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The Book of Exodus
Chapter 1 1 These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household: 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3 Is'sachar, Zeb'ulun, and Benjamin, 4 Dan and Naph'tali, Gad and Asher. 5 All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt. 6 Then Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation. 7 But the descendants of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong; so that the land was filled with them. 8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. 9 And
he said to his people, "Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too
mighty for us. 10 Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they
multiply, and, if war befall us, they join our enemies and fight against
us and escape from the land." 11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them
to afflict them with heavy burdens; and they built for Pharaoh
store-cities, Pithom and Ra-am'ses. 12 But the more they were oppressed,
the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the
Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel. 13 So they made the
people of Israel serve with rigor, 14 and made their lives bitter with
hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field;
in all their work they made them serve with rigor. 15 Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiph'rah and the other Pu'ah, 16 "When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, she shall live." 17 But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live. 18 So the king of Egypt called the midwives, and said to them, "Why have you done this, and let the male children live?" 19 The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and are delivered before the midwife comes to them." 20 So God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and grew very strong. 21 And because the midwives feared God he gave them families. 22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, "Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live."
Chapter 2 1 Now a man from the house of Levi went and took to wife a daughter of
Levi. 2 The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was a
goodly child, she hid him three months. 3 And when she could hide him no
longer she took for him a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with
bitumen and pitch; and she put the child in it and placed it among the
reeds at the river's brink. 4 And his sister stood at a distance, to know
what would be done to him. 5 Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to
bathe at the river, and her maidens walked beside the river; she saw the
basket among the reeds and sent her maid to fetch it. 6 When she opened it
she saw the child; and lo, the babe was crying. She took pity on him and
said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children." 7 Then his sister said to
Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women
to nurse the child for you?" 8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go."
So the girl went and called the child's mother. 9 And Pharaoh's daughter
said to her, "Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give
you your wages." So the woman took the child and nursed him. 10 And the
child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her
son; and she named him Moses, for she said, "Because I drew him out of the
water." 11 One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and
looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of
his people. 12 He looked this way and that, and seeing no one he killed
the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. 13 When he went out the next day,
behold, two Hebrews were struggling together; and he said to the man that
did the wrong, "Why do you strike your fellow?" 14 He answered, "Who made
you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the
Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid, and thought, "Surely the thing is
known." 15 When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh, and stayed in the land of Mid'ian; and he
sat down by a well. 16 Now the priest of Mid'ian had seven daughters; and
they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's
flock. 17 The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and
helped them, and watered their flock. 18 When they came to their father
Reu'el, he said, "How is it that you have come so soon today?" 19 They
said, "An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and even
drew water for us and watered the flock." 20 He said to his daughters,
"And where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat
bread." 21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses
his daughter Zippo'rah. 22 She bore a son, and he called his name Gershom;
for he said, "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land." 23 In the course of those many days the king of Egypt died. And the people of Israel groaned under their bondage, and cried out for help, and their cry under bondage came up to God. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25 And God saw the people of Israel, and God knew their condition.
Chapter 3 1 Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the
priest of Mid'ian; and he led his flock to the west side of the
wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 And the angel of the
LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and he
looked, and lo, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. 3 And Moses
said, "I will turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not
burnt." 4 When the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him
out of the bush, "Moses, Moses!" And he said, "Here am I." 5 Then he said,
"Do not come near; put off your shoes from your feet, for the place on
which you are standing is holy ground." 6 And he said, "I am the God of
your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob."
And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God. 7 Then the LORD said, "I have seen the affliction of my people who are
in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; I know
their sufferings, 8 and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand
of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and
broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the
Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and
the Jeb'usites. 9 And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has
come to me, and I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians
oppress them. 10 Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring forth
my people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt." 11 But Moses said to God,
"Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and bring the sons of Israel out of
Egypt?" 12 He said, "But I will be with you; and this shall be the sign
for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought forth the people out
of Egypt, you shall serve God upon this mountain." 13 Then Moses said to God, "If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' what shall I say to them?" 14 God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM." And he said, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.'" 15 God also said to Moses, "Say this to the people of Israel, '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 for ever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations. 16 Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and say to them, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt; 17 and I promise that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt, to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites, a land flowing with milk and honey."' 18 And they will hearken to your voice; and you and the elders of Israel shall go to the king of Egypt and say to him, 'The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us; and now, we pray you, let us go a three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.' 19 I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless compelled by a mighty hand. 20 So I will stretch out my hand and smite Egypt with all the wonders which I will do in it; after that he will let you go. 21 And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and when you go, you shall not go empty, 22 but each woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her who sojourns in her house, jewelry of silver and of gold, and clothing, and you shall put them on your sons and on your daughters; thus you shall despoil the Egyptians."
Chapter 4 1 Then Moses answered, "But behold, they will not believe me or listen
to my voice, for they will say, 'The LORD did not appear to you.'" 2 The
LORD said to him, "What is that in your hand?" He said, "A rod." 3 And he
said, "Cast it on the ground." So he cast it on the ground, and it became
a serpent; and Moses fled from it. 4 But the LORD said to Moses, "Put out
your hand, and take it by the tail" --so he put out his hand and caught
it, and it became a rod in his hand-- 5 "that they may believe that the
LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and
the God of Jacob, has appeared to you." 6 Again, the LORD said to him,
"Put your hand into your bosom." And he put his hand into his bosom; and
when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow. 7
Then God said, "Put your hand back into your bosom." So he put his hand
back into his bosom; and when he took it out, behold, it was restored like
the rest of his flesh. 8 "If they will not believe you," God said, "or
heed the first sign, they may believe the latter sign. 9 If they will not
believe even these two signs or heed your voice, you shall take some water
from the Nile and pour it upon the dry ground; and the water which you
shall take from the Nile will become blood upon the dry ground." 10 But Moses said to the LORD, "Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either
heretofore or since thou hast spoken to thy servant; but I am slow of
speech and of tongue." 11 Then the LORD said to him, "Who has made man's
mouth? Who makes him dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the
LORD? 12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you
what you shall speak." 13 But he said, "Oh, my Lord, send, I pray, some
other person." 14 Then the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses and
he said, "Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can
speak well; and behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you
he will be glad in his heart. 15 And you shall speak to him and put the
words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and
will teach you what you shall do. 16 He shall speak for you to the people;
and he shall be a mouth for you, and you shall be to him as God. 17 And
you shall take in your hand this rod, with which you shall do the signs." 18 Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, "Let me
go back, I pray, to my kinsmen in Egypt and see whether they are still
alive." And Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace." 19 And the LORD said to
Moses in Mid'ian, "Go back to Egypt; for all the men who were seeking your
life are dead." 20 So Moses took his wife and his sons and set them on an
ass, and went back to the land of Egypt; and in his hand Moses took the
rod of God. 21 And the LORD said to Moses, "When you go back to Egypt, see that you
do before Pharaoh all the miracles which I have put in your power; but I
will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go. 22 And you
shall say to Pharaoh, 'Thus says the LORD, Israel is my first-born son, 23
and I say to you, "Let my son go that he may serve me"; if you refuse to
let him go, behold, I will slay your first-born son.'" 24 At a lodging place on the way the LORD met him and sought to kill
him. 25 Then Zippo'rah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin, and
touched Moses' feet with it, and said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of
blood to me!" 26 So he let him alone. Then it was that she said, "You are
a bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision. 27 The LORD said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." So he went, and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him. 28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD with which he had sent him, and all the signs which he had charged him to do. 29 Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the people of Israel. 30 And Aaron spoke all the words which the LORD had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people. 31 And the people believed; and when they heard that the LORD had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped.
Chapter 5 1 Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, "Thus says the
LORD, the God of Israel, 'Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to
me in the wilderness.'" 2 But Pharaoh said, "Who is the LORD, that I
should heed his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and
moreover I will not let Israel go." 3 Then they said, "The God of the
Hebrews has met with us; let us go, we pray, a three days' journey into
the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, lest he fall upon us
with pestilence or with the sword." 4 But the king of Egypt said to them,
"Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people away from their work? Get to
your burdens." 5 And Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the land are now
many and you make them rest from their burdens!" 6 The same day Pharaoh
commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen, 7 "You shall no
longer give the people straw to make bricks, as heretofore; let them go
and gather straw for themselves. 8 But the number of bricks which they
made heretofore you shall lay upon them, you shall by no means lessen it;
for they are idle; therefore they cry, 'Let us go and offer sacrifice to
our God.' 9 Let heavier work be laid upon the men that they may labor at
it and pay no regard to lying words." 10 So the taskmasters and the foremen of the people went out and said
to the people, "Thus says Pharaoh, 'I will not give you straw. 11 Go
yourselves, get your straw wherever you can find it; but your work will
not be lessened in the least.'" 12 So the people were scattered abroad
throughout all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw. 13 The
taskmasters were urgent, saying, "Complete your work, your daily task, as
when there was straw." 14 And the foremen of the people of Israel, whom
Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, "Why
have you not done all your task of making bricks today, as hitherto?" 15 Then the foremen of the people of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh,
"Why do you deal thus with your servants? 16 No straw is given to your
servants, yet they say to us, 'Make bricks!' And behold, your servants are
beaten; but the fault is in your own people." 17 But he said, "You are
idle, you are idle; therefore you say, 'Let us go and sacrifice to the
LORD.' 18 Go now, and work; for no straw shall be given you, yet you shall
deliver the same number of bricks." 19 The foremen of the people of Israel
saw that they were in evil plight, when they said, "You shall by no means
lessen your daily number of bricks." 20 They met Moses and Aaron, who were
waiting for them, as they came forth from Pharaoh; 21 and they said to
them, "The LORD look upon you and judge, because you have made us
offensive in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants, and have put a sword
in their hand to kill us." 22 Then Moses turned again to the LORD and said, "O LORD, why hast thou done evil to this people? Why didst thou ever send me? 23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he has done evil to this people, and thou hast not delivered thy people at all."
Chapter 6 1 But the LORD said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to
Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, yea, with a strong
hand he will drive them out of his land." 2 And God said to Moses, "I am the LORD. 3 I appeared to Abraham, to
Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not
make myself known to them. 4 I also established my covenant with them, to
give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they dwelt as sojourners.
5 Moreover I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the
Egyptians hold in bondage and I have remembered my covenant. 6 Say
therefore to the people of Israel, 'I am the LORD, and I will bring you
out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from
their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with
great acts of judgment, 7 and I will take you for my people, and I will be
your God; and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who has brought
you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 8 And I will bring you
into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; I
will give it to you for a possession. I am the LORD.'" 9 Moses spoke thus
to the people of Israel; but they did not listen to Moses, because of
their broken spirit and their cruel bondage. 10 And the LORD said to Moses, 11 "Go in, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to
let the people of Israel go out of his land." 12 But Moses said to the
LORD, "Behold, the people of Israel have not listened to me; how then
shall Pharaoh listen to me, who am a man of uncircumcised lips?" 13 But
the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, and gave them a charge to the people of
Israel and to Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring the people of Israel out of
the land of Egypt. 14 These are the heads of their fathers' houses: the sons of Reuben,
the first-born of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the
families of Reuben. 15 The sons of Simeon: Jemu'el, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin,
Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the families of
Simeon. 16 These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their
generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merar'i, the years of the life of Levi
being a hundred and thirty-seven years. 17 The sons of Gershon: Libni and
Shim'e-i, by their families. 18 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron,
and Uz'ziel, the years of the life of Kohath being a hundred and
thirty-three years. 19 The sons of Merar'i: Mahli and Mushi. These are the
families of the Levites according to their generations. 20 Amram took to
wife Joch'ebed his father's sister and she bore him Aaron and Moses, the
years of the life of Amram being one hundred and thirty-seven years. 21
The sons of Izhar: Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri. 22 And the sons of Uz'ziel:
Mi'sha-el, Elza'phan, and Sithri. 23 Aaron took to wife Eli'sheba, the
daughter of Ammin'adab and the sister of Nahshon; and she bore him Nadab,
Abi'hu, Elea'zar, and Ith'amar. 24 The sons of Korah: Assir, Elka'nah, and
Abi'asaph; these are the families of the Ko'rahites. 25 Elea'zar, Aaron's
son, took to wife one of the daughters of Pu'ti-el; and she bore him
Phin'ehas. These are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites by
their families. 26 These are the Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said: "Bring out the
people of Israel from the land of Egypt by their hosts." 27 It was they
who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt about bringing out the people of Israel
from Egypt, this Moses and this Aaron. 28 On the day when the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, 29 the LORD said to Moses, "I am the LORD; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say to you." 30 But Moses said to the LORD, "Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips; how then shall Pharaoh listen to me?"
Chapter 7 1 And the LORD said to Moses, "See, I make you as God to Pharaoh; and
Aaron your brother shall be your prophet. 2 You shall speak all that I
command you; and Aaron your brother shall tell Pharaoh to let the people
of Israel go out of his land. 3 But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and
though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, 4 Pharaoh
will not listen to you; then I will lay my hand upon Egypt and bring forth
my hosts, my people the sons of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great
acts of judgment. 5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when
I stretch forth my hand upon Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from
among them." 6 And Moses and Aaron did so; they did as the LORD commanded
them. 7 Now Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old,
when they spoke to Pharaoh. 8 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, 9 "When Pharaoh says to you,
'Prove yourselves by working a miracle,' then you shall say to Aaron,
'Take your rod and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a
serpent.'" 10 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did as the LORD
commanded; Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and his servants, and it
became a serpent. 11 Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers;
and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same by their secret arts.
12 For every man cast down his rod, and they became serpents. But Aaron's
rod swallowed up their rods. 13 Still Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he
would not listen to them; as the LORD had said. 14 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is hardened, he
refuses to let the people go. 15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning, as he is
going out to the water; wait for him by the river's brink, and take in
your hand the rod which was turned into a serpent. 16 And you shall say to
him, 'The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, "Let my
people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness; and behold, you have
not yet obeyed." 17 Thus says the LORD, "By this you shall know that I am
the LORD: behold, I will strike the water that is in the Nile with the rod
that is in my hand, and it shall be turned to blood, 18 and the fish in
the Nile shall die, and the Nile shall become foul, and the Egyptians will
loathe to drink water from the Nile."'" 19 And the LORD said to Moses,
"Say to Aaron, 'Take your rod and stretch out your hand over the waters of
Egypt, over their rivers, their canals, and their ponds, and all their
pools of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood
throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels
of stone.'" 20 Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded; in the sight of Pharaoh
and in the sight of his servants, he lifted up the rod and struck the
water that was in the Nile, and all the water that was in the Nile turned
to blood. 21 And the fish in the Nile died; and the Nile became foul, so
that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile; and there was
blood throughout all the land of Egypt. 22 But the magicians of Egypt did
the same by their secret arts; so Pharaoh's heart remained hardened, and
he would not listen to them; as the LORD had said. 23 Pharaoh turned and
went into his house, and he did not lay even this to heart. 24 And all the
Egyptians dug round about the Nile for water to drink, for they could not
drink the water of the Nile. 25 Seven days passed after the LORD had struck the Nile.
Chapter 8 1 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, 'Thus
says the LORD, "Let my people go, that they may serve me. 2 But if you
refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your country with frogs;
3 the Nile shall swarm with frogs which shall come up into your house, and
into your bedchamber and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants
and of your people, and into your ovens and your kneading bowls; 4 the
frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your servants."'"
5 And the LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Stretch out your hand with
your rod over the rivers, over the canals, and over the pools, and cause
frogs to come upon the land of Egypt!'" 6 So Aaron stretched out his hand
over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up and covered the land of
Egypt. 7 But the magicians did the same by their secret arts, and brought
frogs upon the land of Egypt. 8 Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron, and said, "Entreat the LORD to
take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people
go to sacrifice to the LORD." 9 Moses said to Pharaoh, "Be pleased to
command me when I am to entreat, for you and for your servants and for
your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses and be
left only in the Nile." 10 And he said, "Tomorrow." Moses said, "Be it as
you say, that you may know that there is no one like the LORD our God. 11
The frogs shall depart from you and your houses and your servants and your
people; they shall be left only in the Nile." 12 So Moses and Aaron went
out from Pharaoh; and Moses cried to the LORD concerning the frogs, as he
had agreed with Pharaoh. 13 And the LORD did according to the word of
Moses; the frogs died out of the houses and courtyards and out of the
fields. 14 And they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.
15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart,
and would not listen to them; as the LORD had said. 16 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Stretch out your rod
and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become gnats throughout all
the land of Egypt.'" 17 And they did so; Aaron stretched out his hand with
his rod, and struck the dust of the earth, and there came gnats on man and
beast; all the dust of the earth became gnats throughout all the land of
Egypt. 18 The magicians tried by their secret arts to bring forth gnats,
but they could not. So there were gnats on man and beast. 19 And the
magicians said to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God." But Pharaoh's
heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them; as the LORD had said. 20 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning and wait
for Pharaoh, as he goes out to the water, and say to him, 'Thus says the
LORD, "Let my people go, that they may serve me. 21 Else, if you will not
let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you and your
servants and your people, and into your houses; and the houses of the
Egyptians shall be filled with swarms of flies, and also the ground on
which they stand. 22 But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen,
where my people dwell, so that no swarms of flies shall be there; that you
may know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth. 23 Thus I will put
a division between my people and your people. By tomorrow shall this sign
be."'" 24 And the LORD did so; there came great swarms of flies into the
house of Pharaoh and into his servants' houses, and in all the land of
Egypt the land was ruined by reason of the flies. 25 Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron, and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God within the land." 26 But Moses said, "It would not be right to do so; for we shall sacrifice to the LORD our God offerings abominable to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice offerings abominable to the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us? 27 We must go three days' journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as he will command us." 28 So Pharaoh said, "I will let you go, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only you shall not go very far away. Make entreaty for me." 29 Then Moses said, "Behold, I am going out from you and I will pray to the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only let not Pharaoh deal falsely again by not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD." 30 So Moses went out from Pharaoh and prayed to the LORD. 31 And the LORD did as Moses asked, and removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; not one remained. 32 But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and did not let the people go.
Chapter 9 1 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, and say to him, 'Thus
says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, "Let my people go, that they may
serve me. 2 For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them, 3
behold, the hand of the LORD will fall with a very severe plague upon your
cattle which are in the field, the horses, the asses, the camels, the
herds, and the flocks. 4 But the LORD will make a distinction between the
cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt, so that nothing shall die of all
that belongs to the people of Israel."'" 5 And the LORD set a time,
saying, "Tomorrow the LORD will do this thing in the land." 6 And on the
morrow the LORD did this thing; all the cattle of the Egyptians died, but
of the cattle of the people of Israel not one died. 7 And Pharaoh sent,
and behold, not one of the cattle of the Israelites was dead. But the
heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go. 8 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Take handfuls of ashes from
the kiln, and let Moses throw them toward heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.
9 And it shall become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and become
boils breaking out in sores on man and beast throughout all the land of
Egypt." 10 So they took ashes from the kiln, and stood before Pharaoh, and
Moses threw them toward heaven, and it became boils breaking out in sores
on man and beast. 11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses
because of the boils, for the boils were upon the magicians and upon all
the Egyptians. 12 But the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did
not listen to them; as the LORD had spoken to Moses. 13 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning and stand
before Pharaoh, and say to him, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of the
Hebrews, "Let my people go, that they may serve me. 14 For this time I
will send all my plagues upon your heart, and upon your servants and your
people, that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth. 15
For by now I could have put forth my hand and struck you and your people
with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth; 16 but
for this purpose have I let you live, to show you my power, so that my
name may be declared throughout all the earth. 17 You are still exalting
yourself against my people, and will not let them go. 18 Behold, tomorrow
about this time I will cause very heavy hail to fall, such as never has
been in Egypt from the day it was founded until now. 19 Now therefore
send, get your cattle and all that you have in the field into safe
shelter; for the hail shall come down upon every man and beast that is in
the field and is not brought home, and they shall die."'" 20 Then he who
feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his slaves
and his cattle flee into the houses; 21 but he who did not regard the word
of the LORD left his slaves and his cattle in the field. 22 And the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch forth your hand toward heaven,
that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man and beast and
every plant of the field, throughout the land of Egypt." 23 Then Moses
stretched forth his rod toward heaven; and the LORD sent thunder and hail,
and fire ran down to the earth. And the LORD rained hail upon the land of
Egypt; 24 there was hail, and fire flashing continually in the midst of
the hail, very heavy hail, such as had never been in all the land of Egypt
since it became a nation. 25 The hail struck down everything that was in
the field throughout all the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and the
hail struck down every plant of the field, and shattered every tree of the
field. 26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the people of Israel were,
there was no hail. 27 Then Pharaoh sent, and called Moses and Aaron, and said to them, "I have sinned this time; the LORD is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong. 28 Entreat the LORD; for there has been enough of this thunder and hail; I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer." 29 Moses said to him, "As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will stretch out my hands to the LORD; the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, that you may know that the earth is the LORD's. 30 But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the LORD God." 31 (The flax and the barley were ruined, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud. 32 But the wheat and the spelt were not ruined, for they are late in coming up.) 33 So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and stretched out his hands to the LORD; and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured upon the earth. 34 But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet again, and hardened his heart, he and his servants. 35 So the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken through Moses.
Chapter 10 1 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh; for I have hardened
his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these signs of
mine among them, 2 and that you may tell in the hearing of your son and of
your son's son how I have made sport of the Egyptians and what signs I
have done among them; that you may know that I am the LORD." 3 So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, "Thus says
the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, 'How long will you refuse to humble
yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me. 4 For if you
refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into
your country, 5 and they shall cover the face of the land, so that no one
can see the land; and they shall eat what is left to you after the hail,
and they shall eat every tree of yours which grows in the field, 6 and
they shall fill your houses, and the houses of all your servants and of
all the Egyptians; as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have
seen, from the day they came on earth to this day.'" Then he turned and
went out from Pharaoh. 7 And Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long shall this man be a
snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God; do
you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined?" 8 So Moses and Aaron were
brought back to Pharaoh; and he said to them, "Go, serve the LORD your
God; but who are to go?" 9 And Moses said, "We will go with our young and
our old; we will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and
herds, for we must hold a feast to the LORD." 10 And he said to them, "The
LORD be with you, if ever I let you and your little ones go! Look, you
have some evil purpose in mind. 11 No! Go, the men among you, and serve
the LORD, for that is what you desire." And they were driven out from
Pharaoh's presence. 12 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of
Egypt for the locusts, that they may come upon the land of Egypt, and eat
every plant in the land, all that the hail has left." 13 So Moses
stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an
east wind upon the land all that day and all that night; and when it was
morning the east wind had brought the locusts. 14 And the locusts came up
over all the land of Egypt, and settled on the whole country of Egypt,
such a dense swarm of locusts as had never been before, nor ever shall be
again. 15 For they covered the face of the whole land, so that the land
was darkened, and they ate all the plants in the land and all the fruit of
the trees which the hail had left; not a green thing remained, neither
tree nor plant of the field, through all the land of Egypt. 16 Then
Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron in haste, and said, "I have sinned against
the LORD your God, and against you. 17 Now therefore, forgive my sin, I
pray you, only this once, and entreat the LORD your God only to remove
this death from me." 18 So he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the
LORD. 19 And the LORD turned a very strong west wind, which lifted the
locusts and drove them into the Red Sea; not a single locust was left in
all the country of Egypt. 20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he
did not let the children of Israel go. 21 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward heaven that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness to be felt." 22 So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days; 23 they did not see one another, nor did any rise from his place for three days; but all the people of Israel had light where they dwelt. 24 Then Pharaoh called Moses, and said, "Go, serve the LORD; your children also may go with you; only let your flocks and your herds remain behind." 25 But Moses said, "You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God. 26 Our cattle also must go with us; not a hoof shall be left behind, for we must take of them to serve the LORD our God, and we do not know with what we must serve the LORD until we arrive there." 27 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go. 28 Then Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me; take heed to yourself; never see my face again; for in the day you see my face you shall die." 29 Moses said, "As you say! I will not see your face again."
Chapter 11 1 The LORD said to Moses, "Yet one plague more I will bring upon
Pharaoh and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence; when he lets
you go, he will drive you away completely. 2 Speak now in the hearing of
the people, that they ask, every man of his neighbor and every woman of
her neighbor, jewelry of silver and of gold." 3 And the LORD gave the
people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was
very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants and in
the sight of the people. 4 And Moses said, "Thus says the LORD: About midnight I will go forth
in the midst of Egypt; 5 and all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall
die, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sits upon his throne, even to the
first-born of the maidservant who is behind the mill; and all the
first-born of the cattle. 6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all
the land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever shall be again.
7 But against any of the people of Israel, either man or beast, not a dog
shall growl; that you may know that the LORD makes a distinction between
the Egyptians and Israel. 8 And all these your servants shall come down to
me, and bow down to me, saying, 'Get you out, and all the people who
follow you.' And after that I will go out." And he went out from Pharaoh
in hot anger. 9 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh will not listen to
you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt." 10 Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh; and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go out of his land.
Chapter 12 1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 2 "This month
shall be for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of
the year for you. 3 Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth
day of this month they shall take every man a lamb according to their
fathers' houses, a lamb for a household; 4 and if the household is too
small for a lamb, then a man and his neighbor next to his house shall take
according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you
shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish,
a male a year old; you shall take it from the sheep or from the goats; 6
and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the
whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs in the
evening. 7 Then they shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two
doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat them. 8 They
shall eat the flesh that night, roasted; with unleavened bread and bitter
herbs they shall eat it. 9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled with water,
but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. 10 And you shall
let none of it remain until the morning, anything that remains until the
morning you shall burn. 11 In this manner you shall eat it: your loins
girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you
shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD's passover. 12 For I will pass
through the land of Egypt that night, and I will smite all the first-born
in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I
will execute judgments: I am the LORD. 13 The blood shall be a sign for
you, upon the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass
over you, and no plague shall fall upon you to destroy you, when I smite
the land of Egypt. 14 "This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as
a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations you shall observe it as
an ordinance for ever. 15 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; on
the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses, for if any one
eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that
person shall be cut off from Israel. 16 On the first day you shall hold a
holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly; no work shall be
done on those days; but what every one must eat, that only may be prepared
by you. 17 And you shall observe the feast of unleavened bread, for on
this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt: therefore you
shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as an ordinance for
ever. 18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at
evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, and so until the twenty-first day
of the month at evening. 19 For seven days no leaven shall be found in
your houses; for if any one eats what is leavened, that person shall be
cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a
native of the land. 20 You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your
dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread." 21 Then Moses called all the elders of Israel, and said to them,
"Select lambs for yourselves according to your families, and kill the
passover lamb. 22 Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is
in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood
which is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his
house until the morning. 23 For the LORD will pass through to slay the
Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two
doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not allow the
destroyer to enter your houses to slay you. 24 You shall observe this rite
as an ordinance for you and for your sons for ever. 25 And when you come
to the land which the LORD will give you, as he has promised, you shall
keep this service. 26 And when your children say to you, 'What do you mean
by this service?' 27 you shall say, 'It is the sacrifice of the LORD's
passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt,
when he slew the Egyptians but spared our houses.'" And the people bowed
their heads and worshiped. 28 Then the people of Israel went and did so; as the LORD had commanded
Moses and Aaron, so they did. 29 At midnight the LORD smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt,
from the first-born of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the first-born of
the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the first-born of the cattle.
30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the
Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house
where one was not dead. 31 And he summoned Moses and Aaron by night, and
said, "Rise up, go forth from among my people, both you and the people of
Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as you have said. 32 Take your flocks and
your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!" 33 And the Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of
the land in haste; for they said, "We are all dead men." 34 So the people
took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound
up in their mantles on their shoulders. 35 The people of Israel had also
done as Moses told them, for they had asked of the Egyptians jewelry of
silver and of gold, and clothing; 36 and the LORD had given the people
favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they
asked. Thus they despoiled the Egyptians. 37 And the people of Israel journeyed from Ram'eses to Succoth, about
six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children. 38 A mixed
multitude also went up with them, and very many cattle, both flocks and
herds. 39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they had
brought out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, because they were thrust
out of Egypt and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves
any provisions. 40 The time that the people of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred
and thirty years. 41 And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, on
that very day, all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
42 It was a night of watching by the LORD, to bring them out of the land
of Egypt; so this same night is a night of watching kept to the LORD by
all the people of Israel throughout their generations. 43 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the
passover: no foreigner shall eat of it; 44 but every slave that is bought
for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him. 45 No sojourner or
hired servant may eat of it. 46 In one house shall it be eaten; you shall
not carry forth any of the flesh outside the house; and you shall not
break a bone of it. 47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. 48
And when a stranger shall sojourn with you and would keep the passover to
the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, then he may come near and keep
it; he shall be as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall
eat of it. 49 There shall be one law for the native and for the stranger
who sojourns among you." 50 Thus did all the people of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. 51 And on that very day the LORD brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.
Chapter 13 1 The LORD said to Moses, 2 "Consecrate to me all the first-born;
whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel, both of
man and of beast, is mine." 3 And Moses said to the people, "Remember this day, in which you came
out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage, for by strength of hand the
LORD brought you out from this place; no leavened bread shall be eaten. 4
This day you are to go forth, in the month of Abib. 5 And when the LORD
brings you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites,
the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites, which he swore to your fathers to give
you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall keep this service in
this month. 6 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the
seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD. 7 Unleavened bread shall
be eaten for seven days; no leavened bread shall be seen with you, and no
leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory. 8 And you shall tell
your son on that day, 'It is because of what the LORD did for me when I
came out of Egypt.' 9 And it shall be to you as a sign on your hand and as
a memorial between your eyes, that the law of the LORD may be in your
mouth; for with a strong hand the LORD has brought you out of Egypt. 10
You shall therefore keep this ordinance at its appointed time from year to
year. 11 "And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he
swore to you and your fathers, and shall give it to you, 12 you shall set
apart to the LORD all that first opens the womb. All the firstlings of
your cattle that are males shall be the LORD's. 13 Every firstling of an
ass you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall
break its neck. Every first-born of man among your sons you shall redeem.
14 And when in time to come your son asks you, 'What does this mean?' you
shall say to him, 'By strength of hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt,
from the house of bondage. 15 For when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let
us go, the LORD slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both the
first-born of man and the first-born of cattle. Therefore I sacrifice to
the LORD all the males that first open the womb; but all the first-born of
my sons I redeem.' 16 It shall be as a mark on your hand or frontlets
between your eyes; for by a strong hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt." 17 When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, "Lest the people repent when they see war, and return to Egypt." 18 But God led the people round by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the people of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt equipped for battle. 19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him; for Joseph had solemnly sworn the people of Israel, saying, "God will visit you; then you must carry my bones with you from here." 20 And they moved on from Succoth, and encamped at Etham, on the edge of the wilderness. 21 And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night; 22 the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people.
Chapter 14 1 Then the LORD said to Moses, 2 "Tell the people of Israel to turn
back and encamp in front of Pi-ha-hi'roth, between Migdol and the sea, in
front of Ba'al-ze'phon; you shall encamp over against it, by the sea. 3
For Pharaoh will say of the people of Israel, 'They are entangled in the
land; the wilderness has shut them in.' 4 And I will harden Pharaoh's
heart, and he will pursue them and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all
his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD." And they did
so. 5 When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, the mind of
Pharaoh and his servants was changed toward the people, and they said,
"What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?" 6
So he made ready his chariot and took his army with him, 7 and took six
hundred picked chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers
over all of them. 8 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of
Egypt and he pursued the people of Israel as they went forth defiantly. 9
The Egyptians pursued them, all Pharaoh's horses and chariots and his
horsemen and his army, and overtook them encamped at the sea, by Pi-ha-hi'roth,
in front of Ba'al-ze'phon. 10 When Pharaoh drew near, the people of Israel lifted up their eyes,
and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were in great
fear. And the people of Israel cried out to the LORD; 11 and they said to
Moses, "Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us
away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us, in bringing us
out of Egypt? 12 Is not this what we said to you in Egypt, 'Let us alone
and let us serve the Egyptians'? For it would have been better for us to
serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness." 13 And Moses said to
the people, "Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD,
which he will work for you today; for the Egyptians whom you see today,
you shall never see again. 14 The LORD will fight for you, and you have
only to be still." 15 The LORD said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Tell
the people of Israel to go forward. 16 Lift up your rod, and stretch out
your hand over the sea and divide it, that the people of Israel may go on
dry ground through the sea. 17 And I will harden the hearts of the
Egyptians so that they shall go in after them, and I will get glory over
Pharaoh and all his host, his chariots, and his horsemen. 18 And the
Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten glory over
Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen." 19 Then the angel of God who went before the host of Israel moved and
went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood
behind them, 20 coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel.
And there was the cloud and the darkness; and the night passed without one
coming near the other all night. 21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD drove
the sea back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land,
and the waters were divided. 22 And the people of Israel went into the
midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their
right hand and on their left. 23 The Egyptians pursued, and went in after
them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and
his horsemen. 24 And in the morning watch the LORD in the pillar of fire
and of cloud looked down upon the host of the Egyptians, and discomfited
the host of the Egyptians, 25 clogging their chariot wheels so that they
drove heavily; and the Egyptians said, "Let us flee from before Israel;
for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians." 26 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea,
that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and
upon their horsemen." 27 So Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea,
and the sea returned to its wonted flow when the morning appeared; and the
Egyptians fled into it, and the LORD routed the Egyptians in the midst of
the sea. 28 The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen
and all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea; not so
much as one of them remained. 29 But the people of Israel walked on dry
ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right
hand and on their left. 30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore. 31 And Israel saw the great work which the LORD did against the Egyptians, and the people feared the LORD; and they believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses.
Chapter 15 1 Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the LORD,
saying, "I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the
horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea. 2 The LORD is my strength
and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will
praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him. 3 The LORD is a man of
war; the LORD is his name. 4 "Pharaoh's chariots and his host he cast into
the sea; and his picked officers are sunk in the Red Sea. 5 The floods
cover them; they went down into the depths like a stone. 6 Thy right hand,
O LORD, glorious in power, thy right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy. 7
In the greatness of thy majesty thou overthrowest thy adversaries; thou
sendest forth thy fury, it consumes them like stubble. 8 At the blast of
thy nostrils the waters piled up, the floods stood up in a heap; the deeps
congealed in the heart of the sea. 9 The enemy said, 'I will pursue, I
will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of
them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.' 10 Thou didst
blow with thy wind, the sea covered them; they sank as lead in the mighty
waters. 11 "Who is like thee, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like thee,
majestic in holiness, terrible in glorious deeds, doing wonders? 12 Thou
didst stretch out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them. 13 "Thou hast
led in thy steadfast love the people whom thou hast redeemed, thou hast
guided them by thy strength to thy holy abode. 14 The peoples have heard,
they tremble; pangs have seized on the inhabitants of Philistia. 15 Now
are the chiefs of Edom dismayed; the leaders of Moab, trembling seizes
them; all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away. 16 Terror and dread
fall upon them; because of the greatness of thy arm, they are as still as
a stone, till thy people, O LORD, pass by, till the people pass by whom
thou hast purchased. 17 Thou wilt bring them in, and plant them on thy own
mountain, the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thy abode, the
sanctuary, LORD, which thy hands have established. 18 The LORD will reign
for ever and ever." 19 For when the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen
went into the sea, the LORD brought back the waters of the sea upon them;
but the people of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea. 20
Then Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her
hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and dancing. 21
And Miriam sang to them: "Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed
gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea." 22 Then Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went into
the wilderness of Shur; they went three days in the wilderness and found
no water. 23 When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of
Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah. 24 And the
people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?" 25 And he
cried to the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree, and he threw it into
the water, and the water became sweet. There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance and there he
proved them, 26 saying, "If you will diligently hearken to the voice of
the LORD your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give heed
to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the
diseases upon you which I put upon the Egyptians; for I am the LORD, your
healer." 27 Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there by the water.
Chapter 16 1 They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people 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. 2 And the whole congregation of the people of Israel
murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, 3 and said to them,
"Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when
we sat by the fleshpots and ate bread to the full; for you have brought us
out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger." 4 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from heaven
for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day,
that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law or not. 5 On the
sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much
as they gather daily." 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, 7 and in the morning you shall see the glory of
the LORD, because he has heard your murmurings against the LORD. For what
are we, that you murmur against us?" 8 And Moses said, "When the LORD
gives you in the evening flesh to eat and in the morning bread to the
full, because the LORD has heard your murmurings which you murmur against
him--what are we? Your murmurings are not against us but against the
LORD." 9 And Moses said to Aaron, "Say to the whole congregation of the people
of Israel, 'Come near before the LORD, for he has heard your murmurings.'"
10 And 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. 11 And the LORD said to Moses, 12 "I have heard the
murmurings of the people of Israel; say to them, 'At twilight you shall
eat flesh, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread; then you
shall know that I am the LORD your God.'" 13 In the evening quails came up and covered the camp; and in the
morning dew lay round about the camp. 14 And when the dew had gone up,
there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as
hoarfrost on the ground. 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 which the LORD has given you to eat. 16
This is what the LORD has commanded: 'Gather of it, every man of you, as
much as he can eat; you shall take an omer apiece, according to the number
of the persons whom each of you has in his tent.'" 17 And the people of
Israel did so; they gathered, some more, some less. 18 But when they
measured it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he
that gathered little had no lack; each gathered according to what he could
eat. 19 And Moses said to them, "Let no man leave any of it till the
morning." 20 But they did not listen to Moses; some left part of it till
the morning, and it bred worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with
them. 21 Morning by morning they gathered it, each as much as he could
eat; but when the sun grew hot, it melted. 22 On the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers
apiece; and when all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses,
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 by to be kept
till the morning.'" 24 So they laid it by till the morning, as Moses bade
them; and it did not become foul, and there were no worms in it. 25 Moses
said, "Eat it today, for today is a sabbath to the LORD; today you will
not find it in the field. 26 Six days you shall gather it; but on the
seventh day, which is a sabbath, there will be none." 27 On the seventh
day some of the people went out to gather, and they found none. 28 And the
LORD said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my
laws? 29 See! The LORD has given you the sabbath, therefore on the sixth
day he gives you bread for two days; remain every man of you in his place,
let no man go out of his place on the seventh day." 30 So the people
rested on the seventh day. 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. 32 And Moses said, "This is what the LORD has commanded: 'Let an omer of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.'" 33 And Moses said to Aaron, "Take a jar, and put an omer of manna in it, and place it before the LORD, to be kept throughout your generations." 34 As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the testimony, to be kept. 35 And the people of Israel ate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land; they ate the manna, till they came to the border of the land of Canaan. 36 (An omer is the tenth part of an ephah.)
Chapter 17 1 All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the
wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the LORD, and
camped at Reph'idim; but there was no water for the people to drink. 2
Therefore the people found fault with Moses, and said, "Give us water to
drink." And Moses said to them, "Why do you find fault with me? Why do you
put the LORD to the proof?" 3 But the people thirsted there for water, and
the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why did you bring us up out
of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?" 4 So
Moses cried to the LORD, "What shall I do with this people? They are
almost ready to stone me." 5 And the LORD said to Moses, "Pass on before
the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel; and take in your
hand the rod with which you struck the Nile, and go. 6 Behold, I will
stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the
rock, and water shall come out of it, that the people may drink." And
Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel. 7 And he called the
name of the place Massah and Mer'ibah, because of the faultfinding of the
children of Israel, and because they put the LORD to the proof by saying,
"Is the LORD among us or not?" 8 Then came Am'alek and fought with Israel at Reph'idim. 9 And Moses
said to Joshua, "Choose for us men, and go out, fight with Am'alek;
tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my
hand." 10 So Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought with Am'alek; and
Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11 Whenever Moses
held up his hand, Israel prevailed; and whenever he lowered his hand,
Am'alek prevailed. 12 But Moses' hands grew weary; so they took a stone
and put it under him, and he sat upon it, and Aaron and Hur held up his
hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side; so his hands were
steady until the going down of the sun. 13 And Joshua mowed down Am'alek
and his people with the edge of the sword. 14 And 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 remembrance of Am'alek from under heaven." 15 And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The LORD is my banner, 16 saying, "A hand upon the banner of the LORD! The LORD will have war with Am'alek from generation to generation."
Chapter 18 1 Jethro, the priest of Mid'ian, 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. 2 Now Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, had taken
Zippo'rah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away, 3 and her two sons, of
whom the name of the one was Gershom (for he said, "I have been a
sojourner in a foreign land"), 4 and the name of the other, Elie'zer (for
he said, "The God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the
sword of Pharaoh"). 5 And 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. 6 And when one told Moses, "Lo, your father-in-law Jethro
is coming to you with your wife and her two sons with her," 7 Moses went
out to meet his father-in-law, and did obeisance and kissed him; and they
asked each other of their welfare, and went into the tent. 8 Then 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. 9 And Jethro rejoiced for
all the good which the LORD had done to Israel, in that he had delivered
them out of the hand of the Egyptians. 10 And Jethro said, "Blessed be the LORD, who has delivered you out of
the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh. 11 Now I know
that the LORD is greater than all gods, because he delivered the people
from under the hand of the Egyptians, when they dealt arrogantly with
them." 12 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, offered 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. 13 On the morrow Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood
about Moses from morning till evening. 14 When Moses' father-in-law saw
all that he was doing for the people, he said, "What is this that you are
doing for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand about
you from morning till evening?" 15 And Moses said to his father-in-law,
"Because the people come to me to inquire of God; 16 when they have a
dispute, they come to me and I decide between a man and his neighbor, and
I make them know the statutes of God and his decisions." 17 Moses'
father-in-law said to him, "What you are doing is not good. 18 You and the
people with you will wear yourselves out, for the thing is too heavy for
you; you are not able to perform it alone. 19 Listen now to my voice; I
will give you counsel, and God be with you! You shall represent the people
before God, and bring their cases to God; 20 and you shall teach them the
statutes and the decisions, and make them know the way in which they must
walk and what they must do. 21 Moreover choose able men from all the
people, such as fear God, men who are trustworthy and who hate a bribe;
and place such men over the people as rulers of thousands, of hundreds, of
fifties, and of tens. 22 And let them judge the people at all times; every
great matter they shall bring to you, but any small matter they shall
decide themselves; so it will be easier for you, and they will bear the
burden with you. 23 If you do this, and God so commands you, then you will
be able to endure, and all this people also will go to their place in
peace." 24 So Moses gave heed to the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he had said. 25 Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens. 26 And they judged the people at all times; hard cases they brought to Moses, but any small matter they decided themselves. 27 Then Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way to his own country.
Chapter 19 1 On the third new moon after the people of Israel had gone forth out
of the land of Egypt, on that day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.
2 And when they set out from Reph'idim and came into the wilderness of
Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before
the mountain. 3 And Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him out
of the mountain, saying, "Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and
tell the people of Israel: 4 You have seen what I did to the Egyptians,
and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself. 5 Now
therefore, if you will obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my
own possession among all peoples; for all the earth is mine, 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." 7 So Moses came and called the elders of the people, and set before
them all these words which the LORD had commanded him. 8 And all the
people answered together and said, "All that the LORD has spoken we will
do." And Moses reported the words of the people to the LORD. 9 And the
LORD said to Moses, "Lo, I am coming to you in a thick cloud, that the
people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you for ever." Then Moses told the words of the people to the LORD. 10 And the LORD
said to Moses, "Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow,
and let them wash their garments, 11 and be ready by the third day; for on
the third day the LORD will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all
the people. 12 And you shall set bounds for the people round about,
saying, 'Take heed that you do not go up into the mountain or touch the
border of it; whoever touches the mountain shall be put to death; 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 shall
come up to the mountain." 14 So Moses went down from the mountain to the
people, and consecrated the people; and they washed their garments. 15 And
he said to the people, "Be ready by the third day; do not go near a
woman." 16 On the morning of the third day there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled. 17 Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God; and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain. 18 And Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire; and the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain quaked greatly. 19 And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him in thunder. 20 And the LORD came down upon Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain; and the LORD called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. 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. 22 And also let the priests who come near to the LORD consecrate themselves, lest the LORD break out upon them." 23 And Moses said to the LORD, "The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai; for thou thyself didst charge us, saying, 'Set bounds about the mountain, and consecrate it.'" 24 And 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." 25 So Moses went down to the people and told them.
Chapter 20 1 And God spoke all these words, saying, 2 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of bondage. 3 "You shall have no other gods before me. 4 "You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of
anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that
is in the water under the earth; 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 upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of
those who hate me, 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who
love me and keep my commandments. 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. 8 "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall
labor, and do all your work; 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath to the
LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your
daughter, your manservant, or your maidservant, or your cattle, or the
sojourner who is within your gates; 11 for in six days the LORD made
heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh
day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it. 12 "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in
the land which the LORD your God gives you. 13 "You shall not kill. 14 "You shall not commit adultery. 15 "You shall not steal. 16 "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. 17 "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your
neighbor's wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his
ass, or anything that is your neighbor's." 18 Now when all the people perceived the thunderings and the lightnings
and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were
afraid and trembled; and they stood afar off, 19 and said to Moses, "You
speak to us, and we will hear; but let not God speak to us, lest we die."
20 And Moses said to the people, "Do not fear; for God has come to prove
you, and that the fear of him may be before your eyes, that you may not
sin." 21 And the people stood afar off, while Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was. 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. 23 You shall not make gods of silver to be with me, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold. 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. 25 And if you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones; for if you wield your tool upon it you profane it. 26 And you shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness be not exposed on it.'
Chapter 21 1 "Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them. 2 When
you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he
shall go out free, for nothing. 3 If he comes in single, he shall go out
single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. 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. 5 But if
the slave plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I
will not go out free,' 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 serve him for life. 7 "When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as
the male slaves do. 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 dealt
faithlessly with her. 9 If he designates her for his son, he shall deal
with her as with a daughter. 10 If he takes another wife to himself, he
shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights. 11 And
if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for
nothing, without payment of money. 12 "Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death. 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. 14 But if a man
willfully attacks another to kill him treacherously, you shall take him
from my altar, that he may die. 15 "Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death. 16 "Whoever steals a man, whether he sells him or is found in
possession of him, shall be put to death. 17 "Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death. 18 "When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his
fist and the man does not die but keeps his bed, 19 then if the man rises
again and walks abroad with his staff, he that struck him shall be clear;
only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall have him thoroughly
healed. 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 But if the slave
survives a day or two, he is not to be punished; for the slave is his
money. 22 "When men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that
there is a miscarriage, and yet no harm follows, the one who hurt her
shall be fined, according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him; and
he shall pay as the judges determine. 23 If any harm follows, then you
shall give life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand,
foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. 26 "When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and
destroys it, he shall let the slave go free for the eye's sake. 27 If he
knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave
go free for the tooth's sake. 28 "When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned,
and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be clear.
29 But if the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner
has been warned but has not kept it in, and it kills a man or a woman, the
ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death. 30 If a
ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life
whatever is laid upon him. 31 If it gores a man's son or daughter, he
shall be dealt with according to this same rule. 32 If the ox gores a
slave, male or female, the owner shall give to their master thirty shekels
of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. 33 "When a man leaves a pit open, or when a man digs a pit and does not
cover it, and an ox or an ass falls into it, 34 the owner of the pit shall
make it good; he shall give money to its owner, and the dead beast shall
be his. 35 "When one man's ox hurts another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide the price of it; and the dead beast also they shall divide. 36 Or if it is known that the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall pay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his.
Chapter 22 1 "If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall
pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. He shall make
restitution; if he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. 2 If the stolen beast is found alive in his possession, whether it is
an ox or an ass or a sheep, he shall pay double. 3 "If a thief is found
breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt
for him; 4 but if the sun has risen upon him, there shall be bloodguilt
for him. 5 "When a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over, or lets his
beast loose and it feeds in another man's field, he shall make restitution
from the best in his own field and in his own vineyard. 6 "When fire
breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing
grain or the field is consumed, he that kindled the fire shall make full
restitution. 7 "If a man delivers to his neighbor money or goods to keep, and it is
stolen out of the man's house, then, if the thief is found, he shall pay
double. 8 If the thief is not found, the owner of the house shall come
near to God, to show whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor's
goods. 9 "For every breach of trust, whether it is for ox, for ass, for sheep,
for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, of which one says, 'This is
it,' the case of both parties shall come before God; he whom God shall
condemn shall pay double to his neighbor. 10 "If a man delivers to his neighbor an ass or an ox or a sheep or any
beast to keep, and it dies or is hurt or is driven away, without any one
seeing it, 11 an oath by the LORD shall be between them both to see
whether he has not put his hand to his neighbor's property; and the owner
shall accept the oath, and he shall not make restitution. 12 But if it is
stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner. 13 If it is torn
by beasts, let him bring it as evidence; he shall not make restitution for
what has been torn. 14 "If a man borrows anything of his neighbor, and it is hurt or dies,
the owner not being with it, he shall make full restitution. 15 If the
owner was with it, he shall not make restitution; if it was hired, it came
for its hire. 16 "If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with her,
he shall give the marriage present for her, and make her his wife. 17 If
her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money
equivalent to the marriage present for virgins. 18 "You shall not permit a sorceress to live. 19 "Whoever lies with a beast shall be put to death. 20 "Whoever sacrifices to any god, save to the LORD only, shall be
utterly destroyed. 21 "You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were
strangers in the land of Egypt. 22 You shall not afflict any widow or
orphan. 23 If you do afflict them, and they cry out to me, I will surely
hear their cry; 24 and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the
sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless. 25 "If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you
shall not be to him as a creditor, and you shall not exact interest from
him. 26 If ever you take your neighbor's garment in pledge, you shall
restore it to him before the sun goes down; 27 for that is his only
covering, it is his mantle for his body; in what else shall he sleep? And
if he cries to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate. 28 "You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people. 29 "You shall not delay to offer from the fulness of your harvest and
from the outflow of your presses. "The first-born of your sons you shall
give to me. 30 You shall do likewise with your oxen and with your sheep:
seven days it shall be with its dam; on the eighth day you shall give it
to me. 31 "You shall be men consecrated to me; therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by beasts in the field; you shall cast it to the dogs.
Chapter 23 1 "You shall not utter a false report. You shall not join hands with a
wicked man, to be a malicious witness. 2 You shall not follow a multitude
to do evil; nor shall you bear witness in a suit, turning aside after a
multitude, so as to pervert justice; 3 nor shall you be partial to a poor
man in his suit. 4 "If you meet your enemy's ox or his ass going astray, you shall bring
it back to him. 5 If you see the ass of one who hates you lying under its
burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it, you shall help him to
lift it up. 6 "You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his suit. 7
Keep far from a false charge, and do not slay the innocent and righteous,
for I will not acquit the wicked. 8 And you shall take no bribe, for a
bribe blinds the officials, and subverts the cause of those who are in the
right. 9 "You shall not oppress a stranger; you know the heart of a stranger,
for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. 10 "For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield; 11
but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor
of your people may eat; and what they leave the wild beasts may eat. You
shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard. 12 "Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall
rest; that your ox and your ass may have rest, and the son of your
bondmaid, and the alien, may be refreshed. 13 Take heed to all that I have
said to you; and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let such
be heard out of your mouth. 14 "Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me. 15 You shall
keep the feast of unleavened bread; as I commanded you, you shall eat
unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib,
for in it you came out of Egypt. None shall appear before me empty-handed.
16 You shall keep the feast of harvest, of the first fruits of your labor,
of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the feast of ingathering at
the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your
labor. 17 Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the
Lord GOD. 18 "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread,
or let the fat of my feast remain until the morning. 19 "The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into
the house of the LORD your God. "You shall not boil a kid in its mother's
milk. 20 "Behold, I send an angel before you, to guard you on the way and to
bring you to the place which I have prepared. 21 Give heed to him and
hearken to his voice, do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon
your transgression; for my name is in him. 22 "But if you hearken attentively to his voice and do all that I say,
then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your
adversaries. 23 "When my angel goes before you, and brings you in to the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Per'izzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites, and I blot them out, 24 you shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works, but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces. 25 You shall serve the LORD your God, and I will bless your bread and your water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of you. 26 None shall cast her young or be barren in your land; I will fulfil the number of your days. 27 I will send my terror before you, and will throw into confusion all the people against whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. 28 And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out Hivite, Canaanite, and Hittite from before you. 29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you. 30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you are increased and possess the land. 31 And I will set your bounds from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphra'tes; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. 32 You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you."
Chapter 24 1 And he said to Moses, "Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab, and
Abi'hu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship afar off. 2 Moses
alone shall come near to the LORD; but the others shall not come near, and
the people shall not come up with him." 3 Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the
ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, "All the
words which the LORD has spoken we will do." 4 And Moses wrote all the
words of the LORD. And he rose early in the morning, and built an altar at
the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve
tribes of Israel. 5 And he sent young men of the people of Israel, who
offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the
LORD. 6 And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of
the blood he threw against the altar. 7 Then he took the book of the
covenant, and read it in the hearing of the people; and they said, "All
that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient." 8 And Moses
took the blood and threw it upon the people, and said, "Behold the blood
of the covenant which the LORD has made with you in accordance with all
these words." 9 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abi'hu, and seventy of the elders of
Israel went up, 10 and they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his
feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for
clearness. 11 And he did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people
of Israel; they beheld God, and ate and drank. 12 The LORD said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, and wait
there; and I will give you the tables of stone, with the law and the
commandment, which I have written for their instruction." 13 So Moses rose
with his servant Joshua, and Moses went up into the mountain of God. 14
And he said to the elders, "Tarry here for us, until we come to you again;
and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you; whoever has a cause, let him go
to them." 15 Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. 16 The glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 17 Now the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel. 18 And Moses entered the cloud, and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Chapter 25 1 The LORD said to Moses, 2 "Speak to the people of Israel, that they
take for me an offering; from every man whose heart makes him willing you
shall receive the offering for me. 3 And this is the offering which you
shall receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze, 4 blue and purple and
scarlet stuff and fine twined linen, goats' hair, 5 tanned rams' skins,
goatskins, acacia wood, 6 oil for the lamps, spices for the anointing oil
and for the fragrant incense, 7 onyx stones, and stones for setting, for
the ephod and for the breastpiece. 8 And let them make me a sanctuary,
that I may dwell in their midst. 9 According to all that I show you
concerning the pattern of the tabernacle, and of all its furniture, so you
shall make it. 10 "They shall make an ark of acacia wood; two cubits and a half shall
be its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its
height. 11 And you shall overlay it with pure gold, within and without
shall you overlay it, and you shall make upon it a molding of gold round
about. 12 And you shall cast four rings of gold for it and put them on its
four feet, two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other
side of it. 13 You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with
gold. 14 And you shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the
ark, to carry the ark by them. 15 The poles shall remain in the rings of
the ark; they shall not be taken from it. 16 And you shall put into the
ark the testimony which I shall give you. 17 Then you shall make a mercy
seat of pure gold; two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit
and a half its breadth. 18 And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of
hammered work shall you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat. 19
Make one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end; of one
piece with the mercy seat shall you make the cherubim on its two ends. 20
The cherubim shall spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy
seat with their wings, their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat
shall the faces of the cherubim be. 21 And you shall put the mercy seat on
the top of the ark; and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I
shall give you. 22 There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy
seat, from between the two cherubim that are upon the ark of the
testimony, I will speak with you of all that I will give you in
commandment for the people of Israel. 23 "And you shall make a table of acacia wood; two cubits shall be its
length, a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. 24 You
shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a molding of gold around it. 25
And you shall make around it a frame a handbreadth wide, and a molding of
gold around the frame. 26 And you shall make for it four rings of gold,
and fasten the rings to the four corners at its four legs. 27 Close to the
frame the rings shall lie, as holders for the poles to carry the table. 28
You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, and
the table shall be carried with these. 29 And you shall make its plates
and dishes for incense, and its flagons and bowls with which to pour
libations; of pure gold you shall make them. 30 And you shall set the
bread of the Presence on the table before me always. 31 "And you shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The base and the shaft of the lampstand shall be made of hammered work; its cups, its capitals, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it; 32 and there shall be six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand out of one side of it and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it; 33 three cups made like almonds, each with capital and flower, on one branch, and three cups made like almonds, each with capital and flower, on the other branch--so for the six branches going out of the lampstand; 34 and on the lampstand itself four cups made like almonds, with their capitals and flowers, 35 and a capital of one piece with it under each pair of the six branches going out from the lampstand. 36 Their capitals and their branches shall be of one piece with it, the whole of it one piece of hammered work of pure gold. 37 And you shall make the seven lamps for it; and the lamps shall be set up so as to give light upon the space in front of it. 38 Its snuffers and their trays shall be of pure gold. 39 Of a talent of pure gold shall it be made, with all these utensils. 40 And see that you make them after the pattern for them, which is being shown you on the mountain.
Chapter 26 1 "Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine
twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet stuff; with cherubim
skilfully worked shall you make them. 2 The length of each curtain shall
be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; all
the curtains shall have one measure. 3 Five curtains shall be coupled to
one another; and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another.
4 And you shall make loops of blue on the edge of the outmost curtain in
the first set; and likewise you shall make loops on the edge of the
outmost curtain in the second set. 5 Fifty loops you shall make on the one
curtain, and fifty loops you shall make on the edge of the curtain that is
in the second set; the loops shall be opposite one another. 6 And you
shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to the other
with the clasps, that the tabernacle may be one whole. 7 "You shall also make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the
tabernacle; eleven curtains shall you make. 8 The length of each curtain
shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; the
eleven curtains shall have the same measure. 9 And you shall couple five
curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and the sixth
curtain you shall double over at the front of the tent. 10 And you shall
make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outmost in one set,
and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which is outmost in the second
set. 11 "And you shall make fifty clasps of bronze, and put the clasps into
the loops, and couple the tent together that it may be one whole. 12 And
the part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that
remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle. 13 And the cubit on
the one side, and the cubit on the other side, of what remains in the
length of the curtains of the tent shall hang over the sides of the
tabernacle, on this side and that side, to cover it. 14 And you shall make
for the tent a covering of tanned rams' skins and goatskins. 15 "And you shall make upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia
wood. 16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a frame, and a cubit and a half
the breadth of each frame. 17 There shall be two tenons in each frame, for
fitting together; so shall you do for all the frames of the tabernacle. 18
You shall make the frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south
side; 19 and forty bases of silver you shall make under the twenty frames,
two bases under one frame for its two tenons, and two bases under another
frame for its two tenons; 20 and for the second side of the tabernacle, on
the north side twenty frames, 21 and their forty bases of silver, two
bases under one frame, and two bases under another frame; 22 and for the
rear of the tabernacle westward you shall make six frames. 23 And you
shall make two frames for corners of the tabernacle in the rear; 24 they
shall be separate beneath, but joined at the top, at the first ring; thus
shall it be with both of them; they shall form the two corners. 25 And
there shall be eight frames, with their bases of silver, sixteen bases;
two bases under one frame, and two bases under another frame. 26 "And you shall make bars of acacia wood, five for the frames of the
one side of the tabernacle, 27 and five bars for the frames of the other
side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames of the side of the
tabernacle at the rear westward. 28 The middle bar, halfway up the frames,
shall pass through from end to end. 29 You shall overlay the frames with
gold, and shall make their rings of gold for holders for the bars; and you
shall overlay the bars with gold. 30 And you shall erect the tabernacle
according to the plan for it which has been shown you on the mountain. 31 "And you shall make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet stuff and
fine twined linen; in skilled work shall it be made, with cherubim; 32 and
you shall hang it upon four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold, with
hooks of gold, upon four bases of silver. 33 And you shall hang the veil
from the clasps, and bring the ark of the testimony in thither within the
veil; and the veil shall separate for you the holy place from the most
holy. 34 You shall put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the
most holy place. 35 And you shall set the table outside the veil, and the
lampstand on the south side of the tabernacle opposite the table; and you
shall put the table on the north side. 36 "And you shall make a screen for the door of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework. 37 And you shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, and you shall cast five bases of bronze for them.
Chapter 27 1 "You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five
cubits broad; the altar shall be square, and its height shall be three
cubits. 2 And you shall make horns for it on its four corners; its horns
shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze. 3 You
shall make pots for it to receive its ashes, and shovels and basins and
forks and firepans; all its utensils you shall make of bronze. 4 You shall
also make for it a grating, a network of bronze; and upon the net you
shall make four bronze rings at its four corners. 5 And you shall set it
under the ledge of the altar so that the net shall extend halfway down the
altar. 6 And you shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and
overlay them with bronze; 7 and the poles shall be put through the rings,
so that the poles shall be upon the two sides of the altar, when it is
carried. 8 You shall make it hollow, with boards; as it has been shown you
on the mountain, so shall it be made. 9 "You shall make the court of the tabernacle. On the south side the
court shall have hangings of fine twined linen a hundred cubits long for
one side; 10 their pillars shall be twenty and their bases twenty, of
bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
11 And likewise for its length on the north side there shall be hangings a
hundred cubits long, their pillars twenty and their bases twenty, of
bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side there shall be
hangings for fifty cubits, with ten pillars and ten bases. 13 The breadth
of the court on the front to the east shall be fifty cubits. 14 The
hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits, with three
pillars and three bases. 15 On the other side the hangings shall be
fifteen cubits, with three pillars and three bases. 16 For the gate of the
court there shall be a screen twenty cubits long, of blue and purple and
scarlet stuff and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework; it shall
have four pillars and with them four bases. 17 All the pillars around the
court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and
their bases of bronze. 18 The length of the court shall be a hundred
cubits, the breadth fifty, and the height five cubits, with hangings of
fine twined linen and bases of bronze. 19 All the utensils of the
tabernacle for every use, and all its pegs and all the pegs of the court,
shall be of bronze. 20 "And you shall command the people of Israel that they bring to you pure beaten olive oil for the light, that a lamp may be set up to burn continually. 21 In the tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening to morning before the LORD. It shall be a statute for ever to be observed throughout their generations by the people of Israel.
Chapter 28 1 "Then bring near to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him,
from among the people of Israel, to serve me as priests--Aaron and Aaron's
sons, Nadab and Abi'hu, Elea'zar and Ith'amar. 2 And you shall make holy
garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty. 3 And you shall
speak to all who have ability, whom I have endowed with an able mind, that
they make Aaron's garments to consecrate him for my priesthood. 4 These
are the garments which they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a
coat of checker work, a turban, and a girdle; they shall make holy
garments for Aaron your brother and his sons to serve me as priests. 5 "They shall receive gold, blue and purple and scarlet stuff, and fine
twined linen. 6 And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue and purple
and scarlet stuff, and of fine twined linen, skilfully worked. 7 It shall
have two shoulder-pieces attached to its two edges, that it may be joined
together. 8 And the skilfully woven band upon it, to gird it on, shall be
of the same workmanship and materials, of gold, blue and purple and
scarlet stuff, and fine twined linen. 9 And you shall take two onyx
stones, and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel, 10 six of
their names on the one stone, and the names of the remaining six on the
other stone, in the order of their birth. 11 As a jeweler engraves
signets, so shall you engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of
Israel; you shall enclose them in settings of gold filigree. 12 And you
shall set the two stones upon the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, as stones
of remembrance for the sons of Israel; and Aaron shall bear their names
before the LORD upon his two shoulders for remembrance. 13 And you shall
make settings of gold filigree, 14 and two chains of pure gold, twisted
like cords; and you shall attach the corded chains to the settings. 15 "And you shall make a breastpiece of judgment, in skilled work; like
the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, blue and purple and
scarlet stuff, and fine twined linen shall you make it. 16 It shall be
square and double, a span its length and a span its breadth. 17 And you
shall set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and
carbuncle shall be the first row; 18 and the second row an emerald, a
sapphire, and a diamond; 19 and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an
amethyst; 20 and the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper; they shall
be set in gold filigree. 21 There shall be twelve stones with their names
according to the names of the sons of Israel; they shall be like signets,
each engraved with its name, for the twelve tribes. 22 And you shall make
for the breastpiece twisted chains like cords, of pure gold; 23 and you
shall make for the breastpiece two rings of gold, and put the two rings on
the two edges of the breastpiece. 24 And you shall put the two cords of
gold in the two rings at the edges of the breastpiece; 25 the two ends of
the two cords you shall attach to the two settings of filigree, and so
attach it in front to the shoulder-pieces of the ephod. 26 And you shall
make two rings of gold, and put them at the two ends of the breastpiece,
on its inside edge next to the ephod. 27 And you shall make two rings of
gold, and attach them in front to the lower part of the two
shoulder-pieces of the ephod, at its joining above the skilfully woven
band of the ephod. 28 And they shall bind the breastpiece by its rings to
the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may lie upon the
skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastpiece shall not come
loose from the ephod. 29 So Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of
Israel in the breastpiece of judgment upon his heart, when he goes into
the holy place, to bring them to continual remembrance before the LORD. 30
And in the breastpiece of judgment you shall put the Urim and the Thummim,
and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goes in before the LORD;
thus Aaron shall bear the judgment of the people of Israel upon his heart
before the LORD continually. 31 "And you shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue. 32 It shall
have in it an opening for the head, with a woven binding around the
opening, like the opening in a garment, that it may not be torn. 33 On its
skirts you shall make pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet stuff,
around its skirts, with bells of gold between them, 34 a golden bell and a
pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, round about on the skirts of
the robe. 35 And it shall be upon Aaron when he ministers, and its sound
shall be heard when he goes into the holy place before the LORD, and when
he comes out, lest he die. 36 "And you shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, like
the engraving of a signet, 'Holy to the LORD.' 37 And you shall fasten it
on the turban by a lace of blue; it shall be on the front of the turban.
38 It shall be upon Aaron's forehead, and Aaron shall take upon himself
any guilt incurred in the holy offering which the people of Israel hallow
as their holy gifts; it shall always be upon his forehead, that they may
be accepted before the LORD. 39 "And you shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and you
shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a girdle embroidered
with needlework. 40 "And for Aaron's sons you shall make coats and girdles and caps; you shall make them for glory and beauty. 41 And you shall put them upon Aaron your brother, and upon his sons with him, and shall anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests. 42 And you shall make for them linen breeches to cover their naked flesh; from the loins to the thighs they shall reach; 43 and they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister in the holy place; lest they bring guilt upon themselves and die. This shall be a perpetual statute for him and for his descendants after him.
Chapter 29 1 "Now this is what you shall do to them to consecrate them, that they
may serve me as priests. Take one young bull and two rams without blemish,
2 and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened
wafers spread with oil. You shall make them of fine wheat flour. 3 And you
shall put them in one basket and bring them in the basket, and bring the
bull and the two rams. 4 You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of
the tent of meeting, and wash them with water. 5 And you shall take the
garments, and put on Aaron the coat and the robe of the ephod, and the
ephod, and the breastpiece, and gird him with the skilfully woven band of
the ephod; 6 and you shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy
crown upon the turban. 7 And you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it
on his head and anoint him. 8 Then you shall bring his sons, and put coats
on them, 9 and you shall gird them with girdles and bind caps on them; and
the priesthood shall be theirs by a perpetual statute. Thus you shall
ordain Aaron and his sons. 10 "Then you shall bring the bull before the tent of meeting. Aaron and
his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the bull, 11 and you shall
kill the bull before the LORD, at the door of the tent of meeting, 12 and
shall take part of the blood of the bull and put it upon the horns of the
altar with your finger, and the rest of the blood you shall pour out at
the base of the altar. 13 And you shall take all the fat that covers the
entrails, and the appendage of the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat
that is on them, and burn them upon the altar. 14 But the flesh of the
bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside the
camp; it is a sin offering. 15 "Then you shall take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall
lay their hands upon the head of the ram, 16 and you shall slaughter the
ram, and shall take its blood and throw it against the altar round about.
17 Then you shall cut the ram into pieces, and wash its entrails and its
legs, and put them with its pieces and its head, 18 and burn the whole ram
upon the altar; it is a burnt offering to the LORD; it is a pleasing odor,
an offering by fire to the LORD. 19 "You shall take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay
their hands upon the head of the ram, 20 and you shall kill the ram, and
take part of its blood and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron
and upon the tips of the right ears of his sons, and upon the thumbs of
their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet, and throw
the rest of the blood against the altar round about. 21 Then you shall
take part of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and
sprinkle it upon Aaron and his garments, and upon his sons and his sons'
garments with him; and he and his garments shall be holy, and his sons and
his sons' garments with him. 22 "You shall also take the fat of the ram, and the fat tail, and the
fat that covers the entrails, and the appendage of the liver, and the two
kidneys with the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram
of ordination), 23 and one loaf of bread, and one cake of bread with oil,
and one wafer, out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before the
LORD; 24 and you shall put all these in the hands of Aaron and in the
hands of his sons, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD. 25
Then you shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar in
addition to the burnt offering, as a pleasing odor before the LORD; it is
an offering by fire to the LORD. 26 "And you shall take the breast of the ram of Aaron's ordination and
wave it for a wave offering before the LORD; and it shall be your portion.
27 And you shall consecrate the breast of the wave offering, and the thigh
of the priests' portion, which is waved, and which is offered from the ram
of ordination, since it is for Aaron and for his sons. 28 It shall be for
Aaron and his sons as a perpetual due from the people of Israel, for it is
the priests' portion to be offered by the people of Israel from their
peace offerings; it is their offering to the LORD. 29 "The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be
anointed in them and ordained in them. 30 The son who is priest in his
place shall wear them seven days, when he comes into the tent of meeting
to minister in the holy place. 31 "You shall take the ram of ordination, and boil its flesh in a holy
place; 32 and Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the
bread that is in the basket, at the door of the tent of meeting. 33 They
shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to ordain and
consecrate them, but an outsider shall not eat of them, because they are
holy. 34 And if any of the flesh for the ordination, or of the bread,
remain until the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire; it
shall not be eaten, because it is holy. 35 "Thus you shall do to Aaron and to his sons, according to all that I
have commanded you; through seven days shall you ordain them, 36 and every
day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement. Also you shall
offer a sin offering for the altar, when you make atonement for it, and
shall anoint it, to consecrate it. 37 Seven days you shall make atonement
for the altar, and consecrate it, and the altar shall be most holy;
whatever touches the altar shall become holy. 38 "Now this is what you shall offer upon the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually. 39 One lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer in the evening; 40 and with the first lamb a tenth measure of fine flour mingled with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a libation. 41 And the other lamb you shall offer in the evening, and shall offer with it a cereal offering and its libation, as in the morning, for a pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the LORD. 42 It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tent of meeting before the LORD, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you. 43 There I will meet with the people of Israel, and it shall be sanctified by my glory; 44 I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar; Aaron also and his sons I will consecrate, to serve me as priests. 45 And I will dwell among the people of Israel, and will be their God. 46 And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them; I am the LORD their God.
Chapter 30 1 "You shall make an altar to burn incense upon; of acacia wood shall
you make it. 2 A cubit shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth; it
shall be square, and two cubits shall be its height; its horns shall be of
one piece with it. 3 And you shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and
its sides round about and its horns; and you shall make for it a molding
of gold round about. 4 And two golden rings shall you make for it; under
its molding on two opposite sides of it shall you make them, and they
shall be holders for poles with which to carry it. 5 You shall make the
poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. 6 And you shall put it
before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat
that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you. 7 And Aaron shall
burn fragrant incense on it; every morning when he dresses the lamps he
shall burn it, 8 and when Aaron sets up the lamps in the evening, he shall
burn it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.
9 You shall offer no unholy incense thereon, nor burnt offering, nor
cereal offering; and you shall pour no libation thereon. 10 Aaron shall
make atonement upon its horns once a year; with the blood of the sin
offering of atonement he shall make atonement for it once in the year
throughout your generations; it is most holy to the LORD." 11 The LORD said to Moses, 12 "When you take the census of the people
of Israel, then each shall give a ransom for himself to the LORD when you
number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them. 13
Each who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel
according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs),
half a shekel as an offering to the LORD. 14 Every one who is numbered in
the census, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the LORD's
offering. 15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give
less, than the half shekel, when you give the LORD's offering to make
atonement for yourselves. 16 And you shall take the atonement money from
the people of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the tent of
meeting; that it may bring the people of Israel to remembrance before the
LORD, so as to make atonement for yourselves." 17 The LORD said to Moses, 18 "You shall also make a laver of bronze,
with its base of bronze, for washing. And you shall put it between the
tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it, 19 with
which Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet. 20 When
they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come near the altar to
minister, to burn an offering by fire to the LORD, they shall wash with
water, lest they die. 21 They shall wash their hands and their feet, lest
they die: it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his
descendants throughout their generations." 22 Moreover, the LORD said to Moses, 23 "Take the finest spices: of
liquid myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet-smelling cinnamon half as
much, that is, two hundred and fifty, and of aromatic cane two hundred and
fifty, 24 and of cassia five hundred, according to the shekel of the
sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin; 25 and you shall make of these a sacred
anointing oil blended as by the perfumer; a holy anointing oil it shall
be. 26 And you shall anoint with it the tent of meeting and the ark of the
testimony, 27 and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and
its utensils, and the altar of incense, 28 and the altar of burnt offering
with all its utensils and the laver and its base; 29 you shall consecrate
them, that they may be most holy; whatever touches them will become holy.
30 And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they
may serve me as priests. 31 And you shall say to the people of Israel,
'This shall be my holy anointing oil throughout your generations. 32 It
shall not be poured upon the bodies of ordinary men, and you shall make no
other like it in composition; it is holy, and it shall be holy to you. 33
Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an outsider
shall be cut off from his people.'" 34 And the LORD said to Moses, "Take sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense (of each shall there be an equal part), 35 and make an incense blended as by the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy; 36 and you shall beat some of it very small, and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I shall meet with you; it shall be for you most holy. 37 And the incense which you shall make according to its composition, you shall not make for yourselves; it shall be for you holy to the LORD. 38 Whoever makes any like it to use as perfume shall be cut off from his people."
Chapter 31 1 The LORD said to Moses, 2 "See, I have called by name Bez'alel the
son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah: 3 and I have filled him
with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and
all craftsmanship, 4 to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver,
and bronze, 5 in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, for work
in every craft. 6 And behold, I have appointed with him Oho'liab, the son
of Ahis'amach, of the tribe of Dan; and I have given to all able men
ability, that they may make all that I have commanded you: 7 the tent of
meeting, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that is thereon,
and all the furnishings of the tent, 8 the table and its utensils, and the
pure lampstand with all its utensils, and the altar of incense, 9 and the
altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the laver and its base,
10 and the finely worked garments, the holy garments for Aaron the priest
and the garments of his sons, for their service as priests, 11 and the
anointing oil and the fragrant incense for the holy place. According to
all that I have commanded you they shall do." 12 And the LORD said to Moses, 13 "Say to the people of Israel, 'You
shall keep my sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout
your generations, that you may know that I, the LORD, sanctify you. 14 You
shall keep the sabbath, because it is holy for you; every one who profanes
it shall be put to death; whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be
cut off from among his people. 15 Six days shall work be done, but the
seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the LORD; whoever does
any work on the sabbath day shall be put to death. 16 Therefore the people
of Israel shall keep the sabbath, observing the sabbath throughout their
generations, as a perpetual covenant. 17 It is a sign for ever between me
and the people of Israel that in six days the LORD made heaven and earth,
and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.'" 18 And he gave to Moses, when he had made an end of speaking with him upon Mount Sinai, the two tables of the testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
Chapter 32 1 When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the
mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to
him, "Up, make us gods, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man
who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become
of him." 2 And Aaron said to them, "Take off the rings of gold which are
in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them
to me." 3 So all the people took off the rings of gold which were in their
ears, and brought them to Aaron. 4 And he received the gold at their hand,
and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made a molten calf; and they
said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land
of Egypt!" 5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron
made proclamation and said, "Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD." 6 And
they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings and brought
peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to
play. 7 And the LORD said to Moses, "Go down; for your people, whom you
brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves; 8 they
have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they have
made for themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it and sacrificed to
it, and said, 'These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of
the land of Egypt!'" 9 And the LORD said to Moses, "I have seen this
people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people; 10 now therefore let me
alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them; but
of you I will make a great nation." 11 But Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, "O LORD, why does thy
wrath burn hot against thy people, whom thou hast brought forth out of the
land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12 Why should the
Egyptians say, 'With evil intent did he bring them forth, to slay them in
the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from
thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. 13 Remember
Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou didst swear by
thine own self, and didst say to them, 'I will multiply your descendants
as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give
to your descendants, and they shall inherit it for ever.'" 14 And the LORD
repented of the evil which he thought to do to his people. 15 And Moses turned, and went down from the mountain with the two
tables of the testimony in his hands, tables that were written on both
sides; on the one side and on the other were they written. 16 And the
tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God,
graven upon the tables. 17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people as
they shouted, he said to Moses, "There is a noise of war in the camp." 18
But he said, "It is not the sound of shouting for victory, or the sound of
the cry of defeat, but the sound of singing that I hear." 19 And as soon
as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses' anger
burned hot, and he threw the tables out of his hands and broke them at the
foot of the mountain. 20 And he took the calf which they had made, and
burnt it with fire, and ground it to powder, and scattered it upon the
water, and made the people of Israel drink it. 21 And Moses said to Aaron, "What did this people do to you that you
have brought a great sin upon them?" 22 And Aaron said, "Let not the anger
of my lord burn hot; you know the people, that they are set on evil. 23
For they said to me, 'Make us gods, who shall go before us; as for this
Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know
what has become of him.' 24 And I said to them, 'Let any who have gold
take it off'; so they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and
there came out this calf." 25 And when Moses saw that the people had broken loose (for Aaron had
let them break loose, to their shame among their enemies), 26 then Moses
stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Who is on the LORD's side? Come
to me." And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him. 27
And he said to them, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel, 'Put every man his
sword on his side, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the
camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and
every man his neighbor.'" 28 And the sons of Levi did according to the
word of Moses; and there fell of the people that day about three thousand
men. 29 And Moses said, "Today you have ordained yourselves for the
service of the LORD, each one at the cost of his son and of his brother,
that he may bestow a blessing upon you this day." 30 On the morrow Moses said to the people, "You have sinned a great
sin. And now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for
your sin." 31 So Moses returned to the LORD and said, "Alas, this people
have sinned a great sin; they have made for themselves gods of gold. 32
But now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--and if not, blot me, I pray thee,
out of thy book which thou hast written." 33 But the LORD said to Moses,
"Whoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. 34 But now
go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you; behold, my
angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will
visit their sin upon them." 35 And the LORD sent a plague upon the people, because they made the calf which Aaron made.
Chapter 33 1 The LORD said to Moses, "Depart, go up hence, you and the people whom
you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore
to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, 'To your descendants I will give
it.' 2 And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the
Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and
the Jeb'usites. 3 Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will
not go up among you, lest I consume you in the way, for you are a
stiff-necked people." 4 When the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned; and no man
put on his ornaments. 5 For the LORD had said to Moses, "Say to the people
of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should
go up among you, I would consume you. So now put off your ornaments from
you, that I may know what to do with you.'" 6 Therefore the people of
Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward. 7 Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far
off from the camp; and he called it the tent of meeting. And every one who
sought the LORD would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the
camp. 8 Whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people rose up, and
every man stood at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he had
gone into the tent. 9 When Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud
would descend and stand at the door of the tent, and the LORD would speak
with Moses. 10 And when all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at
the door of the tent, all the people would rise up and worship, every man
at his tent door. 11 Thus the LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, as
a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his
servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tent. 12 Moses said to the LORD, "See, thou sayest to me, 'Bring up this
people'; but thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet
thou hast said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my
sight.' 13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found favor in thy sight,
show me now thy ways, that I may know thee and find favor in thy sight.
Consider too that this nation is thy people." 14 And he said, "My presence
will go with you, and I will give you rest." 15 And he said to him, "If
thy presence will not go with me, do not carry us up from here. 16 For how
shall it be known that I have found favor in thy sight, I and thy people?
Is it not in thy going with us, so that we are distinct, I and thy people,
from all other people that are upon the face of the earth?" 17 And the LORD said to Moses, "This very thing that you have spoken I will do; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name." 18 Moses said, "I pray thee, show me thy glory." 19 And he said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim before you my name 'The LORD'; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. 20 But," he said, "you cannot see my face; for man shall not see me and live." 21 And the LORD said, "Behold, there is a place by me where you shall stand upon the rock; 22 and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by; 23 then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back; but my face shall not be seen."
Chapter 34 1 The LORD said to Moses, "Cut two tables of stone like the first; and
I will write upon the tables the words that were on the first tables,
which you broke. 2 Be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to
Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain.
3 No man shall come up with you, and let no man be seen throughout all the
mountain; let no flocks or herds feed before that mountain." 4 So Moses
cut two tables of stone like the first; and he rose early in the morning
and went up on Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his
hand two tables of stone. 5 And the LORD descended in the cloud and stood
with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. 6 The LORD passed
before him, and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and
gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,
7 keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and
transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting
the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children,
to the third and the fourth generation." 8 And Moses made haste to bow his
head toward the earth, and worshiped. 9 And he said, "If now I have found
favor in thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in the midst of
us, although it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our
sin, and take us for thy inheritance." 10 And he said, "Behold, I make a covenant. Before all your people I
will do marvels, such as have not been wrought in all the earth or in any
nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the
LORD; for it is a terrible thing that I will do with you. 11 "Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I will drive out
before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Per'izzites,
the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites. 12 Take heed to yourself, lest you make a
covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither you go, lest it become a
snare in the midst of you. 13 You shall tear down their altars, and break
their pillars, and cut down their Ashe'rim 14 (for you shall worship no
other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), 15 lest
you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they play
the harlot after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and one invites
you, you eat of his sacrifice, 16 and you take of their daughters for your
sons, and their daughters play the harlot after their gods and make your
sons play the harlot after their gods. 17 "You shall make for yourself no molten gods. 18 "The feast of unleavened bread you shall keep. Seven days you shall
eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the
month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt. 19 All that
opens the womb is mine, all your male cattle, the firstlings of cow and
sheep. 20 The firstling of an ass you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you
will not redeem it you shall break its neck. All the first-born of your
sons you shall redeem. And none shall appear before me empty. 21 "Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in
plowing time and in harvest you shall rest. 22 And you shall observe the
feast of weeks, the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of
ingathering at the year's end. 23 Three times in the year shall all your
males appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel. 24 For I will cast
out nations before you, and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man
desire your land, when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three
times in the year. 25 "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither
shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left until the
morning. 26 The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring
to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in its
mother's milk." 27 And the LORD said to Moses, "Write these words; in
accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with
Israel." 28 And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he
neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote upon the tables the words
of the covenant, the ten commandments. 29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tables of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God. 30 And when Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him. 31 But Moses called to them; and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses talked with them. 32 And afterward all the people of Israel came near, and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in Mount Sinai. 33 And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face; 34 but whenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and when he came out, and told the people of Israel what he was commanded, 35 the people of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone; and Moses would put the veil upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
Chapter 35 1 Moses assembled all the congregation of the people of Israel, and
said to them, "These are the things which the LORD has commanded you to
do. 2 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a
holy sabbath of solemn rest to the LORD; whoever does any work on it shall
be put to death; 3 you shall kindle no fire in all your habitations on the
sabbath day." 4 Moses said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, "This is
the thing which the LORD has commanded. 5 Take from among you an offering
to the LORD; whoever is of a generous heart, let him bring the LORD's
offering: gold, silver, and bronze; 6 blue and purple and scarlet stuff
and fine twined linen; goats' hair, 7 tanned rams' skins, and goatskins;
acacia wood, 8 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the
fragrant incense, 9 and onyx stones and stones for setting, for the ephod
and for the breastpiece. 10 "And let every able man among you come and make all that the LORD
has commanded: the tabernacle, 11 its tent and its covering, its hooks and
its frames, its bars, its pillars, and its bases; 12 the ark with its
poles, the mercy seat, and the veil of the screen; 13 the table with its
poles and all its utensils, and the bread of the Presence; 14 the
lampstand also for the light, with its utensils and its lamps, and the oil
for the light; 15 and the altar of incense, with its poles, and the
anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the door, at
the door of the tabernacle; 16 the altar of burnt offering, with its
grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils, the laver and its
base; 17 the hangings of the court, its pillars and its bases, and the
screen for the gate of the court; 18 the pegs of the tabernacle and the
pegs of the court, and their cords; 19 the finely wrought garments for
ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and
the garments of his sons, for their service as priests." 20 Then all the congregation of the people of Israel departed from the
presence of Moses. 21 And they came, every one whose heart stirred him,
and every one whose spirit moved him, and brought the LORD's offering to
be used for the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy
garments. 22 So they came, both men and women; all who were of a willing
heart brought brooches and earrings and signet rings and armlets, all
sorts of gold objects, every man dedicating an offering of gold to the
LORD. 23 And every man with whom was found blue or purple or scarlet stuff
or fine linen or goats' hair or tanned rams' skins or goatskins, brought
them. 24 Every one who could make an offering of silver or bronze brought
it as the LORD's offering; and every man with whom was found acacia wood
of any use in the work, brought it. 25 And all women who had ability spun
with their hands, and brought what they had spun in blue and purple and
scarlet stuff and fine twined linen; 26 all the women whose hearts were
moved with ability spun the goats' hair. 27 And the leaders brought onyx
stones and stones to be set, for the ephod and for the breastpiece, 28 and
spices and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the
fragrant incense. 29 All the men and women, the people of Israel, whose
heart moved them to bring anything for the work which the LORD had
commanded by Moses to be done, brought it as their freewill offering to
the LORD. 30 And Moses said to the people of Israel, "See, the LORD has called by name Bez'alel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; 31 and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship, 32 to devise artistic designs, to work in gold and silver and bronze, 33 in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, for work in every skilled craft. 34 And he has inspired him to teach, both him and Oho'liab the son of Ahis'amach of the tribe of Dan. 35 He has filled them with ability to do every sort of work done by a craftsman or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen, or by a weaver--by any sort of workman or skilled designer.
Chapter 36 1 Bez'alel and Oho'liab and every able man in whom the LORD has put
ability and intelligence to know how to do any work in the construction of
the sanctuary shall work in accordance with all that the LORD has
commanded." 2 And Moses called Bez'alel and Oho'liab and every able man in whose
mind the LORD had put ability, every one whose heart stirred him up to
come to do the work; 3 and they received from Moses all the freewill
offering which the people of Israel had brought for doing the work on the
sanctuary. They still kept bringing him freewill offerings every morning,
4 so that all the able men who were doing every sort of task on the
sanctuary came, each from the task that he was doing, 5 and said to Moses,
"The people bring much more than enough for doing the work which the LORD
has commanded us to do." 6 So Moses gave command, and word was proclaimed
throughout the camp, "Let neither man nor woman do anything more for the
offering for the sanctuary." So the people were restrained from bringing;
7 for the stuff they had was sufficient to do all the work, and more. 8 And all the able men among the workmen made the tabernacle with ten
curtains; they were made of fine twined linen and blue and purple and
scarlet stuff, with cherubim skilfully worked. 9 The length of each
curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four
cubits; all the curtains had the same measure. 10 And he coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five
curtains he coupled to one another. 11 And he made loops of blue on the
edge of the outmost curtain of the first set; likewise he made them on the
edge of the outmost curtain of the second set; 12 he made fifty loops on
the one curtain, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that
was in the second set; the loops were opposite one another. 13 And he made
fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to the other with
clasps; so the tabernacle was one whole. 14 He also made curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle;
he made eleven curtains. 15 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits,
and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; the eleven curtains had the
same measure. 16 He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains
by themselves. 17 And he made fifty loops on the edge of the outmost
curtain of the one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the other
connecting curtain. 18 And he made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the
tent together that it might be one whole. 19 And he made for the tent a
covering of tanned rams' skins and goatskins. 20 Then he made the upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood.
21 Ten cubits was the length of a frame, and a cubit and a half the
breadth of each frame. 22 Each frame had two tenons, for fitting together;
he did this for all the frames of the tabernacle. 23 The frames for the
tabernacle he made thus: twenty frames for the south side; 24 and he made
forty bases of silver under the twenty frames, two bases under one frame
for its two tenons, and two bases under another frame for its two tenons.
25 And for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made
twenty frames 26 and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one
frame and two bases under another frame. 27 And for the rear of the
tabernacle westward he made six frames. 28 And he made two frames for
corners of the tabernacle in the rear. 29 And they were separate beneath,
but joined at the top, at the first ring; he made two of them thus, for
the two corners. 30 There were eight frames with their bases of silver:
sixteen bases, under every frame two bases. 31 And he made bars of acacia wood, five for the frames of the one side
of the tabernacle, 32 and five bars for the frames of the other side of
the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames of the tabernacle at the rear
westward. 33 And he made the middle bar to pass through from end to end
halfway up the frames. 34 And he overlaid the frames with gold, and made
their rings of gold for holders for the bars, and overlaid the bars with
gold. 35 And he made the veil of blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen; with cherubim skilfully worked he made it. 36 And for it he made four pillars of acacia, and overlaid them with gold; their hooks were of gold, and he cast for them four bases of silver. 37 He also made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework; 38 and its five pillars with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals, and their fillets were of gold, but their five bases were of bronze.
Chapter 37 1 Bez'alel made the ark of acacia wood; two cubits and a half was its
length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.
2 And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a molding
of gold around it. 3 And he cast for it four rings of gold for its four
corners, two rings on its one side and two rings on its other side. 4 And
he made poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, 5 and put the
poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark. 6 And he
made a mercy seat of pure gold; two cubits and a half was its length, and
a cubit and a half its breadth. 7 And he made two cherubim of hammered
gold; on the two ends of the mercy seat he made them, 8 one cherub on the
one end, and one cherub on the other end; of one piece with the mercy seat
he made the cherubim on its two ends. 9 The cherubim spread out their
wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, with their
faces one to another; toward the mercy seat were the faces of the
cherubim. 10 He also made the table of acacia wood; two cubits was its length, a
cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height; 11 and he overlaid
it with pure gold, and made a molding of gold around it. 12 And he made
around it a frame a handbreadth wide, and made a molding of gold around
the frame. 13 He cast for it four rings of gold, and fastened the rings to
the four corners at its four legs. 14 Close to the frame were the rings,
as holders for the poles to carry the table. 15 He made the poles of
acacia wood to carry the table, and overlaid them with gold. 16 And he
made the vessels of pure gold which were to be upon the table, its plates
and dishes for incense, and its bowls and flagons with which to pour
libations. 17 He also made the lampstand of pure gold. The base and the shaft of
the lampstand were made of hammered work; its cups, its capitals, and its
flowers were of one piece with it. 18 And there were six branches going
out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand out of one side of it
and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it; 19 three
cups made like almonds, each with capital and flower, on one branch, and
three cups made like almonds, each with capital and flower, on the other
branch--so for the six branches going out of the lampstand. 20 And on the
lampstand itself were four cups made like almonds, with their capitals and
flowers, 21 and a capital of one piece with it under each pair of the six
branches going out of it. 22 Their capitals and their branches were of one
piece with it; the whole of it was one piece of hammered work of pure
gold. 23 And he made its seven lamps and its snuffers and its trays of
pure gold. 24 He made it and all its utensils of a talent of pure gold. 25 He made the altar of incense of acacia wood; its length was a cubit,
and its breadth was a cubit; it was square, and two cubits was its height;
its horns were of one piece with it. 26 He overlaid it with pure gold, its
top, and its sides round about, and its horns; and he made a molding of
gold round about it, 27 and made two rings of gold on it under its
molding, on two opposite sides of it, as holders for the poles with which
to carry it. 28 And he made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them
with gold. 29 He made the holy anointing oil also, and the pure fragrant incense, blended as by the perfumer.
Chapter 38 1 He made the altar of burnt offering also of acacia wood; five cubits
was its length, and five cubits its breadth; it was square, and three
cubits was its height. 2 He made horns for it on its four corners; its
horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze. 3 And he
made all the utensils of the altar, the pots, the shovels, the basins, the
forks, and the firepans: all its utensils he made of bronze. 4 And he made
for the altar a grating, a network of bronze, under its ledge, extending
halfway down. 5 He cast four rings on the four corners of the bronze
grating as holders for the poles; 6 he made the poles of acacia wood, and
overlaid them with bronze. 7 And he put the poles through the rings on the
sides of the altar, to carry it with them; he made it hollow, with boards. 8 And he made the laver of bronze and its base of bronze, from the
mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the tent of
meeting. 9 And he made the court; for the south side the hangings of the court
were of fine twined linen, a hundred cubits; 10 their pillars were twenty
and their bases twenty, of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their
fillets were of silver. 11 And for the north side a hundred cubits, their
pillars twenty, their bases twenty, of bronze, but the hooks of the
pillars and their fillets were of silver. 12 And for the west side were
hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the
hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. 13 And for the
front to the east, fifty cubits. 14 The hangings for one side of the gate
were fifteen cubits, with three pillars and three bases. 15 And so for the
other side; on this hand and that hand by the gate of the court were
hangings of fifteen cubits, with three pillars and three bases. 16 All the
hangings round about the court were of fine twined linen. 17 And the bases
for the pillars were of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their
fillets were of silver; the overlaying of their capitals was also of
silver, and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver. 18 And
the screen for the gate of the court was embroidered with needlework in
blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen; it was twenty
cubits long and five cubits high in its breadth, corresponding to the
hangings of the court. 19 And their pillars were four; their four bases
were of bronze, their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their
capitals and their fillets of silver. 20 And all the pegs for the
tabernacle and for the court round about were of bronze. 21 This is the sum of the things for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were counted at the commandment of Moses, for the work of the Levites under the direction of Ith'amar the son of Aaron the priest. 22 Bez'alel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses; 23 and with him was Oho'liab the son of Ahis'amach, of the tribe of Dan, a craftsman and designer and embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen. 24 All the gold that was used for the work, in all the construction of the sanctuary, the gold from the offering, was twenty-nine talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary. 25 And the silver from those of the congregation who were numbered was a hundred talents and a thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary: 26 a beka a head (that is, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary), for every one who was numbered in the census, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty men. 27 The hundred talents of silver were for casting the bases of the sanctuary, and the bases of the veil; a hundred bases for the hundred talents, a talent for a base. 28 And of the thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their capitals and made fillets for them. 29 And the bronze that was contributed was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels; 30 with it he made the bases for the door of the tent of meeting, the bronze altar and the bronze grating for it and all the utensils of the altar, 31 the bases round about the court, and the bases of the gate of the court, all the pegs of the tabernacle, and all the pegs round about the court.
Chapter 39 1 And of the blue and purple and scarlet stuff they made finely wrought
garments, for ministering in the holy place; they made the holy garments
for Aaron; as the LORD had commanded Moses. 2 And he made the ephod of gold, blue and purple and scarlet stuff, and
fine twined linen. 3 And gold leaf was hammered out and cut into threads
to work into the blue and purple and the scarlet stuff, and into the fine
twined linen, in skilled design. 4 They made for the ephod
shoulder-pieces, joined to it at its two edges. 5 And the skilfully woven
band upon it, to gird it on, was of the same materials and workmanship, of
gold, blue and purple and scarlet stuff, and fine twined linen; as the
LORD had commanded Moses. 6 The onyx stones were prepared, enclosed in settings of gold filigree
and engraved like the engravings of a signet, according to the names of
the sons of Israel. 7 And he set them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod,
to be stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel; as the LORD had
commanded Moses. 8 He made the breastpiece, in skilled work, like the work of the ephod,
of gold, blue and purple and scarlet stuff, and fine twined linen. 9 It
was square; the breastpiece was made double, a span its length and a span
its breadth when doubled. 10 And they set in it four rows of stones. A row
of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle was the first row; 11 and the second row,
an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond; 12 and the third row, a jacinth, an
agate, and an amethyst; 13 and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a
jasper; they were enclosed in settings of gold filigree. 14 There were
twelve stones with their names according to the names of the sons of
Israel; they were like signets, each engraved with its name, for the
twelve tribes. 15 And they made on the breastpiece twisted chains like
cords, of pure gold; 16 and they made two settings of gold filigree and
two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two edges of the breastpiece;
17 and they put the two cords of gold in the two rings at the edges of the
breastpiece. 18 Two ends of the two cords they had attached to the two
settings of filigree; thus they attached it in front to the
shoulder-pieces of the ephod. 19 Then they made two rings of gold, and put
them at the two ends of the breastpiece, on its inside edge next to the
ephod. 20 And they made two rings of gold, and attached them in front to
the lower part of the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod, at its joining
above the skilfully woven band of the ephod. 21 And they bound the
breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, so
that it should lie upon the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that
the breastpiece should not come loose from the ephod; as the LORD had
commanded Moses. 22 He also made the robe of the ephod woven all of blue; 23 and the
opening of the robe in it was like the opening in a garment, with a
binding around the opening, that it might not be torn. 24 On the skirts of
the robe they made pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet stuff and
fine twined linen. 25 They also made bells of pure gold, and put the bells
between the pomegranates upon the skirts of the robe round about, between
the pomegranates; 26 a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate
round about upon the skirts of the robe for ministering; as the LORD had
commanded Moses. 27 They also made the coats, woven of fine linen, for Aaron and his
sons, 28 and the turban of fine linen, and the caps of fine linen, and the
linen breeches of fine twined linen, 29 and the girdle of fine twined
linen and of blue and purple and scarlet stuff, embroidered with
needlework; as the LORD had commanded Moses. 30 And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote
upon it an inscription, like the engraving of a signet, "Holy to the
LORD." 31 And they tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban
above; as the LORD had commanded Moses. 32 Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting was finished; and the people of Israel had done according to all that the LORD had commanded Moses; so had they done. 33 And they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent and all its utensils, its hooks, its frames, its bars, its pillars, and its bases; 34 the covering of tanned rams' skins and goatskins, and the veil of the screen; 35 the ark of the testimony with its poles and the mercy seat; 36 the table with all its utensils, and the bread of the Presence; 37 the lampstand of pure gold and its lamps with the lamps set and all its utensils, and the oil for the light; 38 the golden altar, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the door of the tent; 39 the bronze altar, and its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils; the laver and its base; 40 the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, and its pegs; and all the utensils for the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting; 41 the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons to serve as priests. 42 According to all that the LORD had commanded Moses, so the people of Israel had done all the work. 43 And Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it; as the LORD had commanded, so had they done it. And Moses blessed them.
Chapter 40 1 The LORD said to Moses, 2 "On the first day of the first month you
shall erect the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. 3 And you shall put in
it the ark of the testimony, and you shall screen the ark with the veil. 4
And you shall bring in the table, and set its arrangements in order; and
you shall bring in the lampstand, and set up its lamps. 5 And you shall
put the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and set
up the screen for the door of the tabernacle. 6 You shall set the altar of
burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, 7
and place the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put
water in it. 8 And you shall set up the court round about, and hang up the
screen for the gate of the court. 9 Then you shall take the anointing oil,
and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and consecrate it and all
its furniture; and it shall become holy. 10 You shall also anoint the
altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar;
and the altar shall be most holy. 11 You shall also anoint the laver and
its base, and consecrate it. 12 Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to
the door of the tent of meeting, and shall wash them with water, 13 and
put upon Aaron the holy garments, and you shall anoint him and consecrate
him, that he may serve me as priest. 14 You shall bring his sons also and
put coats on them, 15 and anoint them, as you anointed their father, that
they may serve me as priests: and their anointing shall admit them to a
perpetual priesthood throughout their generations." 16 Thus did Moses; according to all that the LORD commanded him, so he
did. 17 And in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the
month, the tabernacle was erected. 18 Moses erected the tabernacle; he
laid its bases, and set up its frames, and put in its poles, and raised up
its pillars; 19 and he spread the tent over the tabernacle, and put the
covering of the tent over it, as the LORD had commanded Moses. 20 And he
took the testimony and put it into the ark, and put the poles on the ark,
and set the mercy seat above on the ark; 21 and he brought the ark into
the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of
the testimony; as the LORD had commanded Moses. 22 And he put the table in
the tent of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the
veil, 23 and set the bread in order on it before the LORD; as the LORD had
commanded Moses. 24 And he put the lampstand in the tent of meeting,
opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle, 25 and set up the
lamps before the LORD; as the LORD had commanded Moses. 26 And he put the
golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil, 27 and burnt fragrant
incense upon it; as the LORD had commanded Moses. 28 And he put in place
the screen for the door of the tabernacle. 29 And he set the altar of
burnt offering at the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and
offered upon it the burnt offering and the cereal offering; as the LORD
had commanded Moses. 30 And he set the laver between the tent of meeting
and the altar, and put water in it for washing, 31 with which Moses and
Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet; 32 when they went
into the tent of meeting, and when they approached the altar, they washed;
as the LORD commanded Moses. 33 And he erected the court round the
tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court.
So Moses finished the work. 34 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. 35 And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting, because the cloud abode upon it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. 36 Throughout all their journeys, whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the people of Israel would go onward; 37 but if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not go onward till the day that it was taken up. 38 For throughout all their journeys the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel.
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