Exodus

Exodus

1:1 Here are the names of the sons of Israel who journeyed to Egypt, each with his family, accompanying Jacob:
1:2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;
1:3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;
1:4 Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
1:5 The total of Jacob’s descendants was seventy souls; Joseph was already in Egypt.
1:6 Eventually, Joseph, his brothers, and that generation passed away.
1:7 But the Israelites were prolific and multiplied greatly, becoming exceedingly numerous so that the land was teeming with them.
1:8 A new king, who did not know of Joseph, came to power in Egypt.
1:9 He said to his people, “The Israelite population is becoming too large and powerful for us.
1:10 Let us deal shrewdly with them to prevent their further increase, for they might join our enemies in war and fight against us, escaping from the land.”
1:11 Accordingly, they appointed harsh taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. They built Pithom and Raamses as store cities for Pharaoh.
1:12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; this alarmed the Egyptians.
1:13 The Egyptians ruthlessly imposed harsh labor on the Israelites,
1:14 making their lives bitter with hard work in mortar and brick and with all kinds of field labor. They were ruthless in all their demands.
1:15 The Egyptian king spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one named Shiphrah and the other Puah.
1:16 He instructed them, “When you help Hebrew women in childbirth, check the sex of the baby. If it’s a boy, kill him; if it’s a girl, let her live.”
1:17 However, the midwives feared God and did not follow the king of Egypt’s orders; they let the boys live.
1:18 The king of Egypt summoned the midwives and questioned them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”
1:19 The midwives replied, “Hebrew women are vigorous and give birth before the midwife arrives.”
1:20 God was kind to the midwives, and the Israelites continued to multiply, becoming very powerful.
1:21 Because the midwives feared God, He granted them families.
1:22 Pharaoh then commanded all his people, “Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.”
2:1 A man from the house of Levi married a Levite woman.
2:2 The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Seeing he was a fine child, she hid him for three months.
2:3 When she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him, coated it with tar and pitch, placed the child in it, and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
2:4 His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.
2:5 Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it.
2:6 She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.
2:7 Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”
2:8 “Yes, go,” she answered. So the girl went and got the baby’s mother.
2:9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him.
2:10 When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water.”
2:11 One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
2:12 Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
2:13 The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?”
2:14 The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did must have become known.”
2:15 When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well.
2:16 Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.
2:17 Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and helped the girls and watered their flock.
2:18 When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”
2:19 They answered, “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”
2:20 “And where is he?” he asked his daughters. “Why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat.”
2:21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
2:22 Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”
2:23 During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God.
2:24 God heard their groaning and remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
2:25 God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.
3:1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
3:2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up.
3:3 So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”
3:4 When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am.”
3:5 “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”
3:6 Then he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
3:7 The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering.
3:8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
3:9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them.
3:10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
3:11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
3:12 And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.”
3:13 Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”
3:14 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.'”
3:15 God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, the name you shall call me from generation to generation.
3:16 “Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—appeared to me and said: I have watched over you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.
3:17 I have declared, ‘I will deliver you from the suffering in Egypt to the lands of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, a land abundant in milk and honey.’
3:18 They will listen to your voice. You and the elders of Israel will go to the Egyptian king and say, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has encountered us. We implore you to let us journey three days into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the LORD, our God.’
3:19 Yet, I am certain the Egyptian king will not allow you to leave, not even under considerable force.
3:20 I will intervene and strike Egypt with all the marvels I will perform. After that, he will let you go.
3:21 I will ensure the Egyptians look favourably upon this people, so when you leave, you will not leave empty-handed.
3:22 Every woman shall ask her neighbour and any woman staying in her house for silver and gold jewellery, and clothing. You will adorn your sons and daughters with these, despoiling the Egyptians.
4:1 Moses responded, ‘But they will not believe me or heed my voice. They will say, “The LORD has not appeared to you.”‘
4:2 The LORD inquired, ‘What is in your hand?’ Moses replied, ‘A staff.’
4:3 ‘Throw it on the ground,’ He commanded. Moses did so, and it became a serpent; Moses fled from it.
4:4 Then the LORD instructed Moses, ‘Reach out and grasp its tail.’ He reached out, caught it, and it turned back into a staff in his hand.
4:5 ‘This is so they may believe that the LORD, the God of their ancestors—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to you.’
4:6 The LORD further directed, ‘Put your hand inside your cloak.’ He did, and when he took it out, his hand was leprous, white as snow.
4:7 ‘Put your hand back into your cloak,’ He said. Moses did, and when he took it out, it was restored like the rest of his flesh.
4:8 ‘If they do not believe you or heed the first sign, they may believe the latter sign.’
4:9 ‘If they still do not believe these two signs or listen to your voice, take water from the river and pour it on dry land. The water you take from the river will become blood on the land.’
4:10 Moses said to the LORD, ‘O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither recently nor in the past, nor since You have spoken to Your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.’
4:11 The LORD said to him, ‘Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
4:12 Now go; I will help you speak and teach you what to say.’
4:13 But Moses pleaded, ‘O Lord, please send someone else.’
4:14 Then the LORD’s anger burned against Moses, and He said, ‘Is not Aaron, the Levite, your brother? I know he can speak well. He is already on his way to meet you, and his heart will be glad when he sees you.
4:15 You shall speak to him and put words in his mouth; I will help both of you speak and will teach you what to do.
4:16 He will speak to the people for you, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were God to him.
4:17 But take this staff in your hand so you can perform signs with it.’
4:18 Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said, ‘Let me return to my people in Egypt to see if they are still alive.’ Jethro said to Moses, ‘Go in peace.’
4:19 The LORD said to Moses in Midian, ‘Go back to Egypt, for all those who wanted to kill you are dead.’
4:20 Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey, and started back to Egypt. He took the staff of God in his hand.
4:21 The LORD said to Moses, ‘When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you the power to do. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.
4:22 Then say to Pharaoh, “This is what the LORD says: Israel is my firstborn son,
4:23 and I told you, ‘Let my son go, so he may worship me.’ Yet you refused to let him go; so I will kill your firstborn son.'”
4:24 At a lodging place on the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him.
4:25 But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched Moses’ feet with it. ‘Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,’ she said.
4:26 So the LORD let him alone. (At that time she said ‘bridegroom of blood,’ referring to circumcision.)
4:27 The LORD said to Aaron, ‘Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.’ So he met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him.
4:28 Moses told Aaron everything the LORD had sent him to say, and about all the signs he had commanded him to perform.
4:29 Moses and Aaron brought together all the elders of the Israelites,
4:30 and Aaron told them everything the LORD had said to Moses. He also performed the signs before the people,
4:31 and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD was concerned about them and had seen their misery, they bowed down and worshipped.
5:1 Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: “Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival to me in the wilderness.”‘
5:2 Pharaoh replied, ‘Who is the LORD, that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD and I will not let Israel go.’
5:3 They answered, ‘The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Now let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the LORD our God, or he may strike us with plagues or with the sword.’
5:4 But the king of Egypt said, ‘Moses and Aaron, why are you taking the people away from their labor? Get back to your work!’
5:5 Then Pharaoh said, ‘Look, the people of the land are now numerous, and you are stopping them from working.’
5:6 That same day Pharaoh gave this order to the slave drivers and overseers in charge of the people:
5:7 ‘You are no longer to supply the people with straw for making bricks; let them go and gather their own straw.
5:8 But require them to make the same number of bricks as before; don’t reduce the quota. They are lazy; that is why they are crying out, “Let us go and sacrifice to our God.”
5:9 Make the work harder for the men so that they keep working and pay no attention to lies.’
5:10 Then the slave drivers and the overseers went out and said to the people, ‘This is what Pharaoh says: “I will not give you any more straw.
5:11 Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced at all.”‘
5:12 So the people scattered all over Egypt to gather stubble to use for straw.
5:13 The slave drivers kept pressing them, saying, ‘Complete the work required of you for each day, just as when you had straw.’
5:14 And Pharaoh’s slave drivers beat the Israelite overseers they had appointed, demanding, ‘Why haven’t you met your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as before?’
5:15 Then the Israelite overseers went and appealed to Pharaoh: ‘Why have you treated your servants this way?
5:16 Your servants are given no straw, yet we are told, “Make bricks!” Your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.’
5:17 Pharaoh said, ‘Lazy, that’s what you are—lazy! That is why you keep saying, “Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.”
5:18 Now get to work. You will not be given any straw, yet you must produce your full quota of bricks.’
5:19 The Israelite overseers realized they were in trouble when they were told, ‘You are not to reduce the number of bricks required of you for each day.’
5:20 When they left Pharaoh, they found Moses and Aaron waiting to meet them,
5:21 and they said, ‘May the LORD look on you and judge you! You have made us obnoxious to Pharaoh and his officials and have put a sword in their hand to kill us.’
5:22 Moses returned to the LORD and said, ‘Why, Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Is this why you sent me?
5:23 Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people, and you have not rescued your people at all.’
6:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, ‘Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: Because of my mighty hand he will let them go; because of my mighty hand he will drive them out of his country.’
6:2 The Lord conversed with Moses, proclaiming, “I am the Lord.
6:3 To Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, I revealed myself as God Almighty, but my name, Jehovah, remained unknown to them.
6:4 Moreover, I established my covenant with them to grant them the land of Canaan, their land of sojourn where they were aliens.
6:5 I have also heard the agonised cries of the Israelites, enslaved by the Egyptians, and I have remembered my covenant.
6:6 Therefore, tell the Israelites, ‘I am the Lord, and I will liberate you from the burdens of the Egyptians. I will free you from their bondage and rescue you with a mighty arm and momentous judgements.
6:7 I will claim you as my people, and I shall be your God. You will recognise that I am the Lord your God, who delivers you from the Egyptian burdens.
6:8 I will bring you to the land I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and it shall be your inheritance. I am the Lord.’
6:9 Moses conveyed this message to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him, crushed in spirit and harsh slavery.
6:10 The Lord then instructed Moses,
6:11 ‘Enter and speak to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, so he lets the Israelites leave his land.’
6:12 Moses, before the Lord, voiced his doubts, ‘The Israelites have not listened to me; how then will Pharaoh listen to me, given my unrefined speech?’
6:13 The Lord spoke to both Moses and Aaron, giving them orders for the Israelites and Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to lead the Israelites out of Egypt.
6:14 These are the family heads: Reuben, Israel’s firstborn – Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben.
6:15 Simeon’s sons were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the families of Simeon.
6:16 These are Levi’s sons by their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, and Levi’s lifespan was 137 years.
6:17 The sons of Gershon were Libni and Shimi, by their families.
6:18 Kohath’s sons were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Kohath lived for 133 years.
6:19 Merari’s sons were Mahali and Mushi. These are the Levi families by their generations.
6:20 Amram married his aunt Jochebed, who bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived for 137 years.
6:21 Izhar’s sons were Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri.
6:22 Uzziel’s sons were Mishael, Elzaphan, and Zithri.
6:23 Aaron married Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab and sister of Naashon; she bore him Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
6:24 Korah’s sons were Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the Korahite families.
6:25 Eleazar, Aaron’s son, married one of Putiel’s daughters, who bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the Levite families.
6:26 These were the same Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said, ‘Lead the Israelites out of Egypt in their divisions.’
6:27 They were the ones speaking to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, about bringing the Israelites out of Egypt; this was that Moses and Aaron.
6:28 On the day the Lord spoke to Moses in Egypt,
6:29 the Lord said to him, ‘I am the Lord; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I am speaking to you.’
6:30 Moses said to the Lord, ‘I am not eloquent, and how will Pharaoh listen to me?’
7:1 The Lord replied to Moses, ‘See, I have made you like a god to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.
7:2 You shall speak all that I command you; Aaron your brother shall tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites leave his land.
7:3 I will harden Pharaoh’s heart and perform many signs and wonders in Egypt.
7:4 But Pharaoh will not listen to you, so I can lay my hand on Egypt to bring out my armies, my people the Israelites, from Egypt with great judgements.
7:5 The Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I stretch out my hand on Egypt and bring out the Israelites from among them.’
7:6 Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded.
7:7 Moses was 80 years old, and Aaron 83 when they spoke to Pharaoh.
7:8 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
7:9 ‘When Pharaoh says to you, “Perform a miracle,” then tell Aaron, “Take your rod and throw it before Pharaoh,” and it will become a serpent.
7:10 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did as the Lord commanded. Aaron threw his rod before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent.
7:11 Pharaoh summoned his wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians did likewise with their enchantments.
7:12 Each threw down his rod, and they became serpents; but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.
7:13 Yet Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had said.
7:14 The Lord said to Moses, ‘Pharaoh’s heart is hardened; he refuses to let the people go.
7:15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he goes out to the water. Stand by the river’s brink to meet him, and take in your hand the rod that turned into a serpent.
7:16 Tell him, “The Lord God of the Hebrews has sent me to you, saying, ‘Let my people go, so they may serve me in the wilderness,’ but so far, you have not listened.
7:17 Thus says the Lord, ‘By this, you shall know that I am the Lord: I will strike the water in the river with the rod in my hand, and it will turn to blood.
7:18 The fish in the river will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink its water.'”
7:19 The Lord said to Moses, ‘Tell Aaron to take his rod and stretch out his hand over the waters of Egypt—over their rivers, their streams, their ponds, and all their pools of water—so they may become blood. There will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and stone.’
7:20 Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded; he lifted the rod and struck the water in the river in the presence of Pharaoh and his servants, and all the river water turned to blood.
7:21 The fish in the river died, the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink the water from the river; there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
7:22 The Egyptian magicians did the same with their enchantments, but Pharaoh’s heart remained hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had said.
7:23 Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and did not take even this to heart.
7:24 All the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink, for they could not drink from the river water.
7:25 Seven days passed after the Lord struck the river.
8:1 The Lord spoke to Moses, ‘Go to Pharaoh and say to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Let my people go, that they may serve me.’
8:2 If you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs.
8:3 The river will swarm with frogs, which will go up and come into your house, into your bedroom, on your bed, into the houses of your servants, upon your people, into your ovens, and into your kneading bowls.
8:4 The frogs will come up on you, your people, and all your servants.'”
8:5 The Lord said to Moses, ‘Tell Aaron to stretch out his hand with his rod over the rivers, the streams, and the pools, to bring up frogs over the land of Egypt.’
8:6 Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.
8:7 But the magicians did the same with their enchantments and brought frogs upon the land of Egypt.
8:8 Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, ‘Plead with the Lord to take the frogs away from me and my people, and I will let the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.’
8:9 Moses said to Pharaoh, ‘Have the honour over me: when shall I plead for you, your servants, and your people, to destroy the frogs from you and your houses, leaving only those in the river?’
8:10 Pharaoh said, ‘Tomorrow.’ Moses replied, ‘It shall be as you say, so that you may know there is no one like the Lord our God.
8:11 The frogs will depart from you, your houses, your servants, and your people; they will remain only in the river.’
8:12 Moses and Aaron departed from Pharaoh’s presence, and Moses implored the LORD concerning the frogs He had sent upon Pharaoh.
8:13 The LORD acted upon Moses’ request; the frogs perished from homes, villages, and fields.
8:14 They were heaped together, and the land reeked.
8:15 Seeing relief, Pharaoh’s heart grew obstinate, ignoring their pleas as the LORD had foretold.
8:16 The LORD instructed Moses, “Tell Aaron to stretch his rod and strike the dust, turning it into lice across Egypt.”
8:17 They obeyed; Aaron extended his hand, dust transformed into lice, infesting humans and animals throughout Egypt.
8:18 Egyptian magicians tried replicating this with their spells, but failed; lice plagued both humans and animals.
8:19 The magicians confessed to Pharaoh, “This is God’s doing,” yet Pharaoh’s heart remained unyielding, as the LORD had said.
8:20 The LORD told Moses, “Meet Pharaoh in the morning; tell him, ‘The LORD demands, let My people go to serve Me.'”
8:21 “If you refuse, I will send swarms of flies upon you, your servants, your people, and your houses. Egyptian homes will be overrun by flies.”
8:22 “However, I will spare Goshen, where My people dwell, from the flies, demonstrating My presence in Egypt.”
8:23 “I will create a distinction between My people and yours. This sign will happen tomorrow.”
8:24 The LORD did so. A severe swarm of flies invaded Pharaoh’s palace and the houses of his servants, corrupting the land.
8:25 Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron, saying, “Sacrifice to your God within Egypt.”
8:26 Moses replied, “It’s inappropriate to do so; our sacrifices are abhorrent to Egyptians. If we do, won’t they stone us? We’ll travel three days into the wilderness to sacrifice to the LORD as He commands.”
8:27 Pharaoh consented, “I will let you go to sacrifice in the wilderness, but don’t go far. Pray for me.”
8:28 Moses agreed, “As I leave, I will ask the LORD to remove the flies tomorrow. But let Pharaoh not deceive us again by refusing to release the people.”
8:29 Moses entreated the LORD, and the flies left Pharaoh, his servants, and his people; none remained.
8:30 Moses left Pharaoh and prayed to the LORD.
8:31 The LORD responded to Moses; the flies disappeared from Pharaoh, his servants, and his people.
8:32 Yet Pharaoh’s heart was still hardened, and he did not release the people.
9:1 The LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, commands, Let My people go to serve Me.'”
9:2 “If you continue to hold them, beware, the LORD’s hand will strike your livestock in the fields – horses, donkeys, camels, cattle, sheep, all will be afflicted.”
9:3 “But the LORD will distinguish Israel’s livestock, ensuring none dies.”
9:4 The LORD set a time, saying, “Tomorrow the LORD will do this in the land.”
9:5 And the next day, the LORD did as promised; all Egyptian livestock perished, but none of Israel’s.
9:6 The LORD fulfilled His word; Egyptian livestock died, but not a single animal of the Israelites perished.
9:7 Pharaoh investigated and found that not one of the Israelite livestock was dead, yet his heart remained unyielding.
9:8 The LORD instructed Moses and Aaron, “Gather furnace soot; Moses shall toss it into the air before Pharaoh.
9:9 It will become fine dust over Egypt and cause boils breaking out on humans and animals.”
9:10 They took soot and stood before Pharaoh; Moses threw it into the air, and it caused boils on humans and animals.
9:11 The magicians couldn’t stand before Moses due to the boils, which afflicted them and all Egyptians.
9:12 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not listen to them, as the LORD had spoken to Moses.
9:13 The LORD said to Moses, “Rise early, stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, commands, Let My people go to serve Me.'”
9:14 “I will send all My plagues upon your heart, your servants, and your people, so you may know there is none like Me in all the earth.”
9:15 “I could have stretched out My hand to strike you and your people with pestilence, wiping you off the earth.”
9:16 “But I have raised you up to show you My power and that My name may be proclaimed throughout the earth.”
9:17 “Yet you still exalt yourself against My people by not letting them go.”
9:18 “Tomorrow at this time, I will bring a heavy hailstorm, the likes of which Egypt has never seen since its founding.”
9:19 “Send word to shelter your livestock and everything you have in the field; all humans and animals left outside will die when the hail falls.”
9:20 Those among Pharaoh’s servants who feared the LORD’s word hurried their servants and livestock indoors.
9:21 But those who did not take the LORD’s word seriously left their servants and livestock in the field.
9:22 The LORD said to Moses, “Stretch your hand toward the sky, and hail will fall over all Egypt – on humans, animals, and the plants of the field.”
9:23 Moses stretched his staff toward the sky, and the LORD sent thunder, hail, and lightning. Hail fell and fire flashed across the ground.
9:24 The LORD rained hail on Egypt; it was very heavy, unlike anything in Egypt’s history.
9:25 The hail struck everything in the fields – humans, animals, plants, and trees.
9:26 Only in Goshen, where the Israelites were, there was no hail.
9:27 Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron, admitting, “This time I have sinned; the LORD is just, and I and my people are in the wrong.”
9:28 “Pray to the LORD; enough of these mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go; you don’t have to stay.”
9:29 Moses replied, “As soon as I leave the city, I will spread my hands to the LORD; the thunder and hail will cease, so you may know the earth belongs to the LORD.”
9:30 “But I know you and your servants still do not fear the LORD God.”
9:31 The flax and barley were destroyed, for the barley was in the ear and the flax in bloom.
9:32 But the wheat and spelt were not destroyed, for they ripen later.
9:33 Moses left Pharaoh, went out of the city, and spread his hands to the LORD; the thunders and hail ceased, and rain no longer poured down on the earth.
9:34 Seeing the rain and hail had stopped, Pharaoh sinned again, hardening his heart and his servants’.
9:35 Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he did not let the Israelites go, as the LORD had said through Moses.
10:1 The LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and his servants’ hearts to display My signs among them,
10:2 and so you may tell your children and grandchildren how I dealt harshly with the Egyptians and performed My signs among them, that you may know I am the LORD.”
10:3 Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, asks, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go to serve Me.'”
10:4 “If you refuse, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.”
10:5 “They will cover the earth so you cannot see the ground and consume everything surviving the hail, including all trees growing in the fields.”
10:6 “They will fill your houses, and those of your officials and all Egyptians, something your fathers and ancestors have never seen. Then Moses turned and left Pharaoh.”
10:7 Pharaoh’s servants asked him, “How long will this man be a trap for us? Let the men go to serve the LORD their God. Do you not realize Egypt is ruined?”
10:8 Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. “Go, serve the LORD your God,” he said. “But who exactly will go?”
10:9 Moses replied, “We will go with our young and our old, our sons and daughters, and our flocks and herds, for we must hold a festival to the LORD.”
10:10 Pharaoh said, “May the LORD be with you if I let you and your children go! Clearly, you are plotting evil.
10:11 No! Only the men may go and worship the LORD; that is what you have been asking for.” Then Pharaoh drove them out of his presence.
10:12 The LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over Egypt so that locusts swarm over the land and devour every plant in the land, all that the hail has left.”
10:13 Moses stretched out his staff over Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind across the land all that day and night. Morning came, and the east wind brought the locusts.
10:14 Locusts swarmed throughout Egypt’s breadth, settling in every region. Unprecedented in number and severity, their like had neither been seen before nor would appear again.
10:15 They blanketed the earth, obscuring the sun, and devoured all vegetation left after the hail, leaving no greenery on trees or plants across Egypt.
10:16 In urgency, Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron, confessing his sin against the LORD and them.
10:17 He pleaded for forgiveness for his sin this once and beseeched the LORD to remove this deathly plague.
10:18 Moses left Pharaoh’s presence and prayed to the LORD.
10:19 The LORD sent a powerful westerly wind, driving the locusts into the Red Sea. Not a single locust remained in Egyptian territories.
10:20 Yet, the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he refused to release the Israelites.
10:21 The LORD instructed Moses to stretch out his hand, bringing palpable darkness over Egypt.
10:22 Moses complied, and a thick darkness enveloped Egypt for three days, preventing any movement. However, the Israelites had light in their homes.
10:23 Pharaoh called Moses, allowing them to worship the LORD but instructed them to leave their livestock.
10:24 Moses insisted on taking animals for sacrifices and burnt offerings to the LORD.
10:25 He declared that their cattle must accompany them, as they needed them for worshipping the LORD and did not know what they would need until they arrived.
10:26 Despite this, the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he refused to let them leave.
10:27 Pharaoh warned Moses to leave and never see his face again, threatening death upon their next meeting.
10:28 Moses agreed, confirming he would not see Pharaoh again.
11:1 The LORD told Moses about one final plague that would compel Pharaoh to release them. Once freed, they would be expelled completely.
11:2 Moses was instructed to tell the Israelites to borrow silver and gold jewellery from their neighbours.
11:3 The LORD made the Egyptians favourably disposed towards the Israelites. Moses himself was highly regarded in Egypt.
11:4 Moses declared that at midnight, the LORD would traverse Egypt.
11:5 Every firstborn, from Pharaoh’s heir to the maidservant’s child, along with the firstborn of animals, would perish.
11:6 This would cause unprecedented mourning throughout Egypt.
11:7 Yet, not a single Israelite, person or animal, would be harmed, demonstrating the LORD’s distinction between Egypt and Israel.
11:8 Moses predicted that Pharaoh’s officials would beg them to leave. After delivering this message, Moses left Pharaoh’s presence angrily.
11:9 The LORD knew Pharaoh would not heed them, allowing Him to demonstrate His might in Egypt.
11:10 Despite witnessing many wonders, Pharaoh’s heart remained hardened, and he did not release the Israelites.
12:1 The LORD addressed Moses and Aaron in Egypt, declaring,
12:2 “This month marks the commencement of months for you; it is to be the first month of your year.
12:3 Convey to the entire assembly of Israel: ‘On the tenth of this month, each family shall select a lamb, one per household.
12:4 If a household is too small for a whole lamb, they shall share one with their nearest neighbour, based on the number of people; you shall apportion the lamb according to what each person will eat.
12:5 Your lamb must be flawless, a one-year-old male, taken from the sheep or the goats.
12:6 Care for it until the fourteenth day of this month when the whole community of Israel shall slaughter it at dusk.
12:7 They are to take some of the blood and apply it to the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lamb.
12:8 That night, they shall eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
12:9 Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire—with the head, legs, and internal organs.
12:10 Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it.
12:11 This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.
12:12 On that same night, I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn—both people and animals—and I will bring judgment against all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.
12:13 The blood on your houses will be a sign for you. When I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.
12:14 This day shall be a memorial for you; you must celebrate it as a festival to the LORD. Throughout your generations, you are to celebrate it as a perpetual ordinance.
12:15 For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day, you must remove the yeast from your houses. Whoever eats anything with yeast from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.
12:16 On the first and seventh days, hold a sacred assembly. Do no regular work on these days, except for preparing meals.
12:17 Observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.
12:18 In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day, you must eat unleavened bread.
12:19 For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. Anyone, whether foreigner or native-born, who eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel.
12:20 Do not eat anything made with yeast. In all your dwellings, you must eat unleavened bread.”
12:21 Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb.
12:22 Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out of the door of your house until morning.
12:23 When the LORD goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.
12:24 “Observe this as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants.
12:25 When you enter the land that the LORD will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony.
12:26 And when your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’
12:27 then tell them, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.’” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.
12:28 The Israelites did just as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron.
12:29 At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well.
12:30 Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.
12:31 During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the LORD as you have requested.
12:32 Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go. And also bless me.”
12:33 The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country. “For otherwise,” they said, “we will all die!”
12:34 So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, and carried it on their shoulders in kneading troughs wrapped in clothing.
12:35 The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing.
12:36 The LORD had made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians.
12:37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.
12:38 Many other people went up with them, and also large droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.
12:39 With the dough the Israelites brought from Egypt, they baked loaves of unleavened bread. The dough was without yeast because they had been driven out of Egypt and did not have time to prepare food for themselves.
12:40 Now the length of time the Israelite people lived in Egypt was 430 years.
12:41 At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD’s divisions left Egypt.
12:42 Because the LORD kept vigil that night to bring them out of Egypt, on this night all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honor the LORD for the generations to come.
12:43 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “These are the regulations for the Passover meal: No foreigner may eat it.
12:44 Any slave you have bought may eat it after you have circumcised him,
12:45 but a temporary resident or a hired worker may not eat it.
12:46 It must be eaten inside the house; take none of the meat outside the house. Do not break any of the bones.
12:47 The whole community of Israel must celebrate it.
12:48 A foreigner residing among you who wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover must have all the males in his household circumcised; then he may take part like one born in the land. No uncircumcised male may eat it.
12:49 The same law applies both to the native-born and to the foreigner residing among you.”
12:50 All the Israelites did just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.
12:51 And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of Egypt by their divisions.
13:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
13:2 “Consecrate to me every firstborn male. The first offspring of every womb among the Israelites belongs to me, whether human or animal.”
13:3 Then Moses said to the people, “Commemorate this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery, because the LORD brought you out of it with a mighty hand. Eat nothing containing yeast.
13:4 Today, in the month of Aviv, you are leaving.
13:5 When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites and Jebusites—the land he swore to your ancestors to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you are to observe this ceremony in this month.
13:6 For seven days eat bread made without yeast and on the seventh day hold a festival to the LORD.
13:7 Eat unleavened bread during those seven days; nothing with yeast in it is to be seen among you, nor shall there be yeast seen anywhere within your borders.
13:8 On that day tell your son, ‘I do this because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’
13:9 This observance will be for you like a sign on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that this law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For the LORD brought you out of Egypt with his mighty hand.
13:10 You must keep this ordinance at the appointed time year after year.
13:11 “After the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites and gives it to you, as he promised on oath to you and your ancestors,
13:12 you are to give over to the LORD the first offspring of every womb. All the firstborn males of your livestock belong to the LORD.
13:13 Redeem with a lamb every firstborn donkey, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem every firstborn among your sons.
13:14 When in the future your son asks, ‘What does this mean?’ tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, the house of bondage.
13:15 When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed all the firstborn in Egypt, both human and animal. That is why I sacrifice to the LORD all the male offspring that first open the womb, but all my firstborn sons I redeem.’
13:16 This shall be a symbol on your hand and a mark on your forehead, for with a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt.
13:17 When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter. For God said, ‘If they face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.’
13:18 So God led the people around by the desert road toward the Red Sea. The Israelites went up out of Egypt ready for battle.
13:19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the Israelites swear an oath. He had said, ‘God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up with you from this place.’
13:20 They left Succoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the desert.
13:21 By day the LORD went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night.
13:22 Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the people.
14:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
14:2 ‘Tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp near Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. They are to encamp by the sea, directly opposite Baal Zephon.
14:3 Pharaoh will think, ‘The Israelites are wandering around the land in confusion, hemmed in by the desert.’
14:4 And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them. But I will gain glory for myself through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.’ So the Israelites did this.
14:5 When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, ‘What have we done? We have let the Israelites go and have lost their services!’
14:6 So he had his chariot made ready and took his army with him.
14:7 He took six hundred of the best chariots, along with all the other chariots of Egypt, with officers over all of them.
14:8 The LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out boldly.
14:9 The Egyptians—all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots, horsemen and troops—pursued the Israelites and overtook them as they camped by the sea near Pi Hahiroth, opposite Baal Zephon.
14:10 As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the LORD.
14:11 They said to Moses, ‘Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?
14:12 Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!’
14:13 Moses answered the people, ‘Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again.
14:14 The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.’
14:15 Then the LORD said to Moses, ‘Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on.
14:16 Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.
14:17 I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. And I will gain glory through Pharaoh and all his army, through his chariots and his horsemen.
14:18 The Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I gain glory through Pharaoh, his chariots and his horsemen.’
14:19 Then the angel of God, who had been traveling in front of Israel’s army, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from in front and stood behind them,
14:20 coming between the armies of Egypt and Israel. Throughout the night the cloud brought darkness to the one side and light to the other side; so neither went near the other all night long.
14:21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided,
14:22 and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.
14:23 The Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and horsemen followed them into the sea.
14:24 During the last watch of the night the LORD looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud at the Egyptian army and threw it into confusion.
14:25 He jammed the wheels of their chariots so that they had difficulty driving. And the Egyptians said, ‘Let’s get away from the Israelites! The LORD is fighting for them against Egypt.’
14:26 Then the LORD said to Moses, ‘Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen.’
14:27 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea went back to its place. The Egyptians were fleeing toward it, and the LORD swept them into the sea.
14:28 The water flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.
14:29 But the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.
14:30 That day the LORD saved Israel from the hands of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the shore.
14:31 And when the Israelites saw the mighty hand of the LORD displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared the LORD and put their trust in him and in Moses his servant.
15:1 Then Moses and the Israelites sang this hymn to the LORD, declaring, “I shall sing to the LORD, for He has triumphed magnificently: horse and rider He has cast into the sea.
15:2 The LORD is my strength and my melody, and He has become my salvation; He is my God, and I shall create a dwelling for Him; my father’s God, and I shall lift Him high.
15:3 The LORD is a warrior; the LORD is His name.
15:4 Pharaoh’s chariots and his forces He hurled into the sea; His elite commanders were submerged in the Red Sea.
15:5 The depths engulfed them; they plummeted to the depths like a stone.
15:6 Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power; Your right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy.
15:7 In the greatness of Your majesty, You overthrow those who rise against You; You unleash Your fury, and it consumes them like chaff.
15:8 At the blast of Your nostrils, the waters piled up, the floods stood firm like walls, and the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.
15:9 The enemy boasted, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoils; my desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’
15:10 You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.
15:11 Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You, majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, working wonders?
15:12 You stretched out Your right hand, the earth swallowed them.
15:13 In Your steadfast love, You have led the people whom You have redeemed; in Your might, You have guided them to Your holy abode.
15:14 The peoples have heard, they tremble; anguish grips the inhabitants of Philistia.
15:15 Then the chiefs of Edom are dismayed; trembling seizes the leaders of Moab; all the inhabitants of Canaan melt away.
15:16 Terror and dread fall upon them; by the power of Your arm, they become as still as a stone until Your people pass by, O LORD, until the people whom You have purchased pass by.
15:17 You will bring them in and plant them on Your own mountain, the place, O LORD, which You have made for Your abode, the sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established.
15:18 The LORD will reign forever and ever.
15:19 For when Pharaoh’s horses with his chariots and horsemen went into the sea, the LORD brought back the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea.
15:20 And Miriam, the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing.
15:21 And Miriam sang to them: “Sing to the LORD, for He has triumphed gloriously; horse and rider He has thrown into the sea.”
15:22 Moses led Israel away from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water.
15:23 When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah.
15:24 And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”
15:25 And he cried to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters became sweet. There he made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them,
15:26 saying, “If you diligently listen to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, your healer.”
15:27 Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there by the water.
16:1 They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt.
16:2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,
16:3 and the children of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
16:4 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.
16:5 On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily.”
16:6 So Moses and Aaron said to all the people of Israel, “At evening you shall know that it was the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
16:7 and in the morning you shall see the glory of the LORD, because he has heard your grumbling against the LORD. For what are we, that you grumble against us?”
16:8 And Moses said, “When the LORD gives you in the evening meat to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the LORD has heard your grumbling that you grumble against him—what are we? Your grumbling is not against us but against the LORD.”
16:9 Then Moses said to Aaron, “Say to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, ‘Come near before the LORD, for he has heard your grumbling.'”
16:10 And as soon as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.
16:11 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
16:12 “I have heard the grumbling of the people of Israel. Say to them, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the LORD your God.'”
16:13 In the evening quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning dew lay around the camp.
16:14 And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as frost on the ground.
16:15 When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.
16:16 This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Gather of it, each one of you, as much as he can eat. You shall each take an omer, according to the number of the persons that each of you has in his tent.'”
16:17 And the people of Israel did so. They gathered, some more, some less.
16:18 But when they measured it with an omer, whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack. Each of them gathered as much as he could eat.
16:19 And Moses said to them, “Let no one leave any of it over till the morning.”
16:20 But they did not listen to Moses. Some left part of it till the morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them.
16:21 Morning by morning they gathered it, each as much as he could eat; but when the sun grew hot, it melted.
16:22 On the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers each. And when all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses,
16:23 he said to them, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Tomorrow is a day of solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD; bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over lay aside to be kept till the morning.'”
16:24 So they laid it aside till the morning, as Moses commanded them, and it did not stink, and there were no worms in it.
16:25 Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the LORD; today you will not find it in the field.
16:26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is a Sabbath, there will be none.”
16:27 On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they found none.
16:28 And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
16:29 See! The LORD has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Remain each of you in his place; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”
16:30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
16:31 Now the house of Israel called its name Manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
16:32 And Moses declared, “This is the command of the LORD: Preserve an omer of it for your descendants, so they may see the bread with which I sustained you in the wilderness, when I led you out of Egypt.”
16:33 Then Moses instructed Aaron, “Take a container, and place an omer’s worth of manna within, and store it before the LORD to preserve it for our generations.”
16:34 Just as the LORD had commanded Moses, Aaron stored it before the Testimony, to be preserved.
16:35 The Israelites ate manna for forty years, until they reached a populated land; they ate manna until they arrived at the edge of the land of Canaan.
16:36 Now an omer is one-tenth of an ephah.
17:1 The entire assembly of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, traveling according to the LORD’s command, and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
17:2 Therefore, the people quarreled with Moses, demanding, “Give us water to drink.” Moses replied, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?”
17:3 But the people thirsted for water there, and complained against Moses, saying, “Why have you brought us up from Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our cattle with thirst?”
17:4 So Moses cried out to the LORD, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”
17:5 And the LORD said to Moses, “Go ahead of the people, and take with you some of the elders of Israel; also take in your hand the rod with which you struck the river, and go.
17:6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
17:7 He named the place Massah and Meribah because of the quarreling of the children of Israel, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
17:8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim.
17:9 Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us and go out, fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand.”
17:10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek. And Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
17:11 Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed; and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed.
17:12 But Moses’ hands were heavy; so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side; so his hands were steady until the sun set.
17:13 And Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the sword.
17:14 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
17:15 Moses built an altar and named it The LORD Is My Banner,
17:16 saying, “Because a hand is on the throne of the LORD, the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”
18:1 When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel His people, how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt,
18:2 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back,
18:3 and her two sons, of whom the name of one was Gershom (for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land”),
18:4 and the name of the other was Eliezer (for he said, “The God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”).
18:5 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness, where he was encamped at the mountain of God.
18:6 He said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons with her.”
18:7 So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, bowed down, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent.
18:8 Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardship that had come upon them in the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.
18:9 Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, whom He had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.
18:10 Jethro said, “Blessed be the LORD, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh, and who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
18:11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods, for in the very thing in which they dealt proudly, He was above them.”
18:12 Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.
18:13 The next day, Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning until evening.
18:14 When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning until evening?”
18:15 Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
18:16 When they have a dispute, they come to me, and I judge between one and another, and I make known the statutes of God and His laws.”
18:17 Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “The thing that you are doing is not good.
18:18 You will surely wear away, both you and this people that is with you, for the thing is too heavy for you; you are not able to perform it alone.
18:19 Listen now to my voice; I will give you counsel, and God will be with you: stand before God for the people, so that you may bring the difficulties to God.
18:20 And you shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and show them the way in which they must walk and the work they must do.
18:21 Moreover, select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
18:22 And let them judge the people at all times. Then it will be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they themselves shall judge. So it will be easier for you, for they will bear the burden with you.
18:23 If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all this people will also go to their place in peace.”
18:24 So Moses heeded the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he had said.
18:25 Moses chose able men out of all Israel and made them heads over the people: rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
18:26 So they judged the people at all times; the hard cases they brought to Moses, but they judged every small case themselves.
18:27 Then Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way to his own land.
19:1 In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on the same day, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.
19:2 For they had departed from Rephidim, had come to the Wilderness of Sinai, and camped in the wilderness. So Israel camped there before the mountain.
19:3 And Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:
19:4 ‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.
19:5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.
19:6 And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”
19:7 So Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before them all these words which the LORD commanded him.
19:8 Then all the people answered together and said, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do.” So Moses brought back the words of the people to the LORD.
19:9 And the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I come to you in the thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and believe you forever.”
19:10 And the LORD spoke to Moses: “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. Have them wash their garments
19:11 and prepare for the third day, for on the third day the LORD will descend in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai.
19:12 You shall set limits for the people all around, saying, ‘Be careful not to go up the mountain or touch its edge. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.
19:13 No hand shall touch him, but he shall be stoned or shot; whether beast or man, he shall not live.’ When the trumpet sounds a long blast, they may go up the mountain.”
19:14 Then Moses descended from the mountain to the people and consecrated them, and they washed their garments.
19:15 And he said to the people, “Be ready for the third day; do not go near a woman.”
19:16 On the third day, as morning dawned, there was thunder and lightning, a thick cloud on the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled.
19:17 Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.
19:18 Mount Sinai was covered in smoke because the LORD descended upon it in fire. The smoke rose like smoke from a kiln, and the whole mountain trembled greatly.
19:19 As the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him in thunder.
19:20 The LORD descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the top of the mountain. So Moses went up.
19:21 And the LORD said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to the LORD to gaze and many of them perish.
19:22 Also let the priests who come near to the LORD consecrate themselves, lest the LORD break out against them.”
19:23 And Moses said to the LORD, “The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, for you yourself warned us, saying, ‘Set limits around the mountain and consecrate it.'”
19:24 Then the LORD said to him, “Go down, and come up bringing Aaron with you. But do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to the LORD, lest he break out against them.”
19:25 So Moses went down to the people and told them.
20:1 And God spoke all these words, saying,
20:2 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
20:3 “You shall have no other gods before me.
20:4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
20:5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
20:6 and showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
20:7 “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
20:8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
20:9 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work,
20:10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.
20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
20:12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
20:13 “You shall not murder.
20:14 “You shall not commit adultery.
20:15 “You shall not steal.
20:16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
20:17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”
20:18 Now when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid and trembled, and they stood far off
20:19 and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.”
20:20 Moses said to the people, “Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you, that you may not sin.”
20:21 The people stood far off, while Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
20:22 And the LORD said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the people of Israel: ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have talked with you from heaven.
20:23 You shall not make gods of silver to be with me, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.
20:24 An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you and bless you.
20:25 If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones, for if you wield your tool on it you profane it.
20:26 And you shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness be not exposed on it.’
21:1 “Now these are the rules that you shall set before them.
21:2 When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.
21:3 If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him.
21:4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out alone.
21:5 But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’
21:6 then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall be his slave forever.
21:7 “When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.
21:8 If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her.
21:9 If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter.
21:10 If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
21:11 And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.
21:12 “Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death.
21:13 But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee.
21:14 But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
21:15 “Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.
21:16 “Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death.
21:17 “Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.
21:18 “When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist and the man does not die but takes to his bed,
21:19 then if the man rises again and walks outdoors with his staff, he who struck him shall be clear; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall have him thoroughly healed.
21:20 “When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished.
21:21 But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be punished; for the slave is his money.
21:22 “When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman’s husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine.
21:23 But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life,
21:24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
21:25 burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
21:26 “When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free because of his eye.
21:27 Should one cause the loss of a tooth of his male or female servant, he shall set them free in compensation for the tooth.
21:28 If an ox causes the death of a man or a woman by goring, the ox shall be stoned, and its flesh not eaten. The owner of the ox shall be absolved.
21:29 However, if the ox was known to gore in the past and the owner failed to secure it, resulting in death, then both the ox and its owner shall be put to death.
21:30 If a monetary penalty is imposed, the owner shall pay whatever sum is demanded for his life.
21:31 This applies equally if the ox gores a son or daughter. The same judgement shall prevail.
21:32 If a servant is gored by an ox, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver to the master, and the ox shall be stoned.
21:33 If a man leaves a pit uncovered or digs one and fails to cover it, and an ox or donkey falls in,
21:34 the owner of the pit must compensate the animal’s owner, but the dead animal shall become his.
21:35 If one man’s ox injures another’s so it dies, they shall sell the live ox and divide the proceeds, as well as the dead animal.
21:36 But if the ox was known to gore in the past and was not restrained, the owner must fully compensate, providing an ox in place of the ox, and keeping the dead animal.
22:1 If a man steals an ox or sheep and slaughters or sells it, he must repay five cattle for the ox and four sheep for the sheep.
22:2 If a thief is caught during a break-in and is struck and dies, the defender is not guilty of bloodshed.
22:3 But if the sun has risen, there is guilt for bloodshed. The thief must make full restitution; if unable, he shall be sold to pay for his theft.
22:4 If the stolen animal is found alive in his possession, he must pay double, whether it be ox, donkey, or sheep.
22:5 If a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over, or lets his animal loose and it feeds in another’s field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field or vineyard.
22:6 If a fire breaks out and spreads to thorns, consuming stacks, standing grain, or a field, the one who started the fire must make restitution.
22:7 If a man gives his neighbor money or goods to look after and they are stolen from the neighbor’s house, the thief, if caught, must pay double.
22:8 If the thief is not caught, the owner of the house must appear before the judges to determine whether he has taken his neighbor’s property.
22:9 In all cases of illegal possession of an ox, donkey, sheep, clothing, or any lost item which someone claims, both parties shall bring their cases before the judges. The one whom the judges declare guilty must pay double to his neighbor.
22:10 If a man entrusts an ox, donkey, sheep, or any animal to his neighbor and it dies, is injured, or is taken away without anyone seeing,
22:11 an oath before the LORD shall be between the two of them that he has not laid hands on his neighbor’s property. The owner shall accept this, and no restitution is required.
22:12 But if the animal was stolen from the neighbor, restitution must be made to the owner.
22:13 If it was torn by wild beasts, he shall bring evidence of the remains; no restitution is required for the torn animal.
22:14 If a man borrows an animal from his neighbor and it gets injured or dies in the owner’s absence, he must make full restitution.
22:15 If the owner is with it, no restitution is required; if it is a hired animal, it came for its hire.
22:16 If a man seduces an unbetrothed virgin and sleeps with her, he shall endow her to be his wife.
22:17 If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equivalent to the dowry for virgins.
22:18 Do not allow a sorceress to live.
22:19 Anyone who has sexual relations with an animal must surely be put to death.
22:20 Whoever sacrifices to any god other than the LORD alone shall be devoted to destruction.
22:21 Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
22:22 Do not afflict any widow or orphan.
22:23 If you do mistreat them and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry.
22:24 My anger will flare up, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.
22:25 If you lend money to my people among you who are needy, do not act like a creditor; charge no interest.
22:26 If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, return it by sunset,
22:27 because it is his only covering; it is his cloak for his body. What else will he sleep in? When he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.
22:28 Do not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.
22:29 Do not delay offering the first of your ripe fruits and juices. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me.
22:30 Do likewise with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay seven days with their mother; on the eighth day give them to me.
22:31 You shall be holy men to me; therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.
23:1 Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness.
23:2 Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd,
23:3 and do not show favoritism to a poor person in a lawsuit.
23:4 If you come across your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to return it.
23:5 If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help them with it.
23:6 Do not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.
23:7 Have nothing to do with a false charge and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty.
23:8 Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the innocent.
23:9 Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.
23:10 For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield,
23:11 but in the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the wild animals may eat. You shall do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.
23:12 Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the slave born in your household and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed.
23:13 Be careful to do everything I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods; do not let them be heard on your lips.
23:14 Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me.
23:15 Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt. No one is to appear before me empty-handed.
23:16 Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.
23:17 Three times a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign LORD.
23:18 Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast. The fat of my festival offerings must not be kept until morning.
23:19 Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
23:20 See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.
23:21 Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since my Name is in him.
23:22 If you listen carefully to what he says and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you.
23:23 My angel will go ahead of you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out.
23:24 Do not bow down before their gods or worship them or follow their practices. You must demolish them and break their sacred stones to pieces.
23:25 Worship the LORD your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you,
23:26 and none will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will give you a full life span.
23:27 I shall send my dread before thee, to confound all the peoples whither thou goest, making thine enemies turn their backs to thee.
23:28 I shall dispatch hornets ahead of thee, to expel the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from thy path.
23:29 I will not expel them swiftly, lest the land turn barren and wild beasts multiply against thee.
23:30 Gradually shall I drive them out, until thou multiply and inherit the land.
23:31 I shall establish thy boundaries from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, from the desert to the river, delivering the inhabitants of the land into thy hands, that thou might drive them out.
23:32 Thou shalt forge no covenant with them, nor with their deities.
23:33 They shall not abide in thy land, lest they cause thee to sin against me: serving their gods will ensnare thee.
24:1 And unto Moses He said, Ascend unto the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy elders of Israel, to worship at a distance.
24:2 Only Moses shall approach the Lord; the rest shall not come near, nor shall the people ascend with him.
24:3 Moses recounted to the people all the Lord’s words and judgments; unanimously, they pledged, “All that the Lord hath spoken, we shall do.”
24:4 Moses inscribed all the Lord’s words, rose early, and erected an altar at the mountain’s base, setting up twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
24:5 He sent Israelite youths to offer burnt sacrifices and oxen as peace offerings to the Lord.
24:6 Moses took half the blood, placing it in basins; the other half he sprinkled on the altar.
24:7 He read the Book of the Covenant to the people, who affirmed, “All that the Lord hath spoken, we shall faithfully execute.
24:8 Moses sprinkled blood on the people, proclaiming, “Behold, the blood of the covenant the Lord hath established with you concerning these words.”
24:9 Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and the seventy elders ascended; they saw the God of Israel, beneath whose feet was a sapphire pavement, clear as the heavens.
24:10 They beheld God, and ate and drank.
24:11 The Lord laid not His hand upon the leaders of the Israelites; they beheld God, and were nourished.
24:12 The Lord summoned Moses to the mount to receive stone tablets, laws, and commandments He had inscribed, to instruct the people.
24:13 Moses, with his assistant Joshua, ascended the mountain of God.
24:14 He instructed the elders to wait for their return, leaving Aaron and Hur in charge for any disputes.
24:15 Moses ascended the mountain, enveloped by a cloud.
24:16 The Lord’s glory rested upon Mount Sinai, covered by the cloud for six days; on the seventh day, He called to Moses from the cloud.
24:17 The Israelites saw the Lord’s glory as a consuming fire atop the mountain.
24:18 Moses entered the cloud and ascended the mountain, remaining there forty days and nights.
25:1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
25:2 “Speak to the Israelites to bring me an offering from everyone moved by his heart, you shall take my offering.
25:3 This is the offering to take: gold, silver, brass,
25:4 blue, purple, scarlet yarn, fine linen, goats’ hair,
25:5 tanned ram skins, dolphin skins, acacia wood,
25:6 oil for lighting, spices for anointing oil and sweet incense,
25:7 onyx stones and gems for mounting on the ephod and breastplate.
25:8 Let them construct a sanctuary for Me, that I may dwell among them.
25:9 You shall make it according to the pattern of the Tabernacle and its furnishings, as shown to you on the mountain.
25:10 They shall make an ark of acacia wood; its length two and a half cubits, its width a cubit and a half, its height a cubit and a half.
25:11 Overlay it with pure gold, inside and out, and fashion a gold border around it.
25:12 Cast four gold rings for it, attaching them to its four feet.
25:13 Make poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold,
25:14 and insert the poles into the rings on the ark’s sides to carry it.
25:15 The poles shall remain in the rings; they shall not be removed.
25:16 Place in the ark the Testimony which I shall give you.
25:17 Make a mercy seat of pure gold; two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
25:18 Make two gold cherubim, beaten from the same piece as the mercy seat.
25:19 Place one cherub at each end, making the cherubim at the two ends of the mercy seat.
25:20 The cherubim shall have their wings spread upwards, sheltering the mercy seat with their wings, facing each other and the mercy seat.
25:21 Place the mercy seat atop the ark; in the ark, put the Testimony that I will give you.
25:22 There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim on the ark of the Testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will command you for the Israelites.
25:23 Make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.
25:24 Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold border around it.
25:25 Make a rim a handbreadth wide around it and a gold border for the rim.
25:26 Make four gold rings for it and attach the rings to the four corners at its legs.
25:27 The rings shall be close to the rim, as holders for the poles to carry the table.
25:28 Make the poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold, and use them to carry the table.
25:29 Make its dishes, pans, jars, and bowls for pouring offerings, all of pure gold.
25:30 Place the Bread of the Presence on the table before Me at all times.
25:31 Make a lampstand of pure gold; the lampstand shall be made of hammered work, its base, stem, cups, knobs, and flowers shall be from the same piece.
25:32 Six branches shall extend from its sides, three from one side and three from the other.
25:33 Each of the six branches shall have three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with a knob and a flower.
25:34 The lampstand itself shall have four cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with its knob and flower.
25:35 A knob shall be under the first pair of branches extending from it, a knob under the second pair, and a knob under the third pair, for the six branches extending from the lampstand.
25:36 Their knobs and branches shall be of one piece, all of it one hammered piece of pure gold.
25:37 Make its seven lamps, and set them up so they light the space in front of it.
25:38 Its snuffers and trays shall be of pure gold.
25:39 Use a talent of pure gold for the lampstand and all these accessories.
25:40 See that you make them according to the pattern shown to you on the mountain.
26:1 “Moreover, you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twisted linen, blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; with cherubim of skilled workmanship you shall make them.
26:2 The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains shall have the same measurements.
26:3 Five curtains shall be joined to one another; and the other five curtains shall be joined to one another.
26:4 Make loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set, and likewise on the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set.
26:5 Make fifty loops on the one curtain, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain in the second set; the loops shall be opposite each other.
26:6 Make fifty gold clasps, and couple the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle may be a single unit.
26:7 Make curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; make eleven such curtains.
26:8 The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; the eleven curtains shall have the same measurements.
26:9 Join five of the curtains by themselves and the other six by themselves; fold the sixth curtain double at the front of the tent.
26:10 Make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the first set, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second set.
26:11 Make fifty bronze clasps, and insert the clasps into the loops; join the tent together so that it may be one.
26:12 The half curtain that remains overhanging shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.
26:13 The extra cubit on one side and the extra cubit on the other side of the length of the curtains shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.
26:14 Make a covering for the tent of tanned ram skins and a covering above of dolphin skins.
26:15 For the tabernacle, construct upright boards of acacia wood.
26:16 Each board shall measure ten cubits in length and one and a half cubits in width.
26:17 Equip each board with two tenons, aligned in parallel; this design shall apply to all the tabernacle’s boards.
26:18 On the tabernacle’s southern flank, erect twenty such boards.
26:19 Under these boards, place forty silver bases – two bases per board, corresponding to its two tenons.
26:20 For the tabernacle’s northern aspect, also prepare twenty boards.
26:21 Accompany these with forty silver bases; two bases for each board as well.
26:22 For the tabernacle’s western side, construct six boards.
26:23 For the tabernacle’s corners on this side, make two additional boards.
26:24 These corner boards shall be joined at the bottom and connected at the top into a single ring, forming the two corners.
26:25 There shall be eight boards with sixteen silver bases – two bases under each board.
26:26 Craft bars from acacia wood: five for the boards on one side of the tabernacle,
26:27 Five for the opposite side, and five for the back, or western side.
26:28 The central bar shall extend from end to end at the middle of the boards.
26:29 Overlay the boards with gold and construct gold rings to house the bars. Overlay the bars with gold as well.
26:30 Erect the tabernacle as per the design shown to you on the mountain.
26:31 Create a veil of blue, purple, scarlet yarn, and fine linen, with cherubim skilfully woven into it.
26:32 Hang it on four gold-plated acacia wood pillars with gold hooks, set in four silver bases.
26:33 Hang the veil with clasps, and bring the Ark of the Covenant inside, behind the veil. This shall separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy.
26:34 Place the mercy seat atop the Ark in the Most Holy Place.
26:35 Outside the veil, position the table on the north side of the tabernacle and the lampstand on the south side.
26:36 For the tent’s entrance, make a screen of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely twisted linen, in an embroidered design.
26:37 For this screen, construct five pillars of acacia wood, overlay them with gold and use gold hooks. Cast five bronze bases for them.
27:1 Fabricate an altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, five cubits wide – square in shape – and three cubits high.
27:2 Make horns at each of the four corners, formed of one piece with the altar, and overlay it with bronze.
27:3 Make all its utensils of bronze – its pans, shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans.
27:4 Construct a bronze grating, a network for the altar, and put four bronze rings at its four corners.
27:5 Set the grating below the altar’s ledge so that it extends halfway up the altar.
27:6 Make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.
27:7 The poles shall be inserted into the rings so they will be on two sides of the altar when it is carried.
27:8 Build the altar hollow, with boards, as shown you on the mountain.
27:9 Make the courtyard for the tabernacle: for the south side, hangings of finely twisted linen, a hundred cubits long,
27:10 With twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, with silver hooks and bands on the posts.
27:11 Similarly, for the north side, hangings a hundred cubits long, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts.
27:12 For the west side, hangings fifty cubits long, with ten posts and ten bases.
27:13 The east side, also fifty cubits,
27:14 With hangings fifteen cubits long on one side, with three posts and three bases,
27:15 And fifteen cubits of hangings on the other side, with three posts and three bases.
27:16 For the gate of the courtyard, a curtain twenty cubits long, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely twisted linen, embroidered, with four posts and four bases.
27:17 All the posts around the courtyard are to be banded with silver and have silver hooks and bronze bases.
27:18 The courtyard shall be a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and five cubits high, with hangings of finely twisted linen and bronze bases.
27:19 All the tabernacle’s tent pegs, and those of the courtyard, shall be of bronze.
27:20 Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.
27:21 In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil that shields the Ark of the Covenant law, Aaron and his sons are to keep the lamps burning before the Lord from evening till morning. This is to be a lasting ordinance among the Israelites for the generations to come.
28:1 Summon Aaron your brother and his sons, Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, from among the Israelites, to serve me as priests.
28:2 Make sacred garments for your brother Aaron, to give him dignity and honour.
28:3 Speak to all the skilled workers to whom I have given wisdom in such workmanship to make Aaron’s garments for consecrating him, so he may serve me as a priest.
28:4 These are the garments they are to make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a woven tunic, a turban, and a sash. They are to make these sacred garments for your brother Aaron and his sons so they may serve me as priests.
28:5 Have them use gold, and blue, purple and scarlet yarn, and fine linen.
28:6 Make the ephod of gold, and of blue, purple and scarlet yarn, and of finely twisted linen, the work of a skilled craftsman.
28:7 It shall have two shoulder pieces attached to two of its corners, so it can be fastened.
28:8 Its skillfully woven waistband is to be like it—of one piece with the ephod and made with gold, and with blue, purple and scarlet yarn, and with finely twisted linen.
28:9 Take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel
28:10 in the order of their birth—six names on one stone and the remaining six on the other.
28:11 Engrave the two stones like a seal, in the style of an engraver in stone. Mount them in gold filigree settings.
28:12 Fasten the stones on the shoulders of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel. Aaron is to bear the names on his shoulders as a memorial before the Lord.
28:13 Make gold filigree settings
28:14 and two braided chains of pure gold, like a rope, and attach the chains to the settings.
28:15 Fashion a breastpiece for making decisions—the work of a skilled craftsman. Make it like the ephod: of gold, and of blue, purple and scarlet yarn, and of finely twisted linen.
28:16 It is to be square—a span long and a span wide—and folded double.
28:17 Then mount four rows of precious stones on it. The first row shall be carnelian, chrysolite and beryl;
28:18 the second row shall be turquoise, lapis lazuli and emerald;
28:19 the third row shall be jacinth, agate and amethyst;
28:20 the fourth row shall be topaz, onyx and jasper. Mount them in gold filigree settings.
28:21 There are to be twelve stones, one for each of the names of the sons of Israel, each engraved like a seal with the name of one of the twelve tribes.
28:22 For the breastpiece make braided chains of pure gold, like a rope.
28:23 Make two gold rings for it and fasten them to two corners of the breastpiece.
28:24 Fasten the two gold chains to the rings at the corners of the breastpiece,
28:25 and the other ends of the chains to the two settings, attaching them to the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front.
28:26 Make two gold rings and attach them to the other two corners of the breastpiece on the inside edge next to the ephod.
28:27 Make two more gold rings and attach them to the bottom of the shoulder pieces on the front of the ephod, close to the seam just above the waistband of the ephod.
28:28 The rings of the breastpiece are to be tied to the rings of the ephod with blue cord, connecting it to the waistband, so that the breastpiece will not swing out from the ephod.
28:29 Whenever Aaron enters the Holy Place, he will bear the names of the sons of Israel over his heart on the breastpiece of decision as a continuing memorial before the Lord.
28:30 Insert the Urim and Thummim into the breastpiece, so they may be over Aaron’s heart whenever he enters the presence of the Lord. Thus Aaron will always bear the means of making decisions for the Israelites over his heart before the Lord.
28:31 Make the robe of the ephod entirely of blue cloth,
28:32 Above it, there shall be a hole in the centre, encircled by a collar of woven work, like the neck of a mail armour, to prevent tearing.
28:33 Around the lower hem, you shall fashion pomegranates in blue, purple, and scarlet, interspersed with golden bells.
28:34 A gold bell and a pomegranate, alternating around the hem of the robe.
28:35 Aaron must wear it when serving; its sound will be heard when he enters and leaves the sanctuary, so he does not perish.
28:36 Craft a pure gold plate and engrave it as a seal with ‘HOLINESS TO THE LORD’.
28:37 Attach it with a blue cord to the front of the turban.
28:38 It will rest on Aaron’s forehead, bearing the guilt associated with the sacred offerings, ensuring their acceptance by the LORD.
28:39 You shall create a finely embroidered tunic, a turban of fine linen, and a decorative sash.
28:40 Make tunics, sashes, and caps for Aaron’s sons, for dignity and adornment.
28:41 Clothe Aaron and his sons with these, anoint and consecrate them, sanctifying them to serve as priests.
28:42 Make linen undergarments for them, covering from waist to thigh.
28:43 Aaron and his sons must wear them when entering the tent of meeting or approaching the altar in the sanctuary, to avoid incurring guilt and dying. This is a perpetual ordinance for Aaron and his descendants.
29:1 To consecrate them for priesthood, use one young bull and two unblemished rams.
29:2 Accompany these with unleavened bread, cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, all made from wheat flour.
29:3 Place these in a basket and present them with the bull and the rams.
29:4 Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and wash them with water.
29:5 Dress Aaron in the tunic, robe of the ephod, ephod, breastpiece, and bind him with the artistically woven band of the ephod.
29:6 Place the turban on his head and attach the sacred diadem to the turban.
29:7 Then anoint him by pouring the anointing oil over his head.
29:8 Bring his sons and dress them in tunics.
29:9 Gird both Aaron and his sons with sashes and cap them. The priesthood is theirs by a lasting ordinance. Thus, consecrate Aaron and his sons.
29:10 Bring the bull to the front of the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head.
29:11 Slaughter the bull before the LORD at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
29:12 Take some of its blood and apply it with your finger to the horns of the altar, pouring out the rest at the base of the altar.
29:13 Take all the fat covering the internal organs, the lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with their fat, and burn them on the altar.
29:14 Burn the bull’s flesh, skin, and dung outside the camp as a sin offering.
29:15 Take one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head.
29:16 Slaughter the ram and sprinkle its blood around the altar.
29:17 Cut the ram into pieces, wash its internal organs and legs, and place them with its head and other pieces.
29:18 Burn the entire ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
29:19 Take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head.
29:20 Slaughter the ram, take some of its blood, and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear, the lobes of his sons’ right ears, the thumbs of their right hands, and the big toes of their right feet. Then sprinkle blood around the altar.
29:21 Take some blood from the altar and some anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments and on his sons and their garments. Then he and his clothing will be consecrated, as well as his sons and their clothing.
29:22 Take from this ram the fat, the fat tail, the fat covering the internal organs, the lobe of the liver, both kidneys with the fat on them, and the right thigh (it is a ram of ordination),
29:23 along with one loaf of bread, one cake made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD.
29:24 Place all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons and wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.
29:25 Then take them from their hands and burn them on the altar along with the burnt offering, as a pleasing aroma before the LORD. It is an offering made by fire to the LORD.
29:26 Take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s ordination and wave it as a wave offering before the LORD; it will be your share.
29:27 Consecrate the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution, which are waved and raised up, from the ram of ordination, from what was for Aaron and his sons.
29:28 This is to be a perpetual share from the Israelites for Aaron and his descendants. It is a contribution from the Israelites from their fellowship offerings, their contribution to the LORD.
29:29 The sacred garments of Aaron are to be his sons’ after him, to be anointed and ordained in them.
29:30 The son who succeeds him as priest and comes to the tent of meeting to minister in the Holy Place is to wear them for seven days.
29:31 Take the ram for the ordination and cook its meat in a sacred place.
29:32 At the entrance to the tent of meeting, Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket.
29:33 They are to eat these offerings by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. No one else may eat them, because they are sacred.
29:34 And if any of the meat for the ordination or any bread remains until morning, burn it up. It must not be eaten, because it is sacred.
29:35 Do for Aaron and his sons everything I have commanded you, taking seven days to ordain them.
29:36 Sacrifice a bull each day as a sin offering to make atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it.
29:37 For seven days make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will be most holy, and whatever touches it will be holy.
29:38 “Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two one-year-old lambs each day, continuously.
29:39 Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight.
29:40 With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering.
29:41 Offer the second lamb at twilight with the same grain offering and drink offering as in the morning, as a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
29:42 For the generations to come, this burnt offering is to be made regularly at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, before the LORD. There I will meet you and speak to you;
29:43 there also I will meet with the Israelites, and the place will be consecrated by my glory.
29:44 So I will consecrate the Tent of Meeting and the altar and will consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests.
29:45 Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God.
29:46 They will know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them out of Egypt so that I might dwell among them. I am the LORD their God.
30:1 “Make an altar of acacia wood for burning incense.
30:2 It is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high—its horns of one piece with it.
30:3 Overlay the top and all the sides and the horns with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.
30:4 Make two gold rings for the altar below the molding—two on opposite sides—to hold the poles used to carry it.
30:5 Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
30:6 Put the altar in front of the curtain that is before the ark of the Testimony—before the atonement cover that is over the Testimony—where I will meet with you.
30:7 “Aaron must burn fragrant incense on the altar every morning when he tends the lamps.
30:8 He must burn incense again when he lights the lamps at twilight so incense will burn regularly before the LORD for the generations to come.
30:9 Do not offer on this altar any other incense or any burnt offering or grain offering, and do not pour a drink offering on it.
30:10 Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on its horns. This annual atonement must be made with the blood of the atonement sin offering for the generations to come. It is most holy to the LORD.”
30:11 Then the LORD said to Moses,
30:12 When you tally the Israelites, each man must pay a ransom for himself to the LORD when you number them, so that no plague may come upon them during the census.
30:13 Everyone counted must contribute half a shekel, based on the sanctuary shekel (which equals twenty gerahs). This half shekel is a donation to the LORD.
30:14 Every man included in the census, aged twenty years and older, must pay this contribution to the LORD.
30:15 The wealthy shall not give more, nor shall the poor give less than the half shekel, when you make this offering to the LORD to atone for your lives.
30:16 Use this atonement money from the Israelites for the service of the Tent of Meeting. It will be a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD, making atonement for your lives.
30:17 The LORD said to Moses,
30:18 “Make a bronze basin with its stand for washing. Place it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water in it.
30:19 Aaron and his sons are to wash their hands and feet with water from it.
30:20 When they enter the Tent of Meeting, they must wash with water so they will not die. Also, when they approach the altar to minister by presenting a food offering to the LORD,
30:21 they shall wash their hands and feet so they will not die. This is to be a lasting ordinance for Aaron and his descendants for the generations to come.”
30:22 The LORD said to Moses,
30:23 “Take the finest spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half as much (that is, 250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant calamus,
30:24 500 shekels of cassia—all according to the sanctuary shekel—and a hin of olive oil.
30:25 Make these into a sacred anointing oil, a fragrant blend, the work of a perfumer. It will be the sacred anointing oil.
30:26 Then use it to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the covenant law,
30:27 the table and all its articles, the lampstand and its accessories, the altar of incense,
30:28 the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the basin with its stand.
30:29 You shall consecrate them so they will be most holy, and whatever touches them will be holy.
30:30 Anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them so they may serve me as priests.
30:31 Say to the Israelites, ‘This is to be my sacred anointing oil for the generations to come.
30:32 Do not pour it on anyone else’s body and do not make any other oil using the same formula. It is sacred, and you are to consider it sacred.
30:33 Whoever makes perfume like it and puts it on anyone other than a priest must be cut off from their people.'”
30:34 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take fragrant spices—gum resin, onycha and galbanum—and pure frankincense, all in equal amounts.
30:35 Make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer. It is to be salted and pure and sacred.
30:36 Grind some of it to powder and place it in front of the ark of the covenant law in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be most holy to you.
30:37 Do not make any incense with this formula for yourselves; consider it holy to the LORD.
30:38 Whoever makes any like it to enjoy its fragrance must be cut off from their people.”
31:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
31:2 “See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,
31:3 and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills—
31:4 to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze,
31:5 to cut and set stones, to work in wood, and to engage in all kinds of crafts.
31:6 Moreover, I have appointed Oholiab son of Ahisamak, of the tribe of Dan, to help him. Also I have given ability to all the skilled workers to make everything I have commanded you:
31:7 the tent of meeting, the ark of the covenant law with the atonement cover on it, and all the other furnishings of the tent—
31:8 the table and its articles, the pure gold lampstand and all its accessories, the altar of incense,
31:9 the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, the basin with its stand—
31:10 and also the woven garments, both the sacred garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons when they serve as priests,
31:11 and the anointing oil and fragrant incense for the Holy Place. They are to make them just as I commanded you.”
31:12 Then the LORD said to Moses,
31:13 “Say to the Israelites, ‘You must observe my Sabbaths. This will be a sign between me and you for the generations to come, so you may know that I am the LORD, who makes you holy.
31:14 “‘Observe the Sabbath because it is holy to you. Anyone who desecrates it is to be put to death; those who do any work on that day must be cut off from their people.
31:15 For six days work is to be done, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death.
31:16 The Israelites are to observe the Sabbath, celebrating it for the generations to come as a lasting covenant.
31:17 It will be a sign between me and the Israelites forever, for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.'”
31:18 When the LORD finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant law, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
32:1 When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.”
32:2 Aaron answered them, “Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.”
32:3 So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron.
32:4 He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”
32:5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of the calf and announced, “Tomorrow there will be a festival to the LORD.”
32:6 So the next day the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings. Afterward they sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.
32:7 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt.
32:8 They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.’
32:9 “I have seen these people,” the LORD said to Moses, “and they are a stiff-necked people.
32:10 Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”
32:11 But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God. “LORD,” he said, “why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?
32:12 Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster on your people.
32:13 Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever.'”
32:14 Then the LORD relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.
32:15 Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back.
32:16 The tablets were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
32:17 Hearing the noise of the people shouting, Joshua said to Moses, “There is the sound of war in the camp.”
32:18 Moses replied: “It is not the sound of victory, it is not the sound of defeat; it is the sound of singing that I hear.”
32:19 When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain.
32:20 He took the calf they had fashioned, set it ablaze, pulverized it to dust, scattered it upon the water, and compelled the Israelites to drink it.
32:21 Moses inquired of Aaron, “What have these people done to you, leading you to bring such a grave sin upon them?”
32:22 Aaron replied, “Let not your anger flare up, my lord. You understand these people’s inclination towards mischief.
32:23 They demanded of me, ‘Craft us deities to lead us, for as for this Moses, who led us from Egypt, we know not his fate.’
32:24 I instructed those with gold to break it off and bring it to me. Throwing it into the fire, this calf emerged.”
32:25 Moses observed the people’s exposure; Aaron had left them vulnerable to their foes’ ridicule.
32:26 Moses stood at the camp’s entrance proclaiming, “Who aligns with the LORD? Join me!” The Levites rallied to him.
32:27 Moses commanded them, “The LORD, God of Israel, decrees: Each man, sword at his side, must traverse the camp gate to gate, executing brother, friend, and neighbour.”
32:28 The Levites executed Moses’ command, resulting in about three thousand fatalities.
32:29 Moses declared, “Today, consecrate yourselves to the LORD—even at the cost of a son or brother—so that He may bless you.”
32:30 The next day, Moses addressed the people, “You have committed a severe sin. Now, I will ascend to the LORD; perhaps I can atone for your sin.”
32:31 Moses returned to the LORD, lamenting, “This people has sinned gravely, creating golden deities.
32:32 If You would forgive their sin… If not, erase me from Your book.”
32:33 The LORD responded to Moses, “Those who have sinned against Me, I will erase from My book.
32:34 Now lead the people to the place I have instructed. My Angel shall guide you. However, when I enact judgment, I will account for their sin.”
32:35 The LORD inflicted the people because they made the calf, fashioned by Aaron.
33:1 The LORD instructed Moses, “Depart with the people you brought from Egypt to the land I promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your offspring, I will give it.'”
33:2 “An angel will precede you. I will drive out the Canaanite, Amorite, Hittite, Perizzite, Hivite, and Jebusite to a land flowing with milk and honey. I won’t accompany you, lest I destroy your obstinate people.”
33:3 The people grieved deeply upon hearing these ominous words.
33:4 In response to the LORD’s warning, the Israelites removed their adornments.
33:5 The LORD had advised Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stubborn people. If I were among you for a moment, I might destroy you. Remove your ornaments that I may decide your fate.'”
33:6 Subsequently, the Israelites stripped off their adornments at Mount Horeb.
33:7 Moses took the meeting tent, pitched it outside the camp, distant from it, naming it the Tent of Meeting. All seeking the LORD would go there.
33:8 When Moses went to the tent, all the people stood and watched from their tents until he entered.
33:9 As Moses entered the tent, the cloud pillar descended, standing at the entrance, and the LORD conversed with Moses.
33:10 Observing the cloud pillar at the tent’s entrance, the Israelites stood and worshipped each at their tent.
33:11 The LORD spoke to Moses face-to-face, as one does with a friend. Then Moses returned to the camp, but his aide Joshua, son of Nun, did not depart from the tent.
33:12 Moses said to the LORD, “You command me to lead the people, but have not disclosed whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have found favor in my sight.’
33:13 If I have indeed found favor, show me Your ways, that I may understand You and continue in Your favor. Remember, this nation is Your people.”
33:14 He replied, “My presence will accompany you, and I will give you rest.”
33:15 Moses responded, “If Your presence doesn’t accompany us, don’t send us from here.
33:16 How else will it be known that I and Your people have found favor in Your sight unless You go with us? In this, we are distinct, I and Your people, from all others on the earth.”
33:17 The LORD agreed to Moses’ request, “I will do as you have asked, for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name.”
33:18 Moses said, “Please, show me Your glory.”
33:19 He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you, and proclaim the LORD’s name before you. I will show mercy and grace to whom I choose.
33:20 But,” He added, “You cannot see My face, for no one can see Me and live.”
33:21 The LORD explained, “Here is a place near Me. Stand on this rock.
33:22 As My glory passes by, I will place you in the rock’s cleft and cover you with My hand until I have passed.
33:23 Then I will remove My hand, and you will see My back; but My face must not be seen.”
34:1 The LORD directed Moses, “Carve two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will inscribe the words that were on the first tablets, which you shattered.
34:2 Prepare yourself for tomorrow morning, ascend Mount Sinai, and present yourself to Me on the mountain top.
34:3 No one shall accompany you or be seen anywhere on the mountain. Not even flocks or herds shall graze in front of the mountain.”
34:4 Moses carved two stone tablets like the first and, early the next morning, ascended Mount Sinai as the LORD had commanded, holding the tablets.
34:5 The LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, proclaiming His name, the LORD.
34:6 The LORD passed before him, proclaiming, “The LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,
34:7 maintaining love to thousands, forgiving wickedness, rebellion, and sin. Yet He does not leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of the parents upon the children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation.”
34:8 Moses quickly bowed his head towards the earth and worshipped.
34:9 He said, “If I have found favor in Your sight, O LORD, let the LORD go amongst us, for they are a stiff-necked people. Pardon our iniquity and sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”
34:10 He replied, “Behold, I am establishing a covenant. Before all your people, I will perform wonders never seen in all the earth or any nation. The people among whom you live will see the LORD’s work, for it is an awe-inspiring thing that I will do with you.
34:11 Observe what I command you today. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorite, Canaanite, Hittite, Perizzite, Hivite, and Jebusite.
34:12 Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest it become a snare.
34:13 Rather, you shall demolish their altars, smash their sacred stones, and cut down their Asherah poles.
34:14 Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
34:15 Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices.
34:16 And when you choose their daughters as wives for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will lead your sons to do the same.
34:17 Do not make any idols.
34:18 Keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt.
34:19 “Everything that opens the womb is mine, and all your livestock that is male, whether ox or sheep.
34:20 The first offspring of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem all your firstborn sons. No one is to appear before Me empty-handed.
34:21 “Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.
34:22 “Celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
34:23 Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign LORD, the God of Israel.
34:24 I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to appear before the LORD your God.
34:25 “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to Me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Festival remain until morning.
34:26 The first of your land’s early produce you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
34:27 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
34:28 Moses remained there with the Lord for forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread and drank no water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
34:29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, carrying the two tablets of the covenant in his hands, he was unaware that his face was radiant because he had spoken with the Lord.
34:30 Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, his face radiant, and they were afraid to approach him.
34:31 But Moses called to them; so Aaron and all the leaders of the community came back to him, and he spoke to them.
34:32 Afterward, all the Israelites came near him, and he gave them all the commands the Lord had given him on Mount Sinai.
34:33 When Moses finished speaking to them, he put a veil over his face.
34:34 Whenever he entered the Lord’s presence to speak with him, he removed the veil until he came out. And when he came out and told the Israelites what he had been commanded,
34:35 they saw that his face was radiant. Then Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with the Lord.
35:1 Moses assembled the whole Israelite community and said to them, “These are the things the Lord has commanded you to do:
35:2 For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a day of sabbath rest to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it is to be put to death.
35:3 Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”
35:4 Moses said to the whole Israelite community, “This is what the Lord has commanded:
35:5 From what you have, take an offering for the Lord. Everyone who is willing is to bring to the Lord an offering of gold, silver and bronze;
35:6 blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen; goat hair;
35:7 ram skins dyed red and another type of durable leather; acacia wood;
35:8 olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
35:9 and onyx stones and other gems to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.
35:10 All who are skilled among you are to come and make everything the Lord has commanded:
35:11 the tabernacle with its tent and its covering, clasps, frames, crossbars, posts and bases;
35:12 the ark with its poles and the atonement cover and the curtain that shields it;
35:13 the table with its poles and all its articles and the bread of the Presence;
35:14 the lampstand that is for light with its accessories, lamps and oil for the light;
35:15 the altar of incense with its poles, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense; the curtain for the doorway at the entrance to the tabernacle;
35:16 the altar of burnt offering with its bronze grating, its poles and all its utensils; the basin with its stand;
35:17 the curtains of the courtyard with its posts and bases, and the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard;
35:18 the tent pegs for the tabernacle and for the courtyard, and their ropes;
35:19 the woven garments worn for ministering in the sanctuary—both the sacred garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons when they serve as priests.”
35:20 Then the whole Israelite community withdrew from Moses’ presence,
35:21 and everyone who was willing and whose heart moved them came and brought an offering to the Lord for the work on the tent of meeting, for all its service, and for the sacred garments.
35:22 All who were willing, men and women alike, came and brought gold jewelry of all kinds: brooches, earrings, rings and ornaments. They all presented their gold as a wave offering to the Lord.
35:23 Everyone who had blue, purple or scarlet yarn or fine linen, or goat hair, ram skins dyed red or the other durable leather brought them.
35:24 Those presenting an offering of silver or bronze brought it as an offering to the Lord, and everyone who had acacia wood for any part of the work brought it.
35:25 Every skilled woman spun with her hands and brought what she had spun—blue, purple or scarlet yarn or fine linen.
35:26 And all the women who were willing and had the skill spun the goat hair.
35:27 The leaders brought onyx stones and other gems to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.
35:28 They also brought spices and olive oil for the light and for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense.
35:29 All the Israelite men and women who were willing brought to the Lord freewill offerings for all the work the Lord through Moses had commanded them to do.
35:30 Then Moses said to the Israelites, “See, the Lord has chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,
35:31 and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills—
35:32 to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze,
35:33 to cut and set stones, to work in wood, and to engage in all kinds of crafts.
35:34 And he has given both him and Oholiab son of Ahisamak, of the tribe of Dan, the ability to teach others.
35:35 He has filled them with skill to do all kinds of work as engravers, designers, embroiderers in blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen, and weavers—all of them skilled workers and designers.
36:1 So Bezalel, Oholiab and every skilled person to whom the Lord has given skill and ability to know how to carry out all the work of constructing the sanctuary are to do the work just as the Lord has commanded.”
36:2 Then Moses summoned Bezalel and Oholiab and every skilled person to whom the Lord had given ability and who was willing to come and do the work.
36:3 They received from Moses all the offerings the Israelites had brought to carry out the work of constructing the sanctuary. And the people continued to bring freewill offerings morning after morning.
36:4 So all the skilled workers who were doing all the work on the sanctuary left what they were doing
36:5 and said to Moses, “The people are bringing more than enough for doing the work the Lord commanded to be done.”
36:6 Then Moses gave an order and they sent this word throughout the camp: “No man or woman is to make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary.” And so the people were restrained from bringing more,
36:7 because what they already had was more than enough to do all the work.
36:8 All the skilled workers among them made the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue, purple and scarlet yarn, with cherubim woven into them by expert hands.
36:9 Each curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide—all the curtains were the same size.
36:10 They joined five of the curtains together and did the same with the other five.
36:11 They made loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in one set, and the same on the end curtain in the other set.
36:12 They also made fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain of the other set, with the loops opposite each other.
36:13 Then they made fifty gold clasps and used them to fasten the curtains together so that the tabernacle was a unit.
36:14 They made curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven altogether.
36:15 Each curtain was thirty cubits long and four cubits wide—the eleven curtains were all the same size.
36:16 They joined five of the curtains into one set and the other six into another set.
36:17 Then they made fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in one set and also along the edge of the end curtain in the other set.
36:18 They made fifty bronze clasps to fasten the tent together so that it would be a unit.
36:19 They made for the tent a covering of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of the other durable leather.
36:20 They made upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
36:21 Each frame was ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide,
36:22 with two projections set parallel to each other. They made all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.
36:23 They made twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle
36:24 and made forty silver bases under the twenty frames—two bases for each frame, one under each projection.
36:25 For the other side, the north side of the tabernacle, they made twenty frames
36:26 and forty silver bases—two under each frame.
36:27 They made six frames for the far end, that is, the west end of the tabernacle,
36:28 and two frames for the corners at the far end.
36:29 Beneath they were joined, and also joined together at the top into a single ring. This was done for both corners in the same manner.
36:30 Eight boards were constructed, with their bases being sixteen silver sockets – two sockets under each board.
36:31 Bars were fashioned from shittim wood – five for the boards on one side of the tabernacle,
36:32 five for the boards on the other side, and five for the boards at the western side of the tabernacle.
36:33 A central bar was made, running through the boards from one end to the other.
36:34 The boards were covered with gold, and their rings, where the bars were placed, were also made of gold. The bars themselves were overlaid with gold.
36:35 A veil was created from blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine twisted linen. It was elaborately made, with cherubim as part of its design.
36:36 For this veil, four pillars of shittim wood were made and covered in gold. Their hooks were also of gold, and they stood on four silver sockets.
36:37 A screen for the tabernacle’s entrance was made from blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine twisted linen, crafted with embroidery.
36:38 There were five pillars with hooks, and their capitals and bands were overlaid with gold. However, their five sockets were made of brass.
37:1 Bezaleel constructed the ark from shittim wood: it measured two and a half cubits in length, a cubit and a half in breadth, and a cubit and a half in height.
37:2 It was overlaid inside and out with pure gold, and a gold moulding was added all around.
37:3 Four gold rings were cast for it, to be attached to its four corners – two rings on one side and two on the other.
37:4 Poles were made from shittim wood and covered in gold.
37:5 These poles were inserted into the rings on the sides of the ark, for carrying it.
37:6 The mercy seat was made of pure gold: two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
37:7 Two cherubim of gold were fashioned from a single piece of gold at the two ends of the mercy seat;
37:8 one cherub on one end, and another cherub on the other end.
37:9 The cherubim had wings spread upwards, sheltering the mercy seat with their wings and facing each other; the faces of the cherubim were turned towards the mercy seat.
37:10 The table was made of shittim wood: two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.
37:11 It was overlaid with pure gold and had a gold moulding all around.
37:12 A rim a handbreadth wide was made around it, and a gold moulding for the rim.
37:13 Four gold rings were made for it and attached to its four corners, where the legs were.
37:14 The rings, as holders for the poles to carry the table, were placed close to the rim.
37:15 The poles for carrying the table were made of shittim wood and overlaid with gold.
37:16 The articles on the table – its dishes, spoons, bowls, and covers – were all made of pure gold.
37:17 The candlestick was crafted from pure gold. Made of hammered work, its shaft, branches, bowls, knobs, and flowers were of one piece.
37:18 Six branches extended from its sides, three from one side and three from the other.
37:19 Three almond-shaped cups were on one branch, a knob and a flower, and similarly, three almond-shaped cups on the opposite branch, a knob and a flower – so for the six branches extending from the candlestick.
37:20 On the candlestick itself were four almond-shaped cups with knobs and flowers.
37:21 A knob was under each pair of branches, all of them integral to it, for the six branches extending from it.
37:22 Their knobs and branches were of one piece; all of it was a single piece of hammered pure gold.
37:23 Seven lamps, as well as its wick trimmers and trays, were made of pure gold.
37:24 A talent of pure gold was used for the candlestick and all these accessories.
37:25 An altar for burning incense was made from shittim wood; it was a cubit square and two cubits high, with horns of the same piece.
37:26 It was overlaid with pure gold – its top, sides, and horns – and a gold moulding was added around it.
37:27 Two gold rings were made for it below its moulding, on its two opposite sides, to hold the poles used to carry it.
37:28 The poles were made of shittim wood and overlaid with gold.
37:29 The sacred anointing oil and pure, fragrant incense were prepared, as a perfumer would make them.
38:1 The altar for burnt offerings was constructed from shittim wood; it was five cubits square and three cubits high.
38:2 Horns were made on its four corners, of one piece with it, and it was overlaid with brass.
38:3 All the utensils for the altar – the pots, shovels, basins, meat forks, and fire pans – were made of brass.
38:4 A grating of bronze network was made for the altar, extending to the centre of its height.
38:5 Four bronze rings were made for each corner of the bronze grating, as holders for the poles.
38:6 Poles were made of shittim wood and overlaid with brass.
38:7 These poles were inserted into the rings on the sides of the altar, which was hollow and made of boards.
38:8 A basin of brass and its stand of brass were made from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
38:9 The courtyard was constructed: on the south side, hangings of fine twisted linen, one hundred cubits long, with their twenty pillars and twenty bronze bases. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver.
38:10 On the north side, the hangings were also one hundred cubits long, with twenty pillars and twenty bronze bases. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver.
38:11 On the west side, the hangings were fifty cubits long, with ten pillars and ten bases; the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver.
38:12 On the east side, the hangings were fifty cubits long.
38:13 Fifteen cubits of hangings were on one side of the gate, with their three pillars and three bases.
38:14 On the other side, hangings also fifteen cubits long were on this hand and that hand; with their three pillars and three bases.
38:15 All the hangings around the courtyard were of fine twisted linen.
38:16 The bases for the pillars were of bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their bands of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals of silver; all the pillars of the courtyard were banded with silver.
38:17 The screen for the gate of the courtyard was of embroidered work in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine twisted linen. It was twenty cubits long and five cubits high, in keeping with the hangings of the courtyard.
38:18 Its four pillars and their four bases were of bronze, with their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals and their bands of silver.
38:19 All the pegs for the tabernacle and for the courtyard around were of bronze.
38:20 This is the inventory of materials used for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the covenant law, which was recorded at Moses’ command. It was the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest.
38:21 Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything the LORD commanded Moses.
38:22 With him was Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and designer, and an embroiderer in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen.
38:23 The total amount of the gold used for the work in all the sacred furnishings was twenty-nine talents and 730 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.
38:24 The silver obtained from those of the community who were counted in the census was 100 talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel—
38:25 one beka per person, that is, half a shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone who had crossed over to those counted, twenty years old or more, a total of 603,550 men.
38:26 The 100 talents of silver were used to cast the bases for the sanctuary and for the curtain—100 bases from the 100 talents, one talent for each base.
38:27 They used the 1,775 shekels to make the hooks for the posts, to overlay the tops of the posts, and to make their bands.
38:28 The bronze from the wave offering was seventy talents and 2,400 shekels.
38:29 The brass offered amounted to seventy talents and two thousand four hundred shekels.
38:30 With it, he fashioned the sockets for the doorway of the Tent of Meeting, the bronze altar, its bronze grate, and all the utensils for the altar, 38:31 the sockets for the surrounding courtyard, the sockets for the courtyard gate, and all the tent pegs for the Tabernacle and for the surrounding courtyard.
39:1 They crafted service garments of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn for ministering in the sanctuary, as well as the sacred garments for Aaron, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
39:2 The ephod was made of gold, blue, purple, scarlet yarn, and finely twisted linen.
39:3 They hammered out thin sheets of gold and cut them into strands to be worked into the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen—a skilled design.
39:4 They made shoulder pieces for the ephod, which were attached at two of its corners so it could be fastened.
39:5 Its skillfully woven waistband was like it—made of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely twisted linen, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
39:6 They mounted onyx stones in gold filigree settings, engraved like seals with the names of the sons of Israel.
39:7 He placed them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
39:8 He fashioned the breastpiece—the work of a skilled craftsman, like the work of the ephod: of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely twisted linen.
39:9 It was square—a span long and a span wide—and folded double.
39:10 Then they mounted four rows of precious stones on it. In the first row there was a ruby, a topaz, and a beryl;
39:11 in the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;
39:12 in the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
39:13 in the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were mounted in gold filigree settings.
39:14 There were twelve stones, one for each of the names of the sons of Israel, each engraved like a seal with the name of one of the twelve tribes.
39:15 For the breastpiece they made braided chains of pure gold, like a rope.
39:16 They made two gold filigree settings and two gold rings, and fastened the rings to two of the corners of the breastpiece.
39:17 They fastened the two gold chains to the rings at the corners of the breastpiece,
39:18 and the other ends of the chains to the two settings, attaching them to the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front.
39:19 They made two gold rings and attached them to the other two corners of the breastpiece, on the inside edge next to the ephod.
39:20 They made two more gold rings and attached them to the bottom of the shoulder pieces on the front of the ephod, close to the seam just above the waistband of the ephod.
39:21 They tied the rings of the breastpiece to the rings of the ephod with blue cord, connecting it to the waistband so that the breastpiece would not swing out from the ephod—as the LORD had commanded Moses.
39:22 They made the robe of the ephod entirely of blue cloth—the work of a weaver—
39:23 with an opening in the center of the robe like the opening of a collar, with a band around the opening, so that it would not tear.
39:24 On the hem of the robe they made pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen.
39:25 They made bells of pure gold and attached them around the hem between the pomegranates.
39:26 The bells and pomegranates alternated around the hem of the robe to be worn for ministering, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
39:27 For Aaron and his sons, they made tunics of fine linen—the work of a weaver—
39:28 and the turban of fine linen, the linen caps, and the undergarments of finely twisted linen.
39:29 The sash was of finely twisted linen and blue, purple, and scarlet yarn—the work of an embroiderer—as the LORD had commanded Moses.
39:30 They made the plate, the sacred diadem, out of pure gold and inscribed it, like the engraving of a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD.
39:31 Then they fastened a blue cord to it to attach it to the turban, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
39:32 So all the work on the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, was completed. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
39:33 Then they brought the tabernacle to Moses: the tent and all its furnishings, its clasps, frames, crossbars, posts, and bases;
39:34 the covering of ram skins dyed red, the covering of another durable leather, and the shielding curtain;
39:35 the ark of the covenant law with its poles and the atonement cover;
39:36 the table with all its articles and the bread of the Presence;
39:37 the pure gold lampstand with its row of lamps and all its accessories, and the olive oil for the light;
39:38 the gold altar, the anointing oil, the fragrant incense; and the curtain for the doorway of the tabernacle;
39:39 the bronze altar with its bronze grate, its poles, and all its utensils; the basin with its stand;
39:40 the curtains of the courtyard with its posts and bases, and the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard; the ropes and tent pegs for the courtyard; all the furnishings for the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting;
39:41 and the woven garments for ministering in the sanctuary, both the sacred garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons when they serve as priests.
39:42 The Israelites had done all the work just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
39:43 Moses inspected the work and saw that they had done it just as the LORD had commanded. So Moses blessed them.
40:1 Then the LORD said to Moses:
40:2 “Set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the first month.
40:3 Place the ark of the covenant law in it and shield the ark with the curtain.
40:4 Bring in the table and set out what belongs on it. Then bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps.
40:5 Place the gold altar of incense in front of the ark of the covenant law and put the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.
40:6 “Place the altar of burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting;
40:7 put the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar and put water in it.
40:8 Set up the courtyard around it and put the curtain at the entrance to the courtyard.
40:9 “Take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and everything in it; consecrate it and all its furnishings, and it will be holy.
40:10 Then anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils; consecrate the altar, and it will be most holy.
40:11 Anoint the basin and its stand and consecrate them.
40:12 “Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water.
40:13 Then dress Aaron in the sacred garments, anoint him and consecrate him so he may serve me as priest.
40:14 Bring his sons and dress them in tunics.
40:15 Anoint them just as you anointed their father, so they may serve me as priests. Their anointing will be to a priesthood that will continue throughout their generations.”
40:16 Moses did everything just as the LORD commanded him.
40:17 So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month in the second year.
40:18 When Moses set up the tabernacle, he put the bases in place, erected the frames, inserted the crossbars and set up the posts.
40:19 Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering over the tent, as the LORD commanded him.
40:20 He took the Testimony and placed it in the ark, attached the poles to the ark and put the atonement cover over it.
40:21 Then he brought the ark into the tabernacle and hung the shielding curtain and shielded the ark of the Testimony, as the LORD commanded him.
40:22 Moses placed the table in the Tent of Meeting on the north side of the tabernacle outside the curtain
40:23 and set out the bread on it before the LORD, as the LORD had commanded him.
40:24 He placed the lampstand in the Tent of Meeting opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle
40:25 and set up the lamps before the LORD, as the LORD had commanded him.
40:26 Moses placed the gold altar in the Tent of Meeting in front of the curtain
40:27 and burned fragrant incense on it, as the LORD had commanded him.
40:28 Then he put up the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.
40:29 He positioned the altar of burnt offering at the entrance of the tabernacle of the meeting tent, presenting upon it the burnt offerings and the grain offerings, in accordance with what the LORD had instructed Moses.
40:30 He situated the basin between the meeting tent and the altar, filling it with water for washing.
40:31 There, Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and feet.
40:32 Whenever they entered the meeting tent or approached the altar, they performed this washing ritual, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
40:33 He erected the courtyard around the tabernacle and the altar, and installed the curtain at the entrance of the courtyard. Thus, Moses completed the construction.
40:34 Subsequently, a cloud enveloped the meeting tent, and the LORD’s glory filled the tabernacle.
40:35 Due to the cloud remaining over it and the LORD’s glory filling the tabernacle, Moses could not enter the meeting tent.
40:36 Whenever the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle, the Israelites resumed their travels.
40:37 However, if the cloud did not rise, they did not set out until the day it lifted.
40:38 The cloud of the LORD was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, visible to all the Israelite community throughout their journeys.

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