Six days you will gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.”

On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather it, but they found nothing.

Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good!

“If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she will not go out as the male servants do.

If he takes another wife, he must not diminish the first one’s food, her clothing, or her marital rights.

If he does not provide her with these three things, then she will go out free, without paying money.

But if he does not do it with premeditation, but it happens by accident, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.

However, if the injured servant survives one or two days, the owner will not be punished, for he has suffered the loss.

If it is torn in pieces, then he will bring it for evidence, and he will not have to pay for what was torn.

If its owner was with it, he will not have to pay; if it was hired, what was paid for the hire covers it.

“Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats. You must give me the firstborn of your sons.

“You must not give a false report. Do not make common cause with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

Keep your distance from a false charge – do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I will not justify the wicked.

“You must not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and subverts the words of the righteous.

The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the Lord your God. “You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

No woman will miscarry her young or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

But he did not lay a hand on the leaders of the Israelites, so they saw God, and they ate and they drank.

they must wash their hands and their feet so that they do not die. And this will be a perpetual ordinance for them and for their descendants throughout their generations.”

And the incense that you are to make, you must not make for yourselves using the same recipe; it is to be most holy to you, belonging to the Lord.

When the people heard this troubling word they mourned; no one put on his ornaments.