Bible (American Standard)/Exodus

The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus
==Chapter 1==
 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came
into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob): 
 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 
 Issachar, Zebulun, and
Benjamin, 
 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 
 And all
the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy
souls: and Joseph was in Egypt already. 
 And Joseph died,
and all his brethren, and all that generation. 
 And the
children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and
multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled
with them.
 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not
Joseph. 
 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of
the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: 
 come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it
come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they also
join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get
them up out of the land. 
 Therefore, they did set over them
taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built
for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses. 
 But the
more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more
they spread abroad. And they were grieved because of the
children of Israel. 
 And the Egyptians made the children
of Israel to serve with rigor: 
 and they made their lives
bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all
manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they
made them serve with rigor.
 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of
whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other
Puah: 
 and he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to
the Hebrew women, and see them upon the birth-stool; if it be a
son, then ye shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then she
shall live. 
 But the midwives feared God, and did not as
the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men-children
alive. 
 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and
said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the
men-children alive? 
 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh,
Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they
are lively, and are delivered ere the midwife come unto them.
 And God dealt well with the midwives: and the people
multiplied, and waxed very mighty. 
 And it came to pass,
because the midwives feared God, that he made them households.
 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son
that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye
shall save alive.
==Chapter 2==
 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to
wife a daughter of Levi. 
 And the woman conceived, and bare
a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid
him three months. 
 And when she could not longer hide him,
she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime
and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in
the flags by the river's brink. 
 And his sister stood afar
off, to know what would be done to him. 
 And the daughter
of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river; and her maidens
walked along by the river-side; and she saw the ark among the
flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch it. 
 And she opened
it, and saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had
compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews'
children. 
 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter,
Shall I go and call thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she
may nurse the child for thee? 
 And Pharaoh's daughter said
to her, Go. And the maiden went and called the child's mother.
 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child
away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And
the woman took the child, and nursed it. 
 And the child
grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became
her son. And she called his name Moses, and said, Because I drew
him out of the water.
 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was
grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on
their burdens: and he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of
his brethren. 
 And he looked this way and that way, and
when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and
hid him in the sand. 
 And he went out the second day, and,
behold, two men of the Hebrews were striving together: and he
said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy
fellow? 
 And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge
over us? Thinkest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the
Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely the thing is known.
 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay
Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the
land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.
 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they
came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their
father's flock. 
 And the shepherds came and drove them
away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their
flock. 
 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said,
How is it that ye are come so soon to-day? 
 And they said,
An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and
moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock. 
 And
he said unto his daughters, And where is he? Why is it that ye
have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread. 
 And
Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses
Zipporah his daughter. 
 And she bare a son, and he called
his name Gershom; for he said, I have been a sojourner in a
foreign land.
 And it came to pass in the course of those many days,
that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed
by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up
unto God by reason of the bondage. 
 And God heard their
groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with
Isaac, and with Jacob. 
 And God saw the children of
Israel, and God took knowledge [of them].
==Chapter 3==
 Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his
father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the
back of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God, unto
Horeb. 
 And the angel of Jehovah appeared unto him in a
flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and,
behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not
consumed. 
 And Moses said, I will turn aside now, and see
this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. 
 And when
Jehovah saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out
of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said,
Here am I. 
 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy
shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is
holy ground. 
 Moreover, he said, I am the God of thy father,
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And
Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God. 
 And Jehovah said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people
that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their
taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; 
 and I am come down
to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring
them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a
land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the
Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite,
and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 
 And now, behold, the cry
of the children of Israel is come unto me: moreover I have seen
the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. 
 Come
now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou
mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of
Egypt. 
 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should
go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of
Israel out of Egypt? 
 And he said, Certainly I will be
with thee; and this shall be the token unto thee, that I have
sent thee: when thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt,
ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the
children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your
fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is
his name? What shall I say unto them? 
 And God said unto
Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the
children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. 
 And God
said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children
of Israel, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you:
this is my name forever, and this is my memorial unto all
generations. 
 Go, and gather the elders of Israel
together, and say unto them, Jehovah, the God of your fathers,
the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, hath appeared unto
me, saying, I have surely visited you, and [seen] that which is
done to you in Egypt: 
 and I have said, I will bring you
up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the
Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite,
and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, unto a land flowing with milk
and honey. 
 And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou
shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of
Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, Jehovah, the God of the
Hebrews, hath met with us: and now let us go, we pray thee,
three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice
to Jehovah our God. 
 And I know that the king of Egypt
will not give you leave to go, no, not by a mighty hand. 
 And I will put forth my hand, and smite Egypt with all my
wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he
will let you go. 
 And I will give this people favor in the
sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye
go, ye shall not go empty. 
 But every woman shall ask of
her neighbor, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of
silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them
upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall despoil
the Egyptians.
==Chapter 4==
 And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not
believe me, nor hearken unto my voice; for they will say,
Jehovah hath not appeared unto thee. 
 And Jehovah said unto
him, What is that in thy hand? And he said, A rod. 
 And he
said, Cast in on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and
it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. 
 And
Jehovah said unto Moses, Put forth thy hand, and take it by the
tail: (and he put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it
became a rod in his hand:) 
 That they may believe that
Jehovah, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God
of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee. 
 And Jehovah said furthermore unto him, Put now thy hand into thy
bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it
out, behold, his hand was leprous, as [white as] snow. 
 And
he said, Put thy hand into thy bosom again. (And he put his hand
into his bosom again; and when he took it out of his bosom,
behold, it was turned again as his [other] flesh.) 
 And it
shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither
hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe
the voice of the latter sign. 
 And it shall come to pass,
if they will not believe even these two signs, neither hearken
unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river,
and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest
out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.
 And Moses said unto Jehovah, Oh, Lord, I am not
eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto
thy servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
 And Jehovah said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? Or
who maketh [a man] dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not
I, Jehovah? 
 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy
mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt speak. 
 And he said,
Oh, Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt
send. 
 And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Moses,
and he said, Is there not Aaron thy brother the Levite? I know
that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to
meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.
 And thou shalt speak unto him, and put the words in his
mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and
will teach you what ye shall do. 
 And he shall be thy
spokesman unto the people; and it shall come to pass, that he
shall be to thee a mouth, and thou shalt be to him as God.
 And thou shalt take in thy hand this rod, wherewith thou
shalt do the signs. 
 And Moses went and returned to Jethro
his father-in-law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee,
and return unto my brethren that are in Egypt, and see whether
they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace. 
 And Jehovah said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt;
for all the men are dead that sought thy life. 
 And Moses
took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he
returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in
his hand. 
 And Jehovah said unto Moses, When thou goest
back into Egypt, see that thou do before Pharaoh all the wonders
which I have put in thy hand: but I will harden his heart and he
will not let the people go. 
 And thou shalt say unto
Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah, Israel is my son, my first-born:
 and I have said unto thee, Let my son go, that he may
serve me; and thou hast refused to let him go: behold, I will
slay thy son, thy first-born. 
 And it came to pass on the
way at the lodging-place, that Jehovah met him, and sought to
kill him. 
 Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the
foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said,
Surely a bridegroom of blood art thou to me. 
 So he let
him alone. Then she said, A bridegroom of blood [art thou],
because of the circumcision.
 And Jehovah said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to
meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mountain of God, and
kissed him. 
 And Moses told Aaron all the words of Jehovah
wherewith he had sent him, and all the signs wherewith he had
charged him. 
 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered
together all the elders of the children of Israel: 
 and
Aaron spake all the words which Jehovah had spoken unto Moses,
and did the signs in the sight of the people. 
 And the
people believed: and when they heard that Jehovah had visited
the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction,
then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
==Chapter 5==
 And afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said unto
Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Let my people
go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. 
 And Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah, that I should hearken unto his
voice to let Israel go? I know not Jehovah, and moreover I will
not let Israel go. 
 And they said, The God of the Hebrews
hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey
into the wilderness, and sacrifice unto Jehovah our God, lest he
fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword. 
 And the
king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron,
loose the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.
 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land are now
many, and ye make them rest from their burdens. 
 And the
same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and
their officers, saying, 
 Ye shall no more give the people
straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw
for themselves. 
 And the number of the bricks, which they
did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not
diminish aught thereof: for they are idle; therefore they cry,
saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God. 
 Let heavier
work be laid upon the men, that they may labor therein; and let
them not regard lying words.
 And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their
officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith
Pharaoh, I will not give you straw. 
 Go yourselves, get
you straw where ye can find it: for nought of your work shall be
diminished. 
 So the people were scattered abroad
throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
 And the taskmasters were urgent saying, Fulfil your
works, [your] daily tasks, as when there was straw. 
 And
the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's
taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded,
Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task both yesterday and
to-day, in making brick as heretofore?
 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and
cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy
servants? 
 There is no straw given unto thy servants, and
they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are
beaten; but the fault it in thine own people. 
 But he
said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and
sacrifice to Jehovah. 
 Go therefore now, and work; for
there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the
number of bricks. 
 And the officers of the children of
Israel did see that they were in evil case, when it was said, Ye
shall not diminish aught from your bricks, [your] daily tasks.
 And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as
they came forth from Pharaoh: 
 and they said unto them,
Jehovah look upon you, and judge: because ye have made our savor
to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his
servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
 And Moses returned unto Jehovah, and said, Lord,
wherefore hast thou dealt ill with this people? why is it that
thou hast sent me? 
 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak
in thy name, he hath dealt ill with this people; neither hast
thou delivered thy people at all.
==Chapter 6==
 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I
will do to Pharaoh: for by a strong hand shall he let them go,
and by a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.
 And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am
Jehovah: 
 and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto
Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Jehovah I was not known
to them. 
 And I have also established my covenant with
them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their
sojournings, wherein they sojourned. 
 And moreover I have
heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians
keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant. 
 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am Jehovah, and I
will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and
I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with
an outstretched arm, and with great judgments: 
 and I will
take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and ye
shall know that I am Jehovah your God, who bringeth you out from
under the burdens of the Egyptians. 
 And I will bring you
in unto the land which I sware to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and
to Jacob; and I will give it you for a heritage: I am Jehovah.
 And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they
hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel
bondage.
 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 
 Go in,
speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of
Israel go out of his land. 
 And Moses spake before
Jehovah, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not
hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of
uncircumcised lips? 
 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto
Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and
unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out
of the land of Egypt.
 These are the heads of their fathers' houses. The sons
of Reuben the first-born of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron,
and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben. 
 And the sons
of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar,
and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman; these are the families
of Simeon. 
 And these are the names of the sons of Levi
according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari;
and the years of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty and
seven years. 
 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei,
according to their families. 
 And the sons of Kohath:
Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of the
life of Kohath were a hundred thirty and three years. 
 And
the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of
the Levites according to their generations. 
 And Amram
took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him
Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were a
hundred and thirty and seven years. 
 And the sons of
Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri. 
 And the sons of
Uzziel: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri. 
 And Aaron took
him Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon,
to wife; and she bare him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
 And the sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph;
these are the families of the Korahites. 
 And Eleazar
Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and
she bare him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers'
[houses] of the Levites according to their families. 
 These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom Jehovah said, Bring out
the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their
hosts. 
 These are they that spake to Pharaoh king of
Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are
that Moses and Aaron.
 And it came to pass on the day when Jehovah spake unto
Moses in the land of Egypt, 
 that Jehovah spake unto
Moses, saying, I am Jehovah: speak thou unto Pharaoh king of
Egypt all that I speak unto thee. 
 And Moses said before
Jehovah, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall
Pharaoh hearken unto me?
==Chapter 7==
 And Jehovah said unto Moses, See, I have made thee as
God to Pharaoh; and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
 Thou shalt speak all that I command thee; and Aaron thy
brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he let the children of
Israel go out of his land. 
 And I will harden Pharaoh's
heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of
Egypt. 
 But Pharaoh will not hearken unto you, and I will
lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth my hosts, my people the
children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.
 And the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah, when I
stretch forth my hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of
Israel from among them. 
 And Moses and Aaron did so; as
Jehovah commanded them, so did they. 
 And Moses was
fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old,
when they spake unto Pharaoh.
 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
 When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Show a wonder
for you; then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast
it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent. 
 And
Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so, as
Jehovah had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before
Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent. 
 Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers: and
they also, the magicians of Egypt, did in like manner with their
enchantments. 
 For they cast down every man his rod, and
they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
 And Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not
unto them; as Jehovah had spoken.
 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is
stubborn, he refuseth to let the people go. 
 Get thee unto
Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and
thou shalt stand by the river's brink to meet him; and the rod
which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thy hand.
 And thou shalt say unto him, Jehovah, the God of the
Hebrews, hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that
they may serve me in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou
hast not hearkened. 
 Thus saith Jehovah, In this thou
shalt know that I am Jehovah: behold, I will smite with the rod
that is in my hand upon the waters which are in the river, and
they shall be turned to blood. 
 And the fish that are in
the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the
Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river. 
 And
Jehovah said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and
stretch out thy hand over the waters of Egypt, over their
rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all
their ponds of water, that they may become blood; and there
shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels
of wood and in vessels of stone.
 And Moses and Aaron did so, as Jehovah commanded; and
he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the
river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his
servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned
to blood. 
 And the fish that were in the river died; and
the river became foul, and the Egyptians could not drink water
from the river; and the blood was throughout all the land of
Egypt. 
 And the magicians of Egypt did in like manner with
their enchantments: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he
hearkened not unto them; as Jehovah had spoken. 
 And
Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he lay even
this to heart. 
 And all the Egyptians digged round about
the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the
water of the river. 
 And seven days were fulfilled, after
that Jehovah had smitten the river.
==Chapter 8==
 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and
say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Let my people go, that they
may serve me. 
 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I
will smite all thy borders with frogs: 
 and the river shall
swarm with frogs, which shall go up and come into thy house, and
into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy
servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into
thy kneading-troughs: 
 and the frogs shall come up both
upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants. 
 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thy
hand with thy rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over
the pools, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.
 And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt;
and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt. 
 And
the magicians did in like manner with their enchantments, and
brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.
 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said,
Entreat Jehovah, that he take away the frogs from me, and from
my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice
unto Jehovah. 
 And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Have thou this
glory over me: against what time shall I entreat for thee, and
for thy servants, and for thy people, that the frogs be
destroyed from thee and thy houses, and remain in the river
only? 
 And he said, Against to-morrow. And he said, Be it
according to thy word; that thou mayest know that there is none
like unto Jehovah our God. 
 And the frogs shall depart
from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from
thy people; they shall remain in the river only. 
 And
Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto
Jehovah concerning the frogs which he had brought upon Pharaoh.
 And Jehovah did according to the word of Moses; and the
frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the
fields. 
 And they gathered them together in heaps; and the
land stank. 
 But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite,
he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them, as Jehovah
had spoken.
 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch
out thy rod, and smite the dust of the earth, that is may become
lice throughout all the land of Egypt. 
 And they did so;
and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the
dust of the earth, and there were lice upon man, and upon beast;
all the dust of the earth became lice throughout all the land of
Egypt. 
 And the magicians did so with their enchantments
to bring forth lice, but they could not: and there were lice
upon man, and upon beast. 
 Then the magicians said unto
Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh's heart was
hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as Jehovah had spoken.
 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Rise up early in the
morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the
water; and say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Let my people go,
that they may serve me. 
 Else, if thou wilt not let my
people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and
upon they servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses:
and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of
flies, and also the ground whereon they are. 
 And I will
set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people
dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou
mayest know that I am Jehovah in the midst of the earth. 
 And I will put a division between my people and thy people: by
to-morrow shall this sign be. 
 And Jehovah did so; and
there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh,
and into his servants' houses: and in all the land of Egypt the
land was corrupted by reason of the swarms of flies.
 And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said,
Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land. 
 And Moses said,
It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination
of the Egyptians to Jehovah our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the
abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they
not stone us? 
 We will go three days' journey into the
wilderness, and sacrifice to Jehovah our God, as he shall
command us. 
 And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye
may sacrifice to Jehovah your God in the wilderness; only ye
shall not go very far away: entreat for me. 
 And Moses
said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will entreat Jehovah
that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his
servants, and from his people, to-morrow: only let not Pharaoh
deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to
sacrifice to Jehovah. 
 And Moses went out from Pharaoh,
and entreated Jehovah. 
 And Jehovah did according to the
word of Moses; and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh,
from his servants, and from his people; there remained not one.
 And Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he did
not let the people go.
==Chapter 9==
 Then Jehovah said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and
tell him, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, Let my
people go, that they may serve me. 
 For if thou refuse to
let them go, and wilt hold them still, 
 behold, the hand of
Jehovah is upon thy cattle which are in the field, upon the
horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the herds, and
upon the flocks: [there shall be] a very grievous murrain. 
 And Jehovah shall make a distinction between the cattle of
Israel and the cattle of Egypt; and there shall nothing die of
all that belongeth to the children of Israel. 
 And Jehovah
appointed a set time, saying, To-morrow Jehovah shall do this
thing in the land. 
 And Jehovah did that thing on the
morrow; and all the cattle of Egypt died; but of the cattle of
the children of Israel died not one. 
 And Pharaoh sent,
and, behold, there was not so much as one of the cattle of the
Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he
did not let the people go.
 And Jehovah said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you
handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it
toward heaven in the sight of Pharaoh. 
 And it shall become
small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil
breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast, throughout
all the land of Egypt. 
 And they took ashes of the
furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up
toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains
upon man and upon beast. 
 And the magicians could not
stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were upon
the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians. 
 And Jehovah
hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them,
as Jehovah had spoken unto Moses. 
 And Jehovah said unto
Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh,
and say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews,
Let my people go, that they may serve me. 
 For I will this
time send all my plagues upon thy heart, and upon thy servants,
and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none
like me in all the earth. 
 For now I had put forth my
hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou
hadst been cut off from the earth: 
 but in very deed for
this cause have I made thee to stand, to show thee my power, and
that my name may be declared throughout all the earth. 
 As
yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not
let them go? 
 Behold, to-morrow about this time I will
cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in
Egypt since the day it was founded even until now. 
 Now
therefore send, hasten in thy cattle and all that thou hast in
the field; [for] every man and beast that shall be found in the
field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down
upon them, and they shall die. 
 He that feared the word of
Jehovah among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his
cattle flee into the houses. 
 And he that regarded not the
word of Jehovah left his servants and his cattle in the field.
 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch forth thy hand
toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt,
upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field,
throughout the land of Egypt. 
 And Moses stretched forth
his rod toward heaven: and Jehovah sent thunder and hail, and
fire ran down unto the earth; and Jehovah rained hail upon the
land of Egypt. 
 So there was hail, and fire mingled with
the hail, very grievous, such as had not been in all the land of
Egypt since it became a nation. 
 And the hail smote
throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both
man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and
brake every tree of the field. 
 Only in the land of
Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.
 And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and
said unto them, I have sinned this time: Jehovah is righteous,
and I and my people are wicked. 
 Entreat Jehovah; for
there hath been enough of [these] mighty thunderings and hail;
and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer. 
 And
Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I
will spread abroad my hands unto Jehovah; the thunders shall
cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest
know that the earth is Jehovah's. 
 But as for thee and thy
servants, I know that ye will not yet fear Jehovah God. 
 And the flax and the barley were smitten: for the barley was in
the ear, and the flax was in bloom. 
 But the wheat and the
spelt were not smitten: for they were not grown up. 
 And
Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his
hands unto Jehovah: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the
rain was not poured upon the earth. 
 And when Pharaoh saw
that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he
sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let
the children of Israel go, as Jehovah had spoken by Moses.
==Chapter 10==
 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I
have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I
may show these my signs in the midst of them, 
 and that
thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son,
what things I have wrought upon Egypt, and my signs which I have
done among them; that ye may know that I am Jehovah. 
 And
Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus
saith Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse
to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may
serve me. 
 Else, if thou refuse to let my people go,
behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into thy border: 
 and they shall cover the face of the earth, so that one shall
not be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of
that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail,
and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:
 and thy houses shall be filled, and the houses of all thy
servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither thy
fathers nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that
they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned, and went
out from Pharaoh. 
 And Pharaoh's servants said unto him,
How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that
they may serve Jehovah their God: knowest thou not yet that
Egypt is destroyed? 
 And Moses and Aaron were brought
again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them, Go, serve Jehovah
your God; but who are they that shall go? 
 And Moses said,
We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and
with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we
go; for we must hold a feast unto Jehovah. 
 And he said
unto them, So be Jehovah with you, as I will let you go, and
your little ones: look to it; for evil is before you. 
 Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve Jehovah; for that is
what ye desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.
 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand
over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up
upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all
that the hail hath left. 
 And Moses stretched forth his
rod over the land of Egypt, and Jehovah brought an east wind
upon the land all that day, and all the night; and when it was
morning, the east wind brought the locusts. 
 And the
locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all
the borders of Egypt; very grievous were they; before them there
were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that
the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land,
and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and
there remained not any green thing, either tree or herb of the
field, through all the land of Egypt. 
 Then Pharaoh
called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned
against Jehovah your God, and against you. 
 Now therefore
forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and entreat Jehovah
your God, that he may take away from me this death only. 
 And he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated Jehovah. 
 And
Jehovah turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the
locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea; there remained not one
locust in all the border of Egypt. 
 But Jehovah hardened
Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go.
 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand
toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of
Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. 
 And Moses
stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick
darkness in all the land of Egypt three days; 
 they saw
not one another, neither rose any one from his place for three
days: but all the children of Israel had light in their
dwellings. 
 And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go
ye, serve Jehovah; only let your flocks and your herds be
stayed: let your little ones also go with you. 
 And Moses
said, Thou must also give into our hand sacrifices and
burnt-offerings, that we may sacrifice unto Jehovah our God.
 Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not a hoof
be left behind: for thereof must we take to serve Jehovah our
God; and we know not with what we must serve Jehovah, until we
come thither. 
 But Jehovah hardened Pharaoh's heart, and
he would not let them go. 
 And Pharaoh said unto him, Get
thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in
the day thou seest my face thou shalt die. 
 And Moses
said, Thou hast spoken well. I will see thy face again no more.
==Chapter 11==
 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Yet one plague more will
I bring upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you
go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you
out hence altogether. 
 Speak now in the ears of the
people, and let them ask every man of his neighbor, and every
woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.
 And Jehovah gave the people favor in the sight of the
Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of
Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of
the people.
 And Moses said, Thus saith Jehovah, About midnight
will I go out into the midst of Egypt: 
 and all the
first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born
of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the
first-born of the maid-servant that is behind the mill; and all
the first-born of cattle. 
 And there shall be a great cry
throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there hath not been,
nor shall be any more. 
 But against any of the children of
Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast:
that ye may know how that Jehovah doth make a distinction
between the Egyptians and Israel. 
 And all these thy
servants shall come down unto me, and bow down themselves unto
me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee:
and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in
hot anger.
 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Pharaoh will not hearken
unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of
Egypt. 
 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before
Pharaoh: and Jehovah hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not
let the children of Israel go out of his land.
==Chapter 12==
 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of
Egypt, saying, 
 This month shall be unto you the beginning
of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In
the tenth [day] of this month they shall take to them every man
a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a
household: 
 and if the household be too little for a lamb,
then shall he and his neighbor next unto his house take one
according to the number of the souls; according to every man's
eating ye shall make your count for the lamb. 
 Your lamb
shall be without blemish, a male a year old: ye shall take it
from the sheep, or from the goats: 
 and ye shall keep it
until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole
assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at even.
 And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two
side-posts and on the lintel, upon the houses wherein they shall
eat it. 
 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast
with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs they shall
eat it. 
 Eat not of it raw, nor boiled at all with water,
but roast with fire; its head with its legs and with the inwards
thereof. 
 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the
morning; but that which remaineth of it until the morning ye
shall burn with fire. 
 And thus shall ye eat it: with
your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in
your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is Jehovah's
passover. 
 For I will go through the land of Egypt in
that night, and will smite all the first-born in the land of
Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I
will execute judgments: I am Jehovah. 
 And the blood
shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and
when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no
plague be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of
Egypt. 
 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial,
and ye shall keep it a feast to Jehovah: throughout your
generations ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the
first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for
whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the
seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. 
 And
in the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and
in the seventh day a holy convocation; no manner of work shall
be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only
may be done by you. 
 And ye shall observe the [feast of]
unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your
hosts out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this
day throughout your generations by an ordinance for ever.
 In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month
at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and
twentieth day of the month at even. 
 Seven days shall
there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth
that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the
congregation of Israel, whether he be a sojourner, or one that
is born in the land. 
 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in
all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and
said unto them, Draw out, and take you lambs according to your
families, and kill the passover. 
 And ye shall take a
bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin,
and strike the lintel and the two side-posts with the blood that
is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his
house until the morning. 
 For Jehovah will pass through
to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the
lintel, and on the two side-posts, Jehovah will pass over the
door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your
houses to smite you. 
 And ye shall observe this thing for
an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever. 
 And it
shall come to pass, when ye are come to the land which Jehovah
will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep
this service. 
 And it shall come to pass, when your
children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
 that ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of Jehovah's
passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel
in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses.
And the people bowed the head and worshipped. 
 And the
children of Israel went and did so; as Jehovah had commanded
Moses and Aaron, so did they.
 And it came to pass at midnight, that Jehovah smote
all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of
Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the first-born of the
captive that was in the dungeon; and all the first-born of
cattle. 
 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all
his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry
in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one
dead. 
 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and
said, Rise up, get you forth from among my people, both ye and
the children of Israel; and go, serve Jehovah, as ye have said.
 Take both your flocks and your herds, as ye have said,
and be gone; and bless me also. 
 And the Egyptians were
urgent upon the people, to send them out of the land in haste;
for they said, We are all dead men. 
 And the people took
their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being
bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders. 
 And the
children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they
asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and
raiment. 
 And Jehovah gave the people favor in the sight
of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked.
And they despoiled the Egyptians.
 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to
Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men,
besides children. 
 And a mixed multitude went up also
with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle. 
 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought
forth out of Egypt; for it was not leavened, because they were
thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they
prepared for themselves any victuals. 
 Now the time that
the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and
thirty years. 
 And it came to pass at the end of four
hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass,
that all the hosts of Jehovah went out from the land of Egypt.
 It is a night to be much observed unto Jehovah for
bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of
Jehovah, to be much observed of all the children of Israel
throughout their generations.
 And Jehovah said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the
ordinance of the passover: there shall no foreigner eat thereof;
 but every man's servant that is bought for money, when
thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof. 
 A
sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof. 
 In
one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth aught of
the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone
thereof. 
 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will
keep the passover to Jehovah, let all his males be circumcised,
and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one
that is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat
thereof. 
 One law shall be to him that is home-born, and
unto the stranger that sojourneth among you. 
 Thus did
all the children of Israel; as Jehovah commanded Moses and
Aaron, so did they. 
 And it came to pass the selfsame
day, that Jehovah did bring the children of Israel out of the
land of Egypt by their hosts.
==Chapter 13==
 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 
 Sanctify
unto me all the first-born, whatsoever openeth the womb among
the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.
 And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in
which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for
by strength of hand Jehovah brought you out from this place:
there shall no leavened bread be eaten. 
 This day ye go
forth in the month Abib. 
 And it shall be, when Jehovah
shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanite, and the
Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite,
which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing
with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this
month. 
 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in
the seventh day shall be a feast to Jehovah. 
 Unleavened
bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and there shall
no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be
leaven seen with thee, in all thy borders. 
 And thou shalt
tell thy son in that day, saying, It is because of that which
Jehovah did for me when I came forth out of Egypt. 
 And it
shall be for a sign unto thee upon thy hand, and for a memorial
between thine eyes, that the law of Jehovah may be in thy mouth:
for with a strong hand hath Jehovah brought thee out of Egypt.
 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in its season
from year to year.
 And it shall be, when Jehovah shall bring thee into
the land of the Canaanite, as he sware unto thee and to thy
fathers, and shall give it thee, 
 that thou shalt set
apart unto Jehovah all that openeth the womb, and every
firstling which thou hast that cometh of a beast; the males
shall be Jehovah's. 
 And every firstling of an ass thou
shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then
thou shalt break its neck: and all the first-born of man among
thy sons shalt thou redeem. 
 And it shall be, when thy
son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou
shalt say unto him, By strength of hand Jehovah brought us out
from Egypt, from the house of bondage: 
 and it came to
pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that Jehovah slew all
the first-born in the land of Egypt, both the first-born of man,
and the first-born of beast: therefore I sacrifice to Jehovah
all that openeth the womb, being males; but all the first-born
of my sons I redeem. 
 And it shall be for a sign upon thy
hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of
hand Jehovah brought us forth out of Egypt.
 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people
go, that God led them not by the way of the land of the
Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest
peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they
return to Egypt: 
 but God led the people about, by the
way of the wilderness by the Red Sea: and the children of Israel
went up armed out of the land of Egypt. 
 And Moses took
the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the
children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye
shall carry up my bones away hence with you. 
 And they
took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the
edge of the wilderness. 
 And Jehovah went before them by
day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them the way, and by night in
a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day
and by night: 
 the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar
of fire by night, departed not from before the people.
==Chapter 14==
 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 
 Speak
unto the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp
before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before
Baal-zephon: over against it shall ye encamp by the sea. 
 And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are
entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in. 
 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he shall follow after
them; and I will get me honor upon Pharaoh, and upon all his
host: and the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah. And they
did so. 
 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people
were 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? 
 And he
made ready his chariot, and took his people with him: 
 and
he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of
Egypt, and captains over all of them. 
 And Jehovah
hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued
after the children of Israel: for the children of Israel went
out with a high hand. 
 And the Egyptians pursued after
them, all the horses [and] chariots of Pharaoh, and his
horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea,
beside Pihahiroth, before Baal-zephon.
 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel
lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians were marching
after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of
Israel cried out unto Jehovah. 
 And they said unto Moses,
Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away
to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with
us, to bring us forth out of Egypt? 
 Is not this the word
that we spake unto thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we
may serve the Egyptians? For it were better for us to serve the
Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness. 
 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and
see the salvation of Jehovah, which he will work for you to-day:
for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, ye shall see them
again no more for ever. 
 Jehovah will fight for you, and
ye shall hold your peace.
 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou
unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go
forward. 
 And lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thy
hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel
shall go into the midst of the sea on dry ground. 
 And I,
behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they
shall go in after them: and I will get me honor upon Pharaoh,
and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
 And the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah, when I
have gotten me honor upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon
his horsemen. 
 And the angel of God, who went before the
camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of
cloud removed from before them, and stood behind them: 
 and it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel;
and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by
night: and the one came not near the other all the night.
 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and
Jehovah caused the sea to go [back] by a strong east wind all
the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were
divided. 
 And the children of Israel went into the midst
of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto
them on their right hand, and on their left. 
 And the
Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the
sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
 And it came to pass in the morning watch, that Jehovah
looked forth upon the host of the Egyptians through the pillar
of fire and of cloud, and discomfited the host of the Egyptians.
 And he took off their chariot wheels, and they drove
them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the
face of Israel; for Jehovah fighteth for them against the
Egyptians.
 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand
over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians,
upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen. 
 And Moses
stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to
its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled
against it; and Jehovah overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of
the sea. 
 And the waters returned, and covered the
chariots, and the horsemen, even all the host of Pharaoh that
went in after them into the sea; there remained not so much as
one of them. 
 But the children of Israel walked upon dry
land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto
them on their right hand, and on their left. 
 Thus
Jehovah saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians;
and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea-shore. 
 And Israel saw the great work which Jehovah did upon the
Egyptians, and the people feared Jehovah: and they believed in
Jehovah, and in his servant Moses.
==Chapter 15==
 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song
unto Jehovah, and spake, saying,
I will sing unto Jehovah, for he hath triumphed gloriously:
The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
 Jehovah is my strength and song,
And he is become my salvation:
This is my God, and I will praise him;
My father's God, and I will exalt him.
 Jehovah is a man of war:
Jehovah is his name.
 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea;
And his chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.
 The deeps cover them:
They went down into the depths like a stone.
 Thy right hand, O Jehovah, is glorious in power,
Thy right hand, O Jehovah, dasheth in pieces the enemy.
 And in the greatness of thine excellency thou
overthrowest them that rise up against thee: Thou sendest
forth thy wrath, it consumeth them as stubble.
 And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were piled
up,
The floods stood upright as a heap;
The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.
 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will
divide the spoil;
My desire shall be satisfied upon them;
I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
 Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them:
They sank as lead in the mighty waters.
 Who is like unto thee, O Jehovah, among the gods?
Who is like thee, glorious in holiness,
Fearful in praises, doing wonders?
 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand,
The earth swallowed them.
 Thou in thy lovingkindness hast led the people that thou
hast redeemed:
Thou hast guided them in thy strength to thy holy habitation.
 The peoples have heard, they tremble:
Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.
 Then were the chiefs of Edom dismayed;
The mighty men of Moab, trembling taketh hold upon them:
All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away.
 Terror and dread falleth upon them;
By the greatness of thine arm they are as still as a stone;
Till thy people pass over, O Jehovah,
Till the people pass over that thou hast purchased.
 Thou wilt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain
of thine inheritance,
The place, O Jehovah, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in,
The sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.
 Jehovah shall reign for ever and ever.
 For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots
and with his horsemen into the sea, and Jehovah brought back the
waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel walked
on dry land in the midst of the sea. 
 And Miriam the
prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and
all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
 And Miriam answered them,
Sing ye to Jehovah, for he hath triumphed gloriously;
The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
 And Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and
they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three
days in the wilderness, and found no water. 
 And when
they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah,
for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.
 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What
shall we drink? 
 An he cried unto Jehovah; And Jehovah
showed him a tree, and he cast it into the waters, and the
waters were made sweet. There he made for them a statute and an
ordinance, and there he proved them; 
 and he said, If
thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God,
and wilt do that which is right in his eyes, and wilt give ear
to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none
of the diseases upon thee, which I have put upon the Egyptians:
for I am Jehovah that healeth thee. 
 And they came to
Elim, where were twelve springs of water, and threescore and ten
palm-trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
==Chapter 16==
 And they took their journey from Elim, and all the
congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness
of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of
the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel
murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness:
 and the children of Israel said unto them, Would that we
had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, when we
sat by the flesh-pots, when we did eat bread to the full; for ye
have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole
assembly with hunger.
 Then said Jehovah unto Moses, Behold, I will rain
bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and
gather a day's portion every day, that I may prove them, whether
they will walk in my law, or not. 
 And it shall come to
pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they
bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.
 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel,
At even, then ye shall know that Jehovah hath brought you out
from the land of Egypt; 
 and in the morning, then ye shall
see the glory of Jehovah; for that he heareth your murmurings
against Jehovah: and what are we, that ye murmur against us?
 And Moses said, [This shall be], when Jehovah shall give
you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the
full; for that Jehovah heareth your murmurings which ye murmur
against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against
us, but against Jehovah. 
 And Moses said unto Aaron, Say
unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near
before Jehovah; for he hath heard your murmurings. 
 And
it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of
the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness,
and, behold, the glory of Jehovah appeared in the cloud. 
 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 
 I have heard the
murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying,
At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be
filled with bread: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah your God.
 And it came to pass at even, that the quails came up,
and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about
the camp. 
 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold,
upon the face of the wilderness a small round thing, small as
the hoar-frost on the ground. 
 And when the children of
Israel saw it, they said one to another, What is it? For they
knew not what it was. And Moses said unto them, It is the bread
which Jehovah hath given you to eat. 
 This is the thing
which Jehovah hath commanded, Gather ye of it every man
according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number
of your persons, shall ye take it, every man for them that are
in his tent. 
 And the children of Israel did so, and
gathered some more, some less. 
 And when they measured it
with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he
that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man
according to his eating. 
 And Moses said unto them, Let
no man leave of it till the morning. 
 Notwithstanding
they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until
the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moses was
wroth with them. 
 And they gathered it morning by
morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun
waxed hot, it melted. 
 And it came to pass, that on the
sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each
one: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
 And he said unto them, This is that which Jehovah hath
spoken, Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy sabbath unto Jehovah:
bake that which ye will bake, and boil that which ye will boil;
and all that remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the
morning. 
 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses
bade: and it did not become foul, neither was there any worm
therein. 
 And Moses said, Eat that to-day; for to-day is
a sabbath unto Jehovah: to-day ye shall not find it in the
field. 
 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh
day is the sabbath, in it there shall be none. 
 And it
came to pass on the seventh day, that there went out some of the
people to gather, and they found none. 
 And Jehovah said
unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my
laws? 
 See, for that Jehovah hath given you the sabbath,
therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days;
abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place
on the seventh day. 
 So the people rested on the seventh
day.
 And the house of Israel called the name thereof
Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of
it was like wafers [made] with honey. 
 And Moses said,
This is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded, Let an omerful
of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the
bread wherewith I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you
forth from the land of Egypt. 
 And Moses said unto Aaron,
Take a pot, and put an omerful of manna therein, and lay it up
before Jehovah, to be kept throughout your generations. 
 As Jehovah commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the
Testimony, to be kept. 
 And the children of Israel did
eat the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited;
they did eat the manna, until they came unto the borders of the
land of Canaan. 
 Now an omer is the tenth part of an
ephah.
==Chapter 17==
 And all the congregation of the children of Israel
journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys,
according to the commandment of Jehovah, and encamped in
Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink. 
 Wherefore the people stove with Moses, and said, Give us water
that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why strive ye with
me? Wherefore do ye tempt Jehovah? 
 And the people
thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses,
and said, Wherefore hast thou brought us up out of Egypt, to
kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst? 
 And
Moses cried unto Jehovah, saying, What shall I do unto this
people? They are almost ready to stone me. 
 And Jehovah
said unto Moses, Pass on before the people, and take with thee
of the elders of Israel; and they rod, wherewith thou smotest
the river, take in thy hand, and go. 
 Behold, I will stand
before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite
the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people
may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of
Israel. 
 And he called the name of the place Massah, and
Meribah, because of the striving of the children of Israel, and
because they tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah among us, or
not?
 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go
out, fight with Amalek: to-morrow I will stand on the top of the
hill with the rod of God in my hand. 
 So Joshua did as
Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron,
and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 
 And it came to
pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and
when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. 
 But Moses'
hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him,
and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the
one on the one side, and the other on the other side; And his
hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 
 And
Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the
sword. 
 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Write this for a
memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that
I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under
heaven. 
 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of
it Jehovah-nissi; 
 And he said, Jehovah hath sworn:
Jehovah will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
==Chapter 18==
 Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses'
father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for
Israel his people, how that Jehovah had brought Israel out of
Egypt. 
 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah,
Moses' wife, after he had sent her away, 
 and her two
sons; of whom the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I
have been a sojourner in a foreign land: 
 and the name of
the other was Eliezer; for [he said], The God of my father was
my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh. 
 And
Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife
unto Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the
mount of God: 
 and he said unto Moses, I, thy
father-in-law Jethro, am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her
two sons with her. 
 And Moses went out to meet his
father-in-law, and did obeisance, and kissed him: and they asked
each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent. 
 And Moses told his father-in-law all that Jehovah had done unto
Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the travail
that had come upon them by the way, and how Jehovah delivered
them. 
 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which
Jehovah had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of
the hand of the Egyptians. 
 And Jethro said, Blessed be
Jehovah, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the
Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who hath delivered
the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. 
 Now I
know that Jehovah is greater than all gods; yea, in the thing
wherein they dealt proudly against them. 
 And Jethro,
Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt-offering and sacrifices for
God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread
with Moses' father-in-law before God.
 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to
judge the people: and the people stood about Moses from the
morning unto the evening. 
 And when Moses' father-in-law
saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing
that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone,
and all the people stand about thee from morning unto even?
 And Moses said unto his father-in-law, Because the
people come unto me to inquire of God: 
 when they have a
matter, they come unto me; and I judge between a man and his
neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his
laws. 
 And Moses' father-in-law said unto him, The thing
that thou doest is not good. 
 Thou wilt surely wear away,
both thou, and this people that is with thee: for the thing is
too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself
alone. 
 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee
counsel, and God be with thee: be thou for the people to
God-ward, and bring thou the causes unto God: 
 and thou
shalt teach them the statutes and the laws, and shalt show them
the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.
 Moreover, thou shalt provide out of all the people able
men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain; and
place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of
hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: 
 and let
them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that
every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small
matter they shall judge themselves: so shall it be easier for
thyself, and they shall bear [the burden] with thee. 
 If
thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou
shalt be able to endure, and all this people also shall go to
their place in peace. 
 So Moses hearkened to the voice of
his father-in-law, and did all that he had said. 
 And
Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over
the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of
fifties, and rulers of tens. 
 And they judged the people
at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but
every small matter they judged themselves. 
 And Moses let
his father-in-law depart; and he went his way into his own land.
==Chapter 19==
 In the third month after the children of Israel were
gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into
the wilderness of Sinai. 
 And when they were departed from
Rephidim, and were come to the wilderness of Sinai, they
encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the
mount. 
 And Moses went up unto God, and Jehovah called
unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the
house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel: 
 Ye have
seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on
eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. 
 Now
therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my
covenant, then ye shall be mine own possession from among all
peoples: for all the earth is mine: 
 and ye shall be unto
me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words
which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
 And Moses came and called for the elders of the
people, and set before them all these words which Jehovah
commanded him. 
 And all the people answered together, and
said, All that Jehovah hath spoken we will do. And Moses
reported the words of the people unto Jehovah. 
 And
Jehovah said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud,
that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and may also
believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people
unto Jehovah. 
 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Go unto the
people, and sanctify them to-day and to-morrow, and let them
wash their garments, 
 and be ready against the third day;
for the third day Jehovah will come down in the sight of all the
people upon mount Sinai. 
 And thou shalt set bounds unto
the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye
go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever
toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death: 
 no hand
shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through;
whether it be beast or man, he shall not live: when the trumpet
soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount. 
 And
Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified
the people; and they washed their garments. 
 And he said
unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not near a
woman.
 And it came to pass on the third day, when it was
morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick
cloud upon the mount, and the voice of a trumpet exceeding loud;
and all the people that were in the camp trembled. 
 And
Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God; and
they stood at the nether part of the mount. 
 And mount
Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Jehovah descended upon
it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a
furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. 
 And when
the voice of the trumpet waxed louder and louder, Moses spake,
and God answered him by a voice. 
 And Jehovah came down
upon mount Sinai, to the top of the mount: and Jehovah called
Moses to the top of the mount; and Moses went up. 
 And
Jehovah said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they
break through unto Jehovah to gaze, and many of them perish.
 And let the priests also, that come near to Jehovah,
sanctify themselves, lest Jehovah break forth upon them. 
 And Moses said unto Jehovah, The people cannot come up to mount
Sinai: for thou didst charge us, saying, Set bounds about the
mount, and sanctify it. 
 And Jehovah said unto him, Go,
get thee down; and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with
thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to
come up unto Jehovah, lest he break forth upon them. 
 So
Moses went down unto the people, and told them.
==Chapter 20==
 And God spake all these words, saying, 
 I am
Jehovah thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out
of the house of bondage. 
 Thou shalt have no other gods
before me.
 Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any
likeness [of any thing] that is in heaven above, or that is in
the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve
them, for I Jehovah thy God am a jealous God, visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and
upon the fourth generation of them that hate me, 
 and
showing lovingkindness unto thousands of them that love me and
keep my commandments.
 Thou shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God in
vain; for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that taketh his
name in vain.
 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 
 Six
days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; 
 but the
seventh day is a sabbath unto Jehovah thy God: [in it] thou
shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy
man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy
stranger that is within thy gates: 
 for in six days
Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is,
and rested the seventh day: wherefore Jehovah blessed the
sabbath day, and hallowed it.
 Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be
long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
 Thou shalt not kill.
 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
 Thou shalt not steal.
 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy
neighbor.
 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt
not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his
maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy
neighbor's.
 And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the
lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain
smoking: and when the people saw it, they trembled, and stood
afar off. 
 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us,
and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is
come to prove you, and that his fear may be before you, that ye
sin not. 
 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew
near unto the thick darkness where God was.
 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto
the children of Israel, Ye yourselves have seen that I have
talked with you from heaven. 
 Ye shall not make [other
gods] with me; gods of silver, or gods of gold, ye shall not
make unto you. 
 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto
me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt-offerings, and thy
peace-offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in every place where
I record my name I will come unto thee and I will bless thee.
 And if thou make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not
build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it,
thou hast polluted it. 
 Neither shalt thou go up by steps
unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not uncovered thereon.
==Chapter 21==
 Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set
before them.
 If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall
serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
 If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if
he be married, then his wife shall go out with him. 
 If
his master give him a wife and she bear him sons or daughters;
the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go
out by himself. 
 But if the servant shall plainly say, I
love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out
free: 
 then his master shall bring him unto God, and shall
bring him to the door, or unto the door-post; and his master
shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him
for ever.
 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant,
she shall not go out as the men-servants do. 
 If she
please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then
shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a foreign people
he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with
her. 
 And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal
with her after the manner of daughters. 
 If he take him
another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage,
shall he not diminish. 
 And if he do not these three
things unto her, then shall she go out for nothing, without
money.
 He that smiteth a man, so that he dieth, shall surely
be put to death. 
 And if a man lie not in wait, but God
deliver [him] into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place
whither he shall flee. 
 And if a man come presumptuously
upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him
from mine altar, that he may die.
 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall
be surely put to death.
 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he
be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
 And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall
surely be put to death.
 And if men contend, and one smite the other with a
stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keep his bed;
 if he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then
shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss
of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a
rod, and he die under his hand; he shall surely be punished.
 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall
not be punished: for he is his money.
 And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with
child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow; he
shall be surely fined, according as the woman's husband shall
lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. 
 But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for
foot, 
 burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for
stripe.
 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye
of his maid, and destroy it; he shall let him go free for his
eye's sake. 
 And if he smite out his man-servant's tooth,
or his maid-servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his
tooth's sake.
 And if an ox gore a man or a woman to death, the ox
shall be surely stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but
the owner of the ox shall be quit. 
 But if the ox was
wont to gore in time past, and it hath been testified to its
owner, and he hath not kept it in, but it hath killed a man or a
woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put
to death. 
 If there be laid on him a ransom, then he
shall give for the redemption of his life whatsoever is laid
upon him. 
 Whether it have gored a son, or have gored a
daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
 If the ox gore a man-servant or a maid-servant, there
shall be given unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and
the ox shall be stoned.
 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig
a pit and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein,
 the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give
money unto the owner thereof, and the dead [beast] shall be his.
 And if one man's ox hurt another's, so that it dieth,
then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the price of it:
and the dead also they shall divide. 
 Or if it be known
that the ox was wont to gore in time past, and its owner hath
not kept it in, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead
[beast] shall be his own.
==Chapter 22==
 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it,
or sell it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for
a sheep. 
 If the thief be found breaking in, and be
smitten so that he dieth, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for
him. 
 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be
bloodguiltiness for him; he shall make restitution: if he have
nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. 
 If the
theft be found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or
sheep, he shall pay double.
 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten,
and shall let his beast loose, and it feed in another man's
field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own
vineyard, shall he make restitution.
 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the
shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are
consumed; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
 If a man shall deliver unto his neighbor money or
stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the
thief be found, he shall pay double. 
 If the thief be not
found, then the master of the house shall come near unto God,
[to see] whether he have not put his hand unto his neighbor's
goods. 
 For every matter of trespass, whether it be for
ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, [or] for any manner of lost
thing, whereof one saith, This is it, the cause of both parties
shall come before God; he whom God shall condemn shall pay
double unto his neighbor.
 If a man deliver unto his neighbor an ass, or an ox,
or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or
driven away, no man seeing it: 
 the oath of Jehovah shall
be between them both, whether he hath not put his hand unto his
neighbor's goods; and the owner thereof shall accept it, and he
shall not make restitution. 
 But if it be stolen from
him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof. 
 If it be torn in pieces, let him bring it for witness: he shall
not make good that which was torn.
 And if a man borrow aught of his neighbor, and it be
hurt, or die, the owner thereof not being with it, he shall
surely make restitution. 
 If the owner thereof be with
it, he shall not make it good: if it be a hired thing, it came
for its hire.
 And if a man entice a virgin that is not betrothed,
and lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his
wife. 
 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him,
he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
 Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live.
 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to
death.
 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto Jehovah
only, shall be utterly destroyed. 
 And a sojourner shalt
thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him: for ye were
sojourners in the land of Egypt. 
 Ye shall not afflict
any widow, or fatherless child. 
 If thou afflict them at
all, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
 and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the
sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children
fatherless.
 If thou lend money to any of my people with thee that
is poor, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall
ye lay upon him interest. 
 If thou at all take thy
neighbor's garment to pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him
before the sun goeth down: 
 for that is his only
covering, it is his garment for his skin: wherein shall he
sleep? And it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I
will hear; for I am gracious.
 Thou shalt not revile God, nor curse a ruler of thy
people. 
 Thou shalt not delay to offer of thy harvest,
and of the outflow of thy presses. The first-born of thy sons
shalt thou give unto me. 
 Likewise shalt thou do with
thine oxen, [and] with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with
its dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me. 
 And ye
shall be holy men unto me: therefore ye shall not eat any flesh
that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the
dogs.
==Chapter 23==
 Thou shalt not take up a false report: put not thy
hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. 
 Thou
shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou
speak in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to wrest
[justice]: 
 neither shalt thou favor a poor man in his
cause.
 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray,
thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. 
 If thou see
the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, thou
shalt forbear to leave him, thou shalt surely release [it] with
him.
 Thou shalt not wrest the justice [due] to thy poor in
his cause. 
 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the
innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the
wicked. 
 And thou shalt take no bribe: for a bribe
blindeth them that have sight, and perverteth the words of the
righteous. 
 And a sojourner shalt thou not oppress: for ye
know the heart of a sojourner, seeing ye were sojourners in the
land of Egypt.
 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt
gather in the increase thereof: 
 but the seventh year
thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow; that the poor of thy
people may eat: and what they leave the beast of the field shall
eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, [and]
with thy oliveyard. 
 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and
on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass
may have rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the sojourner,
may be refreshed. 
 And in all things that I have said
unto you take ye heed: and make no mention of the name of other
gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.
 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the
year. 
 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep:
seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee,
at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it thou camest
out from Egypt); and none shall appear before me empty: 
 and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labors, which
thou sowest in the field: and the feast of ingathering, at the
end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labors out of the
field. 
 Three times in the year all thy males shall
appear before the Lord Jehovah.
 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with
leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my feast remain all
night until the morning. 
 The first of the first-fruits
of thy ground thou shalt bring into the house of Jehovah thy
God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in it mother's milk.
 Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee by
the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
 Take ye heed before him, and hearken unto his voice;
provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgression: for
my name is in him. 
 But if thou shalt indeed hearken unto
his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto
thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries. 
 For mine angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the
Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite,
the Hivite, and the Jebusite: and I will cut them off. 
 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do
after their works; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and
break in pieces their pillars. 
 And ye shall serve
Jehovah your God, and he will bless thy bread, and thy water;
and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. 
 There shall none cast her young, nor be barren, in thy land: the
number of thy days I will fulfil. 
 I will send my terror
before thee, and will discomfit all the people to whom thou
shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs
unto thee. 
 And I will send the hornet before thee, which
shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from
before thee. 
 I will not drive them out from before thee
in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of
the field multiply against thee. 
 By little and little I
will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased,
and inherit the land. 
 And I will set thy border from the
Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the
wilderness unto the River: for I will deliver the inhabitants of
the land into your hand: and thou shalt drive them out before
thee. 
 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with
their gods. 
 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they
make thee sin against me; for if thou serve their gods, it will
surely be a snare unto thee.
==Chapter 24==
 And he said unto Moses, Come up unto Jehovah, thou,
and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of
Israel; and worship ye afar off: 
 and Moses alone shall
come near unto Jehovah; but they shall not come near; neither
shall the people go up with him. 
 And Moses came and told
the people all the words of Jehovah, and all the ordinances: and
all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words
which Jehovah hath spoken will we do. 
 And Moses wrote all
the words of Jehovah, and rose up early in the morning, and
builded an altar under the mount, and twelve pillars, according
to the twelve tribes of Israel. 
 And he sent young men of
the children of Israel, who offered burnt-offerings, and
sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen unto Jehovah. 
 And
Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half of
the blood he sprinkled on the altar. 
 And he took the book
of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and
they said, All that Jehovah hath spoken will we do, and be
obedient. 
 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on
the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which
Jehovah hath made with you concerning all these words.
 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and
seventy of the elders of Israel. 
 And they saw the God of
Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of
sapphire stone, and as it were the very heaven for clearness.
 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid
not his hand: and they beheld God, and did eat and drink.
 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Come up to me into the
mount, and be there: and I will give thee the tables of stone,
and the law and the commandment, which I have written, that thou
mayest teach them. 
 And Moses rose up, and Joshua his
minister: and Moses went up into the mount of God. 
 And
he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come
again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you:
whosoever hath a cause, let him come near unto them. 
 And
Moses went up into the mount, and the cloud covered the mount.
 And the glory of Jehovah abode upon mount Sinai, and the
cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto
Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 
 And the appearance
of the glory of Jehovah was like devouring fire on the top of
the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel. 
 And
Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the
mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
==Chapter 25==
 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 
 Speak
unto the children of Israel, that they take for me an offering:
of every man whose heart maketh him willing ye shall take my
offering. 
 And this is the offering which ye shall take of
them: gold, and silver, and brass, 
 and blue, and purple,
and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' [hair], 
 and rams'
skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia wood, 
 oil for
the light, spices for the anointing oil, and for the sweet
incense, 
 onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the
ephod, and for the breastplate. 
 And let them make me a
sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. 
 According to all
that I show thee, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern
of all the furniture thereof, even so shall ye make it.
 And they shall make an ark of acacia wood: two cubits
and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half
the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and
without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of
gold round about. 
 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold
for it, and put them in the four feet thereof; and two rings
shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side
of it. 
 And thou shalt make staves of acacia wood, and
overlay them with gold. 
 And thou shalt put the staves
into the rings on the sides of the ark, wherewith to bear the
ark. 
 The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they
shall not be taken from it. 
 And thou shalt put into the
ark the testimony which I shall give thee. 
 And thou
shalt make a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half
[shall be] the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the
breadth thereof. 
 And thou shalt make two cherubim of
gold; of beaten work shalt thou make them, at the two ends of
the mercy-seat. 
 And make one cherub at the one end, and
one cherub at the other end: of one piece with the mercy-seat
shall ye make the cherubim on the two ends thereof. 
 And
the cherubim shall spread out their wings on high, covering the
mercy-seat with their wings, with their faces one to another;
toward the mercy-seat shall the faces of the cherubim be.
 And thou shalt put the mercy-seat above upon the ark;
and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give
thee. 
 And there I will meet with thee, and I will
commune with thee from above the mercy-seat, from between the
two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all
things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children
of Israel.
 And thou shalt make a table of acacia wood: two
cubits [shall be] the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth
thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. 
 And
thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown
of gold round about. 
 And thou shalt make unto it a
border of a handbreadth round about; and thou shalt make a
golden crown to the border thereof round about. 
 And thou
shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the
four corners that are on the four feet thereof. 
 Close by
the border shall the rings be, for places for the staves to bear
the table. 
 And thou shalt make the staves of acacia
wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne
with them. 
 And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and
the spoons thereof, and the flagons thereof, and the bowls
thereof, wherewith to pour out: of pure gold shalt thou make
them. 
 And thou shalt set upon the table showbread before
me alway.
 And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of
beaten work shall the candlestick be made, even its base, and
its shaft; its cups, its knops, and its flowers, shall be of one
piece with it. 
 And there shall be six branches going out
of the sides thereof; three branches of the candlestick out of
the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out
of the other side thereof: 
 three cups made like
almond-blossoms in one branch, a knop and a flower; and three
cups made like almond-blossoms in the other branch, a knop and a
flower: so for the six branches going out of the candlestick:
 and in the candlestick four cups made like
almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof;
 and a knop under two branches of one piece with it, and
a knop under two branches of one piece with it, and a knop under
two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going
out of the candlestick. 
 Their knops and their branches
shall be of one piece with it; the whole of it one beaten work
of pure gold. 
 And thou shalt make the lamps thereof,
seven: and they shall light the lamps thereof, to give light
over against it. 
 And the snuffers thereof, and the
snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold. 
 Of a talent
of pure gold shall it be made, with all these vessels. 
 And see that thou make them after their pattern, which hath been
shown thee in the mount.
==Chapter 26==
 Moreover, thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten
curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and
scarlet, with cherubim the work of the skilful workman shalt
thou make them. 
 The length of each curtain shall be eight
and twenty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits:
all the curtains shall have one measure. 
 Five curtains
shall be coupled together one to another; and [the other] five
curtains shall be coupled one to another. 
 And thou shalt
make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the
selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the
edge of the curtain that is outmost in the second coupling.
 Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty
loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the
second coupling; the loops shall be opposite one to another.
 And thou shalt make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the
curtains one to another with the clasps: and the tabernacle
shall be one [whole].
 And thou shalt make curtains of goats' [hair] for a
tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make them.
 The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and
the breadth of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains
shall have one measure. 
 And thou shalt couple five
curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and
shalt double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the
tent. 
 And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the
one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops
upon the edge of the curtain which is [outmost in] the second
coupling. 
 And thou shalt make fifty clasps of brass, and
put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together,
that it may be one. 
 And the overhanging part that
remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that
remaineth, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle. 
 And the cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side,
of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the
tent, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side
and on that side, to cover it. 
 And thou shalt make a
covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of
sealskins above.
 And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle of
acacia wood, standing up. 
 Ten cubits shall be the length
of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.
 Two tenons shall there be in each board, joined one to
another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the
tabernacle. 
 And thou shalt make the boards for the
tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward. 
 And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty
boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two
sockets under another board for its two tenons. 
 And for
the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty
boards, 
 and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets
under one board, and two sockets under another board. 
 And for the hinder part of the tabernacle westward thou shalt
make six boards. 
 And two boards shalt thou make for the
corners of the tabernacle in the hinder part. 
 And they
shall be double beneath, and in like manner they shall be entire
unto the top thereof unto one ring: thus shall it be for them
both; they shall be for the two corners. 
 And there shall
be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets;
two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
 And thou shalt make bars of acacia wood: five for the
boards of the one side of the tabernacle, 
 and five bars
for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five
bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the
hinder part westward. 
 And the middle bar in the midst of
the boards shall pass through from end to end. 
 And thou
shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold
for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with
gold. 
 And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to
the fashion thereof which hath been shown thee in the mount.
 And thou shalt make a veil of blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim the work of the
skilful workman shall it be made. 
 And thou shalt hang it
upon four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks
[shall be] of gold, upon four sockets of silver. 
 And
thou shalt hang up the veil under the clasps, and shalt bring in
thither within the veil the ark of the testimony: and the veil
shall separate unto you between the holy place and the most
holy. 
 And thou shalt put the mercy-seat upon the ark of
the testimony in the most holy place. 
 And thou shalt set
the table without the veil, and the candlestick over against the
table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou
shalt put the table on the north side.
 And thou shalt make a screen for the door of the
Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen,
the work of the embroiderer. 
 And thou shalt make for the
screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold: their
hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of
brass for them.
==Chapter 27==
 And thou shalt make the altar of acacia wood, five
cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be
foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits. 
 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners
thereof; the horns thereof shall be of one piece with it: and
thou shalt overlay it with brass. 
 And thou shalt make its
pots to take away its ashes, and its shovels, and its basins,
and its flesh-hooks, and its firepans: all the vessels thereof
thou shalt make of brass. 
 And thou shalt make for it a
grating of network of brass: and upon the net shalt thou make
four brazen rings in the four corners thereof. 
 And thou
shalt put it under the ledge round the altar beneath, that the
net may reach halfway up the altar. 
 And thou shalt make
staves for the altar, staves of acacia wood, and overlay them
with brass. 
 And the staves thereof shall be put into the
rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar,
in bearing it. 
 Hollow with planks shalt thou make it: as
it hath been shown thee in the mount, so shall they make it.
 And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for
the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court
of fine twined linen a hundred cubits long for one side: 
 and the pillars thereof shall be twenty, and their sockets
twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets
[shall be] of silver. 
 And likewise for the north side in
length there shall be hangings a hundred cubits long, and the
pillars thereof twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the
hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver. 
 And
for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings
of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
 And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward
shall be fifty cubits. 
 The hangings for the one side [of
the gate] shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and
their sockets three. 
 And for the other side shall be
hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their
sockets three. 
 And for the gate of the court shall be a
screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars
four, and their sockets four. 
 All the pillars of the
court round about shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of
silver, and their sockets of brass. 
 The length of the
court shall be a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every
where, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and
their sockets of brass. 
 All the instruments of the
tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof,
and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.
 And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that
they bring unto thee pure olive oil beaten for the light, to
cause a lamp to burn continually. 
 In the tent of
meeting, without the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron
and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning
before Jehovah: it shall be a statue for ever throughout their
generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
==Chapter 28==
 And bring thou near unto thee Aaron thy brother, and
his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he
may minister unto me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab
and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons. 
 And thou
shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, for glory and
for beauty. 
 And thou shalt speak unto all that are
wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that
they make Aaron's garments to sanctify him, that he may minister
unto me in the priest's office. 
 And these are the
garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and
a robe, and a coat of checker work, a mitre, and a girdle: and
they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his
sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.
 And they shall take the gold, and the blue, and the
purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.
 And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and
purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skilful
workman. 
 It shall have two shoulder-pieces joined to the
two ends thereof, that it may be joined together. 
 And the
skilfully woven band, which is upon it, wherewith to gird it on,
shall be like the work thereof [and] of the same piece; of gold,
of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. 
 And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names
of the children of Israel: 
 six of their names on the one
stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other stone,
according to their birth. 
 With the work of an engraver
in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave
the two stones, according to the names of the children of
Israel: thou shalt make them to be inclosed in settings of gold.
 And thou shalt put the two stones upon the
shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the
children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before
Jehovah upon his two shoulders for a memorial. 
 And thou
shalt make settings of gold, 
 and two chains of pure
gold; like cords shalt thou make them, of wreathen work: and
thou shalt put the wreathen chains on the settings.
 And thou shalt make a breastplate of judgment, the
work of the skilful workman; like the work of the ephod thou
shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
fine twined linen, shalt thou make it. 
 Foursquare it
shall be [and] double; a span shall be the length thereof, and a
span the breadth thereof. 
 And thou shalt set in it
settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of sardius,
topaz, and carbuncle shall be the first row; 
 and the
second row an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond; 
 and
the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; 
 and
the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be
inclosed in gold in their settings. 
 And the stones shall
be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve,
according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, every
one according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.
 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains like
cords, of wreathen work of pure gold. 
 And thou shalt
make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and shalt put the
two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. 
 And thou
shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings at
the ends of the breastplate. 
 And the [other] two ends of
the two wreathen chains thou shalt put on the two settings, and
put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod in the forepart
thereof. 
 And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou
shalt put them upon the two ends of the breastplate, upon the
edge thereof, which is toward the side of the ephod inward.
 And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and shalt put
them on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, in the
forepart thereof, close by the coupling thereof, above the
skilfully woven band of the ephod. 
 And they shall bind
the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod
with a lace of blue, that it may be upon the skilfully woven
band of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from
the ephod. 
 And Aaron shall bear the names of the
children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his
heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial
before Jehovah continually. 
 And thou shalt put in the
breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall
be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before Jehovah: and
Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his
heart before Jehovah continually.
 And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of
blue. 
 And it shall have a hole for the head in the midst
thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the
hole of it, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it be
not rent. 
 And upon the skirts of it thou shalt make
pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about
the skirts thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:
 a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a
pomegranate, upon the skirts of the robe round about. 
 And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and the sound thereof
shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before
Jehovah, and when he cometh out, that he die not.
 And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave
upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLY TO JEHOVAH.
 And thou shalt put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be
upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.
 And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, and Aaron shall
bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of
Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be
always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before
Jehovah. 
 And thou shalt weave the coat in checker work
of fine linen, and thou shalt make a mitre of fine linen, and
thou shalt make a girdle, the work of the embroiderer.
 And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou
shalt make for them girdles, and head-tires shalt thou make for
them, for glory and for beauty. 
 And thou shalt put them
upon Aaron thy brother, and upon his sons with him, and shalt
anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they
may minister unto me in the priest's office. 
 And thou
shalt make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their
nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:
 And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when
they go in unto the tent of meeting, or when they come near unto
the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not
iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute for ever unto him and
unto his seed after him.
==Chapter 29==
 And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to
hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest's office: take
one young bullock and two rams without blemish, 
 and
unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened mingled with oil, and
wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of fine wheaten flour shalt
thou make them. 
 And thou shalt put them into one basket,
and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.
 And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of
the tent of meeting, and shalt wash them with water. 
 And
thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and
the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and
gird him with the skilfully woven band of the ephod; 
 and
thou shalt set the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown
upon the mitre. 
 Then shalt thou take the anointing oil,
and pour it upon his head, and anoint him. 
 And thou shalt
bring his sons, and put coats upon them. 
 And thou shalt
gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and bind head-tires
on them: and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual
statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
 And thou shalt bring the bullock before the tent of
meeting: and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the
head of the bullock. 
 And thou shalt kill the bullock
before Jehovah, at the door of the tent of meeting. 
 And
thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the
horns of the altar with thy finger; and thou shalt pour out all
the blood at the base of the altar. 
 And thou shalt take
all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul upon the
liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and
burn them upon the altar. 
 But the flesh of the bullock,
and its skin, and it dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the
camp: it is a sin-offering.
 Thou shalt also take the one ram; and Aaron and his
sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram. 
 And
thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take its blood, and
sprinkle it round about upon the altar. 
 And thou shalt
cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its inwards, and its legs,
and put them with its pieces, and with its head. 
 And
thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a
burnt-offering unto Jehovah; it is a sweet savor, an offering
made by fire unto Jehovah.
 And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and his
sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram. 
 Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of its blood, and put it
upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the
right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand,
and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the
blood upon the altar round about. 
 And thou shalt take of
the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and
sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his
sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he shall
be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons'
garments with him. 
 Also thou shalt take of the ram the
fat, and the fat tail, and the fat that covereth the inwards,
and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that
is upon them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of
consecration), 
 and one loaf of bread, and one cake of
oiled bread, and one wafer, out of the basket of unleavened
bread that is before Jehovah. 
 And thou shalt put the
whole upon the hands of Aaron, and upon the hands of his sons,
and shalt wave them for a wave-offering before Jehovah. 
 And thou shalt take them from their hands, and burn them on the
altar upon the burnt-offering, for a sweet savor before Jehovah:
it is an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.
 And thou shalt take the breast of Aaron's ram of
consecration, and wave it for a wave-offering before Jehovah:
and it shall be thy portion. 
 And thou shalt sanctify the
breast of the wave-offering, and the thigh of the
heave-offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the
ram of consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of
that which is for his sons: 
 and it shall be for Aaron
and his sons as [their] portion for ever from the children of
Israel; for it is a heave-offering: and it shall be a
heave-offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifices of
their peace-offerings, even their heave-offering unto Jehovah.
 And the holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons
after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in
them. 
 Seven days shall the son that is priest in his
stead put them on, when he cometh into the tent of meeting to
minister in the holy place.
 And thou shalt take the ram of consecration, and boil
its flesh in a holy place. 
 And Aaron and his sons shall
eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket,
at the door of the tent of meeting. 
 And they shall eat
those things wherewith atonement was made, to consecrate [and]
to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because
they are holy. 
 And if aught of the flesh of the
consecration, or of the bread, remain unto the morning, then
thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten,
because it is holy.
 And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons,
according to all that I have commanded thee: seven days shalt
thou consecrate them. 
 And every day shalt thou offer the
bullock of sin-offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse
the altar, when thou makest atonement for it; and thou shalt
anoint it, to sanctify it. 
 Seven days thou shalt make
atonement for the altar, and sanctify it: and the altar shall be
most holy; whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.
 Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the
altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually. 
 The
one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb
thou shalt offer at even: 
 and with the one lamb a tenth
part [of an ephah] of fine flour mingled with the fourth part of
a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a
drink-offering. 
 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at
even, and shalt do thereto according to the meal-offering of the
morning, and according to the drink-offering thereof, for a
sweet savor, an offering made by fire unto Jehovah. 
 It
shall be a continual burnt-offering throughout your generations
at the door of the tent of meeting before Jehovah, where I will
meet with you, to speak there unto thee. 
 And there I
will meet with the children of Israel; and [the Tent] shall be
sanctified by my glory. 
 And I will sanctify the tent of
meeting, and the altar: Aaron also and his sons will I sanctify,
to minister to me in the priest's office. 
 And I will
dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.
 And they shall know that I am Jehovah their God, that
brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell
among them: I am Jehovah their God.
==Chapter 30==
 And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of
acacia wood shalt thou make it. 
 A cubit shall be the
length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare
shall it be; and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the
horns thereof shall be of one piece with it. 
 And thou
shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides
thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make
unto it a crown of gold round about. 
 And two golden rings
shalt thou make for it under the crown thereof; upon the two
ribs thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make them; and
they shall be for places for staves wherewith to bear it. 
 And thou shalt make the staves of acacia wood, and overlay them
with gold. 
 And thou shalt put it before the veil that is
by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy-seat that is over
the testimony, where I will meet with thee. 
 And Aaron
shall burn thereon incense of sweet spices: every morning, when
he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn it. 
 And when Aaron
lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn it, a perpetual
incense before Jehovah throughout your generations. 
 Ye
shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt-offering, nor
meal-offering; and ye shall pour no drink-offering thereon.
 And Aaron shall make atonement upon the horns of it once
in the year; with the blood of the sin-offering of atonement
once in the year shall he make atonement for it throughout your
generations: it is most holy unto Jehovah.
 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 
 When
thou takest the sum of the children of Israel, according to
those that are numbered of them, then shall they give every man
a ransom for his soul unto Jehovah, when thou numberest them;
that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.
 This they shall give, every one that passeth over unto
them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the
sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an
offering to Jehovah. 
 Every one that passeth over unto
them that are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall
give the offering of Jehovah. 
 The rich shall not give
more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel,
when they give the offering of Jehovah, to make atonement for
your souls. 
 And thou shalt take the atonement money from
the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of
the tent of meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children
of Israel before Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls.
 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 
 Thou
shalt also make a laver of brass, and the base thereof of brass,
whereat to wash. And thou shalt put it between the tent of
meeting and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein. 
 And Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet
thereat: 
 when they go into the tent of meeting, they
shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near
to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire unto
Jehovah. 
 So they shall wash their hands and their feet,
that they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them,
even to him and to his seed throughout their generations.
 Moreover, Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 
 Take thou also unto thee the chief spices: of flowing myrrh five
hundred [shekels], and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two
hundred and fifty, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty,
 and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the
sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin. 
 And thou shalt make
it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of
the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil. 
 And thou
shalt anoint therewith the tent of meeting, and the ark of the
testimony, 
 and the table and all the vessels thereof,
and the candlestick and the vessels thereof, and the altar of
incense, 
 and the altar of burnt-offering with all the
vessels thereof, and the laver and the base thereof. 
 And
thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever
toucheth them shall be holy. 
 And thou shalt anoint Aaron
and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me
in the priest's office. 
 And thou shalt speak unto the
children of Israel, saying, This shall be a holy anointing oil
unto me throughout your generations. 
 Upon the flesh of
man shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any like it,
according to the composition thereof: it is holy, [and] it shall
be holy unto you. 
 Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or
whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, he shall be cut off
from his people.
 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet
spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure
frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight; 
 and
thou shalt make of it incense, a perfume after the art of the
perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure [and] holy: 
 and thou
shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the
testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with thee:
it shall be unto you most holy. 
 And the incense which
thou shalt make, according to the composition thereof ye shall
not make for yourselves: it shall be unto thee holy for Jehovah.
 Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereof,
he shall be cut off from his people.
==Chapter 31==
 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 
 See, I
have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of
the tribe of Judah: 
 and I have filled him with the Spirit
of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and
in all manner of workmanship, 
 to devise skilful works, to
work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, 
 and in cutting
of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all
manner of workmanship. 
 And I, behold, I have appointed
with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and
in the heart of all that are wise-hearted I have put wisdom,
that they may make all that I have commanded thee: 
 the
tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, and the
mercy-seat that is thereupon, and all the furniture of the Tent,
 and the table and its vessels, and the pure candlestick
with all its vessels, and the altar of incense, 
 and the
altar of burnt-offering with all its vessels, and the laver and
its base, 
 and the finely wrought garments, and the holy
garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to
minister in the priest's office, 
 and the anointing oil,
and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place: according to
all that I have commanded thee shall they do.
 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 
 Speak
thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily ye shall
keep my sabbaths: for it is a sign between me and you throughout
your generations; that ye may know that I am Jehovah who
sanctifieth you. 
 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore;
for it is holy unto you: every one that profaneth it shall
surely be put to death; for whosoever doeth any work therein,
that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 
 Six
days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a sabbath of
solemn rest, holy to Jehovah: whosoever doeth any work on the
sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. 
 Wherefore
the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the
sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for
ever: for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, and on the
seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of
communing with him upon mount Sinai, the two tables of the
testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
==Chapter 32==
 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come
down from the mount, the people gathered themselves together
unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go
before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out
of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him. 
 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden rings, which are
in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters,
and bring them unto me. 
 And all the people brake off the
golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them unto
Aaron. 
 And he received it at their hand, and fashioned it
with a graving tool, and made it a molten calf: and they said,
These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the
land of Egypt. 
 And when Aaron saw [this], he built an
altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said,
To-morrow shall be a feast to Jehovah. 
 And they rose up
early on the morrow, and offered burnt-offerings, and brought
peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink,
and rose up to play.
 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for
thy people, that thou broughtest up out of the land of Egypt,
have corrupted themselves: 
 they have turned aside quickly
out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a
molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed unto
it, and said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee
up out of the land of Egypt. 
 And Jehovah said unto Moses,
I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked
people: 
 now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may
wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will
make of thee a great nation. 
 And Moses besought Jehovah
his God, and said, Jehovah, why doth thy wrath wax hot against
thy people, that thou hast brought forth out of the land of
Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 
 Wherefore
should the Egyptians speak, saying, For evil did he bring them
forth, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from
the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of
this evil against thy people. 
 Remember Abraham, Isaac,
and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own
self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the
stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I
give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever. 
 And Jehovah repented of the evil which he said he would do unto
his people.
 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, with
the two tables of the testimony in his hand; tables that were
written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other
were they written. 
 And the tables were the work of God,
and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they
shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the
camp. 
 And he said, It is not the voice of them that
shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for
being overcome; but the noise of them that sing do I hear.
 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the
camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses' anger
waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake
them beneath the mount. 
 And he took the calf which they
had made, and burnt it with fire, and ground it to powder, and
strewed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink
of it.
 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto
thee, that thou hast brought a great sin upon them? 
 And
Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest
the people, that they are [set] on evil. 
 For they said
unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this
Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we
know not what is become of him. 
 And I said unto them,
Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off: so they gave it
me; and I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.
 And when Moses saw that the people were broken loose,
(for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their
enemies,) 
 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and
said, Whoso is on Jehovah's side, [let him come] unto me. And
all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.
 And he said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of
Israel, Put ye every man his sword upon his thigh, and go to and
fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man
his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his
neighbor. 
 And the sons of Levi did according to the word
of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three
thousand men. 
 And Moses said, Consecrate yourselves
to-day to Jehovah, yea, every man against his son, and against
his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.
 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said
unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go
up unto Jehovah; peradventure I shall make atonement for your
sin. 
 And Moses returned unto Jehovah, and said, Oh, this
people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.
 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin-; and if not,
blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned
against me, him will I blot out of my book. 
 And now go,
lead the people unto [the place] of which I have spoken unto
thee: behold, mine angel shall go before thee; nevertheless in
the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them. 
 And Jehovah smote the people, because they made the calf, which
Aaron made.
==Chapter 33==
 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, Depart, go up hence,
thou and the people that thou hast brought up out of the land of
Egypt, unto the land of which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac,
and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it: 
 and I
will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the
Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the
Hivite, and the Jebusite: 
 unto a land flowing with milk
and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee, for thou
art a stiffnecked people, lest I consume thee in the way. 
 And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and
no man did put on him his ornaments. 
 And Jehovah said
unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a
stiffnecked people; if I go up into the midst of thee for one
moment, I shall consume thee: therefore now put off thy
ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
 And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their
ornaments from mount Horeb onward.
 Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it
without the camp, afar off from the camp; and he called it, The
tent of meeting. And it came to pass, that every one that sought
Jehovah went out unto the tent of meeting, which was without the
camp. 
 And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the
Tent, that all the people rose up, and stood, every man at his
tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the
Tent. 
 And it came to pass, when Moses entered into the
Tent, the pillar of cloud descended, and stood at the door of
the Tent: and [Jehovah] spake with Moses. 
 And all the
people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent:
and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man at his tent
door. 
 And Jehovah spake unto Moses face to face, as a
man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp:
but his minister Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed
not out of the Tent.
 And Moses said unto Jehovah, See, thou sayest unto
me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom
thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name,
and thou hast also found favor in my sight. 
 Now
therefore, I pray thee, if I have found favor in thy sight, show
me now thy ways, that I may know thee, to the end that I may
find favor in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy
people. 
 And he said, My presence shall go [with thee],
and I will give thee rest. 
 And he said unto him, If thy
presence go not [with me], carry us not up hence. 
 For
wherein now shall it be known that I have found favor in thy
sight, I and thy people? is it not in that thou goest with us,
so that we are separated, I and thy people, from all the people
that are upon the face of the earth?
 And Jehovah said unto Moses, I will do this thing
also that thou hast spoken; for thou hast found favor in my
sight, and I know thee by name. 
 And he said, Show me, I
pray thee, thy glory. 
 And he said, I will make all my
goodness pass before thee, and will proclaim the name of Jehovah
before thee; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious,
and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. 
 And he
said, Thou canst not see my face; for man shall not see me and
live. 
 and Jehovah said, Behold, there is a place by me,
and thou shalt stand upon the rock: 
 and it shall come to
pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a cleft
of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand until I have
passed by: 
 and I will take away my hand, and thou shalt
see my back; but my face shall not be seen.
==Chapter 34==
 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of
stone like unto the first: and I will write upon the tables the
words that were on the first tables, which thou brakest. 
 And be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning unto
mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me on the top of the
mount. 
 And no man shall come up with thee; neither let
any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks
nor herds feed before that mount. 
 And he hewed two tables
of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the
morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as Jehovah had commanded
him, and took in his hand two tables of stone. 
 And
Jehovah descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and
proclaimed the name of Jehovah. 
 And Jehovah passed by
before him, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah, a God merciful and
gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and
truth, 
 keeping lovingkindness for thousands, forgiving
iniquity and transgression and sin; and that will by no means
clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon
the children, and upon the children's children, upon the third
and upon the fourth generation. 
 And Moses made haste, and
bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped. 
 And he
said, If now I have found favor in thy sight, O Lord, let the
Lord, I pray thee, go in the midst of us; for it is a
stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and
take us for thine inheritance.
 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all
thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been wrought in
all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which
thou art shall see the work of Jehovah; for it is a terrible
thing that I do with thee. 
 Observe thou that which I
command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the
Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite,
and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 
 Take heed to thyself,
lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land
whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:
 but ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces
their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim; 
 for
thou shalt worship no other god: for Jehovah, whose name is
Jealous, is a jealous God: 
 lest thou make a covenant
with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot after
their gods, and sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee and
thou eat of his sacrifice; 
 and thou take of their
daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters play the harlot
after their gods, and make thy sons play the harlot after their
gods. 
 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven
days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at
the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib thou
camest out from Egypt. 
 All that openeth the womb is
mine; and all thy cattle that is male, the firstlings of cow and
sheep. 
 And the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem
with a lamb: and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt
break its neck. All the first-born of thy sons thou shalt
redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.
 Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou
shalt rest: in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, [even] of the
first-fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at
the year's end. 
 Three times in the year shall all thy
males appear before the Lord Jehovah, the God of Israel. 
 For I will cast out nations before thee, and enlarge thy
borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou goest
up to appear before Jehovah thy God three times in the year.
 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with
leavened bread; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the
passover be left unto the morning. 
 The first of the
first-fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring unto the house of
Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for
after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee
and with Israel. 
 And he was there with Jehovah forty
days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink
water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant,
the ten commandments.
 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount
Sinai with the two tables of the testimony in Moses' hand, when
he came down from the mount, that Moses knew not that the skin
of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him. 
 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold,
the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh
him. 
 And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the
rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses spake to
them. 
 And afterward all the children of Israel came
nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that Jehovah had
spoken with him in mount Sinai. 
 And when Moses had done
speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. 
 But when
Moses went in before Jehovah to speak with him, he took the veil
off, until he came out; and he came out, and spake unto the
children of Israel that which he was commanded. 
 And the
children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of
Moses' face shone: and Moses put the veil upon his face again,
until he went in to speak with him.
==Chapter 35==
 And Moses assembled all the congregation of the
children of Israel, and said unto them, These are the words
which Jehovah hath commanded, that ye should do them. 
 Six
days shall work be done; but on the seventh day there shall be
to you a holy day, a sabbath of solemn rest to Jehovah:
whosoever doeth any work therein shall be put to death. 
 Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the
sabbath day.
 And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the
children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which Jehovah
commanded, saying, 
 Take ye from among you an offering
unto Jehovah; whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it,
Jehovah's offering: gold, and silver, and brass, 
 and
blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats'
[hair], 
 and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, and
acacia wood, 
 and oil for the light, and spices for the
anointing oil, and for the sweet incense, 
 and onyx
stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the
breastplate.
 And let every wise-hearted man among you come, and
make all that Jehovah hath commanded: 
 the tabernacle,
its tent, and its covering, its clasps, and its boards, its
bars, its pillars, and its sockets; 
 the ark, and the
staves thereof, the mercy-seat, and the veil of the screen;
 the table, and its staves, and all its vessels, and the
showbread; 
 the candlestick also for the light, and its
vessels, and its lamps, and the oil for the light; 
 and
the altar of incense, and its staves, and the anointing oil, and
the sweet incense, and the screen for the door, at the door of
the tabernacle; 
 the altar of burnt-offering, with its
grating of brass, it staves, and all its vessels, the laver and
its base; 
 the hangings of the court, the pillars
thereof, and their sockets, and the screen for the gate of the
court; 
 the pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the
court, and their cords; 
 the finely wrought 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.
 And all the congregation of the children of Israel
departed from the presence of Moses. 
 And they came,
every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his
spirit made willing, [and] brought Jehovah's offering, for the
work of the tent of meeting, and for all the service thereof,
and for the holy garments. 
 And they came, both men and
women, as many as were willing-hearted, [and] brought brooches,
and ear-rings, and signet-rings, and armlets, all jewels of
gold; even every man that offered an offering of gold unto
Jehovah. 
 And every man, with whom was found blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' [hair], and
rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, brought them. 
 Every
one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought
Jehovah's offering; and every man, with whom was found acacia
wood for any work of the service, brought it. 
 And all
the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands, and
brought that which they had spun, the blue, and the purple, the
scarlet, and the fine linen. 
 And all the women whose
heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats' [hair]. 
 And the rulers brought the onyx stones, and the stones to be
set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate; 
 and the
spice, and the oil; for the light, and for the anointing oil,
and for the sweet incense. 
 The children of Israel
brought a freewill-offering unto Jehovah; every man and woman,
whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which
Jehovah had commanded to be made by Moses.
 And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See,
Jehovah hath called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of
Hur, of the tribe of Judah. 
 And he hath filled him with
the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in
knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship; 
 and to
devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in
brass, 
 and in cutting of stones for setting, and in
carving of wood, to work in all manner of skilful workmanship.
 And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he,
and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. 
 Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of
workmanship, of the engraver, and of the skilful workman, and of
the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine
linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any workmanship,
and of those that devise skilful works.
==Chapter 36==
 And Bezalel and Oholiab shall work, and every
wise-hearted man, in whom Jehovah hath put wisdom and
understanding to know how to work all the work for the service
of the sanctuary, according to all that Jehovah hath commanded.
 And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every
wise-hearted man, in whose heart Jehovah had put wisdom, even
every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do
it: 
 and they received of Moses all the offering which the
children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of
the sanctuary, wherewith to make it. And they brought yet unto
him freewill-offerings every morning. 
 And all the wise
men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every man
from his work which they wrought. 
 And they spake unto
Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the
service of the work which Jehovah commanded to make. 
 And
Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed
throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any
more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were
restrained from bringing. 
 For the stuff they had was
sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.
 And all the wise-hearted men among them that wrought
the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined
linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim, the
work of the skilful workman, [Bezalel] made them. 
 The
length of each curtain was eight and twenty cubits, and the
breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains had one
measure. 
 And he coupled five curtains one to another:
and [the other] five curtains he coupled one to another. 
 And he made loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from
the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the edge of
the curtain that was outmost in the second coupling. 
 Fifty loops made he in the one curtain, and fifty loops made he
in the edge of the curtain that was in the second coupling: the
loops were opposite one to another. 
 And he made fifty
clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the
clasps: so the tabernacle was one.
 And he made curtains of goats' [hair] for a tent over
the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them. 
 The length
of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth
of each curtain: the eleven curtains had one measure. 
 And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by
themselves. 
 And he made fifty loops on the edge of the
curtain that was outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops made
he upon the edge of the curtain which was [outmost in] the
second coupling. 
 And he made fifty clasps of brass to
couple the tent together, that it might be one. 
 And he
made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a
covering of sealskins above.
 And he made the boards for the tabernacle, of acacia
wood, standing up. 
 Ten cubits was the length of a board,
and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board. 
 Each
board had two tenons, joined one to another: thus did he make
for all the boards of the tabernacle. 
 And he made the
boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side
southward. 
 And he made forty sockets of silver under the
twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons,
and two sockets under another board for its two tenons. 
 And for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he
made twenty boards, 
 and their forty sockets of silver;
two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another
board. 
 And for the hinder part of the tabernacle
westward he made six boards. 
 And two boards made he for
the corners of the tabernacle in the hinder part. 
 And
they were double beneath; and in like manner they were entire
unto the top thereof unto one ring: thus he did to both of them
in the two corners. 
 And there were eight boards, and
their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; under every board two
sockets.
 And he made bars of acacia wood; five for the boards
of the one side of the tabernacle, 
 and five bars for the
boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for
the boards of the tabernacle for the hinder part westward.
 And he made the middle bar to pass through in the midst
of the boards from the one end to the other. 
 And he
overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold for
places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
 And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim, the work of the
skilful workman, made he it. 
 And he made thereunto four
pillars of acacia, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were
of gold; And he cast for them four sockets of silver. 
 And he made a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the
embroiderer; 
 and the five pillars of it with their
hooks: and he overlaid their capitals and their fillets with
gold; and their five sockets were of brass.
==Chapter 37==
 And Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood: two cubits
and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the
breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it: 
 and he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a
crown of gold to it round about. 
 And he cast for it four
rings of gold, in the four feet thereof; even two rings on the
one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. 
 And he made staves of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.
 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the
ark, to bear the ark. 
 And he made a mercy-seat of pure
gold: two cubits and a half [was] the length thereof, and a
cubit and a half the breadth thereof. 
 And he made two
cherubim of gold; of beaten work made he them, at the two ends
of the mercy-seat; 
 one cherub at the one end, and one
cherub at the other end: of one piece with the mercy-seat made
he the cherubim at the two ends thereof. 
 And the cherubim
spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy-seat with
their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the
mercy-seat were the faces of the cherubim.
 And he made the table of acacia wood: two cubits
[was] the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a
cubit and a half the height thereof: 
 and he overlaid it
with pure gold, and made thereto a crown of gold round about.
 And he made unto it a border of a handbreadth round
about, and made a golden crown to the border thereof round
about. 
 And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put
the rings in the four corners that were on the four feet
thereof. 
 Close by the border were the rings, the places
for the staves to bear the table. 
 And he made the staves
of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.
 And he made the vessels which were upon the table, the
dishes thereof, and the spoons thereof, and the bowls thereof,
and the flagons thereof, wherewith to pour out, of pure gold.
 And he made the candlestick of pure gold: of beaten
work made he the candlestick, even its base, and its shaft; its
cups, it knops, and its flowers, were of one piece with it:
 and there were six branches going out of the sides
thereof; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side
thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other
side thereof: 
 three cups made like almond-blossoms in
one branch, a knop and a flower, and three cups made like
almond-blossoms in the other branch, a knop and a flower: so for
the six branches going out of the candlestick. 
 And in
the candlestick were four cups made like almond-blossoms, the
knops thereof, and the flowers thereof; 
 and a knop under
two branches of one piece with it, and a knop under two branches
of one piece with it, and a knop under two branches of one piece
with it, for the six branches going out of it. 
 Their
knops and their branches were of one piece with it: the whole of
it was one beaten work of pure gold. 
 And he made the
lamps thereof, seven, and the snuffers thereof, and the
snuffdishes thereof, of pure gold. 
 Of a talent of pure
gold made he it, and all the vessels thereof.
 And he made the altar of incense of acacia wood: a
cubit was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof,
foursquare; and two cubits was the height thereof; the horns
thereof were of one piece with it. 
 And he overlaid it
with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round
about, and the horns of it: and he made unto it a crown of gold
round about. 
 And he made for it two golden rings under
the crown thereof, upon the two ribs thereof, upon the two sides
of it, for places for staves wherewith to bear it. 
 And
he made the staves of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.
 And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense
of sweet spices, after the art of the perfumer.
==Chapter 38==
 And he made the altar of burnt-offering of acacia
wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the
breadth thereof, foursquare; and three cubits the height
thereof. 
 And he made the horns thereof upon the four
corners of it; the horns thereof were of one piece with it: and
he overlaid it with brass. 
 And he made all the vessels of
the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basins, the
flesh-hooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he
of brass. 
 And he made for the altar a grating of network
of brass, under the ledge round it beneath, reaching halfway up.
 And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grating
of brass, to be places for the staves. 
 And he made the
staves of acacia wood, and overlaid them with brass. 
 And
he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar,
wherewith to bear it; he made it hollow with planks.
 And he made the laver of brass, and the base thereof
of brass, of the mirrors of the ministering women that
ministered at the door of the tent of meeting.
 And he made the court: for the south side southward
the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, a hundred
cubits; 
 their pillars were twenty, and their sockets
twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets
were of silver. 
 And for the north side a hundred cubits,
their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the
hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver. 
 And
for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars
ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their
fillets, of silver. 
 And for the east side eastward fifty
cubits. 
 The hangings for the one side [of the gate] were
fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three;
 and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand by
the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits; their
pillars three, and their sockets three. 
 All the hangings
of the court round about were of fine twined linen. 
 And
the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the
pillars, and their fillets, of silver; and the overlaying of
their capitals, of silver; and all the pillars of the court were
filleted with silver. 
 And the screen for the gate of the
court was the work of the embroiderer, of blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the
length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits,
answerable to the hangings of the court. 
 And their
pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks
of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their
fillets, of silver. 
 And all the pins of the tabernacle,
and of the court round about, were of brass.
 This is the sum of [the things 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.
 And Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe
of Judah, made all that Jehovah commanded Moses. 
 And
with him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan,
an engraver, and a skilful workman, and an embroiderer in blue,
and in purple, and in scarlet, and in fine linen.
 All the gold that was used for the work in all the
work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, was twenty
and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after
the shekel of the sanctuary. 
 And the silver of them that
were numbered of the congregation was a hundred talents, and a
thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after
the shekel of the sanctuary: 
 a beka a head, [that is],
half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one
that passed over to them that were numbered, from twenty years
old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and
five hundred and fifty men. 
 And the hundred talents of
silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary, and the
sockets of the veil; a hundred sockets for the hundred talents,
a talent for a socket. 
 And of the thousand seven hundred
seventy and five [shekels] he made hooks for the pillars, and
overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them. 
 And
the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand
and four hundred shekels. 
 And therewith he made the
sockets to the door of the tent of meeting, and the brazen
altar, and the brazen grating for it, and all the vessels of the
altar, 
 and the sockets of the court round about, and the
sockets of the gate of the court, and all the pins of the
tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.
==Chapter 39==
 And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made
finely wrought garments, for ministering in the holy place, and
made the holy garments for Aaron; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
 And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine twined linen. 
 And they did beat the
gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the
blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine
linen, the work of the skilful workman. 
 They made
shoulder-pieces for it, joined together; at the two ends was it
joined together. 
 And the skilfully woven band, that was
upon it, wherewith to gird it on, was of the same piece [and]
like the work thereof; of gold, of blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine twined linen; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
 And they wrought the onyx stones, inclosed in settings
of gold, graven with the engravings of a signet, according to
the names of the children of Israel. 
 And he put them on
the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for
the children of Israel; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
 And he made the breastplate, the work of the skilful
workman, like the work of the ephod; of gold, of blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. 
 It was
foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the
length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being double.
 And they set in it four rows of stones. A row of
sardius, topaz, and carbuncle was the first row; 
 and the
second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond; 
 and
the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; 
 and
the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jaspar: they were
inclosed in inclosings of gold in their settings. 
 And
the stones were according to the names of the children of
Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of
a signet, every one according to his name, for the twelve
tribes. 
 And they made upon the breastplate chains like
cords, of wreathen work of pure gold. 
 And they made two
settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on
the two ends of the breastplate. 
 And they put the two
wreathen chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the
breastplate. 
 And the [other] two ends of the two
wreathen chains they put on the two settings, and put them on
the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, in the forepart thereof.
 And they made two rings of gold, and put them upon the
two ends of the breastplate, upon the edge thereof, which was
toward the side of the ephod inward. 
 And they made two
rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the
ephod underneath, in the forepart thereof, close by the coupling
thereof, above the skilfully woven band of the ephod. 
 And they did bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the
rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be upon
the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate
might not be loosed from the ephod; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
 And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all
of blue. 
 And the hole of the robe in the midst thereof,
as the hole of a coat of mail, with a binding round about the
hole of it, that it should not be rent. 
 And they made
upon the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple,
and scarlet, [and] twined [linen]. 
 And they made bells
of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon
the skirts of the robe round about, between the pomegranates;
 a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, upon
the skirts of the robe round about, to minister in; as Jehovah
commanded Moses.
 And they made the coats of fine linen of woven work
for Aaron, and for his sons, 
 and the mitre of fine
linen, and the goodly head-tires of fine linen, and the linen
breeches of fine twined linen, 
 and the girdle of fine
twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, the work of the
embroiderer; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
 And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure
gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like the engravings of a
signet, HOLY TO JEHOVAH. 
 And they tied unto it a lace of
blue, to fasten it upon the mitre above; as Jehovah commanded
Moses.
 Thus was finished all the work of the tabernacle of
the tent of meeting: and the children of Israel did according to
all that Jehovah commanded Moses; so did they. 
 And they
brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the Tent, and all its
furniture, its clasps, its boards, it bars, and its pillars, and
it sockets; 
 and the covering of rams' skins dyed red,
and the covering of sealskins, and the veil of the screen;
 the ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and
the mercy-seat; 
 the table, all the vessels thereof, and
the showbread; 
 the pure candlestick, the lamps thereof,
even the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof,
and the oil for the light; 
 and the golden altar, and the
anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the screen for the
door of the Tent; 
 the brazen altar, and its grating of
brass, its staves, and all its vessels, the laver and its base;
 the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its sockets,
and the screen for the gate of the court, the cords thereof, and
the pins thereof, and all the instruments of the service of the
tabernacle, for the tent of meeting; 
 the finely wrought
garments for ministering in the holy place, and the holy
garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to
minister in the priest's office. 
 According to all that
Jehovah commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the
work. 
 And Moses saw all the work, and, behold, they had
done it; as Jehovah had commanded, even so had they done it: and
Moses blessed them.
==Chapter 40==
 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 
 On the
first day of the first month shalt thou rear up the tabernacle
of the tent of meeting. 
 And thou shalt put therein the
ark of the testimony, and thou shalt screen the ark with the
veil. 
 And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order
the things that are upon it; and thou shalt bring in the
candlestick, and light the lamps thereof. 
 And thou shalt
set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the
testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.
 And thou shalt set the altar of burnt-offering before the
door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. 
 And thou
shalt set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar,
and shalt put water therein. 
 And thou shalt set up the
court round about, and hang up the screen of the gate of the
court. 
 And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint
the tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it,
and all the furniture thereof: and it shall be holy. 
 And
thou shalt anoint the altar of burnt-offering, and all its
vessels, and sanctify the altar: and the altar shall be most
holy. 
 And thou shalt anoint the laver and its base, and
sanctify it. 
 And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons
unto the door of the tent of meeting, and shalt wash them with
water. 
 And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments;
and thou shalt anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may
minister unto me in the priest's office. 
 And thou shalt
bring his sons, and put coats upon them; 
 and thou shalt
anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may
minister unto me in the priest's office: and their anointing
shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their
generations. 
 Thus did Moses: according to all that
Jehovah commanded him, so did he.
 And it came to pass in the first month in the second
year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was
reared up. 
 And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and laid
its sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars
thereof, and reared up its pillars. 
 And he spread the
tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above
upon it; as Jehovah commanded Moses. 
 And he took and put
the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and
put the mercy-seat above upon the ark: 
 and he brought
the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen,
and screened the ark of the testimony; as Jehovah commanded
Moses. 
 And he put the table in the tent of meeting, upon
the side of the tabernacle northward, without the veil. 
 And he set the bread in order upon it before Jehovah; as Jehovah
commanded Moses. 
 And he put the candlestick in the tent
of meeting, over against the table, on the side of the
tabernacle southward. 
 And he lighted the lamps before
Jehovah; as Jehovah commanded Moses. 
 And he put the
golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil: 
 and
he burnt thereon incense of sweet spices; as Jehovah commanded
Moses. 
 And he put the screen of the door to the
tabernacle. 
 And he set the altar of burnt-offering at
the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered
upon it the burnt-offering and the meal-offering; as Jehovah
commanded Moses. 
 And he set the laver between the tent
of meeting and the altar, and put water therein, wherewith to
wash. 
 And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their
hands and their feet thereat; 
 when they went into the
tent of meeting, and when they came near unto the altar, they
washed; as Jehovah commanded Moses. 
 And he reared up the
court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the
screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.
 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the
glory of Jehovah filled the tabernacle. 
 And Moses was
not able to enter into the tent of meeting, because the cloud
abode thereon, and the glory of Jehovah filled the tabernacle.
 And when the cloud was taken up from over the
tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all
their journeys: 
 but if the cloud was not taken up, then
they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up. 
 For the cloud of Jehovah was upon the tabernacle by day, and
there was fire therein by night, in the sight of all the house
of Israel, throughout all their journeys.