Exodus:19-20
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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 .
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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 .
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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 Ya #
aqob #,
and tell the children of Israel Yisra #
el #;
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Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians ,
and how I bare you on eagles wings ,
and brought you unto myself .
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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 :
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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 Yisra #
el #.
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And Moses came and called for the elders of the people ,
and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him .
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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 .
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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 .
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And the LORD said unto Moses ,
Go unto the people ,
and sanctify them to day and to morrow ,
and let them wash their clothes ,
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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 .
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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 :
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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 .
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And Moses went down from the mount unto the people ,
and sanctified the people ;
and they washed their clothes .
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And he said unto the people ,
Be ready against the third day :
come not at your wives .
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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 .
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And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God ;
and they stood at the nether part of the mount .
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And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke ,
because paniym #
the LORD descended upon it in fire :
and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace ,
and the whole mount quaked greatly m @#
od #.
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And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long ,
and waxed louder and louder m @#
od #,
Moses spake ,
and God answered him by a voice .
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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 .
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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 .
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And let the priests also ,
which come near to the LORD ,
sanctify themselves ,
lest the LORD break forth upon them .
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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 .
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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 .
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So Moses went down unto the people ,
and spake unto them .
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And God spake all these words ,
saying ,
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I am the LORD thy God ,
which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt ,
out of the house of bondage .
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Thou shalt have no other gods before me .
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Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image ,
or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above ma #
al #,
or that is in the earth beneath ,
or that is in the water under the earth :
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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 ;
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And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me ,
and keep my commandments .
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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 .
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Remember the sabbath day ,
to keep it holy .
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Six days shalt thou labour ,
and do all thy work m @
la #
kah #:
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But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God :
in it thou shalt not do any work m @
la #
kah #,
thou ,
nor thy son ,
nor thy daughter ,
thy manservant ,
nor thy maidservant ,
nor thy cattle ,
nor thy stranger that is within thy gates sha #
ar #:
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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 .
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Honour thy father and thy mother :
that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee .
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Thou shalt not kill .
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Thou shalt not commit adultery .
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Thou shalt not steal .
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Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour .
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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house ,
thou shalt not covet thy neighbours wife ,
nor his manservant ,
nor his maidservant ,
nor his ox ,
nor his ass ,
nor any thing that is thy neighbours .
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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 .
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And they said unto Moses ,
Speak thou with us ,
and we will hear :
but let not God speak with us ,
lest we die .
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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 .
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And the people stood afar off ,
and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was .
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And the LORD said unto Moses ,
Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel Yisra #
el #,
Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven .
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Ye shall not make with me gods of silver ,
neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold .
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An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me ,
and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings ,
and thy peace offerings ,
thy sheep tso #
n #,
and thine oxen :
in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee ,
and I will bless thee .
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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 .
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Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar ,
that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon .
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Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them .