Sinai & The Law

And the Lord sayde vnto Moses, Thus thou shalt say vnto the children of Israel, Ye haue seene that I haue talked with you from heauen.

Ye shall not make therefore with me gods of siluer, nor gods of golde: you shall make you none.

An altar of earth thou shalt make vnto me, and thereon shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheepe, and thine oxen: in all places, where I shall put the remembrance of my Name, I will come vnto thee, and blesse thee.

But if thou wilt make mee an altar of stone, thou shalt not buylde it of hewen stones: for if thou lift vp thy toole vpon them, thou hast polluted them.

Neither shalt thou goe vp by steppes vnto mine altar, that thy filthines be not discouered thereon.

Now these are the lawes, which thou shalt set before them:

If thou bye an Ebrewe seruant, he shall serue sixe yeres, and in the seuenth he shall go out free, for nothing.

If he came himselfe alone, he shall goe out himselfe alone: if hee were married, then his wife shall go out with him.

If his master haue giuen him a wife, and she hath borne him sonnes or daughters, he wife and her children shalbe her masters, but he shall goe out himselfe alone.

But if the seruant saye thus, I loue my master, my wife and my children, I will not goe out free,

Then his master shall bring him vnto the Iudges, and set him to the dore, or to the poste, and his master shall bore his eare through with a nawle, and he shall serue him for euer.

Likewise if a man sell his daughter to be a seruant, she shall not goe out as the men seruantes doe.

If shee please not her master, who hath betrothed her to him selfe, then shall hee cause to buy her: hee shall haue no power to sell her to a strange people, seeing he despised her.

But if he hath betrothed her vnto his sonne, he shall deale with her according to the custome of the daughters.

If he take him another wife, he shall not diminish her foode, her rayment, and recompence of her virginitie.

And if he do not these three vnto her, the shall she go out free, paying no money.

He that smiteth a man, and he die, shall dye the death.

And if a man hath not layed wayte, but God hath offered him into his hande, then I wil appoynt thee a place whither he shall flee.

But if a man come presumptuously vpon his neighbour to slay him with guile, thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

Also hee that smiteth his father or his mother, shall die the death.

And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, if it be founde with him, shall die the death.

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

When men also striue together, and one smite another with a stone, or with the fist, and he die not, but lieth in bed,

If hee rise againe and walke without vpon his staffe, then shall he that smote him go quite, saue onely hee shall beare his charges for his resting, and shall pay for his healing.

And if a man smite his seruant, or his maide with a rod, and he die vnder his hande, he shalbe surely punished.