Aramaic Peshitta Bible Repository
Lamsa OT - Exodus
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1 ¶ THESE are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob: 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 5 And all the persons that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy persons; for Joseph was in Egypt already. 6 And Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation. 7 And the children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly, and multiplied and grew exceedingly strong; and the land was filled with them.""
8 ¶ Now there rose up a new king over Egypt who knew not Joseph. 9 And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more numerous and stronger than we; 10 Come, let us deal wisely with them, before they multiply, lest when we chance to be at war, they will be added also to our enemies, and fight against us, and so drive us out of the land. 11 Therefore they appointed over them cruel taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh cities with storehouses, Pithom and Raamses. 12 But the more they oppressed them, the more they multiplied and became strong. And the Egyptians were grieved because of the children of Israel. 13 So the Egyptians oppressed the children of Israel severely; 14 And they made their lives bitter with hard labor, in mortar and in bricks and in all manner of work in the field; all their service wherein they made them serve was with rigor.""
15 ¶ And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Puah and the name of the other Shoprah; 16 And he said to them, When you do perform your duties as midwives to the Hebrew women, look out when they kneel to deliver; if it is a male, then you must kill him; but if it is a female, then let her live. 17 But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the boys live. 18 So the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, Why have you done this thing, and let the boys live? 19 And the midwives said to Pharaoh, The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they themselves are midwives, and are delivered before a midwife comes in to them. 20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives, because they spared the males; and the people multiplied, and grew exceedingly strong. 21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, he blessed them with families. 22 And Pharaoh charged all the people, saying, Every son that is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.""
2:1 ¶ AND there went a man from the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of the house of Levi. 2 And the woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was a handsome boy, she hid him for three months 3 And when she could no longer hide him, she took for herself an ark made of acacia wood, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child into it; and laid it among the reeds by the river’s bank. 4 And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.""
5 ¶ And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe in the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the reeds, she sent her maidens to fetch it. 6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child; and, behold, the babe was weeping. And she had compassion 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 for you a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse this child for you? 8 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And 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 called his name Moses; for she said, I drew him out of the water.""
11 ¶ And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out among his brethren, and saw their oppression; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren of the children of Israel. 12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man watching, he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. 13 And when he went out the second day, he looked, and behold, two Hebrew men were quarreling together; and he said to him that did the wrong, Why do you beat your fellow? 14 And he replied, Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday? And Moses was afraid, and said, Surely this thing is known. 15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the presence of Pharaoh, and went to the land of Midian; and he sat down by a well.""
16 ¶ Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. 17 And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses rose up and rescued them, and watered their flock. 18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said to them, How is it that you have watered the flock so soon today? 19 And they said to him, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hands of the shepherds and also drew water for us and watered our flock. 20 And he said to his daughters, And where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Go, invite him, that he may eat bread. 21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man; and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter. 22 And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershon; for Moses said, I have been a stranger in a strange land. And she bore again, the second son to Moses, and he called his name Eleazar, saying, For the God of my fathers has helped me and has delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.""
23 ¶ And it came to pass after a long time that the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel groaned because of severe oppression, and they prayed, and their cry came up to God because of severe oppression. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God noticed their oppression.""
3:1 ¶ NOW Moses was feeding the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the desert and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. 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, behold, the bush was on fire, and the bush was not consumed. 3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burned. 4 And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. 5 And he said, Do not draw near; take your shoes from off your feet, for the place whereon you are standing is holy ground. 6 Moreover 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 ¶ And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; 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 large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come to me; and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.""
11 ¶ And Moses said to God, Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt? 12 And God said to him, I will be with you; and this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you: when you have brought forth the people out of Egypt, you shall worship God upon this mountain. 13 And Moses said to God, Behold, when I go to the children of Israel and say to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say to them? 14 And God said to Moses, I am AHIAH ASHAR HIGH (that is, THE LIVING GOD); and he said, Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: AHIAH has sent me to you. 15 And God said moreover to Moses, Thus shall you say to the children of Israel: The LORD 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 this is my memorial to all generations.""
16 ¶ Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and say to them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared to me, saying, I have surely remembered you and seen that which is done to you in Egypt; 17 And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of the Egyptians to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey. 18 And they shall hearken to your voice; and you and the elders of Israel shall go to the king of Egypt, and you shall say to him, The LORD God of the Hebrews has appeared to us; and now let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God. 19 And I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, except by force. 20 And I will stretch out my hand and smite the Egyptians with all kinds of wonders which I will do among them; and after that Pharaoh will let you go. 21 And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and it shall come to pass that, when you go, you shall not go empty-handed; 22 But every woman shall borrow of her neighbor and of her that sojourns in her house, jewels of silver and jewels of gold and clothes; and you shall put them on your sons, and on your daughters; and you shall despoil the Egyptians.""
4:1 ¶ AND Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, The LORD has not appeared to you. 2 And the LORD said to him, What is that in your hand? He said, A staff. 3 And the LORD said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. 4 And the LORD said to Moses, Put forth your hand and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand; 5 This is done that they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you. 6 And the LORD said furthermore to him, again, Put now 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 the LORD said to him, Put your hand back into your bosom again. And he put his hand back into his bosom; and when he took it out of his bosom, behold, it was clean like his other flesh. 8 And if they will not believe you, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, they will believe the voice of the latter sign. 9 And if they will not believe also these two signs, neither listen to you voice, you shall take some of the water of the river and pour it upon the dry land; and the water which you take from the river shall become blood upon the dry land.""
10 ¶ And Moses said to the LORD. I beseech thee, O my LORD, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore nor since thou has spoken to thy servant; for I am a stutterer and slow of speech. 11 The LORD said to him, Who has made man’s mouth? or who makes the dumb, or the deaf, or the seeing, or the 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 And Moses said to him, O my LORD, send I beseech thee, by the hand of whomsoever thou wilt send. 14 And the anger of the LORD kindled against Moses, and he said to him, Behold, Aaron, your brother, the Levite. I know that he is a good speaker, and also, behold, he will come forth to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. 15 And you shall speak to him and put my words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do. 16 And he shall be your spokesman to the people; and he shall be an interpreter for you, and you shall be to him instead of God. 17 And you shall take this staff in your hand, with which you shall do signs.""
18 ¶ And Moses returned, and went to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, Let me go and return to my brethren who are 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 Midian, Go, return to Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead. 20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and started on his way back to Egypt; and he took the staff of God in his hand. 21 And the LORD said to Moses. When you return to Egypt, see that you perform all the wonders before Pharaoh which I have performed by your hand, 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; and if you refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay your first-born son.""
24 ¶ And it came to pass when Moses was on his way to the inn that the LORD met him and sought to kill him. 25 Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off the foreskin of her son, and she fell down at the feet of the LORD and said, I have a bloody husband. 26 So the LORD let him go. Then she said, You are a bloody husband, because of the circumcision. 27 And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went and met him in the mountain of God, Horeb, and kissed him. 28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD, who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him to perform. 29 Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel; 30 And Aaron spoke all the words which the LORD had said to Moses, and performed the signs in the presence of the people. 31 And the people believed; and when they heard that the LORD had remembered the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they knelt down and worshipped before the LORD.""
5:1 ¶ AND afterward Moses and Aaron went into the palace and told Pharaoh, Thus says the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness. 2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.""
3 ¶ And they said, The LORD God of the Hebrews has appeared to us; now let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with the sword or with pestilence. 4 And the king of Egypt said to them, Wherefore do you, Moses and Aaron, cause the people to stop from their work? Go back to your tasks. 5 And Pharaoh said to them, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and you cause them to stop from their work. 6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people and their scribes, saying, 7 You shall no more 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 did make heretofore, you shall lay upon them; you shall not reduce the number thereof; for they are idle; that is why they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God. 9 Let more work be assigned to the men, that they may be occupied, so that they may not think to engage in vain conversations.""
10 ¶ And the taskmasters of the people and their scribes went out and said to the people, Thus says Pharaoh, I will not give you straw. 11 Go, get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it; but your work shall not be reduced. 12 So the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather the stubble. 13 And the taskmasters pressed them, saying, Complete your work as you have always done, as when straw was given to you. 14 And the scribes of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had appointed over them, were beaten, and demanded, Why have you not completed your quota of bricks both yesterday and today, as heretofore?""
15 ¶ Then the scribes of the children of Israel came and complained to Pharaoh, saying, Why are your servants treated in this manner? 16 There is no straw given to your servants, and yet they say to us, Make bricks: and, behold, your servants are beaten; and you sin against your people. 17 But Pharaoh said to them, You are surely idle; therefore you say, Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD. 18 Go therefore now and work; and straw shall not be given you, yet you shall deliver the number of bricks. 19 And the scribes of the children of Israel saw that they were in a bad situation, for it was said to them, You must not reduce the number of your bricks, of your daily task. 20 And they met Moses and Aaron standing opposite them, as they came out from the presence of Pharaoh; 21 And they said to them, May the LORD look upon you and judge; because you have made us to be in disfavor in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hands to kill us. 22 And Moses returned to the LORD and said, O my LORD, Why hast thou caused this people to be ill-treated? And why didst thou send me here? 23 For since the hour I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he has ill-treated this people; and thou hast not delivered thy people at all.""
6:1 ¶ THEN the LORD said to Moses, Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and by a mighty arm shall he drive them out of his land. 2 And God spoke to Moses and said to him, I am the LORD, 3 Who appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, by the name of God Almighty; but my name the LORD I did not make known to them. 4 And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they dwelt. 5 And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant. 6 Therefore say to the children of Israel, I am the LORD your God, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage, and I will save you by a strong hand and by a mighty arm and with great judgments; 7 And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 8 And I will bring you into the land concerning which I swore to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for an inheritance; I am the LORD. 9 And Moses spoke so to the children of Israel; but they did not listen to him, because of their misery and because of bondage.""
10 ¶ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 11 Go in, and speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt that he let the children of Israel go out of his land. 12 But Moses said to the LORD, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened to me; how then shall Pharaoh listen to me, for I am a stutterer? 13 And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron and gave them a charge to the children of Israel and to Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring the children 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, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben. 15 And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohar, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanitish woman; these are the families of Simeon. 16 And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were a hundred and thirty-seven years. 17 The sons of Gershon: Libni, and Shimi, according to their families. 18 And the sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath were a hundred and thirty-three years. 19 The sons of Merari: Mahali and Mushi; these are the families of the Levites according to their generations. 20 And Amram took his uncle’s daughter Jokhaber, and she bore him Aaron, Moses, and Miriam; and the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty-seven years. 21 And the sons of Izhar: Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri. 22 And the sons of Uzziel: Minshael, Elizphan, and Zithri. 23 And Aaron took to wife Elisabeth, the daughter of Amminadab, sister of Nehshon, and she bore him Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 24 And the sons of Korah: Assir, Hilkanah, and Akensap; these are the families of the Korhites. 25 And Eleazar, Aaron’s son, took him one of the daughters of Puntiel to wife; and she bore him Phinehas; these are the heads of the families of the Levites according to their tribes. 26 These are Moses and Aaron, to whom the LORD said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt with all of their armies. 27 It was they who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt: Moses and Aaron. 28 And it came to pass on the day when the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, 29 That the LORD spoke to Moses, and said to him, I am the LORD; speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say to you. 30 And Moses said to the LORD, My tongue stutters; how shall Pharaoh hearken to me?""
7:1 ¶ AND the LORD said to Moses, See, I have made you a 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 speak to Pharaoh that he send the children of Israel out of his land. 3 And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. 4 But Pharaoh will not hearken to you, that I may smite Egypt, and bring forth my hosts and my people the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. 5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I lift up my hand against Egypt and bring out the children of Israel from among them. 6 And Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded them, so did they. 7 And Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.""
8 ¶ And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 9 If Pharaoh should say to you, Show me a sign; then you shall say to Aaron, Take your staff and cast it down before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent. 10 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh, and they did as the LORD had commanded; and Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh and before his noblemen, and it became a serpent. 11 Then Pharaoh called the wise men and the magicians; now the magicians of Egypt, they also did the same with their magic. 12 For they cast down every man his staff and they became serpents; but Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs. 13 However Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and would not let them go, 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; behold, he goes out to his daily duty; and you stand toward him by the river’s brink and wait; and take in your hand the staff which was turned into a serpent. 16 And you shall say to him, The LORD God of the Hebrews has sent me to you, saying, Let my people go that they may serve me in the wilderness; and, behold, hitherto you have not listened. 17 Thus says the LORD, By this you shall know that I am the LORD: behold, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike upon the waters of the river, and they shall be turned to blood. 18 And the fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink of the water of the river. 19 And the LORD said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Take your staff and lift up your hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their rivers, upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, and upon the streams, and they shall become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, in both vessels of wood and vessels of stone. 20 And Moses and Aaron did as the LORD had commanded them; and Aaron lifted up the staff which was in his hand and smote the waters of the river, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned into blood. 21 And the fish that were in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt. 22 And the magicians of Egypt did the same by their enchantments; but Pharaoh’s heart was hardened and he did not listen to them, as the LORD had said. 23 And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take to heart even this sign. 24 And all the Egyptians dug round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river. 25 And seven days passed after the LORD had smitten the river.""
8:1 ¶ THEN the LORD said to Moses. Go to Pharaoh and say to him. Thus says the LORD, Let my people go that they may serve me. 2 And if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all your borders with frogs; 3 And the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall come up and enter into your house and into your bedchamber and into your bed and into the houses of your servants and of your people and into your inner chambers and into your kneading troughs; 4 And the frogs shall come up both on you and on all your people. 5 And the LORD said to Moses, Say to Aaron your brother, Lift up your hand with your staff over the rivers and over the streams and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt. 6 So Aaron lifted up his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt. 7 And the magicians did the same with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt. 8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said to them, Pray to the LORD, that he may take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go that they may sacrifice to the LORD. 9 And Moses said to Pharaoh, Appoint a time; when shall I pray for you and for your servants and for your people, to destroy the frogs from you and your house? 10 And he said to him, Tomorrow. And Moses said, Be it according to your word, that you may know that there is none like the LORD our God. 11 And the frogs shall depart from you and from your house and from your servants and from your people; they shall remain in the river only. 12 And Moses and Aaron went out from the presence of Pharaoh; and Moses prayed before the LORD because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh. 13 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died that were in the houses and in the courtyards and in the fields. 14 And they gathered them together in heaps; and the land stank. 15 And when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart and would not listen to them, as the LORD had said to Moses.""
16 ¶ And the LORD said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Lift up your staff and smite the dust of the earth, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt. 17 And he did so; and Aaron lifted up his hand with his staff and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice on men and on cattle; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt. 18 And the magicians did the same by means of their magic to bring forth lice, but they could not get rid of the lice; so there were lice on men and on cattle. 19 Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God; and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the LORD had said.""
20 ¶ And the LORD said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he goes out again to his daily duty; 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 upon you and upon your people and upon your house; and the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with swarms of flies, like a field when it is covered with them. 22 And I will set apart on that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there, to the end that you may know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth. 23 And I will put a division between my people and your people; tomorrow shall this sign be. 24 And the LORD did so; and he brought great swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants’ houses and into all the land of Egypt; and the land was ruined by reason of the swarms of flies. 25 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said to them, Go, sacrifice to your God within the land. 26 And Moses said, It is not proper to do so; for we shall sacrifice to the LORD our God some of the animals that are an abomination to the Egyptians. And if we should sacrifice animals that are idols before Egyptian eyes, they would stone us. 27 We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he has commanded us. 28 And Pharaoh said, I will let you go that you may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only you shall not go very far away, and you must pray for me also. 29 And Moses said, Behold, I go out from your presence and I will pray before the LORD and he will cause the swarms of flies to depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more by refusing to allow the people to go to sacrifice to the LORD. 30 So Moses went out from the presence of Pharaoh and prayed before the LORD. 31 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh and from his servants and from his people; there remained not one. 32 And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also and did not let the people go.""
9:1 ¶ THEN the LORD said to Moses, Go to Pharaoh and say to him, Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go that they may serve me. 2 For if you refuse to let them go (and until now you have withheld them), 3 Behold, the LORD will smite your cattle which are in the desert, the horses, the asses, the camels, the oxen, and the sheep; there shall be a very severe plague. 4 And the LORD will discriminate between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of the Egyptians, so that none of the cattle that belong to the children of Israel shall die, not even one. 5 And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, Tomorrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land. 6 And the LORD did that thing the next day, and all the cattle of the Egyptians died; but of the cattle of the children of Israel not one died. 7 And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened and he did not let the people go.""
8 ¶ And the LORD said to Moses and to Aaron, Take two handfuls of the ashes of the furnace and let Moses scatter it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh. 9 And it shall become fine dust in all the land of Egypt, and there shall be boils breaking forth with sores upon men, and upon cattle, throughout all the land of Egypt. 10 So they took ashes of the furnace and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses scattered it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh; and it became blistering boils, breaking out with sores upon men, and upon cattle. 11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils had spread among the magicians and throughout all the land of Egypt. 12 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh and he did not listen to them, as the LORD had said to Moses.""
13 ¶ And the LORD said to Moses, Arise early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him. Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go that they may serve me. 14 For this time I will send my plague on your heart and on your servants and on your people, that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth. 15 For now I will stretch out my hand that I may strike you and your people with pestilence; and you shall perish from the earth. 16 But for this cause have I raised you to the throne, to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth. 17 As yet you are continuing to detain this people and refusing to let them go. 18 Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause a severe storm of hail, such as there has not been in Egypt from the day that it was founded even until now. 19 Send therefore now, and gather your cattle, and all that you have in the field; for upon every man and the cattle which be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die. 20 He who feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh brought his servants and his cattle into the house. 21 But he who regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field.""
22 ¶ And the LORD said to Moses, Lift up your hand toward heaven that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon men and upon cattle and upon all the grass in the field, throughout the land of Egypt. 23 And Moses lifted up his staff toward heaven; and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning ran along on the ground; and the LORD showered hail upon the land of Egypt. 24 So there was hail, and flaming fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. 25 And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and cattle; and the hail destroyed all the herbs of the field and broke every tree of the field. 26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel dwelt, was there no hail. 27 Then Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned this time; the LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked. 28 Pray before the LORD, for there is yet a chance for forgiveness in his presence that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer. 29 And Moses said to him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will stretch forth my hands to the LORD; and the thunder shall cease and there shall be no more hail, that you may know that the earth belongs to the LORD. 30 But as for you and your servants, I know that you have not yet feared the LORD God. 31 And the flax and the barley were lost; for the barley was in the ear and the flax was boiled. 32 But the wheat and the rye were not lost; for they were sown late. 33 And Moses went out of the city from the presence of Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to the LORD; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth. 34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned yet more, and his heart was hardened, and the heart of his servants. 35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened and he did not let the children of Israel go, as the LORD had sent word to him by Moses.""
10:1 ¶ AND the LORD said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh; for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his servants, that I may perform these signs among them, 2 That you may relate in the presence of your son and of your son’s son the things which I have done to the Egyptians and the signs which I have performed among them, that you may know that I am the LORD. 3 And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and said to him, Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to fear me? Let my people go that they may serve me. 4 Else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts upon all Four domain; 5 And they shall cover the face of the land so that men cannot see the ground; and they shall eat the residue of that which is left to you from the hail and shall eat all the trees which have budded for you in the field; 6 And they shall fill your houses and the houses of your servants and the houses of all the Egyptians such as neither your fathers nor your grand fathers have seen, from the day that they were upon the earth even to this day. And they turned, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh. 7 And Pharaoh’s servants said to him, How long shall we suffer this disaster? Let the men go that they may serve the LORD their God; do you not yet know that Egypt is destroyed? 8 So Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh; and he said to them, Go, serve before the LORD your God; but who are they that are going? 9 And Moses said to him, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters; with our flocks and with our herds will we go, for it is a festival of the LORD for all of us. 10 And Pharaoh said to them, Let the LORD be with you, but when I let you and your little ones go, look to it; perhaps you have evil intent. 11 Let it not be so; go now, the older men, and serve before the LORD; for it is the rest that you desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.""
12 ¶ And the LORD said to Moses, Lift up your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt and eat the herbs of the land, even all that the hail has left. 13 And Moses lifted up his staff 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 brought the locusts. 14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and rested in all the domain of the Egyptians; it was a great swarm; before them there were no such swarms of locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. 15 For they covered the face of the whole earth so that the land was darkened; and they did eat all the herbs of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; and there remained no leaf on the trees neither grass in the field, through al the land of Egypt. 16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said to them, I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. 17 Now therefore, forgive me my fault this time also, and pray before the LORD your God that he may re move from me this death. 18 And Moses went out from the presence of Pharaoh and prayed be fore the LORD. 19 And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts and cast them into the Red Sea; there remained not one locust in all the domain of Egypt. 20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart so that he would not let the children of Israel go.""
21 ¶ Then the LORD said to Moses, Lift up your hand toward the heaven that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even thick darkness. 22 And Moses lifted up his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days; 23 They did not see one another, nor rose any from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings. 24 And Pharaoh called to Moses and said to him, Go, serve before the LORD your God; only let your flocks and herds remain here; let your little ones also go with you. 25 Then Moses said to Pharaoh. You must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God. 26 Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve before the LORD our God; and we do not know what else we must offer to the LORD until we come there. 27 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart and he would not let them go. 28 And Pharaoh said to Moses. Get away from here, take heed to yourself, do not try to see my face again, 29 And Moses said, You have spoken well, I will not try to see your face any more.""
11:1 ¶ AND the LORD said to Moses, Yet ill I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon the Egyptians: then I will let you go from here; when he shall let you go, then you must get out altogether. 2 Speak now in the presence of the people that they ask every man of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver and jewels of gold. 3 And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was well honored 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 into 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 on his throne even to the first-born of the maidservant who sits behind the mill; and all the first-born of the animals. 6 And there shall be a great wailing throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall there be any like it any more. 7 But of the children of Israel no one shall be harmed, not even a dog shall bark against man or animals; that you may know that the LORD distinguishes between the Egyptians and Israel. 8 And all these your servants shall come down to me and bow down themselves to me, saying, Get out, both you and all the people that are with you; and after that I will go out. And Moses departed from the presence of Pharaoh in a great anger. 9 And the LORD said to Moses. Pharaoh shall not listen to you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt. 10 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh; but the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land.""
12:1 ¶ THEN the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 This month shall be to you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you. 3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, On the tenth day of this month they shall take to themselves every man a lamb for his own household, and a lamb for his father’s household; 4 And if the household is too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the persons; every man according to the portion of his eating shall make your count for the lamb. 5 The lamb shall be without blemish. a male of the first year; you shall take it from the lambs or from the kids: 6 And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at sunset 7 And they shall take some of the blood thereof and sprinkle it on the two door posts and on the lintel and on the houses wherein they shall eat it. 8 And they shall eat the meat in that night, roasted with fire, with unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 You shall not eat any of it raw, nor cooked with water, but roasted with fire; its head with its legs, and the entrails thereof. 10 And you shall leave none of it remaining until morning; and that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire. 11 And thus you shall eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste; for it is the LORD’S passover. 12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and all the first-born of the land of Egypt shall die, both man and beast; and against all the idols of Egypt I will execute judgment; I am the LORD. 13 And the blood shall be to you for a sign upon the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will make you glad, and the plague shall not be among you to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt. 14 And this day shall be to you for a memorial; and you shall keep it a feast to the LORD, a festival throughout your generations; you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever. 15 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; and from the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses; for whosoever eats leavened bread from your houses from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall perish from Israel. 16 On the first day there shall be a holy convocation and on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them; except that which every man must eat, that only may be prepared by you. 17 And you shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for on this very day have I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance for ever. 18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. 19 Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats that which is leavened, that person shall perish from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or a native of the land. 20 You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.""
21 ¶ Then Moses called all the eiders of the children of Israel and said to them, Hasten, take lambs for yourselves according to your families and kill the passover lamb. 22 And you shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood of the lamb and sprinkle the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that 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 smite the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood upon the lintel and on the two side posts, the LORD will bring joy to the doors and will not suffer the destroyer to come into your houses to smite you. 24 And you shall observe this rite and this ordinance for yourselves and your sons for ever. 25 And it shall come to pass, when you come to the land which the LORD will give you, as he has promised, you shall observe this service. 26 And it shall come to pass when your children shall say to you, What is the meaning of this service? 27 You shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD’S passover, who brought joy to the house of the children of Israel in Egypt when he smote the Egyptians and delivered our houses. Then the people bowed their heads and worshipped the LORD. 28 And the children of Israel went away and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron; so did they.""
29 ¶ And it came to pass that at midnight the LORD slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the first-born of the captive who was in the prison; and all the first-born of cattle. 30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and there was a great wailing in the land of Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead. 31 And Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron that night, and said to them, Rise up and get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as you have said. 32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also. 33 And the Egyptians urged the people, that they might get them out of the land of Egypt in haste; for they said, We shall all die. 34 And the people took their kneading dough before it was leavened and their cold kneading dough wrapped up in their mantles upon their shoulders. 35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver and jewels of gold and clothing; 36 And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent to them whatever they asked. And thus they stripped the Egyptians.""
37 ¶ Then the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides the little ones. 38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and their flocks, and herds, and many cattle. 39 And they baked on a griddle unleavened bread of the dough which they had brought forth out of the land of Egypt, for it was not leavened: because the Egyptians drove them out. and they could not make it into flat loaves, neither had they prepared for themselves any provisions for the journey. 40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. 41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years. on this very day that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt. 42 It was a night to be observed to the LORD for bringing them out of the land of Egypt; therefore, this very night is to be observed to the LORD by all the children of Israel throughout their generations.""
43 ¶ Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover; no foreigner shall eat of it; 44 But every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it. 45 An alien and a hired servant shall not eat thereof. 46 In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not take any of the meat outside of the house; neither shall you break a bone thereof. 47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep the feast. 48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with you who would keep the passover to the LORD, when he has circumcised every male in his household, then he may draw near to take part in it; and he shall be considered as a native of the land; for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. 49 There shall be one law for the natives and for the strangers who sojourn among you. 50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. 51 And it came to pass on that very day that the LORD brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt with all their hosts.""
13:1 ¶ AND the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 Sanctify to me every first-born that opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of men and of animals; for they are 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 a strong hand the LORD brought you out from this place; there shall no leavened bread be eaten on this day. 4 In this day you are going forth in the month of Abib. 5 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, the Jebusites, and the Perizzites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, therefore 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 festival to the LORD. 7 Unleavened bread shall you eat for seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with you throughout all your territory. 8 And you shall tell your son on that day, This is done because of what my God did for me when I came forth out of Egypt. 9 And it shall be to you for a sign. a token of remembrance upon your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, so that the law of the LORD may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand has the LORD brought you out of Egypt. 10 You must therefore keep this ordinance and this law at its appointed time from year to year.""
11 ¶ And it shall be when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and shall give it to you, 12 You shall set apart to the LORD every first-born that opens the womb and every firstling that comes of the animals that you have; the males shall be the LORD’S. 13 And every firstling male of the cattle you shall redeem with a lamb; but if you do not wish to redeem it, then you must kill it: and every first-born of men among your sons you shall redeem. 14 And it shall be when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What is this? You shall say to him, By a strong hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt from the house of bondage; 15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh was stubborn, and would not let us go, the LORD slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of man to the first-born of animals; that is why I sacrifice to the LORD all that open the womb, being males; but all the first-born of my sons I redeem. 16 And it shall be as a token on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes; for by a strong hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.""
17 ¶ land it came to pass when Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest the people be afraid when they see war, and return to Egypt: 18 But God led the people by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt. 19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him; for he had solemnly made the children of Israel to swear, saying, God will surely remember you; and you must carry up my bones from here with you. 20 And they journeyed 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 on the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; so that they might travel by day and by night; 22 The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night never failed to go before the people.""
14:1 ¶ THEN the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 Speak to the children of Israel that they turn back and encamp by the inlet of Kheritha, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon; opposite it shall you encamp by the sea. 3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are strangers in the land, the wilderness has shut them in. 4 And the LORD said to Moses, I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them; and I will triumph over Pharaoh, and over all his army; and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD. And they did so. 5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people had gone away; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants changed against the people, and they said, What have we done that we have let Israel go from serving us? 6 And he made ready his chariots and took his people with him: 7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots and all chariots of the Egyptians and warriors over every one of them. 8 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, king of Egypt and he pursued the children of Israel; but the children of Israel had gone out victoriously. 9 And the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen and his army, and overtook them encamping by the inlet of Kheritha, before Baal-zephon.""
10 ¶ And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes and saw the Egyptians marching after them; and they were terribly afraid; and the children of Israel prayed before the LORD. 11 And they said to Moses, Is it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you dealt thus with us, and brought us out of Egypt? 12 Is not this the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in this wilderness. 13 And Moses said to the people. Fear not, wait, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will perform for you today; for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall see them again no more for ever. 14 The LORD will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.""
15 ¶ And the LORD said to Moses. Why do you pray before me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward; 16 And as for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it; and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the sea. 17 And, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, so that they shall follow them; and I will triumph over Pharaoh and over all his army, his chariots, and his horsemen. 18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have been triumphant over Pharaoh, over all his army, his chariots, and his horsemen. 19 And the angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of he cloud moved from before them and stood behind them: 20 And it came between the army of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was cloudy and dark all the night, but it gave light all the night to the children of Israel, so that they could not draw near one to another all the night.""
21 ¶ And Moses lifted up his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. 22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground; and the waters were like a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. 23 And the Egyptians pursued and went into the sea after them, all of Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. 24 And it came to pass that in the morning watch the LORD appeared to the Egyptians army in a pillar of fire and of cloud, and threw the Egyptian army into confusion, 25 Thus clogging their chariot wheels that they drew heavily, so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from before the house of Israel; for the LORD fights for them against Egypt. 26 And the LORD said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the sea that the waters may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots and upon their horsemen. 27 And Moses lifted up his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its place when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. 28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not a single one of them. 29 But the children of Israel walked through the sea as if they were walking on the dry land; and the waters were like a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. 30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead upon the seashore. 31 And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did against the Egyptians; and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD and his servant Moses.""
15:1 ¶ THEN Moses and the children 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 He is mighty and glorious, The LORD JEHOVAH has become our Saviour; he is our God, and we will praise him; our father’s God, and we will exalt him. 3 The LORD is a mighty warrior: the LORD is his name. 4 Pharaoh’s chariots and his host he cast into the sea; his valiant men also are drowned in the Red Sea. 5 The depths have covered them; they sank to the bottom like stones. 6 Thy right hand, O LORD, has become glorious in power; thy right hand, O LORD, has defeated thy enemies. 7 And in the greatness of thy might thou hast overthrown them that hate thee; thou sentest thy wrath, and it consumed them like stubble. 8 And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters piled up, the floods stood up as if it were in sheepskins; the waves gathered in heaps in the heart of the sea. 9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my soul will devour them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. 10 Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them; they sank as lead in the mighty waters. 11 Who is like unto thee, O LORD? Who is like unto thee, glorious in his holiness, revered and praised, doing wonders? 12 Thou didst lift up thy right hand, the earth swallowed them. 13 Thou in thy mercy hast led forth this people whom thou hast saved; thou hast guided them in thy strength to thy holy habitation. 14 The people heard and they trembled; fear took hold on the inhabitants of Philistia. 15 Then the princes of Edom were afraid; the mighty men of Moab, trembling seized them; all the inhabitants of Canaan were heartbroken. 16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall sink as stones, till thy people, O LORD, pass over; till this people whom thou hast saved pass over. 17 Thou shalt bring them in and plant them on the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in; even thy sanctuary, O LORD; establish it by thy hands. 18 The LORD shall reign for ever and ever. 19 For the horses of Pharaoh, with his chariots and his horsemen, went through the sea, and the LORD brought back the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel walked on the dry land 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 tambourines and with timbrels. 21 And Miriam answered them, Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.""
22 ¶ So Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shud; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. 23 And when they came to Morath, they could not drink the waters of Morath, for they were bitter; therefore the name of the place was called Morath. 24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? 25 And Moses prayed before the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree, and when he cast it into the water, the water became sweet; there the LORD taught him laws and ordinances, and there he tested him, 26 And said to him, If you will diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD your God and will do that which is right in his sight and will obey his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will bring none of these plagues upon you which I have brought upon the Egyptians; for I am the LORD your Healer. 27 And they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there by the water.""
16:1 ¶ AND they journeyed from Elim, and the whole congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Seen, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departure from the land of Egypt. 2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness; 3 And the children of Israel said to them, Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, and when we did eat bread to the full; for you have brought us forth into this wilderness to destroy the whole assembly of Israel 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 sufficient food, day by day, for I will prove them, whether they will keep my laws or not. 5 And it shall come to pass that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily. 6 And Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, At evening, then you shall know that the LORD has brought you out from the land of Egypt; 7 And in the morning, then you shall see the glory of the LORD; for your murmuring has been heard before the LORD; but as for us, what are we that you should murmur against us? 8 And Moses said, When the LORD shall give you in the evening meat to eat and in the morning bread to the full, then the LORD has heard your murmuring which you murmured against him; but as for us, what are we? Your murmurings are not against us but against the LORD. 9 And Moses said to Aaron, Say to all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the LORD; for he has heard your murmurings. 10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, they turned their faces toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud. 11 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying. 12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel; say to them, At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread; and you shall know that I am the LORD your God.""
13 ¶ And it came to pass that at evening the quails came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay round about the camp. 14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a thin round crust, like the hoar frost on the ground. 15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, Manna-ho? (What is it?) For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, This is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat. 16 This is the thing which the LORD has commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; each man shall take it for those in his tent. 17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less. 18 And when they measured it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating. 19 And Moses said to them, Let no man leave of it till the morning. 20 Notwithstanding they listened not to Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms and stank; and Moses was angry with them. 21 And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating; and when the sun grew hot, it melted.""
22 ¶ And it came to pass that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one person; and all the elders of the congregation came and told Moses. 23 Moses said to them, This is what the LORD has said, Tomorrow is a day of holy rest, a sabbath to the LORD; bake that which you will bake today, and cook what you will cook; and that which is left over, keep it cold for yourselves until the morning. 24 So they left over some of it till the morning, as Moses had commanded them; and it did not stink, neither was there any worm in it. 25 And Moses said to them, Eat it today; for today is a sabbath to the LORD; today you shall not find it in the field. 26 Six days you shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none. 27 And it came to pass that there went out some of the people on the seventh day to gather, and they found none. 28 And the LORD said to Moses, How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws? 29 See, for the LORD has given you the sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day bread for two days; abide every man in his place; let no man go out of his house on the seventh day. 30 So the people rested on the seventh day. 31 And the children of Israel called the name thereof manna; and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like honeycomb.""
32 ¶ And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD has commanded, Fill an omer to be kept for your generations, that they may see the bread with which I have fed you in the wilderness when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt. 33 And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it before the LORD, to be kept for your generations. 34 As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up as a testimony, to be kept. 35 And the children of Israel did eat manna for forty years until they came to an inhabited land; they did eat manna until they reached the border of the land of Canaan. 36 Now an omer is the tenth of an ephah.""
17:1 ¶ AND the whole congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Seen, after their journeys, according to the command of the LORD, and camped at Rephidim; and there was no water for the people to drink. 2 Wherefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said to him. Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said to them, Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you tempt the LORD? 3 And the people thirsted there for water; and they murmured against Moses, and said to him, Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst? 4 And Moses prayed to the LORD, saying. What shall I do with this people? They were almost ready to stone me. 5 And the LORD said to Moses. Go on before the people and take with you some of the elders of Israel; and your staff with which you smote the river, take it in your hand and go. 6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the flinty rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the flinty rock, and there shall gush water 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 Nassah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the children of Israel, and because they tested the LORD, saying, Let us see if the LORD is among us or not?""
8 ¶ Then came Amalek to fight with Israel at Rephidim. 9 And Moses said to Joshua, Choose for yourself men, and go out, fight with Amalek tomorrow; and I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand. 10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and he went to fight with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11 And it came to pass, when Moses lifted up his hand, Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hands, Amalek prevailed. 12 But Moses’ hands became tired; so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat upon it; and Aaron and Hur supported his hands, the one on one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 13 And Joshua defeated Amalek with the edge of the sword. 14 Then the LORD said to Moses. Write this for a memorial in a book and place it before Joshua; for I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. 15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nasi: 16 For he said, Behold, as the LORD has sworn, the LORD will fight with Amalek from generation to generation.""
18:1 ¶ AND Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought the children of Israel out of Egypt; 2 Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took his daughter Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back, 3 And her two sons; of whom the name of the one was Gershon; for he said, I have been an alien in a foreign land; 4 And the name of the other was Eliezer; For the God of my fathers, said he, 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 encamped at the mountain of God; 6 And Moses was told, Behold, your father-in-law Jethro has come to you with your wife and your two sons accompanying him,""
7 ¶ And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and did obeisance and kissed him, and they asked each other of their welfare; and they went into the tent. 8 And Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, and all the travail that they had suffered on the journey, and how the LORD had delivered them. 9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, because he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh. 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, for he has delivered his people from under the rule of the Egyptians. 11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods; for despite the counsel which the Egyptians had devised against them, he triumphed over them. 12 And Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, offered burnt offerings and sacrifices to the LORD; and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.""
13 ¶ And it came to pass the next day that Moses sat to judge the people; and the people stood by Moses from morning to evening. 14 And when Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did for the people, he said to him, What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit in judgment all alone, and all the people stand by you from morning to evening? 15 And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to inquire of God; 16 And when they have a controversy, they come to me; and I judge between one and another, and I make them know the statutes of God and his laws. 17 And Moses’ father-in-law said to him, The thing that you are doing is not good. 18 You will surely wear yourself out, both you, and all this people that is with you; for this thing is too heavy for you; you are not able to do it alone. 19 Listen now to my voice, I will give you counsel, and God shall be with you; you must become a teacher from God to the people, to bring their disputes before God; 20 And you shall warn them to keep the ordinances and laws that you may show them how to conduct themselves and the works that they must do. 21 Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men who fear God, truthful men who hate bribes and deceit; and appoint such over them to be officers of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens. 22 Let them judge the people at all times; and when they have an important matter, let them come to you; but every small matter they shall judge for themselves; so it shall be easier for you, and they shall bear the burden with you. 23 If you shall do this thing, and God commands you so, then you shall be able to endure, and all this people shall also go each one to his own house in peace. 24 So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had told him. 25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and appointed them officers over the people, officers of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens. 26 And they judged the people at all times; the hard cases they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves. 27 Then Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went to his own land.""
19:1 ¶ IN the third month after the departure of the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, on the same day they came to the wilderness of Seen. 2 Then they journeyed from Rephidim and came to the wilderness of Sinai, and they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mountain. 3 And Moses went up to God, and God called to him out of the mountain and said to him, Thus shall you say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel, 4 You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you as though you were on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. 5 Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant, then you shall be my beloved ones above all peoples, for all the earth is mine; 6 And you shall be to me a kingdom and priests and an holy people. These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel. 7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and said in their presence all these words which the LORD commanded him. 8 And all the people answered together and said, All that the LORD has spoken we will do. And Moses returned 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 also believe you for ever. And Moses told the words of the people before the LORD. 10 And the LORD said to Moses, Go to the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes, 11 And be ready by the third day; for on the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. 12 And you shall publish a warning among the people, saying, Take heed to yourselves, neither go up into the mountain, nor draw near to the border of it; whoever draws near to the mountain shall be put to death: 13 No hand shall touch it, but he shall surely be stoned and hurled down; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live; when the trumpet is silent, then you are permitted to ascend the mountain. 14 And Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes. 15 And he said to the people, Be ready on the third day; do not touch your wives.""
16 ¶ And it came to pass on the third day in the morning that there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud appeared upon the mountain and the sound of the trumpet exceedingly loud; so that all the people that were in the camp trembled. 17 Then Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the base of the mountain. 18 And the whole mountain of Sinai was smoking because the LORD descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly. 19 And when the blast of the trumpet sounded long and grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice. 20 And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, to the very top of the mountain: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mountain; and Moses went up. 21 And the LORD said to Moses, Go down, warn the people, test they break through to the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish. 22 And let the priests also who come near to the LORD sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them. 23 And Moses said to the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai; for thou didst warn us, saying, Set bounds about the mountain and sanctify it. 24 And the LORD said to him, Hasten, go down, and then come up, you, and Aaron your brother with you; but let not the priests and the people break through to come up before the LORD, test he kill them. 25 So Moses went down to the people and told them.""
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 except me. 4 You shall not make for yourself any 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 worship them nor serve them; for I the LORD your God am a zealous God, visiting the offenses of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me; 6 And showing mercy to thousands of generations of those who love me and keep my commandments. 7 You shall not take a false oath in the name of the LORD your God; for the LORD will not declare him innocent who takes an oath in his name falsely. 8 Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy. 9 Six days shall you 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, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor the sojourner who dwells in your towns; 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the seas, and all things that are in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and sanctified it.""
12 ¶ Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon 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, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.""
18 ¶ And all the people observed the thunderings and the lightning flashes and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw all of this, they were afraid and they stood afar off. 19 And they said to Moses, You speak to us, and we will listen; but let not God speak with us, lest we die. 20 And Moses said to the people, Fear not; for God is come to prove you, that his worship may be before your faces, and that you may not sin. 21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.""
22 ¶ And the LORD said to Moses, Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, You have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. 23 You shall not make for yourselves gods of gold to be worshipped along with me, neither shall you make for yourselves gods of silver. 24 An altar of earth shall you make to me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen; in every place where I shall make a memorial to my name I will come to you and I will bless you. 25 And if you make me a stone altar, you shall not build it of hewn stones; for if you lift a tool of iron upon it, you will have polluted it. 26 Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness be not exposed on it.""
21:1 ¶ NOW these are the judgments which you shall set before them. 2 When you buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve you; and in the seventh year he shall go out free from your house without price. 3 If he came in single, he shall go out single; if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4 If his master has given him a wife and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be his master’s and he shall go out alone. 5 And if the servant shall say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free; 6 Then his master shall bring him to the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or to the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever. 7 And when a man sells his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out free as the menservants do. 8 If her master hates her, so that he will not take her to himself as a wife, then he shall let her be redeemed; he shall have no authority to sell her to a foreign people, because he has dealt deceitfully with her. 9 And if he takes her for wife to his son, then he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. 10 If he takes to himself another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her clothes, and her conjugal rights. 11 And if be does not these three things to her, then she shall go out free without price.""
12 ¶ He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death. 13 But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God delivered him into his hand, then I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee. 14 But if a man ventures to attack his neighbor and slay him treacherously, you shall take him even from my altar to put him to death. 15 He who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. 16 He who steals a person and sells him, or he is found in his possession, he shall surely be put to death. 17 He who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. 18 And if two men quarrel, and one strikes another with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but is put to bed from the injury: 19 If he rises again and walks in the street with his staff, then the one who struck him shall be acquitted, except that he shall pay for the loss of his time and the physician’s fee. 20 And if a man strikes his servant, or his maid with a staff, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished. 21 But if the victim is well after a day or two, he shall not be punished; for he is his property.""
22 ¶ If two men quarrel, and strike a woman with child so that she miscarries, and yet no mischief follow; he shall surely pay a fine such as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. 23 But if any mischief follow, then you shall give life for life, 24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, slap for slap. 26 land if a man strike the eye of his servant or the eye of his maid, and injure it, he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake. 27 And if he knocks out the tooth of his manservant or the tooth of his maidservant, he must let him go free for his tooth’s sake. 28 If an ox gores a man or a woman that he or she die; then the ox shall be surely stoned and its meat shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be blameless. 29 But if the ox were known to be in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has been warned, and he 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 But if a sum of money is imposed on him, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatever they ask from him. 31 Whether the ox has gored a son or a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him. 32 If the ox gores a manservant or a maidservant, the owner shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver and the ox shall be stoned. 33 And if a man shall open a wheat pit or a man shall dig a well, and not cover them, and an ox or an ass fall into it; 34 The owner of the pit shall pay money to the owner of the animal, and the dead animal shall be his. 35 And if one man’s ox gores another man’s ox so that it dies; then they shall sell the live ox and divide the money; and the dead ox also they shall divide. 36 But if it be known that the ox has been in the habit of goring, and his owner has not kept it in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead animal shall belong to him.""
22:1 ¶ IF a man shall steal an ox or a ewe, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox and four ewes for a ewe. 2 If a thief is found breaking into a house and is wounded so that he dies, there is no penalty for bloodshed. 3 But if the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood penalty for him; and he should make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. 4 If the animal is found in his possession alive, whether it is an ox or an ass, or a ewe, he shall restore double. 5 If a man shall cause a field or a vineyard to be eaten, and shall let his cattle loose to feed in another man’s field, of the best of his own field and of the best of his own vineyard, he shall make restitution. 6 If fire breaks out and catches in the thorns so that the shocks of grain or the standing wheat or the field is consumed, he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.""
7 ¶ If a man shall deliver to his neighbor money or stuff to keep and it is stolen out of the man’s house, if the thief is found, let him pay double. 8 If the thief is not found, then the master of the house shall be brought to the judges to see whether he had a hand in the theft of his neighbor’s goods. 9 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for an ox for an ass for a lamb for clothing or for any manner of lost thing which another man claims to be his, the case of both parties shall come before the judges; and whomever the judges shall convict, he shall make two-fold restitution to his neighbor. 10 If a man delivers to his neighbor an ass or an ox or a lamb or any kind of animal to keep; and it dies or is hurt or taken away in plunder and no man saw it; 11 Then there shall be an oath of the LORD between them both, that he had no hand in the theft of his neighbor’s property; and the owner of it shall accept the oaths and he shall not make restitution. 12 But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to the owner thereof. 13 If it is torn in pieces, then let him bring it as evidence, and he shall not make good that which was torn. 14 And if a man borrow of his neighbor an animal, and it dies or it is injured, the owner thereof not being with it, he shall surely make restitution. 15 But if the owner thereof is with it, he shall not make restitution; and if it was hired, it came for its hire.""
16 ¶ And if a man entices a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with her, he shall surely marry her. 17 If her father refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of a virgin. 18 You shall not suffer a witch to live. 19 Whoever lies with an animal shall surely be put to death. 20 He who sacrifices to idols shall be utterly destroyed; but to the LORD alone shall he sacrifice. 21 You shall neither harm a stranger nor oppress him; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. 22 You shall not harm any widow or orphan. 23 If you harm them, and they pray before me, I will surely hear their prayer; 24 And my wrath shall kindle, 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 who are the poor among you, you shall not be to him as an usurer, neither shall you take any usury from him. 26 If you at all take your neighbor’s clothes as a pledge, you must give them back to him by sunset; 27 For they are his only covering, it is his raiment for his body; with what shall he sleep? And if he prays before me, I will hear him; for I am compassionate. 28 You shall not revile the judge nor curse the ruler of your people. 29 You shall not delay to offer the first fruits of the harvest of your threshing floor, and of your wine press; the first-born of your sons you shall give to me. 30 Likewise you shall do 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 And you shall be holy men to me; neither shall you eat any flesh that has been torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.""
23:1 ¶ YOU shall not confirm a false report: do not stretch out your hand taking oaths with the guilty to become a false witness for him. 2 You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shall you testify in a lawsuit so as to pervert justice, in order to side with a multitude which deviates from justice. 3 Neither shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit. 4 If you meet your enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again. 5 If you should see the ass of your enemy lying under its burden, and you are unwilling to help him lift it up, you should surely help him to lift it up nevertheless. 6 You shall not pervert the justice due to a poor man in his lawsuit. 7 Keep far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous you shall not slay; for I will not justify the wicked. 8 And you shall take no bribe; for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise in judgment and perverts the words of the righteous. 9 You shall not oppress strangers: for you know the life of a stranger; you were strangers in the land of Egypt.""
10 ¶ For six years you shall sow your land and shall gather in the crops thereof: 11 But the seventh year you shall leave it fallow, so that the poor of your people may eat of the fruits of it; and what is left the wild beasts may eat. You shall do in like manner with your vineyard and with your olive yard. 12 Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your ass may rest and the son of your handmaid; and that the stranger in your towns may be refreshed. 13 Take heed of all things that I have said to you; and make no mention of the name of false idols, neither think of them. 14 Three times in the year you shall celebrate a festival for me. 15 You shall keep the festival of the unleavened bread (you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days, as I commanded you, at the time appointed of the month of Abib; for in the month of Abib you came out of the land of Egypt; you shall not appear before me without a gift offering:) 16 And the festival of the harvest, the first fruits of your grain which you sow in the field; and the festival of the ingathering, which is at the end of the year, when you have gathered your crop from the field. 17 Three times in the year all your gift offerings shall appear before the LORD your God. 18 You shall not offer the blood of a sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of the festival sacrifices remain until morning. 19 The best of the first fruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. You shall not cook the meat of 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 into the land which I have prepared. 21 Heed him and obey his voice; do not strive against him; perhaps he will not pardon your transgressions; for my name is upon him. 22 But if you shall indeed obey his voice and do all that he says to you, then I will hate those who hate you and oppress your enemies. 23 For my angel shall go before you and bring you against the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will destroy them. 24 You shall not worship their gods nor serve them nor do after their works; but you shall utterly overthrow them and break down their statues. 25 And you shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless your bread and your water; and I will take sickness away from your houses. 26 There shall nothing cast their young nor be barren in your land; the number of your days I will fulfil. 27 I will send my fear before you and will destroy all the peoples against whom you shall go to war, and I will make all your enemies flee from you. 28 And I will send fierce armies before you, and will destroy the Canaanites and the Hittites from before you. 29 I will not destroy them from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you. 30 Little by little I will destroy them before you, till you become strong and inherit the land. 31 And I will set your boundaries from the Red Sea as far as the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the river Euphrates; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hands; and you shall destroy them. 32 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their idols. 33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin before me; you shall not serve their gods, lest they be a stumbling block to you.""
24:1 ¶ AND he said to Moses, Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and you shall worship afar off. 2 And Moses alone shall come near the LORD; but they shall not draw near; neither shall the people come up with him. 3 And 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, Everything which the LORD has said we will do. 4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up 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 children 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 into basins; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. 7 And he took the book of the covenant and read it in the presence of the people; and they said, All that the LORD has said we will obey and do. 8 And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people and said, This is the blood of the covenant which the LORD has made with you concerning all these words.""
9 ¶ Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, 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 paved work of sapphire stone, clear as the color of the sky. 11 And he did not harm the elders of the children of Israel; and they saw God, and ate and drank.""
12 ¶ And the LORD said to Moses, Come up to me to the mountain, and present yourself there; and I will give you tablets of stone, and the laws and commandments which I have written; that you may teach them. 13 And Moses rose up and his minister Joshua; and Moses went up to the mountain of God. 14 And he said to the elders, You wait here for us until we return to you; and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you; whoever has a problem, let him come to them. 15 And Moses went up to the mountain, and a cloud covered the mountain. 16 And the glory of the LORD rested upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days; and on the seventh day the LORD called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 17 And in the sight of all the children of Israel he saw the glory of the LORD like a burning fire on the top of the mountain. 18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud and went up to the mountain; and Moses was in the mountain forty days and forty nights.""
25:1 ¶ AND the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 Speak to the Israelites to set aside an offering for me; of every man that gives it willingly with his heart you shall take an offering. 3 And this is the offering which you shall take of them: gold, silver, and brass, 4 Blue, purple, and scarlet, fine linen, and goats’ hair, 5 And rams’ skins dyed red, skins dyed with vermilion, and shittim wood, 6 Oil for the lamps, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense, 7 Onyx stones, and precious stones to be set in the ephod and in the breastplate. 8 And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. 9 According to all that I show you, after the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all the vessels thereof, even so shall you make it.""
10 ¶ And they shall make an ark of shittim wood, two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half broad, and a cubit and a half high. 11 And you shall overlay it with pure gold, without and within shall you overlay it, and shall make upon it a crown of gold round about. 12 And you shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. 13 And you shall make poles of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. 14 And you shall put the poles into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them. 15 The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall never be taken out of them. 16 And you shall put into the ark the testimony which I shall give you. 17 And you shall make a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half broad. 18 And you shall make two cherubim of gold, of cast work shall you make them, on the two sides of the mercy seat. 19 And make one cherub on the one side, and the other cherub on the other side of the mercy seat; thus you shall make two cherubim on the two sides thereof. 20 And the cherubim shall spread forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be. 21 And you shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark; and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you. 22 And there I will meet you, and I will commune with you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will command you concerning the children of Israel.""
23 ¶ You shall also make a table of shittim wood, two cubits long, a cubit broad, and a cubit and a half high. 24 And you shall overlay it with pure gold, and make for it a crown of gold round about. 25 And you shall make for it a border of a handbreadth round about, and you shall make a golden crown for the border thereof round about. 26 And you shall make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof. 27 The rings shall be put toward the border to be places for the poles to carry the table. 28 You shall make the poles of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them. 29 You shall make dishes, spoons, jars, and bowls to pour out wine with them; of pure gold you shall make them. 30 And you shall set shewbread on the table before me always.""
31 ¶ And you shall make a candlestick of pure gold; of cast work shall the candlestick be made; its shaft, its branches, its bowls, its buds, and its flowers shall be of one piece. 32 And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side; 33 Three bowls shall be fastened on one shaft, with buds and flowers on one branch; and three bowls shall be fastened on another shaft, with buds and flowers on the other branch; so on all the six branches that come out of the candlestick. 34 And on the candlestick shall be four bowls made like almonds, with their buds and flowers. 35 And there shall be a bud under two branches of the same, and a bud under two branches of the same, and a bud under two branches of the same, likewise for the six branches that come out of the candlestick. 36 Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece; all of it shall be of one piece cast of pure gold. 37 And you shall make the seven lamps thereof; and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it. 38 And you shall make snuffers thereof, and snuff dishes thereof of pure gold. 39 Of a talent of pure gold shall you make it, with all these vessels. 40 And see that you make them after the same pattern which I have shown you on the mountain.""
26:1 ¶ MOREOVER you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue and purple and scarlet material; with cherubim, the workmanship of a craftsman 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 be of the same measure. 3 Five curtains shall be coupled one to another; and the other five curtains shall be coupled one to another. 4 And you shall make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shall you make loops on the edge of the other curtain from the selvedge in the coupling of the second. 5 Fifty loops shall you make on the edge of one curtain, and fifty loops shall you make on the edge of the other curtain that is in the coupling of the second; and the loops shall be directly opposite one another. 6 And you shall make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches; and it shall be one tabernacle.""
7 ¶ And you shall make curtains of goats’ hair for a covering of 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; all the eleven curtains shall be of the same measure. 9 And you shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shall double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle. 10 And you shall make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the coupling, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which couples the second. 11 And you shall make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together that it may be one. 12 And what is left over of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle. 13 And a cubit on the one side and a cubit on the other side of that which is left over in the length of the curtains of the tent shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side to cover it. 14 And you shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red and a covering of rams’ skins dyed with vermilion.""
15 ¶ You shall make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up. 16 Ten cubits shall be the length of each board; and a cubit and a half, the breadth of each board. 17 There shall be two tenons to each board, set in order, one opposite the other; thus shall you make all the boards of the tabernacle. 18 And you shall make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side. 19 And you shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons. 20 And for the other side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards, 21 And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board and two sockets under another board. 22 And for the sides of the tabernacle westward you shall make six boards. 23 And two boards shall you make for the corners of the tabernacle on the two sides. 24 And they shall be even at the bottom, and shall be coupled together above the head of it to one ring; thus it shall be for both sockets; they shall be for the two corners. 25 And there shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board and two sockets under another board. 26 And you shall make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, 27 And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards at the westward side of the tabernacle. 28 And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end. 29 And you shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars; and you shall overlay the bars with gold. 30 And you shall erect the tabernacle according to the right pattern thereof which I have shown you on the mountain.""
31 ¶ land you shall make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet material, and fine twined linen, the work of a craftsman; with cherubim shall it be made; 32 And you shall hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold; with their hooks of gold, upon the four sockets of silver. 33 land you shall hang up the veil under the taches, and then bring in thither within the veil the ark of the testimony; and you shall spread the veil between the holy place and the most holy. 34 And 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 candlestick opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south; and you shall put the table on the north side. 36 And you shall make a curtain for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet material and fine twined linen made of embroidered work. 37 And you shall make for the curtain five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold; and you shall make five sockets of brass for them.""
27:1 ¶ AND you shall make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare; and the height thereof three cubits. 2 And you shall make the horns of it on the four corners thereof; its horns shall be of the same; and you shall overlay it with brass. 3 And you shall make pots for the use thereof; and its cauldrons and its shovels and its fleshhooks and censers, all the vessels thereof you shall make of brass. 4 You shall make for it a grating of network of brass; and upon the grating you shall make four rings of brass at its four corners. 5 And you shall put it under the ledge of the altar, that the grate may reach to the midst of the altar. 6 And you shall make poles for the altar, poles of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass. 7 And the poles shall be put into the rings, and they shall be on both sides of the altar, when they carry it. 8 Hollow with boards shall you make it; as I have shown you on the mountain, so shall they make it.""
9 ¶ And you shall make the court of the tabernacle; on the south side, there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen a hundred cubits long for one side; 10 And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver. 11 And likewise for the north side there shall be hangings a hundred cubits long, and its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver. 12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side there shall be hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten and their sockets ten. 13 And the breadth of the court on the east side shall be fifty cubits. 14 The hangings for one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits, their pillars three and their sockets three. 15 And on the other side shall be fifteen hangings, their pillars three and their sockets three. 16 And for the gate of the court there shall be a hanging of twenty cubits of blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twined linen made of embroidered work; and their pillars shall be four and their sockets four. 17 All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver and their sockets of brass. 18 The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits, the breadth fifty everywhere, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen and their sockets of brass. 19 All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof and all the pins thereof and all the tent-pins of the court shall be of brass.""
20 ¶ And you shall command the children of Israel that they bring you pure olive oil from beaten olives for the light, so that the lamps may burn always. 21 In the tabernacle of the congregation outside the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall set them in order burning from evening to morning before the LORD; it shall be a statute for ever to your generations from the children of Israel.""
28:1 ¶ AND bring to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office, even Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons. 2 And you shall make holy vestments for Aaron your brother for glory and for beauty. 3 And you shall speak to all who are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make holy vestments for Aaron to consecrate him that he may minister to me in the priest’s office. 4 And these are the vestments which they shall make for them: a breastplate and an ephod and a robe and an embroidered coat and a mitre and a girdle; and they shall make holy vestments for Aaron your brother and his sons that they may minister to me in the priest’s office. 5 And they shall take gold and blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twined linen.""
6 ¶ And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twined linen, the work of a craftsman. 7 It shall have the two shoulder-pieces thereof joined at the two edges; so it shall be joined together, 8 And the embroidered girdle of the ephod which is upon it shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet material 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 one stone, and the other remaining six on the other stone, according to their birth; 11 With the work of an engraver in stones, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel; and you shall mount them on the settings of gold. 12 And you shall put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial to the children of Israel; and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial. 13 And you shall make settings of gold; 14 And two chains of pure gold, of braided work you shall make; twine, and fasten the two chains of braided work to the settings.""
15 ¶ And you shall make the breastplate of judgment with the work of a craftsman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue and of purple and of scarlet material and fine twined linen. 16 It shall be foursquare being doubled; a span is its length and a span its width. 17 And you shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones; the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and an emerald: 18 And the second row a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper. 19 And the third row a jacinth (zircon), carnelian, and an amethyst. 20 And the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper; they shall be set in gold in their enclosings. 21 And the stones shall be engraved with the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one shall be engraved with his name according to the number of the twelve tribes. 22 land you shall make upon the breastplate twin chains, braided work of pure gold. 23 And you shall make upon the breastplate two rings of pure gold, and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. 24 And you shall fasten the two braided chains of gold on the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate. 25 And the other two ends of the braided chains you shall fasten in the two settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod in front of it. 26 And you shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them upon the two ends of the breastplate on the border thereof which is in the side of the ephod from within. 27 And you shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof, over against the joining thereof, above the embroidered girdle of the ephod. 28 And they shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue that it may rest upon the embroidered girdle of the ephod, so that the breastplate may not come loose from the ephod. 29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he enters the holy place, for a continual memorial before the LORD. 30 And you shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron’s heart when he enters before the LORD; and Aaron shall bear the judgments of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.""
31 ¶ And you shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue. 32 And there shall be an opening in the top of it, in the midst thereof; and it shall have a binding of woven work round about the opening of it, hemmed on the edge so that it may not be torn. 33 And on the hem of it you shall make pomegranates of blue and of purple and of scarlet round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold shall be between them round about: 34 A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, on the hem of the robe round about. 35 And it shall be upon Aaron when he ministers; and its sound shall be heard when he enters the holy place before the LORD and when he comes out, that he may not die. 36 And you shall make a crown of pure gold, and engrave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD. 37 And you shall put it on blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be. 38 And it shall be upon Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear the sins of the children of Israel when they shall offer holy sacrifices and all their holy gifts; and the mitre shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD. 39 And you shall make the coat of fine linen, and you shall also make the mitre of fine linen and a girdle of embroidered work.""
40 ¶ And for Aaron’s sons you shall make coats, and you shall make for them girdles, and bonnets you shall make for them, for glory and for beauty. 41 And you shall put them upon Aaron your brother, and upon his sons with him; and shall anoint them and consecrate them and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office. 42 And you shall make them breeches of fine linen to cover their nakedness; from their loins to their thighs they shall reach; 43 And they shall be upon Aaron and upon his sons when they enter the tabernacle of the congregation or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place; that they may not bear iniquity and die; it shall be a statute for ever to Aaron and to his descendants after him.""
29:1 ¶ AND this is the thing that you shall do to them to consecrate them, to minister to me in the priest’s office: take one young bullock and two rams without blemish 2 And unleavened bread and unleavened cakes mixed with oil and unleavened wafers mixed with oil; of fine wheat flour shall you make them. 3 And you shall put them in one basket and bring them in the basket with the bullock and the two rams. 4 And Aaron and his sons you shall bring to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and you shall wash them with water. 5 And you shall take the vestments and put upon Aaron the coat and the robe of the mitre, the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the embroidered girdle of the ephod; 6 And you shall put the mitre on his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre. 7 Then you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him. 8 And you shall bring his sons and put coats upon them. 9 And you shall gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them; and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute; and thus you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons. 10 And you shall bring a bullock before the tabernacle of the congregation; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands on the head of the bullock. 11 And you shall slaughter the bullock before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 12 And you shall take some of the blood of the bullock and sprinkle it upon the horns of the altar with your finger and pour all the rest of the blood at the bottom of the altar. 13 And you shall take all the fat that covers the entrails, and the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them and burn them upon the altar. 14 But the flesh of the bullock and its skin and its dung you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering. 15 You shall also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands on the head of the ram. 16 And you shall slaughter the ram; and you must take some of its blood and sprinkle it round about upon the altar. 17 And then you shall cut the ram into pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them over its pieces and over its head. 18 And you shall burn the whole ram upon the altar; it is a burnt offering to the LORD; it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire to the LORD. 19 And you shall take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram. 20 Then you shall slaughter the ram, and take some of its blood, and sprinkle 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 sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about. 21 And you shall take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron and upon his vestments and upon his sons and upon the vestments of his sons with him; and he shall be consecrated and his vestments and his sons and his sons’ vestments with him. 22 And you shall take of the fat and the rump, and the fat that covers the entrails, the caul of the liver, the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them and the right shoulder; for it is a ram of consecration; 23 And you shall take one loaf of bread and one loaf of bread baked with oil and a cake baked with flour and oil out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD; 24 And you shall put all of these in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons; and you shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD. 25 And you shall receive them from their hands, and burn the breast of the ram upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD; it is an offering made by fire to the LORD. 26 And you shall take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD; and it shall become your share. 27 And you shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering which is waved and which is placed upon the altar from the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons; 28 And it shall belong to Aaron and his sons by a statute for ever from the children of Israel; for it is a heave offering; and it shall be a heave offering from the children of Israel from their peace offerings, an oblation to the LORD. 29 And the holy vestments of Aaron shall belong to his sons after him, to be anointed in them and to be consecrated in them. 30 And one of his sons who is to become priest in his stead shall put them on seven days, when he enters into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy place. 31 And you shall take the ram of the consecration and cook its meat in the holy place. 32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 33 And they shall eat of those things with which the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them; but a stranger shall not eat of them because they are holy. 34 And if any of the meat of the consecration, or of the bread, remain unto the morning, then you shall burn what is left over with fire; it shall not be eaten because it is holy. 35 And thus shall you do to Aaron and to his sons, just as I have commanded you; seven days shall you consecrate them. 36 And you shall offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement; and you shall sprinkle blood on the altar, when you make an atonement for it, and you shall anoint it to sanctify it. 37 Seven days you shall make an atonement for the altar and sanctify it; and the altar shall be most holy; whatever touches the altar shall be holy.""
38 ¶ Now this is what you shall offer upon the altar: two lambs of the first year 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 one lamb you shall offer a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering. 41 And the other lamb you shall offer in the evening, and shall do to it according to the meat offering of the morning and according to the drink offering thereof for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire to the LORD. 42 It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD, where I will meet you, to speak there to you. 43 And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the people shall be sanctified by my glory. 44 And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar; I will also sanctify both Aaron and his sons to minister to me in the priest’s office. 45 And I will dwell among the children 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 may dwell among them; I am the LORD their God.""
30:1 ¶ YOU shall make an altar to burn incense upon; of shittim wood shall you make it. 2 A cubit long, and a cubit wide; foursquare shall it be; and its height shall be two cubits; the horns thereof shall be of one piece of the same material. 3 And you shall overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and you shall make for it a crown of gold round about. 4 And two golden rings you shall make for it under the crown of it, on the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shall you make it; and they shall be for places for the poles to carry it with them. 5 And you shall make the poles of shittim 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 upon it sweet incense every morning; when he prepares the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it. 8 And when Aaron lights the lamps in the evening, he shall burn incense upon it. a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations. 9 You shall not offer strange incense thereon, nor burnt offering, nor meat offering; neither shall you pour drink offering thereon. 10 And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonement; once in a year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations; it is most holy to the LORD.""
11 ¶ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 12 When you receive the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then every man shall give a ransom for himself to the LORD, when you have numbered the people; that there be no plague among them, when you number them. 13 This is what everyone who is included in the number shall give, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (a shekel is twenty gerahs); half a shekel shall be the offering to the LORD. 14 Every one among them who is included in the number from twenty years old and upward shall give an offering to the LORD. 15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering to the LORD to make an atonement for your souls. 16 And you shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall give it for the work of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial to the children of Israel before the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.""
17 ¶ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 18 You shall also make a laver of brass, and its base of brass, for washing; and you shall put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and you shall put water into it. 19 And Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat; 20 When they enter into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they draw near to the altar to minister, and to burn incense, and to offer an offering to the LORD. 21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not; and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations.""
22 ¶ Moreover the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 23 Take the choicest spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels and of sweet cinnamon half so much, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels, 24 And of cassia five hundred shekels, by the weight of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin: 25 And you shall make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compounded after the art of the perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil. 26 And you shall anoint the tabernacle of the congregation with it, and the ark of the testimony, 27 And the table and all its vessels, and the candlestick and its vessels, and the altar of incense, 28 And the altar of the burnt offering with all its vessels, and the laver and its base. 29 And you shall sanctify them, and they shall become most holy; whatsoever touches them shall be holy. 30 And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them that they may minister to me in the priest’s office. 31 And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, This shall be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations. 32 Upon men’s bodies shall it not be rubbed, neither shall you make any other oil like it, after the composition of it; because it is holy, and it shall be holy to you. 33 Whosoever compounds any like it or whosoever shall give any of it to a stranger 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 equal weight; 35 And you shall make it a perfume, a compound made by the work of the perfumer, tempered together, pure and holy; 36 And you shall beat some of it very fine, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with you; it shall be to you most holy. 37 And as for the perfume which you shall make, you shall not make to yourselves according to its composition; it shall be to you holy for the LORD. 38 Whosoever shall make any like it, to anoint with it, shall be cut off from his people.""
31:1 ¶ THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 See, I have called by name Bezaliel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; 3 And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom and in understanding, and in knowledge and in all manner of workmanship, 4 To teach cunning works, to do work in gold and in silver and in brass 5 And in the art of cutting of stones to be set and in the carving of timber and in all manner of workmanship. 6 And I, behold, have appointed with him Elihab, the son of Ahisamakh, of the tribe of Dan; and I have put wisdom in the heart of every skillful man that he may make all things which I have commanded you: 7 The tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that is thereupon, and all the vessels of the tabernacle, 8 And the table and all its vessels, and the pure candlestick with all its instruments, and the altar of incense, 9 And the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, and the laver and its base, 10 And the vestments for the service, and the holy vestments for Aaron the priest, and the vestments for his sons, to minister to me in the priest’s office, 11 And the anointing oil, and the sweet incense for the holy place; according to all that I have commanded you, shall they do.""
12 ¶ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 13 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, My sabbaths you must keep; for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am the LORD your God who sanctifies you. 14 You shall keep the sabbath; for it is holy to you; every one who defiles it shall surely be put to death; and whoever shall do any work on it, that soul shall surely be cut off from among his people. 15 Six days you shall do work; but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD; whosoever does any work on the sabbath day shall surely be put to death. 16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath to the LORD to observe the sabbath throughout all their generations for a perpetual covenant. 17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever; for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth and the seas and all that are therein, and on the seventh day he ceased from work and rested. 18 And he gave to Moses, when he had made an end of talking with him on mount Sinai, two tablets of testimony, the stone tablets written by the finger of God.""
32:1 ¶ WHEN the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, they gathered themselves together unto Aaron and said to him, Arise, make us gods that they may go before us; as for this man Moses 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, Remove the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me. 3 So all the people removed the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron. 4 And he received them, and drew a design, and made it a molten calf; and they said, This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. 5 And Aaron was afraid, and he built an altar before it; then Aaron made a proclamation, and said, Tomorrow is 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 to drink, and rose up to play and to quarrel.""
7 ¶ And the LORD said to Moses, Go down, get away from here; for your people whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves; 8 They have turned aside quickly from the way which I commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, This is your god, O Israel, who has brought you 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 be kindled against them and that I may destroy them; and I will make of you a great nation. 11 But Moses prayed before the LORD his God and said, Not so, O LORD, let not thy wrath kindle 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, It was for their injury he did bring them out to slay them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth? Rest from thy fierce anger and be reconciled concerning the evil deed of thy people. 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou didst swear by thine own self and didst say to them, I will multiply your descendants as the stars in heaven, and all the land that I have spoken of I will give to thy descendants, and they shall inherit it for ever. 14 And the LORD was reconciled concerning the evil which he had purposed to do to his people.""
15 ¶ And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, and the two stone tablets of the testimony were in his hand, the tablets that were written on both sides; on the one side and on the other were they written. 16 The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved upon the tablets. 17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people fighting, he said to Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp. 18 Moses said to him, It is not the sound of the cry of mighty men, neither is it the sound of the cry of weak men; but it is the sound of sin that I hear. 19 And it came to pass as soon as they came near to the camp, he saw the calf and the cymbals; and Moses’ anger raged, and he threw the tablets out of his hand and broke them at the foot of the mountain. 20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burned it in the fire, and filed it with a file until it was ground into dust, and he scattered it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.""
21 ¶ And Moses said to Aaron, What has this people done to you that you have brought so great a sin upon them? 22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord rage; you yourself know this people, that they are bad. 23 For they said to me, Make us gods that they shall go before us; as for this Moses 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, Whosoever has any gold bring it to me. So they brought it to me; then I cast it into the fire, and it became this calf. 25 And when Moses saw that the people had sinned; (for Aaron had caused them to sin, and to leave a bad name behind them); 26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, Who is on the LORD’S side? Let him come to me. And all the Levites gathered themselves together to him. 27 And Moses said to them, Thus says the LORD God of Israel: Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from door to door throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, his friend, and his neighbor. 28 And the Levites did according to the word of Moses; and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. 29 And Moses said to them, Strengthen yourselves today before the LORD, every man with his son and with his brother; for a blessing shall come upon you today.""
30 ¶ ¶And it came to pass on the next day, Moses said to the people, You have sinned this great sin; and now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps he may forgive your transgressions. 31 So Moses returned to the LORD and said, I beseech thee, O LORD God, truly this people have sinned a great sin and have made for themselves gods of gold. 32 But now, if thou wilt, forgive their sins; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written. 33 And the LORD said to Moses, Whosoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. 34 Therefore now go, lead the people to the place where I tell you; behold, my angel shall go before you; nevertheless in the day when I punish I will visit their sins upon them. 35 And the LORD smote the people because they worshipped the calf which Aaron made.""
33:1 ¶ AND the LORD said to Moses, Depart, and go up hence, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, To your descendants will I give it; 2 And I will send an angel before you; and he will destroy the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; 3 Go to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up among you; for you are a stiff-necked people; lest I consume you on the way. 4 And when the people heard this bad news, they mourned; and no man did put on him his armor. 5 Then the LORD said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You are a stiff-necked people; I will come up among you in a moment, and consume you; therefore now put off your armor from you, that I may know what to do to you. 6 And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their armor by mount Horeb.""
7 ¶ And Moses took his tent and pitched it outside the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass that every one who sought to inquire of the LORD went out to the tabernacle of the congregation, which was outside the camp. 8 And it came to pass when Moses went out to the tabernacle that all the people rose up and stood every man at his tent door and looked after Moses until he entered the tabernacle. 9 And it came to pass as Moses entered into the tabernacle the pillar of cloud descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle and the LORD talked with Moses. 10 And all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the door of the tabernacle; and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent door. 11 And the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he returned to the camp; but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not from the tabernacle.""
12 ¶ And Moses said to the LORD, See, thou sayest to me, Bring up this people; and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know you by name, and thou hast also found favor in my sight. 13 Now therefore, if I have found favor in thy sight, show me now the way that I may know thee, that I may find favor in thy sight; and consider that this thy people is a great nation. 14 And the LORD said to Moses, Go ahead of me, and I will give you rest. 15 And he said to him, If thou thyself will not go with us, let us not leave this place. 16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found mercy in thy sight? Is it not in that thou goest with us? So that we be distinguished, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth. 17 And the LORD said to Moses, I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found grace in my sight, and I know you by your name. 18 And Moses said, Show me thy glory. 19 And he said. I will make all my goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. 20 And he said, You cannot see my face; for no man can see me and live. 21 And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, there is a place in front of me, and you shall stand upon the rock; 22 And it shall come to pass when my glory passes by that I will put you in a cave of the rock and will rest my hand upon you till I pass by; 23 And I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back; but my face shall not be seen.""
34:1 ¶ AND the LORD said to Moses, Hew two tablets of stone like the first ones; and write upon the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. 2 And 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 And no man shall come up with you, neither shall any man be seen throughout all the mountain; neither let the flocks nor herds feed opposite that mountain. 4 And Moses hewed two tablets of stone like the first ones; and he arose early in the morning and went up to the top of mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two stone tablets.""
5 ¶ And the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there and announced the name of the LORD. 6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD, The God merciful and compassionate, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7 Keeping mercy for thousands of generations, forgiving sins and transgressions, who by no means justifies the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, to the third and fourth generation. 8 And Moses made haste and fell on the ground and worshipped. 9 And he said, If now I have found mercy in thy sight, O my LORD, let now my LORD go with us; for it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon our offenses and our sins and our guilty conscience.""
10 ¶ And the LORD said, Behold, I will make a covenant before all your people; I will do marvels such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any of the nations; and all this 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 the things which I command you this day; behold, I will destroy from before you the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 12 Take heed to yourself lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither you go, lest they become a stumbling block to you. 13 But you must destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their idols. 14 For you shall worship no other god; for the LORD whose name is zealous, is a zealous God. 15 You shall not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, so that the people may not go astray after their idols and sacrifice to their gods, and they shall invite you, and you shall eat of their sacrifices; 16 And you shall take of their daughters to your sons, and give your daughters to their sons; and your daughters shall go astray after their gods, and their daughters cause your sons to go astray after their gods. 17 You shall make to yourself no molten gods.""
18 ¶ The feast of unleavened bread you shall keep. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, in the time of the month of Abib; for in the month of Abib you came out from Egypt. 19 All that opens the womb is mine; and every firstling among your cattle, both of the oxen and of the lambs. 20 And all the firstlings of the cattle you shall redeem with a lamb; but if you shall not redeem it, then you shall kill it. All the first-born of your sons you shall redeem. And none shall appear before me empty-handed. 21 Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in the time of ploughing and during harvest you shall rest. 22 And you shall observe the feast of weeks, the feast of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end. 23 Three times a year shall all your memorial offerings be brought before the LORD, the God of Israel. 24 For I will destroy the nations from before you, and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man covet your land when you shall go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in a year. 25 You shall not offer the blood of a sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left over to the morning. 26 The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not cook a kid in its mother’s milk. 27 And the LORD said to Moses, Write these words; for by these words I have made a covenant with you and with all 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 tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. 29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tablets of testimony in his hand, when he came down from the mountain, Moses knew not that the skin of his face shone while the LORD talked with him. 30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses’ face, behold, the skin of Moses’ face shone; and they were afraid to come near to him. 31 So 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 children of Israel came near to him; 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 when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the veil off until he came out. And he came out and spoke to the children of Israel that which he was commanded. 35 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone; and Moses took off the veil from his face when he went in to speak with the LORD.""
35:1 ¶ AND Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together and said to them. These are the things which the LORD has commanded to be done. 2 Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day shall be holy to you, a sabbath of rest to the LORD; whosoever does any work on it shall be put to death. 3 You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the sabbath day. 4 And Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD has commanded to be done: 5 Take from among you an offering for the LORD; whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring an offering to the LORD, gold, silver, and brass, 6 Blue, purple, and scarlet material, and fine linen, and goats’ hair, 7 And rams’ skins dyed red, and dark blue skins, and shittim wood, 8 And oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil and for the sweet incense, 9 And onyx stones, and precious stones for the ephod, and for the breastplate. 10 And every wisehearted one among you shall come, and make all that the LORD has commanded; 11 The tabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its taches, and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets, 12 The ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, and the veil of the covering, 13 The table, and its poles, and all its vessels, and the shewbread, 14 The candlestick for the light, and its instruments and its lamps, and the oil for the light, 15 And the incense altar, and its poles, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entrance of the tabernacle, 16 The altar of burnt offering, with its bronze grate, its poles, and all its vessels, the laver, and its base, 17 The hangings of the court, its pillars, and their sockets, and the hanging for the door of the court, 18 The pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords, 19 The vestments of service, to minister in the holy place, the holy vestments for Aaron the priest, and the vestments for his sons, to minister in the priest’s office.""
20 ¶ And the whole congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses. 21 And they came, every one who was willing in his heart and every one whose spirit made him willing, and they brought offerings for the LORD, to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all its service, and for the holy vestments. 22 And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought bracelets and earrings and rings and necklaces and all sorts of jewels of gold; and every man that had set aside an offering of gold brought it to the LORD. 23 And every man with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet material, and fine linen, and goats’ hair, and red skins of rams, and dark blue skins, brought them. 24 Every one who had set aside an offering of silver and brass brought it as an offering for the LORD; and every man with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the service brought it. 25 And all the women who were skillful did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet material, and of fine linen. 26 And all the women who were willing skillfully spun goats’ hair. 27 And the princes brought onyx stones and precious stones for the ephod and for the breastplate, 28 And spices, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense. 29 The children of Israel brought a willing offering to the LORD, every man and woman who were willing-hearted to bring material for all manner of work which the LORD had commanded to be done by Moses.""
30 ¶ Then Moses said to the children of Israel, See, the LORD has called by name Bezaliel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; 31 And he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom and with understanding, and with knowledge, and with all manner of workmanship, 32 To devise artistic works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, 33 And in the cutting of stones to be set, and in the carving of wood to make any manner of art work. 34 And he has inspired him to teach, both he and Elihab, the son of Ahisamakh, of the tribe of Dan. 35 Both of them he has filled with wisdom and inspiration to do all manner of work of the carpenter and of the workman of art and of the embroiderer in blue, and in purple, in fine linen, and in scarlet material, and in weaving, and of those who do any kind of work, and of those who devise skillful work.""
36:1 ¶ THEN Bezaliel and Elihab and every wise man to whom the LORD gave wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary did everything, according to all that the LORD had commanded. 2 And Moses called Bezaliel and Elihab and every skillful man in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, every one whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work. 3 And they received of Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, with which to make it. And they brought yet to him free offerings every morning. 4 And all the skillful men who did the work of the sanctuary brought in every man some of his work which he made; 5 And they said to Moses, The people bring much more than is necessary for the service of the work which the LORD commanded to make. 6 And Moses gave command, which the heralds proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained. 7 For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the things they had to make, and some was left over.""
8 ¶ And all the skillful men among those who did the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet material; with cherubim artistically wrought they made them. 9 The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; the curtains were all of one size. 10 And they coupled the five curtains one to another; and the other five curtains they coupled one to another. 11 And they made loops of blue on the edge of each curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; likewise they wrought on the other edge of the curtain, on the coupling of the second. 12 They made fifty loops on the one curtain and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which was in the coupling of the second; the loops were opposite each other. 13 And they made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the clasps so that it became one tabernacle.""
14 ¶ And they made curtains of goats’ hair for the tent over the tabernacle; they made eleven curtains. 15 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; the eleven curtains were of one size. 16 And they coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. 17 And they made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which coupled the second. 18 And they made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one. 19 And they made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red and a covering of badgers’ skins above that. 20 And they made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up. 21 The length of each board was ten cubits, and the breadth of each board one cubit and a half. 22 Each board had two sockets, one exactly opposite the other; thus did they make all the boards of the tabernacle. 23 And they made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side: 24 And forty sockets of silver they made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons. 25 And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the north side, they made twenty boards, 26 And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. 27 And for the side of the tabernacle westward they made six boards. 28 And two boards made they for the corners of the tabernacle on the two sides. 29 And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the top thereof, to one ring; thus they made both of them in both the corners. 30 And there were eight boards; and their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets. 31 And they made bars of shittim wood; five bars for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, 32 And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the side westward. 33 And they made the middle bar to pass through the boards from the one end to the other. 34 And they overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.""
35 ¶ And they made a veil of blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twined linen; with cherubim made they it of the work of an artist. 36 And they made for it four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold; their hooks were of gold: and they cast for them four sockets of silver. 37 And they made a hanging for the door of the tabernacle, of blue and purple and scarlet material anti fine twined linen of needlework; 38 And they made the five pillars of it with their hooks; and they overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold; but their five sockets were of brass.""
37:1 ¶ THEN Bezaliel made the ark of shittim wood; two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it: 2 And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold for it round about. 3 And he cast for it four rings of gold to be set on its four corners; two rings on one side of it and two rings on the other side of it. 4 And he made poles of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold. 5 And he put the poles into the rings by the sides of the ark to carry the ark. 6 And he made the mercy seat of pure gold; two cubits and a half was its length and one cubit and a half its breadth. 7 And he made two cherubim of gold; of casting work he made them, on the two ends of the mercy seat; 8 One cherub on one side and the other cherub on the other side; above the mercy seat made he the cherubim on its two ends. 9 And the cherubim spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces one to another; over the mercy seat were the faces of the cherubim.""
10 ¶ And he made the table of shittim wood; two cubits was its length and a cubit its breadth and a cubit and a half its height; 11 And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made for it a crown of gold round about. 12 Also he made for it a border of a handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about. 13 And he cast for it four rings of gold, and fastened the rings on the four corners that were in the four feet thereof. 14 Over against the border were the rings, the places for the poles to carry the table. 15 And he made the poles of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold to carry the table with them. 16 And he made the vessels which were upon the table, its flagons, its spoons, its cups, and its bowls, wherein the drink offering is poured out, of pure gold. 17 And he made the candlestick of pure gold; of cast work made he the candlestick; its shaft, its branches, its bowls, its buds, and its flowers were of the same; 18 And six branches went out of its sides; three branches of the candlestick went out of the one side of it and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side of it; 19 Three bowls were fastened on one shaft with their buds and flowers; and three bowls were fastened on another shaft with their buds and flowers; so, throughout the six branches going out of the candlestick. 20 And in the candlestick were four bowls fastened to it with their buds and flowers; 21 And a bud under two branches of the same, and a bud under two branches of the same, and a bud under two branches of the same; likewise for the six branches going out of the candlestick. 22 Their buds and branches were of the same; all of it was one piece of molten work of pure gold. 23 And he made its seven lamps and its snuffers and its snuff dishes of pure gold. 24 Of a talent of pure gold he made it, and all its vessels.""
25 ¶ And he made the incense altar of shittim wood; the length of it was a cubit and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; and its horns were of the same. 26 And he overlaid it with pure gold, both the top of it and its sides round about, and the horns of it; and he made for it a crown of gold round about. 27 And he made two rings of gold for it under its crown, by the two corners of it, upon the two sides thereof, as places for the poles to carry it with them. 28 And he made the poles of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold. 29 And he made the holy anointing oil and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of a perfumer.""
38:1 ¶ AND he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood; five cubits was its length and five cubits its breadth; it was foursquare; and three cubits were the height thereof. 2 And he made its horns on the four corners of it; its horns were of the same; and he overlaid it with brass. 3 And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, the cauldrons, the hanging pots, the fleshhooks, the shovels, the censers; all its vessels he made of brass. 4 And he made for the altar a bronze grate of network halfway under the base of it. 5 And he cast four rings for the four corners of the grate of brass to be places for the poles. 6 And he made the poles of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass. 7 And put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar to carry it with them; he made the altar hollow with boards. 8 And he placed the laver of brass and its base of brass at the assembly house, for the women who came to pray at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.""
9 ¶ And he made the court: for the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, a hundred cubits; 10 Their pillars were twenty, and their bronze sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. 11 And for the north side the hangings were a hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; 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 east side eastward fifty cubits. 14 The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three. 15 And for the other side, on this hand and that of the gate of the court, were hangings of fifteen cubits for each side; their pillars three, and their sockets three. 16 All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen. 17 And the sockets of the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver; and the overlaying of their capitals of silver; and all the pillars of the court were overlaid with silver. 18 And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet material, and fine twined linen; and twenty cubits long, and the height and the width were five cubits, opposite the hangings of the court. 19 And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals and their fillets of silver. 20 And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.""
21 ¶ This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of the testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, and the work of the Levites, under the supervision of Ithamar, the son of Aaron, the priest. 22 And Bezaliel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses. 23 And with him was Elihab, the son of Ahisamakh, of the tribe of Dan, a carpenter, and a craftsman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet material, and in fine linen. 24 All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the holy place, even the gold of the offering, was twenty-nine talents, and four hundred and thirty shekels, by the weight of the sanctuary. 25 And the silver of those who were numbered of the congregation was a hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary: 26 A shekel for every head, that is half a shekel, by the weight of the sanctuary, for every one who was included in the number, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men. 27 And the total sum was one hundred talents of silver, for the casting of the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil; a hundred sockets were made from a hundred talents, a talent for a socket. 28 And of the thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their capitals, and overlaid the hooks with silver. 29 And the total sum of the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels. 30 And with it he made the sockets of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the bronze altar, and the bronze grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar, 31 And the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.""
39:1 ¶ AND of the blue and purple and scarlet material, they made vestments for the service, to minister in the sanctuary, and made the holy vestments for Aaron, as the LORD commanded Moses. 2 And they made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. 3 And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to be worked in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet material, and in the fine linen, with artistic workmanship. 4 They made shoulder-pieces for it, to join it together; by the two edges was it joined together. 5 And the embroidered girdle of the ephod that was upon it was of the same material, according to the work thereof; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet material, and fine twined linen; as the LORD commanded Moses. 6 And they made the onyx stones inclosed and set in work of gold, engraved, as signets are engraved, with the names of the sons of Israel. 7 And they put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, that they should be stones for a memorial for the sons of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses. 8 And they made the breastplate, the work of an artist, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet material, and fine twined linen. 9 It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double; a span was its length and a span its breadth, being doubled. 10 And they set it in four rows of stones; the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and an emerald; this was the first row. 11 And the second row, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper. 12 And the third row, a jacinth, a carnelian, and an amethyst. 13 And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper; they were inclosed and set in the work of gold in their inclosings. 14 And the stones were according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names, engraved like the engravings of signets, everyone with his name, according to the twelve tribes. 15 And they made upon the breastplate chains at the two ends, of braided work of pure gold. 16 And they made two settings of gold and two gold rings; and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. 17 And they fastened the two braided chains of gold to the two rings on the ends of the breastplate. 18 And the two ends of the two braided chains they fastened to the two settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, in the front of it. 19 And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on the border of it, which was on the side of the ephod from within. 20 And they made two other golden rings, and put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod from within, toward the front of it, over against the other coupling thereof, above the embroidered girdle of the ephod. 21 And they did bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a cord of blue, that it might be above the embroidered girdle of the ephod and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as the LORD commanded Moses. 22 And they made the robe of the ephod of fine woven work, all of blue. 23 And the opening of the robe was within it, as the hole of a coat of mail, with a binding round about the opening, that it might not be torn. 24 And they made on the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twined linen. 25 And they made bells of pure gold, and fastened the bells between the pomegranates on the hem of the robe, round about between the pomegranates; 26 A bell of gold and a pomegranate, and a bell of gold and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister in; as the LORD commanded Moses. 27 And they made coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron and for his sons, 28 And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and breeches of fine linen, 29 And a girdle of fine twined linen, and blue and purple and scarlet needlework; as the LORD commanded Moses, 30 And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it an inscription like to the engraving of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD. 31 And they tied to it a cord of blue to fasten it over the mitre; as the LORD commanded Moses.""
32 ¶ Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the congregation was finished; and the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they. 33 And they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent and all its vessels, its rings, its clasps, its boards, its pins, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets, 34 And the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers’ skins, and the veil for the covering of the door, 35 The ark of the testimony, and its poles, and the mercy seat, 36 The table, and all its vessels, and the shewbread, 37 The pure candlestick, with its lamps, and with the lamps to be set in order, and all its vessels, and the oil for light, 38 And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door, 39 The altar of brass, and its grate of brass, its poles, and all its vessels, the laver and its base, 40 The hangings of the court, its pillars, its sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, its cords, its pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, 41 The vestments of the service to minister in the holy place, and the holy vestments for Aaron the priest, and vestments for his sons, to minister in the priest’s office. 42 According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work. 43 And Moses looked upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the LORD had commanded Moses, even so had they done it; and Moses blessed them.""
40:1 ¶ AND the LORD said to Moses, 2 On the first day of the first month you shall set up the tabernacle of the congregation. 3 And you shall put in it the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the veil. 4 And you shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be placed upon it; and you shall bring in the candlestick and light the lamps thereof. 5 And you shall set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony, and fasten the hanging to the entry of the tabernacle. 6 And you shall set the altar of the burnt offering in front of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 7 And you shall set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and shall put water in it. 8 And you shall set up the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court gate. 9 And you shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and shall sanctify it and all its vessels; and it shall be holy. 10 And you shall anoint the altar of the burnt offering and all its vessels, and sanctify the altar; and it shall be an altar most holy. 11 And you shall anoint the laver and its base, and sanctify it. 12 Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water. 13 And you shall put upon Aaron the holy vestments and anoint him and sanctify him; that he may minister to me in the priest’s office. 14 Then you shall bring his sons and clothe them with coats; 15 And you shall anoint them, as you did anoint Aaron your brother, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office; for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.""
16 ¶ Thus did Moses according to all that the LORD commanded him; so did he. 17 And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the week, that the tabernacle was set up. 18 And Moses set up the tabernacle and fastened its pegs and set up its boards and put in its bars and raised up its pillars. 19 And be spread the covering over the tabernacle and put the covering of skins over it; as the LORD commanded Moses. 20 And he took the testimony and put it into the ark and set the poles on the ark and put the mercy seat above upon the ark: 21 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle and set up the veil of the covering of the door and covered the ark of the testimony; as the LORD commanded Moses. 22 And he put the table in the tent of the congregation on the side of the tabernacle northward, outside the veil. 23 And he set the bread in order upon it before the LORD; as the LORD had commanded Moses. 24 And he put the candlestick in the tabernacle of the congregation, over against the table on the side of the tabernacle southward. 25 And he lighted the lamps before the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses. 26 And he put the golden altar in the tabernacle of the congregation in front of the veil; 27 And he burnt sweet incense upon it; as the LORD commanded Moses. 28 And he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle. 29 And he put the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meal offering; as the LORD commanded Moses. 30 And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and put water there to wash with it. 31 And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet at it; 32 When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near to the altar, they washed; as the LORD commanded Moses. 33 And he set up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.""
34 ¶ Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. 35 And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode upon it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. 36 And when the cloud was lifted up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel started onward in all their journeys; 37 But if the cloud was not lifted up, then they did not journey till the day that it was lifted up. 38 For the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys."