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10 And He said: “Behold, I make a covenant. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s
Before all your people I will do marvels such milk.”
as have not been done in all the earth, nor in 27 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write these
any nation; and all the people among whom words, for according to the tenor of these words
you are shall see the work of the LORD. For it I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
is an awesome thing that I will do with you. 28 So he was there with the LORD forty days and
11 Observe what I command you this day. forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank
Behold, I am driving out from before you the water. And He wrote on the tablets the words
Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. 29 Now it was so, when Moses came down
12 Take heed to yourself, lest you make a from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the
covenant with the inhabitants of the land Testimony were in Moses’ hand when he came
where you are going, lest it be a snare in your down from the mountain), that Moses did not
midst. But you shall destroy their altars, know that the skin of his face shone while he
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break their sacred pillars, and cut down their talked with Him. So when Aaron and all the
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wooden images (for you shall worship no children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin
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other god, for the LORD, whose name is of his face shone, and they were afraid to
Jealous, is a jealous God), lest you make a come near him. Then Moses called to them,
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covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and and Aaron and all the rulers of the congrega-
they play the harlot with their gods and make tion returned to him; and Moses talked with
sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites them. Afterward all the children of Israel
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you and you eat of his sacrifice, and you take came near, and he gave them as command-
of his daughters for your sons, and his daugh- ments all that the LORD had spoken with him
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ters play the harlot with their gods and make on Mount Sinai. And when Moses had fin-
your sons play the harlot with their gods. ished speaking with them, he put a veil on his
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17 “You shall make no molded gods for your- face. But whenever Moses went in before the
selves. LORD to speak with Him, he would take the
18 “The Feast of Unleavened Bread you shall veil off until he came out; and he would come
keep. Seven days you shall eat unleavened out and speak to the children of Israel whatev-
bread, as I commanded you, in the appointed er he had been commanded. And whenever
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time of the month of Abib; for in the month of the children of Israel saw the face of Moses,
Abib you came out from Egypt. that the skin of Moses’ face shone, then Mo-
19 “All that open the womb are Mine, and ses would put the veil on his face again, until
every male firstborn among your livestock, he went in to speak with Him.
whether ox or sheep. But the firstborn of a
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donkey you shall redeem with a lamb. And if Psalm 21:8–13
you will not redeem him, then you shall break 8 Your hand will find all Your enemies;
his neck. All the firstborn of your sons you Your right hand will find those who
shall redeem. hate You.
“And none shall appear before Me empty- 9 You shall make them as a fiery oven in
handed. the time of Your anger;
21 “Six days you shall work, but on the sev- The LORD shall swallow them up in His
enth day you shall rest; in plowing time and in wrath,
harvest you shall rest. And the fire shall devour them.
22 “And you shall observe the Feast of Weeks, 10 Their offspring You shall destroy from
of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the the earth,
Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end. And their descendants from among the
23 “Three times in the year all your men shall sons of men.
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appear before the Lord, the LORD God of Israel. For they intended evil against You;
24 For I will cast out the nations before you and They devised a plot which they are not
enlarge your borders; neither will any man covet 12 able to perform.
your land when you go up to appear before the Therefore You will make them turn
LORD your God three times in the year. their back;
25 “You shall not offer the blood of My sacri- You will make ready Your arrows on
fice with leaven, nor shall the sacrifice of the Your string toward their faces.
Feast of the Passover be left until morning. 13 Be exalted, O LORD, in Your own
26 “The first of the firstfruits of your land you strength!
shall bring to the house of the LORD your God. We will sing and praise Your power.
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