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Hello, this is Father Paul and I'm glad we're taking this journey together to read the Bible

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in a year.

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Yesterday we heard about the manna and the water that God provided for His people in

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the wilderness.

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We also heard about Jethro's advice for Moses to set up judges over the people to help him

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in the administrative tasks that were before him.

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And today we're going to hear about how the Israelites approached the mountain of God,

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Mount Sinai, and the preparations that they needed to take.

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We also are going to hear about the receiving of the Ten Commandments by Moses.

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And we're also going to hear that famous verse, eye for an eye, and how it was to be applied.

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Alright, let's begin.

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Today's reading is from Exodus 19 to 21.

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Chapter 19.

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In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on the

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same day they came to the wilderness of Sinai.

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For they had departed from Rephidim, had come to the wilderness of Sinai and camped in the

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wilderness.

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So Israel camped there before the mountain.

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And Moses went up to God and the Lord called to him from the mountain saying,

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Thus, you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel,

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You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles wings, and brought

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you to myself.

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Now, therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall

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be a special treasure to me above all people, for all the earth is mine.

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And you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.

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These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.

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So Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before them all these

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words which the Lord commanded him.

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Then all the people answered together and said, All that the Lord has spoken we will

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do.

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So Moses brought back the words of the people to the Lord, and the Lord said to Moses, Behold,

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I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and believe

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you forever.

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So Moses told the words of the people to the Lord.

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Then the Lord said to Moses, Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and

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let them wash their clothes, and let them be ready for the third day.

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For on the third day the Lord will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

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You shall set bounds for the people all around, saying, Take heed for yourselves, that you

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do not go up to the mountain or touch its base.

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Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.

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Not a hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot with an arrow.

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Whether man or beast, he shall not live.

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When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come near the mountain.

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So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they

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washed their clothes.

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And he said to the people, Be ready for the third day, do not come near your wives.

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Then it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunderings and lightnings,

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and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that

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all the people who were in the camp trembled.

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And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot

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of the mountain.

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Now Mount Sinai was completely in smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire.

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Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.

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And when the blast of the trumpet sounded long, and became louder and louder, Moses

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spoke, and God answered him by voice.

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Then the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai on the top of the mountain, and the Lord called

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Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

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And the Lord said to Moses, Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to gaze

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at the Lord, and many of them perish.

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Also let the priests who come near the Lord consecrate themselves, lest the Lord break

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out against them.

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But Moses said to the Lord, The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, for you warned us,

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saying, Set bounds around the mountain and consecrate it.

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Then the Lord said to him, Away, get down and then come up, you and Aaron with you.

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But do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to the Lord, lest

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he break out against them.

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So Moses went down to the people and spoke to them.

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Chapter 20

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And God spoke all these words, saying, I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of

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the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

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You shall have no other gods before me.

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You shall not make for yourself a carved image, any likeness of anything that is in heaven

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above or that is in earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

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You shall not bow down to them, nor serve them.

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For I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon

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the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, but showing mercy to

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thousands to those who love me and keep my commandments.

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You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him

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guiltless who takes his name in vain.

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Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

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Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the

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LORD your God.

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In it you shall do no work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant,

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nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.

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For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in

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them, and rested the seventh day.

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Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

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Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD

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your God is giving you.

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You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not

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bear false witness against your neighbor, you shall not covet your neighbor's house,

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you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant,

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nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.

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Now all the people witnessed the thunderings, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet

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and the mountain smoking, and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood afar off.

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Then they said to Moses, You speak with us, and we will hear, but let not God speak with

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us lest we die.

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But Moses said to the people, Do not fear, for God has come to test you, and that his

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fear may be before you, so that you may not sin, so that people stood afar off.

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But Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.

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Then the LORD said to Moses, Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, You have seen

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that I have talked with you from heaven, you shall not make anything to be with me.

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Gods of silver or gods of gold you shall not make for yourselves, an altar of earth

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you shall make for me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace

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offerings, your sheep and your oxen.

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In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you, and if you

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make me an altar of stone you shall not build it of hewn stone, for if you use your tool

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on it you have profaned it.

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Nor shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed on

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it.

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Chapter 21

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Now these are the judgments which you shall set before them.

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If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go

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out free and pay nothing.

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If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself.

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If he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him.

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If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife

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and her children shall be her masters and he shall go out by himself.

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But if the servant plainly says, I love my master, my wife and my children, I will not

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go out free.

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Then his master shall bring him to the judges, he shall also bring him to the door or to

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the door-post, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him

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forever.

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And if a man sells his daughter to be a female slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves

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do.

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If she does not please her master, who has betrothed her to himself, then he shall let

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her be redeemed.

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He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with

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her.

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If he has betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters.

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If he takes another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing and her marriage rights.

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And if he does not do these three for her, then she shall go out free without paying

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money.

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He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.

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However, if he did not lie and wait, but God delivered him into his hand, then I will appoint

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for you a place where he may flee.

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But if a man acts with premeditation against his neighbor to kill him by treachery, you

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shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

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And he who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

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He who kidnaps a man and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, shall surely be put

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to death.

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And he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

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If men contend with each other and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and

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he does not die but is confined to his bed, if he rises again and walks about outside

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with his staff, then he who struck him shall be acquitted.

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He shall only pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for him to be thoroughly

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healed.

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And if a man beats his male or female servant with a rod, so that he dies under his hand,

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he shall surely be punished.

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Notwithstanding, if he remains alive a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is

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his property.

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If men fight and hurt a woman with child, so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no

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harm follows, he shall surely be punished accordingly as the woman's husband imposes

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on him, and he shall pay as the judge is determined.

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But if any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth,

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hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

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If a man strikes the eye of his male or female servant and destroys it, he shall let him

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go free for the sake of his eye.

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And if he knocks out the tooth of his male or female servant, he shall let him go free

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for the sake of his tooth.

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If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, then the ox shall surely be stoned, and its

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flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be acquitted.

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But if the ox tended to thrust with its horn in times past, and it has been made known

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to his owner, and he has not kept it confined, so that it has killed a man or a woman, the

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ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.

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If there is imposed on him a sum of money, then he shall pay to redeem his life, whatever

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is imposed on him.

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Whether it has gored a son or gored a daughter, according to this judgment, it shall be done

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to him.

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If the ox gores a male or female servant, he shall give to their master thirty shekels

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of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

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And if a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or

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a donkey falls in it, the owner of the pit shall make it good, he shall give money to

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their owner, but the dead animal shall be his.

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If one man's ox hurts another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox

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and divide the money from it, and the dead ox they shall also divide.

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Or if it was known that the ox tended to thrust in times past, and its owner has not kept

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it confined, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal shall be his own.

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I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did, and I look forward to seeing you

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again tomorrow to continue on our journey.

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God bless you and have a great day.