The Israelites must keep the Sabbath by observing the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.

Your lamb must be perfect, a male, one year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.

Then you are to take them from their hands and burn them on the altar for a burnt offering, for a soothing aroma before the Lord. It is an offering made by fire to the Lord.

He made the robe of the ephod completely blue, the work of a weaver.

He made the sacred anointing oil and the pure fragrant incense, the work of a perfumer.

Then the Lord said to Moses: “I have seen this people. Look what a stiff-necked people they are!

You must not offer strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering, and you must not pour out a drink offering on it.

And the Lord sent a plague on the people because they had made the calf – the one Aaron made.

“If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guilt for him.

In all cases of illegal possessions, whether for an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any kind of lost item, about which someone says ‘This belongs to me,’ the matter of the two of them will come before the judges, and the one whom the judges declare guilty must repay double to his neighbor.

and showing covenant faithfulness to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

“Now this is what you are to prepare on the altar every day continually: two lambs a year old.

“Whoever sacrifices to a god other than the Lord alone must be utterly destroyed.

For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, and on the seventh day there is to be a festival to the Lord.

Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the Lord; today you will not find it in the area.

You are to overlay it with pure gold – both inside and outside you must overlay it, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold over it.

You are to attach to it a blue cord so that it will be on the turban; it is to be on the front of the turban,

They attached to it a blue cord, to attach it to the turban above, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

“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,

So Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Alas, this people has committed a very serious sin, and they have made for themselves gods of gold.