then you must give over<n id="1" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> the first offspring of every womb.<n id="2" /> Every firstling<n id="3" /> of a beast that you have<n id="4" /> &#8211; the males will be the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s.<n id="5" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;You shall not make for yourself a carved image<n id="1" /> or any likeness<n id="2" /> of anything<n id="3" /> that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Honor<n id="1" /> your father and your mother, that you may live a long time<n id="2" /> in the land<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving to you.p>

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<n id="1" /> to you.&#8221;p>

You are to take the breast of the ram of Aaron&#8217;s consecration; you are to wave it as a wave offering before the <sc>Lordsc>, and it is to be your share.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;You are to put it in front of the curtain that is before the ark of the testimony (before the atonement lid that is over the testimony), where I will meet you.

&#8220;Take<n id="1" /> choice spices:<n id="2" /> twelve and a half pounds<n id="3" /> of free-flowing myrrh,<n id="4" /> half that &#8211; about six and a quarter pounds &#8211; of sweet-smelling cinnamon, six and a quarter pounds of sweet-smelling cane,

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses: &#8220;Take<n id="1" /> spices, gum resin,<n id="2" /> onycha,<n id="3" /> galbanum,<n id="4" /> and pure frankincense<n id="5" /> of equal amounts<n id="6" />

You are to beat some of it very fine and put some of it before the ark of the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you; it is to be most holy to you.

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> spoke to Moses: &#8220;Go quickly, descend,<n id="1" /> because your<n id="2" /> people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have acted corruptly.

<p class="bodytext">Moses said to Aaron, &#8220;What did this people do to you, that you have brought on them so great a sin?&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Obey<n id="1" /> what I am commanding you this day. I am going to drive out<n id="2" /> before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

Be careful not to make<n id="1" /> a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare<n id="2" /> among you.

Be careful<n id="1" /> not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when<n id="2" /> they prostitute themselves<n id="3" /> to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you,<n id="4" /> you will eat from his sacrifice;

He replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Surely I will be with you,<n id="2" /> and this will be the sign<n id="3" /> to you that I have sent you: When you bring the people out of Egypt, you and they will serve<n id="4" /> God on this mountain.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Go and bring together<n id="1" /> the elders of Israel and tell them, &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc>, the God of your fathers,<n id="2" /> appeared<n id="3" /> to me &#8211; the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob &#8211; saying, &#8220;I have attended carefully<n id="4" /> to you and to what has been done<n id="5" /> to you in Egypt,

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">So Moses went back<n id="2" /> to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, &#8220;Let me go, so that I may return<n id="3" /> to my relatives<n id="4" /> in Egypt and see<n id="5" /> if they are still alive.&#8221; Jethro said to Moses, &#8220;Go in peace.&#8221;

So now, send instructions<n id="1" /> to gather<n id="2" /> your livestock and all your possessions in the fields to a safe place. Every person<n id="3" /> or animal caught<n id="4" /> in the field and not brought into the house &#8211; the hail will come down on them, and they will die!&#8221;&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">When<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> brings you to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey,<n id="2" /> then you will keep<n id="3" /> this ceremony<n id="4" /> in this month.

<n id="1" /> It<n id="2" /> will be a sign<n id="3" /> for you on your hand and a memorial<n id="4" /> on your forehead,<n id="5" /> so that the law of the <sc>Lordsc> may be<n id="6" /> in your mouth,<n id="7" /> for<n id="8" /> with a mighty hand the <sc>Lordsc> brought you out of Egypt.