will meet with you.
030:007 Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning.
When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.
030:008 When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it,
a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations.
030:009 You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering,
nor meal offering; and you shall pour no drink offering on it.
030:010 Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year;
with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year
he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations.
It is most holy to Yahweh."
030:011 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
030:012 "When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to
those who are numbered among them, then each man shall give
a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you number them;
that there be no plague among them when you number them.
030:013 They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who
are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary;
(the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an
offering to Yahweh.
030:014 Everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, from twenty
years old and upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh.
030:015 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less,
than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Yahweh,
to make atonement for your souls.
030:016 You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel,
and shall appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting;
that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh,
to make atonement for your souls."
030:017 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
030:018 "You shall also make a basin of brass, and the base of it
of brass, in which to wash. You shall put it between the tent
of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.
030:019 Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it.
030:020 When they go into the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water,
that they not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister,
to burn an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
030:021 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die:
and it shall be a statute forever to them, even to him
and to his descendants throughout their generations."
030:022 Moreover Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
030:023 "Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred shekels;
and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and fifty;
and of fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty;
030:024 and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary;
and a hin of olive oil.
030:025 You shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded
after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil.
030:026 You shall use it to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark
of the testimony,
030:027 the table and all its articles, the lampstand and its accessories,
the altar of incense,
030:028 the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin
with its base.
030:029 You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy.
Whatever touches them shall be holy.
030:030 You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them,
that they may minister to me in the priest's office.
030:031 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'This shall
be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations.
030:032 It shall not be poured on man's flesh, neither shall you make
any like it, according to its composition: it is holy.
It shall be holy to you.
030:033 Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it
on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.'"
030:034 Yahweh said to Moses, "Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin,
and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense:
of each shall there be an equal weight;
030:035 and you shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art
of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy:
030:036 and you shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before
the testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you.
It shall be to you most holy.
030:037 The incense which you shall make, according to its composition
you shall not make for yourselves: it shall be to you
holy for Yahweh.
030:038 Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it, he shall
be cut off from his people."
031:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
031:002 "Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri,
the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:
031:003 and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom,
and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all
manner of workmanship,
031:004 to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver,
and in brass,
031:005 and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood,
to work in all manner of workmanship.
031:006 I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son
of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all
who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make
all that I have commanded you:
031:007 the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat
that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent,
031:008 the table and its vessels, the pure lampstand with all its vessels,
the altar of incense,
031:009 the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, the basin
and its base,
031:010 the finely worked garments--the holy garments for Aaron the priest--
the garments of his sons to minister in the priest's office,
031:011 the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for
the holy place: according to all that I have commanded you
they shall do."
031:012 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
031:013 "Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, 'Most certainly
you shall keep my Sabbaths: for it is a sign between me
and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I
am Yahweh who sanctifies you.
031:014 You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you.
Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death;
for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut
off from among his people.
031:015 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath
of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on
the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.
031:016 Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath,
to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations,
for a perpetual covenant.
031:017 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever;
for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh
day he rested, and was refreshed.'"
031:018 He gave to Moses, when he finished speaking with him on
Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets,
written with God's finger.
032:001 When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from
the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron,
and said to him, "Come, make us gods, which shall go before us;
for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land
of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him."
032:002 Aaron said to them, "Take off the golden rings, which are in
the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters,
and bring them to me."
032:003 All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears,
and brought them to Aaron.
032:004 He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an
engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said,
"These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of
the land of Egypt."
032:005 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made
a proclamation, and said, "Tomorrow shall be a feast to Yahweh."
032:006 They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings,
and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat
and to drink, and rose up to play.
032:007 Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go, get down; for your people, who you
brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!
032:008 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them.
They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it,
and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods,
Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"
032:009 Yahweh said to Moses, "I have seen these people, and behold,
they are a stiff-necked people.
032:010 Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot
against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make
of you a great nation."
032:011 Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, why does your
wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought
forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with
a mighty hand?
032:012 Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them forth
for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them
from the surface of the earth?' Turn from your fierce wrath,
and repent of this evil against your people.
032:013 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants,
to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them,
'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all
this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed,
and they shall inherit it forever.'"
032:014 Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do
to his people.
032:015 Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two
tablets of the testimony in his hand; tablets that were
written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other
they were written.
032:016 The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing
of God, engraved on the tables.
032:017 When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted,
he said to Moses, "There is the noise of war in the camp."
032:018 He said, "It isn't the voice of those who shout for victory,
neither is it the voice of those who cry for being overcome;
but the noise of those who sing that I hear."
032:019 It happened, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw
the calf and the dancing: and Moses' anger grew hot,
and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them
beneath the mountain.
032:020 He took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire,
ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made
the children of Israel drink of it.
032:021 Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you,
that you have brought a great sin on them?"
032:022 Aaron said, "Don't let the anger of my lord grow hot.
You know the people, that they are set on evil.
032:023 For they said to me, 'Make us gods, which shall go before us;
for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land
of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.'
032:024 I said to them, 'Whoever has any gold, let them take it off:'
so they gave it to me; and I threw it into the fire,
and out came this calf."
032:025 When Moses saw that the people had broken loose, (for Aaron
had let them loose for a derision among their enemies),
032:026 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Whoever is
on Yahweh's side, come to me!" All the sons of Levi gathered
themselves together to him.
032:027 He said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Every man
put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate
to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother,
and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.'"
032:028 The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses:
and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
032:029 Moses said, "Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, yes, every man
against his son, and against his brother; that he may bestow
on you a blessing this day."
032:030 It happened on the next day, that Moses said to the people,
"You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh.
Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin."
032:031 Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Oh, this people have sinned
a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold.
032:032 Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin--and if not, please blot
me out of your book which you have written."
032:033 Yahweh said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me,
him will I blot out of my book.
032:034 Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have
spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you.
Nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them
for their sin."
032:035 Yahweh struck the people, because they made the calf,
which Aaron made.
033:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Depart, go up from here, you and
the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt,
to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac,
and to Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your seed.'
033:002 I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite,
the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite,
and the Jebusite:
033:003 to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go
up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people,
lest I consume you in the way."
033:004 When the people heard this evil news, they mourned:
and no one put on his jewelry.
033:005 Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, 'You are
a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst
for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off
your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.'"
033:006 The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry
from Mount Horeb onward.
033:007 Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it outside the camp,
far away from the camp, and he called it "The tent of meeting."
It happened that everyone who sought Yahweh went out to the tent
of meeting, which was outside the camp.
033:008 It happened that when Moses went out to the Tent, that all
the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door,
and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent.
033:009 It happened, when Moses entered into the Tent, that the pillar
of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent,
and spoke with Moses.
033:010 All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door
of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped,
everyone at their tent door.
033:011 Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend.
He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua,
the son of Nun, a young man, didn't depart out of the Tent.
033:012 Moses said to Yahweh, "Behold, you tell me, 'Bring up this people:'
and you haven't let me know whom you will send with me.
Yet you have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found
favor in my sight.'
033:013 Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight,
please show me now your ways, that I may know you, so that I
may find favor in your sight: and consider that this nation
is your people."
033:014 He said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."
033:015 He said to him, "If your presence doesn't go with me,
don't carry us up from here.
033:016 For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight,
I and your people? Isn't it in that you go with us,
so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people
who are on the surface of the earth?"
033:017 Yahweh said to Moses, "I will do this thing also that you
have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know
you by name."
033:018 He said, "Please show me your glory."
033:019 He said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you,
and will proclaim the name of Yahweh before you.
I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show
mercy on whom I will show mercy."
033:020 He said, "You cannot see my face, for man may not see
me and live."
033:021 Yahweh also said, "Behold, there is a place by me, and you
shall stand on the rock.
033:022 It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you
in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until
I have passed by;
033:023 then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back;
but my face shall not be seen."
034:001 Yahweh said to Moses, "Chisel two stone tablets like the first:
and I will write on the tablets the words that were on
the first tablets, which you broke.
034:002 Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai,
and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain.
034:003 No one shall come up with you; neither let anyone be seen
throughout all the mountain; neither let the flocks nor herds
feed before that mountain."
034:004 He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first; and Moses rose
up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh
had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets.
034:005 Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there,
and proclaimed the name of Yahweh.
034:006 Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, "Yahweh! Yahweh, a
merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant
in loving kindness and truth,
034:007 keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity
and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear
the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children,
and on the children's children, on the third and on
the fourth generation."
034:008 Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.
034:009 He said, "If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord,
please let the Lord go in the midst of us; although this
is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin,
and take us for your inheritance."
034:010 He said, "Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I
will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the earth,
nor in any nation; and all the people among which you are shall
see the work of Yahweh; for it is an awesome thing that I
do with you.
034:011 Observe that which I command you this day. Behold, I drive
out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite,
the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
034:012 Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants
of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare
in the midst of you:
034:013 but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces
their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim;
034:014 for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name
is Jealous, is a jealous God.
034:015 Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land,
lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice
to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;
034:016 and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters
play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play
the prostitute after their gods.
034:017 You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.
034:018 "You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread.
Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you,
at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month
Abib you came out from Egypt.
034:019 All that opens the womb is mine; and all your livestock
that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep.
034:020 The firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb:
and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck.
All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem.
No one shall appear before me empty.
034:021 "Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest:
in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
034:022 You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits
of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year's end.
034:023 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before
the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.
034:024 For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders;
neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear
before Yahweh, your God, three times in the year.
034:025 "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread;
neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the Passover
be left to the morning.
034:026 You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground
to the house of Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young
goat in its mother's milk."
034:027 Yahweh said to Moses, "Write you these words:
for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant
with you and with Israel."
034:028 He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights;
he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets
the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
034:029 It happened, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two
tablets of the testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down
from the mountain, that Moses didn't know that the skin
of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him.
034:030 When Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin
of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.
034:031 Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the
congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them.
034:032 Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave
them all of the commandments that Yahweh had spoken with him
on Mount Sinai.
034:033 When Moses was done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.
034:034 But when Moses went in before Yahweh 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.
034:035 The children of Israel saw Moses' face, that the skin of Moses'
face shone: and Moses put the veil on his face again,
until he went in to speak with him.
035:001 Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel,
and said to them, "These are the words which Yahweh has commanded,
that you should do them.
035:002 'Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall
be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh:
whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.
035:003 You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on
the Sabbath day.'"
035:004 Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel,
saying, "This is the thing which Yahweh commanded, saying,
035:005 'Take from among you an offering to Yahweh. Whoever is
of a willing heart, let him bring it, Yahweh's offering:
gold, silver, brass,
035:006 blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair,
035:007 rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,
035:008 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for
the sweet incense,
035:009 onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and
for the breastplate.
035:010 "'Let every wise-hearted man among you come, and make all
that Yahweh has commanded:
035:011 the tent, its outer covering, its roof, its clasps, its boards,
its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;
035:012 the ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, the veil of the screen;
035:013 the table with its poles and all its vessels, and the show bread;
035:014 the lampstand also for the light, with its vessels, its lamps,
and the oil for the light;
035:015 and the altar of incense with its poles, the anointing oil,
the sweet incense, the screen for the door, at the door
of the tent;
035:016 the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of brass,
it poles, and all its vessels, the basin and its base;
035:017 the hangings of the court, its pillars, their sockets,
and the screen for the gate of the court;
035:018 the pins of the tent, the pins of the court, and their cords;
035:019 the finely worked garments, for ministering in the holy place,
the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments
of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.'"
035:020 All the congregation of the children of Israel departed from
the presence of Moses.
035:021 They came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone
whom his spirit made willing, and brought Yahweh's offering,
for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all of its service,
and for the holy garments.
035:022 They came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted,
and brought brooches, earrings, signet rings, and armlets,
all jewels of gold; even every man who offered an offering
of gold to Yahweh.
035:023 Everyone, with whom was found blue, purple, scarlet,
fine linen, goats' hair, rams' skins dyed red, and sea
cow hides, brought them.
035:024 Everyone who did offer an offering of silver and brass brought
Yahweh's offering; and everyone, with whom was found acacia
wood for any work of the service, brought it.
035:025 All the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands,
and brought that which they had spun, the blue, the purple,
the scarlet, and the fine linen.
035:026 All the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun
the goats' hair.
035:027 The rulers brought the onyx stones, and the stones to be set,
for the ephod and for the breastplate;
035:028 and the spice, and the oil for the light, for the anointing oil,