When the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,

then you must give over to the Lord the first offspring of every womb. Every firstling of a beast that you have – the males will be the Lord’s.

When Pharaoh got closer, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians marching after them, and they were terrified. The Israelites cried out to the Lord,

If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people will be able to go home satisfied.”

Moses said to the Lord, “The people are not able to come up to Mount Sinai, because you solemnly warned us, ‘Set boundaries for the mountain and set it apart.’”

“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold guiltless anyone who takes his name in vain.

They said to Moses, “You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak with us, lest we die.”

Moses said to the people, “Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you so that you do not sin.”

“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he will go out free without paying anything.

“You must not follow a crowd in doing evil things; in a lawsuit you must not offer testimony that agrees with a crowd so as to pervert justice,

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

Take heed because of him, and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgressions, for my name is in him.

“You must not bow down to their gods; you must not serve them or do according to their practices. Instead you must completely overthrow them and smash their standing stones to pieces.

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.”

At the two corners they must be doubled at the lower end and finished together at the top in one ring. So it will be for both.

“You are to make a special curtain of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen; it is to be made with cherubim, the work of an artistic designer.

You are to make for the hanging five posts of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and their hooks will be gold, and you are to cast five bronze bases for them.

with twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver.

“Now this is what you are to do for them to consecrate them so that they may minister as my priests. Take a young bull and two rams without blemish;

So now, leave me alone so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them, and I will make from you a great nation.”