Exodus 20:20   (Read all of Exodus 20)

Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid. God has come to test you, so that the fear of God will be with you to keep you from sinning."

Exodus 20:22   (Read all of Exodus 20)

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Tell the Israelites this: 'You have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you from heaven:

Exodus 20:23   (Read all of Exodus 20)

Do not make any gods to be alongside me; do not make for yourselves gods of silver or gods of gold.

Exodus 20:24   (Read all of Exodus 20)

" 'Make an altar of earth for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your sheep and goats and your cattle. Wherever I cause my name to be honored, I will come to you and bless you.

Exodus 20:25   (Read all of Exodus 20)

If you make an altar of stones for me, do not build it with dressed stones, for you will defile it if you use a tool on it.

Exodus 20:26   (Read all of Exodus 20)

And do not go up to my altar on steps, or your private parts may be exposed.'

Exodus 21:1   (Read all of Exodus 21)

"These are the laws you are to set before them:

Exodus 21:2   (Read all of Exodus 21)

"If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything.

Exodus 21:3   (Read all of Exodus 21)

If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him.

Exodus 21:4   (Read all of Exodus 21)

If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.

Exodus 21:5   (Read all of Exodus 21)

"But if the servant declares, 'I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,'

Exodus 21:6   (Read all of Exodus 21)

then his master must take him before the judges. He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.

Exodus 21:7   (Read all of Exodus 21)

"If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do.

Exodus 21:8   (Read all of Exodus 21)

If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her.

Exodus 21:9   (Read all of Exodus 21)

If he selects her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter.

Exodus 21:11   (Read all of Exodus 21)

If he does not provide her with these three things, she is to go free, without any payment of money.

Exodus 21:12   (Read all of Exodus 21)

"Anyone who strikes a person with a fatal blow is to be put to death.

Exodus 21:14   (Read all of Exodus 21)

But if anyone schemes and kills someone deliberately, that person is to be taken from my altar and put to death.

Exodus 21:16   (Read all of Exodus 21)

"Anyone who kidnaps someone is to be put to death, whether the victim has been sold or is still in the kidnapper's possession.

Exodus 21:18   (Read all of Exodus 21)

"If people quarrel and one person hits another with a stone or with their fist and the victim does not die but is confined to bed,

Exodus 21:19   (Read all of Exodus 21)

the one who struck the blow will not be held liable if the other can get up and walk around outside with a staff; however, the guilty party must pay the injured person for any loss of time and see that the victim is completely healed.

Exodus 21:20   (Read all of Exodus 21)

"Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result,

Exodus 21:21   (Read all of Exodus 21)

but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property.

Exodus 21:22   (Read all of Exodus 21)

"If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows.