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They shall do just as I have commanded you.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Sabbath Law</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> said to Moses: </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>You yourself are to speak to the Israelites: “You shall keep my sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, given in order that you may know that I, the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, sanctify you. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>You shall keep the sabbath, because it is holy for you; everyone who profanes it shall be put to death; whoever does any work on it shall be cut off from among the people. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>; whoever does any work on the sabbath day shall be put to death. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Therefore the Israelites shall keep the sabbath, observing the sabbath throughout their generations, as a perpetual covenant. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.”</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Two Tablets of the Covenant</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>When God<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-2439d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-2439e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Exodus 31:3">Exodus 31:3</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>with the spirit of God</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Exodus 31:7">Exodus 31:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>treaty</i>, or <i>testimony</i>; Heb <i>eduth</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Exodus 31:7">Exodus 31:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>the cover</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Exodus 31:18">Exodus 31:18</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>he</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Exodus 31:18">Exodus 31:18</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>treaty</i>, or <i>testimony</i>; Heb <i>eduth</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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