022:008 If the thief isn't found, then the master of the house shall
come near to God, to find out if he hasn't put his hand
to his neighbor's goods.
022:009 For every matter of trespass, whether it be for ox, for donkey,
for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing,
about which one says, 'This is mine,' the cause of both parties
shall come before God. He whom God condemns shall pay double
to his neighbor.
022:010 "If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep,
or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away,
no man seeing it;
022:011 the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, whether he hasn't
put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and the owner of it
shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.
022:012 But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution
to the owner of it.
022:013 If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence.
He shall not make good that which was torn.
022:014 "If a man borrows anything of his neighbor's, and it is injured,
or dies, the owner of it not being with it, he shall
surely make restitution.
022:015 If the owner of it is with it, he shall not make it good.
If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease.
022:016 "If a man entices a virgin who isn't pledged to be married,
and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to
be his wife.
022:017 If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall
pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
022:018 "You shall not allow a sorceress to live.
022:019 "Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to death.
022:020 "He who sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh only,
shall be utterly destroyed.
022:021 "You shall not wrong an alien, neither shall you oppress him,
for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
022:022 "You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
022:023 If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me,
I will surely hear their cry;
022:024 and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword;
and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
022:025 "If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor,
you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you
charge him interest.
022:026 If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall
restore it to him before the sun goes down,
022:027 for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin.
What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me,
that I will hear, for I am gracious.
022:028 "You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
022:029 "You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from
the outflow of your presses. "You shall give the firstborn
of your sons to me.
022:030 You shall do likewise with your oxen and with your sheep.
Seven days it shall be with its mother, then on the eighth
day you shall give it me.
022:031 "You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not
eat any flesh that is torn by animals in the field.
You shall cast it to the dogs.
023:001 "You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand
with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
023:002 You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you
testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;
023:003 neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.
023:004 "If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray,
you shall surely bring it back to him again.
023:005 If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under
his burden, don't leave him, you shall surely help him with it.
023:006 "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.
023:007 "Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent
and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.
023:008 "You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have
sight and perverts the words of the righteous.
023:009 "You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien,
seeing you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
023:010 "For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather
in its increase,
023:011 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow,
that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave
the animal of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall
deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.
023:012 "Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you
shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest,
and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.
023:013 "Be careful to do all things that I have said to you;
and don't invoke the name of other gods, neither let them
be heard out of your mouth.
023:014 "You shall observe a feast to me three times a year.
023:015 You shall observe 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 it you came
out from Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty.
023:016 And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors,
which you sow in the field: and the feast of harvest,
at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out
of the field.
023:017 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before
the Lord Yahweh.
023:018 "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread,
neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night
until the morning.
023:019 The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring
into the house of Yahweh your God. "You shall not boil a kid
in its mother's milk.
023:020 "Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way,
and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
023:021 Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice.
Don't provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience,
for my name is in him.
023:022 But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak,
then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary
to your adversaries.
023:023 For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite,
the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite,
and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.
023:024 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them,
nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow
them and demolish their pillars.
023:025 You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread
and your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst.
023:026 No one will miscarry or be barren in your land.
I will fulfill the number of your days.
023:027 I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people
to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn
their backs to you.
023:028 I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite,
the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.
023:029 I will not drive them out from before you in one year,
lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field
multiply against you.
023:030 Little by little I will drive them out from before you,
until you have increased and inherit the land.
023:031 I will set your border from the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds} even to
the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River;
for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand,
and you shall drive them out before you.
023:032 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
023:033 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin
against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely
be a snare to you."
024:001 He said to Moses, "Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab,
and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship
from a distance.
024:002 Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near,
neither shall the people go up with him."
024:003 Moses came and told the people all the words of Yahweh, and all
the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice,
and said, "All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do."
024:004 Moses wrote all the words of Yahweh, and rose up early
in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain,
and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
024:005 He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt
offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to Yahweh.
024:006 Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half
of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
024:007 He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing
of the people, and they said, "All that Yahweh has spoken
will we do, and be obedient."
024:008 Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people,
and said, "Look, this is the blood of the covenant,
which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words."
024:009 Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders
of Israel went up.
024:010 They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work
of sapphire{or, lapis lazuli} stone, like the skies for clearness.
024:011 He didn't lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel.
They saw God, and ate and drank.
024:012 Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain,
and stay here, and I will give you the tables of stone
with the law and the commands that I have written, that you
may teach them."
024:013 Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up
onto God's Mountain.
024:014 He said to the elders, "Wait here for us, until we come
again to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you.
Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them."
024:015 Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
024:016 The glory of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud
covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses
out of the midst of the cloud.
024:017 The appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like devouring fire on
the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
024:018 Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up
on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days
and forty nights.
025:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
025:002 "Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me.
From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall
take my offering.
025:003 This is the offering which you shall take from them:
gold, silver, brass,
025:004 blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair,
025:005 rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,
025:006 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for
the sweet incense,
025:007 onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and
for the breastplate.
025:008 Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
025:009 According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tent,
and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you
shall make it.
025:010 "They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall
be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half,
and a cubit and a half its height.
025:011 You shall overlay it with pure gold. Inside and outside shall
you overlay it, and shall make a gold molding around it.
025:012 You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them
in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side of it,
and two rings on the other side of it.
025:013 You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
025:014 You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark
to carry the ark.
025:015 The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not
be taken from it.
025:016 You shall put the testimony which I shall give you into the ark.
025:017 You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits
shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.
025:018 You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make
them at the two ends of the mercy seat.
025:019 Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end.
You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece
with the mercy seat.
025:020 The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy
seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another.
The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.
025:021 You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark
you shall put the testimony that I will give you.
025:022 There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above
the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are
on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for
the children of Israel.
025:023 "You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall
be its length, and a cubit its breadth, and one and a half
cubits its height.
025:024 You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold
molding around it.
025:025 You shall make a rim of a handbreadth around it.
You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it.
025:026 You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings
in the four corners that are on its four feet.
025:027 the rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles
to carry the table.
025:028 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them
with gold, that the table may be carried with them.
025:029 You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls
to pour out offerings with. Of pure gold shall you make them.
025:030 You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.
025:031 "You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. Of hammered work shall
the lampstand be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups,
its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it.
025:032 There shall be six branches going out of its sides:
three branches of the lampstand out of its one side,
and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side;
025:033 three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud
and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in
the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches
going out of the lampstand;
025:034 and in the lampstand four cups made like almond blossoms,
its buds and its flowers;
025:035 and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud
under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two
branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going
out of the lampstand.
025:036 Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it,
the whole of it one beaten work of pure gold.
025:037 You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps
to give light to the space in front of it.
025:038 Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold.
025:039 It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all
these accessories.
025:040 See that you make them after their pattern, which has been
shown to you on the mountain.
026:001 "Moreover you shall make the tent with ten curtains; of fine
twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim.
The work of the skillful workman you shall make them.
026:002 The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits,
and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains
shall have one measure.
026:003 Five curtains shall be coupled together one to another;
and the other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.
026:004 You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain
from the edge in the coupling; and likewise shall you make in
the edge of the curtain that is outmost in the second coupling.
026:005 You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall
make fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that is in the
second coupling. The loops shall be opposite one to another.
026:006 You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains
one to another with the clasps: and the tent shall be a unit.
026:007 "You shall make curtains of goats' hair for a covering over the tent:
eleven curtains shall you make them.
026:008 The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth
of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall
have one measure.
026:009 You shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains
by themselves, and shall double over the sixth curtain
in the forefront of the tent.
026:010 You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain
that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops on the edge
of the curtain which is outmost in the second coupling.
026:011 You shall make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into
the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
026:012 The overhanging part that remains of the curtains of the tent,
the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back
of the tent.
026:013 The cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side,
of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the tent,
shall hang over the sides of the tent on this side and on
that side, to cover it.
026:014 You shall make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red,
and a covering of sea cow hides above.
026:015 "You shall make the boards for the tent of acacia wood, standing up.
026:016 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half
cubits the breadth of each board.
026:017 There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another:
thus shall you make for all the boards of the tent.
026:018 You shall make the boards for the tent, twenty boards for
the south side southward.
026:019 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.
026:020 For the second side of the tent, on the north side, twenty boards,
026:021 and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board,
and two sockets under another board.
026:022 For the far part of the tent westward you shall make six boards.
026:023 Two boards shall you make for the corners of the tent in
the far part.
026:024 They shall be double beneath, and in like manner they shall be entire
to the top of it to one ring: thus shall it be for them both;
they shall be for the two corners.
026:025 There shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver,
sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets
under another board.
026:026 "You shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards
of the one side of the tent,
026:027 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tent,
and five bars for the boards of the side of the tent,
for the far part westward.
026:028 The middle bar in the midst of the boards shall pass through
from end to end.
026:029 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.
026:030 You shall set up the tent according to the way that it was shown
to you on the mountain.
026:031 "You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet,
and fine twined linen, with cherubim. The work of the skillful
workman shall it be made.
026:032 You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold;
their hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of silver.
026:033 You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall
bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil:
and the veil shall separate the holy place from the most
holy for you.
026:034 You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony
in the most holy place.
026:035 You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand over
against the table on the side of the tent toward the south:
and you shall put the table on the north side.
026:036 "You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue,
and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work
of the embroiderer.
026:037 You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia,
and overlay them with gold: their hooks shall be of gold:
and you shall cast five sockets of brass for them.
027:001 "You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long,
and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare:
and its height shall be three cubits.
027:002 You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall
be of one piece with it; and you shall overlay it with brass.
027:003 You shall make its pots to take away its ashes, its shovels,
its basins, its flesh hooks, and its fire pans:
all its vessels you shall make of brass.
027:004 You shall make a grating for it of network of brass:
and on the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four corners.
027:005 You shall put it under the ledge around the altar beneath,
that the net may reach halfway up the altar.
027:006 You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood,
and overlay them with brass.
027:007 Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall
be on the two sides of the altar, when carrying it.
027:008 Hollow with planks shall you make it: as it has been shown
you on the mountain, so shall they make it.
027:009 "You shall make the court of the tent: for the south side
southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined
linen one hundred cubits long for one side:
027:010 and the pillars of it shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty,
of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall
be of silver.
027:011 Likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings
one hundred cubits long, and the pillars of it twenty,
and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars,
and their fillets, of silver.
027:012 For the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings
of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
027:013 The breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall
be fifty cubits.
027:014 The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits;
their pillars three, and their sockets three.
027:015 For the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits;
their pillars three, and their sockets three.
027:016 For the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits,
of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen,
the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four,
and their sockets four.
027:017 All the pillars of the court round about shall be filleted
with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of brass.
027:018 The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits,
and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits,
of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.
027:019 All the instruments of the tent in all its service,
and all the pins of it, and all the pins of the court,
shall be of brass.
027:020 "You shall command the children of Israel, that they bring
to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp
to burn continually.
027:021 In the tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before
the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order
from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a
statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf
of the children of Israel.
028:001 "Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you
from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me
in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar
and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.
028:002 You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory
and for beauty.
028:003 You shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled
with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron's garments to
sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest's office.
028:004 These are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate,
and an ephod, and a robe, and a coat of checker work,
a turban, and a sash: and they shall make holy garments
for Aaron your brother, and his sons, that he may minister
to me in the priest's office.
028:005 They shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple,
and the scarlet, and the fine linen.
028:006 "They shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and purple, scarlet,
and fine twined linen, the work of the skillful workman.
028:007 It shall have two shoulder straps joined to the two ends of it,
that it may be joined together.
028:008 The skillfully woven band, which is on it, that is on him,
shall be like its work and of the same piece; of gold, of blue,
and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
028:009 You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names
of the children of Israel:
028:010 six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six
that remain on the other stone, in the order of their birth.
028:011 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings
of a signet, shall you engrave the two stones, according to
the names of the children of Israel: you shall make them
to be enclosed in settings of gold.
028:012 You shall put the two stones on the shoulder straps of the ephod,
to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel:
and Aaron shall bear their names before Yahweh on his two
shoulders for a memorial.
028:013 You shall make settings of gold,
028:014 and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them like cords
of braided work: and you shall put the braided chains
on the settings.
028:015 "You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the
skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it;
of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen,
shall you make it.
028:016 It shall be square and folded double; a span{A span is the length
from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger
when the hand is stretched out (about 9 inches or 22.8 cm.)}
shall be its length of it, and a span its breadth.
028:017 You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones:
a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row;
028:018 and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire{or, lapis lazuli},
and an emerald;
028:019 and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
028:020 and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper:
they shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.
028:021 The stones shall be according to the names of the children
of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings
of a signet, everyone according to his name, they shall
be for the twelve tribes.
028:022 You shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided
work of pure gold.
028:023 You shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall
put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
028:024 You shall put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings
at the ends of the breastplate.
028:025 The other two ends of the two braided chains you shall put
on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps
of the ephod in the forepart of it.
028:026 You shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them on
the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which is toward
the side of the ephod inward.
028:027 You shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two
shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in the forepart of it,
close by the coupling of it, above the skillfully woven band
of the ephod.
028:028 They shall bind the breastplate by the rings of it to the rings
of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be on the skillfully
woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate may not swing
out from the ephod.
028:029 Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in
the breastplate of judgment on his heart, when he goes in to
the holy place, for a memorial before Yahweh continually.
028:030 You shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim;
and they shall be on Aaron's heart, when he goes in before Yahweh:
and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel
on his heart before Yahweh continually.
028:031 "You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
028:032 It shall have a hole for the head in the midst of it:
it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it,
as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it not be torn.
028:033 On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple,
and of scarlet, around its hem; and bells of gold between
them round about:
028:034 a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate,
on the hem of the robe round about.
028:035 It shall be on Aaron to minister: and the sound of it shall
be heard when he goes in to the holy place before Yahweh,
and when he comes out, that he not die.
028:036 "You shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it,
like the engravings of a signet, 'HOLY TO YAHWEH.'
028:037 You shall put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be on the sash;
on the front of the sash it shall be.
028:038 It shall be on Aaron's forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity
of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall make holy
in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead,
that they may be accepted before Yahweh.
028:039 You shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and you
shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash,
the work of the embroiderer.
028:040 "You shall make coats for Aaron's sons, and you shall make
sashes for them and headbands shall you make for them,
for glory and for beauty.
028:041 You shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on 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.
028:042 You shall make them linen breeches to cover the flesh
of their nakedness; from the waist even to the thighs
they shall reach:
028:043 They shall be on Aaron, and on his sons, when they go in to
the tent of meeting, or when they come near to the altar
to minister in the holy place; that they don't bear iniquity,
and die: it shall be a statute forever to him and to his
descendants after him.
029:001 "This is the thing that you shall do to them to make
them holy, to minister to me in the priest's office:
take one young bull and two rams without blemish,
029:002 unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil,
and unleavened wafers anointed with oil: you shall make them
of fine wheat flour.
029:003 You shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket,
with the bull and the two rams.
029:004 You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent
of meeting, and shall wash them with water.
029:005 You shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the coat,
the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate,
and dress him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod;
029:006 and you shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy
crown on the turban.
029:007 Then you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head,
and anoint him.
029:008 You shall bring his sons, and put coats on them.
029:009 You shall dress them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind
headbands on them: and they shall have the priesthood
by a perpetual statute: and you shall consecrate Aaron
and his sons.
029:010 "You shall bring the bull before the tent of meeting:
and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head
of the bull.
029:011 You shall kill the bull before Yahweh, at the door of the
tent of meeting.
029:012 You shall take of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns
of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all
the blood at the base of the altar.
029:013 You shall take all the fat that covers the innards, the cover
of the liver, the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them,
and burn them on the altar.
029:014 But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung,
you shall burn with fire outside of the camp:
it is a sin offering.
029:015 "You shall also take the one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall
lay their hands on the head of the ram.
029:016 You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood,
and sprinkle it around on the altar.
029:017 You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards,
and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.
029:018 You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt
offering to Yahweh; it is a sweet savor, an offering made
by fire to Yahweh.
029:019 "You shall take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall
lay their hands on the head of the ram.
029:020 Then you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood,
and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on
the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb
of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot,
and sprinkle the blood on the altar round about.
029:021 You shall take of the blood that is on the altar, and of the
anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments,
and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him:
and he shall be made holy, and his garments, and his sons,
and his sons' garments with him.
029:022 Also you shall take some of the ram's fat, the fat tail,
the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver,
the two kidneys, the fat that is on them, and the right thigh
(for it is a ram of consecration),
029:023 and one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer
out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Yahweh.
029:024 You shall put all of this in Aaron's hands, and in his sons'
hands, and shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.
029:025 You shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar
on the burnt offering, for a sweet savor before Yahweh:
it is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
029:026 "You shall take the breast of Aaron's ram of consecration,
and wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh:
and it shall be your portion.
029:027 You shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the thigh
of the wave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up,
of the ram of consecration, even of that which is for Aaron,
and of that which is for his sons:
029:028 and it shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever
from the children of Israel; for it is a wave offering:
and it shall be a wave offering from the children of Israel
of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their wave
offering to Yahweh.
029:029 "The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him,
to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.
029:030 Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put
them on, when he comes into the tent of meeting to minister
in the holy place.
029:031 "You shall take the ram of consecration, and boil its flesh
in a holy place.
029:032 Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread
that is in the basket, at the door of the tent of meeting.
029:033 They shall eat those things with which atonement was made,
to consecrate and sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat
of it, because they are holy.
029:034 If anything of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread,
remains to the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire:
it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.
029:035 "Thus shall you do to Aaron, and to his sons, according to all
that I have commanded you. Seven days shall you consecrate them.
029:036 Every day shall you offer the bull of sin offering for atonement:
and you shall cleanse the altar, when you make atonement for it;
and you shall anoint it, to sanctify it.
029:037 Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it:
and the altar shall be most holy; whatever touches the altar
shall be holy.
029:038 "Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar:
two lambs a year old day by day continually.
029:039 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb
you shall offer at evening:
029:040 and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine
flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil,
and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.
029:041 The other lamb you shall offer at evening, and shall do to it
according to the meal offering of the morning, and according
to its drink offering, for a sweet savor, an offering made
by fire to Yahweh.
029:042 It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your
generations at the door of the tent of meeting before Yahweh,
where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.
029:043 There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place
shall be sanctified by my glory.
029:044 I will sanctify the tent of meeting and the altar:
Aaron also and his sons I will sanctify, to minister to me
in the priest's office.
029:045 I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.
029:046 They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, who brought them
forth out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them:
I am Yahweh their God.
030:001 "You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make
it of acacia wood.
030:002 Its length shall be a cubit, and its breadth a cubit.
It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits.
Its horns shall be of one piece with it.
030:003 You shall overlay it with pure gold, the top of it, the sides
of it around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold
molding around it.
030:004 You shall make two golden rings for it under its molding;
on its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make them;
and they shall be for places for poles with which to bear it.
030:005 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay
them with gold.
030:006 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.
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,
and for the sweet incense.
035:029 The children of Israel brought a freewill offering to Yahweh;
every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring
for all the work, which Yahweh had commanded to be made by Moses.
035:030 Moses said to the children of Israel, "Behold, Yahweh has
called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur,
of the tribe of Judah.
035:031 He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom,
in understanding, in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;
035:032 and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in brass,
035:033 in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood,
to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship.
035:034 He has put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Oholiab,
the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.
035:035 He has filled them with wisdom of heart, to work all manner
of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman,
and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet,
and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do
any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.
036:001 "Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted man,
in whom Yahweh has put wisdom and understanding to know
how to work all the work for the service of the sanctuary,
according to all that Yahweh has commanded."
036:002 Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man,
in whose heart Yahweh had put wisdom, even everyone whose
heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it:
036:003 and they received from Moses all the offering which the children
of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary,
with which to make it. They brought yet to him freewill
offerings every morning.
036:004 All the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary,
each came from his work which they did.
036:005 They spoke to Moses, saying, "The people bring much more than enough
for the service of the work which Yahweh commanded to make."
036:006 Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed
throughout the camp, saying, "Let neither man nor woman
make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary."
So the people were restrained from bringing.
036:007 For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it,
and too much.
036:008 All the wise-hearted men among those who did the work made
the tent with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, blue, purple,
and scarlet, with cherubim, the work of the skillful workman,
they made them.
036:009 The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits,
and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains
had one measure.
036:010 He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five
curtains he coupled one to another.
036:011 He made loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from
the edge in the coupling. Likewise he made in the edge
of the curtain that was outmost in the second coupling.
036:012 He made fifty loops in the one curtain, and he made fifty loops
in the edge of the curtain that was in the second coupling.
The loops were opposite one to another.
036:013 He made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one
to another with the clasps: so the tent was a unit.
036:014 He made curtains of goats' hair for a covering over the tent.
He made them eleven curtains.
036:015 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four
cubits the breadth of each curtain. The eleven curtains
had one measure.
036:016 He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains
by themselves.
036:017 He made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was
outmost in the coupling, and he made fifty loops on the edge
of the curtain which was outmost in the second coupling.
036:018 He made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together,
that it might be a unit.
036:019 He made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red,
and a covering of sea cow hides above.
036:020 He made the boards for the tent of acacia wood, standing up.
036:021 Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half
the breadth of each board.
036:022 Each board had two tenons, joined one to another.
He made all the boards of the tent this way.
036:023 He made the boards for the tent: twenty boards for the
south side southward.
036:024 He made 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.
036:025 For the second side of the tent, on the north side,
he made twenty boards,
036:026 and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board,
and two sockets under another board.
036:027 For the far part of the tent westward he made six boards.
036:028 He made two boards for the corners of the tent in the far part.
036:029 They were double beneath, and in like manner they were all
the way to the top of it to one ring. He did thus to both
of them in the two corners.
036:030 There were eight boards, and their sockets of silver,
sixteen sockets; under every board two sockets.
036:031 He made bars of acacia wood; five for the boards of the one
side of the tent,
036:032 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tent, and five
bars for the boards of the tent for the hinder part westward.
036:033 He made the middle bar to pass through in the midst of the boards
from the one end to the other.
036:034 He overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold
for places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
036:035 He made the veil of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen:
with cherubim. He made it the work of a skillful workman.
036:036 He made four pillars of acacia for it, and overlaid them with gold.
Their hooks were of gold. He cast four sockets of silver for them.
036:037 He made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple, scarlet,
and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer;
036:038 and the five pillars of it with their hooks. He overlaid
their capitals and their fillets with gold, and their five
sockets were of brass.
037:001 Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood. Its length was two
and a half cubits, and its breadth a cubit and a half,
and a cubit and a half its height.
037:002 He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made
a molding of gold for it round about.
037:003 He cast four rings of gold for it, in its four feet; even two
rings on its one side, and two rings on its other side.
037:004 He made poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.
037:005 He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark,
to bear the ark.
037:006 He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a
half cubits, and a cubit and a half its breadth.
037:007 He made two cherubim of gold. He made them of beaten work,
at the two ends of the mercy seat;
037:008 one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end.
He made the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at
its two ends.
037:009 The cherubim spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy
seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another.
The faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.
037:010 He made the table of acacia wood. Its length was two cubits,
and its breadth was a cubit, and its height was a cubit
and a half.
037:011 He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding around it.
037:012 He made a border of a handbreadth around it, and made a golden
molding on its border around it.
037:013 He cast four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four
corners that were on its four feet.
037:014 The rings were close by the border, the places for the poles
to carry the table.
037:015 He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold,
to carry the table.
037:016 He made the vessels which were on the table, its dishes,
its spoons, its bowls, and its pitchers with which to pour out,
of pure gold.
037:017 He made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand
of beaten work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds,
and its flowers were of one piece with it.
037:018 There were six branches going out of its sides:
three branches of the lampstand out of its one side,
and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side:
037:019 three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch,
a bud and a flower, and three cups made like almond
blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower:
so for the six branches going out of the lampstand.
037:020 In the lampstand were four cups made like almond blossoms,
its buds and its flowers;
037:021 and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud
under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two
branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going
out of it.
037:022 Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it.
The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold.
037:023 He made its seven lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes,
of pure gold.
037:024 He made it of a talent of pure gold, with all its vessels.
037:025 He made the altar of incense of acacia wood. It was square:
its length was a cubit, and its breadth a cubit.
Its height was two cubits. Its horns were of one piece with it.
037:026 He overlaid it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it,
and its horns. He made a gold molding around it.
037:027 He made two golden rings for it under its molding crown,
on its two ribs, on its two sides, for places for poles
with which to carry it.
037:028 He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.
037:029 He made the holy anointing oil and the pure incense of sweet spices,
after the art of the perfumer.
038:001 He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. It was square.
Its length was five cubits, its breadth was five cubits,
and its height was three cubits.
038:002 He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one
piece with it, and he overlaid it with brass.
038:003 He made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, the shovels,
the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its
vessels of brass.
038:004 He made for the altar a grating of a network of brass,
under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up.
038:005 He cast four rings for the four ends of brass grating,
to be places for the poles.
038:006 He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with brass.
038:007 He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar,
with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks.
038:008 He made the basin of brass, and its base of brass, out of
the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door
of the tent of meeting.
038:009 He made the court: for the south side southward the hangings
of the court were of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits;
038:010 their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass;
the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
038:011 For the north side one hundred cubits, their pillars twenty,
and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars,
and their fillets, of silver.
038:012 For the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten,
and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars,
and their fillets, of silver.
038:013 For the east side eastward fifty cubits.
038:014 The hangings for the one side were fifteen cubits;
their pillars three, and their sockets three;
038:015 and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand
by the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits;
their pillars three, and their sockets three.
038:016 All the hangings around the court were of fine twined linen.
038:017 The sockets for 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 filleted with silver.
038:018 The screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer,
of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
Twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth
was five cubits, like to the hangings of the court.
038:019 Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass;
their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals,
and their fillets, of silver.
038:020 All the pins of the tent, and around the court, were of brass.
038:021 This is the amount of material used for the tent, even the Tent
of the Testimony, as they were counted, according to
the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites,
by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.
038:022 Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,
made all that Yahweh commanded Moses.
038:023 With him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan,
an engraver, and a skillful workman, and an embroiderer in blue,
in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen.
038:024 All the gold that was used for the work in all the work
of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering,
was twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred thirty shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary.
038:025 The silver of those who were numbered of the congregation
was one hundred talents, and one thousand seven hundred
seventy-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
038:026 a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel
of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who
were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six
hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men.
038:027 The one hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets
of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil; one hundred
sockets for the one hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
038:028 Of the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels
he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals,
and made fillets for them.
038:029 The brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand
four hundred shekels.
038:030 With this he made the sockets to the door of the tent of meeting,
the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, all the vessels
of the altar,
038:031 the sockets around the court, the sockets of the gate of the court,
all the pins of the tent, and all the pins around the court.
039:001 Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they made finely worked garments,
for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments
for Aaron; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
039:002 He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine
twined linen.
039:003 They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires,
to work it in the blue, in the purple, in the scarlet,
and in the fine linen, the work of the skillful workman.
039:004 They made shoulder straps for it, joined together.
At the two ends it was joined together.
039:005 The skillfully woven band that was on it, with which to
fasten it on, was of the same piece, like its work;
of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen;
as Yahweh commanded Moses.
039:006 They worked the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold,
engraved with the engravings of a signet, according to the names
of the children of Israel.
039:007 He put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones
of memorial for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
039:008 He made the breastplate, the work of a skillful workman,
like the work of the ephod; of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet,
and fine twined linen.
039:009 It was square. They made the breastplate double.
Its length was a span, and its breadth a span, being double.
039:010 They set in it four rows of stones. A row of ruby, topaz,
and beryl was the first row;
039:011 and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire{or, lapis lazuli},
and an emerald;
039:012 and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
039:013 and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper.
They were enclosed in gold settings.
039:014 The stones were according to the names of the children of Israel,
twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet,
everyone according to his name, for the twelve tribes.
039:015 They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided
work of pure gold.
039:016 They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put
the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
039:017 They put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings
at the ends of the breastplate.
039:018 The other two ends of the two braided chains they put on the
two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod,
in the front of it.
039:019 They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends
of the breastplate, on the edge of it, which was toward
the side of the ephod inward.
039:020 They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder
straps of the ephod underneath, in the front of it, close by
its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.
039:021 They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod
with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven
band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come
loose from the ephod, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
039:022 He made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
039:023 The opening of the robe in the midst of it was like the opening
of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening,
that it should not be torn.
039:024 They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue,
purple, scarlet, and twined linen.
039:025 They made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between
the pomegranates around the skirts of the robe,
between the pomegranates;
039:026 a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, around the
skirts of the robe, to minister in, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
039:027 They made the coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron,
and for his sons,
039:028 and the turban of fine linen, and the linen headbands of fine linen,
and the linen breeches of fine twined linen,
039:029 and the sash of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet,
the work of the embroiderer, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
039:030 They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold,
and wrote on it a writing, like the engravings of a signet:
"HOLY TO YAHWEH."
039:031 They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above,
as Yahweh commanded Moses.
039:032 Thus all the work of the tent of the tent of meeting was finished.
The children of Israel did according to all that Yahweh
commanded Moses; so they did.
039:033 They brought the tent to Moses, the tent, with all its furniture,
its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,
039:034 the covering of rams' skins dyed red, the covering of sea
cow hides, the veil of the screen,
039:035 the ark of the testimony with its poles, the mercy seat,
039:036 the table, all its vessels, the show bread,
039:037 the pure lampstand, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order,
all its vessels, the oil for the light,
039:038 the golden altar, the anointing oil, the sweet incense,
the screen for the door of the Tent,
039:039 the bronze altar, its grating of brass, its poles, all of
its vessels, the basin and its base,
039:040 the hangings of the court, its pillars, its sockets,
the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, its pins,
all the instruments of the service of the tent, for the
tent of meeting,
039:041 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.
039:042 According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children
of Israel did all the work.
039:043 Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it
as Yahweh had commanded, even so had they done it:
and Moses blessed them.
040:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
040:002 "On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tent
of the Tent of Meeting.
040:003 You shall put the ark of the testimony in it, and you shall
screen the ark with the veil.
040:004 You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things
that are on it. You shall bring in the lampstand, and light
the lamps of it.
040:005 You shall set the golden altar for incense before the ark
of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tent.
040:006 You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door
of the tent of the tent of meeting.
040:007 You shall set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar,
and shall put water therein.
040:008 You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen
of the gate of the court.
040:009 You shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tent, and all
that is in it, and shall make it holy, and all its furniture:
and it will be holy.
040:010 You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels,
and sanctify the altar: and the altar will be most holy.
040:011 You shall anoint the basin and its base, and sanctify it.
040:012 You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent
of meeting, and shall wash them with water.
040:013 You shall put on Aaron the holy garments; and you shall
anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may minister to me
in the priest's office.
040:014 You shall bring his sons, and put coats on them.
040:015 You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father,
that they may minister to me in the priest's office.
Their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood
throughout their generations."
040:016 Moses did so. According to all that Yahweh commanded him,
so he did.
040:017 It happened in the first month in the second year, on the first
day of the month, that the tent was raised up.
040:018 Moses raised up the tent, and laid its sockets, and set up
the boards of it, and put in the bars of it, and raised
up its pillars.
040:019 He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof
of the tent above on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
040:020 He took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the poles
on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.
040:021 He brought the ark into the tent, and set up the veil
of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony,
as Yahweh commanded Moses.
040:022 He put the table in the tent of meeting, on the side of
the tent northward, outside of the veil.
040:023 He set the bread in order on it before Yahweh,
as Yahweh commanded Moses.
040:024 He put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table,
on the side of the tent southward.
040:025 He lit the lamps before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
040:026 He put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil;
040:027 and he burnt incense of sweet spices on it, as Yahweh
commanded Moses.
040:028 He put up the screen of the door to the tent.
040:029 He set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tent
of the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering
and the meal offering, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
040:030 He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar,
and put water therein, with which to wash.
040:031 Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and their feet there.
040:032 When they went into the tent of meeting, and when they came
near to the altar, they washed, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
040:033 He raised up the court around the tent and the altar,
and set up the screen of the gate of the court.
So Moses finished the work.
040:034 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory
of Yahweh filled the tent.
040:035 Moses wasn't able to enter into the tent of meeting, because the
cloud stayed on it, and Yahweh's glory filled the tent.
040:036 When the cloud was taken up from over the tent, the children
of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys;
040:037 but if the cloud wasn't taken up, then they didn't travel
until the day that it was taken up.
040:038 For the cloud of Yahweh was on the tent by day, and there was fire
in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel,
throughout all their journeys.