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Exodus Chapter 1

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

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

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

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

²⁰God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty. ²¹Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families. ²²Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "Throw every son who is born into the river, and every daughter let live."

Exodus Chapter 2

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

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

⁸Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." The young woman went and called the child's mother. ⁹Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages." The woman took the child, and nursed it. ¹⁰The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, "Because I drew him from the water."

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

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

¹⁴He said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?" Moses was afraid, and said, "Surely this thing is known." ¹⁵Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

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

¹⁹They said, "An Egyptian delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and furthermore he drew water for us, and watered the flock."

²⁰He said to his daughters, "Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, so he can eat bread [with us]."

²¹Moses was content to live with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter. ²²She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land."

²³In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the slavery, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the slavery. ²⁴God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. ²⁵God saw the children of Israel, and God understood.

Exodus Chapter 3

¹Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God's mountain, to Horeb. ²Yahweh's angel appeared to him in a flame of fire from the middle of a bush. He looked, and saw that the bush burned with fire but the bush was not consumed. ³Moses said, "I will go now and see this great sight, why the bush is not burned."

⁴When Yahweh saw that he came over to see, God called to him from the middle of the bush, and said, "Moses! Moses!" He said, "Here I am."

⁵He said, "Don't come close. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place you are standing on is holy ground." ⁶Furthermore he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.

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

¹¹Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should take the children of Israel out of Egypt?"

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

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

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

Exodus Chapter 4

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

²Yahweh said to him, "What is that in your hand?" He said, "A staff."

³He said, "Throw it on the ground." He threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses ran away from it.

⁴Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand, and take it by the tail." He stretched out his hand, and took hold of it, and it became a staff in his hand;

⁵so they can believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has [indeed] appeared to you." ⁶Yahweh said furthermore to him, "Now put your hand inside your cloak." He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, look, his hand was leprous, as white as snow!

⁷He said, "Put your hand inside your cloak again." He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it from his cloak, look, it was restored like [the rest of] his flesh.

⁸"If they will not believe you or listen to the voice of the first sign, they will believe the voice of the latter sign. ⁹If they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, take some of the river water, and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take from the river will become blood on the dry land."

¹⁰Moses said to Yahweh, "Oh LordOfMine, I am not eloquent, neither before [now], nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue."

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

¹³He said, "Oh, LordOfMine, please send someone else."

¹⁴Yahweh's anger burned against Moses, and he said, "What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Look, he's coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. ¹⁵Speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what to do. ¹⁶He will be your spokesman to the people. To you he will be a mouth, and to him you will be as God. ¹⁷Take this staff in your hand, to do the signs with."

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

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

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

²⁴On the journey at a lodging place, Yahweh met him and wanted to kill him. ²⁵Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and threw it at his feet; and she said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me."

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

²⁷Yahweh said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." He went, and met him on God's mountain, and kissed him. ²⁸Moses told Aaron all the words that Yahweh had sent him with, and all the signs he had instructed him with. ²⁹Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel. ³⁰Aaron spoke all the words which Yahweh had told Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people. ³¹The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.

Exodus Chapter 5

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

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

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

⁴The king of Egypt said to them, "Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!" ⁵Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens." ⁶The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying, ⁷"No longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather their own straw. ⁸Require the [same] number of bricks from them that they made before. Don't reduce any of it, for they are idle. That's why they cry out, 'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.' ⁹Let heavier work be laid on the men, so they can labor in it. Don't let them pay any attention to lying words."

¹⁰The taskmasters of the people went out with their officers and spoke to the people, saying, "This is what Pharaoh says: 'I will not give you [any] straw. ¹¹Go yourselves and get straw where you can find it. None of your work will be reduced.'" ¹²So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. ¹³The taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!" ¹⁴The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, "Why haven't you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?"

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

¹⁷But he said, "You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, 'Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh.' ¹⁸So go now and work. No straw will be given to you, yet you must deliver the same number of bricks!"

¹⁹The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble, when it was said, "Don't reduce any of your daily quota of bricks!"

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

²²Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "LordOfMine, why have you brought [such] trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me? ²³For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people. You have not rescued your people at all!"

Exodus Chapter 6

¹Yahweh said to Moses, "Now you'll see what I'll do to Pharaoh, for he will let them go with a strong hand, and with a strong hand he will drive them away from his land."

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

⁹Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn't listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel slavery.

¹⁰Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ¹¹"Go in, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the children of Israel leave his land."

¹²Moses spoke in Yahweh's presence, saying, "Look, the children of Israel haven't listened to me, so how would Pharaoh listen to me, when I have uncircumcised lips?" ¹³Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a command to the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel from the land of Egypt.

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

²⁸On the day when Yahweh spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, ²⁹Yahweh said to Moses, "I am Yahweh. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I tell you."

³⁰Moses said to Yahweh, "Look, I am of uncircumcised lips, so how will Pharaoh listen to me?"

Exodus Chapter 7

¹Yahweh said to Moses, "Look, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother will be your prophet. ²Say all that I command you; and Aaron your brother is to tell Pharaoh to let the children of Israel leave his land. ³I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. ⁴But Pharaoh will not listen to you, so I will lay my hand on Egypt, and take my armies, my people the children of Israel, away from the land of Egypt by great judgments. ⁵The Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh when I stretch out my hand on Egypt, and take the children of Israel out from among them."

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

⁸Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ⁹"When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, 'Perform a miracle!' then tell Aaron, 'Take your staff, and throw it down before Pharaoh, and it will become a serpent.'"

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

¹⁴Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is stubborn. He refuses to let the people go. ¹⁵Go to Pharaoh in the morning. See, he is going out to the water. Stand by the river's bank to meet him. Take the staff that was turned into a serpent in your hand. ¹⁶Tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, "Let my people go, so they can serve me in the wilderness. Look, you haven't listened until now." ¹⁷Yahweh says, "In this you will know that I am Yahweh. Look, I will strike the water that is in the river with the staff that is in my hand, and it will be turned to blood. ¹⁸The fish that are in the river will die and the river will become foul. The Egyptians will loathe to drink water from the river."'" ¹⁹Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell 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 ponds of water, so they become blood. There will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'"

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

Exodus Chapter 8

¹Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go in to [see] Pharaoh, and tell him, 'This is what Yahweh says, "Let my people go, so they can serve me. ²If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs. ³The river will swarm with frogs, which will go up and enter your house, your bedroom, your bed, and into the house of your servants, on your people, and into your ovens, and your kneading troughs. ⁴The frogs will come up, [not only] on you, [but] on your people, and on all your servants."'" ⁵Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.'" ⁶Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt. ⁷The magicians did the same thing with their enchantments, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.

⁸Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, "Entreat Yahweh, so that he takes away the frogs from me and my people. Then I will let the people go, so they can sacrifice to Yahweh."

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

¹⁰He said, "Tomorrow." He said, "Let it be just as you say, that you may know that there is no one like Yahweh our God. ¹¹The frogs will leave you, your houses, your servants, and your people; they will stay only in the river."

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

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

²⁰Yahweh said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; behold, he comes out to the water; and tell him, 'This is what Yahweh says, "Let my people go, so they can serve me. ²¹Otherwise, if you will not let my people go, look, I will send swarms of flies on you, your servants, and your people, and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of swarms of flies, and also the land they're on. ²²On that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where my people live. There will be no swarms of flies there, so that you may know that I am Yahweh on the earth. ²³I will put a division between my people and your people. This sign will happen by tomorrow."'" ²⁴Yahweh did so; and there came dreadful swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses. In all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted because of the swarms of flies.

²⁵Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God [here] in the land!"

²⁶Moses said, "It isn't appropriate [for us] to do so, for what we will be sacrificing to Yahweh our God the Egyptians [find] disgusting. Look, if we sacrifice what the Egyptians [find] disgusting [right] before their eyes, won't they stone us? ²⁷We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh our God, as he commands us [to do]."

²⁸Pharaoh said, "I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to Yahweh your God in the wilderness, only don't go very far away. Pray for me."

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

Exodus Chapter 9

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

⁸Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, "Take handfuls of ashes from the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh. ⁹It will become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and will be boils and blisters breaking out on man and on animal throughout all the land of Egypt."

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

¹³Yahweh said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, 'This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: "Let my people go, so they can serve me. ¹⁴For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth. ¹⁵For now I would have stretched out my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth; ¹⁶but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth, ¹⁷because you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won't let them go. ¹⁸Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very severe hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now. ¹⁹Now therefore command that all of your livestock and all that you have in the field be brought into shelter. The hail will come down on every man and animal that is found in the field, and isn't brought home, and they'll die."'"

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

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

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

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

²⁹Moses said to him, "As soon as I have left the city, I will spread out my hands to Yahweh. The thunder will stop and there won't be any more hail; so that you may know that the earth is Yahweh's. ³⁰But as for you and your servants, I know that you don't yet fear Yahweh God."

³¹The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley had ripened and the flax was in bloom. ³²But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they had not grown up. ³³Then Moses left Pharaoh and the city. He spread out his hands to Yahweh and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain didn't pour on the land. ³⁴When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants. ³⁵The heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he didn't let the children of Israel go, just as Yahweh had said through Moses.

Exodus Chapter 10

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

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

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

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

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

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

¹²Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, so they will come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every plant of the land, even all that the hail has left." ¹³Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. ¹⁴The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very dreadful. There were no such locusts before them nor will there ever be again. ¹⁵For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every plant of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or plant of the field, through all the land of Egypt. ¹⁶Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, "I have sinned against Yahweh your God, and against you. ¹⁷Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, so he would also take away from me this death."

¹⁸He left Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh. ¹⁹Yahweh sent an exceedingly strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt. ²⁰But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the children of Israel go.

²¹Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt." ²²Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days. ²³They didn't see one another, and nobody rose from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

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

²⁵Moses said, "You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings, so we can sacrifice to Yahweh our God. ²⁶We'll also take our livestock with us. Not [even] a hoof will be left behind, for we must use them to serve Yahweh our God; and we won't know what we must use to serve Yahweh until we get there."

²⁷But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he wouldn't let them go. ²⁸Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me! Be careful not to see my face again; for in the day you see my face you will die!"

²⁹Moses said, "You have spoken well. I will not see your face again."

Exodus Chapter 11

¹Yahweh said to Moses, "I will bring even one more plague on Pharaoh and Egypt. After this he will let you go. When he lets you go, he will surely throw you out altogether. ²Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask for jewels of silver, and jewels of gold; every man from his neighbor, and every woman from her neighbor." ³Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Furthermore, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.

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

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

Exodus Chapter 12

¹Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, ²"This month will be the beginning of months for you. It'll be the first month of the year for you. ³Tell all the congregation of Israel, saying, 'On the tenth day of this month, they must each take a lamb, every man according to their fathers' houses; a lamb for each household; ⁴and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his next door neighbor will take one [large] enough for the number of souls. Make your count for the lamb according to what everyone can eat. ⁵Your lamb must be without defect, a male a year old. Take it from the sheep or from the goats. ⁶Keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will kill it in the evening. ⁷They must take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel, on the houses where they'll eat it. ⁸That night they must eat the flesh, roasted with fire, with unleavened bread. They must eat it with bitter herbs. ⁹Don't eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts. ¹⁰Let none of it remain until morning; but if any does remain in the morning, you must burn it with fire. ¹¹This is how you must eat it: with your belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste: it is Yahweh's Passover. ¹²For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt. I am Yahweh. ¹³The blood will be to you as a token on the houses where you are. When I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. ¹⁴This day will be a memorial for you. Keep it as a feast to Yahweh. Keep it as a feast throughout your generations as an everlasting ordinance.

¹⁵"'For seven days eat unleavened bread; on the first day throw away yeast from your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul will be cut off from Israel. ¹⁶On the first day there is to be a holy convocation for you, and on the seventh day a holy convocation. No kind of work may be done in them, except what every man must eat, only that may be done by you. ¹⁷Observe the feast of unleavened bread, for this is the day I brought your armies from the land of Egypt. Therefore observe this day throughout your generations as an everlasting ordinance. ¹⁸In the first month on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month eat unleavened bread, until the evening of the twenty first day of the month. ¹⁹There must be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats what is leavened, that soul will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a foreigner, or one who is born in the land. ²⁰Don't eat anything leavened. In all your habitations eat unleavened bread.'"

²¹Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, "Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover. ²²Take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you may go out of the door of your house until morning. ²³For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two doorposts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you. ²⁴Observe this thing as an everlasting ordinance for you and your sons. ²⁵When you have come to the land which Yahweh will give you as he has promised, keep this service. ²⁶When your children ask you, 'What do you mean by this service?' ²⁷Say, 'It is the sacrifice of Yahweh's Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.'" The people bowed their heads and worshiped. ²⁸The children of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

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

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

³⁷The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, in addition to children. ³⁸A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock. ³⁹They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they had brought from Egypt. It wasn't leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn't wait, and they had not prepared any food for themselves. ⁴⁰Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years. ⁴¹At the end of four hundred thirty years, to the day, all of Yahweh's armies left the land of Egypt. ⁴²It is a night to be much observed to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is Yahweh's night, to be much observed by all the children of Israel throughout their generations.

⁴³Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner may eat of it, ⁴⁴but every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then he may eat it. ⁴⁵A foreigner or a hired servant may not eat of it. ⁴⁶It must be eaten in one house. Don't carry any of the meat outside of the house. Don't break any of its bones. ⁴⁷All the congregation of Israel must keep it. ⁴⁸When a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, and would like to keep Yahweh's Passover, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it. Let him be as one who is born in the land; but no uncircumcised person may eat of it. ⁴⁹There will be one law, to him who is born at home and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you." ⁵⁰All the children of Israel did so. As Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. ⁵¹that same day, Yahweh brought the children of Israel from the land of Egypt by their armies.

Exodus Chapter 13

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

³Moses said to the people, "Remember this day, when you left Egypt, from the house of slavery; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought you out from this place. No leavened bread may be eaten. ⁴Today you go out in the month Abib. ⁵When Yahweh brings you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, keep this service in this month. ⁶For seven days eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day have a feast to Yahweh. ⁷Unleavened bread must be eaten throughout the seven days; leavened bread mustn't be seen with you. Let no yeast be seen with you, within all your borders. ⁸Tell your son in that day, saying, 'It's because of what Yahweh did for me when I came here from Egypt.' ⁹It will be as a sign for you on your hand, and as a memorial between your eyes, that Yahweh's law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you from Egypt. ¹⁰Therefore keep this ordinance every year at the appointed time.

¹¹"When Yahweh brings you into the land of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you, ¹²set apart to Yahweh all that opens the womb, and every firstborn that comes from an animal of yours. The males are Yahweh's. ¹³Redeem every firstborn of a donkey with a lamb; and if you [prefer] not to redeem it, then break its neck. Redeem every firstborn human among your sons. ¹⁴When your son asks you in time to come, saying, 'What is this?' tell him, 'By strength of hand Yahweh brought us from Egypt, from the house of slavery. ¹⁵When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, Yahweh killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of livestock. Therefore I sacrifice to Yahweh all that opens the womb, being males; but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.' ¹⁶It will be for a sign on your hand, and for symbols between your eyes; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought us from Egypt."

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

Exodus Chapter 14

¹Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ²"Tell the children of Israel, to turn back and camp near Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal Zephon. Camp opposite it by the sea. ³Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, 'They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.' ⁴I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will pursue them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh." They did so.

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

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

¹³Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid. Stand still, and see Yahweh's salvation, which he will work for you today. For you will never again see the Egyptians whom you have seen today. ¹⁴Yahweh will fight for you, and you can be still."

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

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

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

Exodus Chapter 15

¹Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said,

"I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea. ²Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father's God, and I will exalt him. ³Yahweh is a man of war. Yahweh is his name. ⁴He has thrown Pharaoh's chariots and his army into the sea. His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea. ⁵The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone. ⁶Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces. ⁷In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble. ⁸With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea. ⁹The enemy said, 'I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword. My hand will destroy them.' ¹⁰You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters. ¹¹Who is like you, Yahweh, among the Gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? ¹²You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them. ¹³"You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation. ¹⁴The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold of the inhabitants of Philistia. ¹⁵Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away. ¹⁶Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone, until your people pass over, Yahweh, until the people you have purchased pass over. ¹⁷You will bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, the place, Yahweh, which you have made for yourself to reside: the sanctuary, LordOfMine, which your hands have established. ¹⁸Yahweh will reign forever and ever."

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

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

²⁷They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees. They camped there by the waters.

Exodus Chapter 16

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

⁴Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Look, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people are to go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not. ⁵On the sixth day they'll prepare what they bring in, and it'll be twice as much as they gather daily."

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

¹³In the evening, quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp. ¹⁴When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground. ¹⁵When the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, "What is it?" For they didn't know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat. ¹⁶This is what Yahweh has commanded: 'Everyone gather it according to his appetite, an omer per person. Every man take it for those who are in his tent.'" ¹⁷The children of Israel did so, and some gathered more, some less. ¹⁸When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They each gathered according to their eating. ¹⁹Moses said to them, "Let no one leave any of it until morning." ²⁰Nevertheless they didn't listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, so it bred worms and became foul. Moses was angry with them. ²¹They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to their appetite. When the sun grew hot, it melted. ²²On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one; and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses. ²³He said to them, "This is what Yahweh has said, 'Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil; and all that remains over store for yourselves to be kept until the morning.'" ²⁴They laid it up until the morning, as Moses ordered, and it didn't become foul, and there weren't any worms in it. ²⁵Moses said, "Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to Yahweh. Today you won't find it in the field. ²⁶Gather it for six days, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. Then there won't be any." ²⁷On the seventh day, some of the people went out to gather, and they found none. ²⁸Yahweh said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws? ²⁹Look, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Everyone must stay in his place. Let no one leave his place on the seventh day." ³⁰So the people rested on the seventh day.

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

Exodus Chapter 17

¹All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin in stages, according to Yahweh's commandment, and camped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink. ²Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink." Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?"

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

⁴Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "What will I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me."

⁵Yahweh said to Moses, "Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the staff in your hand, the one you struck the Nile with, and go. ⁶Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come from it, that the people may drink." Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. ⁷He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, "Is Yahweh among us, or not?"

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

Exodus Chapter 18

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

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

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

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

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

Exodus Chapter 19

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

⁷Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which Yahweh commanded him. ⁸All the people answered together, and said, "All that Yahweh has said we will do." Moses reported the words of the people to Yahweh. ⁹Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever." Moses told the words of the people to Yahweh. ¹⁰Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments, ¹¹and be ready for the third day; for on the third day Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai. ¹²Set bounds to the people all around, saying, 'Be careful that you don't go up onto the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain will be surely put to death. ¹³Let no hand touch him, but he must surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is animal or man, he may not live.' When the trumpet sounds long, they may approach the mountain."

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

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

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

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

²⁴Yahweh said to him, "Go down! Bring Aaron up with you, but don't let the priests and the people break through to come up to Yahweh, in case he breaks out against them."

²⁵So Moses went down to the people, and told them.

Exodus Chapter 20

¹God spoke all these words, saying, ²"I am Yahweh your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

³"Have no other gods before me.

⁴"Don't make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water below the land: ⁵don't bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the iniquity of the fathers, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me, ⁶and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

⁷"Don't carry the name of Yahweh your God emptily, for Yahweh will not clear the one who carries his name emptily.

⁸"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. ⁹Labor for six days, and do all your work, ¹⁰but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. Don't do any work in it. Not you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant. Not your livestock, nor the stranger who is within your gates; ¹¹for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.

¹²"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God is giving you.

¹³"Don't murder.

¹⁴"Don't commit adultery.

¹⁵"Don't steal.

¹⁶"Don't give false testimony against your neighbor.

¹⁷"Don't covet your neighbor's house. Don't covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."

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

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

²²Yahweh said to Moses, "This is what to tell the children of Israel: 'You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. ²³Most certainly do not make gods of silver or gods of gold for yourselves to be alongside me. ²⁴Make an altar of earth for me, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you. ²⁵If you make me an altar of stone, don't build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it. ²⁶Don't go up by steps to my altar, so your nakedness won't be exposed to it.'

Exodus Chapter 21

¹"Now these are the ordinances which you must set before them.

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

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

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

¹⁵"Anyone who attacks his father or his mother must be surely put to death.

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

¹⁷"Anyone who curses his father or his mother must surely be put to death.

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

²⁰"If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a staff, and he dies by his hand, he must surely be punished. ²¹Except, if he gets up after a day or two, he is not to be punished, for he is his property.

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

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

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

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

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

Exodus Chapter 22

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

⁵"If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten by letting his animal loose, and it grazes in another man's field, he must make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard.

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

⁷"If a man delivers to his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it is stolen from the man's house, if the thief is found, he must pay double. ⁸If the thief isn't found, then the owner of the house is to come near to God, to find out whether or not he has put his hand on his neighbor's goods. ⁹For every matter of trespass, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, about which one says, 'This is mine,' the cause of both parties will come before God. He whom God condemns is to pay double to his neighbor.

¹⁰"If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no man seeing it; ¹¹Yahweh's oath that he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods will be between them both. The owner must accept this, and he needn't make restitution. ¹²But if it is stolen from him, he must make restitution to its owner. ¹³If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. He needn't make good what was torn.

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

¹⁶"If a man entices a virgin who isn't pledged to be married, and lies with her, he must surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife. ¹⁷If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, let him pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

¹⁸"Don't allow a sorceress to live.

¹⁹"Whoever has sex with an animal must surely be put to death.

²⁰"He who sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh only, must be utterly destroyed.

²¹"Don't wrong a foreigner or oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

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

²⁵"If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, don't be a creditor to him. You mustn't charge him interest. ²⁶If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, restore it to him before the sun goes down, ²⁷for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? When he cries to me, I will listen, for I am gracious.

²⁸"Don't blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

²⁹"Don't delay to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. Give the firstborn of your sons to me. ³⁰Do likewise with your cattle and with your sheep. It'll be with its mother for seven days, then on the eighth day give it to me.

³¹"Be holy men to me, so don't eat any flesh that is torn by animals in the field. Throw it to the dogs.

Exodus Chapter 23

¹"Don't spread a unfounded report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

²"Don't follow a crowd to do evil. Don't testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice. ³Don't favor a poor man in his cause.

⁴"If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you must surely bring it back to him again. ⁵If you see a donkey [owned by] someone who hates you fallen down under its burden, don't leave him. Surely help him with it.

⁶"Don't deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

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

⁸"Take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

⁹"Don't oppress a foreigner, for you know the heart of a foreigner, since you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

¹⁰"For six years sow your land, and gather in its produce, ¹¹but let it rest and lie fallow for the seventh year, so the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field may eat. Treat your vineyard and your olive grove in the same way.

¹²"do your work for six days and on the seventh day rest, so that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the foreigner may be refreshed.

¹³"Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don't invoke the name of other gods or even let them be heard from your mouth.

¹⁴"Observe a feast to me three times a year. ¹⁵Observe the feast of unleavened bread. Eat unleavened bread for seven days at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you left Egypt), as I commanded you. Let no one appear before me empty-handed. ¹⁶And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your work, which you sow in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when you gather in your produce from the field. ¹⁷Three times a year all your males must appear before the Lord Yahweh.

¹⁸"Do not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, nor let the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning.

¹⁹Bring the first of the first fruits of your ground into Yahweh your God's house. "Don't boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

²⁰"Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you along the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. ²¹Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don't provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him. ²²But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries. ²³For my angel will go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off. ²⁴Don't bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars. ²⁵Serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water; and I will take sickness away from among you. ²⁶No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days. ²⁷I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. ²⁸I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you. ²⁹I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you. ³⁰Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land. ³¹I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand. Drive them out before you. ³²Don't make any covenants with them, nor with their gods. ³³Don't let them live in your land, otherwise they might make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you."

Exodus Chapter 24

¹He said to Moses, "Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance. ²Only Moses may approach Yahweh, but they must not. The people mustn't go up with him."

³Moses came and told the people all Yahweh's words, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, "All the words which Yahweh has said we will do."

⁴Moses wrote all Yahweh's words, then rose up early in the morning and built an altar at the base of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel. ⁵He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to Yahweh. ⁶Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. ⁷He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, "We will do all that Yahweh has said, and be obedient."

⁸Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words."

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

¹²Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them."

¹³Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God's Mountain. ¹⁴He said to the elders, "Wait here for us, until we return to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them."

¹⁵Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. ¹⁶Yahweh's glory settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. The seventh day he called to Moses from the middle of the cloud. ¹⁷The appearance of Yahweh's glory was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel. ¹⁸Moses entered into the middle of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Exodus Chapter 25

¹Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ²"Tell the children of Israel, to take an offering for me. Take my offering from everyone whose heart makes him willing. ³Take this offering from them: gold, silver, bronze, ⁴blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair, ⁵rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood, ⁶oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense, ⁷onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate. ⁸Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may live among them. ⁹Make it exactly as I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture.

¹⁰"Let them make an ark of acacia wood. It should be two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high. ¹¹Overlay it with pure gold. Overlay it inside and out, and make a gold molding around it. ¹²Cast four rings of gold for it, and put them on its four feet. Let two rings be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. ¹³Make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. ¹⁴Put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark. ¹⁵The poles must be in the rings of the ark. They mustn't be taken from it. ¹⁶Put the testimony which I'm about to give you into the ark. ¹⁷Make a mercy seat of pure gold. It will be two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half wide. ¹⁸Make two throne-angels of hammered gold. Make them at the two ends of the mercy seat. ¹⁹Make one throne-angel at the one end, and one throne-angel at the other end. Make the throne-angels on its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat. ²⁰The wings of the throne-angels will spread out upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the throne-angels are to be toward the mercy seat. ²¹Put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and put the testimony that I'm about to give you in the ark. ²²There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two throne-angels which are on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for the children of Israel.

²³"Make a table of acacia wood. Make it two cubits long, a cubit wide, and one and a half cubits high. ²⁴Overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it. ²⁵Make a rim of a hand width around it. Make a golden molding on its rim around it. ²⁶Make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet. ²⁷the rings are to be close to the rim, as places for the poles to carry the table. ²⁸Make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them. ²⁹Make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with. Make them of pure gold. ³⁰Always set bread of the presence on the table before me.

³¹Make a lampstand of pure gold. Make the lampstand of hammered work. Let its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers be of one piece with it. ³²There are to be six branches going out from its sides: three branches of the lampstand out from its one side, and three branches of the lampstand out from its other side; ³³three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the lampstand; ³⁴and in the lampstand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers; ³⁵and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the lampstand. ³⁶Their buds and their branches are to be of one piece with it, all of it one beaten work of pure gold. ³⁷Make it with seven lamps, and they will raise up its lamps to give light to the space in front of it. ³⁸Its snuffers and its snuff dishes will be of pure gold. ³⁹Make it from a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories. ⁴⁰See that you make them according to their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.

Exodus Chapter 26

¹"Furthermore make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet, with throne-angels. Have a skillful workman make them. ²Each curtain is to be twenty-eight cubits long, and each curtain four cubits wide. All the curtains are to have the same dimensions. ³Five curtains will be coupled together to one another, and the other five curtains will be coupled to one another. ⁴Make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling, and do likewise on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second coupling. ⁵Make fifty loops in the one curtain, and make fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling. The loops are to be be opposite one another. ⁶Make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains to one another with the clasps. The tabernacle will be a unit.

⁷Make curtains of goats' hair for a covering over the tabernacle. Make eleven curtains. ⁸Let each curtain be thirty cubits long, and each curtain four cubits wide. The eleven curtains are to have the same dimensions. ⁹Couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and double over the sixth curtain in the front of the tent. ¹⁰Make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outermost in the coupling, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which is outermost in the second coupling. ¹¹Make fifty clasps of bronze, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one. ¹²The overhanging side that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, is to hang over the back of the tabernacle. ¹³The cubit on the one side and the cubit on the other side, of what remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, is to hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it. ¹⁴Make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.

¹⁵Make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright. ¹⁶The board is to be ten cubits long, and each board one and a half cubits wide. ¹⁷Let there be two tenons in each board, joined to one another; make all the boards of the tabernacle like this. ¹⁸Make twenty boards for the tabernacle toward the side of the Negev to the south. ¹⁹Make 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. ²⁰For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards, ²¹and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. ²²For the far side of the tabernacle on the west make six boards. ²³Make two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far side. ²⁴Let them be double beneath, and in the same way make each one whole to its top to one ring. It will be like this for both of them; let them be for the two corners. ²⁵There are to be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

²⁶Make bars of acacia wood. Five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, ²⁷and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the far side on the west. ²⁸The middle bar in the middle of the boards is to pass through from end to end. ²⁹Overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars. Overlay the bars with gold. ³⁰Set up the tabernacle according to the way that was shown to you on the mountain.

³¹Make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with throne-angels. Let it be made by the work of a skillful workman. ³²Hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks are to be of gold, on four sockets of silver. ³³Hang the veil under the clasps, and bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil. The veil will separate the holy place from the most holy for you. ³⁴Put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the most holy place. ³⁵Set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south. Put the table on the north side.

³⁶Make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer. ³⁷Make five pillars of acacia for the screen, and overlay them with gold. Their hooks will be of gold. Cast five sockets of bronze for them.

Exodus Chapter 27

¹Make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits wide. The altar will be square. Its height will be three cubits. ²Make its horns on its four corners. Its horns are to be of one piece with it. Overlay it with bronze. ³Make the pots to take away its ashes; and its shovels, basins, flesh hooks, and its fire pans. Make all its vessels of bronze. ⁴Make a grating for it of network of bronze. On the net make four bronze rings in its four corners. ⁵Put it under the ledge around the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar. ⁶Make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze. ⁷Put its poles into the rings. The poles are to be on the two sides of the altar when carrying it. ⁸Make it hollow with planks. Let them make it as it has been shown you on the mountain.

⁹Make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there are to be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side. ¹⁰It will have twenty pillars, and twenty sockets of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets are to be of silver. ¹¹Likewise for the length of the north side, there are to be hangings one hundred cubits long, and its twenty pillars, and their twenty sockets, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver. ¹²For the width of the court on the west side are to be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. ¹³The court on the east side eastward is to be fifty cubits wide. ¹⁴The hangings for the one side of the gate are to be fifteen cubits long with three pillars, and three sockets. ¹⁵For the other side there'll be fifteen cubit long hangings with three pillars, and three sockets. ¹⁶For the gate of the court will be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four. ¹⁷All the pillars of the court around are to be filleted with silver, with silver hooks and bronze sockets. ¹⁸The court is to be one hundred cubits long, fifty wide throughout and five cubits high, [made] of fine twined linen, with bronze sockets. ¹⁹All the instruments of the tabernacle in all its service, and all its pins, and all the pins of the court, are to be of bronze.

²⁰Command the children of Israel to bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually. ²¹In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons must keep it in order from evening to morning in Yahweh's presence: it will be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

Exodus Chapter 28

¹Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from among the children of Israel, so he can minister to me in the priest's office: Aaron, with Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, Aaron's sons. ²Make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty. ³Tell all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, to make Aaron's garments to sanctify him, so he can minister to me in the priest's office. ⁴These are the garments they're to make: a breastplate, an ephod, a robe, a fitted tunic, a turban, and a sash. They are to make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons, so he can minister to me in the priest's office. ⁵They are to use the gold, the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.

⁶they should make the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of a skillful workman. ⁷Let it have two shoulder straps joined to the two ends of it, that it may be joined together. ⁸The skillfully woven band, which is on it, will be like its work and of the same piece; of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. ⁹Take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the children of Israel. ¹⁰Six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other stone, in the order of their birth. ¹¹With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel. Make them to be enclosed in settings of gold. ¹²Put the two stones on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be memorial stones for the children of Israel. Aaron will carry their names on his two shoulders in Yahweh's presence as a memorial. ¹³Make settings of gold, ¹⁴and make two chains of pure gold like cords of braided work. Put the braided chains on the settings.

¹⁵Make a breastplate of judgment, the work of a skillful workman; make it like the work of the ephod. Make it of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. ¹⁶Let it be square and folded double; a span long, and a span wide. ¹⁷Set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: the first row will be a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl; ¹⁸and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald; ¹⁹and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; ²⁰and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. Enclose them in gold in their settings. ²¹The stones are to be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, let them be for the twelve tribes. ²²Make pure gold chains like cords of braided work on the breastplate. ²³Make two rings of gold on the breastplate, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. ²⁴Put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate. ²⁵Put the [other] two ends on the two settings of the two braided chains, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod on its front. ²⁶Make two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which is toward the inner side of the ephod. ²⁷Make two [more] rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, on its front, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod. ²⁸They are to bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate may not swing out from the ephod. ²⁹Aaron will carry the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment on his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, as a memorial in Yahweh's presence continually. ³⁰Put the Urim and the Thummim in the breastplate of judgment; and they'll be on Aaron's heart when he goes in to Yahweh's presence. Aaron will carry the judgment of the children of Israel on his heart in Yahweh's presence continually.

³¹Make the robe of the ephod all of blue. ³²Let it have a hole for the head in the middle of it. Let it have a binding of woven work around its hole, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it not be torn. ³³On its hem make pomegranates of blue, purple, and of scarlet, all around its hem; with bells of gold between and around them: ³⁴a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the robe. ³⁵It will be on Aaron to minister. Its sound will be heard when he goes in to the holy place of Yahweh's presence, and when he comes out, so he won't die.

³⁶Make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, like the engravings of a signet, 'Holy to Yahweh.' ³⁷Put it on a lace of blue, and place on the sash. It will be on the front of the sash. ³⁸It will be on Aaron's forehead, and Aaron will bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel will make holy in all their holy gifts; and it must always be on his forehead, so they can be accepted in Yahweh's presence. ³⁹Weave the tunic with fine linen. Make a turban of fine linen, and a sash, the work of an embroiderer.

⁴⁰Make tunics for Aaron's sons. Make sashes and headbands for them, for glory and for beauty. ⁴¹Put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, so they can minister to me in the priest's office. ⁴²Make them linen undershorts to cover their nakedness. Make them cover from the waist to the thighs. ⁴³They must be on Aaron and on his sons when they go in to the Tent of Meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place, so they don't bear iniquity, and die. This will be a statute forever to him and to his offspring after him.

Exodus Chapter 29

¹This is what you must do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest's office: take one young bull and two rams without defect, ²unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them of fine wheat flour. ³Put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams. ⁴Bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water. ⁵Take the garments, and put on Aaron the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate, and clothe him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod. ⁶Set the turban on his head, and put the holy crown on the turban. ⁷Then take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him. ⁸Bring his sons, and put tunics on them. ⁹Clothe them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them. The priesthood is theirs by a perpetual statute. Consecrate Aaron and his sons.

¹⁰Bring the bull before the Tent of Meeting; and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on the head of the bull. ¹¹Kill the bull in Yahweh's presence at the door of the Tent of Meeting. ¹²Take some of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and pour out all the blood at the base of the altar. ¹³Take all the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar. ¹⁴But burn with fire the flesh of the bull, with its skin and its dung, outside the camp. It is a sin offering.

¹⁵Also take the one ram, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on the head of the ram. ¹⁶Kill the ram and take its blood and sprinkle it around on the altar. ¹⁷Cut the ram into pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and its head. ¹⁸Burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

¹⁹Take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on the head of the ram. ²⁰Then kill the ram, and take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot; and sprinkle the blood around on the altar. ²¹Take some of the blood that is on the altar with some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on their garments with him. So he will be made holy, and his garments, his sons, and his sons' garments with him. ²²Also take some of the ram's fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of consecration), ²³and one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is in Yahweh's presence. ²⁴Put all of this in Aaron's hands, and in his sons' hands, and wave them for a wave offering in Yahweh's presence. ²⁵Take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar on the burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma in Yahweh's presence. It is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

²⁶Take the breast of Aaron's ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave offering in Yahweh's presence. It will be your portion. ²⁷Sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the wave offering, which is waved, and which is raised up, of the ram of consecration, even of what is for Aaron, and of what is for his sons. ²⁸It will be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel; for it is a wave offering. It will be a wave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their wave offering to Yahweh.

²⁹The holy garments of Aaron will be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them. ³⁰The son who is priest in his place must put them on for seven days, when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the holy place.

³¹Take the ram of consecration and boil its flesh in a holy place. ³²Aaron and his sons must eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the Tent of Meeting. ³³They must eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them; but a stranger may not eat of it, because they are holy. ³⁴If anything of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread, remains till morning, then burn the remainder with fire. It may not be eaten, because it is holy.

³⁵Do these things to Aaron and his sons, exactly as I have commanded you. You will consecrate them for seven days. ³⁶Offer the bull of sin offering for atonement every day. Cleanse the altar when you make atonement for it. Anoint it to sanctify it. ³⁷Make atonement for the altar for seven days and sanctify it; and the altar will be most holy. Whatever touches the altar will be holy.

³⁸Now this is what to offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day every day continually. ³⁹Offer the one lamb in the morning; and the other lamb offer in the evening; ⁴⁰and with the one lamb a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of beaten oil, and a quarter of a hin of wine for a drink offering. ⁴¹Offer the other lamb at evening, and do to it according to the meal offering of the morning and according to its drink offering, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh. ⁴²It will be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting in Yahweh's presence, where I will meet with you, to speak to you there. ⁴³There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place will be sanctified by my glory. ⁴⁴I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar. I will also sanctify Aaron and his sons to minister to me in the priest's office. ⁴⁵I will live among the children of Israel, and will be their God. ⁴⁶They will know that I am Yahweh their God, who brought them from the land of Egypt, that I might live among them. I am Yahweh their God.

Exodus Chapter 30

¹Make an altar to burn incense on. Make it of acacia wood. ²It will be a cubit long, and a cubit wide. It is to be square, and two cubits high. Its horns are to be of one piece with it. ³Overlay it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns; and make a gold molding around it. ⁴Make two golden rings for it under its molding; on its two ribs, make them on its two sides; they'll be places for poles to carry it with. ⁵Make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. ⁶Put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you. ⁷Aaron must burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. He should burn it when he tends the lamps. ⁸Aaron must burn it when he lights the lamps at evening, a perpetual incense in Yahweh's presence throughout your generations. ⁹Don't offer strange incense on it, nor burnt offerings, nor meal offerings; and don't pour any drink offerings on it. ¹⁰Aaron is to make atonement on its horns once every year. He must make atonement for it with the blood of the sin offering of atonement, once every year throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh."

¹¹Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ¹²When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are counted among them, then each man is to give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh when you count them, that there be no plague among them when you count them. ¹³Everyone who passes over to those who are counted must give this, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs); half a shekel as an offering to Yahweh. ¹⁴Everyone who passes over to those who are counted, from twenty years old and older, will give the offering to Yahweh. ¹⁵The rich will not give more, and the poor will not give less, than the half shekel, when they give Yahweh's offering, to make atonement for your souls. ¹⁶Take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and appoint it for the service of the Tent of Meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel in Yahweh's presence, to make atonement for your souls."

¹⁷Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁸Also make a bronze basin to wash in, with a bronze base. Put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water in it. ¹⁹Aaron and his sons are to wash their hands and their feet in it. ²⁰When they go into the Tent of Meeting, they must wash with water, so they don't die; also when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to Yahweh. ²¹So they must wash their hands and their feet, so they don't die. This will be a statute for them forever, to him and to his descendants throughout their generations."

²²Furthermore Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ²³Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred shekels; and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and fifty; and of fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty; ²⁴and of cassia five hundred, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil. ²⁵Make it into a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded according to the art of the perfumer; it is to be a holy anointing oil. ²⁶Use it to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the testimony, ²⁷the table and all its articles, the lampstand and its accessories, the incense altar, ²⁸the burnt offering altar with all its utensils, and the basin with its base. ²⁹Sanctify them, so they'll be most holy. Whatever touches them will be holy. ³⁰Anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, so they can minister to me in the priest's office. ³¹Tell the children of Israel, saying, 'This is to be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations. ³²It must not be poured on man's flesh, and you mustn't make any like it, according to its composition. It is holy. It will be holy to you. ³³Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, let him be cut off from his people.'"

³⁴Yahweh said to Moses, "Take sweet spices, gum resin, onycha and galbanum: sweet spices with pure frankincense. There is to be an equal weight of each. ³⁵Make incense from it, a perfume according to the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy. ³⁶Beat some of it very small, and put some of it in front of the testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It will be most holy to you. ³⁷You mustn't make this incense according to this composition for yourselves: it will be holy to Yahweh for you. ³⁸Whoever makes any like it to smell it, let him be cut off from his people."

Exodus Chapter 31

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

¹²Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ¹³Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, 'Most certainly keep my Sabbaths; for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies you. ¹⁴Keep the Sabbath therefore, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it must surely be put to death; for whoever does any work then, that soul will be cut off from among his people. ¹⁵Work will be done for six days, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death. ¹⁶Therefore the children of Israel must keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. ¹⁷It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.'"

¹⁸When he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave Moses the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written with God's finger.

Exodus Chapter 32

¹When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make us gods to go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we don't know what's become of him."

²Aaron said to them, "Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me."

³All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron. ⁴He received what they handed him, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it into a cast-metal calf. Then they said, "This is your god, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt."

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

⁶They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

⁷Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go, get down; for your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves! ⁸They have turned aside quickly from the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a cast-metal calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'This is your god, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.'"

⁹Yahweh said to Moses, "I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people. ¹⁰Now therefore leave me alone, so my wrath may burn against them so I may consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation."

¹¹Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? ¹²Why should the Egyptians talk, saying, 'He brought them out for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth'? Turn from your fierce wrath, and turn away from this evil against your people. ¹³Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your offspring, and they will inherit it forever.'"

¹⁴So Yahweh turned away from the evil which he said he would do to his people.

¹⁵Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides. They were written on one side and on the other. ¹⁶The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

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

¹⁸He said, "It isn't the voice of those who shout for victory. It is not the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear." ¹⁹As soon as he came near to the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. So Moses' anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets from his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain. ²⁰He took the calf which they had made, and burned it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink it.

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

²²Aaron said, "Don't let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know that the people are set on evil. ²³For they said to me, 'Make us gods, to go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we don't know what's become of him.' ²⁴I said to them, 'Whoever has any gold, let them take it off.' So they gave it to me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf."

²⁵When Moses saw that the people were out of control, (for Aaron had let them lose control, causing derision among their enemies), ²⁶then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Whoever is on Yahweh's side, come to me!" All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him. ²⁷He said to them, "Yahweh the God of Israel says, 'Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.'" ²⁸The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. About three thousand men of the people fell that day. ²⁹Moses said, "Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, for every man has been against his son and against his brother, so that he'll give you a blessing today."

³⁰The next day, Moses said to the people, "You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I'll make atonement for your sin."

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

³³Yahweh said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot him out of my book. ³⁴Now go! Lead the people to where I told you. Behold, my angel will go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin." ³⁵Yahweh struck the people, because of what they did with the calf, which Aaron made.

Exodus Chapter 33

¹Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Depart, go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up from the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your offspring.' ²I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. ³Go to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you on the way."

⁴When the people heard this evil news, they mourned. No one put on his jewelry.

⁵Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up among you for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore take off your jewelry now, that I may know what to do to you.'"

⁶The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.

⁷Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it "The Tent of Meeting." Everyone who sought Yahweh went out to the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp. ⁸When Moses went out to the Tent, all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent. ⁹When Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and spoke with Moses. ¹⁰All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their tent door. ¹¹Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn't depart from the Tent.

¹²Moses said to Yahweh, "Behold, you tell me, 'Bring up this people;' and you haven't let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.' ¹³Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please now let me know your way, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight; and consider that this nation is your people."

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

¹⁵He said to him, "If your presence doesn't go with me, don't carry us up from here. ¹⁶For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn't it that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?"

¹⁷Yahweh said to Moses, "I will do this thing also that you have said; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name."

¹⁸He said, "Please show me your glory."

¹⁹He said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of Yahweh before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy." ²⁰He said, "You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live." ²¹Yahweh also said, "Look, there is a place near me; stand on the rock. ²²While my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by; ²³then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face may not be seen."

Exodus Chapter 34

¹Yahweh said to Moses, "Chisel two stone tablets like the first. I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. ²Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain. ³Let no one come up with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain. Do not let the flocks or herds graze in front of that mountain."

⁴He chiseled two stone tablets like the first; then Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets. ⁵Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Yahweh. ⁶Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, "Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, ⁷keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, punishing the children for the iniquity of the fathers, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation."

⁸Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped. ⁹He said, "If now I have found favor in your sight, LordOfMine, please let LordOfMine go among us, even though this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance."

¹⁰He said, "Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created-from-nothing in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people you are among will see Yahweh's work; for it is an awesome thing that I do with you. ¹¹Observe what I command you today. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. ¹²Be careful, in case you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, otherwise it be for a snare among you; ¹³but break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles; ¹⁴for you may worship no other god; for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

¹⁵Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice; ¹⁶and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

¹⁷Don't make any cast-metal idols for yourselves.

¹⁸Keep the feast of unleavened bread. Eat unleavened bread for seven days, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib you left Egypt.

¹⁹All that opens the womb is mine; and all your livestock that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep. ²⁰Redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb. If you choose not to redeem it, then break its neck. Redeem all the firstborn of your sons. Let no one appear before me empty-handed.

²¹Work for six days, but on the seventh day, rest. In plowing time and in harvest you must rest.

²²Observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year's end. ²³Three times a year all your males must appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel. ²⁴For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders. No man will desire your land when you go up to appear in Yahweh your God's presence, three times a year.

²⁵Do not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. Don't leave the sacrifice of the feast of the Passover till the morning.

²⁶Bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to Yahweh your God's house. "Do not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."

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

²⁸He was there with Yahweh for forty days and forty nights; he didn't eat bread, or drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

²⁹When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mountain, Moses didn't know that the skin of his face shone because of his speaking with him. ³⁰When Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him. ³¹Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them. ³²Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them all the commandments that Yahweh had told him on Mount Sinai. ³³When Moses was done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. ³⁴But when Moses went in to Yahweh's presence to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Israel what he was commanded. ³⁵The children of Israel saw Moses' face, that the skin of Moses' face shone; so Moses put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

Exodus Chapter 35

¹Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel, and said to them, "These are the words which Yahweh has commanded, that you should do them. ²'Work will be done for six days, but the seventh day will be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on it must be put to death. ³Don't kindle any fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day.'"

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

¹⁰"'Let every wise-hearted man among you come, and make all that Yahweh has commanded: ¹¹the tabernacle, its outer covering, its roof, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets; ¹²the ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, the veil of the screen; ¹³the table with its poles and all its vessels, and the show bread; ¹⁴the lampstand also for the light, with its vessels, its lamps, and the oil for the light; ¹⁵and the incense altar with its poles, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle; ¹⁶the burnt offering altar, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its vessels, the basin and its base; ¹⁷the hangings of the court, its pillars, their sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court; ¹⁸the pins of the tabernacle, the pins of the court, and their cords; ¹⁹the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.'"

²⁰All the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses. ²¹They came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whom his spirit made willing, and brought Yahweh's offering for the work of the Tent of Meeting, and for all of its service, and for the holy garments. ²²They came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought brooches, earrings, signet rings, and armlets, all jewels of gold; even every man who offered an offering of gold to Yahweh. ²³Everyone with whom was found blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair, rams' skins dyed red, and sea cow hides, brought them. ²⁴Everyone who offered an offering of silver and bronze brought Yahweh's offering; and everyone with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it. ²⁵All the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought what they had spun: the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen. ²⁶All the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats' hair. ²⁷The rulers brought the onyx stones and the stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate; ²⁸with the spice and the oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense. ²⁹The children of Israel brought a freewill offering to Yahweh; every man and woman whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which Yahweh had commanded to be made by Moses.

³⁰Moses said to the children of Israel, "Behold, Yahweh has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. ³¹He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship; ³²and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, ³³in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship. ³⁴He has put it in his heart to teach, both him and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. ³⁵He has filled them with wisdom of heart to work all kinds of workmanship, of an engraver, of a skillful workman, and of an embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.

Exodus Chapter 36

¹"Let Bezalel and Oholiab work with every wise-hearted man, in whom Yahweh has put wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work for the service of the sanctuary, exactly as Yahweh has commanded."

²Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart Yahweh had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it. ³They received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it with. They kept bringing freewill offerings to him every morning. ⁴All the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary, each came from his work which he did. ⁵They spoke to Moses, saying, "The people have brought much more than enough for the service of the work which Yahweh commanded to make."

⁶Moses gave a commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, "Let neither man nor woman make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary." So the people were restrained from bringing. ⁷For the stuff they had was sufficient to do all the work, and too much.

⁸All the wise-hearted men among those who did the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet. They made them with throne-angels, the work of a skillful workman. ⁹The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains had one measure. ¹⁰He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another. ¹¹He made loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling. He did the same in the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the second [coupling]. ¹²He made fifty loops in the one curtain, and he made fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that was in the second coupling. The loops were opposite to one another. ¹³He made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains to one another with the clasps: so the tabernacle was a unit.

¹⁴He made curtains of goats' hair for a covering over the tabernacle. He made them eleven curtains. ¹⁵The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the width of each curtain. The eleven curtains had one measure. ¹⁶He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. ¹⁷He made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the coupling, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which was outermost in the second coupling. ¹⁸He made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit. ¹⁹He made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.

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

³¹He made bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, ³²and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the back on the west. ³³He made the middle bar pass through in the middle of the boards from the one end to the other. ³⁴He overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold as places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

³⁵He made the veil of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, with throne-angels. He made it the work of a skillful workman. ³⁶He made four pillars of acacia for it, and overlaid them with gold. Their hooks were of gold. He cast four sockets of silver for them. ³⁷He made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer; ³⁸and the five pillars of it with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold, and their five sockets were of bronze.

Exodus Chapter 37

¹Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood. It was two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide and a cubit and a half high. ²He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold for it around it. ³He cast four rings of gold for it on its four feet: two rings on one side, and two rings on the other. ⁴He made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold. ⁵He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark. ⁶He made a mercy seat of pure gold. It was two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half wide. ⁷He made two throne-angels of gold. He made them of beaten work, at the two ends of the mercy seat: ⁸one throne-angel at the one end, and one throne-angel at the other end. He made the throne-angels of one piece with the mercy seat at its two ends. ⁹The throne-angels spread out their wings above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the throne-angels were toward the mercy seat.

¹⁰He made the table of acacia wood. It was two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high. ¹¹He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding around it. ¹²He made a border of a hand's width around it, and made a golden molding on its border around it. ¹³He cast four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that were on its four feet. ¹⁴The rings were close by the border, the places for the poles to carry the table. ¹⁵He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table. ¹⁶He made the vessels which were on the table, its dishes, its spoons, its bowls, and its pitchers for pouring, of pure gold.

¹⁷He made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of beaten work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers were of one piece with it. ¹⁸There were six branches going out from its sides: three branches of the lampstand out from its one side, and three branches of the lampstand out from its other side: ¹⁹three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower, and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower; the same for [each of] the six branches going out from the lampstand. ²⁰In the lampstand were four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers; ²¹and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out from it. ²²Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold. ²³He made its seven lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, of pure gold. ²⁴He made it from a talent of pure gold, with all its vessels.

²⁵He made the incense altar of acacia wood. It was square: it was a cubit long, and a cubit wide. It was two cubits high. Its horns were of one piece with it. ²⁶He overlaid it with pure gold: its top, its sides around it, and its horns. He made a gold molding around it. ²⁷He made two golden rings for it under its molding crown, on its two ribs, on its two sides, for places for poles to carry it with. ²⁸He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold. ²⁹He made the holy anointing oil and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the art of the perfumer.

Exodus Chapter 38

¹He made the burnt offering altar of acacia wood. It was square. It was five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high. ²He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze. ³He made all the vessels of the altar: the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its vessels of bronze. ⁴He made for the altar a grating of a network of bronze, under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up. ⁵He cast four rings for the four corners of bronze grating, to be places for the poles. ⁶He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with bronze. ⁷He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, to carry it with. He made it hollow with planks.

⁸He made the basin of bronze, and its base of bronze, out of the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

⁹He made the court: for the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits; ¹⁰their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. ¹¹For the north side one hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver. ¹²For the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver. ¹³For the east side eastward fifty cubits, ¹⁴the hangings for the one side were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three; ¹⁵and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand by the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three. ¹⁶All the hangings around the court were of fine twined linen. ¹⁷The sockets for the pillars were of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. Their capitals were overlaid with silver. All the pillars of the court had silver bands. ¹⁸The screen for the gate of the court was the work of an embroiderer, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. Twenty cubits was the length, and the height along the width was five cubits, like the hangings of the court. ¹⁹Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of bronze; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver. ²⁰All the pins of the tabernacle, and around the court, were of bronze.

²¹These are the amounts of materials used for the tabernacle, even the Tabernacle of the Testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest. ²²Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Yahweh commanded Moses. ²³With him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a skillful workman, and an embroiderer in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen.

²⁴All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, was twenty-nine talents and seven hundred thirty shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary. ²⁵The silver of those who were counted of the congregation was one hundred talents and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary: ²⁶a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were counted, from twenty years old and older, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men. ²⁷The one hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary and the sockets of the veil: one hundred sockets for the one hundred talents, one talent per socket. ²⁸From the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them. ²⁹The bronze of the offering was seventy talents and two thousand four hundred shekels. ³⁰With this he made the sockets to the door of the Tent of Meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, all the vessels of the altar, ³¹the sockets around the court, the sockets of the gate of the court, all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins around the court.

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¹Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they made finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

²He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. ³They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in with the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen, the work of a skillful workman. ⁴They made shoulder straps for it, joined together. It was joined together at the two ends. ⁵The skillfully woven band that was on it, to fasten it with, was of the same piece, like its work: of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

⁶They worked the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Israel. ⁷He put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

⁸He made the breastplate, the work of a skillful workman, like the work of the ephod: of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. ⁹It was square. They made the breastplate double. It was a span long, a span wide, being double. ¹⁰They set in it four rows of stones. A row of ruby, topaz, and beryl was the first row; ¹¹and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald; ¹²and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; ¹³and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold settings. ¹⁴The stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, for the twelve tribes. ¹⁵They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold. ¹⁶They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. ¹⁷They put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate. ¹⁸The other two ends of the two braided chains they put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, in its front. ¹⁹They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which was toward the side of the ephod inward. ²⁰They made two more rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its front, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod. ²¹They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the ephod, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

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

²⁷They made the tunics of fine linen of woven work for Aaron and for his sons, ²⁸the turban of fine linen, the linen headbands of fine linen, the linen undershorts of fine twined linen, ²⁹the sash of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet, the work of an embroiderer, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

³⁰They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription, like the engravings of a signet: "HOLY TO Yahweh". ³¹They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

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

Exodus Chapter 40

¹Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ²Raise up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting on the first day of the first month. ³Put the ark of the testimony in it, and screen the ark with the veil. ⁴Bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it. Bring in the lampstand, and light its lamps. ⁵Set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.

⁶Set the burnt offering altar before the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting. ⁷Set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water in it. ⁸Set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court.

⁹Take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and make it and all its furniture holy. And it will be holy. ¹⁰Anoint the burnt offering altar, with all its vessels, and sanctify the altar. The altar will be most holy. ¹¹Anoint the basin and its base, and sanctify it.

¹²Bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and wash them with water. ¹³Put the holy garments on Aaron; and anoint him, and sanctify him, so he can minister to me in the priest's office. ¹⁴Bring his sons, and put tunics on them. ¹⁵Anoint them, as you anointed their father, so they can minister to me in the priest's office. Their anointing will be for them as an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations." ¹⁶Moses did so. According to all that Yahweh commanded him, so he did.

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

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