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They built storage cities + for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses. +001:012 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. +001:013 The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve, +001:014 and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar + and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, + all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve. +001:015 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, +001:016 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." +001:017 But the midwives feared God, and didn't do what the king + of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive. +001:018 The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, + "Why have you done this thing, and have saved the boys alive?" +001:019 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." +001:020 God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, + and grew very mighty. +001:021 It happened, because the midwives feared God, that he + gave them families. +001:022 Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, "You shall cast every + son who is born into the river, and every daughter you + shall save alive." +002:001 A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi + as his wife. +002:002 The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was + a fine child, she hid him three months. +002:003 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. +002:004 His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him. +002:005 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. +002:006 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." +002:007 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?" +002:008 Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." The maiden went and called + the child's mother. +002:009 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. +002:010 The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, + and he became her son. She named him Moses,{"Moses" + sounds like the Hebrew for "draw out".} and said, "Because I + drew him out of the water." +002:011 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. +002:012 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. +002:013 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?" +002:014 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." +002:015 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. +002:016 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. + They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water + their father's flock. +002:017 The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up + and helped them, and watered their flock. +002:018 When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, "How is it + that you have returned so early today?" +002:019 They said, "An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, + and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock." +002:020 He said to his daughters, "Where is he? Why is it that you + have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread." +002:021 Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave + Moses Zipporah, his daughter. +002:022 She bore a son, and he named him Gershom,{"Gershom" + sounds like the Hebrew for "an alien there."} for he said, + "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land." +002:023 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. +002:024 God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant + with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. +002:025 God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them. +003:001 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. +003:002 The angel of Yahweh 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. +003:003 Moses said, "I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, + why the bush is not burnt." +003:004 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." +003:005 He said, "Don't come close. Take your sandals off of your feet, + for the place you are standing on is holy ground." +003:006 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. +003:007 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. +003:008 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. +003:009 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. +003:010 Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, + that you may bring forth my people, the children of Israel, + out of Egypt." +003:011 Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, + and that I should bring forth the children of Israel + out of Egypt?" +003:012 He said, "Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token + to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought forth + the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain." +003:013 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?" +003:014 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.'" +003:015 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. +003:016 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; +003:017 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."' +003:018 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.' +003:019 I know that the king of Egypt won't give you permission + to go, no, not by a mighty hand. +003:020 I will put forth my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders + which I will do in the midst of it, and after that he will + let you go. +003:021 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. +003:022 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 despoil the Egyptians. +004:001 Moses answered, "But, behold, they will not believe me, + nor listen to my voice; for they will say, 'Yahweh has not + appeared to you.'" +004:002 Yahweh said to him, "What is that in your hand?" + He said, "A rod." +004:003 He said, "Throw it on the ground." He threw it on the ground, + and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it. +004:004 Yahweh said to Moses, "Put forth your hand, and take it by the tail." + He put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became + a rod in his hand. +004:005 "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." +004:006 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. +004:007 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. +004:008 "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. +004:009 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." +004:010 Moses said to Yahweh, "Oh, Lord, 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." +004:011 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? +004:012 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach + you what you shall speak." +004:013 He said, "Oh, Lord, please send someone else." +004:014 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 forth to meet you. + When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. +004:015 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. +004:016 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. +004:017 You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall + do the signs." +004:018 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." +004:019 Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return into Egypt; + for all the men who sought your life are dead." +004:020 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. +004:021 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. +004:022 You shall tell Pharaoh, 'Thus says Yahweh, Israel is + my son, my firstborn, +004:023 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.'" +004:024 It happened on the way at a lodging place, that Yahweh met + him and wanted to kill him. +004:025 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." +004:026 So he let him alone. Then she said, "You are a bridegroom + of blood," because of the circumcision. +004:027 Yahweh said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." + He went, and met him on God's mountain, and kissed him. +004:028 Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahweh with which he had + sent him, and all the signs with which he had charged him. +004:029 Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders + of the children of Israel. +004:030 Aaron spoke all the words which Yahweh had spoken to Moses, + and did the signs in the sight of the people. +004:031 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. +005:001 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.'" +005:002 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." +005:003 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." +005:004 The king of Egypt said to them, "Why do you, Moses and Aaron, + take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!" +005:005 Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the land are now many, + and you make them rest from their burdens." +005:006 The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, + and their officers, saying, +005:007 "You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. + Let them go and gather straw for themselves. +005:008 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.' +005:009 Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; + and don't let them pay any attention to lying words." +005:010 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. +005:011 Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing + of your work shall be diminished." +005:012 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land + of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. +005:013 The taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfill your work quota daily, + as when there was straw!" +005:014 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?" +005:015 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried + to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal this way with your servants? +005:016 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." +005:017 But he said, "You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, + 'Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh.' +005:018 Go therefore now, and work, for no straw shall be given to you, + yet shall you deliver the same number of bricks!" +005:019 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!" +005:020 They met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came + forth from Pharaoh: +005:021 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." +005:022 Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Lord, why have you brought + trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me? +005:023 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." +006:001 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." +006:002 God spoke to Moses, and said to him, "I am Yahweh; +006:003 and I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; + but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them. +006:004 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. +006:005 Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, + whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered + my covenant. +006:006 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: +006:007 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. +006:008 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.'" +006:009 Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn't listen + to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. +006:010 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +006:011 "Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children + of Israel go out of his land." +006:012 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?" +006:013 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a charge + to the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, + to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. +006:014 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. +006:015 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. +006:016 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. +006:017 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families. +006:018 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. +006:019 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families + of the Levites according to their generations. +006:020 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. +006:021 The sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri. +006:022 The sons of Uzziel: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri. +006:023 Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, + the sister of Nahshon, as his wife; and she bore him Nadab + and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. +006:024 The sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; + these are the families of the Korahites. +006:025 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. +006:026 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." +006:027 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. +006:028 It happened on the day when Yahweh spoke to Moses in the + land of Egypt, +006:029 that Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "I am Yahweh. + Speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I speak to you." +006:030 Moses said before Yahweh, "Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, + and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?" +007:001 Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; + and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet. +007:002 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. +007:003 I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my + wonders in the land of Egypt. +007:004 But Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will lay my hand on Egypt, + and bring forth my armies, my people the children of Israel, + out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. +007:005 The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I stretch + forth my hand on Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel + from among them." +007:006 Moses and Aaron did so. As Yahweh commanded them, so they did. +007:007 Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, + when they spoke to Pharaoh. +007:008 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, +007:009 "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.'" +007:010 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. +007:011 Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers. + They also, the magicians of Egypt, did in like manner + with their enchantments. +007:012 For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: + but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods. +007:013 Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them; + as Yahweh had spoken. +007:014 Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is stubborn. + He refuses to let the people go. +007:015 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. +007:016 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. +007:017 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. +007:018 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."'" +007:019 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.'" +007:020 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. +007:021 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. +007:022 The magicians of Egypt did in like manner with their enchantments; + and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them; + as Yahweh had spoken. +007:023 Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he lay + even this to heart. +007:024 All the Egyptians dug round about the river for water to drink; + for they couldn't drink of the water of the river. +007:025 Seven days were fulfilled, after Yahweh had struck the river. +008:001 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. +008:002 If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your + borders with frogs: +008:003 and the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go up and come + into your house, and into your bedchamber, and on your bed, + and into the house of your servants, and on your people, + and into your ovens, and into your kneading troughs: +008:004 and the frogs shall come up both on you, and on your people, + and on all your servants.'" +008:005 Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Stretch forth 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.'" +008:006 Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; + and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt. +008:007 The magicians did in like manner with their enchantments, + and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt. +008:008 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." +008:009 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." +008:010 He said, "Tomorrow." He said, "Be it according to your word, + that you may know that there is none like Yahweh our God. +008:011 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." +008:012 Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to Yahweh + concerning the frogs which he had brought on Pharaoh. +008:013 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. +008:014 They gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank. +008:015 But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened + his heart, and didn't listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken. +008:016 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.'" +008:017 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. +008:018 The magicians tried with their enchantments to bring forth lice, + but they couldn't. There were lice on man, and on animal. +008:019 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. +008:020 Yahweh said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning, + and stand before Pharaoh; behold, he comes forth to the water; + and tell him, 'This is what Yahweh says, "Let my people go, + that they may serve me. +008:021 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. +008:022 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. +008:023 I will put a division between my people and your people: + by tomorrow shall this sign be."'" +008:024 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. +008:025 Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, "Go, sacrifice to + your God in the land!" +008:026 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? +008:027 We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice + to Yahweh our God, as he shall command us." +008:028 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." +008:029 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." +008:030 Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh. +008:031 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. +008:032 Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he didn't let + the people go. +009:001 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. +009:002 For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still, +009:003 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. +009:004 Yahweh will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel + and the livestock of Egypt; and there shall nothing die + of all that belongs to the children of Israel."'" +009:005 Yahweh appointed a set time, saying, "Tomorrow Yahweh shall + do this thing in the land." +009:006 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. +009:007 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. +009:008 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. +009:009 It shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall + be a boil breaking forth with boils on man and on animal, + throughout all the land of Egypt." +009:010 They took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; + and Moses sprinkled it up toward the sky; and it became a boil + breaking forth with boils on man and on animal. +009:011 The magicians couldn't stand before Moses because of the boils; + for the boils were on the magicians, and on all the Egyptians. +009:012 Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he didn't listen + to them, as Yahweh had spoken to Moses. +009:013 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. +009:014 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. +009:015 For now I would have put forth my hand, and struck you and + your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off + from the earth; +009:016 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; +009:017 as you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won't + let them go. +009:018 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. +009:019 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."'" +009:020 Those who feared the word of Yahweh among the servants of Pharaoh + made their servants and their livestock flee into the houses. +009:021 Whoever didn't regard the word of Yahweh left his servants + and his livestock in the field. +009:022 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch forth 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." +009:023 Moses stretched forth 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. +009:024 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. +009:025 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. +009:026 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, + there was no hail. +009:027 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. +009:028 Pray to Yahweh; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings + and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer." +009:029 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. +009:030 But as for you and your servants, I know that you don't yet + fear Yahweh God." +009:031 The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was in the ear, + and the flax was in bloom. +009:032 But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they had + not grown up. +009:033 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. +009:034 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. +009:035 The heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he didn't let the children + of Israel go, just as Yahweh had spoken through Moses. +010:001 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 the midst of them, +010:002 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." +010:003 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. +010:004 Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I + will bring locusts into your country, +010:005 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. +010:006 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. +010:007 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?" +010:008 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?" +010:009 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." +010:010 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. +010:011 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. +010:012 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." +010:013 Moses stretched forth 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. +010:014 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. +010:015 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. +010:016 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, + "I have sinned against Yahweh your God, and against you. +010:017 Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh + your God, that he may also take away from me this death." +010:018 He went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh. +010:019 Yahweh turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up + the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}. + There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt. +010:020 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let + the children of Israel go. +010:021 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." +010:022 Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was + a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. +010:023 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. +010:024 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." +010:025 Moses said, "You must also give into our hand sacrifices + and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God. +010:026 Our livestock also shall go with us. There shall not a hoof + 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." +010:027 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he wouldn't let them go. +010:028 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!" +010:029 Moses said, "You have spoken well. I will see your face + again no more." +011:001 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. +011:002 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." +011:003 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. +011:004 Moses said, "This is what Yahweh says: 'About midnight I + will go out into the midst of Egypt, +011:005 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. +011:006 There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, + such as there has not been, nor shall be any more. +011:007 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. +011:008 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. +011:009 Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh won't listen to you, that my + wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt." +011:010 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. +012:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, +012:002 "This month shall be to you the beginning of months. + It shall be the first month of the year to you. +012:003 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; +012:004 and if the household be 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. +012:005 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. + You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats: +012:006 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. +012:007 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. +012:008 They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, + and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs. +012:009 Don't eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted + with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts. +012:010 You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; + but that which remains of it until the morning you shall + burn with fire. +012:011 This is how you shall eat it: with your waist girded, + your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; + and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh's Passover. +012:012 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. +012:013 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. +012:014 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. +012:015 "'Seven days shall you 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. +012:016 In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, + and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no manner of work + shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, + that only may be done by you. +012:017 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 shall you observe this day throughout your generations + by an ordinance forever. +012:018 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. +012:019 Seven days shall there be no yeast found in your houses, + 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. +012:020 You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you + shall eat unleavened bread.'" +012:021 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. +012:022 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. +012:023 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. +012:024 You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to + your sons forever. +012:025 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. +012:026 It will happen, when your children ask you, 'What do you mean + by this service?' +012:027 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. +012:028 The children of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had commanded + Moses and Aaron, so they did. +012:029 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. +012:030 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. +012:031 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! +012:032 Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, + and be gone; and bless me also!" +012:033 The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out + of the land in haste, for they said, "We are all dead men." +012:034 The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading + troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders. +012:035 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. +012:036 Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, + so that they let them have what they asked. + They despoiled the Egyptians. +012:037 The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, + about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children. +012:038 A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, + and even very much livestock. +012:039 They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought + forth 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. +012:040 Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was + four hundred thirty years. +012:041 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. +012:042 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. +012:043 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance + of the Passover. There shall no foreigner eat of it, +012:044 but every man's servant who is bought for money, when you + have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it. +012:045 A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it. +012:046 In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not carry forth + anything of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall + you break a bone of it. +012:047 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. +012:048 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. +012:049 One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger + who lives as a foreigner among you." +012:050 Thus did all the children of Israel. As Yahweh commanded + Moses and Aaron, so they did. +012:051 It happened the same day, that Yahweh brought the children + of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies. +013:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +013:002 "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." +013:003 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. +013:004 This day you go forth in the month Abib. +013:005 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. +013:006 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh + day shall be a feast to Yahweh. +013:007 Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; + and no leavened bread shall be seen with you, neither shall + there be yeast seen with you, in all your borders. +013:008 You shall tell your son in that day, saying, 'It is because of + that which Yahweh did for me when I came forth out of Egypt.' +013:009 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. +013:010 You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from + year to year. +013:011 "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, +013:012 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. +013:013 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. +013:014 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; +013:015 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.' +013:016 It shall be for a sign on your hand, and for symbols between + your eyes: for by strength of hand Yahweh brought us forth + out of Egypt." +013:017 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;" +013:018 but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness + by the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}; and the children of Israel + went up armed out of the land of Egypt. +013:019 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." +013:020 They took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, + in the edge of the wilderness. +013:021 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: +013:022 the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, + didn't depart from before the people. +014:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +014:002 "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. +014:003 Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, 'They are entangled + in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.' +014:004 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. +014:005 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?" +014:006 He made ready his chariot, and took his army with him; +014:007 and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots + of Egypt, and captains over all of them. +014:008 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. +014:009 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. +014:010 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. +014:011 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 forth out of Egypt? +014:012 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." +014:013 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. +014:014 Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still." +014:015 Yahweh said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children + of Israel, that they go forward. +014:016 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. +014:017 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. +014:018 The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have + gotten myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, + and over his horsemen." +014:019 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. +014:020 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. +014:021 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. +014:022 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. +014:023 The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst + of the sea: all of Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, + and his horsemen. +014:024 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. +014:025 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!" +014:026 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." +014:027 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. +014:028 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. +014:029 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. +014:030 Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; + and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. +014:031 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. +015:001 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. +015:002 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. +015:003 Yahweh is a man of war. Yahweh is his name. +015:004 He has cast Pharaoh's chariots and his army into the sea. + His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}. +015:005 The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths + like a stone. +015:006 Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. + Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces. +015:007 In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those + who rise up against you. You send forth your wrath. + It consumes them as stubble. +015:008 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. +015:009 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.' +015:010 You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. + They sank like lead in the mighty waters. +015:011 Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, + glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? +015:012 You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them. +015:013 "You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you + have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength + to your holy habitation. +015:014 The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold + on the inhabitants of Philistia. +015:015 Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold + of the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan + are melted away. +015:016 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. +015:017 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. +015:018 Yahweh shall reign forever and ever." +015:019 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. +015:020 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. +015:021 Miriam answered them, "Sing to Yahweh, for he has + triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown + into the sea." +015:022 Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}, + and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went + three days in the wilderness, and found no water. +015:023 When they came to Marah, they couldn't drink from the waters + of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it + was called Marah.{Marah means bitter.} +015:024 The people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?" +015:025 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; +015:026 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." +015:027 They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, + and seventy palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters. +016:001 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. +016:002 The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured + against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness; +016:003 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." +016:004 Then said Yahweh 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. +016:005 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." +016:006 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; +016:007 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?" +016:008 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." +016:009 Moses said to Aaron, "Tell all the congregation of the + children of Israel, 'Come near before Yahweh, for he has + heard your murmurings.'" +016:010 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. +016:011 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +016:012 "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.'" +016:013 It happened at evening that quail came up and covered the camp; + and in the morning the dew lay around the camp. +016:014 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. +016:015 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." +016:016 This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: + "Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, + according to the number of your persons, shall you take it, + every man for those who are in his tent." +016:017 The children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less. +016:018 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. +016:019 Moses said to them, "Let no one leave of it until the morning." +016:020 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. +016:021 They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according + to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted. +016:022 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. +016:023 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.'" +016:024 They laid it up until the morning, as Moses asked, and it + didn't become foul, neither was there any worm in it. +016:025 Moses said, "Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to Yahweh. + Today you shall not find it in the field. +016:026 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. + In it there shall be none." +016:027 It happened on the seventh day, that some of the people went + out to gather, and they found none. +016:028 Yahweh said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my + commandments and my laws? +016:029 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." +016:030 So the people rested on the seventh day. +016:031 The house of Israel called the name of it Manna,{"Manna" + means "What is it?"} and it was like coriander seed, white; + and its taste was like wafers with honey. +016:032 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.'" +016:033 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." +016:034 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, + to be kept. +016:035 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. +016:036 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah. +017:001 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. +017:002 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?" +017:003 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?" +017:004 Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "What shall I do with these people? + They are almost ready to stone me." +017:005 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. +017:006 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. +017:007 He called the name of the place Massah,{Massah means testing.} + and Meribah,{Meribah means quarreling.} because the children + of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, + "Is Yahweh among us, or not?" +017:008 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim. +017:009 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." +017:010 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. +017:011 It happened, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; + and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. +017:012 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. +017:013 Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. +017:014 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." +017:015 Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Yahweh + our Banner.{Hebrew, Yahweh Nissi} +017:016 He said, "Yah has sworn: 'Yahweh will have war with Amalek + from generation to generation.'" +018:001 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. +018:002 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses' wife, + after he had sent her away, +018:003 and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom,{"Gershom" + sounds like the Hebrew for "an alien there."} for Moses said, + "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land". +018:004 The name of the other was Eliezer,{Eliezer means "God is my + helper."} for he said, "My father's God was my help and delivered + me from Pharaoh's sword." +018:005 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. +018:006 He said to Moses, I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come + to you with your wife, and her two sons with her. +018:007 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. +018:008 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. +018:009 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. +018:010 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. +018:011 Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of + the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them." +018:012 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. +018:013 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. +018:014 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?" +018:015 Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come + to me to inquire of God. +018:016 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." +018:017 Moses' father-in-law said to him, "The thing that you do + is not good. +018:018 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. +018:019 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. +018:020 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. +018:021 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. +018:022 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. +018:023 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." +018:024 So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did + all that he had said. +018:025 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. +018:026 They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard + causes to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves. +018:027 Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into + his own land. +019:001 In the third month after the children of Israel had gone + forth out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came + into the wilderness of Sinai. +019:002 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. +019:003 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: +019:004 'You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore + you on eagles' wings, and brought you to myself. +019:005 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; +019:006 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." +019:007 Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set + before them all these words which Yahweh commanded him. +019:008 All the people answered together, and said, "All that Yahweh + has spoken we will do." Moses reported the words of the + people to Yahweh. +019:009 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. +019:010 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to the people, and sanctify them + today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments, +019:011 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. +019:012 You shall set bounds to the people round about, 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. +019:013 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." +019:014 Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified + the people; and they washed their clothes. +019:015 He said to the people, "Be ready by the third day. + Don't have sexual relations with a woman." +019:016 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. +019:017 Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they + stood at the lower part of the mountain. +019:018 Mount Sinai, the whole of 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. +019:019 When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, + and God answered him by a voice. +019:020 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. +019:021 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down, charge the people, lest they + break through to Yahweh to gaze, and many of them perish. +019:022 Let the priests also, who come near to Yahweh, sanctify themselves, + lest Yahweh break forth on them." +019:023 Moses said to Yahweh, "The people can't come up to Mount Sinai, + for you charged us, saying, 'Set bounds around the mountain, + and sanctify it.'" +019:024 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." +019:025 So Moses went down to the people, and told them. +020:001 God{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.} spoke all these words, saying, +020:002 "I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, + out of the house of bondage. +020:003 You shall have no other gods before me. +020:004 "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: +020:005 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, +020:006 and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me + and keep my commandments. +020:007 "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. +020:008 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. +020:009 You shall labor six days, and do all your work, +020:010 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; +020:011 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. +020:012 "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long + in the land which Yahweh your God gives you. +020:013 "You shall not murder. +020:014 "You shall not commit adultery. +020:015 "You shall not steal. +020:016 "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. +020:017 "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." +020:018 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. +020:019 They said to Moses, "Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; + but don't let God speak with us, lest we die." +020:020 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." +020:021 The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick + darkness where God was. +020:022 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. +020:023 You shall most certainly not make alongside of me gods of silver, + or gods of gold for yourselves. +020:024 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 oxen. In every place where I record + my name I will come to you and I will bless you. +020:025 If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build + it of hewn stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, + you have polluted it. +020:026 Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness + may not be exposed to it.' +021:001 "Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them. +021:002 "If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in + the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything. +021:003 If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. + If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him. +021:004 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. +021:005 But if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, + my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;' +021:006 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. +021:007 "If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall + not go out as the male servants do. +021:008 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, + seeing he has dealt deceitfully with her. +021:009 If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her after + the manner of daughters. +021:010 If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish + her food, her clothing, and her marital rights. +021:011 If he doesn't do these three things for her, she may go free + without paying any money. +021:012 "One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be + put to death, +021:013 but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: + then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee. +021:014 If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor + to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die. +021:015 "Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely + put to death. +021:016 "Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found + in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. +021:017 "Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely + be put to death. +021:018 "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; +021:019 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. +021:020 "If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, + and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished. +021:021 Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall + not be punished, for he is his property. +021:022 "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. +021:023 But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life, +021:024 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, +021:025 burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise. +021:026 "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. +021:027 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. +021:028 "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. +021:029 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. +021:030 If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption + of his life whatever is laid on him. +021:031 Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, + according to this judgment it shall be done to him. +021:032 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. +021:033 "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, +021:034 the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money + to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his. +021:035 "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. +021:036 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. +022:001 "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. +022:002 If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, + there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him. +022:003 If the sun has risen on him, there shall be guilt of bloodshed + for him; he shall make restitution. If he has nothing, + then he shall be sold for his theft. +022:004 If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it + is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double. +022:005 "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. +022:006 "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. +022:007 "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. +022:008 If the thief isn't found, then the master of the house shall + come near to God, to find out if he hasn't put his hand + to his neighbor's goods. +022:009 For every matter of trespass, whether it be for ox, for donkey, + for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, + about which one says, 'This is mine,' the cause of both parties + shall come before God. He whom God condemns shall pay double + to his neighbor. +022:010 "If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, + or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, + no man seeing it; +022:011 the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, whether he hasn't + put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and the owner of it + shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution. +022:012 But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution + to the owner of it. +022:013 If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. + He shall not make good that which was torn. +022:014 "If a man borrows anything of his neighbor's, and it is injured, + or dies, the owner of it not being with it, he shall + surely make restitution. +022:015 If the owner of it is with it, he shall not make it good. + If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease. +022:016 "If a man entices a virgin who isn't pledged to be married, + and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to + be his wife. +022:017 If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall + pay money according to the dowry of virgins. +022:018 "You shall not allow a sorceress to live. +022:019 "Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to death. +022:020 "He who sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh only, + shall be utterly destroyed. +022:021 "You shall not wrong an alien, neither shall you oppress him, + for you were aliens in the land of Egypt. +022:022 "You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child. +022:023 If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, + I will surely hear their cry; +022:024 and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; + and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. +022:025 "If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, + you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you + charge him interest. +022:026 If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall + restore it to him before the sun goes down, +022:027 for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. + What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, + that I will hear, for I am gracious. +022:028 "You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people. +022:029 "You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from + the outflow of your presses. "You shall give the firstborn + of your sons to me. +022:030 You shall do likewise with your oxen and with your sheep. + Seven days it shall be with its mother, then on the eighth + day you shall give it me. +022:031 "You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not + eat any flesh that is torn by animals in the field. + You shall cast it to the dogs. +023:001 "You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand + with the wicked to be a malicious witness. +023:002 You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you + testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice; +023:003 neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause. +023:004 "If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, + you shall surely bring it back to him again. +023:005 If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under + his burden, don't leave him, you shall surely help him with it. +023:006 "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits. +023:007 "Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent + and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked. +023:008 "You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have + sight and perverts the words of the righteous. +023:009 "You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, + seeing you were aliens in the land of Egypt. +023:010 "For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather + in its increase, +023:011 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, + that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave + the animal of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall + deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove. +023:012 "Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you + shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, + and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed. +023:013 "Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; + and don't invoke the name of other gods, neither let them + be heard out of your mouth. +023:014 "You shall observe a feast to me three times a year. +023:015 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. + Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, + at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came + out from Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty. +023:016 And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, + which you sow in the field: and the feast of harvest, + at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out + of the field. +023:017 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before + the Lord Yahweh. +023:018 "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, + neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night + until the morning. +023:019 The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring + into the house of Yahweh your God. "You shall not boil a kid + in its mother's milk. +023:020 "Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, + and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. +023:021 Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. + Don't provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, + for my name is in him. +023:022 But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, + then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary + to your adversaries. +023:023 For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, + the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, + and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off. +023:024 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, + nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow + them and demolish their pillars. +023:025 You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread + and your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst. +023:026 No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. + I will fulfill the number of your days. +023:027 I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people + to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn + their backs to you. +023:028 I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, + the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you. +023:029 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, + lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field + multiply against you. +023:030 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, + until you have increased and inherit the land. +023:031 I will set your border from the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds} even to + the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; + for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, + and you shall drive them out before you. +023:032 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. +023:033 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin + against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely + be a snare to you." +024:001 He said to Moses, "Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, + and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship + from a distance. +024:002 Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near, + neither shall the people go up with him." +024:003 Moses came and told the people all the words of Yahweh, and all + the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, + and said, "All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do." +024:004 Moses wrote all the words of Yahweh, and rose up early + in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, + and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel. +024:005 He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt + offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to Yahweh. +024:006 Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half + of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. +024:007 He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing + of the people, and they said, "All that Yahweh has spoken + will we do, and be obedient." +024:008 Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, + and said, "Look, this is the blood of the covenant, + which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words." +024:009 Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders + of Israel went up. +024:010 They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work + of sapphire{or, lapis lazuli} stone, like the skies for clearness. +024:011 He didn't lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. + They saw God, and ate and drank. +024:012 Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, + and stay here, and I will give you the tables of stone + with the law and the commands that I have written, that you + may teach them." +024:013 Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up + onto God's Mountain. +024:014 He said to the elders, "Wait here for us, until we come + again to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. + Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them." +024:015 Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. +024:016 The glory of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud + covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses + out of the midst of the cloud. +024:017 The appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like devouring fire on + the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel. +024:018 Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up + on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days + and forty nights. +025:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +025:002 "Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. + From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall + take my offering. +025:003 This is the offering which you shall take from them: + gold, silver, brass, +025:004 blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair, +025:005 rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood, +025:006 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for + the sweet incense, +025:007 onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and + for the breastplate. +025:008 Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. +025:009 According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tent, + and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you + shall make it. +025:010 "They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall + be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half, + and a cubit and a half its height. +025:011 You shall overlay it with pure gold. Inside and outside shall + you overlay it, and shall make a gold molding around it. +025:012 You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them + in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side of it, + and two rings on the other side of it. +025:013 You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. +025:014 You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark + to carry the ark. +025:015 The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not + be taken from it. +025:016 You shall put the testimony which I shall give you into the ark. +025:017 You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits + shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth. +025:018 You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make + them at the two ends of the mercy seat. +025:019 Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. + You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece + with the mercy seat. +025:020 The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy + seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. + The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat. +025:021 You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark + you shall put the testimony that I will give you. +025:022 There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above + the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are + on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for + the children of Israel. +025:023 "You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall + be its length, and a cubit its breadth, and one and a half + cubits its height. +025:024 You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold + molding around it. +025:025 You shall make a rim of a handbreadth around it. + You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it. +025:026 You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings + in the four corners that are on its four feet. +025:027 the rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles + to carry the table. +025:028 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them + with gold, that the table may be carried with them. +025:029 You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls + to pour out offerings with. Of pure gold shall you make them. +025:030 You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always. +025:031 "You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. Of hammered work shall + the lampstand be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, + its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it. +025:032 There shall be six branches going out of its sides: + three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, + and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side; +025:033 three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud + and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in + the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches + going out of the lampstand; +025:034 and in the lampstand four cups made like almond blossoms, + its buds and its flowers; +025:035 and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud + under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two + branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going + out of the lampstand. +025:036 Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, + the whole of it one beaten work of pure gold. +025:037 You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps + to give light to the space in front of it. +025:038 Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold. +025:039 It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all + these accessories. +025:040 See that you make them after their pattern, which has been + shown to you on the mountain. +026:001 "Moreover you shall make the tent with ten curtains; of fine + twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim. + The work of the skillful workman you shall make them. +026:002 The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, + and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains + shall have one measure. +026:003 Five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; + and the other five curtains shall be coupled one to another. +026:004 You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain + from the edge in the coupling; and likewise shall you make in + the edge of the curtain that is outmost in the second coupling. +026:005 You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall + make fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that is in the + second coupling. The loops shall be opposite one to another. +026:006 You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains + one to another with the clasps: and the tent shall be a unit. +026:007 "You shall make curtains of goats' hair for a covering over the tent: + eleven curtains shall you make them. +026:008 The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth + of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall + have one measure. +026:009 You shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains + by themselves, and shall double over the sixth curtain + in the forefront of the tent. +026:010 You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain + that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops on the edge + of the curtain which is outmost in the second coupling. +026:011 You shall make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into + the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one. +026:012 The overhanging part that remains of the curtains of the tent, + the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back + of the tent. +026:013 The cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, + of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, + shall hang over the sides of the tent on this side and on + that side, to cover it. +026:014 You shall make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, + and a covering of sea cow hides above. +026:015 "You shall make the boards for the tent of acacia wood, standing up. +026:016 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half + cubits the breadth of each board. +026:017 There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: + thus shall you make for all the boards of the tent. +026:018 You shall make the boards for the tent, twenty boards for + the south side southward. +026:019 You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; + two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets + under another board for its two tenons. +026:020 For the second side of the tent, on the north side, twenty boards, +026:021 and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, + and two sockets under another board. +026:022 For the far part of the tent westward you shall make six boards. +026:023 Two boards shall you make for the corners of the tent in + the far part. +026:024 They shall be double beneath, and in like manner they shall be entire + to the top of it to one ring: thus shall it be for them both; + they shall be for the two corners. +026:025 There shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, + sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets + under another board. +026:026 "You shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards + of the one side of the tent, +026:027 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tent, + and five bars for the boards of the side of the tent, + for the far part westward. +026:028 The middle bar in the midst of the boards shall pass through + from end to end. +026:029 You shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings + of gold for places for the bars: and you shall overlay + the bars with gold. +026:030 You shall set up the tent according to the way that it was shown + to you on the mountain. +026:031 "You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, + and fine twined linen, with cherubim. The work of the skillful + workman shall it be made. +026:032 You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; + their hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of silver. +026:033 You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall + bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil: + and the veil shall separate the holy place from the most + holy for you. +026:034 You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony + in the most holy place. +026:035 You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand over + against the table on the side of the tent toward the south: + and you shall put the table on the north side. +026:036 "You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, + and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work + of the embroiderer. +026:037 You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, + and overlay them with gold: their hooks shall be of gold: + and you shall cast five sockets of brass for them. +027:001 "You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, + and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: + and its height shall be three cubits. +027:002 You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall + be of one piece with it; and you shall overlay it with brass. +027:003 You shall make its pots to take away its ashes, its shovels, + its basins, its flesh hooks, and its fire pans: + all its vessels you shall make of brass. +027:004 You shall make a grating for it of network of brass: + and on the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four corners. +027:005 You shall put it under the ledge around the altar beneath, + that the net may reach halfway up the altar. +027:006 You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, + and overlay them with brass. +027:007 Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall + be on the two sides of the altar, when carrying it. +027:008 Hollow with planks shall you make it: as it has been shown + you on the mountain, so shall they make it. +027:009 "You shall make the court of the tent: for the south side + southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined + linen one hundred cubits long for one side: +027:010 and the pillars of it shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, + of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall + be of silver. +027:011 Likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings + one hundred cubits long, and the pillars of it twenty, + and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, + and their fillets, of silver. +027:012 For the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings + of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. +027:013 The breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall + be fifty cubits. +027:014 The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits; + their pillars three, and their sockets three. +027:015 For the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; + their pillars three, and their sockets three. +027:016 For the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, + of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, + the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, + and their sockets four. +027:017 All the pillars of the court round about shall be filleted + with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of brass. +027:018 The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, + and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits, + of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass. +027:019 All the instruments of the tent in all its service, + and all the pins of it, and all the pins of the court, + shall be of brass. +027:020 "You shall command the children of Israel, that they bring + to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp + to burn continually. +027:021 In the tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before + the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order + from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a + statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf + of the children of Israel. +028:001 "Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you + from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me + in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar + and Ithamar, Aaron's sons. +028:002 You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory + and for beauty. +028:003 You shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled + with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron's garments to + sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest's office. +028:004 These are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, + and an ephod, and a robe, and a coat of checker work, + a turban, and a sash: and they shall make holy garments + for Aaron your brother, and his sons, that he may minister + to me in the priest's office. +028:005 They shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, + and the scarlet, and the fine linen. +028:006 "They shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and purple, scarlet, + and fine twined linen, the work of the skillful workman. +028:007 It shall have two shoulder straps joined to the two ends of it, + that it may be joined together. +028:008 The skillfully woven band, which is on it, that is on him, + shall be like its work and of the same piece; of gold, of blue, + and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. +028:009 You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names + of the children of Israel: +028:010 six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six + that remain on the other stone, in the order of their birth. +028:011 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings + of a signet, shall you engrave the two stones, according to + the names of the children of Israel: you shall make them + to be enclosed in settings of gold. +028:012 You shall put the two stones on the shoulder straps of the ephod, + to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel: + and Aaron shall bear their names before Yahweh on his two + shoulders for a memorial. +028:013 You shall make settings of gold, +028:014 and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them like cords + of braided work: and you shall put the braided chains + on the settings. +028:015 "You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the + skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; + of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, + shall you make it. +028:016 It shall be square and folded double; a span{A span is the length + from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger + when the hand is stretched out (about 9 inches or 22.8 cm.)} + shall be its length of it, and a span its breadth. +028:017 You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: + a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row; +028:018 and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire{or, lapis lazuli}, + and an emerald; +028:019 and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; +028:020 and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper: + they shall be enclosed in gold in their settings. +028:021 The stones shall be according to the names of the children + of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings + of a signet, everyone according to his name, they shall + be for the twelve tribes. +028:022 You shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided + work of pure gold. +028:023 You shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall + put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. +028:024 You shall put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings + at the ends of the breastplate. +028:025 The other two ends of the two braided chains you shall put + on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps + of the ephod in the forepart of it. +028:026 You shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them on + the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which is toward + the side of the ephod inward. +028:027 You shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two + shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in the forepart of it, + close by the coupling of it, above the skillfully woven band + of the ephod. +028:028 They shall bind the breastplate by the rings of it to the rings + of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be on the skillfully + woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate may not swing + out from the ephod. +028:029 Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in + the breastplate of judgment on his heart, when he goes in to + the holy place, for a memorial before Yahweh continually. +028:030 You shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; + and they shall be on Aaron's heart, when he goes in before Yahweh: + and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel + on his heart before Yahweh continually. +028:031 "You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue. +028:032 It shall have a hole for the head in the midst of it: + it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, + as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it not be torn. +028:033 On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, + and of scarlet, around its hem; and bells of gold between + them round about: +028:034 a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, + on the hem of the robe round about. +028:035 It shall be on Aaron to minister: and the sound of it shall + be heard when he goes in to the holy place before Yahweh, + and when he comes out, that he not die. +028:036 "You shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, + like the engravings of a signet, 'HOLY TO YAHWEH.' +028:037 You shall put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be on the sash; + on the front of the sash it shall be. +028:038 It shall be on Aaron's forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity + of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall make holy + in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, + that they may be accepted before Yahweh. +028:039 You shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and you + shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash, + the work of the embroiderer. +028:040 "You shall make coats for Aaron's sons, and you shall make + sashes for them and headbands shall you make for them, + for glory and for beauty. +028:041 You shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, + and shall anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, + that they may minister to me in the priest's office. +028:042 You shall make them linen breeches to cover the flesh + of their nakedness; from the waist even to the thighs + they shall reach: +028:043 They shall be on Aaron, and on his sons, when they go in to + the tent of meeting, or when they come near to the altar + to minister in the holy place; that they don't bear iniquity, + and die: it shall be a statute forever to him and to his + descendants after him. +029:001 "This is the thing that you shall do to them to make + them holy, to minister to me in the priest's office: + take one young bull and two rams without blemish, +029:002 unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, + and unleavened wafers anointed with oil: you shall make them + of fine wheat flour. +029:003 You shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, + with the bull and the two rams. +029:004 You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent + of meeting, and shall wash them with water. +029:005 You shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the coat, + the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate, + and dress him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod; +029:006 and you shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy + crown on the turban. +029:007 Then you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, + and anoint him. +029:008 You shall bring his sons, and put coats on them. +029:009 You shall dress them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind + headbands on them: and they shall have the priesthood + by a perpetual statute: and you shall consecrate Aaron + and his sons. +029:010 "You shall bring the bull before the tent of meeting: + and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head + of the bull. +029:011 You shall kill the bull before Yahweh, at the door of the + tent of meeting. +029:012 You shall take of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns + of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all + the blood at the base of the altar. +029:013 You shall take all the fat that covers the innards, the cover + of the liver, the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, + and burn them on the altar. +029:014 But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, + you shall burn with fire outside of the camp: + it is a sin offering. +029:015 "You shall also take the one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall + lay their hands on the head of the ram. +029:016 You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, + and sprinkle it around on the altar. +029:017 You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards, + and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head. +029:018 You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt + offering to Yahweh; it is a sweet savor, an offering made + by fire to Yahweh. +029:019 "You shall take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall + lay their hands on the head of the ram. +029:020 Then you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood, + and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on + the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb + of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot, + and sprinkle the blood on the altar round about. +029:021 You shall take of the blood that is on the altar, and of the + anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, + and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him: + and he shall be made holy, and his garments, and his sons, + and his sons' garments with him. +029:022 Also you shall take some of the ram's fat, the fat tail, + the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, + the two kidneys, the fat that is on them, and the right thigh + (for it is a ram of consecration), +029:023 and one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer + out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Yahweh. +029:024 You shall put all of this in Aaron's hands, and in his sons' + hands, and shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh. +029:025 You shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar + on the burnt offering, for a sweet savor before Yahweh: + it is an offering made by fire to Yahweh. +029:026 "You shall take the breast of Aaron's ram of consecration, + and wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh: + and it shall be your portion. +029:027 You shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the thigh + of the wave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, + of the ram of consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, + and of that which is for his sons: +029:028 and it shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever + from the children of Israel; for it is a wave offering: + and it shall be a wave offering from the children of Israel + of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their wave + offering to Yahweh. +029:029 "The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, + to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them. +029:030 Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put + them on, when he comes into the tent of meeting to minister + in the holy place. +029:031 "You shall take the ram of consecration, and boil its flesh + in a holy place. +029:032 Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread + that is in the basket, at the door of the tent of meeting. +029:033 They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, + to consecrate and sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat + of it, because they are holy. +029:034 If anything of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread, + remains to the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire: + it shall not be eaten, because it is holy. +029:035 "Thus shall you do to Aaron, and to his sons, according to all + that I have commanded you. Seven days shall you consecrate them. +029:036 Every day shall you offer the bull of sin offering for atonement: + and you shall cleanse the altar, when you make atonement for it; + and you shall anoint it, to sanctify it. +029:037 Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it: + and the altar shall be most holy; whatever touches the altar + shall be holy. +029:038 "Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: + two lambs a year old day by day continually. +029:039 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb + you shall offer at evening: +029:040 and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine + flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, + and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering. +029:041 The other lamb you shall offer at evening, and shall do to it + according to the meal offering of the morning, and according + to its drink offering, for a sweet savor, an offering made + by fire to Yahweh. +029:042 It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your + generations at the door of the tent of meeting before Yahweh, + where I will meet with you, to speak there to you. +029:043 There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place + shall be sanctified by my glory. +029:044 I will sanctify the tent of meeting and the altar: + Aaron also and his sons I will sanctify, to minister to me + in the priest's office. +029:045 I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God. +029:046 They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, who brought them + forth out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: + I am Yahweh their God. +030:001 "You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make + it of acacia wood. +030:002 Its length shall be a cubit, and its breadth a cubit. + It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. + Its horns shall be of one piece with it. +030:003 You shall overlay it with pure gold, the top of it, the sides + of it around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold + molding around it. +030:004 You shall make two golden rings for it under its molding; + on its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make them; + and they shall be for places for poles with which to bear it. +030:005 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay + them with gold. +030:006 You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, + before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I + will meet with you. +030:007 Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. + When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it. +030:008 When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, + a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations. +030:009 You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, + nor meal offering; and you shall pour no drink offering on it. +030:010 Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; + with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year + he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. + It is most holy to Yahweh." +030:011 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +030:012 "When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to + those who are numbered among them, then each man shall give + a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you number them; + that there be no plague among them when you number them. +030:013 They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who + are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; + (the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an + offering to Yahweh. +030:014 Everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, from twenty + years old and upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh. +030:015 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, + than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Yahweh, + to make atonement for your souls. +030:016 You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, + and shall appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting; + that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh, + to make atonement for your souls." +030:017 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +030:018 "You shall also make a basin of brass, and the base of it + of brass, in which to wash. You shall put it between the tent + of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it. +030:019 Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it. +030:020 When they go into the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, + that they not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, + to burn an offering made by fire to Yahweh. +030:021 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die: + and it shall be a statute forever to them, even to him + and to his descendants throughout their generations." +030:022 Moreover Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +030:023 "Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred shekels; + and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and fifty; + and of fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty; +030:024 and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary; + and a hin of olive oil. +030:025 You shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded + after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil. +030:026 You shall use it to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark + of the testimony, +030:027 the table and all its articles, the lampstand and its accessories, + the altar of incense, +030:028 the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin + with its base. +030:029 You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. + Whatever touches them shall be holy. +030:030 You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, + that they may minister to me in the priest's office. +030:031 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'This shall + be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations. +030:032 It shall not be poured on man's flesh, neither shall you make + any like it, according to its composition: it is holy. + It shall be holy to you. +030:033 Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it + on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.'" +030:034 Yahweh said to Moses, "Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin, + and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense: + of each shall there be an equal weight; +030:035 and you shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art + of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy: +030:036 and you shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before + the testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. + It shall be to you most holy. +030:037 The incense which you shall make, according to its composition + you shall not make for yourselves: it shall be to you + holy for Yahweh. +030:038 Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it, he shall + be cut off from his people." +031:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +031:002 "Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, + the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah: +031:003 and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, + and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all + manner of workmanship, +031:004 to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, + and in brass, +031:005 and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, + to work in all manner of workmanship. +031:006 I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son + of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all + who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make + all that I have commanded you: +031:007 the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat + that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent, +031:008 the table and its vessels, the pure lampstand with all its vessels, + the altar of incense, +031:009 the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, the basin + and its base, +031:010 the finely worked garments--the holy garments for Aaron the priest-- + the garments of his sons to minister in the priest's office, +031:011 the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for + the holy place: according to all that I have commanded you + they shall do." +031:012 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +031:013 "Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, 'Most certainly + you shall keep my Sabbaths: for it is a sign between me + and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I + am Yahweh who sanctifies you. +031:014 You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you. + Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; + for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut + off from among his people. +031:015 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath + of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on + the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death. +031:016 Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, + to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, + for a perpetual covenant. +031:017 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; + for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh + day he rested, and was refreshed.'" +031:018 He gave to Moses, when he finished speaking with him on + Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, + written with God's finger. +032:001 When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from + the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, + and said to him, "Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; + for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land + of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him." +032:002 Aaron said to them, "Take off the golden rings, which are in + the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, + and bring them to me." +032:003 All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, + and brought them to Aaron. +032:004 He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an + engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, + "These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of + the land of Egypt." +032:005 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made + a proclamation, and said, "Tomorrow shall be a feast to Yahweh." +032:006 They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, + and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat + and to drink, and rose up to play. +032:007 Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go, get down; for your people, who you + brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves! +032:008 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. + They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, + and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, + Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'" +032:009 Yahweh said to Moses, "I have seen these people, and behold, + they are a stiff-necked people. +032:010 Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot + against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make + of you a great nation." +032:011 Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, why does your + wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought + forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with + a mighty hand? +032:012 Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them forth + for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them + from the surface of the earth?' Turn from your fierce wrath, + and repent of this evil against your people. +032:013 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, + to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, + 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all + this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, + and they shall inherit it forever.'" +032:014 Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do + to his people. +032:015 Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two + tablets of the testimony in his hand; tablets that were + written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other + they were written. +032:016 The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing + of God, engraved on the tables. +032:017 When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, + he said to Moses, "There is the noise of war in the camp." +032:018 He said, "It isn't the voice of those who shout for victory, + neither is it the voice of those who cry for being overcome; + but the noise of those who sing that I hear." +032:019 It happened, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw + the calf and the dancing: and Moses' anger grew hot, + and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them + beneath the mountain. +032:020 He took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, + ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made + the children of Israel drink of it. +032:021 Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, + that you have brought a great sin on them?" +032:022 Aaron said, "Don't let the anger of my lord grow hot. + You know the people, that they are set on evil. +032:023 For they said to me, 'Make us gods, which shall go before us; + for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land + of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.' +032:024 I said to them, 'Whoever has any gold, let them take it off:' + so they gave it to me; and I threw it into the fire, + and out came this calf." +032:025 When Moses saw that the people had broken loose, (for Aaron + had let them loose for a derision among their enemies), +032:026 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Whoever is + on Yahweh's side, come to me!" All the sons of Levi gathered + themselves together to him. +032:027 He said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Every man + put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate + to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, + and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.'" +032:028 The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: + and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. +032:029 Moses said, "Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, yes, every man + against his son, and against his brother; that he may bestow + on you a blessing this day." +032:030 It happened on the next day, that Moses said to the people, + "You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. + Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin." +032:031 Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Oh, this people have sinned + a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold. +032:032 Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin--and if not, please blot + me out of your book which you have written." +032:033 Yahweh said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me, + him will I blot out of my book. +032:034 Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have + spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. + Nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them + for their sin." +032:035 Yahweh struck the people, because they made the calf, + which Aaron made. +033:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Depart, go up from here, you and + the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, + to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, + and to Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your seed.' +033:002 I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, + the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, + and the Jebusite: +033:003 to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go + up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, + lest I consume you in the way." +033:004 When the people heard this evil news, they mourned: + and no one put on his jewelry. +033:005 Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, 'You are + a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst + for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off + your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.'" +033:006 The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry + from Mount Horeb onward. +033:007 Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it outside the camp, + far away from the camp, and he called it "The tent of meeting." + It happened that everyone who sought Yahweh went out to the tent + of meeting, which was outside the camp. +033:008 It happened that when Moses went out to the Tent, that all + the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, + and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent. +033:009 It happened, when Moses entered into the Tent, that the pillar + of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, + and spoke with Moses. +033:010 All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door + of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, + everyone at their tent door. +033:011 Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. + He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, + the son of Nun, a young man, didn't depart out of the Tent. +033:012 Moses said to Yahweh, "Behold, you tell me, 'Bring up this people:' + and you haven't let me know whom you will send with me. + Yet you have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found + favor in my sight.' +033:013 Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, + please show me now your ways, that I may know you, so that I + may find favor in your sight: and consider that this nation + is your people." +033:014 He said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest." +033:015 He said to him, "If your presence doesn't go with me, + don't carry us up from here. +033:016 For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, + I and your people? Isn't it in that you go with us, + so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people + who are on the surface of the earth?" +033:017 Yahweh said to Moses, "I will do this thing also that you + have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know + you by name." +033:018 He said, "Please show me your glory." +033:019 He said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you, + and will proclaim the name of Yahweh before you. + I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show + mercy on whom I will show mercy." +033:020 He said, "You cannot see my face, for man may not see + me and live." +033:021 Yahweh also said, "Behold, there is a place by me, and you + shall stand on the rock. +033:022 It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you + in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until + I have passed by; +033:023 then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; + but my face shall not be seen." +034:001 Yahweh said to Moses, "Chisel two stone tablets like the first: + and I will write on the tablets the words that were on + the first tablets, which you broke. +034:002 Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, + and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain. +034:003 No one shall come up with you; neither let anyone be seen + throughout all the mountain; neither let the flocks nor herds + feed before that mountain." +034:004 He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first; and Moses rose + up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh + had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets. +034:005 Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, + and proclaimed the name of Yahweh. +034:006 Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, "Yahweh! Yahweh, a + merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant + in loving kindness and truth, +034:007 keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity + and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear + the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, + and on the children's children, on the third and on + the fourth generation." +034:008 Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped. +034:009 He said, "If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, + please let the Lord go in the midst of us; although this + is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, + and take us for your inheritance." +034:010 He said, "Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I + will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the earth, + nor in any nation; and all the people among which you are shall + see the work of Yahweh; for it is an awesome thing that I + do with you. +034:011 Observe that which I command you this day. Behold, I drive + out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, + the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. +034:012 Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants + of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare + in the midst of you: +034:013 but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces + their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim; +034:014 for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name + is Jealous, is a jealous God. +034:015 Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, + lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice + to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice; +034:016 and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters + play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play + the prostitute after their gods. +034:017 You shall make no cast idols for yourselves. +034:018 "You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. + Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, + at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month + Abib you came out from Egypt. +034:019 All that opens the womb is mine; and all your livestock + that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep. +034:020 The firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb: + and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. + All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. + No one shall appear before me empty. +034:021 "Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: + in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest. +034:022 You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits + of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year's end. +034:023 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before + the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel. +034:024 For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; + neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear + before Yahweh, your God, three times in the year. +034:025 "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; + neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the Passover + be left to the morning. +034:026 You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground + to the house of Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young + goat in its mother's milk." +034:027 Yahweh said to Moses, "Write you these words: + for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant + with you and with Israel." +034:028 He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; + he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets + the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. +034:029 It happened, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two + tablets of the testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down + from the mountain, that Moses didn't know that the skin + of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him. +034:030 When Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin + of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him. +034:031 Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the + congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them. +034:032 Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave + them all of the commandments that Yahweh had spoken with him + on Mount Sinai. +034:033 When Moses was done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. +034:034 But when Moses went in before Yahweh to speak with him, + he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, + and spoke to the children of Israel that which he was commanded. +034:035 The children of Israel saw Moses' face, that the skin of Moses' + face shone: and Moses put the veil on his face again, + until he went in to speak with him. +035:001 Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel, + and said to them, "These are the words which Yahweh has commanded, + that you should do them. +035:002 'Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall + be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: + whoever does any work in it shall be put to death. +035:003 You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on + the Sabbath day.'" +035:004 Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, + saying, "This is the thing which Yahweh commanded, saying, +035:005 'Take from among you an offering to Yahweh. Whoever is + of a willing heart, let him bring it, Yahweh's offering: + gold, silver, brass, +035:006 blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair, +035:007 rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood, +035:008 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for + the sweet incense, +035:009 onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and + for the breastplate. +035:010 "'Let every wise-hearted man among you come, and make all + that Yahweh has commanded: +035:011 the tent, its outer covering, its roof, its clasps, its boards, + its bars, its pillars, and its sockets; +035:012 the ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, the veil of the screen; +035:013 the table with its poles and all its vessels, and the show bread; +035:014 the lampstand also for the light, with its vessels, its lamps, + and the oil for the light; +035:015 and the altar of incense with its poles, the anointing oil, + the sweet incense, the screen for the door, at the door + of the tent; +035:016 the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of brass, + it poles, and all its vessels, the basin and its base; +035:017 the hangings of the court, its pillars, their sockets, + and the screen for the gate of the court; +035:018 the pins of the tent, the pins of the court, and their cords; +035:019 the finely worked garments, for ministering in the holy place, + the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments + of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.'" +035:020 All the congregation of the children of Israel departed from + the presence of Moses. +035:021 They came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone + whom his spirit made willing, and brought Yahweh's offering, + for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all of its service, + and for the holy garments. +035:022 They came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, + and brought brooches, earrings, signet rings, and armlets, + all jewels of gold; even every man who offered an offering + of gold to Yahweh. +035:023 Everyone, with whom was found blue, purple, scarlet, + fine linen, goats' hair, rams' skins dyed red, and sea + cow hides, brought them. +035:024 Everyone who did offer an offering of silver and brass brought + Yahweh's offering; and everyone, with whom was found acacia + wood for any work of the service, brought it. +035:025 All the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, + and brought that which they had spun, the blue, the purple, + the scarlet, and the fine linen. +035:026 All the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun + the goats' hair. +035:027 The rulers brought the onyx stones, and the stones to be set, + for the ephod and for the breastplate; +035:028 and the spice, and the oil for the light, for the anointing oil, + and for the sweet incense. +035:029 The children of Israel brought a freewill offering to Yahweh; + every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring + for all the work, which Yahweh had commanded to be made by Moses. +035:030 Moses said to the children of Israel, "Behold, Yahweh has + called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, + of the tribe of Judah. +035:031 He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, + in understanding, in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship; +035:032 and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in brass, +035:033 in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, + to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship. +035:034 He has put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Oholiab, + the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. +035:035 He has filled them with wisdom of heart, to work all manner + of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, + and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, + and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do + any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works. +036:001 "Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted man, + in whom Yahweh has put wisdom and understanding to know + how to work all the work for the service of the sanctuary, + according to all that Yahweh has commanded." +036:002 Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, + in whose heart Yahweh had put wisdom, even everyone whose + heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it: +036:003 and they received from Moses all the offering which the children + of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, + with which to make it. They brought yet to him freewill + offerings every morning. +036:004 All the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary, + each came from his work which they did. +036:005 They spoke to Moses, saying, "The people bring much more than enough + for the service of the work which Yahweh commanded to make." +036:006 Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed + throughout the camp, saying, "Let neither man nor woman + make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary." + So the people were restrained from bringing. +036:007 For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, + and too much. +036:008 All the wise-hearted men among those who did the work made + the tent with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, blue, purple, + and scarlet, with cherubim, the work of the skillful workman, + they made them. +036:009 The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, + and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains + had one measure. +036:010 He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five + curtains he coupled one to another. +036:011 He made loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from + the edge in the coupling. Likewise he made in the edge + of the curtain that was outmost in the second coupling. +036:012 He made fifty loops in the one curtain, and he made fifty loops + in the edge of the curtain that was in the second coupling. + The loops were opposite one to another. +036:013 He made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one + to another with the clasps: so the tent was a unit. +036:014 He made curtains of goats' hair for a covering over the tent. + He made them eleven curtains. +036:015 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four + cubits the breadth of each curtain. The eleven curtains + had one measure. +036:016 He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains + by themselves. +036:017 He made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was + outmost in the coupling, and he made fifty loops on the edge + of the curtain which was outmost in the second coupling. +036:018 He made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, + that it might be a unit. +036:019 He made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, + and a covering of sea cow hides above. +036:020 He made the boards for the tent of acacia wood, standing up. +036:021 Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half + the breadth of each board. +036:022 Each board had two tenons, joined one to another. + He made all the boards of the tent this way. +036:023 He made the boards for the tent: twenty boards for the + south side southward. +036:024 He made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; + two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets + under another board for its two tenons. +036:025 For the second side of the tent, on the north side, + he made twenty boards, +036:026 and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, + and two sockets under another board. +036:027 For the far part of the tent westward he made six boards. +036:028 He made two boards for the corners of the tent in the far part. +036:029 They were double beneath, and in like manner they were all + the way to the top of it to one ring. He did thus to both + of them in the two corners. +036:030 There were eight boards, and their sockets of silver, + sixteen sockets; under every board two sockets. +036:031 He made bars of acacia wood; five for the boards of the one + side of the tent, +036:032 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tent, and five + bars for the boards of the tent for the hinder part westward. +036:033 He made the middle bar to pass through in the midst of the boards + from the one end to the other. +036:034 He overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold + for places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold. +036:035 He made the veil of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen: + with cherubim. He made it the work of a skillful workman. +036:036 He made four pillars of acacia for it, and overlaid them with gold. + Their hooks were of gold. He cast four sockets of silver for them. +036:037 He made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple, scarlet, + and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer; +036:038 and the five pillars of it with their hooks. He overlaid + their capitals and their fillets with gold, and their five + sockets were of brass. +037:001 Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood. Its length was two + and a half cubits, and its breadth a cubit and a half, + and a cubit and a half its height. +037:002 He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made + a molding of gold for it round about. +037:003 He cast four rings of gold for it, in its four feet; even two + rings on its one side, and two rings on its other side. +037:004 He made poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold. +037:005 He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, + to bear the ark. +037:006 He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a + half cubits, and a cubit and a half its breadth. +037:007 He made two cherubim of gold. He made them of beaten work, + at the two ends of the mercy seat; +037:008 one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. + He made the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at + its two ends. +037:009 The cherubim spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy + seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. + The faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat. +037:010 He made the table of acacia wood. Its length was two cubits, + and its breadth was a cubit, and its height was a cubit + and a half. +037:011 He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding around it. +037:012 He made a border of a handbreadth around it, and made a golden + molding on its border around it. +037:013 He cast four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four + corners that were on its four feet. +037:014 The rings were close by the border, the places for the poles + to carry the table. +037:015 He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, + to carry the table. +037:016 He made the vessels which were on the table, its dishes, + its spoons, its bowls, and its pitchers with which to pour out, + of pure gold. +037:017 He made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand + of beaten work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, + and its flowers were of one piece with it. +037:018 There were six branches going out of its sides: + three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, + and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side: +037:019 three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, + a bud and a flower, and three cups made like almond + blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower: + so for the six branches going out of the lampstand. +037:020 In the lampstand were four cups made like almond blossoms, + its buds and its flowers; +037:021 and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud + under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two + branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going + out of it. +037:022 Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it. + The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold. +037:023 He made its seven lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, + of pure gold. +037:024 He made it of a talent of pure gold, with all its vessels. +037:025 He made the altar of incense of acacia wood. It was square: + its length was a cubit, and its breadth a cubit. + Its height was two cubits. Its horns were of one piece with it. +037:026 He overlaid it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, + and its horns. He made a gold molding around it. +037:027 He made two golden rings for it under its molding crown, + on its two ribs, on its two sides, for places for poles + with which to carry it. +037:028 He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold. +037:029 He made the holy anointing oil and the pure incense of sweet spices, + after the art of the perfumer. +038:001 He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. It was square. + Its length was five cubits, its breadth was five cubits, + and its height was three cubits. +038:002 He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one + piece with it, and he overlaid it with brass. +038:003 He made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, the shovels, + the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its + vessels of brass. +038:004 He made for the altar a grating of a network of brass, + under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up. +038:005 He cast four rings for the four ends of brass grating, + to be places for the poles. +038:006 He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with brass. +038:007 He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, + with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks. +038:008 He made the basin of brass, and its base of brass, out of + the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door + of the tent of meeting. +038:009 He made the court: for the south side southward the hangings + of the court were of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits; +038:010 their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; + the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. +038:011 For the north side one hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, + and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, + and their fillets, of silver. +038:012 For the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, + and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, + and their fillets, of silver. +038:013 For the east side eastward fifty cubits. +038:014 The hangings for the one side were fifteen cubits; + their pillars three, and their sockets three; +038:015 and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand + by the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits; + their pillars three, and their sockets three. +038:016 All the hangings around the court were of fine twined linen. +038:017 The sockets for the pillars were of brass. The hooks of the + pillars and their fillets were of silver; and the overlaying + of their capitals, of silver; and all the pillars of the court + were filleted with silver. +038:018 The screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, + of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. + Twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth + was five cubits, like to the hangings of the court. +038:019 Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; + their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, + and their fillets, of silver. +038:020 All the pins of the tent, and around the court, were of brass. +038:021 This is the amount of material used for the tent, even the Tent + of the Testimony, as they were counted, according to + the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, + by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest. +038:022 Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, + made all that Yahweh commanded Moses. +038:023 With him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, + an engraver, and a skillful workman, and an embroiderer in blue, + in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen. +038:024 All the gold that was used for the work in all the work + of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, + was twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred thirty shekels, + after the shekel of the sanctuary. +038:025 The silver of those who were numbered of the congregation + was one hundred talents, and one thousand seven hundred + seventy-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: +038:026 a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel + of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who + were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six + hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men. +038:027 The one hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets + of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil; one hundred + sockets for the one hundred talents, a talent for a socket. +038:028 Of the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels + he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, + and made fillets for them. +038:029 The brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand + four hundred shekels. +038:030 With this he made the sockets to the door of the tent of meeting, + the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, all the vessels + of the altar, +038:031 the sockets around the court, the sockets of the gate of the court, + all the pins of the tent, and all the pins around the court. +039:001 Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they made finely worked garments, + for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments + for Aaron; as Yahweh commanded Moses. +039:002 He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine + twined linen. +039:003 They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, + to work it in the blue, in the purple, in the scarlet, + and in the fine linen, the work of the skillful workman. +039:004 They made shoulder straps for it, joined together. + At the two ends it was joined together. +039:005 The skillfully woven band that was on it, with which to + fasten it on, was of the same piece, like its work; + of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen; + as Yahweh commanded Moses. +039:006 They worked the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold, + engraved with the engravings of a signet, according to the names + of the children of Israel. +039:007 He put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones + of memorial for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses. +039:008 He made the breastplate, the work of a skillful workman, + like the work of the ephod; of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, + and fine twined linen. +039:009 It was square. They made the breastplate double. + Its length was a span, and its breadth a span, being double. +039:010 They set in it four rows of stones. A row of ruby, topaz, + and beryl was the first row; +039:011 and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire{or, lapis lazuli}, + and an emerald; +039:012 and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; +039:013 and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. + They were enclosed in gold settings. +039:014 The stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, + twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, + everyone according to his name, for the twelve tribes. +039:015 They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided + work of pure gold. +039:016 They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put + the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. +039:017 They put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings + at the ends of the breastplate. +039:018 The other two ends of the two braided chains they put on the + two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, + in the front of it. +039:019 They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends + of the breastplate, on the edge of it, which was toward + the side of the ephod inward. +039:020 They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder + straps of the ephod underneath, in the front of it, close by + its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod. +039:021 They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod + with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven + band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come + loose from the ephod, as Yahweh commanded Moses. +039:022 He made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue. +039:023 The opening of the robe in the midst of it was like the opening + of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, + that it should not be torn. +039:024 They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, + purple, scarlet, and twined linen. +039:025 They made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between + the pomegranates around the skirts of the robe, + between the pomegranates; +039:026 a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, around the + skirts of the robe, to minister in, as Yahweh commanded Moses. +039:027 They made the coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, + and for his sons, +039:028 and the turban of fine linen, and the linen headbands of fine linen, + and the linen breeches of fine twined linen, +039:029 and the sash of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, + the work of the embroiderer, as Yahweh commanded Moses. +039:030 They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, + and wrote on it a writing, like the engravings of a signet: + "HOLY TO YAHWEH." +039:031 They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, + as Yahweh commanded Moses. +039:032 Thus all the work of the tent of the tent of meeting was finished. + The children of Israel did according to all that Yahweh + commanded Moses; so they did. +039:033 They brought the tent to Moses, the tent, with all its furniture, + its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, +039:034 the covering of rams' skins dyed red, the covering of sea + cow hides, the veil of the screen, +039:035 the ark of the testimony with its poles, the mercy seat, +039:036 the table, all its vessels, the show bread, +039:037 the pure lampstand, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, + all its vessels, the oil for the light, +039:038 the golden altar, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, + the screen for the door of the Tent, +039:039 the bronze altar, its grating of brass, its poles, all of + its vessels, the basin and its base, +039:040 the hangings of the court, its pillars, its sockets, + the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, its pins, + all the instruments of the service of the tent, for the + tent of meeting, +039:041 the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, + the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments + of his sons, to minister in the priest's office. +039:042 According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children + of Israel did all the work. +039:043 Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it + as Yahweh had commanded, even so had they done it: + and Moses blessed them. +040:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +040:002 "On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tent + of the Tent of Meeting. +040:003 You shall put the ark of the testimony in it, and you shall + screen the ark with the veil. +040:004 You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things + that are on it. You shall bring in the lampstand, and light + the lamps of it. +040:005 You shall set the golden altar for incense before the ark + of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tent. +040:006 You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door + of the tent of the tent of meeting. +040:007 You shall set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, + and shall put water therein. +040:008 You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen + of the gate of the court. +040:009 You shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tent, and all + that is in it, and shall make it holy, and all its furniture: + and it will be holy. +040:010 You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels, + and sanctify the altar: and the altar will be most holy. +040:011 You shall anoint the basin and its base, and sanctify it. +040:012 You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent + of meeting, and shall wash them with water. +040:013 You shall put on Aaron the holy garments; and you shall + anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may minister to me + in the priest's office. +040:014 You shall bring his sons, and put coats on them. +040:015 You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, + that they may minister to me in the priest's office. + Their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood + throughout their generations." +040:016 Moses did so. According to all that Yahweh commanded him, + so he did. +040:017 It happened in the first month in the second year, on the first + day of the month, that the tent was raised up. +040:018 Moses raised up the tent, and laid its sockets, and set up + the boards of it, and put in the bars of it, and raised + up its pillars. +040:019 He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof + of the tent above on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses. +040:020 He took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the poles + on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark. +040:021 He brought the ark into the tent, and set up the veil + of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony, + as Yahweh commanded Moses. +040:022 He put the table in the tent of meeting, on the side of + the tent northward, outside of the veil. +040:023 He set the bread in order on it before Yahweh, + as Yahweh commanded Moses. +040:024 He put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table, + on the side of the tent southward. +040:025 He lit the lamps before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses. +040:026 He put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil; +040:027 and he burnt incense of sweet spices on it, as Yahweh + commanded Moses. +040:028 He put up the screen of the door to the tent. +040:029 He set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tent + of the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering + and the meal offering, as Yahweh commanded Moses. +040:030 He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, + and put water therein, with which to wash. +040:031 Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and their feet there. +040:032 When they went into the tent of meeting, and when they came + near to the altar, they washed, as Yahweh commanded Moses. +040:033 He raised up the court around the tent and the altar, + and set up the screen of the gate of the court. + So Moses finished the work. +040:034 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory + of Yahweh filled the tent. +040:035 Moses wasn't able to enter into the tent of meeting, because the + cloud stayed on it, and Yahweh's glory filled the tent. +040:036 When the cloud was taken up from over the tent, the children + of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys; +040:037 but if the cloud wasn't taken up, then they didn't travel + until the day that it was taken up. +040:038 For the cloud of Yahweh was on the tent by day, and there was fire + in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, + throughout all their journeys. + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE WORLD ENGLISH BIBLE (WEB): EXODUS *** + +This file should be named 8229.txt or 8229.zip + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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