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The Antiquities of the Jews

CHAPTER 5
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The eighth, that we must not be guilty of theft.

The ninth, that we must not bear false witness.
The tenth, that we must not admit of the desire of any thing that is another's.
6.

Now when the multitude had heard God himself giving those precepts which Moses had discoursed of, they rejoiced at what was said; and the congregation was dissolved: but on the following days they came to his tent, and desired him to bring them, besides, other laws from God.
Accordingly he appointed such laws, and afterwards informed them in what manner they should act in all cases; which laws I shall make mention of in their proper time; but I shall reserve most of those laws for another work, [11] and make there a distinct explication of them.
7.

When matters were brought to this state, Moses went up again to Mount Sinai, of which he had told them beforehand.

He made his ascent in their sight; and while he staid there so long a time, [for he was absent from them forty days,] fear seized upon the Hebrews, lest Moses should have come to any harm; nor was there any thing else so sad, and that so much troubled them, as this supposal that Moses was perished.


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