of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people,
and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt;
02:018:002 Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife,
after he had sent her back,
02:018:003 And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom;
for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:
02:018:004 And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my
father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the
sword of Pharaoh:
02:018:005 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his sons and his
wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the
mount of God:
02:018:006 And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come
unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.
02:018:007 And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did
obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their
welfare; and they came into the tent.
02:018:008 And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done
unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all
the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the
LORD delivered them.
02:018:009 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had
done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the
Egyptians.
02:018:010 And Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you
out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of
Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of
the Egyptians.
02:018:011 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the
thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.
02:018:012 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.
02:018:013 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the
people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto
the evening.
02:018:014 And when Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the
people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the
people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people
stand by thee from morning unto even?
02:018:015 And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come
unto me to enquire of God:
02:018:016 When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge
between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes
of God, and his laws.
02:018:017 And Moses' father in law said unto him, The thing that thou
doest is not good.
02:018:018 Thou wilt 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 alone.
02:018:019 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God
shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that
thou mayest bring the causes unto God:
02:018:020 And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew
them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they
must do.
02:018:021 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:
02:018:022 And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be,
that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every
small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for
thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.
02:018:023 If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then
thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also
go to their place in peace.
02:018:024 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did
all that he had said.
02:018:025 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.
02:018:026 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes
they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged
themselves.
02:018:027 And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way
into his own land.
02:019:001 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone
forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into
the wilderness of Sinai.
02:019:002 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the
desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there
Israel camped before the mount.
02:019:003 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 children of Israel;
02:019:004 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you
on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.
02:019:005 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:
02:019:006 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy
nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the
children of Israel.
02:019:007 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and
laid before their faces all these words which the LORD
commanded him.
02:019:008 And all 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.
02:019:009 And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick
cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and
believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people
unto the LORD.
02:019:010 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify
them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
02:019:011 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD
will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount
Sinai.
02:019:012 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 shall be
surely put to death:
02:019:013 There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be
stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall
not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up
to the mount.
02:019:014 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and
sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
02:019:015 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day:
come not at your wives.
02:019:016 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that
there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the
mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that
all the people that was in the camp trembled.
02:019:017 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet
with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
02:019:018 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD
descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as
the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
02:019:019 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed
louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a
voice.
02:019:020 And 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.
02:019:021 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest
they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them
perish.
02:019:022 And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD,
sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.
02:019:023 And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to
mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about
the mount, and sanctify it.
02:019:024 And 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.
02:019:025 So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.
02:020:001 And God spake all these words, saying,
02:020:002 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land
of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
02:020:003 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
02:020:004 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven 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.
02:020:005 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I
the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of
the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth
generation of them that hate me;
02:020:006 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and
keep my commandments.
02:020:007 Thou 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.
02:020:008 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
02:020:009 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
02:020:010 But 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,
nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
02:020:011 For in 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.
02:020:012 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long
upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
02:020:013 Thou shalt not kill.
02:020:014 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
02:020:015 Thou shalt not steal.
02:020:016 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
02:020:017 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou 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.
02:020:018 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings,
and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and
when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
02:020:019 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will
hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
02:020:020 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to
prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye
sin not.
02:020:021 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the
thick darkness where God was.
02:020:022 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.
02:020:023 Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye
make unto you gods of gold.
02:020:024 An 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 places where I record my name I
will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.
02:020:025 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.
02:020:026 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy
nakedness be not discovered thereon.
02:021:001 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
02:021:002 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and
in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
02:021:003 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he
were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
02:021:004 If 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.
02:021:005 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my
wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
02:021:006 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also
bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master
shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him
for ever.
02:021:007 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall
not go out as the menservants do.
02:021:008 If 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.
02:021:009 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with
her after the manner of daughters.
02:021:010 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her
duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
02:021:011 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out
free without money.
02:021:012 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to
death.
02:021:013 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his
hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
02:021:014 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay
him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he
may die.
02:021:015 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely
put to death.
02:021:016 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found
in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
02:021:017 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be
put to death.
02:021:018 And if men strive together, and one smite another with a
stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
02:021:019 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon 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.
02:021:020 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and
he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
02:021:021 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be
punished: for he is his money.
02:021:022 If 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 pay as the judges determine.
02:021:023 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for
life,
02:021:024 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
02:021:025 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
02:021:026 And 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.
02:021:027 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his
maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's
sake.
02:021:028 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox
shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but
the owner of the ox shall be quit.
02:021:029 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past,
and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept
him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall
be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
02:021:030 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for
the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
02:021:031 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter,
according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
02:021:032 If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall
give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox
shall be stoned.
02:021:033 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit,
and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
02:021:034 The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto
the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.
02:021:035 And if one man's ox hurt another'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.
02:021:036 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past,
and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for
ox; and the dead shall be his own.
02:022:001 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell
it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a
sheep.
02:022:002 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die,
there shall no blood be shed for him.
02:022:003 If 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.
02:022:004 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it
be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.
02:022:005 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and
shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field;
of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own
vineyard, shall he make restitution.
02:022:006 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of
corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed
therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make
restitution.
02:022:007 If a man shall deliver unto his 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.
02:022:008 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall
be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his
hand unto his neighbour's goods.
02:022:009 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 challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall
come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he
shall pay double unto his neighbour.
02:022:010 If a man deliver unto his neighbour 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:
02:022:011 Then shall an oath of the LORD 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.
02:022:012 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto
the owner thereof.
02:022:013 If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness,
and he shall not make good that which was torn.
02:022:014 And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or
die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make
it good.
02:022:015 But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it
good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.
02:022:016 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with
her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
02:022:017 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall
pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
02:022:018 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
02:022:019 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
02:022:020 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he
shall be utterly destroyed.
02:022:021 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye
were strangers in the land of Egypt.
02:022:022 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
02:022:023 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me,
I will surely hear their cry;
02:022:024 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the
sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children
fatherless.
02:022:025 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee,
thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay
upon him usury.
02:022:026 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou
shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
02:022:027 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.
02:022:028 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy
people.
02:022:029 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits,
and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give
unto me.
02:022:030 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.
02:022:031 And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any
flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to
the dogs.
02:023:001 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with
the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
02:023:002 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt
thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
02:023:003 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
02:023:004 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou
shalt surely bring it back to him again.
02:023:005 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his
burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely
help with him.
02:023:006 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
02:023:007 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and
righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
02:023:008 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise,
and perverteth the words of the righteous.
02:023:009 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart
of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
02:023:010 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the
fruits thereof:
02:023:011 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.
02:023:012 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.
02:023:013 And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect:
and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it
be heard out of thy mouth.
02:023:014 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
02:023:015 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat
unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time
appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from
Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
02:023:016 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours,
which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of
ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast
gathered in thy labours out of the field.
02:023:017 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the
LORD God.
02:023:018 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened
bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the
morning.
02:023:019 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into
the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in
his mother's milk.
02:023:020 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way,
and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
02:023:021 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he
will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
02:023:022 But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I
speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an
adversary unto thine adversaries.
02:023:023 For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto
the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the
Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut
them off.
02:023:024 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do
after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and
quite break down their images.
02:023:025 And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy
bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the
midst of thee.
02:023:026 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy
land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
02:023:027 I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the
people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine
enemies turn their backs unto thee.
02:023:028 And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the
Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
02:023:029 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest
the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply
against thee.
02:023:030 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee,
until thou be increased, and inherit the land.