EXO 4:1 Then
Moses answered and said, "What if they will not
believe me, or listen to what I say? For they may
say, 'The Lord has not appeared to you.'"
EXO 4:2 And the Lord said to him, "What is
that in your hand?" And he said, "A staff."
EXO 4:3 Then He said, "Throw it on the
ground." So he threw it on the ground, and it became
a serpent; and Moses fled from it.
EXO 4:4 But the Lord said to Moses, "Stretch
out your hand and grasp {it} by its tail" - - so he
stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became
a staff in his hand - -
EXO 4:5 "that they may believe that the Lord,
the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to
you."
EXO 4:6 And the Lord furthermore said to him,
"Now put your hand into your bosom." So he put his
hand into his bosom, and when he took it out,
behold, his hand was leprous like snow.
EXO 4:7 Then He said, "Put your hand into
your bosom again." So he put his hand into his bosom
again; and when he took it out of his bosom, behold,
it was restored like {the rest of} his flesh.
EXO 4:8 "And it shall come about that if they
will not believe you or heed the witness of the
first sign, they may believe the witness of the last
sign.
EXO 4:9 "But it shall be that if they will
not believe even these two signs or heed what you
say, then you shall take some water from the Nile
and pour it on the dry ground; and the water which
you take from the Nile will become blood on the dry
ground."
EXO 4:10 Then Moses said to the Lord,
"Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither
recently nor in time past, nor since Thou hast
spoken to Thy servant; for I am slow of speech and
slow of tongue."
EXO 4:11 And the Lord said to him, "Who has
made man's mouth? Or who makes {him} dumb or deaf,
or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?
EXO 4:12 "Now then go, and I, even I, will be
with your mouth, and teach you what you are to say."
EXO 4:13 But he said, "Please, Lord, now send
{the message} by whomever Thou wilt."
EXO 4:14 Then the anger of the Lord burned
against Moses, and He said, "Is there not your
brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he speaks
fluently. And moreover, behold, he is coming out to
meet you; when he sees you, he will be glad in his
heart.
EXO 4:15 "And you are to speak to him and put
the words in his mouth; and I, even I, will be with
your mouth and his mouth, and I will teach you what
you are to do.
EXO 4:16 "Moreover, he shall speak for you to
the people; and it shall come about that he shall be
as a mouth for you, and you shall be as God to him.
EXO 4:17 "And you shall take in your hand
this staff, with which you shall perform the signs."
EXO 4:18 Then Moses departed and returned to
Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, "Please,
let me go, that I may return to my brethren who are
in Egypt, and see if they are still alive." And
Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."
EXO 4:19 Now the Lord said to Moses in Midian,
"Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking
your life are dead."
EXO 4:20 So Moses took his wife and his sons
and mounted them on a donkey, and he returned to the
land of Egypt. Moses also took the staff of God in
his hand.
EXO 4:21 And the Lord said to Moses, "When
you go back to Egypt see that you perform before
Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your
power; but I will harden his heart so that he will
not let the people go.
EXO 4:22 "Then you shall say to Pharaoh,
'Thus says the Lord," Israel is My son, My
first-born.
EXO 4:23 "So I said to you, 'Let My son go,
that he may serve Me'; but you have refused to let
him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your
first-born."' "
EXO 4:24 Now it came about at the lodging
place on the way that the Lord met him and sought to
put him to death.
EXO 4:25 Then Zipporah took a flint and cut
off her son's foreskin and threw {it} at Moses'
feet, and she said, "You are indeed a bridegroom of
blood to me."
EXO 4:26 So He let him alone. At that time
she said, "{You are} a bridegroom of blood" - -
because of the circumcision.
EXO 4:27 Now the Lord said to Aaron, "Go to
meet Moses in the wilderness." So he went and met
him at the mountain of God, and he kissed him.
EXO 4:28 And Moses told Aaron all the words
of the Lord with which He had sent him, and all the
signs that He had commanded him {to do.}
EXO 4:29 Then Moses and Aaron went and
assembled all the elders of the sons of Israel;
EXO 4:30 and Aaron spoke all the words which
the Lord had spoken to Moses. He then performed the
signs in the sight of the people.
EXO 4:31 So the people believed; and when
they heard that the Lord was concerned about the
sons of Israel and that He had seen their
affliction, then they bowed low and worshiped.
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EXO 5:1 And
afterward Moses and Aaron came and said to Pharaoh,
"Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'Let My
people go that they may celebrate a feast to Me in
the wilderness.'"
EXO 5:2 But Pharaoh said, "Who is the Lord
that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do
not know the Lord, and besides, I will not let
Israel go."
EXO 5:3 Then they said, "The God of the
Hebrews has met with us. Please, let us go a three
days' journey into the wilderness that we may
sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest He fall upon us
with pestilence or with the sword."
EXO 5:4 But the king of Egypt said to them,
"Moses and Aaron, why do you draw the people away
from their work? Get {back} to your labors!"
EXO 5:5 Again Pharaoh said, "Look, the people
of the land are now many, and you would have them
cease from their labors!"
EXO 5:6 So the same day Pharaoh commanded the
taskmasters over the people and their foremen,
saying,
EXO 5:7 "You are no longer to give the people
straw to make brick as previously; let them go and
gather straw for themselves.
EXO 5:8 "But the quota of bricks which they
were making previously, you shall impose on them;
you are not to reduce any of it. Because they are
lazy, therefore they cry out, 'Let us go and
sacrifice to our God.'
EXO 5:9 "Let the labor be heavier on the men,
and let them work at it that they may pay no
attention to false words."
EXO 5:10 So the taskmasters of the people and
their foremen went out and spoke to the people,
saying, "Thus says Pharaoh, 'I am not going to give
you {any} straw.
EXO 5:11 'You go {and} get straw for
yourselves wherever you can find {it;} but none of
your labor will be reduced.' "
EXO 5:12 So the people scattered through all
the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
EXO 5:13 And the taskmasters pressed them,
saying, "Complete your work quota, {your} daily
amount, just as when you had straw."
EXO 5:14 Moreover, the foremen of the sons of
Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over
them, were beaten and were asked, "Why have you not
completed your required amount either yesterday or
today in making brick as previously?"
EXO 5:15 Then the foremen of the sons of
Israel came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, "Why
do you deal this way with your servants?
EXO 5:16 "There is no straw given to your
servants, yet they keep saying to us, 'Make bricks!'
And behold, your servants are being beaten; but it
is the fault of your {own} people."
EXO 5:17 But he said, "You are lazy, {very}
lazy; therefore you say, 'Let us go {and} sacrifice
to the Lord.'
EXO 5:18 "So go now {and} work; for you shall
be given no straw, yet you must deliver the quota of
bricks."
EXO 5:19 And the foremen of the sons of
Israel saw that they were in trouble because they
were told, "You must not reduce {your} daily amount
of bricks."
EXO 5:20 When they left Pharaoh's presence,
they met Moses and Aaron as they were waiting for
them.
EXO 5:21 And they said to them, "May the Lord
look upon you and judge {you,} for you have made us
odious in Pharaoh's sight and in the sight of his
servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us."
EXO 5:22 Then Moses returned to the Lord and
said, "O Lord, why hast Thou brought harm to this
people? Why didst Thou ever send me?
EXO 5:23 "Ever since I came to Pharaoh to
speak in Thy name, he has done harm to this people;
and Thou hast not delivered Thy people at all."
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EXO 6:1 Then the
Lord said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will
do to Pharaoh; for under compulsion he shall let
them go, and under compulsion he shall drive them
out of his land."
EXO 6:2 God spoke further to Moses and said
to him, "I am the Lord;
EXO 6:3 and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, as God Almighty, but {by} My name, Lord, I
did not make Myself known to them.
EXO 6:4 "And I also established My covenant
with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land
in which they sojourned.
EXO 6:5 "And furthermore I have heard the
groaning of the sons of Israel, because the
Egyptians are holding them in bondage; and I have
remembered My covenant. EXO 6:6 "Say,
therefore, to the sons of Israel, 'I am the Lord,
and I will bring you out from under the burdens of
the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their
bondage. I will also redeem you with an outstretched
arm and with great judgments.
EXO 6:7 'Then I will take you for My people,
and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am
the Lord your God, who brought you out from under
the burdens of the Egyptians.
EXO 6:8 'And I will bring you to the land
which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
and I will give it to you {for} a possession; I am
the Lord.' "
EXO 6:9 So Moses spoke thus to the sons of
Israel, but they did not listen to Moses on account
of {their} despondency and cruel bondage.
EXO 6:10 Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
EXO 6:11 "Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to
let the sons of Israel go out of his land."
EXO 6:12 But Moses spoke before the Lord,
saying, "Behold, the sons of Israel have not
listened to me; how then will Pharaoh listen to me,
for I am unskilled in speech?"
EXO 6:13 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and to
Aaron, and gave them a charge to the sons of Israel
and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the sons of
Israel out of the land of Egypt.
EXO 6:14 These are the heads of their
fathers' households. The sons of Reuben, Israel's
first-born: Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi;
these are the families of Reuben.
EXO 6:15 And 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.
EXO 6:16 And these are the names of the sons
of Levi according to their generations: Gershon and
Kohath and Merari; and the length of Levi's life was
one hundred and thirty-seven years.
EXO 6:17 The sons of Gershon: Libni and
Shimei, according to their families.
EXO 6:18 And the sons of Kohath: Amram and
Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel; and the length of
Kohath's life was one hundred and thirty-three
years.
EXO 6:19 And the sons of Merari: Mahli and
Mushi. These are the families of the Levites
according to their generations.
EXO 6:20 And Amram married his father's
sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses;
and the length of Amram's life was one hundred and
thirty-seven years.
EXO 6:21 And the sons of Izhar: Korah and
Nepheg and Zichri.
EXO 6:22 And the sons of Uzziel: Mishael and
Elzaphan and Sithri.
EXO 6:23 And Aaron married Elisheba, the
daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, and
she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
EXO 6:24 And the sons of Korah: Assir and
Elkanah and Abiasaph; these are the families of the
Korahites.
EXO 6:25 And Aaron's son Eleazar married one
of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him
Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers'
{households} of the Levites according to their
families.
EXO 6:26 It was {the same} Aaron and Moses to
whom the Lord said, "Bring out the sons of Israel
from the land of Egypt according to their hosts."
EXO 6:27 They were the ones who spoke to
Pharaoh king of Egypt about bringing out the sons of
Israel from Egypt; it was {the same} Moses and
Aaron.
EXO 6:28 Now it came about on the day when
the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,
EXO 6:29 that the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying, "I am the Lord; speak to Pharaoh king of
Egypt all that I speak to you."
EXO 6:30 But Moses said before the Lord,
"Behold, I am unskilled in speech; how then will
Pharaoh listen to me?"
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EXO 7:1 Then the
Lord said to Moses, "See, I make you {as} God to
Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your
prophet.
EXO 7:2 "You shall speak all that I command
you, and your brother Aaron shall speak to Pharaoh
that he let the sons of Israel go out of his land.
EXO 7:3 "But I will harden Pharaoh's heart
that I may multiply My signs and My wonders in the
land of Egypt.
EXO 7:4 "When Pharaoh will not listen to you,
then I will lay My hand on Egypt, and bring out My
hosts, My people the sons of Israel, from the land
of Egypt by great judgments.
EXO 7:5 "And the Egyptians shall know that I
am the Lord, when I stretch out My hand on Egypt and
bring out the sons of Israel from their midst."
EXO 7:6 So Moses and Aaron did {it;} as the
Lord commanded them, thus they did.
EXO 7:7 And Moses was eighty years old and
Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
EXO 7:8 Now the Lord spoke to Moses and
Aaron, saying,
EXO 7:9 "When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying,
'Work a miracle,' then you shall say to Aaron, 'Take
your staff and throw {it} down before Pharaoh,
{that} it may become a serpent.'"
EXO 7:10 So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh,
and thus they did just as the Lord had commanded;
and Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and
his servants, and it became a serpent.
EXO 7:11 Then Pharaoh also called for {the}
wise men and {the} sorcerers, and they also, the
magicians of Egypt, did the same with their secret
arts.
EXO 7:12 For each one threw down his staff
and they turned into serpents. But Aaron's staff
swallowed up their staffs.
EXO 7:13 Yet Pharaoh's heart was hardened,
and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had said.
EXO 7:14 Then the Lord said to Moses,
"Pharaoh's heart is stubborn; he refuses to let the
people go.
EXO 7:15 "Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he
is going out to the water, and station yourself to
meet him on the bank of the Nile; and you shall take
in your hand the staff that was turned into a
serpent.
EXO 7:16 "And you will say to him, 'The Lord,
the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying," Let
My people go, that they may serve Me in the
wilderness. But behold, you have not listened until
now."
EXO 7:17 'Thus says the Lord, "By this you
shall know that I am the Lord: behold, I will strike
the water that is in the Nile with the staff that is
in my hand, and it shall be turned to blood.
EXO 7:18 "And the fish that are in the Nile
will die, and the Nile will become foul; and the
Egyptians will find difficulty in drinking water
from the Nile."' "
EXO 7:19 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Say to
Aaron, 'Take your staff and stretch out your hand
over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over
their streams, and over their pools, and over all
their reservoirs 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.'"
EXO 7:20 So Moses and Aaron did even as the
Lord had commanded. And he lifted up the staff and
struck the water that {was} in the Nile, in the
sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants,
and all the water that {was} in the Nile was turned
to blood.
EXO 7:21 And the fish that {were} in the Nile
died, and the Nile became foul, so that the
Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. And
the blood was through all the land of Egypt.
EXO 7:22 But the magicians of Egypt did the
same with their secret arts; and Pharaoh's heart was
hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord
had said.
EXO 7:23 Then Pharaoh turned and went into
his house with no concern even for this.
EXO 7:24 So all the Egyptians dug around the
Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink of
the water of the Nile.
EXO 7:25 And seven days passed after the Lord
had struck the Nile.
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EXO 8:1 Then the
Lord said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and say to him,
'Thus says the Lord," Let My people go, that they
may serve Me.
EXO 8:2 "But if you refuse to let {them} go,
behold, I will smite your whole territory with
frogs.
EXO 8:3 "And the Nile will swarm with frogs,
which will come up and go into your house and into
your bedroom and on your bed, and into the houses of
your servants and on your people, and into your
ovens and into your kneading bowls.
EXO 8:4 "So the frogs will come up on you and
your people and all your servants."' "
EXO 8:5 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Say to
Aaron, 'Stretch out your hand with your staff over
the rivers, over the streams and over the pools, and
make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.'"
EXO 8:6 So Aaron stretched out his hand over
the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and
covered the land of Egypt.
EXO 8:7 And the magicians did the same with
their secret arts, making frogs come up on the land
of Egypt.
EXO 8:8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and
Aaron and said, "Entreat the Lord that He remove the
frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the
people go, that they may sacrifice to the Lord."
EXO 8:9 And Moses said to Pharaoh, "The honor
is yours to tell me: when shall I entreat for you
and your servants and your people, that the frogs be
destroyed from you and your houses, {that} they may
be left only in the Nile?"
EXO 8:10 Then he said, "Tomorrow." So he
said, "{May it be} according to your word, that you
may know that there is no one like the Lord our God.
EXO 8:11 "And the frogs will depart from you
and your houses and your servants and your people;
they will be left only in the Nile."
EXO 8:12 Then Moses and Aaron went out from
Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the Lord concerning the
frogs which He had inflicted upon Pharaoh.
EXO 8:13 And the Lord did according to the
word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the houses,
the courts, and the fields.
EXO 8:14 So they piled them in heaps, and the
land became foul.
EXO 8:15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was
relief, he hardened his heart and did not listen to
them, as the Lord had said.
EXO 8:16 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Say to
Aaron, 'Stretch out your staff and strike the dust
of the earth, that it may become gnats through all
the land of Egypt.'"
EXO 8:17 And they did so; and Aaron stretched
out his hand with his staff, and struck the dust of
the earth, and there were gnats on man and beast.
All the dust of the earth became gnats through all
the land of Egypt.
EXO 8:18 And the magicians tried with their
secret arts to bring forth gnats, but they could
not; so there were gnats on man and beast.
EXO 8:19 Then the magicians said to Pharaoh,
"This is the finger of God." But Pharaoh's heart was
hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord
had said.
EXO 8:20 Now the Lord said to Moses, "Rise
early in the morning and present yourself before
Pharaoh, as he comes out to the water, and say to
him, 'Thus says the Lord," Let My people go, that
they may serve Me.
EXO 8:21 "For if you will not let My people
go, behold, I will send swarms of insects 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 insects, and also the ground on
which they {dwell.}
EXO 8:22 "But on that day I will set apart
the land of Goshen, where My people are living, so
that no swarms of insects will be there, in order
that you may know that I, the Lord, am in the midst
of the land.
EXO 8:23 "And I will put a division between
My people and your people. Tomorrow this sign shall
occur."' "
EXO 8:24 Then the Lord did so. And there came
great swarms of insects into the house of Pharaoh
and the houses of his servants and the land was laid
waste because of the swarms of insects in all the
land of Egypt.
EXO 8:25 And Pharaoh called for Moses and
Aaron and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God within
the land."
EXO 8:26 But Moses said, "It is not right to
do so, for we shall sacrifice to the Lord our God
what is an abomination to the Egyptians. If we
sacrifice what is an abomination to the Egyptians
before their eyes, will they not then stone us?
EXO 8:27 "We must go a three days' journey
into the wilderness and sacrifice to the Lord our
God as He commands us."
EXO 8:28 And Pharaoh said, "I will let you
go, that you may sacrifice to the Lord your God in
the wilderness; only you shall not go very far away.
Make supplication for me."
EXO 8:29 Then Moses said, "Behold, I am going
out from you, and I shall make supplication to the
Lord that the swarms of insects may depart from
Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people
tomorrow; only do not let Pharaoh deal deceitfully
again in not letting the people go to sacrifice to
the Lord."
EXO 8:30 So Moses went out from Pharaoh and
made supplication to the Lord.
EXO 8:31 And the Lord did as Moses asked, and
removed the swarms of insects from Pharaoh, from his
servants and from his people; not one remained.
EXO 8:32 But Pharaoh hardened his heart this
time also, and he did not let the people go.
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EXO 9:1 Then the
Lord said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and speak to him,
'Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews," Let My
people go, that they may serve Me.
EXO 9:2 "For if you refuse to let {them} go,
and continue to hold them,
EXO 9:3 behold, the hand of the Lord will
come {with} a very severe pestilence on your
livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on
the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the
flocks.
EXO 9:4 "But the Lord will make a distinction
between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of
Egypt, so that nothing will die of all that belongs
to the sons of Israel."' "
EXO 9:5 And the Lord set a definite time,
saying, "Tomorrow the Lord will do this thing in the
land."
EXO 9:6 So the Lord did this thing on the
morrow, and all the livestock of Egypt died; but of
the livestock of the sons of Israel, not one died.
EXO 9:7 And Pharaoh sent, and behold, there
was not even one of the livestock of Israel dead.
But the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did
not let the people go.
EXO 9:8 Then the Lord said to Moses and
Aaron, "Take for yourselves handfuls of soot from a
kiln, and let Moses throw it toward the sky in the
sight of Pharaoh.
EXO 9:9 "And it will become fine dust over
all the land of Egypt, and will become boils
breaking out with sores on man and beast through all
the land of Egypt."
EXO 9:10 So they took soot from a kiln, and
stood before Pharaoh; and Moses threw it toward the
sky, and it became boils breaking out with sores on
man and beast.
EXO 9:11 And the magicians could not stand
before Moses because of the boils, for the boils
were on the magicians as well as on all the
Egyptians.
EXO 9:12 And the Lord hardened Pharaoh's
heart, and he did not listen to them, just as the
Lord had spoken to Moses.
EXO 9:13 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Rise
up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh and
say to him, 'Thus says the Lord, the God of the
Hebrews," Let My people go, that they may serve Me.
EXO 9:14 "For this time I will send all My
plagues on you and your servants and your people, so
that you may know that there is no one like Me in
all the earth.
EXO 9:15 "For {if by} now I had put forth My
hand and struck you and your people with pestilence,
you would then have been cut off from the earth.
EXO 9:16 "But, indeed, for this cause I have
allowed you to remain, in order to show you My
power, and in order to proclaim My name through all
the earth.
EXO 9:17 "Still you exalt yourself against My
people by not letting them go.
EXO 9:18 "Behold, about this time tomorrow, I
will send a very heavy hail, such as has not been
{seen} in Egypt from the day it was founded until
now.
EXO 9:19 "Now therefore send, bring your
livestock and whatever you have in the field to
safety. Every man and beast that is found in the
field and is not brought home, when the hail comes
down on them, will die."' "
EXO 9:20 The one among the servants of
Pharaoh who feared the word of the Lord made his
servants and his livestock flee into the houses;
EXO 9:21 but he who paid no regard to the
word of the Lord left his servants and his livestock
in the field.
EXO 9:22 Now the Lord said to Moses, "Stretch
out your hand toward the sky, that hail may fall on
all the land of Egypt, on man and on beast and on
every plant of the field, throughout the land of
Egypt."
EXO 9:23 And Moses stretched out his staff
toward the sky, and the Lord sent thunder and hail,
and fire ran down to the earth. And the Lord rained
hail on the land of Egypt.
EXO 9:24 So there was hail, and fire flashing
continually in the midst of the hail, very severe,
such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since
it became a nation.
EXO 9:25 And the hail struck all that was in
the field through all the land of Egypt, both man
and beast; the hail also struck every plant of the
field and shattered every tree of the field.
EXO 9:26 Only in the land of Goshen, where
the sons of Israel {were,} there was no hail.
EXO 9:27 Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and
Aaron, and said to them, "I have sinned this time;
the Lord is the righteous one, and I and my people
are the wicked ones.
EXO 9:28 "Make supplication to the Lord, for
there has been enough of God's thunder and hail; and
I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer."
EXO 9:29 And Moses said to him, "As soon as I
go out of the city, I will spread out my hands to
the Lord; the thunder will cease, and there will be
hail no longer, that you may know that the earth is
the Lord's.
EXO 9:30 "But as for you and your servants, I
know that you do not yet fear the Lord God."
EXO 9:31 (Now the flax and the barley were
ruined, for the barley was in the ear and the flax
was in bud.
EXO 9:32 But the wheat and the spelt were not
ruined, for they {ripen} late.)
EXO 9:33 So Moses went out of the city from
Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to the Lord; and
the thunder and the hail ceased, and rain no longer
poured on the earth.
EXO 9:34 But when Pharaoh saw that the rain
and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned
again and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
EXO 9:35 And Pharaoh's heart was hardened,
and he did not let the sons of Israel go, just as
the Lord had spoken through Moses.
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EXO 10:1 Then the
Lord said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, for I have
hardened his heart and the heart of his servants,
that I may perform these signs of Mine among them,
EXO 10:2 and that you may tell in the hearing
of your son, and of your grandson, how I made a
mockery of the Egyptians, and how I performed My
signs among them; that you may know that I am the
Lord."
EXO 10:3 And Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh
and said to him, "Thus says the Lord, the God of the
Hebrews, 'How long will you refuse to humble
yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may
serve Me.
EXO 10:4 'For if you refuse to let My people
go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your
territory.
EXO 10:5 'And they shall cover the surface of
the land, so that no one shall be able to see the
land. They shall also eat the rest of what has
escaped - - what is left to you from the hail - -
and they shall eat every tree which sprouts for you
out of the field.
EXO 10:6 'Then your houses shall be filled,
and the houses of all your servants and the houses
of all the Egyptians, {something} which neither your
fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from the
day that they came upon the earth until this day.'
"And he turned and went out from Pharaoh.
EXO 10:7 And Pharaoh's servants said to him,
"How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the
men go, that they may serve the Lord their God. Do
you not realize that Egypt is destroyed?"
EXO 10:8 So Moses and Aaron were brought back
to Pharaoh, and he said to them, "Go, serve the Lord
your God! Who are the ones that are going?"
EXO 10:9 And Moses said, "We shall go with
our young and our old; with our sons and our
daughters, with our flocks and our herds we will go,
for we must hold a feast to the Lord."
EXO 10:10 Then he said to them, "Thus may the
Lord be with you, if ever I let you and your little
ones go! Take heed, for evil is in your mind.
EXO 10:11 "Not so! Go now, the men {among
you,} and serve the Lord, for that is what you
desire." So they were driven out from Pharaoh's
presence.
EXO 10:12 Then the Lord 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 plant of the land, {even} all
that the hail has left."
EXO 10:13 So Moses stretched out his staff
over the land of Egypt, and the Lord directed an
east wind on the land all that day and all that
night; and when it was morning, the east wind
brought the locusts.
EXO 10:14 And the locusts came up over all
the land of Egypt and settled in all the territory
of Egypt; {they were} very numerous. There had never
been so {many} locusts, nor would there be so {many}
again.
EXO 10:15 For they covered the surface of the
whole land, so that the land was darkened; and they
ate every plant of the land and all the fruit of the
trees that the hail had left. Thus nothing green was
left on tree or plant of the field through all the
land of Egypt.
EXO 10:16 Then Pharaoh hurriedly called for
Moses and Aaron, and he said, "I have sinned against
the Lord your God and against you.
EXO 10:17 "Now therefore, please forgive my
sin only this once, and make supplication to the
Lord your God, that He would only remove this death
from me."
EXO 10:18 And he went out from Pharaoh and
made supplication to the Lord.
EXO 10:19 So the Lord shifted {the wind} to a
very strong west wind which took up the locusts and
drove them into the Red Sea; not one locust was left
in all the territory of Egypt.
EXO 10:20 But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's
heart, and he did not let the sons of Israel go.
EXO 10:21 Then the Lord said to Moses,
"Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there
may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even a
darkness which may be felt."
EXO 10:22 So Moses stretched out his hand
toward the sky, and there was thick darkness in all
the land of Egypt for three days.
EXO 10:23 They did not see one another, nor
did anyone rise from his place for three days, but
all the sons of Israel had light in their dwellings.
EXO 10:24 Then Pharaoh called to Moses, and
said, "Go, serve the Lord; only let your flocks and
your herds be detained. Even your little ones may go
with you."
EXO 10:25 But Moses said, "You must also let
us have sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may
sacrifice {them} to the Lord our God.
EXO 10:26 "Therefore, our livestock, too,
will go with us; not a hoof will be left behind, for
we shall take some of them to serve the Lord our
God. And until we arrive there, we ourselves do not
know with what we shall serve the Lord."
EXO 10:27 But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's
heart, and he was not willing to let them go.
EXO 10:28 Then Pharaoh said to him, "Get away
from me! Beware, do not see my face again, for in
the day you see my face you shall die!"
EXO 10:29 And Moses said, "You are right; I
shall never see your face again!"
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EXO 11:1 Now the
Lord said to Moses, "One more plague I will bring on
Pharaoh and on Egypt; after that he will let you go
from here. When he lets you go, he will surely drive
you out from here completely.
EXO 11:2 "Speak now in the hearing of the
people that each man ask from his neighbor and each
woman from her neighbor for articles of silver and
articles of gold."
EXO 11:3 And the Lord gave the people favor
in the sight of the Egyptians. Furthermore, the man
Moses {himself} was greatly esteemed in the land of
Egypt, {both} in the sight of Pharaoh's servants and
in the sight of the people.
EXO 11:4 And Moses said, "Thus says the Lord,
'About midnight I am going out into the midst of
Egypt,
EXO 11:5 and all the first-born in the land
of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of the
Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the
first-born of the slave girl who is behind the
millstones; all the first-born of the cattle as
well.
EXO 11:6 'Moreover, there shall be a great
cry in all the land of Egypt, such as there has not
been {before} and such as shall never be again.
EXO 11:7 'But against any of the sons of
Israel a dog shall not {even} bark, whether against
man or beast, that you may understand how the Lord
makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.'
EXO 11:8 "And all these your servants will
come down to me and bow themselves before me,
saying, 'Go out, you and all the people who follow
you,' and after that I will go out." And he went out
from Pharaoh in hot anger.
EXO 11:9 Then the Lord said to Moses,
"Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that My wonders
will be multiplied in the land of Egypt."
EXO 11:10 And Moses and Aaron performed all
these wonders before Pharaoh; yet the Lord hardened
Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the sons of
Israel go out of his land.
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EXO 12:1 Now the
Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
EXO 12:2 "This month shall be the beginning
of months for you; it is to be the first month of
the year to you.
EXO 12:3 "Speak to all the congregation of
Israel, saying, 'On the tenth of this month they are
each one to take a lamb for themselves, according to
their fathers' households, a lamb for each
household.
EXO 12:4 'Now if the household is too small
for a lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his
house are to take one according to the number of
persons {in them;} according to what each man should
eat, you are to divide the lamb.
EXO 12:5 'Your lamb shall be an unblemished
male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or
from the goats.
EXO 12:6 'And you shall keep it until the
fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole
assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it
at twilight.
EXO 12:7 'Moreover, they shall take some of
the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the
lintel of the houses in which they eat it.
EXO 12:8 'And they shall eat the flesh that
{same} night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat
it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
EXO 12:9 'Do not eat any of it raw or boiled
at all with water, but rather roasted with fire,
{both} its head and its legs along with its
entrails.
EXO 12:10 'And you shall not leave any of it
over until morning, but whatever is left of it until
morning, you shall burn with fire.
EXO 12:11 'Now you shall eat it in this
manner: {with} your loins girded, your sandals on
your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you
shall eat it in haste - - it is the Lord's Passover.
EXO 12:12 'For I will go through the land of
Egypt on that night, and will strike down all the
first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast;
and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute
judgments - - I am the Lord.
EXO 12:13 'And the blood shall be a sign for
you on the houses where you live; and when I see the
blood I will pass over you, and no plague will
befall you to destroy {you} when I strike the land
of Egypt.
EXO 12:14 'Now this day will be a memorial to
you, and you shall celebrate it {as} a feast to the
Lord; throughout your generations you are to
celebrate it {as} a permanent ordinance.
EXO 12:15 'Seven days you shall eat
unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall
remove leaven from your houses; for whoever eats
anything leavened from the first day until the
seventh day, that person shall be cut off from
Israel.
EXO 12:16 'And on the first day you shall
have a holy assembly, and {another} holy assembly on
the seventh day; no work at all shall be done on
them, except what must be eaten by every person,
that alone may be prepared by you.
EXO 12:17 'You shall also observe the {Feast
of} Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought
your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore you
shall observe this day throughout your generations
as a permanent ordinance.
EXO 12:18 'In the first {month,} on the
fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall
eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of
the month at evening.
EXO 12:19 'Seven days there shall be no
leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats what
is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the
congregation of Israel, whether {he is} an alien or
a native of the land.
EXO 12:20 'You shall not eat anything
leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat
unleavened bread.' "
EXO 12:21 Then Moses called for all the
elders of Israel, and said to them, "Go and take for
yourselves lambs according to your families, and
slay the Passover {lamb.}
EXO 12:22 "And you shall take a bunch of
hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the
basin, and apply some of the blood that is in the
basin to the lintel and the two doorposts; and none
of you shall go outside the door of his house until
morning.
EXO 12:23 "For the Lord will pass through to
smite the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on
the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will
pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer
to come in to your houses to smite {you.} EXO
12:24 "And you shall observe this event as an
ordinance for you and your children forever.
EXO 12:25 "And it will come about when you
enter the land which the Lord will give you, as He
has promised, that you shall observe this rite.
EXO 12:26 "And it will come about when your
children will say to you, 'What does this rite mean
to you?'
EXO 12:27 that you shall say,' It is a
Passover sacrifice to the Lord who passed over the
houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He smote
the Egyptians, but spared our homes.' "And the
people bowed low and worshiped.
EXO 12:28 Then the sons of Israel went and
did {so;} just as the Lord had commanded Moses and
Aaron, so they did.
EXO 12:29 Now it came about at midnight that
the Lord struck all the first-born in the land of
Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sat on his
throne to the first-born of the captive who was in
the dungeon, and all the first-born of cattle.
EXO 12:30 And Pharaoh arose in the night, he
and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and
there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no
home where there was not someone dead.
EXO 12:31 Then he called for Moses and Aaron
at night and said, "Rise up, get out from among my
people, both you and the sons of Israel; and go,
worship the Lord, as you have said.
EXO 12:32 "Take both your flocks and your
herds, as you have said, and go, and bless me also."
EXO 12:33 And the Egyptians urged the people,
to send them out of the land in haste, for they
said, "We shall all be dead."
EXO 12:34 So the people took their dough
before it was leavened, {with} their kneading bowls
bound up in the clothes on their shoulders.
EXO 12:35 Now the sons of Israel had done
according to the word of Moses, for they had
requested from the Egyptians articles of silver and
articles of gold, and clothing;
EXO 12:36 and the Lord had given the people
favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they
let them have their request. Thus they plundered the
Egyptians.
EXO 12:37 Now the sons of Israel journeyed
from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand
men on foot, aside from children.
EXO 12:38 And a mixed multitude also went up
with them, along with flocks and herds, a very large
number of livestock.
EXO 12:39 And they baked the dough which they
had brought out of Egypt into cakes of unleavened
bread. For it had not become leavened, since they
were driven out of Egypt and could not delay, nor
had they prepared any provisions for themselves.
EXO 12:40 Now the time that the sons of
Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty
years.
EXO 12:41 And it came about at the end of
four hundred and thirty years, to the very day, that
all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of
Egypt.
EXO 12:42 It is a night to be observed for
the Lord for having brought them out from the land
of Egypt; this night is for the Lord, to be observed
by all the sons of Israel throughout their
generations.
EXO 12:43 And the Lord said to Moses and
Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the Passover: no
foreigner is to eat of it;
EXO 12:44 but every man's slave purchased
with money, after you have circumcised him, then he
may eat of it.
EXO 12:45 "A sojourner or a hired servant
shall not eat of it.
EXO 12:46 "It is to be eaten in a single
house; you are not to bring forth any of the flesh
outside of the house, nor are you to break any bone
of it.
EXO 12:47 "All the congregation of Israel are
to celebrate this.
EXO 12:48 "But if a stranger sojourns with
you, and celebrates the Passover to the Lord, let
all his males be circumcised, and then let him come
near to celebrate it; and he shall be like a native
of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat of
it.
EXO 12:49 "The same law shall apply to the
native as to the stranger who sojourns among you."
EXO 12:50 Then all the sons of Israel did
{so;} they did just as the Lord had commanded Moses
and Aaron.
EXO 12:51 And it came about on that same day
that the Lord brought the sons of Israel out of the
land of Egypt by their hosts.
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EXO 13:1 Then the
Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
EXO 13:2 "Sanctify to Me every first-born,
the first offspring of every womb among the sons of
Israel, both of man and beast; it belongs to Me."
EXO 13:3 And Moses said to the people,
"Remember this day in which you went out from Egypt,
from the house of slavery; for by a powerful hand
the Lord brought you out from this place. And
nothing leavened shall be eaten.
EXO 13:4 "On this day in the month of Abib,
you are about to go forth.
EXO 13:5 "And it shall be when the Lord
brings you to the land of the Canaanite, the
Hittite, the Amorite, the Hivite and the Jebusite,
which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land
flowing with milk and honey, that you shall observe
this rite in this month.
EXO 13:6 "For seven days you shall eat
unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall
be a feast to the Lord.
EXO 13:7 "Unleavened bread shall be eaten
throughout the seven days; and nothing leavened
shall be seen among you, nor shall any leaven be
seen among you in all your borders.
EXO 13:8 "And you shall tell your son on that
day, saying, 'It is because of what the Lord did for
me when I came out of Egypt.'
EXO 13:9 "And it shall serve as a sign to you
on your hand, and as a reminder on your forehead,
that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth; for
with a powerful hand the Lord brought you out of
Egypt.
EXO 13:10 "Therefore, you shall keep this
ordinance at its appointed time from year to year.
EXO 13:11 "Now it shall come about when the
Lord brings you to the land of the Canaanite, as He
swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to
you,
EXO 13:12 that you shall devote to the Lord
the first offspring of every womb, and the first
offspring of every beast that you own; the males
belong to the Lord.
EXO 13:13 "But every first offspring of a
donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, but if you do
not redeem {it,} then you shall break its neck; and
every first-born of man among your sons you shall
redeem.
EXO 13:14 "And it shall be when your son asks
you in time to come, saying, 'What is this?' then
you shall say to him, 'With a powerful hand the Lord
brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery.
EXO 13:15 'And it came about, when Pharaoh
was stubborn about letting us go, that the Lord
killed every first-born in the land of Egypt, both
the first-born of man and the first-born of beast.
Therefore, I sacrifice to the Lord the males, the
first offspring of every womb, but every first-born
of my sons I redeem.'
EXO 13:16 "So it shall serve as a sign on
your hand, and as phylacteries on your forehead, for
with a powerful hand the Lord brought us out of
Egypt."
EXO 13:17 Now it came about when Pharaoh had
let the people go, that God did not lead them by the
way of the land of the Philistines, even though it
was near; for God said, "Lest the people change
their minds when they see war, and they return to
Egypt."
EXO 13:18 Hence God led the people around by
the way of the wilderness to the Red Sea; and the
sons of Israel went up in martial array from the
land of Egypt.
EXO 13:19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph
with him, for he had made the sons of Israel
solemnly swear, saying, "God shall surely take care
of you; and you shall carry my bones from here with
you."
EXO 13:20 Then they set out from Succoth and
camped in Etham on the edge of the wilderness.
EXO 13:21 And the Lord was going before them
in a pillar of cloud by day to lead them on the way,
and in a pillar of fire by night to give them light,
that they might travel by day and by night.
EXO 13:22 He did not take away the pillar of
cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from
before the people.
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EXO 14:1 Now the
Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
EXO 14:2 "Tell the sons of Israel to turn
back and camp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and
the sea; you shall camp in front of Baal-zephon,
opposite it, by the sea.
EXO 14:3 "For Pharaoh will say of the sons of
Israel, 'They are wandering aimlessly in the land;
the wilderness has shut them in.'
EXO 14:4 "Thus I will harden Pharaoh's heart,
and he will chase after them; and I will be honored
through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians
will know that I am the Lord." And they did so.
EXO 14:5 When the king of Egypt was told that
the people had fled, Pharaoh and his servants had a
change of heart toward the people, and they said,
"What is this we have done, that we have let Israel
go from serving us?"
EXO 14:6 So he made his chariot ready and
took his people with him;
EXO 14:7 and he took six hundred select
chariots, and all the {other} chariots of Egypt with
officers over all of them.
EXO 14:8 And the Lord hardened the heart of
Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he chased after the sons
of Israel as the sons of Israel were going out
boldly.
EXO 14:9 Then the Egyptians chased after them
{with} all the horses {and} chariots of Pharaoh, his
horsemen and his army, and they overtook them
camping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, in front of
Baal-zephon.
EXO 14:10 And as Pharaoh drew near, the sons
of Israel looked, and behold, the Egyptians were
marching after them, and they became very
frightened; so the sons of Israel cried out to the
Lord.
EXO 14:11 Then they said to Moses, "Is it
because there were no graves in Egypt that you have
taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you
dealt with us in this way, bringing us out of Egypt?
EXO 14:12 "Is this not the word that we spoke
to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone that we may
serve the Egyptians'? For it would have been better
for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the
wilderness."
EXO 14:13 But Moses said to the people, "Do
not fear! Stand by and see the salvation of the Lord
which He will accomplish for you today; for the
Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will never
see them again forever.
EXO 14:14 "The Lord will fight for you while
you keep silent."
EXO 14:15 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Why
are you crying out to Me? Tell the sons of Israel to
go forward.
EXO 14:16 "And as for you, lift up your staff
and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide
it, and the sons of Israel shall go through the
midst of the sea on dry land.
EXO 14:17 "And as for Me, behold, I will
harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will
go in after them; and I will be honored through
Pharaoh and all his army, through his chariots and
his horsemen.
EXO 14:18 "Then the Egyptians will know that
I am the Lord, when I am honored through Pharaoh,
through his chariots and his horsemen."
EXO 14:19 And the angel of God, who had been
going before the camp of Israel, moved and went
behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from
before them and stood behind them.
EXO 14:20 So it came between the camp of
Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the
cloud along with the darkness, yet it gave light at
night. Thus the one did not come near the other all
night.
EXO 14:21 Then Moses stretched out his hand
over the sea; and the Lord swept the sea {back} by a
strong east wind all night, and turned the sea into
dry land, so the waters were divided.
EXO 14:22 And the sons of Israel went through
the midst of the sea on the dry land, and the waters
{were like} a wall to them on their right hand and
on their left.
EXO 14:23 Then the Egyptians took up the
pursuit, and all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots and
his horsemen went in after them into the midst of
the sea.
EXO 14:24 And it came about at the morning
watch, that the Lord looked down on the army of the
Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud and
brought the army of the Egyptians into confusion.
EXO 14:25 And He caused their chariot wheels
to swerve, and He made them drive with difficulty;
so the Egyptians said, "Let us flee from Israel, for
the Lord is fighting for them against the
Egyptians."
EXO 14:26 Then the Lord said to Moses,
"Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the
waters may come back over the Egyptians, over their
chariots and their horsemen."
EXO 14:27 So Moses stretched out his hand
over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal
state at daybreak, while the Egyptians were fleeing
right into it; then the Lord overthrew the Egyptians
in the midst of the sea.
EXO 14:28 And the waters returned and covered
the chariots and the horsemen, even Pharaoh's entire
army that had gone into the sea after them; not even
one of them remained.
EXO 14:29 But the sons of Israel walked on
dry land through the midst of the sea, and the
waters {were like} a wall to them on their right
hand and on their left.
EXO 14:30 Thus the Lord saved Israel that day
from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the
Egyptians dead on the seashore.
EXO 14:31 And when Israel saw the great power
which the Lord had used against the Egyptians, the
people feared the Lord, and they believed in the
Lord and in His servant Moses.
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EXO 15:1 Then
Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to the
Lord, and said, "I will sing to the Lord, for He is
highly exalted; The horse and its rider He has
hurled into the sea.
EXO 15:2 "The Lord is my strength and song,
And He has become my salvation; This is my God, and
I will praise Him; My father's God, and I will extol
Him.
EXO 15:3 "The Lord is a warrior; The Lord is
His name.
EXO 15:4 "Pharaoh's chariots and his army He
has cast into the sea; And the choicest of his
officers are drowned in the Red Sea.
EXO 15:5 "The deeps cover them; They went
down into the depths like a stone.
EXO 15:6 "Thy right hand, O Lord, is majestic
in power, Thy right hand, O Lord, shatters the
enemy.
EXO 15:7 "And in the greatness of Thine
excellence Thou dost overthrow those who rise up
against Thee; Thou dost send forth Thy burning
anger, {and} it consumes them as chaff.
EXO 15:8 "And at the blast of Thy nostrils
the waters were piled up, The flowing waters stood
up like a heap; The deeps were congealed in the
heart of the sea.
EXO 15:9 "The enemy said, 'I will pursue, I
will overtake, I will divide the spoil; My desire
shall be gratified against them; I will draw out my
sword, my hand shall destroy them.'
EXO 15:10 "Thou didst blow with Thy wind, the
sea covered them; They sank like lead in the mighty
waters.
EXO 15:11 "Who is like Thee among the gods, O
Lord? Who is like Thee, majestic in holiness,
Awesome in praises, working wonders?
EXO 15:12 "Thou didst stretch out Thy right
hand, The earth swallowed them.
EXO 15:13 "In Thy lovingkindness Thou hast
led the people whom Thou hast redeemed; In Thy
strength Thou hast guided {them} to Thy holy
habitation.
EXO 15:14 "The peoples have heard, they
tremble; Anguish has gripped the inhabitants of
Philistia.
EXO 15:15 "Then the chiefs of Edom were
dismayed; The leaders of Moab, trembling grips them;
All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.
EXO 15:16 "Terror and dread fall upon them;
By the greatness of Thine arm they are motionless as
stone; Until Thy people pass over, O Lord, Until the
people pass over whom Thou hast purchased.
EXO 15:17 "Thou wilt bring them and plant
them in the mountain of Thine inheritance, The
place, O Lord, which Thou hast made for Thy
dwelling, The sanctuary, O Lord, which Thy hands
have established.
EXO 15:18 "The Lord shall reign forever and
ever."
EXO 15:19 For the horses of Pharaoh with his
chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, and the
Lord brought back the waters of the sea on them; but
the sons of Israel walked on dry land through the
midst of the sea.
EXO 15:20 And Miriam the prophetess, Aaron's
sister, took the timbrel in her hand, and all the
women went out after her with timbrels and with
dancing.
EXO 15:21 And Miriam answered them, "Sing to
the Lord, for He is highly exalted; The horse and
his rider He has hurled into the sea."
EXO 15:22 Then Moses led Israel from the Red
Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur;
and they went three days in the wilderness and found
no water.
EXO 15:23 And when they came to Marah, they
could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were
bitter; therefore it was named Marah.
EXO 15:24 So the people grumbled at Moses,
saying, "What shall we drink?"
EXO 15:25 Then he cried out to the Lord, and
the Lord showed him a tree; and he threw {it} into
the waters, and the waters became sweet. There He
made for them a statute and regulation, and there He
tested them.
EXO 15:26 And He said, "If you will give
earnest heed to the voice of the Lord your God, and
do what is right in His sight, and give ear 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, the Lord, am your healer."
EXO 15:27 Then they came to Elim where there
{were} twelve springs of water and seventy date
palms, and they camped there beside the waters.
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EXO 16:1 Then
they set out from Elim, and all the congregation of
the sons of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin,
which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth
day of the second month after their departure from
the land of Egypt.
EXO 16:2 And the whole congregation of the
sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in
the wilderness.
EXO 16:3 And the sons of Israel said to them,
"Would that we had died by the Lord's hand in the
land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when
we ate bread to the full; for you have brought us
out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly
with hunger."
EXO 16:4 Then the Lord said to Moses,
"Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and
the people shall go out and gather a day's portion
every day, that I may test them, whether or not they
will walk in My instruction.
EXO 16:5 "And it will come about on the sixth
day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will
be twice as much as they gather daily."
EXO 16:6 So Moses and Aaron said to all the
sons of Israel, "At evening you will know that the
Lord has brought you out of the land of Egypt;
EXO 16:7 and in the morning you will see the
glory of the Lord, for He hears your grumblings
against the Lord; and what are we, that you grumble
against us?"
EXO 16:8 And Moses said, "{This will happen}
when the Lord gives you meat to eat in the evening,
and bread to the full in the morning; for the Lord
hears your grumblings which you grumble against Him.
And what are we? Your grumblings are not against us
but against the Lord."
EXO 16:9 Then Moses said to Aaron, "Say to
all the congregation of the sons of Israel, 'Come
near before the Lord, for He has heard your
grumblings.'"
EXO 16:10 And it came about as Aaron spoke to
the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, that
they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the
glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud.
EXO 16:11 And the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying,
EXO 16:12 "I have heard the grumblings of the
sons of Israel; speak to them, saying, 'At twilight
you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be
filled with bread; and you shall know that I am the
Lord your God.'"
EXO 16:13 So it came about at evening that
the quails came up and covered the camp, and in the
morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.
EXO 16:14 When the layer of dew evaporated,
behold, on the surface of the wilderness there was a
fine flake-like thing, fine as the frost on the
ground.
EXO 16:15 When the sons of Israel saw {it,}
they said to one another, "What is it?" For they did
not know what it was. And Moses said to them, "It is
the bread which the Lord has given you to eat.
EXO 16:16 "This is what the Lord has
commanded, 'Gather of it every man as much as he
should eat; you shall take an omer apiece according
to the number of persons each of you has in his
tent.'"
EXO 16:17 And the sons of Israel did so, and
{some} gathered much and {some} little.
EXO 16:18 When they measured it with an omer,
he who had gathered much had no excess, and he who
had gathered little had no lack; every man gathered
as much as he should eat.
EXO 16:19 And Moses said to them, "Let no man
leave any of it until morning."
EXO 16:20 But they did not listen to Moses,
and some left part of it until morning, and it bred
worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with
them.
EXO 16:21 And they gathered it morning by
morning, every man as much as he should eat; but
when the sun grew hot, it would melt.
EXO 16:22 Now it came about on the sixth day
they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for
each one. When all the leaders of the congregation
came and told Moses,
EXO 16:23 then he said to them, "This is what
the Lord meant: Tomorrow is a sabbath observance, a
holy sabbath to the Lord. Bake what you will bake
and boil what you will boil, and all that is left
over put aside to be kept until morning."
EXO 16:24 So they put it aside until morning,
as Moses had ordered, and it did not become foul,
nor was there any worm in it.
EXO 16:25 And Moses said, "Eat it today, for
today is a sabbath to the Lord; today you will not
find it in the field.
EXO 16:26 "Six days you shall gather it, but
on the seventh day, {the} sabbath, there will be
none."
EXO 16:27 And it came about on the seventh
day that some of the people went out to gather, but
they found none.
EXO 16:28 Then the Lord said to Moses, "How
long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My
instructions?
EXO 16:29 "See, the Lord has given you the
sabbath; therefore He gives you bread for two days
on the sixth day. Remain every man in his place; let
no man go out of his place on the seventh day."
EXO 16:30 So the people rested on the seventh
day.
EXO 16:31 And the house of Israel named it
manna, and it was like coriander seed, #663300; and
its taste was like wafers with honey.
EXO 16:32 Then Moses said, "This is what the
Lord has commanded, 'Let an omerful of it be kept
throughout your generations, that they may see the
bread that I fed you in the wilderness, when I
brought you out of the land of Egypt.'" EXO 16:33
And Moses said to Aaron, "Take a jar and put an
omerful of manna in it, and place it before the
Lord, to be kept throughout your generations."
EXO 16:34 As the Lord commanded Moses, so
Aaron placed it before the Testimony, to be kept.
EXO 16:35 And the sons of Israel ate the
manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited
land; they ate the manna until they came to the
border of the land of Canaan.
EXO 16:36 (Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)
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EXO 17:1 Then all
the congregation of the sons of Israel journeyed by
stages from the wilderness of Sin, according to the
command of the Lord, and camped at Rephidim, and
there was no water for the people to drink.
EXO 17:2 Therefore the people quarreled with
Moses and said, "Give us water that we may drink."
And Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me?
Why do you test the Lord?"
EXO 17:3 But the people thirsted there for
water; and they grumbled against Moses and said,
"Why, now, have you brought us up from Egypt, to
kill us and our children and our livestock with
thirst?"
EXO 17:4 So Moses cried out to the Lord,
saying, "What shall I do to this people? A little
more and they will stone me."
EXO 17:5 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Pass
before the people and take with you some of the
elders of Israel; and take in your hand your staff
with which you struck the Nile, and go.
EXO 17:6 "Behold, I will stand before you
there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the
rock, and water will come out of it, that the people
may drink." And Moses did so in the sight of the
elders of Israel.
EXO 17:7 And he named the place Massah and
Meribah because of the quarrel of the sons of
Israel, and because they tested the Lord, saying,
"Is the Lord among us, or not?"
EXO 17:8 Then Amalek came and fought against
Israel at Rephidim.
EXO 17:9 So Moses said to Joshua, "Choose men
for us, and go out, fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I
will station myself on the top of the hill with the
staff of God in my hand."
EXO 17:10 And Joshua did as Moses told him,
and fought against Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur
went up to the top of the hill.
EXO 17:11 So it came about when Moses held
his hand up, that Israel prevailed, and when he let
his hand down, Amalek prevailed.
EXO 17:12 But Moses' hands were heavy. Then
they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat
on it; and Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on
one side and one on the other. Thus his hands were
steady until the sun set.
EXO 17:13 So Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and
his people with the edge of the sword.
EXO 17:14 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Write
this in a book as a memorial, and recite it to
Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of
Amalek from under heaven."
EXO 17:15 And Moses built an altar, and named
it The Lord is My Banner;
EXO 17:16 and he said, "The Lord has sworn;
the Lord will have war against Amalek from
generation to generation."
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EXO 18:1 Now
Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law,
heard of all that God had done for Moses and for
Israel His people, how the Lord had brought Israel
out of Egypt.
EXO 18:2 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law,
took Moses' wife Zipporah, after he had sent her
away,
EXO 18:3 and her two sons, of whom one was
named Gershom, for he said, "I have been a sojourner
in a foreign land."
EXO 18:4 And the other was named Eliezer, for
{he said,} "The God of my father was my help, and
delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh."
EXO 18:5 Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law,
came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the
wilderness where he was camped, at the mount of God.
EXO 18:6 And he sent word to Moses, "I, your
father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your
wife and her two sons with her."
EXO 18:7 Then Moses went out to meet his
father-in-law, and he bowed down and kissed him; and
they asked each other of their welfare, and went
into the tent.
EXO 18:8 And Moses told his father-in-law all
that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the
Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardship that
had befallen them on the journey, and {how} the Lord
had delivered them.
EXO 18:9 And Jethro rejoiced over all the
goodness which the Lord had done to Israel, in
delivering them from the hand of the Egyptians.
EXO 18:10 So Jethro said, "Blessed be the
Lord who delivered you from the hand of the
Egyptians and from the hand of Pharaoh, {and} who
delivered the people from under the hand of the
Egyptians.
EXO 18:11 "Now I know that the Lord is
greater than all the gods; indeed, it was proven
when they dealt proudly against the people."
EXO 18:12 Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law,
took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and
Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a
meal with Moses' father-in-law before God.
EXO 18:13 And it came about the next day that
Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood
about Moses from the morning until the evening.
EXO 18:14 Now when Moses' father-in-law saw
all that he was doing for the people, he said, "What
is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why
do you alone sit {as judge} and all the people stand
about you from morning until evening?"
EXO 18:15 And Moses said to his
father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to
inquire of God.
EXO 18:16 "When they have a dispute, it comes
to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor,
and make known the statutes of God and His laws."
EXO 18:17 And Moses' father-in-law said to
him, "The thing that you are doing is not good.
EXO 18:18 "You will surely wear out, both
yourself and these people who are with you, for the
task is too heavy for you; you cannot do it alone.
EXO 18:19 "Now listen to me: I shall give you
counsel, and God be with you. You be the people's
representative before God, and you bring the
disputes to God,
EXO 18:20 then teach them the statutes and
the laws, and make known to them the way in which
they are to walk, and the work they are to do.
EXO 18:21 "Furthermore, you shall select out
of all the people able men who fear God, men of
truth, those who hate dishonest gain; and you shall
place {these} over them, {as} leaders of thousands,
of hundreds, of fifties and of tens.
EXO 18:22 "And let them judge the people at
all times; and let it be that every major dispute
they will bring to you, but every minor dispute they
themselves will judge. So it will be easier for you,
and they will bear {the burden} with you.
EXO 18:23 "If you do this thing and God {so}
commands you, then you will be able to endure, and
all these people also will go to their place in
peace."
EXO 18:24 So Moses listened to his
father-in-law, and did all that he had said.
EXO 18:25 And Moses chose able men out of all
Israel, and made them heads over the people, leaders
of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens.
EXO 18:26 And they judged the people at all
times; the difficult dispute they would bring to
Moses, but every minor dispute they themselves would
judge.
EXO 18:27 Then Moses bade his father-in-law
farewell, and he went his way into his own land.
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EXO 19:1 In the
third month after the sons of Israel had gone out of
the land of Egypt, on that very day they came into
the wilderness of Sinai.
EXO 19:2 When they set out from Rephidim,
they came to the wilderness of Sinai, and camped in
the wilderness; and there Israel camped in front of
the mountain.
EXO 19:3 And Moses went up to God, and the
Lord called to him from the mountain, saying, "Thus
you shall say to the house of Jacob and tell the
sons of Israel:
EXO 19:4 'You yourselves have seen what I did
to the Egyptians, and {how} I bore you on eagles'
wings, and brought you to Myself.
EXO 19:5 'Now then, if you will indeed obey
My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My
own possession among all the peoples, for all the
earth is Mine;
EXO 19:6 and you shall be to Me a kingdom of
priests and a holy nation.' These are the words that
you shall speak to the sons of Israel."
EXO 19:7 So Moses came and called the elders
of the people, and set before them all these words
which the Lord had commanded him.
EXO 19:8 And all the people answered together
and said, "All that the Lord has spoken we will do!"
And Moses brought back the words of the people to
the Lord.
EXO 19:9 And the Lord said to Moses, "Behold,
I shall come to you in a thick cloud, in order that
the people may hear when I speak with you, and may
also believe in you forever." Then Moses told the
words of the people to the Lord.
EXO 19:10 The Lord also said to Moses, "Go to
the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow,
and let them wash their garments;
EXO 19:11 and let them be ready for the third
day, for on the third day the Lord will come down on
Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
EXO 19:12 "And you shall set bounds for the
people all around, saying, 'Beware that you do not
go up on the mountain or touch the border of it;
whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to
death.
EXO 19:13 'No hand shall touch him, but he
shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether
beast or man, he shall not live.' When the ram's
horn sounds a long blast, they shall come up to the
mountain."
EXO 19:14 So Moses went down from the
mountain to the people and consecrated the people,
and they washed their garments.
EXO 19:15 And he said to the people, "Be
ready for the third day; do not go near a woman."
EXO 19:16 So it came about on the third day,
when it was morning, that there were thunder and
lightning flashes and a thick cloud upon the
mountain and a very loud trumpet sound, so that all
the people who {were} in the camp trembled.
EXO 19:17 And Moses brought the people out of
the camp to meet God, and they stood at the foot of
the mountain.
EXO 19:18 Now Mount Sinai {was} all in smoke
because the Lord descended upon it in fire; and its
smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the
whole mountain quaked violently.
EXO 19:19 When the sound of the trumpet grew
louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him
with thunder.
EXO 19:20 And the Lord came down on Mount
Sinai, to the top of the mountain; and the Lord
called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses
went up.
EXO 19:21 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, "Go
down, warn the people, lest they break through to
the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish.
EXO 19:22 "And also let the priests who come
near to the Lord consecrate themselves, lest the
Lord break out against them."
EXO 19:23 And Moses said to the Lord, "The
people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, for Thou didst
warn us, saying, 'Set bounds about the mountain and
consecrate it.'"
EXO 19:24 Then the Lord said to him, "Go down
and come up {again,} you and Aaron with you; but do
not let the priests and the people break through to
come up to the Lord, lest He break forth upon them."
EXO 19:25 So Moses went down to the people
and told them.
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EXO 20:1 Then God
spoke all these words, saying,
EXO 20:2 "I am the Lord your God, who brought
you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
slavery.
EXO 20:3 "You shall have no other gods before
Me.
EXO 20:4 "You shall not make for yourself an
idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or
on the earth beneath or in the water under the
earth.
EXO 20:5 "You shall not worship them or serve
them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the
children, on the third and the fourth generations of
those who hate Me,
EXO 20:6 but showing lovingkindness to
thousands, to those who love Me and keep My
commandments.
EXO 20:7 "You shall not take the name of the
Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not leave
him unpunished who takes His name in vain.
EXO 20:8 "Remember the sabbath day, to keep
it holy.
EXO 20:9 "Six days you shall labor and do all
your work,
EXO 20:10 but the seventh day is a sabbath of
the Lord your God; {in it} you shall not do any
work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or
your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner
who stays with you.
EXO 20:11 "For in six days the Lord made the
heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in
them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the
Lord blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.
EXO 20:12 "Honor your father and your mother,
that your days may be prolonged in the land which
the Lord your God gives you.
EXO 20:13 "You shall not murder.
EXO 20:14 "You shall not commit adultery.
EXO 20:15 "You shall not steal.
EXO 20:16 "You shall not bear false witness
against your neighbor.
EXO 20:17 "You shall not covet your
neighbor's house; you shall not covet your
neighbor's wife or his male servant or his female
servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that
belongs to your neighbor."
EXO 20:18 And all the people perceived the
thunder and the lightning flashes and the sound of
the trumpet and the mountain smoking; and when the
people saw {it,} they trembled and stood at a
distance.
EXO 20:19 Then they said to Moses, "Speak to
us yourself and we will listen; but let not God
speak to us, lest we die."
EXO 20:20 And Moses said to the people, "Do
not be afraid; for God has come in order to test
you, and in order that the fear of Him may remain
with you, so that you may not sin."
EXO 20:21 So the people stood at a distance,
while Moses approached the thick cloud where God
{was.}
EXO 20:22 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Thus
you shall say to the sons of Israel, 'You yourselves
have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven.
EXO 20:23 'You shall not make {other gods}
besides Me; gods of silver or gods of gold, you
shall not make for yourselves.
EXO 20:24 'You shall make an altar of earth
for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt
offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and
your oxen; in every place where I cause My name to
be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.
EXO 20:25 'And if you make an altar of stone
for Me, you shall not build it of cut stones, for if
you wield your tool on it, you will profane it.
EXO 20:26 'And you shall not go up by steps
to My altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed
on it.'
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EXO 21:1 "Now
these are the ordinances which you are to set before
them.
EXO 21:2 "If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall
serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go
out as a free man without payment.
EXO 21:3 "If he comes alone, he shall go out
alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife
shall go out with him.
EXO 21:4 "If his master gives him a wife, and
she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her
children shall belong to her master, and he shall go
out alone.
EXO 21:5 "But if the slave plainly says, 'I
love my master, my wife and my children; I will not
go out as a free man,'
EXO 21:6 then his master shall bring him to
God, then he shall bring him to the door or the
doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with
an awl; and he shall serve him permanently.
EXO 21:7 "And if a man sells his daughter as
a female slave, she is not to go free as the male
slaves do.
EXO 21:8 "If she is displeasing in the eyes
of her master who designated her for himself, then
he shall let her be redeemed. He does not have
authority to sell her to a foreign people because of
his unfairness to her.
EXO 21:9 "And if he designates her for his
son, he shall deal with her according to the custom
of daughters.
EXO 21:10 "If he takes to himself another
woman, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or
her conjugal rights.
EXO 21:11 "And if he will not do these three
{things} for her, then she shall go out for nothing,
without {payment of} money.
EXO 21:12 "He who strikes a man so that he
dies shall surely be put to death.
EXO 21:13 "But if he did not lie in wait {for
him,} but God let {him} fall into his hand, then I
will appoint you a place to which he may flee.
EXO 21:14 "If, however, a man acts
presumptuously toward his neighbor, so as to kill
him craftily, you are to take him {even} from My
altar, that he may die.
EXO 21:15 "And he who strikes his father or
his mother shall surely be put to death.
EXO 21:16 "And he who kidnaps a man, whether
he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall
surely be put to death.
EXO 21:17 "And he who curses his father or
his mother shall surely be put to death.
EXO 21:18 "And if men have a quarrel and one
strikes the other with a stone or with {his} fist,
and he does not die but remains in bed;
EXO 21:19 if he gets up and walks around
outside on his staff, then he who struck him shall
go unpunished; he shall only pay for his loss of
time, and shall take care of him until he is
completely healed.
EXO 21:20 "And if a man strikes his male or
female slave with a rod and he dies at his hand, he
shall be punished.
EXO 21:21 "If, however, he survives a day or
two, no vengeance shall be taken; for he is his
property.
EXO 21:22 "And {if} men struggle with each
other and strike a woman with child so that she has
a miscarriage, yet there is no {further} injury, he
shall surely be fined as the woman's husband may
demand of him; and he shall pay as the judges
{decide.}
EXO 21:23 "But if there is {any further}
injury, then you shall appoint {as a penalty} life
for life,
EXO 21:24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand
for hand, foot for foot,
EXO 21:25 burn for burn, wound for wound,
bruise for bruise.
EXO 21:26 "And if a man strikes the eye of
his male or female slave, and destroys it, he shall
let him go free on account of his eye.
EXO 21:27 "And if he knocks out a tooth of
his male or female slave, he shall let him go free
on account of his tooth.
EXO 21:28 "And if an ox gores a man or a
woman to death, the ox shall surely be stoned and
its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the
ox shall go unpunished.
EXO 21:29 "If, however, an ox was previously
in the habit of goring, and its owner has been
warned, yet he does not confine it, and it kills a
man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned and its owner
also shall be put to death.
EXO 21:30 "If a ransom is demanded of him,
then he shall give for the redemption of his life
whatever is demanded of him.
EXO 21:31 "Whether it gores a son or a
daughter, it shall be done to him according to the
same rule.
EXO 21:32 "If the ox gores a male or female
slave, the owner shall give his {or her} master
thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be
stoned.
EXO 21:33 "And if a man opens a pit, or digs
a pit and does not cover it over, and an ox or a
donkey falls into it,
EXO 21:34 the owner of the pit shall make
restitution; he shall give money to its owner, and
the dead {animal} shall become his.
EXO 21:35 "And if one man's ox hurts
another's so that it dies, then they shall sell the
live ox and divide its price equally; and also they
shall divide the dead {ox.}
EXO 21:36 "Or {if} it is known that the ox
was previously in the habit of goring, yet its owner
has not confined it, he shall surely pay ox for ox,
and the dead {animal} shall become his.
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EXO 22:1 "If a
man steals an ox or a sheep, and slaughters it or
sells it, he shall pay five oxen for the ox and four
sheep for the sheep.
EXO 22:2 "If the thief is caught while
breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there
will be no bloodguiltiness on his account.
EXO 22:3 "{But} if the sun has risen on him,
there will be bloodguiltiness on his account. He
shall surely make restitution; if he owns nothing,
then he shall be sold for his theft.
EXO 22:4 "If what he stole is actually found
alive in his possession, whether an ox or a donkey
or a sheep, he shall pay double.
EXO 22:5 "If a man lets a field or vineyard
be grazed {bare} and lets his animal loose so that
it grazes in another man's field, he shall make
restitution from the best of his own field and the
best of his own vineyard.
EXO 22:6 "If a fire breaks out and spreads to
thorn bushes, so that stacked grain or the standing
grain or the field {itself} is consumed, he who
started the fire shall surely make restitution.
EXO 22:7 "If a man gives his neighbor money
or goods to keep {for him,} and it is stolen from
the man's house, if the thief is caught, he shall
pay double.
EXO 22:8 "If the thief is not caught, then
the owner of the house shall appear before the
judges, {to} determine whether he laid his hands on
his neighbor's property.
EXO 22:9 "For every breach of trust, {whether
it is} for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing,
{or} for any lost thing about which one says, 'This
is it,' the case of both parties shall come before
the judges; he whom the judges condemn shall pay
double to his neighbor.
EXO 22:10 "If a man gives his neighbor a
donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep {for
him,} and it dies or is hurt or is driven away while
no one is looking,
EXO 22:11 an oath before the Lord shall be
made by the two of them, that he has not laid hands
on his neighbor's property; and its owner shall
accept {it,} and he shall not make restitution.
EXO 22:12 "But if it is actually stolen from
him, he shall make restitution to its owner.
EXO 22:13 "If it is all torn to pieces, let
him bring it as evidence; he shall not make
restitution for what has been torn to pieces.
EXO 22:14 "And if a man borrows {anything}
from his neighbor, and it is injured or dies while
its owner is not with it, he shall make full
restitution.
EXO 22:15 "If its owner is with it, he shall
not make restitution; if it is hired, it came for
its hire.
EXO 22:16 "And if a man seduces a virgin who
is not engaged, and lies with her, he must pay a
dowry for her {to be} his wife.
EXO 22:17 "If her father absolutely refuses
to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the
dowry for virgins.
EXO 22:18 "You shall not allow a sorceress to
live.
EXO 22:19 "Whoever lies with an animal shall
surely be put to death.
EXO 22:20 "He who sacrifices to any god,
other than to the Lord alone, shall be utterly
destroyed.
EXO 22:21 "And you shall not wrong a stranger
or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land
of Egypt.
EXO 22:22 "You shall not afflict any widow or
orphan.
EXO 22:23 "If you afflict him at all, {and}
if he does cry out to Me, I will surely hear his
cry;
EXO 22:24 and My anger will be kindled, and I
will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall
become widows and your children fatherless.
EXO 22:25 "If you lend money to My people, to
the poor among you, you are not to act as a creditor
to him; you shall not charge him interest.
EXO 22:26 "If you ever take your neighbor's
cloak as a pledge, you are to return it to him
before the sun sets,
EXO 22:27 for that is his only covering; it
is his cloak for his body. What else shall he sleep
in? And it shall come about that when he cries out
to Me, I will hear {him,} for I am gracious.
EXO 22:28 "You shall not curse God, nor curse
a ruler of your people.
EXO 22:29 "You shall not delay {the offering
from} your harvest and your vintage. The first-born
of your sons you shall give to Me.
EXO 22:30 "You shall do the same with your
oxen {and} with your sheep. It shall be with its
mother seven days; on the eighth day you shall give
it to Me.
EXO 22:31 "And you shall be holy men to Me,
therefore you shall not eat {any} flesh torn to
pieces in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.
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EXO 23:1 "You
shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand
with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.
EXO 23:2 "You shall not follow a multitude in
doing evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as
to turn aside after a multitude in order to pervert
{justice;}
EXO 23:3 nor shall you be partial to a poor
man in his dispute.
EXO 23:4 "If you meet your enemy's ox or his
donkey wandering away, you shall surely return it to
him.
EXO 23:5 "If you see the donkey of one who
hates you lying {helpless} under its load, you shall
refrain from leaving it to him, you shall surely
release {it} with him.
EXO 23:6 "You shall not pervert the justice
{due} to your needy {brother} in his dispute.
EXO 23:7 "Keep far from a false charge, and
do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for I
will not acquit the guilty.
EXO 23:8 "And you shall not take a bribe, for
a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the
cause of the just.
EXO 23:9 "And you shall not oppress a
stranger, since you yourselves know the feelings of
a stranger, for you {also} were strangers in the
land of Egypt.
EXO 23:10 "And you shall sow your land for
six years and gather in its yield,
EXO 23:11 but {on} the seventh year you shall
let it rest and lie fallow, so that the needy of
your people may eat; and whatever they leave the
beast of the field may eat. You are to do the same
with your vineyard {and} your olive grove.
EXO 23:12 "Six days you are to do your work,
but on the seventh day you shall cease {from labor}
in order that your ox and your donkey may rest, and
the son of your female slave, as well as your
stranger, may refresh themselves.
EXO 23:13 "Now concerning everything which I
have said to you, be on your guard; and do not
mention the name of other gods, nor let {them} be
heard from your mouth.
EXO 23:14 "Three times a year you shall
celebrate a feast to Me.
EXO 23:15 "You shall observe the Feast of
Unleavened Bread; for seven days you are to eat
unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the
appointed time in the month Abib, for in it you came
out of Egypt. And none shall appear before Me
empty-handed.
EXO 23:16 "Also {you shall observe} the Feast
of the Harvest {of} the first fruits of your labors
{from} what you sow in the field; also the Feast of
the Ingathering at the end of the year when you
gather in {the fruit of} your labors from the field.
EXO 23:17 "Three times a year all your males
shall appear before the Lord God.
EXO 23:18 "You shall not offer the blood of
My sacrifice with leavened bread; nor is the fat of
My feast to remain overnight until morning.
EXO 23:19 "You shall bring the choice first
fruits of your soil into the house of the Lord your
God. You are not to boil a kid in the milk of its
mother.
EXO 23:20 "Behold, I am going to send an
angel before you to guard you along the way, and to
bring you into the place which I have prepared.
EXO 23:21 "Be on your guard before him and
obey his voice; do not be rebellious toward him, for
he will not pardon your transgression, since My name
is in him.
EXO 23:22 "But if you will truly obey his
voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy
to your enemies and an adversary to your
adversaries.
EXO 23:23 "For My angel will go before you
and bring you in to {the land of} the Amorites, the
Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the
Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will completely
destroy them.
EXO 23:24 "You shall not worship their gods,
nor serve them, nor do according to their deeds; but
you shall utterly overthrow them, and break their
{sacred} pillars in pieces.
EXO 23:25 "But you shall serve the Lord your
God, and He will bless your bread and your water;
and I will remove sickness from your midst.
EXO 23:26 "There shall be no one miscarrying
or barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of
your days.
EXO 23:27 "I will send My terror ahead of
you, and throw into confusion all the people among
whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn
{their} backs to you.
EXO 23:28 "And I will send hornets ahead of
you, that they may drive out the Hivites, the
Canaanites, and the Hittites before you.
EXO 23:29 "I will not drive them out before
you in a single year, that the land may not become
desolate, and the beasts of the field become too
numerous for you.
EXO 23:30 "I will drive them out before you
little by little, until you become fruitful and take
possession of the land.
EXO 23:31 "And I will fix your boundary from
the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from
the wilderness to the River {Euphrates;} for I will
deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand,
and you will drive them out before you.
EXO 23:32 "You shall make no covenant with
them or with their gods.
EXO 23:33 "They shall not live in your land,
lest they make you sin against Me; for {if} you
serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you."
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EXO 24:1 Then He
said to Moses, "Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron,
Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the elders of Israel,
and you shall worship at a distance.
EXO 24:2 "Moses alone, however, shall come
near to the Lord, but they shall not come near, nor
shall the people come up with him."
EXO 24:3 Then Moses came and recounted to the
people all the words of the Lord and all the
ordinances; and all the people answered with one
voice, and said, "All the words which the Lord has
spoken we will do!"
EXO 24:4 And Moses wrote down all the words
of the Lord. Then he arose early in the morning, and
built an altar at the foot of the mountain with
twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
EXO 24:5 And he sent young men of the sons of
Israel, and they offered burnt offerings and
sacrificed young bulls as peace offerings to the
Lord.
EXO 24:6 And Moses took half of the blood and
put {it} in basins, and the {other} half of the
blood he sprinkled on the altar.
EXO 24:7 Then he took the book of the
covenant and read {it} in the hearing of the people;
and they said, "All that the Lord has spoken we will
do, and we will be obedient!"
EXO 24:8 So Moses took the blood and
sprinkled {it} on the people, and said, "Behold the
blood of the covenant, which the Lord has made with
you in accordance with all these words."
EXO 24:9 Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab
and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,
EXO 24:10 and they saw the God of Israel; and
under His feet there appeared to be a pavement of
sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.
EXO 24:11 Yet He did not stretch out His hand
against the nobles of the sons of Israel; and they
beheld God, and they ate and drank.
EXO 24:12 Now the Lord said to Moses, "Come
up to Me on the mountain and remain there, and I
will give you the stone tablets with the law and the
commandment which I have written for their
instruction."
EXO 24:13 So Moses arose with Joshua his
servant, and Moses went up to the mountain of God.
EXO 24:14 But to the elders he said, "Wait
here for us until we return to you. And behold,
Aaron and Hur are with you; whoever has a legal
matter, let him approach them."
EXO 24:15 Then Moses went up to the mountain,
and the cloud covered the mountain.
EXO 24:16 And the glory of the Lord rested on
Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days;
and on the seventh day He called to Moses from the
midst of the cloud.
EXO 24:17 And to the eyes of the sons of
Israel the appearance of the glory of the Lord was
like a consuming fire on the mountain top.
EXO 24:18 And Moses entered the midst of the
cloud as he went up to the mountain; and Moses was
on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
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EXO 25:1 Then the
Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
EXO 25:2 "Tell the sons of Israel to raise a
contribution for Me; from every man whose heart
moves him you shall raise My contribution.
EXO 25:3 "And this is the contribution which
you are to raise from them: gold, silver and bronze,
EXO 25:4 blue, purple and scarlet {material,}
fine linen, goat {hair,}
EXO 25:5 rams' skins dyed red, porpoise
skins, acacia wood,
EXO 25:6 oil for lighting, spices for the
anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,
EXO 25:7 onyx stones and setting stones, for
the ephod and for the breastpiece.
EXO 25:8 "And let them construct a sanctuary
for Me, that I may dwell among them.
EXO 25:9 "According to all that I am going to
show you, {as} the pattern of the tabernacle and the
pattern of all its furniture, just so you shall
construct {it.}
EXO 25:10 "And they shall construct an ark of
acacia wood two and a half cubits long, and one and
a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high.
EXO 25:11 "And you shall overlay it with pure
gold, inside and out you shall overlay it, and you
shall make a gold molding around it.
EXO 25:12 "And you shall cast four gold rings
for it, and fasten them on its four feet, and two
rings shall be on one side of it and two rings on
the other side of it.
EXO 25:13 "And you shall make poles of acacia
wood and overlay them with gold.
EXO 25:14 "And you shall put the poles into
the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark
with them.
EXO 25:15 "The poles shall remain in the
rings of the ark; they shall not be removed from it.
EXO 25:16 "And you shall put into the ark the
testimony which I shall give you.
EXO 25:17 "And you shall make a mercy seat of
pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a
half cubits wide.
EXO 25:18 "And you shall make two cherubim of
gold, make them of hammered work at the two ends of
the mercy seat.
EXO 25:19 "And make one cherub at one end and
one cherub at the other end; you shall make the
cherubim {of one piece} with the mercy seat at its
two ends.
EXO 25:20 "And the cherubim shall have
{their} wings spread upward, covering the mercy seat
with their wings and facing one another; the faces
of the cherubim are to be {turned} toward the mercy
seat.
EXO 25:21 "And you shall put the mercy seat
on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the
testimony which I shall give to you.
EXO 25:22 "And there I will meet with you;
and from above the mercy seat, from between the two
cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, I
will speak to you about all that I will give you in
commandment for the sons of Israel.
EXO 25:23 "And you shall make a table of
acacia wood, two cubits long and one cubit wide and
one and a half cubits high.
EXO 25:24 "And you shall overlay it with pure
gold and make a gold border around it.
EXO 25:25 "And you shall make for it a rim of
a handbreadth around {it;} and you shall make a gold
border for the rim around it.
EXO 25:26 "And you shall make four gold rings
for it and put rings on the four corners which are
on its four feet.
EXO 25:27 "The rings shall be close to the
rim as holders for the poles to carry the table.
EXO 25:28 "And you shall make the poles of
acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that with
them the table may be carried.
EXO 25:29 "And you shall make its dishes and
its pans and its jars and its bowls, with which to
pour libations; you shall make them of pure gold.
EXO 25:30 "And you shall set the bread of the
Presence on the table before Me at all times.
EXO 25:31 "Then you shall make a lampstand of
pure gold. The lampstand {and} its base and its
shaft are to be made of hammered work; its cups, its
bulbs and its flowers shall be {of one piece} with
it.
EXO 25:32 "And six branches shall go out from
its sides; three branches of the lampstand from its
one side, and three branches of the lampstand from
its other side.
EXO 25:33 "Three cups {shall be} shaped like
almond {blossoms} in the one branch, a bulb and a
flower, and three cups shaped like almond {blossoms}
in the other branch, a bulb and a flower - - so for
six branches going out from the lampstand;
EXO 25:34 and in the lampstand four cups
shaped like almond {blossoms,} its bulbs and its
flowers.
EXO 25:35 "And a bulb shall be under the
{first} pair of branches {coming} out of it, and a
bulb under the {second} pair of branches {coming}
out of it, and a bulb under the {third} pair of
branches {coming} out of it, for the six branches
coming out of the lampstand.
EXO 25:36 "Their bulbs and their branches
{shall be of one piece} with it; all of it shall be
one piece of hammered work of pure gold.
EXO 25:37 "Then you shall make its lamps
seven {in number;} and they shall mount its lamps so
as to shed light on the space in front of it.
EXO 25:38 "And its snuffers and their trays
{shall be} of pure gold.
EXO 25:39 "It shall be made from a talent of
pure gold, with all these utensils.
EXO 25:40 "And see that you make {them} after
the pattern for them, which was shown to you on the
mountain.
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EXO 26:1
"Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten
curtains of fine twisted linen and blue and purple
and scarlet {material;} you shall make them with
cherubim, the work of a skillful workman.
EXO 26:2 "The length of each curtain shall be
twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain
four cubits; all the curtains shall have the same
measurements.
EXO 26:3 "Five curtains shall be joined to
one another; and {the other} five curtains {shall
be} joined to one another.
EXO 26:4 "And you shall make loops of blue on
the edge of the outermost curtain in the {first}
set, and likewise you shall make {them} on the edge
of the curtain that is outermost in the second set.
EXO 26:5 "You shall make fifty loops in the
one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops on the
edge of the curtain that is in the second set; the
loops shall be opposite each other.
EXO 26:6 "And you shall make fifty clasps of
gold, and join the curtains to one another with the
clasps, that the tabernacle may be a unit.
EXO 26:7 "Then you shall make curtains of
goats' {hair} for a tent over the tabernacle; you
shall make eleven curtains in all.
EXO 26:8 "The length of each curtain {shall
be} thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain
four cubits; the eleven curtains shall have the same
measurements.
EXO 26:9 "And you shall join five curtains by
themselves, and the {other} six curtains by
themselves, and you shall double over the sixth
curtain at the front of the tent.
EXO 26:10 "And you shall make fifty loops on
the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the
{first} set, and fifty loops on the edge of the
curtain {that is outermost in} the second set.
EXO 26:11 "And you shall make fifty clasps of
bronze, and you shall put the clasps into the loops
and join the tent together, that it may be a unit.
EXO 26:12 "And the overlapping part that is
left over in the curtains of the tent, the half
curtain that is left over, shall lap over the back
of the tabernacle.
EXO 26:13 "And the cubit on one side and the
cubit on the other, of what is left over in the
length of the curtains of the tent, shall lap over
the sides of the tabernacle on one side and on the
other, to cover it.
EXO 26:14 "And you shall make a covering for
the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of
porpoise skins above.
EXO 26:15 "Then you shall make the boards for
the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright.
EXO 26:16 "Ten cubits {shall be} the length
of each board, and one and a half cubits the width
of each board.
EXO 26:17 "There {shall be} two tenons for
each board, fitted to one another; thus you shall do
for all the boards of the tabernacle.
EXO 26:18 "And you shall make the boards for
the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side.
EXO 26:19 "And you shall make forty sockets
of silver under the twenty boards, two sockets under
one board for its two tenons and two sockets under
another board for its two tenons;
EXO 26:20 and for the second side of the
tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards,
EXO 26:21 and their forty sockets of silver;
two sockets under one board and two sockets under
another board.
EXO 26:22 "And for the rear of the
tabernacle, to the west, you shall make six boards.
EXO 26:23 "And you shall make two boards for
the corners of the tabernacle at the rear.
EXO 26:24 "And they shall be double beneath,
and together they shall be complete to its top to
the first ring; thus it shall be with both of them:
they shall form the two corners.
EXO 26:25 "And there shall be eight boards
with their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two
sockets under one board and two sockets under
another board.
EXO 26:26 "Then you shall make bars of acacia
wood, five for the boards of one side of the
tabernacle,
EXO 26:27 and five bars for the boards of the
other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the
boards of the side of the tabernacle for the rear
{side} to the west.
EXO 26:28 "And the middle bar in the center
of the boards shall pass through from end to end.
EXO 26:29 "And you shall overlay the boards
with gold and make their rings of gold {as} holders
for the bars; and you shall overlay the bars with
gold.
EXO 26:30 "Then you shall erect the
tabernacle according to its plan which you have been
shown in the mountain.
EXO 26:31 "And you shall make a veil of blue
and purple and scarlet {material} and fine twisted
linen; it shall be made with cherubim, the work of a
skillful workman.
EXO 26:32 "And you shall hang it on four
pillars of acacia overlaid with gold, their hooks
{also being of} gold, on four sockets of silver.
EXO 26:33 "And you shall hang up the veil
under the clasps, and shall bring in the ark of the
testimony there within the veil; and the veil shall
serve for you as a partition between the holy place
and the holy of holies.
EXO 26:34 "And you shall put the mercy seat
on the ark of the testimony in the holy of holies.
EXO 26:35 "And you shall set the table
outside the veil, and the lampstand opposite the
table on the side of the tabernacle toward the
south; and you shall put the table on the north
side.
EXO 26:36 "And you shall make a screen for
the doorway of the tent of blue and purple and
scarlet {material} and fine twisted linen, the work
of a weaver.
EXO 26:37 "And you shall make five pillars of
acacia for the screen, and overlay them with gold,
their hooks {also being of} gold; and you shall cast
five sockets of bronze for them.
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EXO 27:1 "And you
shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits
long and five cubits wide; the altar shall be
square, and its height shall be three cubits.
EXO 27:2 "And you shall make its horns on its
four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with
it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.
EXO 27:3 "And you shall make its pails for
removing its ashes, and its shovels and its basins
and its forks and its firepans; you shall make all
its utensils of bronze.
EXO 27:4 "And you shall make for it a grating
of network of bronze, and on the net you shall make
four bronze rings at its four corners.
EXO 27:5 "And you shall put it beneath, under
the ledge of the altar, that the net may reach
halfway up the altar.
EXO 27:6 "And you shall make poles for the
altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with
bronze.
EXO 27:7 "And its poles shall be inserted
into the rings, so that the poles shall be on the
two sides of the altar when it is carried.
EXO 27:8 "You shall make it hollow with
planks; as it was shown to you in the mountain, so
they shall make {it.}
EXO 27:9 "And you shall make the court of the
tabernacle. On the south side {there shall be}
hangings for the court of fine twisted linen one
hundred cubits long for one side;
EXO 27:10 and its pillars {shall be} twenty,
with their twenty sockets of bronze; the hooks of
the pillars and their bands {shall be} of silver.
EXO 27:11 "And likewise for the north side in
length {there shall be} hangings one hundred
{cubits} long, and its twenty pillars with their
twenty sockets of bronze; the hooks of the pillars
and their bands {shall be} of silver.
EXO 27:12 "And {for} the width of the court
on the west side {shall be} hangings of fifty cubits
{with} their ten pillars and their ten sockets.
EXO 27:13 "And the width of the court on the
east side {shall be} fifty cubits.
EXO 27:14 "The hangings for the {one} side
{of the gate shall be} fifteen cubits {with} their
three pillars and their three sockets.
EXO 27:15 "And for the other side {shall be}
hangings of fifteen cubits {with} their three
pillars and their three sockets.
EXO 27:16 "And for the gate of the court
there {shall be} a screen of twenty cubits, of blue
and purple and scarlet {material} and fine twisted
linen, the work of a weaver, {with} their four
pillars and their four sockets.
EXO 27:17 "All the pillars around the court
shall be furnished with silver bands {with} their
hooks of silver and their sockets of bronze.
EXO 27:18 "The length of the court {shall be}
one hundred cubits, and the width fifty throughout,
and the height five cubits of fine twisted linen,
and their sockets of bronze.
EXO 27:19 "All the utensils of the tabernacle
{used} in all its service, and all its pegs, and all
the pegs of the court, {shall be} of bronze.
EXO 27:20 "And you shall charge the sons of
Israel, that they bring you clear oil of beaten
olives for the light, to make a lamp burn
continually.
EXO 27:21 "In the tent of meeting, outside
the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and
his sons shall keep it in order from evening to
morning before the Lord; {it shall be} a perpetual
statute throughout their generations for the sons of
Israel.
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EXO 28:1 "Then
bring near to yourself Aaron your brother, and his
sons with him, from among the sons of Israel, to
minister as priest to Me - - Aaron, Nadab and Abihu,
Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.
EXO 28:2 "And you shall make holy garments
for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.
EXO 28:3 "And you shall speak to all the
skillful persons whom I have endowed with the spirit
of wisdom, that they make Aaron's garments to
consecrate him, that he may minister as priest to
Me.
EXO 28:4 "And these are the garments which
they shall make: a breastpiece and an ephod and a
robe and a tunic of checkered work, a turban and a
sash, and they shall make holy garments for Aaron
your brother and his sons, that he may minister as
priest to Me.
EXO 28:5 "And they shall take the gold and
the blue and the purple and the scarlet {material}
and the fine linen.
EXO 28:6 "They shall also make the ephod of
gold, of blue and purple {and} scarlet {material}
and fine twisted linen, the work of the skillful
workman.
EXO 28:7 "It shall have two shoulder pieces
joined to its two ends, that it may be joined.
EXO 28:8 "And the skillfully woven band,
which is on it, shall be like its workmanship, of
the same material: of gold, of blue and purple and
scarlet {material} and fine twisted linen.
EXO 28:9 "And you shall take two onyx stones
and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel,
EXO 28:10 six of their names on the one
stone, and the names of the remaining six on the
other stone, according to their birth.
EXO 28:11 "As a jeweler engraves a signet,
you shall engrave the two stones according to the
names of the sons of Israel; you shall set them in
filigree {settings} of gold.
EXO 28:12 "And you shall put the two stones
on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, {as} stones of
memorial for the sons of Israel, and Aaron shall
bear their names before the Lord on his two
shoulders for a memorial.
EXO 28:13 "And you shall make filigree
{settings} of gold,
EXO 28:14 and two chains of pure gold; you
shall make them of twisted cordage work, and you
shall put the corded chains on the filigree
{settings.}
EXO 28:15 "And you shall make a breastpiece
of judgment, the work of a skillful workman; like
the work of the ephod you shall make it: of gold, of
blue and purple and scarlet {material} and fine
twisted linen you shall make it.
EXO 28:16 "It shall be square {and} folded
double, a span in length and a span in width.
EXO 28:17 "And you shall mount on it four
rows of stones; the first row {shall be} a row of
ruby, topaz and emerald;
EXO 28:18 and the second row a turquoise, a
sapphire and a diamond;
EXO 28:19 and the third row a jacinth, an
agate and an amethyst;
EXO 28:20 and the fourth row a beryl and an
onyx and a jasper; they shall be set in gold
filigree.
EXO 28:21 "And the stones shall be according
to the names of the sons of Israel: twelve,
according to their names; they shall be {like} the
engravings of a seal, each according to his name for
the twelve tribes.
EXO 28:22 "And you shall make on the
breastpiece chains of twisted cordage work in pure
gold.
EXO 28:23 "And you shall make on the
breastpiece two rings of gold, and shall put the two
rings on the two ends of the breastpiece.
EXO 28:24 "And you shall put the two cords of
gold on the two rings at the ends of the breastpiece.
EXO 28:25 "And you shall put the {other} two
ends of the two cords on the two filigree
{settings,} and put them on the shoulder pieces of
the ephod, at the front of it.
EXO 28:26 "And you shall make two rings of
gold and shall place them on the two ends of the
breastpiece, on the edge of it, which is toward the
inner side of the ephod.
EXO 28:27 "And you shall make two rings of
gold and put them on the bottom of the two shoulder
pieces of the ephod, on the front of it close to the
place where it is joined, above the skillfully woven
band of the ephod.
EXO 28:28 "And they shall bind the
breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod
with a blue cord, that it may be on the skillfully
woven band of the ephod, and that the breastpiece
may not come loose from the ephod.
EXO 28:29 "And Aaron shall carry the names of
the sons of Israel in the breastpiece of judgment
over his heart when he enters the holy place, for a
memorial before the Lord continually.
EXO 28:30 "And you shall put in the
breastpiece of judgment the Urim and the Thummim,
and they shall be over Aaron's heart when he goes in
before the Lord; and Aaron shall carry the judgment
of the sons of Israel over his heart before the Lord
continually.
EXO 28:31 "And you shall make the robe of the
ephod all of blue.
EXO 28:32 "And there shall be an opening at
its top in the middle of it; around its opening
there shall be a binding of woven work, as {it were}
the opening of a coat of mail, that it may not be
torn.
EXO 28:33 "And you shall make on its hem
pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet
{material,} all around on its hem, and bells of gold
between them all around:
EXO 28:34 a golden bell and a pomegranate, a
golden bell and a pomegranate, all around on the hem
of the robe.
EXO 28:35 "And it shall be on Aaron when he
ministers; and its tinkling may be heard when he
enters and leaves the holy place before the Lord,
that he may not die.
EXO 28:36 "You shall also make a plate of
pure gold and shall engrave on it, like the
engravings of a seal, 'Holy to the Lord.'
EXO 28:37 "And you shall fasten it on a blue
cord, and it shall be on the turban; it shall be at
the front of the turban.
EXO 28:38 "And it shall be on Aaron's
forehead, and Aaron shall take away the iniquity of
the holy things which the sons of Israel consecrate,
with regard to all their holy gifts; and it shall
always be on his forehead, that they may be accepted
before the Lord.
EXO 28:39 "And you shall weave the tunic of
checkered work of fine linen, and shall make a
turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash, the
work of a weaver.
EXO 28:40 "And for Aaron's sons you shall
make tunics; you shall also make sashes for them,
and you shall make caps for them, for glory and for
beauty.
EXO 28:41 "And you shall put them on Aaron
your brother and on his sons with him; and you shall
anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them,
that they may serve Me as priests.
EXO 28:42 "And you shall make for them linen
breeches to cover {their} bare flesh; they shall
reach from the loins even to the thighs.
EXO 28:43 "And they shall be on Aaron and on
his sons when they enter the tent of meeting, or
when they approach the altar to minister in the holy
place, so that they do not incur guilt and die. It
{shall be} a statute forever to him and to his
descendants after him.
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EXO 29:1 "Now
this is what you shall do to them to consecrate them
to minister as priests to Me: take one young bull
and two rams without blemish,
EXO 29:2 and unleavened bread and unleavened
cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread
with oil; you shall make them of fine wheat flour.
EXO 29:3 "And you shall put them in one
basket, and present them in the basket along with
the bull and the two rams.
EXO 29:4 "Then you shall bring Aaron and his
sons to the doorway of the tent of meeting, and wash
them with water.
EXO 29:5 "And you shall take the garments,
and put on Aaron the tunic and the robe of the ephod
and the ephod and the breastpiece, and gird him with
the skillfully woven band of the ephod;
EXO 29:6 and you shall set the turban on his
head, and put the holy crown on the turban.
EXO 29:7 "Then you shall take the anointing
oil, and pour it on his head and anoint him.
EXO 29:8 "And you shall bring his sons and
put tunics on them.
EXO 29:9 "And you shall gird them with
sashes, Aaron and his sons, and bind caps on them,
and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual
statute. So you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.
EXO 29:10 "Then 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.
EXO 29:11 "And you shall slaughter the bull
before the Lord at the doorway of the tent of
meeting.
EXO 29:12 "And you shall take some 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.
EXO 29:13 "And you shall take all the fat
that covers the entrails and the lobe of the liver,
and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and
offer them up in smoke on the altar.
EXO 29:14 "But the flesh of the bull and its
hide and its refuse, you shall burn with fire
outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
EXO 29:15 "You shall also take the one ram,
and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the
head of the ram;
EXO 29:16 and you shall slaughter the ram and
shall take its blood and sprinkle it around on the
altar.
EXO 29:17 "Then you shall cut the ram into
its pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and
put {them} with its pieces and its head.
EXO 29:18 "And you shall offer up in smoke
the whole ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering
to the Lord: it is a soothing aroma, an offering by
fire to the Lord.
EXO 29:19 "Then you shall take the other ram,
and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the
head of the ram.
EXO 29:20 "And you shall slaughter the ram,
and take some of its blood and put {it} on the lobe
of Aaron's right ear and on the lobes of his sons'
right ears and on the thumbs of their right hands
and on the big toes of their right feet, and
sprinkle the {rest of the} blood around on the
altar.
EXO 29:21 "Then you shall take some of the
blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing
oil, and sprinkle {it} on Aaron and on his garments,
and on his sons and on his sons' garments with him;
so he and his garments shall be consecrated, as well
as his sons and his sons' garments with him.
EXO 29:22 "You shall also take the fat from
the ram and the fat tail, and the fat that covers
the entrails and the lobe of the liver, and the two
kidneys and the fat that is on them and the right
thigh (for it is a ram of ordination),
EXO 29:23 and one cake of bread and one cake
of bread {mixed with} oil and one wafer from the
basket of unleavened bread which is {set} before the
Lord;
EXO 29:24 and you shall put all these in the
hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons, and
shall wave them as a wave offering before the Lord.
EXO 29:25 "And you shall take them from their
hands, and offer them up in smoke on the altar on
the burnt offering for a soothing aroma before the
Lord; it is an offering by fire to the Lord.
EXO 29:26 "Then you shall take the breast of
Aaron's ram of ordination, and wave it as a wave
offering before the Lord; and it shall be your
portion.
EXO 29:27 "And you shall consecrate the
breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the
heave offering which was waved and which was offered
from the ram of ordination, from the one which was
for Aaron and from the one which was for his sons.
EXO 29:28 "And it shall be for Aaron and his
sons as {their} portion forever from the sons of
Israel, for it is a heave offering; and it shall be
a heave offering from the sons of Israel from the
sacrifices of their peace offerings, {even} their
heave offering to the Lord.
EXO 29:29 "And the holy garments of Aaron
shall be for his sons after him, that in them they
may be anointed and ordained.
EXO 29:30 "For seven days the one of his sons
who is priest in his stead shall put them on when he
enters the tent of meeting to minister in the holy
place.
EXO 29:31 "And you shall take the ram of
ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place.
EXO 29:32 "And Aaron and his sons shall eat
the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the
basket, at the doorway of the tent of meeting.
EXO 29:33 "Thus they shall eat those things
by which atonement was made at their ordination
{and} consecration; but a layman shall not eat
{them,} because they are holy. EXO 29:34 "And
if any of the flesh of ordination or any of the
bread remains until morning, then you shall burn the
remainder with fire; it shall not be eaten, because
it is holy. EXO 29:35 "And thus you shall do
to Aaron and to his sons, according to all that I
have commanded you; you shall ordain them through
seven days. EXO 29:36 "And each day you shall
offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement, and
you shall purify the altar when you make atonement
for it; and you shall anoint it to consecrate it.
EXO 29:37 "For seven days you shall make
atonement for the altar and consecrate it; then the
altar shall be most holy, {and} whatever touches the
altar shall be holy. EXO 29:38 "Now this is
what you shall offer on the altar: two one year old
lambs each day, continuously. EXO 29:39 "The
one lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the
other lamb you shall offer at twilight; EXO 29:40
and there {shall be} one-tenth {of an ephah} of fine
flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of beaten oil,
and one-fourth of a hin of wine for a libation with
one lamb. EXO 29:41 "And the other lamb you
shall offer at twilight, and shall offer with it the
same grain offering as the morning and the same
libation, for a soothing aroma, an offering by fire
to the Lord. EXO 29:42 "It shall be a
continual burnt offering throughout your generations
at the doorway of the tent of meeting before the
Lord, where I will meet with you, to speak to you
there. EXO 29:43 "And I will meet there with
the sons of Israel, and it shall be consecrated by
My glory. EXO 29:44 "And I will consecrate
the tent of meeting and the altar; I will also
consecrate Aaron and his sons to minister as priests
to Me. EXO 29:45 "And I will dwell among the
sons of Israel and will be their God. EXO 29:46
"And they shall know that I am the Lord their God
who brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I
might dwell among them; I am the Lord their God.
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EXO 30:1
"Moreover, you shall make an altar as a place for
burning incense; you shall make it of acacia wood.
EXO 30:2 "Its length {shall be} a cubit, and
its width a cubit, it shall be square, and its
height {shall be} two cubits; its horns {shall be}
of one piece with it. EXO 30:3 "And you shall
overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides all
around, and its horns; and you shall make a gold
molding all around for it. EXO 30:4 "And you
shall make two gold rings for it under its molding;
you shall make {them} on its two side walls - - on
opposite sides - - and they shall be holders for
poles with which to carry it. EXO 30:5 "And
you shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay
them with gold. EXO 30:6 "And you shall put
this altar in front of the veil that is near the ark
of the testimony, in front of the mercy seat that is
over {the ark of} the testimony, where I will meet
with you. EXO 30:7 "And Aaron shall burn
fragrant incense on it; he shall burn it every
morning when he trims the lamps. EXO 30:8
"And when Aaron trims the lamps at twilight, he
shall burn incense. {There shall be} perpetual
incense before the Lord throughout your generations.
EXO 30:9 "You shall not offer any strange
incense on this altar, or burnt offering or meal
offering; and you shall not pour out a libation on
it.
EXO 30:10 "And Aaron shall make atonement on
its horns once a year; he shall make atonement on it
with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once
a year throughout your generations. It is most holy
to the Lord."
EXO 30:11 The Lord also spoke to Moses,
saying,
EXO 30:12 "When you take a census of the sons
of Israel to number them, then each one of them
shall give a ransom for himself to the Lord, when
you number them, that there may be no plague among
them when you number them.
EXO 30:13 "This is what everyone who is
numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the
shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs),
half a shekel as a contribution to the Lord.
EXO 30:14 "Everyone who is numbered, from
twenty years old and over, shall give the
contribution to the Lord.
EXO 30:15 "The rich shall not pay more, and
the poor shall not pay less than the half shekel,
when you give the contribution to the Lord to make
atonement for yourselves.
EXO 30:16 "And you shall take the atonement
money from the sons of Israel, and shall give it for
the service of the tent of meeting, that it may be a
memorial for the sons of Israel before the Lord, to
make atonement for yourselves."
EXO 30:17 And the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying,
EXO 30:18 "You shall also make a laver of
bronze, with its base of bronze, for washing; and
you shall put it between the tent of meeting and the
altar, and you shall put water in it.
EXO 30:19 "And Aaron and his sons shall wash
their hands and their feet from it;
EXO 30:20 when they enter the tent of
meeting, they shall wash with water, that they may
not die; or when they approach the altar to
minister, by offering up in smoke a fire {sacrifice}
to the Lord.
EXO 30:21 "So they shall wash their hands and
their feet, that they may not die; and it shall be a
perpetual statute for them, for Aaron and his
descendants throughout their generations."
EXO 30:22 Moreover, the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying,
EXO 30:23 "Take also for yourself the finest
of spices: of flowing myrrh five hundred {shekels,}
and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, two hundred
and fifty, and of fragrant cane two hundred and
fifty,
EXO 30:24 and of cassia five hundred,
according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and of
olive oil a hin.
EXO 30:25 "And you shall make of these a holy
anointing oil, a perfume mixture, the work of a
perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil.
EXO 30:26 "And with it you shall anoint the
tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,
EXO 30:27 and the table and all its utensils,
and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of
incense,
EXO 30:28 and the altar of burnt offering and
all its utensils, and the laver and its stand.
EXO 30:29 "You shall also consecrate them,
that they may be most holy; whatever touches them
shall be holy.
EXO 30:30 "And you shall anoint Aaron and his
sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister as
priests to Me.
EXO 30:31 "And you shall speak to the sons of
Israel, saying, 'This shall be a holy anointing oil
to Me throughout your generations.
EXO 30:32 'It shall not be poured on anyone's
body, nor shall you make {any} like it, in the same
proportions; it is holy, {and} it shall be holy to
you.
EXO 30:33 'Whoever shall mix {any} like it,
or whoever puts any of it on a layman, shall be cut
off from his people.' "
EXO 30:34 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Take
for yourself spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum,
spices with pure frankincense; there shall be an
equal part of each.
EXO 30:35 "And with it you shall make
incense, a perfume, the work of a perfumer, salted,
pure, {and} holy.
EXO 30:36 "And you shall beat some of it very
fine, and put part of it before the testimony in the
tent of meeting, where I shall meet with you; it
shall be most holy to you.
EXO 30:37 "And the incense which you shall
make, you shall not make in the same proportions for
yourselves; it shall be holy to you for the Lord.
EXO 30:38 "Whoever shall make {any} like it,
to use as perfume, shall be cut off from his
people."
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EXO 31:1 Now the
Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
EXO 31:2 "See, I have called by name Bezalel,
the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of
Judah.
EXO 31:3 "And I have filled him with the
Spirit of God in wisdom, in understanding, in
knowledge, and in all {kinds of} craftsmanship,
EXO 31:4 to make artistic designs for work in
gold, in silver, and in bronze,
EXO 31:5 and in the cutting of stones for
settings, and in the carving of wood, that he may
work in all {kinds of} craftsmanship.
EXO 31:6 "And behold, I Myself have appointed
with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe
of Dan; and in the hearts of all who are skillful I
have put skill, that they may make all that I have
commanded you:
EXO 31:7 the tent of meeting, and the ark of
testimony, and the mercy seat upon it, and all the
furniture of the tent,
EXO 31:8 the table also and its utensils, and
the pure {gold} lampstand with all its utensils, and
the altar of incense,
EXO 31:9 the altar of burnt offering also
with all its utensils, and the laver and its stand,
EXO 31:10 the woven garments as well, and the
holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments
of his sons, {with which} to carry on their
priesthood;
EXO 31:11 the anointing oil also, and the
fragrant incense for the holy place, they are to
make {them} according to all that I have commanded
you."
EXO 31:12 And the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying,
EXO 31:13 "But as for you, speak to the sons
of Israel, saying, 'You shall surely observe My
sabbaths; for {this} is a sign between Me and you
throughout your generations, that you may know that
I am the Lord who sanctifies you.
EXO 31:14 'Therefore you are to observe the
sabbath, for it is holy to you. Everyone who
profanes it shall surely be put to death; for
whoever does any work on it, that person shall be
cut off from among his people.
EXO 31:15 'For six days work may be done, but
on the seventh day there is a sabbath of complete
rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the
sabbath day shall surely be put to death.
EXO 31:16 'So the sons of Israel shall
observe the sabbath, to celebrate the sabbath
throughout their generations as a perpetual
covenant.'
EXO 31:17 "It is a sign between Me and the
sons of Israel forever; for in six days the Lord
made heaven and earth, but on the seventh day He
ceased {from labor,} and was refreshed."
EXO 31:18 And when He had finished speaking
with him upon Mount Sinai, He gave Moses the two
tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written
by the finger of God.
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EXO 32:1 Now when
the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from
the mountain, the people assembled about Aaron, and
said to him, "Come, make us a god who will go before
us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up
from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has
become of him."
EXO 32:2 And Aaron said to them, "Tear off
the gold rings which are in the ears of your wives,
your sons, and your daughters, and bring {them} to
me."
EXO 32:3 Then all the people tore off the
gold rings which were in their ears, and brought
{them} to Aaron.
EXO 32:4 And he took {this} from their hand,
and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it
into a molten calf; and they said, "This is your
god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of
Egypt."
EXO 32:5 Now when Aaron saw {this,} he built
an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation
and said, "Tomorrow {shall be} a feast to the Lord."
EXO 32:6 So the next day they rose early and
offered burnt offerings, and brought peace
offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to
drink, and rose up to play.
EXO 32:7 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, "Go
down at once, for your people, whom you brought up
from the land of Egypt, have corrupted {themselves.}
EXO 32:8 "They have quickly turned aside from
the way which I commanded them. They have made for
themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and
have sacrificed to it, and said, 'This is your god,
O Israel, who brought you up from the land of
Egypt!'"
EXO 32:9 And the Lord said to Moses, "I have
seen this people, and behold, they are an obstinate
people.
EXO 32:10 "Now then let Me alone, that My
anger may burn against them, and that I may destroy
them; and I will make of you a great nation."
EXO 32:11 Then Moses entreated the Lord his
God, and said, "O Lord, why doth Thine anger burn
against Thy people whom Thou hast brought out from
the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty
hand?
EXO 32:12 "Why should the Egyptians speak,
saying, 'With evil {intent} He brought them out to
kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from
the face of the earth'? Turn from Thy burning anger
and change Thy mind about {doing} harm to Thy
people.
EXO 32:13 "Remember Abraham, Isaac, and
Israel, Thy servants to whom Thou didst swear by
Thyself, and didst say to them, 'I will multiply
your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and
all this land of which I have spoken I will give to
your descendants, and they shall inherit {it}
forever.'"
EXO 32:14 So the Lord changed His mind about
the harm which He said He would do to His people.
EXO 32:15 Then Moses turned and went down
from the mountain with the two tablets of the
testimony in his hand, tablets which were written on
both sides; they were written on one {side} and the
other.
EXO 32:16 And the tablets were God's work,
and the writing was God's writing engraved on the
tablets.
EXO 32:17 Now when Joshua heard the sound of
the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, "There
is a sound of war in the camp."
EXO 32:18 But he said, "It is not the sound
of the cry of triumph, Nor is it the sound of the
cry of defeat; But the sound of singing I hear."
EXO 32:19 And it came about, as soon as Moses
came near the camp, that he saw the calf and {the}
dancing; and Moses' anger burned, and he threw the
tablets from his hands and shattered them at the
foot of the mountain.
EXO 32:20 And he took the calf which they had
made and burned {it} with fire, and ground it to
powder, and scattered it over the surface of the
water, and made the sons of Israel drink {it.}
EXO 32:21 Then Moses said to Aaron, "What did
this people do to you, that you have brought {such}
great sin upon them?"
EXO 32:22 And Aaron said, "Do not let the
anger of my lord burn; you know the people yourself,
that they are prone to evil.
EXO 32:23 "For they said to me, 'Make a god
for us who will go before us; for this Moses, the
man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do
not know what has become of him.'
EXO 32:24 "And I said to them, 'Whoever has
any gold, let them tear it off.' So they gave {it}
to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came
this calf."
EXO 32:25 Now when Moses saw that the people
were out of control - - for Aaron had let them get
out of control to be a derision among their enemies
- -
EXO 32:26 then Moses stood in the gate of the
camp, and said, "Whoever is for the Lord, {come} to
me!" And all the sons of Levi gathered together to
him.
EXO 32:27 And he said to them, "Thus says the
Lord, the God of Israel, 'Every man {of you} put his
sword upon his thigh, and go back and forth from
gate to gate in the camp, and kill every man his
brother, and every man his friend, and every man his
neighbor.'"
EXO 32:28 So the sons of Levi did as Moses
instructed, and about three thousand men of the
people fell that day.
EXO 32:29 Then Moses said, "Dedicate
yourselves today to the Lord - - for every man has
been against his son and against his brother - - in
order that He may bestow a blessing upon you today."
EXO 32:30 And it came about on the next day
that Moses said to the people, "You yourselves have
committed a great sin; and now I am going up to the
Lord, perhaps I can make atonement for your sin."
EXO 32:31 Then Moses returned to the Lord,
and said, "Alas, this people has committed a great
sin, and they have made a god of gold for
themselves.
EXO 32:32 "But now, if Thou wilt, forgive
their sin - - and if not, please blot me out from
Thy book which Thou hast written!"
EXO 32:33 And the Lord said to Moses,
"Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out
of My book.
EXO 32:34 "But go now, lead the people where
I told you. Behold, My angel shall go before you;
nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish
them for their sin."
EXO 32:35 Then the Lord smote the people,
because of what they did with the calf which Aaron
had made.
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EXO 33:1 Then the
Lord spoke to Moses, "Depart, go up from here, you
and the people whom you have brought up from the
land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, 'To your
descendants I will give it.'
EXO 33:2 "And I will send an angel before you
and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the
Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite.
EXO 33:3 "{Go up} to a land flowing with milk
and honey; for I will not go up in your midst,
because you are an obstinate people, lest I destroy
you on the way."
EXO 33:4 When the people heard this sad word,
they went into mourning, and none of them put on his
ornaments.
EXO 33:5 For the Lord had said to Moses, "Say
to the sons of Israel, 'You are an obstinate people;
should I go up in your midst for one moment, I would
destroy you. Now therefore, put off your ornaments
from you, that I may know what I will do with you.'"
EXO 33:6 So the sons of Israel stripped
themselves of their ornaments from Mount Horeb
{onward.}
EXO 33:7 Now Moses used to take the tent and
pitch it outside the camp, a good distance from the
camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. And it
came about, that everyone who sought the Lord would
go out to the tent of meeting which was outside the
camp.
EXO 33:8 And it came about, whenever Moses
went out to the tent, that all the people would
arise and stand, each at the entrance of his tent,
and gaze after Moses until he entered the tent.
EXO 33:9 And it came about, whenever Moses
entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend
and stand at the entrance of the tent; and the Lord
would speak with Moses.
EXO 33:10 When all the people saw the pillar
of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all
the people would arise and worship, each at the
entrance of his tent.
EXO 33:11 Thus the Lord used to speak to
Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his
friend. When Moses returned to the camp, his servant
Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not
depart from the tent.
EXO 33:12 Then Moses said to the Lord, "See,
Thou dost say to me, 'Bring up this people!' But
Thou Thyself hast not let me know whom Thou wilt
send with me. Moreover, Thou hast said, 'I have
known you by name, and you have also found favor in
My sight.'
EXO 33:13 "Now therefore, I pray Thee, if I
have found favor in Thy sight, let me know Thy ways,
that I may know Thee, so that I may find favor in
Thy sight. Consider too, that this nation is Thy
people."
EXO 33:14 And He said, "My presence shall go
{with you,} and I will give you rest."
EXO 33:15 Then he said to Him, "If Thy
presence does not go {with us,} do not lead us up
from here.
EXO 33:16 "For how then can it be known that
I have found favor in Thy sight, I and Thy people?
Is it not by Thy going with us, so that we, I and
Thy people, may be distinguished from all the
{other} people who are upon the face of the earth?"
EXO 33:17 And the Lord said to Moses, "I will
also do this thing of which you have spoken; for you
have found favor in My sight, and I have known you
by name."
EXO 33:18 Then Moses said, "I pray Thee, show
me Thy glory!"
EXO 33:19 And He said, "I Myself will make
all My goodness pass before you, and will proclaim
the name of the Lord before you; and I will be
gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show
compassion on whom I will show compassion."
EXO 33:20 But He said, "You cannot see My
face, for no man can see Me and live!"
EXO 33:21 Then the Lord said, "Behold, there
is a place by Me, and you shall stand {there} on the
rock;
EXO 33:22 and it will come about, while My
glory is passing by, that I will put you in the
cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand until I
have passed by.
EXO 33:23 "Then I will take My hand away and
you shall see My back, but My face shall not be
seen."
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EXO 34:1 Now the
Lord said to Moses, "Cut out for yourself two stone
tablets like the former ones, and I will write on
the tablets the words that were on the former
tablets which you shattered.
EXO 34:2 "So be ready by morning, and come up
in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself
there to Me on the top of the mountain.
EXO 34:3 "And no man is to come up with you,
nor let any man be seen anywhere on the mountain;
even the flocks and the herds may not graze in front
of that mountain."
EXO 34:4 So he cut out two stone tablets like
the former ones, and Moses rose up early in the
morning and went up to Mount Sinai, as the Lord had
commanded him, and he took two stone tablets in his
hand.
EXO 34:5 And the Lord descended in the cloud
and stood there with him as he called upon the name
of the Lord.
EXO 34:6 Then the Lord passed by in front of
him and proclaimed, "The Lord, the Lord God,
compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and
abounding in lovingkindness and truth;
EXO 34:7 who keeps lovingkindness for
thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and
sin; yet He will by no means leave {the guilty}
unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the
children and on the grandchildren to the third and
fourth generations."
EXO 34:8 And Moses made haste to bow low
toward the earth and worship.
EXO 34:9 And he said, "If now I have found
favor in Thy sight, O Lord, I pray, let the Lord go
along in our midst, even though the people are so
obstinate; and do Thou pardon our iniquity and our
sin, and take us as Thine own possession."
EXO 34:10 Then God said, "Behold, I am going
to make a covenant. Before all your people I will
perform miracles which have not been produced in all
the earth, nor among any of the nations; and all the
people among whom you live will see the working of
the Lord, for it is a fearful thing that I am going
to perform with you.
EXO 34:11 "Be sure to observe what I am
commanding you this day: behold, I am going to drive
out the Amorite before you, and the Canaanite, the
Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite.
EXO 34:12 "Watch yourself that you make no
covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which
you are going, lest it become a snare in your midst.
EXO 34:13 "But {rather,} you are to tear down
their altars and smash their {sacred} pillars and
cut down their Asherim
EXO 34:14 - -for you shall not worship any
other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a
jealous God - -
EXO 34:15 lest you make a covenant with the
inhabitants of the land and they play the harlot
with their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and
someone invite you to eat of his sacrifice;
EXO 34:16 and you take some of his daughters
for your sons, and his daughters play the harlot
with their gods, and cause your sons {also} to play
the harlot with their gods.
EXO 34:17 "You shall make for yourself no
molten gods.
EXO 34:18 "You shall observe the Feast of
Unleavened Bread. For seven days you are to eat
unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the
appointed time in the month of Abib, for in the
month of Abib you came out of Egypt.
EXO 34:19 "The first offspring from every
womb belongs to Me, and all your male livestock, the
first offspring from cattle and sheep.
EXO 34:20 "And you shall redeem with a lamb
the first offspring from a donkey; and if you do not
redeem {it,} then you shall break its neck. You
shall redeem all the first-born of your sons. And
none shall appear before Me empty-handed.
EXO 34:21 "You shall work six days, but on
the seventh day you shall rest; {even} during
plowing time and harvest you shall rest.
EXO 34:22 "And you shall celebrate the Feast
of Weeks, {that is,} the first fruits of the wheat
harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of
the year.
EXO 34:23 "Three times a year all your males
are to appear before the Lord God, the God of
Israel.
EXO 34:24 "For I will drive out nations
before you and enlarge your borders, and no man
shall covet your land when you go up three times a
year to appear before the Lord your God.
EXO 34:25 "You shall not offer the blood of
My sacrifice with leavened bread, nor is the
sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover to be left
over until morning.
EXO 34:26 "You shall bring the very first of
the first fruits of your soil into the house of the
Lord your God. You shall not boil a kid in its
mother's milk."
EXO 34:27 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Write
down these words, for in accordance with these words
I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."
EXO 34:28 So he was there with the Lord forty
days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink
water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the
covenant, the Ten Commandments.
EXO 34:29 And it came about when Moses was
coming down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of
the testimony {were} in Moses' hand as he was coming
down from the mountain), that Moses did not know
that the skin of his face shone because of his
speaking with Him.
EXO 34:30 So when Aaron and all the sons of
Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face
shone, and they were afraid to come near him.
EXO 34:31 Then Moses called to them, and
Aaron and all the rulers in the congregation
returned to him; and Moses spoke to them.
EXO 34:32 And afterward all the sons of
Israel came near, and he commanded them {to do}
everything that the Lord had spoken to him on Mount
Sinai.
EXO 34:33 When Moses had finished speaking
with them, he put a veil over his face.
EXO 34:34 But whenever Moses went in before
the Lord to speak with Him, he would take off the
veil until he came out; and whenever he came out and
spoke to the sons of Israel what he had been
commanded,
EXO 34:35 the sons of Israel would see the
face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone.
So Moses would replace the veil over his face until
he went in to speak with Him.
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EXO 35:1 Then
Moses assembled all the congregation of the sons of
Israel, and said to them, "These are the things that
the Lord has commanded {you} to do.
EXO 35:2 "For six days work may be done, but
on the seventh day you shall have a holy {day,} a
sabbath of complete rest to the Lord; whoever does
any work on it shall be put to death.
EXO 35:3 "You shall not kindle a fire in any
of your dwellings on the sabbath day."
EXO 35:4 And Moses spoke to all the
congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, "This is
the thing which the Lord has commanded, saying,
EXO 35:5 'Take from among you a contribution
to the Lord; whoever is of a willing heart, let him
bring it as the Lord's contribution: gold, silver,
and bronze,
EXO 35:6 and blue, purple and scarlet
{material,} fine linen, goats' {hair,}
EXO 35:7 and rams' skins dyed red, and
porpoise skins, and acacia wood,
EXO 35:8 and oil for lighting, and spices for
the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense,
EXO 35:9 and onyx stones and setting stones,
for the ephod and for the breastpiece.
EXO 35:10 'And let every skillful man among
you come, and make all that the Lord has commanded:
EXO 35:11 the tabernacle, its tent and its
covering, its hooks and its boards, its bars, its
pillars, and its sockets;
EXO 35:12 the ark and its poles, the mercy
seat, and the curtain of the screen;
EXO 35:13 the table and its poles, and all
its utensils, and the bread of the Presence;
EXO 35:14 the lampstand also for the light
and its utensils and its lamps and the oil for the
light;
EXO 35:15 and the altar of incense and its
poles, and the anointing oil and the fragrant
incense, and the screen for the doorway at the
entrance of the tabernacle;
EXO 35:16 the altar of burnt offering with
its bronze grating, its poles, and all its utensils,
the basin and its stand;
EXO 35:17 the hangings of the court, its
pillars and its sockets, and the screen for the gate
of the court;
EXO 35:18 the pegs of the tabernacle and the
pegs of the court and their cords;
EXO 35:19 the woven garments, for ministering
in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the
priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister as
priests.' "
EXO 35:20 Then all the congregation of the
sons of Israel departed from Moses' presence.
EXO 35:21 And everyone whose heart stirred
him and everyone whose spirit moved him came {and}
brought the Lord's contribution for the work of the
tent of meeting and for all its service and for the
holy garments.
EXO 35:22 Then all whose hearts moved them,
both men and women, came {and} brought brooches and
earrings and signet rings and bracelets, all
articles of gold; so {did} every man who presented
an offering of gold to the Lord.
EXO 35:23 And every man, who had in his
possession blue and purple and scarlet {material}
and fine linen and goats' {hair} and rams' skins
dyed red and porpoise skins, brought them.
EXO 35:24 Everyone who could make a
contribution of silver and bronze brought the Lord's
contribution; and every man, who had in his
possession acacia wood for any work of the service,
brought it.
EXO 35:25 And all the skilled women spun with
their hands, and brought what they had spun, {in}
blue and purple {and} scarlet {material} and {in}
fine linen.
EXO 35:26 And all the women whose heart
stirred with a skill spun the goats' {hair.}
EXO 35:27 And the rulers brought the onyx
stones and the stones for setting for the ephod and
for the breastpiece;
EXO 35:28 and the spice and the oil for the
light and for the anointing oil and for the fragrant
incense.
EXO 35:29 The Israelites, all the men and
women, whose heart moved them to bring {material}
for all the work, which the Lord had commanded
through Moses to be done, brought a freewill
offering to the Lord.
EXO 35:30 Then Moses said to the sons of
Israel, "See, the Lord has called by name Bezalel
the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of
Judah.
EXO 35:31 "And He has filled him with the
Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding and in
knowledge and in all craftsmanship;
EXO 35:32 to make designs for working in gold
and in silver and in bronze,
EXO 35:33 and in the cutting of stones for
settings, and in the carving of wood, so as to
perform in every inventive work.
EXO 35:34 "He also has put in his heart to
teach, both he and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of
the tribe of Dan.
EXO 35:35 "He has filled them with skill to
perform every work of an engraver and of a designer
and of an embroiderer, in blue and in purple {and}
in scarlet {material,} and in fine linen, and of a
weaver, as performers of every work and makers of
designs.
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EXO 36:1 "Now
Bezalel and Oholiab, and every skillful person in
whom the Lord has put skill and understanding to
know how to perform all the work in the construction
of the sanctuary, shall perform in accordance with
all that the Lord has commanded."
EXO 36:2 Then Moses called Bezalel and
Oholiab and every skillful person in whom the Lord
had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him, to
come to the work to perform it.
EXO 36:3 And they received from Moses all the
contributions which the sons of Israel had brought
to perform the work in the construction of the
sanctuary. And they still {continued} bringing to
him freewill offerings every morning.
EXO 36:4 And all the skillful men who were
performing all the work of the sanctuary came, each
from the work which he was performing,
EXO 36:5 and they said to Moses, "The people
are bringing much more than enough for the
construction work which the Lord commanded {us} to
perform."
EXO 36:6 So Moses issued a command, and a
proclamation was circulated throughout the camp,
saying, "Let neither man nor woman any longer
perform work for the contributions of the
sanctuary." Thus the people were restrained from
bringing {any more.}
EXO 36:7 For the material they had was
sufficient and more than enough for all the work, to
perform it.
EXO 36:8 And all the skillful men among those
who were performing the work made the tabernacle
with ten curtains; of fine twisted linen and blue
and purple and scarlet {material,} with cherubim,
the work of a skillful workman, Bezalel made them.
EXO 36:9 The length of each curtain was
twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain
four cubits; all the curtains had the same
measurements.
EXO 36:10 And he joined five curtains to one
another, and {the other} five curtains he joined to
one another.
EXO 36:11 And he made loops of blue on the
edge of the outermost curtain in the first set; he
did likewise on the edge of the curtain that was
outermost in the second set.
EXO 36:12 He made fifty loops in the one
curtain and he made fifty loops on the edge of the
curtain that was in the second set; the loops were
opposite each other.
EXO 36:13 And he made fifty clasps of gold,
and joined the curtains to one another with the
clasps, so the tabernacle was a unit.
EXO 36:14 Then he made curtains of goats'
{hair} for a tent over the tabernacle; he made
eleven curtains in all.
EXO 36:15 The length of each curtain was
thirty cubits, and four cubits the width of each
curtain; the eleven curtains had the same
measurements.
EXO 36:16 And he joined five curtains by
themselves, and {the other} six curtains by
themselves.
EXO 36:17 Moreover, he made fifty loops on
the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the
{first} set, and he made fifty loops on the edge of
the curtain {that was outermost in} the second set.
EXO 36:18 And he made fifty clasps of bronze
to join the tent together, that it might be a unit.
EXO 36:19 And he made a covering for the tent
of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of porpoise
skins above.
EXO 36:20 Then he made the boards for the
tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright.
EXO 36:21 Ten cubits was the length of each
board, and one and a half cubits the width of each
board.
EXO 36:22 There were two tenons for each
board, fitted to one another; thus he did for all
the boards of the tabernacle.
EXO 36:23 And he made the boards for the
tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side;
EXO 36:24 and 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.
EXO 36:25 Then for the second side of the
tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty
boards,
EXO 36:26 and their forty sockets of silver;
two sockets under one board and two sockets under
another board.
EXO 36:27 And for the rear of the tabernacle,
to the west, he made six boards.
EXO 36:28 And he made two boards for the
corners of the tabernacle at the rear.
EXO 36:29 And they were double beneath, and
together they were complete to its top to the first
ring; thus he did with both of them for the two
corners.
EXO 36:30 And there were eight boards with
their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets, two under
every board.
EXO 36:31 Then he made bars of acacia wood,
five for the boards of one side of the tabernacle,
EXO 36:32 and five bars for the boards of the
other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the
boards of the tabernacle for the rear {side} to the
west.
EXO 36:33 And he made the middle bar to pass
through in the center of the boards from end to end.
EXO 36:34 And he overlaid the boards with
gold and made their rings of gold {as} holders for
the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
EXO 36:35 Moreover, he made the veil of blue
and purple and scarlet {material,} and fine twisted
linen; he made it with cherubim, the work of a
skillful workman.
EXO 36:36 And he made four pillars of acacia
for it, and overlaid them with gold, with their
hooks of gold; and he cast four sockets of silver
for them.
EXO 36:37 And he made a screen for the
doorway of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet
{material,} and fine twisted linen, the work of a
weaver;
EXO 36:38 and {he made} its five pillars with
their hooks, and he overlaid their tops and their
bands with gold; but their five sockets were of
bronze.
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Chapter 37
EXO 37:1 Now
Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood; its length was
two and a half cubits, and its width one and a half
cubits, and its height one and a half cubits;
EXO 37:2 and he overlaid it with pure gold
inside and out, and made a gold molding for it all
around.
EXO 37:3 And he cast four rings of gold for
it on its four feet; even two rings on one side of
it, and two rings on the other side of it.
EXO 37:4 And he made poles of acacia wood and
overlaid them with gold.
EXO 37:5 And he put the poles into the rings
on the sides of the ark, to carry it.
EXO 37:6 And he made a mercy seat of pure
gold, two and a half cubits long, and one and a half
cubits wide.
EXO 37:7 And he made two cherubim of gold; he
made them of hammered work, at the two ends of the
mercy seat;
EXO 37:8 one cherub at the one end, and one
cherub at the other end; he made the cherubim {of
one piece} with the mercy seat at the two ends.
EXO 37:9 And the cherubim had {their} wings
spread upward, covering the mercy seat with their
wings, with their faces toward each other; the faces
of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.
EXO 37:10 Then he made the table of acacia
wood, two cubits long and a cubit wide and one and a
half cubits high.
EXO 37:11 And he overlaid it with pure gold,
and made a gold molding for it all around.
EXO 37:12 And he made a rim for it of a
handbreadth all around, and made a gold molding for
its rim all around.
EXO 37:13 And he cast four gold rings for it
and put the rings on the four corners that were on
its four feet.
EXO 37:14 Close by the rim were the rings,
the holders for the poles to carry the table.
EXO 37:15 And he made the poles of acacia
wood and overlaid them with gold, to carry the
table.
EXO 37:16 And he made the utensils which were
on the table, its dishes and its pans and its bowls
and its jars, with which to pour out libations, of
pure gold.
EXO 37:17 Then he made the lampstand of pure
gold. He made the lampstand of hammered work, its
base and its shaft; its cups, its bulbs and its
flowers were {of one piece} with it.
EXO 37:18 And there were six branches going
out of its sides; three branches of the lampstand
from the one side of it, and three branches of the
lampstand from the other side of it;
EXO 37:19 three cups shaped like almond
{blossoms,} a bulb and a flower in one branch, and
three cups shaped like almond {blossoms,} a bulb and
a flower in the other branch - - so for the six
branches going out of the lampstand.
EXO 37:20 And in the lampstand {there were}
four cups shaped like almond {blossoms,} its bulbs
and its flowers;
EXO 37:21 and a bulb was under the {first}
pair of branches {coming} out of it, and a bulb
under the {second} pair of branches {coming} out of
it, and a bulb under the {third} pair of branches
{coming} out of it, for the six branches coming out
of the lampstand.
EXO 37:22 Their bulbs and their branches were
{of one piece} with it; the whole of it {was} a
single hammered work of pure gold.
EXO 37:23 And he made its seven lamps with
its snuffers and its trays of pure gold.
EXO 37:24 He made it and all its utensils
from a talent of pure gold.
EXO 37:25 Then he made the altar of incense
of acacia wood: a cubit long and a cubit wide,
square, and two cubits high; its horns were {of one
piece} with it.
EXO 37:26 And he overlaid it with pure gold,
its top and its sides all around, and its horns; and
he made a gold molding for it all around.
EXO 37:27 And he made two golden rings for it
under its molding, on its two sides - - on opposite
sides - - as holders for poles with which to carry
it.
EXO 37:28 And he made the poles of acacia
wood and overlaid them with gold.
EXO 37:29 And he made the holy anointing oil
and the pure, fragrant incense of spices, the work
of a perfumer.
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Chapter 38
EXO 38:1 Then he
made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood,
five cubits long, and five cubits wide, square, and
three cubits high.
EXO 38:2 And he made its horns on its four
corners, its horns being {of one piece} with it, and
he overlaid it with bronze.
EXO 38:3 And he made all the utensils of the
altar, the pails and the shovels and the basins, the
flesh hooks and the firepans; he made all its
utensils of bronze.
EXO 38:4 And he made for the altar a grating
of bronze network beneath, under its ledge, reaching
halfway up.
EXO 38:5 And he cast four rings on the four
ends of the bronze grating {as} holders for the
poles.
EXO 38:6 And he made the poles of acacia wood
and overlaid them with bronze.
EXO 38:7 And he inserted the poles into the
rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry
it. He made it hollow with planks.
EXO 38:8 Moreover, he made the laver of
bronze with its base of bronze, from the mirrors of
the serving women who served at the doorway of the
tent of meeting.
EXO 38:9 Then he made the court: for the
south side the hangings of the court were of fine
twisted linen, one hundred cubits;
EXO 38:10 their twenty pillars, and their
twenty sockets, {made} of bronze; the hooks of the
pillars and their bands {were} of silver.
EXO 38:11 And for the north side {there were}
one hundred cubits; their twenty pillars and their
twenty sockets {were} of bronze, the hooks of the
pillars and their bands {were} of silver.
EXO 38:12 And for the west side {there were}
hangings of fifty cubits {with} their ten pillars
and their ten sockets; the hooks of the pillars and
their bands {were} of silver.
EXO 38:13 And for the east side fifty cubits.
EXO 38:14 The hangings for the {one} side {of
the gate were} fifteen cubits, {with} their three
pillars and their three sockets,
EXO 38:15 and so for the other side. On both
sides of the gate of the court {were} hangings of
fifteen cubits, {with} their three pillars and their
three sockets.
EXO 38:16 All the hangings of the court all
around {were} of fine twisted linen.
EXO 38:17 And the sockets for the pillars
{were} of bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their
bands, of silver; and the overlaying of their tops,
of silver, and all the pillars of the court were
furnished with silver bands.
EXO 38:18 And the screen of the gate of the
court was the work of the weaver, of blue and purple
and scarlet {material}, and fine twisted linen. And
the length was twenty cubits and the height was five
cubits, corresponding to the hangings of the court.
EXO 38:19 And their four pillars and their
four sockets {were} of bronze; their hooks {were} of
silver, and the overlaying of their tops and their
bands {were} of silver.
EXO 38:20 And all the pegs of the tabernacle
and of the court all around {were} of bronze.
EXO 38:21 This is the number of {the things
for} the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the
testimony, as they were numbered according to the
command of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by
the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.
EXO 38:22 Now Bezalel, the son of Uri the son
of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the
Lord had commanded Moses.
EXO 38:23 And with him was Oholiab, the son
of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and a
skillful workman and a weaver in blue and in purple
and in scarlet {material,} and fine linen.
EXO 38:24 All the gold that was used for the
work, in all the work of the sanctuary, even the
gold of the wave offering, was 29 talents and 730
shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.
EXO 38:25 And the silver of those of the
congregation who were numbered was 100 talents and
1,775 shekels, according to the shekel of the
sanctuary;
EXO 38:26 a beka a head ({that is,} half a
shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary),
for each one who passed over to those who were
numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for
603,550 men.
EXO 38:27 And the hundred talents of silver
were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary and
the sockets of the veil; one hundred sockets for the
hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
EXO 38:28 And of the 1,775 {shekels,} he made
hooks for the pillars and overlaid their tops and
made bands for them.
EXO 38:29 And the bronze of the wave offering
was 70 talents, and 2,400 shekels.
EXO 38:30 And with it he made the sockets to
the doorway of the tent of meeting, and the bronze
altar and its bronze grating, and all the utensils
of the altar,
EXO 38:31 and the sockets of the court all
around and the sockets of the gate of the court, and
all the pegs of the tabernacle and all the pegs of
the court all around.
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Chapter 39
EXO 39:1
Moreover, from the blue and purple and scarlet
{material,} they made finely woven garments for
ministering in the holy place, as well as the holy
garments which were for Aaron, just as the Lord had
commanded Moses.
EXO 39:2 And he made the ephod of gold, {and}
of blue and purple and scarlet {material,} and fine
twisted linen.
EXO 39:3 Then they hammered out gold sheets
and cut {them} into threads to be woven in {with}
the blue and the purple and the scarlet {material,}
and the fine linen, the work of a skillful workman.
EXO 39:4 They made attaching shoulder pieces
for the ephod; it was attached at its two {upper}
ends.
EXO 39:5 And the skillfully woven band which
was on it was like its workmanship, of the same
material: of gold {and} of blue and purple and
scarlet {material,} and fine twisted linen, just as
the Lord had commanded Moses.
EXO 39:6 And they made the onyx stones, set
in gold filigree {settings;} they were engraved
{like} the engravings of a signet, according to the
names of the sons of Israel.
EXO 39:7 And he placed them on the shoulder
pieces of the ephod, {as} memorial stones for the
sons of Israel, just as the Lord had commanded
Moses.
EXO 39:8 And he made the breastpiece, the
work of a skillful workman, like the workmanship of
the ephod: of gold {and} of blue and purple and
scarlet {material} and fine twisted linen.
EXO 39:9 It was square; they made the
breastpiece folded double, a span long and a span
wide when folded double.
EXO 39:10 And they mounted four rows of
stones on it. The first row {was} a row of ruby,
topaz, and emerald;
EXO 39:11 and the second row, a turquoise, a
sapphire and a diamond;
EXO 39:12 and the third row, a jacinth, an
agate, and an amethyst;
EXO 39:13 and the fourth row, a beryl, an
onyx, and a jasper. They were set in gold filigree
{settings} when they were mounted.
EXO 39:14 And the stones were corresponding
to the names of the sons of Israel; they were
twelve, corresponding to their names, {engraved
with} the engravings of a signet, each with its name
for the twelve tribes.
EXO 39:15 And they made on the breastpiece
chains like cords, of twisted cordage work in pure
gold.
EXO 39:16 And they made two gold filigree
{settings} and two gold rings, and put the two rings
on the two ends of the breastpiece.
EXO 39:17 Then they put the two gold cords in
the two rings at the ends of the breastpiece.
EXO 39:18 And they put the {other} two ends
of the two cords on the two filigree {settings,} and
put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the
front of it.
EXO 39:19 And they made two gold rings and
placed {them} on the two ends of the breastpiece, on
its inner edge which was next to the ephod.
EXO 39:20 Furthermore, they made two gold
rings and placed them on the bottom of the two
shoulder pieces of the ephod, on the front of it,
close to the place where it joined, above the woven
band of the ephod.
EXO 39:21 And they bound the breastpiece by
its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue
cord, that it might be on the woven band of the
ephod, and that the breastpiece might not come loose
from the ephod, just as the Lord had commanded
Moses.
EXO 39:22 Then he made the robe of the ephod
of woven work, all of blue;
EXO 39:23 and the opening of the robe was {at
the top} in the center, as the opening of a coat of
mail, with a binding all around its opening, that it
might not be torn.
EXO 39:24 And they made pomegranates of blue
and purple and scarlet {material and} twisted
{linen} on the hem of the robe.
EXO 39:25 They also made bells of pure gold,
and put the bells between the pomegranates all
around on the hem of the robe,
EXO 39:26 alternating a bell and a
pomegranate all around on the hem of the robe, for
the service, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
EXO 39:27 And they made the tunics of finely
woven linen for Aaron and his sons,
EXO 39:28 and the turban of fine linen, and
the decorated caps of fine linen, and the linen
breeches of fine twisted linen,
EXO 39:29 and the sash of fine twisted linen,
and blue and purple and scarlet {material,} the work
of the weaver, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
EXO 39:30 And they made the plate of the holy
crown of pure gold, and inscribed it like the
engravings of a signet, "Holy to the Lord."
EXO 39:31 And they fastened a blue cord to
it, to fasten it on the turban above, just as the
Lord had commanded Moses.
EXO 39:32 Thus all the work of the tabernacle
of the tent of meeting was completed; and the sons
of Israel did according to all that the Lord had
commanded Moses; so they did.
EXO 39:33 And they brought the tabernacle to
Moses, the tent and all its furnishings: its clasps,
its boards, its bars, and its pillars and its
sockets;
EXO 39:34 and the covering of rams' skins
dyed red, and the covering of porpoise skins, and
the screening veil;
EXO 39:35 the ark of the testimony and its
poles and the mercy seat;
EXO 39:36 the table, all its utensils, and
the bread of the Presence;
EXO 39:37 the pure {gold} lampstand, with its
arrangement of lamps and all its utensils, and the
oil for the light;
EXO 39:38 and the gold altar, and the
anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the veil
for the doorway of the tent;
EXO 39:39 the bronze altar and its bronze
grating, its poles and all its utensils, the laver
and its stand;
EXO 39:40 the hangings for the court, its
pillars and its sockets, and the screen for the gate
of the court, its cords and its pegs and all the
equipment for the service of the tabernacle, for the
tent of meeting;
EXO 39:41 the woven garments for ministering
in the holy place and the holy garments for Aaron
the priest and the garments of his sons, to minister
as priests.
EXO 39:42 So the sons of Israel did all the
work according to all that the Lord had commanded
Moses.
EXO 39:43 And Moses examined all the work and
behold, they had done it; just as the Lord had
commanded, this they had done. So Moses blessed
them.
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Chapter 40
EXO 40:1 Then the
Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
EXO 40:2 "On the first day of the first month
you shall set up the tabernacle of the tent of
meeting.
EXO 40:3 "And you shall place the ark of the
testimony there, and you shall screen the ark with
the veil.
EXO 40:4 "And you shall bring in the table
and arrange what belongs on it; and you shall bring
in the lampstand and mount its lamps.
EXO 40:5 "Moreover, you shall set the gold
altar of incense before the ark of the testimony,
and set up the veil for the doorway to the
tabernacle.
EXO 40:6 "And you shall set the altar of
burnt offering in front of the doorway of the
tabernacle of the tent of meeting.
EXO 40:7 "And you shall set the laver between
the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in
it.
EXO 40:8 "And you shall set up the court all
around and hang up the veil for the gateway of the
court.
EXO 40:9 "Then you shall take the anointing
oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it,
and shall consecrate it and all its furnishings; and
it shall be holy.
EXO 40:10 "And you shall anoint the altar of
burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate
the altar; and the altar shall be most holy.
EXO 40:11 "And you shall anoint the laver and
its stand, and consecrate it.
EXO 40:12 "Then you shall bring Aaron and his
sons to the doorway of the tent of meeting and wash
them with water.
EXO 40:13 "And you shall put the holy
garments on Aaron and anoint him and consecrate him,
that he may minister as a priest to Me.
EXO 40:14 "And you shall bring his sons and
put tunics on them;
EXO 40:15 and you shall anoint them even as
you have anointed their father, that they may
minister as priests to Me; and their anointing shall
qualify them for a perpetual priesthood throughout
their generations."
EXO 40:16 Thus Moses did; according to all
that the Lord had commanded him, so he did.
EXO 40:17 Now it came about in the first
month of the second year, on the first day of the
month, that the tabernacle was erected.
EXO 40:18 And Moses erected the tabernacle
and laid its sockets, and set up its boards, and
inserted its bars and erected its pillars.
EXO 40:19 And he spread the tent over the
tabernacle and put the covering of the tent on top
of it, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
EXO 40:20 Then he took the testimony and put
{it} into the ark, and attached the poles to the
ark, and put the mercy seat on top of the ark.
EXO 40:21 And he brought the ark into the
tabernacle, and set up a veil for the screen, and
screened off the ark of the testimony, just as the
Lord had commanded Moses.
EXO 40:22 Then he put the table in the tent
of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle,
outside the veil.
EXO 40:23 And he set the arrangement of bread
in order on it before the Lord, just as the Lord had
commanded Moses.
EXO 40:24 Then he placed the lampstand in the
tent of meeting, opposite the table, on the south
side of the tabernacle.
EXO 40:25 And he lighted the lamps before the
Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
EXO 40:26 Then he placed the gold altar in
the tent of meeting in front of the veil;
EXO 40:27 and he burned fragrant incense on
it, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
EXO 40:28 Then he set up the veil for the
doorway of the tabernacle.
EXO 40:29 And he set the altar of burnt
offering {before} the doorway of the tabernacle of
the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt
offering and the meal offering, just as the Lord had
commanded Moses.
EXO 40:30 And he placed the laver between the
tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it
for washing.
EXO 40:31 And from it Moses and Aaron and his
sons washed their hands and their feet.
EXO 40:32 When they entered the tent of
meeting, and when they approached the altar, they
washed, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
EXO 40:33 And he erected the court all around
the tabernacle and the altar, and hung up the veil
for the gateway of the court. Thus Moses finished
the work.
EXO 40:34 Then the cloud covered the tent of
meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the
tabernacle.
EXO 40:35 And Moses was not able to enter the
tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it,
and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
EXO 40:36 And throughout all their journeys
whenever the cloud was taken up from over the
tabernacle, the sons of Israel would set out;
EXO 40:37 but if the cloud was not taken up,
then they did not set out until the day when it was
taken up.
EXO 40:38 For throughout all their journeys,
the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day,
and there was fire in it by night, in the sight of
all the house of Israel.
