Sinai & The Law

And the Lord said to Moses: Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: You have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven.

You shall not make gods of silver, nor shall you make to yourselves gods of gold.

You shall make an altar of earth unto me, and you shall offer upon it your holocausts and peace offerings, your sheep and oxen, in every place where the memory of my name shall be: I will come to thee, and will bless thee.

And if thou make an altar of stone unto me, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up a tool upon it, it shall be defiled.

Thou shalt not go up by steps unto my altar, lest thy nakedness be discovered.

These are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee; in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

With what raiment he came in, with the like let him go out: if having a wife, his wife also shall go out with him.

But if his master gave him a wife, and she hath borne sons and daughters; the woman and her children shall be her master's: but he himself shall go out with his raiment.

And if the servant shall say: I love my master and my wife and children, I will not go out free:

His master shall bring him to the gods, and he shall be set to the door and the posts, and he shall bore his ear through with an awl: and he shall be his servant for ever.

If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out.

If she displease the eyes of her master to whom she was delivered, he shall let her go: but he shall have no power to sell her to a foreign nation, if he despise her.

But if he have betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

And if he take another wife for him, he shall provide her a marriage, and raiment, neither shall he refuse the price of her chastity.

If he do not these three things, she shall go out free without money.

He that striketh a man with a will to kill him, shall be put to death.

But he that did not lie in wait for him, but God delivered him into his hands: I will appoint thee a place to which he must flee.

If a man kill his neighbour on set purpose, and by lying in wait for him: thou shalt take him away from my altar that he may die.

He that striketh his father or mother, shall be put to death.

He that shall steal a man, and sell him, being convicted of the guilt, shall be put to death.

He that curseth his father or mother, shall die the death.

If men quarrel, and the one strike his neighbour with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:

If he rise again and walk abroad upon his staff, he that struck him shall be quit, yet so that he make restitution for his work, and for his expenses upon the physicians.

He that striketh his bondman, or bondwoman, with a rod, and they die under his hands, shall be guilty of the crime.