God

"You are to be my specially separated people. Therefore you are not to eat any flesh torn by wild animals in the countryside; rather, throw it out for the dogs.

Keep away from fraud, and do not cause the death of the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.

"Pay attention to everything I have said to you; do not invoke the names of other gods or even let them be heard crossing your lips.

"Three times a year, you are to observe a festival for me

Keep the festival of matzah: for seven days, as I ordered you, you are to eat matzah at the time determined in the month of Aviv; for it was in that month that you left Egypt. No one is to appear before me empty-handed.

Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Lord, ADONAI.

"You are not to offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, nor is the fat of my festival to remain all night until morning.

"You are to bring the best firstfruits of your land into the house of ADONAI your God. "You are not to boil a young animal in its mother's milk

"I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you on the way and bring you to the place I have prepared.

Pay attention to him, listen to what he says and do not rebel against him; because he will not forgive any wrongdoing of yours, since my name resides in him

But if you listen to what he says and do everything I tell you, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.

When my angel goes ahead of you and brings you to the Emori, Hitti, P'rizi, Kena'ani, Hivi and Y'vusi, I will make an end of them.

"You are to serve ADONAI your God; and he will bless your food and water. I will take sickness away from among you.

In your land your women will not miscarry or be barren, and you will live out the full span of your lives.

I will send terror of me ahead of you, throwing into confusion all the people to whom you come; and I will make all your enemies turn their backs on you.

I will send hornets ahead of you to drive out the Hivi, Kena'ani and Hitti from before you.

I will not drive them out from before you in one year, which would cause the land to become desolate and the wild animals too many for you.

I will drive them out from before you gradually, until you have grown in number and can take possession of the land.

I will set your boundaries from the Sea of Suf to the sea of the P'lishtim and from the desert to the [Euphrates] River, for I will hand the inhabitants of the land over to you, and you will drive them out from before you.

They are not to live in your land; otherwise they will make you sin against me by ensnaring you to serve their gods."

To Moshe [ADONAI] said, "Come up to ADONAI -you, Aharon, Nadav, Avihu, and seventy of the leaders of Isra'el. Prostrate yourselves at a distance,

while Moshe alone approaches ADONAI -the others are not to approach, and the people are not to go up with him."

Moshe came and told the people everything ADONAI had said, including all the rulings. The people answered with one voice: "We will obey every word ADONAI has spoken."

Moshe wrote down all the words of ADONAI. He rose early in the morning, built an altar at the base of the mountain and set upright twelve large stones to represent the twelve tribes of Isra'el.

He sent the young men of the people of Isra'el to offer burnt offerings and sacrifice peace offerings of oxen to ADONAI.