So Moses came and summoned the elders of Israel. He set before them all these words that the Lord had commanded him,

and all the people answered together, “All that the Lord has commanded we will do!” So Moses brought the words of the people back to the Lord.

You must set boundaries for the people all around, saying, ‘Take heed to yourselves not to go up on the mountain nor touch its edge. Whoever touches the mountain will surely be put to death!

“Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving to you.

All the people were seeing the thundering and the lightning, and heard the sound of the horn, and saw the mountain smoking – and when the people saw it they trembled with fear and kept their distance.

then his master must bring him to the judges, and he will bring him to the door or the doorposts, and his master will pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

“If men fight, and one strikes his neighbor with a stone or with his fist and he does not die, but must remain in bed,

“If a fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes, so that stacked grain or standing grain or the whole field is consumed, the one who started the fire must surely make restitution.

“You must not oppress a foreigner, since you know the life of a foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

“You are also to observe the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors that you have sown in the field, and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year when you have gathered in your harvest out of the field.

They must not live in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

“Tell the Israelites to take an offering for me; from every person motivated by a willing heart you are to receive my offering.

According to all that I am showing you – the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings – you must make it exactly so.

Make one cherub on one end and one cherub on the other end; from the atonement lid you are to make the cherubim on the two ends.

You are to make four rings of gold for it and attach the rings at the four corners where its four legs are.

You are to make fifty gold clasps and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle is a unit.

You are to overlay the frames with gold and make their rings of gold to provide places for the bars, and you are to overlay the bars with gold.

You are to put the table outside the curtain and the lampstand on the south side of the tabernacle, opposite the table, and you are to place the table on the north side.

“You are to make the altar of acacia wood, seven feet six inches long, and seven feet six inches wide; the altar is to be square, and its height is to be four feet six inches.

“You are to make the courtyard of the tabernacle. For the south side there are to be hangings for the courtyard of fine twisted linen, one hundred fifty feet long for one side,