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 birth stool, 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."
Exodus,
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.
Exodus,
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."
Exodus,
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.
Exodus,
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 did 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."
Exodus,
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?"
Exodus,
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.
Exodus,
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.
Exodus,
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.
Exodus,
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."
Exodus,
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.
Exodus,
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.
Exodus,
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.
Exodus,
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.
Exodus,
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 overthrows Thy
adversaries; Thou sends 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 did 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 did stretch out Thy right hand, the earth swallowed
them.
13: "Thou did lead in Thy steadfast love the people whom
Thou has redeemed, Thou did guide 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.
Exodus,
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.)
Exodus,
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."
Exodus,
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
Exodus,
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 lightning's, 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 did 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.
Exodus,
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 thundering and the lightning's
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.'
Exodus,
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.
Exodus,
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.
4: 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.
2: "If a thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that
he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him;
3: 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.
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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 fullness 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.
Exodus,
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 fulfill 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."
Exodus,
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.
Exodus,
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
breast piece.
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 lamp stand of pure gold. The base
and the shaft of the lamp stand 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 lamp stand out of one side of it and three branches of
the lamp stand 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 lamp stand;
34: and on the lamp stand 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 lamp stand.
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.
Exodus,
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 skillfully 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 tendons 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 tendons, and two bases
under another frame for its two tendons;
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 lamp stand
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.
Exodus,
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 fire pans; 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.
Exodus,
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 breast piece,
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, skillfully worked.
7: It shall have two shoulder-pieces attached to its two edges,
that it may be joined together.
8: And the skillfully 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 breast piece 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 breast piece twisted chains like
cords, of pure gold;
23: and you shall make for the breast piece two rings of gold, and
put the two rings on the two edges of the breast piece.
24: And you shall put the two cords of gold in the two rings at
the edges of the breast piece;
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 breast piece, 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 skillfully woven band of the ephod.
28: And they shall bind the breast piece by its rings to the rings
of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may lie upon the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the
breast piece shall not come loose
from the ephod.
29: So Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breast piece
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 breast piece 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.
Exodus,
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 breast piece, and gird him
with the skillfully 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.
Exodus,
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 lamp stand 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."
Exodus,
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 lamp stand 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
Exodus,
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 did swear by Thine own self, and did 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.
Exodus,
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 say 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 Thine 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."
Exodus,
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'rims
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.
Exodus,
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 breast piece.
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 lamp stand 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 breast piece,
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.
Exodus,
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 skillfully 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 tendons, 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 tendons, and two bases under
another frame for its two tendons.
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 skillfully 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.
Exodus,
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 lamp stand of pure gold. The base and the
shaft of the lamp stand 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 lamp stand out of one side of it and three branches of
the lamp stand 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 lamp stand.
20: And on the lamp stand 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.
Exodus,
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 fire pans: 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.
Exodus,
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 skillfully 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 breast piece, 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 breast piece 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 breast piece 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 breast piece;
17: and they put the two cords of gold in the two rings at the
edges of the breast piece.
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 breast piece, 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 skillfully woven band of the ephod.
21: And they bound the breast piece by its rings to the rings of
the ephod with a lace of blue, so that it should lie upon the skillfully
woven band of the ephod, and that the breast piece 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 lamp stand 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.
Exodus,
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 lamp stand, 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 lamp stand 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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