.

3 Neither will you favor a poor man in a trial just because he is poor.

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

5 If you see the ass of him that hates you lying under his burden, and are reluctant to help him, you will surely help with him.

6 You will not deny justice for your poor in court.

7 Keep far from a false matter. Do not slay the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

8 Do not take bribes, for the gift blinds the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.

9 Do not oppress a stranger: for you know the heart of a stranger, seeing you were strangers in the land of Double Straights (Egypt).

10 Six years you will sow your land, and will gather in the fruits thereof:

11 But the seventh year you will let it rest and lie still; that the poor of your people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field will eat. In like manner you will deal with your vineyard, and with your olive yard.

12 Six days you will do your work, and on the seventh day you will rest: that your ox and your ass may rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

13 In all things that I have said to you be circumspect. Make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of your mouth.

14 Three times you will keep a feast to me in the year.

15 You will keep the feast of unleavened bread. You will eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, in the time appointed of the month Green Ears (Abib); for in it you came out from Double Straights (Egypt). No one is to appear before me empty.

16 The feast of harvest, the firstfruits of your labors, which you have sown in the field: and the feast of in-gathering, which is in the end of the year, when you have gathered in your labors out of the field.

17 Three times in the year all your males will appear before I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) GOD.

18 You will not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither will the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.

19 The first of the first fruits of your land you will bring into the house of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God. You will not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

20 I send an Angel before you, to keep you in the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.

21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for My Name is in him.

22 But if you will obey 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 will go before you, and bring you in to the The Talkers, Sayers (Amorite), and the Terrors (Hittite), and the Village Dwellers (Perizzite), and the Humbled Ones (Canaanites), the Villagers (Gibeonites were Hivites), and the Trodden Underfoot (Jebusite - original inhabitants of Jerusalem): and I will cut them off.

24 You will not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but you will utterly overthrow them, and totally break down their images.

25 You will serve I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God; and I will bless your bread and your water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of you.

26 Nothing will cast their young, nor be barren, in your land and I will fulfill the number of your days.

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

28 I will send hornets before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Humbled Ones (Canaanites), and the Terror (Hittite), from before you.

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

30 By little and little I will drive them out from before you, until you be increased, and inherit the land.

31 I will set your boundaries from the Red sea to the sea of the Immigrants (Philistines), and from the desert to the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and you will drive them out before you.

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

33 They will 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.

Exodus 22

1 If a man will steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he will restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

2 If a thief be found breaking in, and be struck that he die, there will no blood be shed for him.

3 If the sun is up, there will be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution. If he has nothing, then he will be sold for his theft.

4 If the theft is found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he will restore double.

5 If a man allows a field or vineyard to be eaten by his his beast feeding in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, he will make restitution.

6 If fire breaks out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field is consumed, he that kindled the fire will make restitution.

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

8 If the thief is not found, then the master of the house will be brought to the judges, to see whether he has put his hand to his neighbor's goods.

9 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challenges to be his, the cause of both parties will come before the judges; and whom the judges will condemn, he will pay double to his neighbor.

10 If a man delivers to his neighbor an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:

11 Then an oath of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) will be between them both, that he has not put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and the owner of it will accept thereof, and he will not make it good.

12 If it is stolen from him, he will make restitution to the owner.

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

14 If a man borrow anything of his neighbor, and it is hurt, or dies, the owner thereof not being with it, he will surely make it good.

15 But if the owner thereof is with it, he will not make it good. If it is an hired thing, it came for his hire.

16 If a man entices a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he will surely endow her to be his wife.

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

18 You will not permit a witch to live.

19 Whosoever lies with a beast will surely be put to death.

20 He that sacrifices to any god, save to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) only, will be utterly destroyed.

21 You will neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for you were strangers in the land of Double Straights (Egypt).

22 You will not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

23 If you afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

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

25 If you lend money to any of my people that are poor near you, you will not be to him as a banker, neither will you charge him interest.

26 If you take your neighbor's raiment a pledge, you will deliver it to him by the time that the sun goes down.

27 For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein will he sleep? and it will come to pass, when he cries to me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

28 You will not revile the judges, nor curse the ruler of your people.

29 You will not delay to offer the first of your ripe fruits, and of your liquors: the firstborn of your sons will you give to me.

30 Likewise will you do with your oxen, and with your sheep: seven days it will be with his dam; on the eighth day you will give it me.

31 You will be holy men to me: neither will you eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; you will cast it to the dogs.

Exodus 21

1 Now these are the judgments which you will set before them.

2 If you buy an One From Beyond (Hebrew) servant, he will serve six years: and in the seventh he will go out free for nothing.

3 If he came in by himself, he will go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife will go out with him.

4 If his master has given him a wife, and she has born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children will be her master's, and he will go out by himself.

5 If the servant will plainly say, “I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free.”

6 Then his master will bring him to the judges. He will bring him to the door, or to the door post and his master will bore his ear through with an aul. Then he will serve him for ever.

7 If a man sells his daughter to be a maidservant, she will not go out as the menservants do.

8 If she does not please her master, who has betrothed her to himself, then will he let her be redeemed. He will have no power to sell her to a strange nation, seeing he has dealt deceitfully with her.

9 If he has betrothed her to his son, he will deal with her after the manner of daughters.

10 If he takes to him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, he will not diminish.

11 And if he does not do these three for her, then will she go out free without money.

12 He that strikes a man, so that he die, he will be surely put to death.

13 But if a man did not lie in wait, but God delivered him into his hand; then I will appoint you a place where he can flee.

14 But if a man comes presumptuously on his neighbor, to slay him with guile; you will take him from My altar, that he may die.

15 He that strikes his father, or his mother, will be surely put to death.

16 He that steals a man, and sells him, or if he be found in his hand, he will surely be put to death.

17 He that curses his father, or his mother, will surely be put to death.

18 If men strive together, and one hits another with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but keeps his bed:

19 If he rises again, and walk abroad on his staff, then he that hit him will be acquitted. He will only pay for the loss of his time, and will cause him to be thoroughly healed.

20 If a man hits his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he will be surely punished.

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

22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit departs from her, and yet no mischief follow: he will be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he will pay as the judges determine.

23 And if anything else happens, then you will 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 If a man hits the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he will let him go free for his eye's sake.

27 And if he knocks out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he will let him go free for his tooth's sake.

28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox will be surely stoned, and his flesh will not be eaten; but the owner of the ox will be acquitted.

29 But if the ox were known to push with his horn in time past, and it has been testified to his owner, and he has not kept him in, but that he has killed a man or a woman; the ox will be stoned, and his owner also will be put to death.

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

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

32 If the ox will push a manservant or a maidservant; he will give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox will be stoned.

33 If a man will open a pit, or if a man will dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;

34 The owner of the pit will make it good, and give money to the owner of them; and the dead beast will be his.

35 If one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they will sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they will divide.

36 It was known that the ox has pushed in time past, and his owner has not kept him in; he will surely pay ox for ox; and the dead will be his own.