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.

Now Mount Sinai was completely covered with smoke because the Lord had descended on it in fire, and its smoke went up like the smoke of a great furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.

“You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below.

“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.

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle, or the resident foreigner who is in your gates.

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

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has dealt deceitfully with her.

“If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged and has sexual relations with her, he must surely endow her to be his wife.

“Pay attention to do everything I have told you, and do not even mention the names of other gods – do not let them be heard on your lips.

“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.

But if you diligently obey him and do all that I command, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will be an adversary to your adversaries.

“I will send my terror before you, and I will destroy all the people whom you encounter; I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

He took the Book of the Covenant and read it aloud to the people, and they said, “We are willing to do and obey all that the Lord has spoken.”

“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.

You are to put the atonement lid on top of the ark, and in the ark you are to put the testimony I am giving you.

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 loops on the one curtain, and you are to make fifty loops on the end curtain which is on the second set, so that the loops are opposite one to another.

You are to speak to all who are specially skilled, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, so that they may make Aaron’s garments to set him apart to minister as my priest.