<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">When Pharaoh released<n id="2" /> the people, God did not lead them<n id="3" /> by the way to the land<n id="4" /> of the Philistines,<n id="5" /> although<n id="6" /> that was nearby, for God said,<n id="7" /> &#8220;Lest<n id="8" /> the people change their minds<n id="9" /> and return to Egypt when they experience<n id="10" /> war.&#8221;

It came between the Egyptian camp and the Israelite camp; it was a dark cloud<n id="1" /> and it lit up the night so that one camp did not come near the other<n id="2" /> the whole night.<n id="3" />

You shall not bow down to them or serve them,<n id="1" /> for I, the <sc>Lordsc>, your God, am a jealous<n id="2" /> God, responding to<n id="3" /> the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations<n id="4" /> of those who reject me,<n id="5" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;If men fight and hit a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely,<n id="1" /> but there is no serious injury, he will surely be punished in accordance with what the woman&#8217;s husband demands of him, and he will pay what the court decides.<n id="2" />

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;If an ox<n id="2" /> gores a man or a woman so that either dies,<n id="3" /> then the ox must surely<n id="4" /> be stoned and its flesh must not be eaten, but the owner of the ox will be acquitted.

But if the ox had the habit of goring, and its owner was warned,<n id="1" /> and he did not take the necessary precautions,<n id="2" /> and then it killed a man or a woman, the ox must be stoned and the man must be put to death.

Or if it is known that the ox had the habit of goring, and its owner did not take the necessary precautions, he must surely pay<n id="1" /> ox for ox, and the dead animal will become his.<n id="2" />p>

You are to observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread; seven days<n id="1" /> you must eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you, at the appointed time of the month of Abib, for at that time<n id="2" /> you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before<n id="3" /> me empty-handed.p>

These must be on Aaron and his sons when they enter<n id="1" /> to the tent of meeting, or when they approach<n id="2" /> the altar to minister in the Holy Place, so that they bear no iniquity and die.<n id="3" /> It is to be a perpetual ordinance for him and for his descendants<n id="4" /> after him.<n id="5" />p>

&#8220;When you take a census<n id="1" /> of the Israelites according to their number,<n id="2" /> then each man is to pay a ransom<n id="3" /> for his life to the <sc>Lordsc> when you number them,<n id="4" /> so that there will be no plague among them when you number them.

For I will drive out<n id="1" /> the nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one will covet<n id="2" /> your land when you go up<n id="3" /> to appear before the <sc>Lordsc> your God three times<n id="4" /> in the year.p>

They tied the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod by blue cord, so that it was above the waistband of the ephod, so that the breastpiece would not be loose from the ephod, just as the <sc>Lordsc> had commanded Moses.p>