Exodus 24:3 Cross References - NSB

³ Moses told the people all Jehovah’s words and legal decisions. Then all the people answered with one voice: »We will do everything Jehovah told us to do.«

⁸ All the people answered together: »We will do everything Jehovah has said.« So Moses brought their answer back to Jehovah.

¹ »These are the ordinances you should set before them. ² »When you buy a Hebrew slave he will be your slave for six years. In the seventh year he may leave as a free man without paying for his freedom. ³ »If he was single at the time you bought him he alone must be set free. If he was married at that time, both he and his wife must be given their freedom. ⁴ »If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children will belong to her master. He shall go out alone. ⁵ »What if the slave loves his wife and children so much that he will not leave without them? ⁶ »He must stand beside either the door or the doorpost at the place of worship. His owner will punch a small hole through one of his ears with a sharp metal rod. This makes him a slave for life. ⁷ »When a man sells his daughter into slavery, she will not go free the way male slaves do. ⁸ »If she does not please the master who has chosen her as a wife, he must let her be bought back by one of her close relatives. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, since he has treated her unfairly. ⁹ »If a man buys a female slave to give to his son, he should treat her like a daughter. ¹⁰ »If a man takes a second wife, he must continue to give his first wife the same amount of food and clothing and the same rights that she had before. ¹¹ »If he fails to do any of these things, she should be given her freedom without cost. ¹² »Death is the punishment for murder. ¹³ »If you did not intend to kill someone and I, Jehovah, let it happen anyway, you may run for safety to a place that I have set aside. ¹⁴ »If a man schemes and kills a man deliberately remove him from my altar and put him to death. ¹⁵ »He who strikes (beats) his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. ¹⁶ »Whoever kidnaps another person must be put to death regardless of whether he has sold the kidnapped person or still has him. ¹⁷ »Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death. ¹⁸ »When men quarrel and one hits the other with a rock or with his fist and injures him so that he has to stay in bed you must do this. ¹⁹ »If the injured man is able to stand up again and walk around outside with a cane, the one who hit him must not be punished. He must pay the injured man for the loss of his time and for all his medical expenses. ²⁰ »If a slave owner takes a stick and beats his slave, whether male or female, and the slave dies on the spot, the owner is to be punished. ²¹ »If the slave lives a few days after the beating, you are not to be punished. After all, you have already lost the services of that slave who was your property. ²² »When a pregnant woman suffers a miscarriage as the result of an injury caused by someone who is fighting, if she is not badly hurt, the one who injured her must pay whatever fine her husband demands and the judges approve. ²³ »The payment will be for life if she is seriously injured,

⁷ He took the book of the covenant, in which Jehovah’s commandments were written, and read it aloud to the people. They said: »We will obey Jehovah. We will do everything that he has commanded.«

¹ »Israel, listen to these laws and teachings! If you obey them you will live! Go in and take the land that Jehovah the God of your fathers is giving you.

⁵ »I have taught you laws and rules as Jehovah my God commanded me. You must obey them when you enter the land and take possession of it.

⁴⁵ After they came out of Egypt they were in the valley east of the Jordan River he gave them the laws.

¹ Moses called all the people of Israel, and said: »Hear, O Israel, the regulations and laws I declare to you today. Learn them and obey them!

²⁷ »‘They spoke to Moses: ‘Moses, go and listen to everything that Jehovah our God says. Then tell us whatever Jehovah our God tells you. We will listen and obey.’ ²⁸ »Jehovah heard the words you spoke to me. He told me: ‘I have heard what the people said to you. Everything they said was good.

³¹ But you stay here with me. I will give you all the commands, laws, and rules that you must teach them to obey in the land I will give them to possess.

¹ »These are the commands, decrees and laws Jehovah your God commanded me to teach you. Obey them after you enter the land and take possession of it.

¹ »Love Jehovah your God, and obey all his laws, regulations and commandments.

²² Joshua replied: »You are your own witnesses to the fact that you have chosen to serve Jehovah.« They said: »We are witnesses!«

¹⁹ What then is the law? It was added (to cause awareness of sin) because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator. ²⁰ A mediator is not a mediator of one; but God is one.