
Exodus

   {1:1} Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into
Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob): {1:2} Reuben,
Simeon, Levi, and Judah, {1:3} Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, {1:4}
Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. {1:5} All the souls who came out of
Jacob's body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already. {1:6}
Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation. {1:7}
The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and
multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with
them.

   {1:8} Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn't know Joseph.
{1:9} He said to his people, "Behold, the people of the children of
Israel are more and mightier than we. {1:10} Come, let us deal wisely
with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks
out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us,
and escape out of the land." {1:11} Therefore they set taskmasters over
them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for
Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses. {1:12} But the more they afflicted them,
the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were
grieved because of the children of Israel. {1:13} The Egyptians
ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve, {1:14} and they made
their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in
all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they
ruthlessly made them serve.

   {1:15} The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the
name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah, {1:16}
and he said, "When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew
women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall
kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live." {1:17} But the
midwives feared [1>]God,[<1] and didn't do what the king of Egypt
commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive. {1:18} The king of Egypt
called for the midwives, and said to them, "Why have you done this
thing, and have saved the boys alive?"

   {1:19} The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women
aren't like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth
before the midwife comes to them."

   {1:20} God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied,
and grew very mighty. {1:21} It happened, because the midwives feared
God, that he gave them families. {1:22} Pharaoh commanded all his
people, saying, "You shall cast every son who is born into the river,
and every daughter you shall save alive."

   {2:1} A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as
his wife. {2:2} The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that
he was a fine child, she hid him three months. {2:3} When she could no
longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with
tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds
by the river's bank. {2:4} His sister stood far off, to see what would
be done to him. {2:5} Pharaoh's daughter came down to bathe at the
river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket
among the reeds, and sent her handmaid to get it. {2:6} She opened it,
and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on
him, and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."

   {2:7} Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Should I go and
call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the
child for you?"

   {2:8} Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go."

   The maiden went and called the child's mother. {2:9} Pharaoh's
daughter said to her, "Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and
I will give you your wages."

   The woman took the child, and nursed it. {2:10} The child grew, and
she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named
him [2>]Moses,[<2] and said, "Because I drew him out of the water."

   {2:11} It happened in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he
went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens. He saw an
Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers. {2:12} He looked this
way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the
Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

   {2:13} He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the
Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the
wrong, "Why do you strike your fellow?"

   {2:14} He said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you
plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?"

   Moses was afraid, and said, "Surely this thing is known." {2:15} Now
when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled
from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat
down by a well.

   {2:16} Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and
drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
{2:17} The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and
helped them, and watered their flock. {2:18} When they came to Reuel,
their father, he said, "How is it that you have returned so early
today?"

   {2:19} They said, "An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the
shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock."

   {2:20} He said to his daughters, "Where is he? Why is it that you
have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread."

   {2:21} Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses
Zipporah, his daughter. {2:22} She bore a son, and he named him
[3>]Gershom,[<3] for he said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign
land."

   {2:23} It happened in the course of those many days, that the king
of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the
bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the
bondage. {2:24} God heard their groaning, and God remembered his
covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. {2:25} God saw the
children of Israel, and God was concerned about them.

   {3:1} Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law,
the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the
wilderness, and came to God's mountain, to Horeb. {3:2} The angel of
[4>]Yahweh[<4] appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a
bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush
was not consumed. {3:3} Moses said, "I will turn aside now, and see
this great sight, why the bush is not burnt."

   {3:4} When Yahweh saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him
out of the midst of the bush, and said, "Moses! Moses!"

   He said, "Here I am."

   {3:5} He said, "Don't come close. Take your sandals off of your
feet, for the place you are standing on is holy ground." {3:6} Moreover
he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob."

   Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God.

   {3:7} Yahweh said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people
who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their
taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. {3:8} I have come down to
deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out
of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and
honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the
Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. {3:9} Now, behold, the cry of
the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the
oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. {3:10} Come now
therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring my
people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt."

   {3:11} Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh,
and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?"

   {3:12} He said, "Certainly I will be with you. This will be the
token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people
out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain."

   {3:13} Moses said to God, "Behold, when I come to the children of
Israel, and tell them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you;'
and they ask me, 'What is his name?' What should I tell them?"

   {3:14} God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM," and he said, "You shall
tell the children of Israel this: 'I AM has sent me to you.'" {3:15}
God said moreover to Moses, "You shall tell the children of Israel
this, 'Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name
forever, and this is my memorial to all generations. {3:16} Go, and
gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, 'Yahweh, the God
of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has
appeared to me, saying, "I have surely visited you, and seen that which
is done to you in Egypt; {3:17} and I have said, I will bring you up
out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the
Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a
land flowing with milk and honey."' {3:18} They will listen to your
voice, and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of
Egypt, and you shall tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met
with us. Now please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness,
that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.' {3:19} I know that the king
of Egypt won't give you permission to go, no, not by a mighty hand.
{3:20} I will reach out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders
which I will do in its midst, and after that he will let you go. {3:21}
I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it
will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed. {3:22} But
every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her who visits her house,
jewels of silver, jewels of gold, and clothing; and you shall put them
on your sons, and on your daughters. You shall plunder the Egyptians."

   {4:1} Moses answered, "But, behold, they will not believe me, nor
listen to my voice; for they will say, 'Yahweh has not appeared to
you.'"

   {4:2} Yahweh said to him, "What is that in your hand?"

   He said, "A rod."

   {4:3} He said, "Throw it on the ground."

   He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away
from it.

   {4:4} Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand, and take it by
the tail."

   He stretched out his hand, and took hold of it, and it became a rod
in his hand.

   {4:5} "That they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers,
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has
appeared to you." {4:6} Yahweh said furthermore to him, "Now put your
hand inside your cloak."

   He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold,
his hand was leprous, as white as snow.

   {4:7} He said, "Put your hand inside your cloak again."

   He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of
his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.

   {4:8} "It will happen, if they will neither believe you nor listen
to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the
latter sign. {4:9} It will happen, if they will not believe even these
two signs, neither listen to your voice, that you shall take of the
water of the river, and pour it on the dry land. The water which you
take out of the river will become blood on the dry land."

   {4:10} Moses said to Yahweh, "O [5>]Lord,[<5] I am not eloquent,
neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am
slow of speech, and of a slow tongue."

   {4:11} Yahweh said to him, "Who made man's mouth? Or who makes one
mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn't it I, Yahweh? {4:12} Now
therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you
shall speak."

   {4:13} He said, "Oh, Lord, please send someone else."

   {4:14} The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Moses, and he said,
"What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak
well. Also, behold, he comes out to meet you. When he sees you, he will
be glad in his heart. {4:15} You shall speak to him, and put the words
in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will
teach you what you shall do. {4:16} He will be your spokesman to the
people; and it will happen, that he will be to you a mouth, and you
will be to him as God. {4:17} You shall take this rod in your hand,
with which you shall do the signs."

   {4:18} Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said
to him, "Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt,
and see whether they are still alive."

   Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."

   {4:19} Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return into Egypt; for
all the men who sought your life are dead."

   {4:20} Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey,
and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God's rod in his hand.
{4:21} Yahweh said to Moses, "When you go back into Egypt, see that you
do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I
will harden his heart and he will not let the people go. {4:22} You
shall tell Pharaoh, 'Thus says Yahweh, Israel is my son, my firstborn,
{4:23} and I have said to you, "Let my son go, that he may serve me";
and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your
firstborn.'"

   {4:24} It happened on the way at a lodging place, that Yahweh met
Moses and wanted to kill him. {4:25} Then Zipporah took a flint, and
cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said,
"Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me."

   {4:26} So he let him alone. Then she said, "You are a bridegroom of
blood," because of the circumcision.

   {4:27} Yahweh said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses."

   He went, and met him on God's mountain, and kissed him. {4:28} Moses
told Aaron all the words of Yahweh with which he had sent him, and all
the signs with which he had instructed him. {4:29} Moses and Aaron went
and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel. {4:30}
Aaron spoke all the words which Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and did the
signs in the sight of the people. {4:31} The people believed, and when
they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he
had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.

   {5:1} Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, "This is
what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, 'Let my people go, that they may
hold a feast to me in the wilderness.'"

   {5:2} Pharaoh said, "Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his
voice to let Israel go? I don't know Yahweh, and moreover I will not
let Israel go."

   {5:3} They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let
us go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh,
our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword."

   {5:4} The king of Egypt said to them, "Why do you, Moses and Aaron,
take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!" {5:5}
Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you
make them rest from their burdens." {5:6} The same day Pharaoh
commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,
{5:7} "You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as
before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves. {5:8} The number
of the bricks, which they made before, you require from them. You shall
not diminish anything of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry,
saying, 'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.' {5:9} Let heavier work be
laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and don't let them pay
any attention to lying words."

   {5:10} The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers,
and they spoke to the people, saying, "This is what Pharaoh says: 'I
will not give you straw. {5:11} Go yourselves, get straw where you can
find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.'" {5:12} So the
people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather
stubble for straw. {5:13} The taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfill
your work quota daily, as when there was straw!" {5:14} The officers of
the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them,
were beaten, and demanded, "Why haven't you fulfilled your quota both
yesterday and today, in making brick as before?"

   {5:15} Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to
Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal this way with your servants? {5:16}
No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, 'Make brick!' and
behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people."

   {5:17} But he said, "You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say,
'Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh.' {5:18} Go therefore now, and work,
for no straw shall be given to you, yet you shall deliver the same
number of bricks!"

   {5:19} The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in
trouble, when it was said, "You shall not diminish anything from your
daily quota of bricks!"

   {5:20} They met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came
out from Pharaoh: {5:21} and they said to them, "May Yahweh look at
you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the
eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in
their hand to kill us."

   {5:22} Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Lord, why have you
brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me? {5:23}
For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought
trouble on this people; neither have you delivered your people at all."

   {6:1} Yahweh said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to
Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong
hand he shall drive them out of his land."

   {6:2} God spoke to Moses, and said to him, "I am Yahweh; {6:3} and I
appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my
name Yahweh I was not known to them. {6:4} I have also established my
covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their
travels, in which they lived as aliens. {6:5} Moreover I have heard the
groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage,
and I have remembered my covenant. {6:6} Therefore tell the children of
Israel, 'I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens
of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will
redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments: {6:7}
and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and
you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who brings you out from under
the burdens of the Egyptians. {6:8} I will bring you into the land
which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will
give it to you for a heritage: I am Yahweh.'"

   {6:9} Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn't
listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

   {6:10} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {6:11} "Go in, speak to
Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his
land."

   {6:12} Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, "Behold, the children of
Israel haven't listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, who
am of uncircumcised lips?" {6:13} Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron,
and gave them a command to the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh king
of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

   {6:14} These are the heads of their fathers' houses. The sons of
Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi;
these are the families of Reuben. {6:15} The sons of Simeon: Jemuel,
and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a
Canaanite woman; these are the families of Simeon. {6:16} These are the
names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and
Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred
thirty-seven years. {6:17} The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei,
according to their families. {6:18} The sons of Kohath: Amram, and
Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath were
one hundred thirty-three years. {6:19} The sons of Merari: Mahli and
Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their
generations. {6:20} Amram took Jochebed his father's sister to himself
as wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of
Amram were a hundred and thirty-seven years. {6:21} The sons of Izhar:
Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri. {6:22} The sons of Uzziel: Mishael, and
Elzaphan, and Sithri. {6:23} Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of
Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, as his wife; and she bore him Nadab
and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. {6:24} The sons of Korah: Assir, and
Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites. {6:25}
Eleazar Aaron's son took one of the daughters of Putiel as his wife;
and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' houses
of the Levites according to their families. {6:26} These are that Aaron
and Moses, to whom Yahweh said, "Bring out the children of Israel from
the land of Egypt according to their armies." {6:27} These are those
who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel
from Egypt. These are that Moses and Aaron.

   {6:28} It happened on the day when Yahweh spoke to Moses in the land
of Egypt, {6:29} that Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "I am Yahweh.
Speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I speak to you."

   {6:30} Moses said before Yahweh, "Behold, I am of uncircumcised
lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?"

   {7:1} Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I have made you as God to
Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet. {7:2} You shall
speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall speak to
Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land. {7:3} I
will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in
the land of Egypt. {7:4} But Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will
lay my hand on Egypt, and bring out my armies, my people the children
of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. {7:5} The
Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I stretch out my hand on
Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them."

   {7:6} Moses and Aaron did so. As Yahweh commanded them, so they did.
{7:7} Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old,
when they spoke to Pharaoh.

   {7:8} Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, {7:9} "When
Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, 'Perform a miracle!' then you shall tell
Aaron, 'Take your rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become
a serpent.'"

   {7:10} Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as
Yahweh had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and
before his servants, and it became a serpent. {7:11} Then Pharaoh also
called for the wise men and the sorcerers. They also, the magicians of
Egypt, did the same thing with their enchantments. {7:12} For they each
cast down their rods, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod
swallowed up their rods. {7:13} Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he
didn't listen to them; as Yahweh had spoken.

   {7:14} Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is stubborn. He
refuses to let the people go. {7:15} Go to Pharaoh in the morning.
Behold, he goes out to the water; and you shall stand by the river's
bank to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent you shall
take in your hand. {7:16} You shall tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the
Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, "Let my people go, that they may
serve me in the wilderness:" and behold, until now you haven't
listened. {7:17} Thus says Yahweh, "In this you shall know that I am
Yahweh. Behold, I will strike with the rod that is in my hand on the
waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.
{7:18} The fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall
become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the
river."'" {7:19} Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Take your rod, and
stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over
their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water,
that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the
land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'"

   {7:20} Moses and Aaron did so, as Yahweh commanded; and he lifted up
the rod, and struck the waters that were in the river, in the sight of
Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were
in the river were turned to blood. {7:21} The fish that were in the
river died; and the river became foul, and the Egyptians couldn't drink
water from the river; and the blood was throughout all the land of
Egypt. {7:22} The magicians of Egypt did the same thing with their
enchantments; and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to
them; as Yahweh had spoken. {7:23} Pharaoh turned and went into his
house, and he didn't even take this to heart. {7:24} All the Egyptians
dug around the river for water to drink; for they couldn't drink of the
water of the river. {7:25} Seven days were fulfilled, after Yahweh had
struck the river.

   {8:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, "This
is what Yahweh says, 'Let my people go, that they may serve me. {8:2}
If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders
with frogs: {8:3} and the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go
up and come into your house, and into your bedroom, and on your bed,
and into the house of your servants, and on your people, and into your
ovens, and into your kneading troughs: {8:4} and the frogs shall come
up both on you, and on your people, and on all your servants.'" {8:5}
Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Stretch out your hand with your rod
over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs
to come up on the land of Egypt.'" {8:6} Aaron stretched out his hand
over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land
of Egypt. {8:7} The magicians did the same thing with their
enchantments, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.

   {8:8} Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, "Entreat
Yahweh, that he take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I
will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to Yahweh."

   {8:9} Moses said to Pharaoh, "I give you the honor of setting the
time that I should pray for you, and for your servants, and for your
people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses, and
remain in the river only."

   {8:10} He said, "Tomorrow."

   He said, "Be it according to your word, that you may know that there
is none like Yahweh our God. {8:11} The frogs shall depart from you,
and from your houses, and from your servants, and from your people.
They shall remain in the river only."

   {8:12} Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to
Yahweh concerning the frogs which he had brought on Pharaoh. {8:13}
Yahweh did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died out of
the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields. {8:14} They
gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank. {8:15} But when
Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn't
listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

   {8:16} Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Stretch out your rod, and
strike the dust of the earth, that it may become lice throughout all
the land of Egypt.'" {8:17} They did so; and Aaron stretched out his
hand with his rod, and struck the dust of the earth, and there were
lice on man, and on animal; all the dust of the earth became lice
throughout all the land of Egypt. {8:18} The magicians tried with their
enchantments to produce lice, but they couldn't. There were lice on
man, and on animal. {8:19} Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, "This is
the finger of God:" and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't
listen to them; as Yahweh had spoken.

   {8:20} Yahweh said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning, and
stand before Pharaoh; behold, he comes out to the water; and tell him,
'This is what Yahweh says, "Let my people go, that they may serve me.
{8:21} Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send
swarms of flies on you, and on your servants, and on your people, and
into your houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of
swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are. {8:22} I will
set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell,
that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end you may know that I
am Yahweh in the midst of the earth. {8:23} I will put a division
between my people and your people: by tomorrow shall this sign be."'"
{8:24} Yahweh did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the
house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses: and in all the land of
Egypt the land was corrupted by reason of the swarms of flies.

   {8:25} Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, "Go,
sacrifice to your God in the land!"

   {8:26} Moses said, "It isn't appropriate to do so; for we shall
sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to Yahweh our God. Behold,
shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes,
and won't they stone us? {8:27} We will go three days' journey into the
wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh our God, as he shall command us."

   {8:28} Pharaoh said, "I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to
Yahweh your God in the wilderness, only you shall not go very far away.
Pray for me."

   {8:29} Moses said, "Behold, I go out from you, and I will pray to
Yahweh that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his
servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only don't let Pharaoh deal
deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to
Yahweh." {8:30} Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh.
{8:31} Yahweh did according to the word of Moses, and he removed the
swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people.
There remained not one. {8:32} Pharaoh hardened his heart this time
also, and he didn't let the people go.

   {9:1} Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him,
'This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: "Let my people go,
that they may serve me. {9:2} For if you refuse to let them go, and
hold them still, {9:3} behold, the hand of Yahweh is on your livestock
which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels,
on the herds, and on the flocks with a very grievous pestilence. {9:4}
Yahweh will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the
livestock of Egypt; and nothing shall die of all that belongs to the
children of Israel."'" {9:5} Yahweh appointed a set time, saying,
"Tomorrow Yahweh shall do this thing in the land." {9:6} Yahweh did
that thing on the next day; and all the livestock of Egypt died, but of
the livestock of the children of Israel, not one died. {9:7} Pharaoh
sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of the livestock of the
Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he didn't
let the people go.

   {9:8} Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, "Take to you handfuls of
ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the sky in the
sight of Pharaoh. {9:9} It shall become small dust over all the land of
Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking out with boils on man and on
animal, throughout all the land of Egypt."

   {9:10} They took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and
Moses sprinkled it up toward the sky; and it became a boil breaking out
with boils on man and on animal. {9:11} The magicians couldn't stand
before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were on the magicians,
and on all the Egyptians. {9:12} Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh,
and he didn't listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken to Moses.

   {9:13} Yahweh said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning, and
stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, 'This is what Yahweh, the God of
the Hebrews, says: "Let my people go, that they may serve me. {9:14}
For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against
your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there
is none like me in all the earth. {9:15} For now I would have stretched
out my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you
would have been cut off from the earth; {9:16} but indeed for this
cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may
be declared throughout all the earth; {9:17} as you still exalt
yourself against my people, that you won't let them go. {9:18} Behold,
tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail,
such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until
now. {9:19} Now therefore command that all of your livestock and all
that you have in the field be brought into shelter. Every man and
animal that is found in the field, and isn't brought home, the hail
shall come down on them, and they shall die."'"

   {9:20} Those who feared the word of Yahweh among the servants of
Pharaoh made their servants and their livestock flee into the houses.
{9:21} Whoever didn't respect the word of Yahweh left his servants and
his livestock in the field.

   {9:22} Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky,
that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man, and on animal,
and on every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt."

   {9:23} Moses stretched out his rod toward the heavens, and Yahweh
sent thunder, hail, and lightning flashed down to the earth. Yahweh
rained hail on the land of Egypt. {9:24} So there was very severe hail,
and lightning mixed with the hail, such as had not been in all the land
of Egypt since it became a nation. {9:25} The hail struck throughout
all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and animal;
and the hail struck every herb of the field, and broke every tree of
the field. {9:26} Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of
Israel were, there was no hail.

   {9:27} Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to
them, "I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my
people are wicked. {9:28} Pray to Yahweh; for there has been enough of
mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no
longer."

   {9:29} Moses said to him, "As soon as I have gone out of the city, I
will spread abroad my hands to Yahweh. The thunders shall cease,
neither shall there be any more hail; that you may know that the earth
is Yahweh's. {9:30} But as for you and your servants, I know that you
don't yet fear Yahweh God."

   {9:31} The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was in
the ear, and the flax was in bloom. {9:32} But the wheat and the spelt
were not struck, for they had not grown up. {9:33} Moses went out of
the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands to Yahweh; and the
thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.
{9:34} When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders
were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his
servants. {9:35} The heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he didn't let
the children of Israel go, just as Yahweh had spoken through Moses.

   {10:1} Yahweh said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened
his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my
signs in their midst, {10:2} and that you may tell in the hearing of
your son, and of your son's son, what things I have done to Egypt, and
my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am
Yahweh."

   {10:3} Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, "This is
what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you refuse to
humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
{10:4} Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I
will bring locusts into your country, {10:5} and they shall cover the
surface of the earth, so that one won't be able to see the earth. They
shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you
from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the
field. {10:6} Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your
servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither your fathers
nor your fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were on
the earth to this day.'" He turned, and went out from Pharaoh.

   {10:7} Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a
snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God.
Don't you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?"

   {10:8} Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to
them, "Go, serve Yahweh your God; but who are those who will go?"

   {10:9} Moses said, "We will go with our young and with our old; with
our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds
will we go; for we must hold a feast to Yahweh."

   {10:10} He said to them, "Yahweh be with you if I will let you go
with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces. {10:11}
Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what you
desire!" They were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.

   {10:12} Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land
of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt,
and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left."
{10:13} Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh
brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all the night; and
when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. {10:14} The
locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the
borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no
such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. {10:15} For
they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was
darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the
trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either
tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt. {10:16} Then
Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, "I have
sinned against Yahweh your God, and against you. {10:17} Now therefore
please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may
also take away from me this death."

   {10:18} He went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh. {10:19}
Yahweh turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts,
and drove them into the [6>]Red Sea[<6]. There remained not one locust
in all the borders of Egypt. {10:20} But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's
heart, and he didn't let the children of Israel go.

   {10:21} Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky,
that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which
may be felt." {10:22} Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and
there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. {10:23}
They didn't see one another, neither did anyone rise from his place for
three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

   {10:24} Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, "Go, serve Yahweh. Only
let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Let your little ones also
go with you."

   {10:25} Moses said, "You must also give into our hand sacrifices and
burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God. {10:26} Our
livestock also shall go with us. Not a hoof shall be left behind, for
of it we must take to serve Yahweh our God; and we don't know with what
we must serve Yahweh, until we come there."

   {10:27} But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he wouldn't let
them go. {10:28} Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me! Be careful to
see my face no more; for in the day you see my face you shall die!"

   {10:29} Moses said, "You have spoken well. I will see your face
again no more."

   {11:1} Yahweh said to Moses, "Yet one plague more will I bring on
Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go. When he lets you
go, he will surely thrust you out altogether. {11:2} Speak now in the
ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his neighbor, and
every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold."
{11:3} Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians.
Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the
sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.

   {11:4} Moses said, "This is what Yahweh says: 'About midnight I will
go out into the midst of Egypt, {11:5} and all the firstborn in the
land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his
throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the
mill; and all the firstborn of livestock. {11:6} There shall be a great
cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been, nor
shall be any more. {11:7} But against any of the children of Israel a
dog won't even bark or move its tongue, against man or animal; that you
may know that Yahweh makes a distinction between the Egyptians and
Israel. {11:8} All these your servants shall come down to me, and bow
down themselves to me, saying, "Get out, with all the people who follow
you"; and after that I will go out.'" He went out from Pharaoh in hot
anger.

   {11:9} Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh won't listen to you, that my
wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt." {11:10} Moses and
Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and Yahweh hardened
Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the children of Israel go out of his
land.

   {12:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
{12:2} "This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be
the first month of the year to you. {12:3} Speak to all the
congregation of Israel, saying, 'On the tenth day of this month, they
shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers'
houses, a lamb for a household; {12:4} and if the household is too
little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall
take one according to the number of the souls; according to what
everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. {12:5} Your
lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You shall take it
from the sheep, or from the goats: {12:6} and you shall keep it until
the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the
congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening. {12:7} They shall take
some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel,
on the houses in which they shall eat it. {12:8} They shall eat the
flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They
shall eat it with bitter herbs. {12:9} Don't eat it raw, nor boiled at
all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its
inner parts. {12:10} You shall let nothing of it remain until the
morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn
with fire. {12:11} This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your
waist, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you
shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh's Passover. {12:12} For I will go
through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the
firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. Against all the
gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Yahweh. {12:13} The blood
shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see
the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be on you to
destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt. {12:14} This day shall be
to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh:
throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance
forever.

   {12:15} "'Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first
day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats
leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul
shall be cut off from Israel. {12:16} In the first day there shall be
to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation;
no kind of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must
eat, that only may be done by you. {12:17} You shall observe the feast
of unleavened bread; for in this same day have I brought your armies
out of the land of Egypt: therefore you shall observe this day
throughout your generations by an ordinance forever. {12:18} In the
first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall
eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at
evening. {12:19} There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven
days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut
off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a foreigner, or one
who is born in the land. {12:20} You shall eat nothing leavened. In all
your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.'"

   {12:21} Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to
them, "Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill
the Passover. {12:22} You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in
the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two
doorposts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go
out of the door of his house until the morning. {12:23} For Yahweh will
pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the
lintel, and on the two doorposts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and
will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.
{12:24} You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to
your sons forever. {12:25} It shall happen when you have come to the
land which Yahweh will give you, according as he has promised, that you
shall keep this service. {12:26} It will happen, when your children ask
you, 'What do you mean by this service?' {12:27} that you shall say,
'It is the sacrifice of Yahweh's Passover, who passed over the houses
of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and
spared our houses.'"

   The people bowed their heads and worshiped. {12:28} The children of
Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so
they did.

   {12:29} It happened at midnight, that Yahweh struck all the
firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat
on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon;
and all the firstborn of livestock. {12:30} Pharaoh rose up in the
night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a
great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one
dead. {12:31} He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, "Rise
up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel;
and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said! {12:32} Take both your flocks
and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!"

   {12:33} The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out
of the land in haste, for they said, "We are all dead men." {12:34} The
people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs
being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders. {12:35} The
children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked
of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.
{12:36} Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so
that they let them have what they asked. They despoiled the Egyptians.

   {12:37} The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth,
about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children.
{12:38} A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds,
and even very much livestock. {12:39} They baked unleavened cakes of
the dough which they brought out of Egypt; for it wasn't leavened,
because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn't wait, neither had
they prepared for themselves any food. {12:40} Now the time that the
children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.
{12:41} It happened at the end of four hundred thirty years, even the
same day it happened, that all the armies of Yahweh went out from the
land of Egypt. {12:42} It is a night to be much observed to Yahweh for
bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of Yahweh,
to be much observed of all the children of Israel throughout their
generations.

   {12:43} Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of
the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it, {12:44} but every man's
servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then
shall he eat of it. {12:45} A foreigner and a hired servant shall not
eat of it. {12:46} In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not carry
out anything of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall you
break a bone of it. {12:47} All the congregation of Israel shall keep
it. {12:48} When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, and
will keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and
then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one who is born
in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it. {12:49} One
law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives
as a foreigner among you." {12:50} All the children of Israel did so.
As Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. {12:51} It happened
the same day, that Yahweh brought the children of Israel out of the
land of Egypt by their armies.

   {13:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {13:2} "Sanctify to me all of
the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel,
both of man and of animal. It is mine."

   {13:3} Moses said to the people, "Remember this day, in which you
came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of
hand Yahweh brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be
eaten. {13:4} This day you go out in the month Abib. {13:5} It shall
be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, and the
Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he
swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey,
that you shall keep this service in this month. {13:6} Seven days you
shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to
Yahweh. {13:7} Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven
days; and no leavened bread shall be seen with you, neither shall yeast
be seen with you, in all your borders. {13:8} You shall tell your son
in that day, saying, 'It is because of that which Yahweh did for me
when I came out of Egypt.' {13:9} It shall be for a sign to you on your
hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the law of Yahweh may
be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of
Egypt. {13:10} You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season
from year to year.

   {13:11} "It shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land of
the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and shall give
it you, {13:12} that you shall set apart to Yahweh all that opens the
womb, and every firstborn which you have that comes from an animal. The
males shall be Yahweh's. {13:13} Every firstborn of a donkey you shall
redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break
its neck; and you shall redeem all the firstborn of man among your
sons. {13:14} It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come,
saying, 'What is this?' that you shall tell him, 'By strength of hand
Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage; {13:15}
and it happened, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that Yahweh
killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of
man, and the firstborn of animal. Therefore I sacrifice to Yahweh all
that opens the womb, being males; but all the firstborn of my sons I
redeem.' {13:16} It shall be for a sign on your hand, and for symbols
between your eyes: for by strength of hand Yahweh brought us out of
Egypt."

   {13:17} It happened, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God
didn't lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although
that was near; for God said, "Lest perhaps the people change their
minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt"; {13:18} but God led
the people around by the way of the wilderness by the [7>]Red Sea[<7];
and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.
{13:19} Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the
children of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you
shall carry up my bones away from here with you." {13:20} They took
their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the
wilderness. {13:21} Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of
cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to
give them light, that they might go by day and by night: {13:22} the
pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, didn't depart
from before the people.

   {14:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {14:2} "Speak to the children
of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth, between
Migdol and the sea, before Baal Zephon. You shall encamp opposite it by
the sea. {14:3} Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, 'They are
entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.' {14:4} I will
harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get
honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall
know that I am Yahweh." They did so.

   {14:5} It was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and
the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the
people, and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have let
Israel go from serving us?" {14:6} He prepared his chariot, and took
his army with him; {14:7} and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and
all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over all of them. {14:8} Yahweh
hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the
children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high
hand. {14:9} The Egyptians pursued after them: all the horses and
chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army; and overtook them
encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.

   {14:10} When Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up
their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and
they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.
{14:11} They said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in Egypt,
have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated
us this way, to bring us out of Egypt? {14:12} Isn't this the word that
we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone, that we may serve
the Egyptians?' For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than
that we should die in the wilderness."

   {14:13} Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid. Stand still, and
see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today: for the
Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see them again.
{14:14} Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still."

   {14:15} Yahweh said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Speak to the
children of Israel, that they go forward. {14:16} Lift up your rod, and
stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of
Israel shall go into the midst of the sea on dry ground. {14:17} I,
behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in
after them: and I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his
armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen. {14:18} The Egyptians
shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have gotten myself honor over
Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen." {14:19} The angel
of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them;
and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.
{14:20} It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and
there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and
the one didn't come near the other all the night.

   {14:21} Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused
the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the
sea dry land, and the waters were divided. {14:22} The children of
Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters
were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left. {14:23} The
Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the sea:
all of Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. {14:24} It
happened in the morning watch, that Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian
army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian
army. {14:25} He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them
heavily; so that the Egyptians said, "Let's flee from the face of
Israel, for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!"

   {14:26} Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea,
that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and
on their horsemen." {14:27} Moses stretched out his hand over the sea,
and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the
Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the midst
of the sea. {14:28} The waters returned, and covered the chariots and
the horsemen, even all Pharaoh's army that went in after them into the
sea. There remained not so much as one of them. {14:29} But the
children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the
waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.
{14:30} Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the
Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. {14:31}
Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the
people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh, and in his servant
Moses.

   {15:1} Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to
Yahweh, and said,
"I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously.
   The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
{15:2} Yah is my strength and song.
   He has become my salvation.
This is my God, and I will praise him;
   my father's God, and I will exalt him.
{15:3} Yahweh is a man of war.
   Yahweh is his name.
{15:4} He has cast Pharaoh's chariots and his army into the sea.
   His chosen captains are sunk in the [8>]Red Sea[<8].
{15:5} The deeps cover them.
   They went down into the depths like a stone.
{15:6} Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power.
   Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.
{15:7} In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who
      rise up against you.
   You send forth your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
{15:8} With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up.
   The floods stood upright as a heap.
   The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.
{15:9} The enemy said, 'I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide
      the spoil.
   My desire shall be satisfied on them.
   I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.'
{15:10} You blew with your wind.
   The sea covered them.
   They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
{15:11} Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods?
   Who is like you, glorious in holiness,
   fearful in praises, doing wonders?
{15:12} You stretched out your right hand.
   The earth swallowed them.

{15:13} "You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you
      have redeemed.
   You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.
{15:14} The peoples have heard.
   They tremble.
   Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.
{15:15} Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed.
   Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab.
   All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away.
{15:16} Terror and dread falls on them.
   By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone--
   until your people pass over, Yahweh,
   until the people pass over who you have purchased.
   {15:17} You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of
      your inheritance,
   the place, Yahweh, which you have made for yourself to dwell in;
   the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established.
{15:18} Yahweh shall reign forever and ever."

   {15:19} For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with
his horsemen into the sea, and Yahweh brought back the waters of the
sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst
of the sea. {15:20} Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a
tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with
tambourines and with dances. {15:21} Miriam answered them,
"Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously.
The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea."

   {15:22} Moses led Israel onward from the [9>]Red Sea[<9], and they
went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the
wilderness, and found no water. {15:23} When they came to Marah, they
couldn't drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter.
Therefore its name was called [10>]Marah.[<10] {15:24} The people
murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?" {15:25} Then he
cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed him a tree, and he threw it into the
waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an
ordinance for them, and there he tested them; {15:26} and he said, "If
you will diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and will do
that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his
commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the
diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who
heals you."

   {15:27} They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water,
and seventy palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.

   {16:1} They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation
of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is
between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after
their departing out of the land of Egypt. {16:2} The whole congregation
of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in
the wilderness; {16:3} and the children of Israel said to them, "We
wish that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when
we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have
brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with
hunger."

   {16:4} Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from
the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion
every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law, or
not. {16:5} It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall
prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they
gather daily."

   {16:6} Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, "At
evening, then you shall know that Yahweh has brought you out from the
land of Egypt; {16:7} and in the morning, then you shall see the glory
of Yahweh; because he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we,
that you murmur against us?" {16:8} Moses said, "Now Yahweh shall give
you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy
you; because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him.
And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against
Yahweh." {16:9} Moses said to Aaron, "Tell all the congregation of the
children of Israel, 'Come near before Yahweh, for he has heard your
murmurings.'" {16:10} It happened, as Aaron spoke to the whole
congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the
wilderness, and behold, the glory of Yahweh appeared in the cloud.
{16:11} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {16:12} "I have heard the
murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, 'At
evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with
bread: and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God.'"

   {16:13} It happened at evening that quail came up and covered the
camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp. {16:14} When the
dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a
small round thing, small as the frost on the ground. {16:15} When the
children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, "What is it?" For
they didn't know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread
which Yahweh has given you to eat." {16:16} This is the thing which
Yahweh has commanded: "Gather of it everyone according to his eating;
an [11>]omer[<11] a head, according to the number of your persons, you
shall take it, every man for those who are in his tent." {16:17} The
children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less. {16:18}
When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing
over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man
according to his eating. {16:19} Moses said to them, "Let no one leave
of it until the morning." {16:20} Notwithstanding they didn't listen to
Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred
worms, and became foul: and Moses was angry with them. {16:21} They
gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When
the sun grew hot, it melted. {16:22} It happened that on the sixth day
they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one, and all the
rulers of the congregation came and told Moses. {16:23} He said to
them, "This is that which Yahweh has spoken, 'Tomorrow is a solemn
rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which you want to bake, and
boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for
yourselves to be kept until the morning.'" {16:24} They laid it up
until the morning, as Moses asked, and it didn't become foul, neither
was there any worm in it. {16:25} Moses said, "Eat that today, for
today is a Sabbath to Yahweh. Today you shall not find it in the field.
{16:26} Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the
Sabbath. In it there shall be none." {16:27} It happened on the seventh
day, that some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.
{16:28} Yahweh said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my
commandments and my laws? {16:29} Behold, because Yahweh has given you
the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two
days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the
seventh day." {16:30} So the people rested on the seventh day.

   {16:31} The house of Israel called its name [12>]Manna,[<12] and it
was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with
honey. {16:32} Moses said, "This is the thing which Yahweh has
commanded, 'Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations,
that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness,
when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.'" {16:33} Moses said
to Aaron, "Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it
up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations." {16:34} As
Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be
kept. {16:35} The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until
they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to
the borders of the land of Canaan. {16:36} Now an omer is the tenth
part of an [13>]ephah.[<13]

   {17:1} All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from
the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to Yahweh's
commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the
people to drink. {17:2} Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and
said, "Give us water to drink."

   Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test
Yahweh?"

   {17:3} The people were thirsty for water there; and the people
murmured against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of
Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"

   {17:4} Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "What shall I do with these
people? They are almost ready to stone me."

   {17:5} Yahweh said to Moses, "Walk on before the people, and take
the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which
you struck the Nile, and go. {17:6} Behold, I will stand before you
there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will
come out of it, that the people may drink." Moses did so in the sight
of the elders of Israel. {17:7} He called the name of the place
[14>]Massah,[<14] and [15>]Meribah,[<15] because the children of Israel
quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, "Is Yahweh among us,
or not?"

   {17:8} Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim. {17:9}
Moses said to Joshua, "Choose men for us, and go out, fight with
Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God's rod in
my hand." {17:10} So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with
Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
{17:11} It happened, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel
prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. {17:12} But
Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him,
and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one
side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until
sunset. {17:13} Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of
the sword. {17:14} Yahweh said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in
a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot
out the memory of Amalek from under the sky." {17:15} Moses built an
altar, and called its name [16>]Yahweh our Banner.[<16] {17:16} He
said, "Yah has sworn: 'Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation
to generation.'"

   {18:1} Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard
of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how that
Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt. {18:2} Jethro, Moses'
father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her
away, {18:3} and her two sons. The name of one son was
[17>]Gershom,[<17] for Moses said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a
foreign land". {18:4} The name of the other was [18>]Eliezer,[<18] for
he said, "My father's God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh's
sword." {18:5} Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his
wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the
Mountain of God. {18:6} He said to Moses, "I, your father-in-law
Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her."

   {18:7} Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and
kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into
the tent. {18:8} Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done
to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardships
that had come on them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them. {18:9}
Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Yahweh had done to Israel,
in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians. {18:10}
Jethro said, "Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you out of the hand
of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the
people from under the hand of the Egyptians. {18:11} Now I know that
Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the thing in which they
dealt arrogantly against them." {18:12} Jethro, Moses' father-in-law,
took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all of
the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.

   {18:13} It happened on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the
people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the
evening. {18:14} When Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the
people, he said, "What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do
you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to
evening?"

   {18:15} Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to
me to inquire of God. {18:16} When they have a matter, they come to me,
and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the
statutes of God, and his laws." {18:17} Moses' father-in-law said to
him, "The thing that you do is not good. {18:18} You will surely wear
away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too
heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone. {18:19}
Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you.
You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.
{18:20} You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show
them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.
{18:21} Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such
as fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over
them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties,
and rulers of tens. {18:22} Let them judge the people at all times. It
shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every
small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for
you, and they shall share the load with you. {18:23} If you will do
this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure,
and all of these people also will go to their place in peace."

   {18:24} So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did
all that he had said. {18:25} Moses chose able men out of all Israel,
and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of
hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. {18:26} They judged
the people at all times. They brought the hard causes to Moses, but
every small matter they judged themselves. {18:27} Moses let his
father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.

   {19:1} In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out
of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the wilderness of
Sinai. {19:2} When they had departed from Rephidim, and had come to the
wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel
encamped before the mountain. {19:3} Moses went up to God, and Yahweh
called to him out of the mountain, saying, "This is what you shall tell
the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel: {19:4} 'You have
seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings,
and brought you to myself. {19:5} Now therefore, if you will indeed
obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own
possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine; {19:6}
and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.' These
are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."

   {19:7} Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set
before them all these words which Yahweh commanded him. {19:8} All the
people answered together, and said, "All that Yahweh has spoken we will
do."

   Moses reported the words of the people to Yahweh. {19:9} Yahweh said
to Moses, "Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may
hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever." Moses
told the words of the people to Yahweh. {19:10} Yahweh said to Moses,
"Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them
wash their garments, {19:11} and be ready against the third day; for on
the third day Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people on
Mount Sinai. {19:12} You shall set bounds to the people all around,
saying, 'Be careful that you don't go up onto the mountain, or touch
its border. Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death.
{19:13} No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot
through; whether it is animal or man, he shall not live.' When the
trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain."

   {19:14} Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and
sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes. {19:15} He said
to the people, "Be ready by the third day. Don't have sexual relations
with a woman."

   {19:16} It happened on the third day, when it was morning, that
there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain,
and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who
were in the camp trembled. {19:17} Moses led the people out of the camp
to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain. {19:18}
Mount Sinai, all it, smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire;
and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole
mountain quaked greatly. {19:19} When the sound of the trumpet grew
louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.
{19:20} Yahweh came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain.
Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

   {19:21} Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down, warn the people, lest they
break through to Yahweh to gaze, and many of them perish. {19:22} Let
the priests also, who come near to Yahweh, sanctify themselves, lest
Yahweh break forth on them."

   {19:23} Moses said to Yahweh, "The people can't come up to Mount
Sinai, for you warned us, saying, 'Set bounds around the mountain, and
sanctify it.'"

   {19:24} Yahweh said to him, "Go down and you shall bring Aaron up
with you, but don't let the priests and the people break through to
come up to Yahweh, lest he break forth on them."

   {19:25} So Moses went down to the people, and told them.

   {20:1} [19>]God[<19] spoke all these words, saying, {20:2} "I am
Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the
house of bondage.

   {20:3} "You shall have no other gods before me.

   {20:4} "You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of
anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath,
or that is in the water under the earth: {20:5} you shall not bow
yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a
jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on
the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me, {20:6} and
showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my
commandments.

   {20:7} "You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for
Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

   {20:8} "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. {20:9} You shall
labor six days, and do all your work, {20:10} but the seventh day is a
Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor
your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female
servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your
gates; {20:11} for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea,
and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh
blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.

   {20:12} "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be
long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

   {20:13} "You shall not murder.

   {20:14} "You shall not commit adultery.

   {20:15} "You shall not steal.

   {20:16} "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

   {20:17} "You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not
covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female
servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your
neighbor's."

   {20:18} All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings,
the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw
it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance. {20:19} They said to
Moses, "Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don't let God
speak with us, lest we die."

   {20:20} Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid, for God has come
to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won't sin."
{20:21} The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the
thick darkness where God was.

   {20:22} Yahweh said to Moses, "This is what you shall tell the
children of Israel: 'You yourselves have seen that I have talked with
you from heaven. {20:23} You shall most certainly not make alongside of
me gods of silver, or gods of gold for yourselves. {20:24} You shall
make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt
offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In
every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless
you. {20:25} If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it
of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted
it. {20:26} Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your
nakedness may not be exposed to it.'

   {21:1} "Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.

   {21:2} "If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in
the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything. {21:3} If he
comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then
his wife shall go out with him. {21:4} If his master gives him a wife
and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be
her master's, and he shall go out by himself. {21:5} But if the servant
shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will
not go out free;' {21:6} then his master shall bring him to God, and
shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall
bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.

   {21:7} "If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she
shall not go out as the male servants do. {21:8} If she doesn't please
her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be
redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since
he has dealt deceitfully with her. {21:9} If he marries her to his son,
he shall deal with her as a daughter. {21:10} If he takes another wife
to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her
marital rights. {21:11} If he doesn't do these three things for her,
she may go free without paying any money.

   {21:12} "One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put
to death, {21:13} but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to
happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee. {21:14} If
a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you
shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

   {21:15} "Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely
put to death.

   {21:16} "Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found
in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

   {21:17} "Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be
put to death.

   {21:18} "If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or
with his fist, and he doesn't die, but is confined to bed; {21:19} if
he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him
shall be cleared: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall
provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.

   {21:20} "If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he
dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished. {21:21}
Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be
punished, for he is his property.

   {21:22} "If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives
birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as
much as the woman's husband demands and the judges allow. {21:23} But
if any harm follows, then you must take life for life, {21:24} eye for
eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, {21:25} burning for
burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.

   {21:26} "If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and
destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. {21:27} If he
strikes out his male servant's tooth, or his female servant's tooth, he
shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

   {21:28} "If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall
surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of
the bull shall not be held responsible. {21:29} But if the bull had a
habit of goring in the past, and it has been testified to its owner,
and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull
shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death. {21:30} If a
ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his
life whatever is laid on him. {21:31} Whether it has gored a son or has
gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.
{21:32} If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty
shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be
stoned.

   {21:33} "If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn't
cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it, {21:34} the owner of
the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the
dead animal shall be his.

   {21:35} "If one man's bull injures another's, so that it dies, then
they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall
also divide the dead animal. {21:36} Or if it is known that the bull
was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it
in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his
own.

   {22:1} "If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it;
he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. {22:2} If
the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there
shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him. {22:3} If the sun has risen on
him, guilt of bloodshed shall be for him; he shall make restitution. If
he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. {22:4} If the
stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey,
or sheep, he shall pay double.

   {22:5} "If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets
his animal loose, and it grazes in another man's field, he shall make
restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his
own vineyard.

   {22:6} "If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks
of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who
kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

   {22:7} "If a man delivers to his neighbor money or stuff to keep,
and it is stolen out of the man's house; if the thief is found, he
shall pay double. {22:8} 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. {22:9} 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.

   {22:10} "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; {22:11} the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both,
whether he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and its owner
shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution. {22:12} But if it
is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner. {22:13} If
it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. He shall not make
good that which was torn.

   {22:14} "If a man borrows anything of his neighbor's, and it is
injured, or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely make
restitution. {22:15} If its owner is with it, he shall not make it
good. If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease.

   {22:16} "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.
{22:17} If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay
money according to the dowry of virgins.

   {22:18} "You shall not allow a sorceress to live.

   {22:19} "Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to death.

   {22:20} "He who sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh only, shall
be utterly destroyed.

   {22:21} "You shall not wrong an alien, neither shall you oppress
him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

   {22:22} "You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless
child. {22:23} If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at
all to me, I will surely hear their cry; {22:24} and my wrath will grow
hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be
widows, and your children fatherless.

   {22:25} "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. {22:26} If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral,
you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down, {22:27} 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.

   {22:28} "You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your
people.

   {22:29} "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. {22:30} You shall
do likewise with your cattle and with your sheep. Seven days it shall
be with its mother, then on the eighth day you shall give it to me.

   {22:31} "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.

   {23:1} "You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand
with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

   {23:2} "You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you
testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice; {23:3}
neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.

   {23:4} "If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you
shall surely bring it back to him again. {23:5} 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.

   {23:6} "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their
lawsuits.

   {23:7} "Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent
and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

   {23:8} "You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have
sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

   {23:9} "You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an
alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

   {23:10} "For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in
its increase, {23:11} but the seventh year you shall let it rest and
lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave
the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with
your vineyard and with your olive grove.

   {23:12} "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.

   {23:13} "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.

   {23:14} "You shall observe a feast to me three times a year. {23:15}
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. {23:16} 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.
{23:17} Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the
Lord Yahweh.

   {23:18} "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. {23:19} The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall
bring into the house of Yahweh your God.

   "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

   {23:20} "Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way,
and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. {23:21} 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. {23:22} 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.
{23:23} 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. {23:24} 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. {23:25} You shall
serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and
I will take sickness away from your midst. {23:26} No one will miscarry
or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.
{23:27} 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. {23:28} I will send the hornet before you, which will
drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.
{23:29} 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. {23:30} Little by little I will drive them out from before you,
until you have increased and inherit the land. {23:31} I will set your
border from the [20>]Red Sea[<20] 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. {23:32} You shall make no covenant with them, nor with
their gods. {23:33} They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make
you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a
snare to you."

   {24:1} 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. {24:2} Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall
not come near, neither shall the people go up with him."

   {24:3} 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."

   {24:4} 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. {24:5} He sent young men of the children
of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings
of cattle to Yahweh. {24:6} Moses took half of the blood and put it in
basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. {24:7} 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."

   {24:8} 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."

   {24:9} Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of
Israel went up. {24:10} They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was
like a paved work of [21>]sapphire[<21] stone, like the skies for
clearness. {24:11} He didn't lay his hand on the nobles of the children
of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.

   {24:12} 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."

   {24:13} Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up
onto God's Mountain. {24:14} 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."

   {24:15} Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the
mountain. {24:16} 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. {24:17} 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. {24:18} 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.

   {25:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {25:2} "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. {25:3} This is the
offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, brass, {25:4}
blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair, {25:5} rams' skins dyed
red, sea cow hides, acacia wood, {25:6} oil for the light, spices for
the anointing oil and for the sweet incense, {25:7} onyx stones, and
stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate. {25:8} Let them
make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. {25:9} According to
all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of
all of its furniture, even so you shall make it.

   {25:10} "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. {25:11} You shall overlay it with pure gold. You
shall overlay it inside and outside, and you shall make a gold molding
around it. {25:12} 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. {25:13} You shall make poles of
acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. {25:14} You shall put the
poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark. {25:15}
The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken
from it. {25:16} You shall put the testimony which I shall give you
into the ark. {25:17} 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.
{25:18} You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make
them at the two ends of the mercy seat. {25:19} 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. {25:20} 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. {25:21} 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. {25:22} 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.

   {25:23} "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. {25:24} You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold
molding around it. {25:25} You shall make a rim of a handbreadth around
it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it. {25:26} You
shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four
corners that are on its four feet. {25:27} the rings shall be close to
the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table. {25:28} You shall
make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the
table may be carried with them. {25:29} You shall make its dishes, its
spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with. You shall
make them of pure gold. {25:30} You shall set bread of the presence on
the table before me always.

   {25:31} "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. {25:32} 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; {25:33} 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; {25:34} and in the lampstand four cups made like
almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers; {25:35} 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. {25:36} Their buds and
their branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it one beaten work
of pure gold. {25:37} You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall
light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it. {25:38} Its
snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold. {25:39} It shall
be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories. {25:40}
See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you
on the mountain.

   {26:1} "Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains; of
fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim.
The work of the skillful workman you shall make them. {26:2} The length
of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each
curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure. {26:3}
Five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and the other
five curtains shall be coupled one to another. {26:4} You shall make
loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the
coupling; and likewise you shall make in the edge of the curtain that
is outmost in the second coupling. {26:5} 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. {26:6} You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the
curtains one to another with the clasps: and the tabernacle shall be a
unit.

   {26:7} "You shall make curtains of goats' hair for a covering over
the tabernacle. You shall make them eleven curtains. {26:8} The length
of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain
four cubits: the eleven curtains shall have one measure. {26:9} 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. {26:10} 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. {26:11} You shall
make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into the loops, and
couple the tent together, that it may be one. {26:12} The overhanging
part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that
remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle. {26:13} 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 tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it. {26:14} You
shall make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a
covering of sea cow hides above.

   {26:15} "You shall make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia
wood, standing up. {26:16} Ten cubits shall be the length of a board,
and one and a half cubits the breadth of each board. {26:17} There
shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus you
shall make for all the boards of the tabernacle. {26:18} You shall make
the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side
southward. {26:19} 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. {26:20} For the second
side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards, {26:21} and
their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two
sockets under another board. {26:22} For the far part of the tabernacle
westward you shall make six boards. {26:23} You shall make two boards
for the corners of the tabernacle in the far part. {26:24} They shall
be double beneath, and in the same way they shall be whole to its top
to one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two
corners. {26:25} There shall be eight boards, and their sockets of
silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets
under another board.

   {26:26} "You shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of
the one side of the tabernacle, {26:27} and five bars for the boards of
the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the
side of the tabernacle, for the far part westward. {26:28} The middle
bar in the midst of the boards shall pass through from end to end.
{26:29} 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.
{26:30} You shall set up the tabernacle according to the way that it
was shown to you on the mountain.

   {26:31} "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. {26:32} You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia
overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of
silver. {26:33} 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. {26:34} You
shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the most holy
place. {26:35} You shall set the table outside the veil, and the
lampstand over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward
the south: and you shall put the table on the north side.

   {26:36} "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. {26:37} 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.

   {27:1} "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. {27:2} 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. {27:3} 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. {27:4} 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. {27:5} You shall put it under the ledge around the
altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar. {27:6} You
shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them
with brass. {27:7} Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles
shall be on the two sides of the altar, when carrying it. {27:8} You
shall make it with hollow planks. They shall make it as it has been
shown you on the mountain.

   {27:9} "You shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the south
side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined
linen one hundred cubits long for one side: {27:10} and its pillars
shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the
pillars and their fillets shall be of silver. {27:11} Likewise for the
north side in length there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long,
and its pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks
of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver. {27:12} For the breadth
of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their
pillars ten, and their sockets ten. {27:13} The breadth of the court on
the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits. {27:14} The hangings for
the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three,
and their sockets three. {27:15} For the other side shall be hangings
of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
{27:16} 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. {27:17}
All the pillars of the court around shall be filleted with silver;
their hooks of silver, and their sockets of brass. {27:18} 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. {27:19} All the instruments of the tabernacle in all
its service, and all its pins, and all the pins of the court, shall be
of brass.

   {27:20} "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. {27:21} 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.

   {28:1} "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. {28:2} You shall make holy garments for Aaron your
brother, for glory and for beauty. {28:3} 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. {28:4} 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. {28:5} They shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple,
and the scarlet, and the fine linen.

   {28:6} "They shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and purple,
scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skillful workman.
{28:7} It shall have two shoulder straps joined to the two ends of it,
that it may be joined together. {28:8} 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.
{28:9} You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of
the children of Israel: {28:10} 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. {28:11} With the work of an engraver in stone, like the
engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones, according to
the names of the children of Israel: you shall make them to be enclosed
in settings of gold. {28:12} 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. {28:13} You shall make settings of gold,
{28:14} 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.

   {28:15} "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, you
shall make it. {28:16} It shall be square and folded double; a
[22>]span[<22] shall be its length of it, and a span its breadth.
{28:17} You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a
row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row; {28:18} and the
second row a turquoise, a [23>]sapphire[<23], and an emerald; {28:19}
and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; {28:20} and the
fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be enclosed
in gold in their settings. {28:21} 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. {28:22} You shall make on the breastplate
chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold. {28:23} You shall make
on the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall put the two rings on
the two ends of the breastplate. {28:24} You shall put the two braided
chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate. {28:25}
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 its
forepart. {28:26} 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. {28:27} You shall make two rings of gold,
and shall put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath,
in its forepart, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band
of the ephod. {28:28} They shall bind the breastplate by its rings 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. {28:29} 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.
{28:30} 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.

   {28:31} "You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue. {28:32}
It shall have a hole for the head in its midst: it shall have a binding
of woven work around its hole, as it were the hole of a coat of mail,
that it not be torn. {28:33} On its hem you shall make pomegranates of
blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, around its hem; and bells of gold
between and around them: {28:34} a golden bell and a pomegranate, a
golden bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the robe. {28:35} It
shall be on Aaron to minister: and its sound shall be heard when he
goes in to the holy place before Yahweh, and when he comes out, that he
not die.

   {28:36} "You shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it,
like the engravings of a signet, 'HOLY TO YAHWEH.' {28:37} 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. {28:38} 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. {28:39} 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.

   {28:40} "You shall make coats for Aaron's sons, and you shall make
sashes for them and you shall make headbands for them, for glory and
for beauty. {28:41} 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.
{28:42} You shall make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their
nakedness; from the waist even to the thighs they shall reach: {28:43}
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.

   {29:1} "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, {29:2} unleavened bread, unleavened cakes
mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil: you shall make
them of fine wheat flour. {29:3} You shall put them into one basket,
and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams. {29:4}
You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting,
and shall wash them with water. {29:5} You shall take the garments, and
put on Aaron the coat, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the
breastplate, and clothe him with the skillfully woven band of the
ephod; {29:6} and you shall set the turban on his head, and put the
holy crown on the turban. {29:7} Then you shall take the anointing oil,
and pour it on his head, and anoint him. {29:8} You shall bring his
sons, and put coats on them. {29:9} You shall clothe 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.

   {29:10} "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.
{29:11} You shall kill the bull before Yahweh, at the door of the Tent
of Meeting. {29:12} 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. {29:13} 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. {29:14} 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.

   {29:15} "You shall also take the one ram; and Aaron and his sons
shall lay their hands on the head of the ram. {29:16} You shall kill
the ram, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around on the
altar. {29:17} 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.
{29:18} You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt
offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to
Yahweh.

   {29:19} "You shall take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall
lay their hands on the head of the ram. {29:20} 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 around on the altar. {29:21} 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. {29:22} 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), {29:23} and one loaf of
bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of
unleavened bread that is before Yahweh. {29:24} 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. {29:25} You shall take them from their
hands, and burn them on the altar on the burnt offering, for a pleasant
aroma before Yahweh: it is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

   {29:26} "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. {29:27} 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: {29:28} 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.

   {29:29} "The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him,
to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them. {29:30} 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.

   {29:31} "You shall take the ram of consecration, and boil its flesh
in a holy place. {29:32} 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. {29:33} 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. {29:34} 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.

   {29:35} "You shall do so to Aaron, and to his sons, according to all
that I have commanded you. You shall consecrate them seven days.
{29:36} Every day you shall 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. {29:37} 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.

   {29:38} "Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: two
lambs a year old day by day continually. {29:39} The one lamb you shall
offer in the morning; and the other lamb you shall offer at evening:
{29:40} and with the one lamb a tenth part of an [24>]ephah[<24] 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. {29:41} 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 pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh. {29:42} 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. {29:43} There I will meet with the children of
Israel; and the place shall be sanctified by my glory. {29:44} 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. {29:45} I will
dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God. {29:46} 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.

   {30:1} "You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make
it of acacia wood. {30:2} 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. {30:3} You shall overlay it with
pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns; and you shall
make a gold molding around it. {30:4} 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. {30:5} You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them
with gold. {30:6} 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. {30:7} Aaron shall burn incense of sweet
spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.
{30:8} When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a
perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations. {30:9} You
shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal
offering; and you shall pour no drink offering on it. {30:10} 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."

   {30:11} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {30:12} "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. {30:13} 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. {30:14} Everyone who passes over to those who are numbered,
from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh.
{30:15} 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. {30:16} 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."

   {30:17} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {30:18} "You shall also make
a basin of brass, and its base 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. {30:19} Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and
their feet in it. {30:20} 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. {30:21}
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."

   {30:22} Moreover Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {30:23} "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; {30:24} and of cassia five hundred, after
the shekel of the sanctuary; and a hin of olive oil. {30:25} You shall
make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the
perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil. {30:26} You shall use it to
anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the testimony, {30:27} the table
and all its articles, the lampstand and its accessories, the altar of
incense, {30:28} the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and
the basin with its base. {30:29} You shall sanctify them, that they may
be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy. {30:30} You shall
anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister to
me in the priest's office. {30:31} You shall speak to the children of
Israel, saying, 'This shall be a holy anointing oil to me throughout
your generations. {30:32} 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. {30:33} Whoever compounds any like it,
or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his
people.'"

   {30:34} Yahweh said to Moses, "Take to yourself sweet spices, gum
resin, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense:
there shall be an equal weight of each; {30:35} and you shall make
incense of it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with
salt, pure and holy: {30:36} 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. {30:37} The incense
which you shall make, according to its composition you shall not make
for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for Yahweh. {30:38} Whoever
shall make any like that, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his
people."

   {31:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {31:2} "Behold, I have called
by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:
{31:3} and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in
understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship,
{31:4} to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in
brass, {31:5} and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of
wood, to work in all kinds of workmanship. {31:6} 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: {31:7} the Tent of
Meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat that is on it, all
the furniture of the Tent, {31:8} the table and its vessels, the pure
lampstand with all its vessels, the altar of incense, {31:9} the altar
of burnt offering with all its vessels, the basin and its base, {31:10}
the finely worked garments--the holy garments for Aaron the priest--the
garments of his sons to minister in the priest's office, {31:11} the
anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place:
according to all that I have commanded you they shall do."

   {31:12} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {31:13} "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. {31:14} 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. {31:15} 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. {31:16} Therefore the children of Israel shall
keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations,
for a perpetual covenant. {31:17} 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.'"

   {31:18} 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.

   {32:1} When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the
mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to
him, "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."

   {32:2} 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."

   {32:3} All the people took off the golden rings which were in their
ears, and brought them to Aaron. {32:4} 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."

   {32:5} When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron
made a proclamation, and said, "Tomorrow shall be a feast to Yahweh."

   {32:6} 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.

   {32:7} Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go, get down; for your people, who
you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!
{32:8} 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.'"

   {32:9} Yahweh said to Moses, "I have seen these people, and behold,
they are a stiff-necked people. {32:10} 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."

   {32:11} Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, why does
your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought out of
the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? {32:12} 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. {32:13} 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.'"

   {32:14} Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do to his
people.

   {32:15} 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.
{32:16} The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the
writing of God, engraved on the tables.

   {32:17} When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted,
he said to Moses, "There is the noise of war in the camp."

   {32:18} 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." {32:19} 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. {32:20} 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.

   {32:21} Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, that
you have brought a great sin on them?"

   {32:22} Aaron said, "Don't let the anger of my lord grow hot. You
know the people, that they are set on evil. {32:23} 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.' {32:24} 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."

   {32:25} When Moses saw that the people had broken loose, (for Aaron
had let them loose for a derision among their enemies), {32:26} 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. {32:27} 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.'" {32:28} The sons of Levi did according to
the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three
thousand men. {32:29} 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."

   {32:30} 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."

   {32:31} Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Oh, this people have
sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold. {32:32} Yet
now, if you will, forgive their sin--and if not, please blot me out of
your book which you have written."

   {32:33} Yahweh said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me, him
will I blot out of my book. {32:34} 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." {32:35} Yahweh struck the people, because they made the
calf, which Aaron made.

   {33:1} 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.' {33:2} 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: {33:3} 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."

   {33:4} When the people heard this evil news, they mourned: and no
one put on his jewelry.

   {33:5} 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.'"

   {33:6} The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry
from Mount Horeb onward.

   {33:7} 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. {33:8} 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.
{33:9} 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. {33:10} 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. {33:11} 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.

   {33:12} 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.' {33:13} 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."

   {33:14} He said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you
rest."

   {33:15} He said to him, "If your presence doesn't go with me, don't
carry us up from here. {33:16} 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?"

   {33:17} 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."

   {33:18} He said, "Please show me your glory."

   {33:19} 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."
{33:20} He said, "You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and
live." {33:21} Yahweh also said, "Behold, there is a place by me, and
you shall stand on the rock. {33:22} 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; {33:23} then I will take away
my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen."

   {34:1} 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. {34:2} 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. {34:3} 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."

   {34:4} 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. {34:5} Yahweh
descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the
name of Yahweh. {34:6} Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed,
"Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and
abundant in loving kindness and truth, {34:7} 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."

   {34:8} Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and
worshiped. {34:9} 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."

   {34:10} 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. {34:11}
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. {34:12} 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: {34:13} but you shall break down their altars, and
dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim;
{34:14} for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is
Jealous, is a jealous God.

   {34:15} "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; {34:16} 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.

   {34:17} "You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.

   {34:18} "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.

   {34:19} "All that opens the womb is mine; and all your livestock
that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep. {34:20} 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.

   {34:21} "Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall
rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

   {34:22} "You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits
of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year's end. {34:23}
Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord
Yahweh, the God of Israel. {34:24} 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.

   {34:25} "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.

   {34:26} "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."

   {34:27} Yahweh said to Moses, "Write you these words: for in
accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with
Israel."

   {34:28} 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.

   {34:29} 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. {34:30} 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. {34:31} Moses called to them, and
Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses
spoke to them. {34:32} 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. {34:33} When Moses was done speaking with them, he
put a veil on his face. {34:34} 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.
{34:35} 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.

   {35:1} 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. {35:2} '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. {35:3} You shall kindle no fire throughout your
habitations on the Sabbath day.'"

   {35:4} Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of
Israel, saying, "This is the thing which Yahweh commanded, saying,
{35:5} 'Take from among you an offering to Yahweh. Whoever is of a
willing heart, let him bring it, Yahweh's offering: gold, silver,
brass, {35:6} blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair, {35:7}
rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood, {35:8} oil for the
light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense, {35:9}
onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.

   {35:10} "'Let every wise-hearted man among you come, and make all
that Yahweh has commanded: {35:11} the tabernacle, its outer covering,
its roof, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its
sockets; {35:12} the ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, the veil of
the screen; {35:13} the table with its poles and all its vessels, and
the show bread; {35:14} the lampstand also for the light, with its
vessels, its lamps, and the oil for the light; {35:15} and the altar of
incense with its poles, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the
screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle; {35:16} the altar
of burnt offering, with its grating of brass, it poles, and all its
vessels, the basin and its base; {35:17} the hangings of the court, its
pillars, their sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court;
{35:18} the pins of the tabernacle, the pins of the court, and their
cords; {35:19} 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.'"

   {35:20} All the congregation of the children of Israel departed from
the presence of Moses. {35:21} 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. {35:22} 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. {35:23} Everyone, with whom was
found blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair, rams' skins dyed
red, and sea cow hides, brought them. {35:24} Everyone who offered 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. {35:25} 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. {35:26} All the women whose heart stirred
them up in wisdom spun the goats' hair. {35:27} The rulers brought the
onyx stones, and the stones to be set, for the ephod and for the
breastplate; {35:28} and the spice, and the oil for the light, for the
anointing oil, and for the sweet incense. {35:29} 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.

   {35:30} 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. {35:31} He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in
understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship; {35:32}
and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in brass,
{35:33} in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to
work in all kinds of skillful workmanship. {35:34} He has put in his
heart that he may teach, both he, and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of
the tribe of Dan. {35:35} He has filled them with wisdom of heart, to
work all kinds 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.

   {36:1} "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."

   {36:2} 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: {36:3} 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. {36:4} All the
wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary, each came from
his work which they did. {36:5} They spoke to Moses, saying, "The
people bring much more than enough for the service of the work which
Yahweh commanded to make."

   {36:6} 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. {36:7} For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the
work to make it, and too much.

   {36:8} All the wise-hearted men among those who did the work made
the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, blue, purple,
and scarlet, with cherubim, the work of the skillful workman, they made
them. {36:9} The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and
the breadth of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains had one
measure. {36:10} He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other
five curtains he coupled one to another. {36:11} 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. {36:12} 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. {36:13} He made fifty clasps of
gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the clasps: so the
tabernacle was a unit.

   {36:14} He made curtains of goats' hair for a covering over the
tabernacle. He made them eleven curtains. {36:15} The length of each
curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of each curtain.
The eleven curtains had one measure. {36:16} He coupled five curtains
by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. {36:17} 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. {36:18} He made fifty clasps of brass to couple the
tent together, that it might be a unit. {36:19} He made a covering for
the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.

   {36:20} He made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood,
standing up. {36:21} Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit
and a half the breadth of each board. {36:22} Each board had two
tenons, joined one to another. He made all the boards of the tabernacle
this way. {36:23} He made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards
for the south side southward. {36:24} 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. {36:25}
For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made
twenty boards, {36:26} and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets
under one board, and two sockets under another board. {36:27} For the
far part of the tabernacle westward he made six boards. {36:28} He made
two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far part. {36:29}
They were double beneath, and in the same way they were all the way to
its top to one ring. He did this to both of them in the two corners.
{36:30} There were eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen
sockets; under every board two sockets.

   {36:31} He made bars of acacia wood; five for the boards of the one
side of the tabernacle, {36:32} and five bars for the boards of the
other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the
tabernacle for the hinder part westward. {36:33} He made the middle bar
to pass through in the midst of the boards from the one end to the
other. {36:34} He overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings
of gold for places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

   {36:35} He made the veil of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined
linen: with cherubim. He made it the work of a skillful workman.
{36:36} 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. {36:37} He made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue,
purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer;
{36:38} 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.

   {37:1} 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. {37:2} He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside,
and made a molding of gold for it around it. {37:3} 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. {37:4} He made poles of acacia wood, and
overlaid them with gold. {37:5} He put the poles into the rings on the
sides of the ark, to bear the ark. {37:6} He made a mercy seat of pure
gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its
breadth. {37:7} He made two cherubim of gold. He made them of beaten
work, at the two ends of the mercy seat; {37:8} 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. {37:9} 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.

   {37:10} 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.
{37:11} He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding around
it. {37:12} He made a border of a handbreadth around it, and made a
golden molding on its border around it. {37:13} He cast four rings of
gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that were on its
four feet. {37:14} The rings were close by the border, the places for
the poles to carry the table. {37:15} He made the poles of acacia wood,
and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table. {37:16} 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.

   {37:17} 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. {37:18} 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: {37:19} 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. {37:20} In
the lampstand were four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and
its flowers; {37:21} 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.
{37:22} Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it. The
whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold. {37:23} He made its seven
lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, of pure gold. {37:24} He
made it of a talent of pure gold, with all its vessels.

   {37:25} 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. {37:26} He overlaid it
with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns. He made a
gold molding around it. {37:27} 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. {37:28} He made the poles of acacia wood,
and overlaid them with gold. {37:29} He made the holy anointing oil and
the pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of the perfumer.

   {38:1} 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. {38:2} He made its horns on its four
corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with
brass. {38:3} 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. {38:4} He made for the altar a grating of a network
of brass, under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up.
{38:5} He cast four rings for the four ends of brass grating, to be
places for the poles. {38:6} He made the poles of acacia wood, and
overlaid them with brass. {38:7} He put the poles into the rings on the
sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with
planks.

   {38:8} 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.

   {38:9} He made the court: for the south side southward the hangings
of the court were of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits; {38:10}
their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the
hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. {38:11} 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. {38:12} 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. {38:13} For the east side eastward fifty cubits.
{38:14} The hangings for the one side were fifteen cubits; their
pillars three, and their sockets three; {38:15} 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.
{38:16} All the hangings around the court were of fine twined linen.
{38:17} 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. {38:18} 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. {38:19} 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. {38:20} All
the pins of the tabernacle, and around the court, were of brass.

   {38:21} This is the amount of material used for the tabernacle, even
the Tabernacle 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. {38:22} Bezalel the son of Uri,
the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Yahweh commanded
Moses. {38:23} 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.

   {38:24} 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.
{38:25} 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: {38:26} 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. {38:27}
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. {38:28} Of the one thousand
seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars,
overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them. {38:29} The brass
of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand four hundred
shekels. {38:30} 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, {38:31} the sockets around the court, the sockets
of the gate of the court, all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the
pins around the court.

   {39:1} 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.

   {39:2} He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine
twined linen. {39:3} 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. {39:4} They made
shoulder straps for it, joined together. At the two ends it was joined
together. {39:5} 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.

   {39:6} 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. {39:7} He put them on the shoulder straps of the
ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel, as Yahweh
commanded Moses.

   {39:8} 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. {39:9} It was square. They made the breastplate double.
Its length was a span, and its breadth a span, being double. {39:10}
They set in it four rows of stones. A row of ruby, topaz, and beryl was
the first row; {39:11} and the second row, a turquoise, a
[25>]sapphire[<25], and an emerald; {39:12} and the third row, a
jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; {39:13} and the fourth row, a
chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold settings.
{39:14} 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. {39:15}
They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure
gold. {39:16} They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and
put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. {39:17} They put
the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the
breastplate. {39:18} 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 its front. {39:19} They made two rings of gold, and put them
on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which was toward the
side of the ephod inward. {39:20} They made two rings of gold, and put
them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its front,
close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.
{39:21} 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.

   {39:22} He made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
{39:23} The opening of the robe in its midst was like the opening of a
coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, that it should not be
torn. {39:24} They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue,
purple, scarlet, and twined linen. {39:25} They made bells of pure
gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates around the skirts of
the robe, between the pomegranates; {39:26} a bell and a pomegranate, a
bell and a pomegranate, around the skirts of the robe, to minister in,
as Yahweh commanded Moses.

   {39:27} They made the coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron,
and for his sons, {39:28} and the turban of fine linen, and the linen
headbands of fine linen, and the linen breeches of fine twined linen,
{39:29} and the sash of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and
scarlet, the work of the embroiderer, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

   {39:30} 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." {39:31} They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the
turban above, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

   {39:32} Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting
was finished. The children of Israel did according to all that Yahweh
commanded Moses; so they did. {39:33} They brought the tabernacle to
Moses, the tent, with all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, its
bars, its pillars, its sockets, {39:34} the covering of rams' skins
dyed red, the covering of sea cow hides, the veil of the screen,
{39:35} the ark of the testimony with its poles, the mercy seat,
{39:36} the table, all its vessels, the show bread, {39:37} the pure
lampstand, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, all its
vessels, the oil for the light, {39:38} the golden altar, the anointing
oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door of the Tent, {39:39}
the bronze altar, its grating of brass, its poles, all of its vessels,
the basin and its base, {39:40} 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 tabernacle, for the Tent of
Meeting, {39:41} the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy
place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his
sons, to minister in the priest's office. {39:42} According to all that
Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work.
{39:43} 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.

   {40:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {40:2} "On the first day of
the first month you shall raise up the tabernacle of the Tent of
Meeting. {40:3} You shall put the ark of the testimony in it, and you
shall screen the ark with the veil. {40:4} You shall bring in the
table, and set in order the things that are on it. You shall bring in
the lampstand, and light its lamps. {40:5} You shall set the golden
altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the screen
of the door to the tabernacle.

   {40:6} "You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of
the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting. {40:7} You shall set the basin
between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and shall put water therein.
{40:8} You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of
the gate of the court.

   {40:9} "You shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle,
and all that is in it, and shall make it holy, and all its furniture:
and it will be holy. {40:10} You shall anoint the altar of burnt
offering, with all its vessels, and sanctify the altar: and the altar
will be most holy. {40:11} You shall anoint the basin and its base, and
sanctify it.

   {40:12} "You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent
of Meeting, and shall wash them with water. {40:13} 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. {40:14} You shall
bring his sons, and put coats on them. {40:15} 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." {40:16} Moses did so.
According to all that Yahweh commanded him, so he did.

   {40:17} It happened in the first month in the second year, on the
first day of the month, that the tabernacle was raised up. {40:18}
Moses raised up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set up its
boards, and put in its bars, and raised up its pillars. {40:19} He
spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tabernacle
above on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses. {40:20} 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. {40:21} He brought the ark into the tabernacle,
and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the
testimony, as Yahweh commanded Moses. {40:22} He put the table in the
Tent of Meeting, on the side of the tabernacle northward, outside of
the veil. {40:23} He set the bread in order on it before Yahweh, as
Yahweh commanded Moses. {40:24} He put the lampstand in the Tent of
Meeting, opposite the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.
{40:25} He lit the lamps before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
{40:26} He put the golden altar in the Tent of Meeting before the veil;
{40:27} and he burnt incense of sweet spices on it, as Yahweh commanded
Moses. {40:28} He put up the screen of the door to the tabernacle.
{40:29} He set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the
tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering
and the meal offering, as Yahweh commanded Moses. {40:30} He set the
basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water therein,
with which to wash. {40:31} Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their
hands and their feet there. {40:32} When they went into the Tent of
Meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as Yahweh
commanded Moses. {40:33} He raised up the court around the tabernacle
and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses
finished the work.

   {40:34} Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of
Yahweh filled the tabernacle. {40:35} Moses wasn't able to enter into
the Tent of Meeting, because the cloud stayed on it, and Yahweh's glory
filled the tabernacle. {40:36} When the cloud was taken up from over
the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all
their journeys; {40:37} but if the cloud wasn't taken up, then they
didn't travel until the day that it was taken up. {40:38} For the cloud
of Yahweh was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in the cloud
by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their
journeys.





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Footnotes:
[1] {1:17} The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "Elohim."

[2] {2:10} "Moses" sounds like the Hebrew for "draw out".

[3] {2:22} "Gershom" sounds like the Hebrew for "an alien there."

[4] {3:2} "Yahweh" is God's proper Name, sometimes rendered "LORD" (all
caps) in other translations.

[5] {4:10} The word translated "Lord" is "Adonai."

[6] {10:19} or, Sea of Reeds

[7] {13:18} or, Sea of Reeds

[8] {15:4} or, Sea of Reeds

[9] {15:22} or, Sea of Reeds

[10] {15:23} Marah means bitter.

[11] {16:16} An omer is about 2.2 litres or about 2.3 quarts

[12] {16:31} "Manna" means "What is it?"

[13] {16:36} 1 ephah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel

[14] {17:7} Massah means testing.

[15] {17:7} Meribah means quarreling.

[16] {17:15} Hebrew, Yahweh Nissi

[17] {18:3} "Gershom" sounds like the Hebrew for "an alien there."

[18] {18:4} Eliezer means "God is my helper."

[19] {20:1} After "God," the Hebrew has the two letters "Aleph Tav"
(the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet), not as a word, but
as a grammatical marker.

[20] {23:31} or, Sea of Reeds

[21] {24:10} or, lapis lazuli

[22] {28:16} 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.)

[23] {28:18} or, lapis lazuli

[24] {29:40} 1 ephah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel

[25] {39:11} or, lapis lazuli

