1:1 |
Now
these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt; every man and
his family came with Jacob. |
|
1:2 |
Reuben, Simeon,
Levi, and Judah; |
|
1:3 |
Issachar,
Zebulun, and Benjamin; |
|
1:4 |
Dan and
Naphtali, Gad and Asher. |
|
1:5 |
All
the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons: and Joseph had come to Egypt
before them. |
|
1:6 |
Then
Joseph came to his end, and all his brothers, and all that generation. |
|
1:7 |
And
the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and
in power; and the land was full of them. |
|
1:8 |
Now
a new king came to power in Egypt, who had no knowledge of Joseph. |
|
1:9 |
And
he said to his people, See, the people of Israel are greater in number and in
power than we are: |
|
1:10 |
Let
us take care for fear that their numbers may become even greater, and if
there is a war, they may be joined with those who are against us, and make an
attack on us, and go up out of the land. |
|
1:11 |
So
they put overseers of forced work over them, in order to make their strength
less by the weight of their work. And they made store-towns for Pharaoh,
Pithom and Raamses. |
|
1:12 |
But
the more cruel they were to them, the more their number increased, till all
the land was full of them. And the children of Israel were hated by the
Egyptians. |
|
1:13 |
And
they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do: |
|
1:14 |
And
made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks,
and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions. |
|
1:15 |
And
the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew women who gave help at the time of
childbirth (the name of the one was Shiphrah and the name of the other
Puah), |
|
1:16 |
When
you are looking after the Hebrew women in childbirth, if it is a son you are
to put him to death; but if it is a daughter, she may go on living. |
|
1:17 |
But
the women had the fear of God, and did not do as the king of Egypt said, but
let the male children go on living. |
|
1:18 |
And
the king of Egypt sent for the women, and said to them, Why have you done
this, and let the male children go on living? |
|
1:19 |
And
they said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian
women, for they are strong, and the birth takes place before we come to
them. |
|
1:20 |
And
the blessing of God was on these women: and the people were increased in
number and became very strong. |
|
1:21 |
And
because the women who took care of the Hebrew mothers had the fear of God, he
gave them families. |
|
1:22 |
And
Pharaoh gave orders to all his people, saying, Every son who comes to birth
is to be put into the river, but every daughter may go on living. |
|
2:1 |
Now
a man of the house of Levi took as his wife a daughter of Levi. |
|
2:2 |
And
she became with child and gave birth to a Son; and when she saw that he was a
beautiful child, she kept him secretly for three months. |
|
2:3 |
And
when she was no longer able to keep him secret, she made him a basket out of
the stems of water-plants, pasting sticky earth over it to keep the water
out; and placing the baby in it she put it among the plants by the edge of
the Nile. |
|
2:4 |
And
his sister took her place at a distance to see what would become of him. |
|
2:5 |
Now
Pharaoh's daughter came down to the Nile to take a bath, while her women were
walking by the riverside; and she saw the basket among the river-plants, and
sent her servant-girl to get it. |
|
2:6 |
And
opening it, she saw the child, and he was crying. And she had pity on him,
and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children. |
|
2:7 |
Then
his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, May I go and get you one of the Hebrew
women to give him the breast? |
|
2:8 |
And
Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the girl went and got the child's
mother. |
|
2:9 |
And
Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Take the child away and give it milk for me,
and I will give you payment. And the woman took the child and gave it milk at
her breast. |
|
2:10 |
And
when the child was older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became
her son, and she gave him the name Moses, Because, she said, I took him out
of the water. |
|
2:11 |
Now
when Moses had become a man, one day he went out to his people and saw how
hard their work was; and he saw an Egyptian giving blows to a Hebrew, one of
his people. |
|
2:12 |
And
turning this way and that, and seeing no one, he put the Egyptian to death,
covering his body with sand. |
|
2:13 |
And
he went out the day after and saw two of the Hebrews fighting: and he said to
him who was in the wrong, Why are you fighting your brother? |
|
2:14 |
And
he said, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? are you going to put me to
death as you did the Egyptian? And Moses was in fear, and said, It is clear
that the thing has come to light. |
|
2:15 |
Now
when Pharaoh had news of this, he would have put Moses to death. But Moses
went in flight from Pharaoh into the land of Midian: and he took his seat by
a water-spring. |
|
2:16 |
Now
the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came to get water for
their father's flock. |
|
2:17 |
And
the keepers of the sheep came up and were driving them away; but Moses got up
and came to their help, watering their flock for them. |
|
2:18 |
And
when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that you have come
back so quickly today? |
|
2:19 |
And
they said, An Egyptian came to our help against the keepers of sheep and got
water for us and gave it to the flock. |
|
2:20 |
And
he said to his daughters, Where is he? why have you let the man go? make him
come in and give him a meal. |
|
2:21 |
And
Moses was happy to go on living with the man; and he gave his daughter
Zipporah to Moses. |
|
2:22 |
And
she gave birth to a son, to whom he gave the name Gershom: for he said, I
have been living in a strange land. |
|
2:23 |
Now
after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of
Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their
cry for help came to the ears of God. |
|
2:24 |
And
at the sound of their weeping the agreement which God had made with Abraham
and Isaac and Jacob came to his mind. |
|
2:25 |
And
God's eyes were turned to the children of Israel and he gave them the
knowledge of himself. |
|
3:1 |
Now
Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of
Midian: and he took the flock to the back of the waste land and came to
Horeb, the mountain of God. |
|
3:2 |
And
the angel of the Lord was seen by him in a flame of fire coming out of a
thorn-tree: and he saw that the tree was on fire, but it was not burned
up. |
|
3:3 |
And
Moses said, I will go and see this strange thing, why the tree is not burned
up, |
|
3:4 |
And
when the Lord saw him turning to one side to see, God said his name out of
the tree, crying, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. |
|
3:5 |
And
he said, Do not come near: take off your shoes from your feet, for the place
where you are is holy. |
|
3:6 |
And
he said, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
and the God of Jacob. And Moses kept his face covered for fear of looking on
God. |
|
3:7 |
And
God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry
because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of
their sorrows; |
|
3:8 |
And
I have come down to take them out of the hands of the Egyptians, guiding them
out of that land into a good land and wide, into a land flowing with milk and
honey; into the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and
the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. |
|
3:9 |
For
now, truly, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me, and I have seen
the cruel behaviour of the Egyptians to them. |
|
3:10 |
Come,
then, and I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you may take my people, the
children of Israel, out of Egypt. |
|
3:11 |
And
Moses said to God, Who am I to go to Pharaoh and take the children of Israel
out of Egypt? |
|
3:12 |
And
he said, Truly I will be with you; and this will be the sign to you that I
have sent you: when you have taken the children of Israel out of Egypt, you
will give worship to God on this mountain. |
|
3:13 |
And
Moses said to God, When I come to the children of Israel and say to them, The
God of your fathers has sent me to you: and they say to me, What is his name?
what am I to say to them? |
|
3:14 |
And
God said to him, I AM WHAT I AM: and he said, Say to the children of Israel,
I AM has sent me to you. |
|
3:15 |
And
God went on to say to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, The Lord, the God
of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has sent me to
you: this is my name for ever, and this is my sign to all generations. |
|
3:16 |
Go
and get together the chiefs of the children of Israel, and say to them, The
Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob,
has been seen by me, and has said, Truly I have taken up your cause, because
of what is done to you in Egypt; |
|
3:17 |
And
I have said, I will take you up out of the sorrows of Egypt into the land of
the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the
Hivite and the Jebusite, into a land flowing with milk and honey. |
|
3:18 |
And
they will give ear to your voice: and you, with the chiefs of Israel, will go
to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and say to him, The Lord, the God of the
Hebrews, has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste
land to make an offering to the Lord our God. |
|
3:19 |
And
I am certain that the king of Egypt will not let you go without being
forced. |
|
3:20 |
But
I will put out my hand and overcome Egypt with all the wonders which I will
do among them: and after that he will let you go. |
|
3:21 |
And
I will give this people grace in the eyes of the Egyptians, so that when you
go out you will go out with your hands full. |
|
3:22 |
For
every woman will get from her neighbour and from the woman living in her
house, ornaments of silver and gold, and clothing; and you will put them on
your sons and your daughters; you will take the best of their goods from the
Egyptians. |
|
4:1 |
And
Moses, answering, said, It is certain that they will not have faith in me or
give ear to my voice; for they will say, You have not seen the Lord. |
|
4:2 |
And
the Lord said to him, What is that in your hand? And he said, A rod. |
|
4:3 |
And
he said, Put it down on the earth. And he put it down on the earth and it
became a snake; and Moses went running from it. |
|
4:4 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, Put out your hand and take it by the tail: (and he
put out his hand and took a grip of it and it became a rod in his hand:) |
|
4:5 |
So
that they may be certain that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of
Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has been seen by you. |
|
4:6 |
Then
the Lord said to him again, Put your hand inside your clothing. And he put
his hand inside his robe: and when he took it out it was like the hand of a
leper, as white as snow. |
|
4:7 |
And
he said, Put your hand inside your robe again. (And he put his hand into his
robe again, and when he took it out he saw that it had become like his other
flesh.) |
|
4:8 |
And
if they do not have faith in you or give ear to the voice of the first sign,
they will have faith in the second sign. |
|
4:9 |
And
if they have no faith even in these two signs and will not give ear to your
voice, then you are to take the water of the Nile and put it on the dry land:
and the water you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land. |
|
4:10 |
And
Moses said to the Lord, O Lord, I am not a man of words; I have never been
so, and am not now, even after what you have said to your servant: for
talking is hard for me, and I am slow of tongue. |
|
4:11 |
And
the Lord said to him, Who has made man's mouth? who takes away a man's voice
or hearing, or makes him seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? |
|
4:12 |
So
go now, and I will be with your mouth, teaching you what to say. |
|
4:13 |
And
he said, O Lord, send, if you will, by the hand of anyone whom it seems good
to you to send. |
|
4:14 |
And
the Lord was angry with Moses, and said, Is there not Aaron, your brother,
the Levite? To my knowledge he is good at talking. And now he is coming out
to you: and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart. |
|
4:15 |
Let
him give ear to your voice, and you will put my words in his mouth; and I
will be with your mouth and with his, teaching you what you have to do. |
|
4:16 |
And
he will do the talking for you to the people: he will be to you as a mouth
and you will be to him as God. |
|
4:17 |
And
take in your hand this rod with which you will do the signs. |
|
4:18 |
And
Moses went back to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said to him, Let me go back
now to my relations in Egypt and see if they are still living. And Jethro
said to Moses, Go in peace. |
|
4:19 |
And
the Lord said to Moses in Midian, Go back to Egypt, for all the men are dead
who were attempting to take your life. |
|
4:20 |
And
Moses took his wife and his sons and put them on an ass and went back to the
land of Egypt: and he took the rod of God in his hand. |
|
4:21 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before
Pharaoh all the wonders which I have given you power to do: but I will make
his heart hard and he will not let the people go. |
|
4:22 |
And
you are to say to Pharaoh, The Lord says, Israel is the first of my
sons: |
|
4:23 |
And
I said to you, Let my son go, so that he may give me worship; and you did not
let him go: so now I will put the first of your sons to death. |
|
4:24 |
Now
on the journey, at the night's resting-place, the Lord came in his way and
would have put him to death. |
|
4:25 |
Then
Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cutting off the skin of her son's private
parts, and touching his feet with it, she said, Truly you are a husband of
blood to me. |
|
4:26 |
So
he let him go. Then she said, You are a husband of blood because of the
circumcision. |
|
4:27 |
And
the Lord said to Aaron, Go into the waste land and you will see Moses. So he
went and came across Moses at the mountain of God, and gave him a kiss. |
|
4:28 |
And
Moses gave Aaron an account of all the words of the Lord which he had sent
him to say, and of all the signs which he had given him orders to do. |
|
4:29 |
Then
Moses and Aaron went and got together all the chiefs of the children of
Israel: |
|
4:30 |
And
Aaron said to them all the words the Lord had said to Moses, and did the
signs before all the people. |
|
4:31 |
And
the people had faith in them; and hearing that the Lord had taken up the
cause of the children of Israel and had seen their troubles, with bent heads
they gave him worship. |
|
5:1 |
And
after that, Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and said, The Lord, the God of
Israel, says, Let my people go so that they may keep a feast to me in the
waste land. |
|
5:2 |
And
Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, to whose voice I am to give ear and let Israel
go? I have no knowledge of the Lord and I will not let Israel go. |
|
5:3 |
And
they said, The God of the Hebrews has come to us: let us then go three days'
journey into the waste land to make an offering to the Lord our God, so that
he may not send death on us by disease or the sword. |
|
5:4 |
And
the king of Egypt said to them, Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people
away from their work? get back to your work. |
|
5:5 |
And
Pharaoh said, Truly, the people of the land are increasing in number, and you
are keeping them back from their work. |
|
5:6 |
The
same day Pharaoh gave orders to the overseers and those who were responsible
for the work, saying, |
|
5:7 |
Give
these men no more dry stems for their brick-making as you have been doing;
let them go and get the material for themselves. |
|
5:8 |
But
see that they make the same number of bricks as before, and no less: for they
have no love for work; and so they are crying out and saying, Let us go and
make an offering to our God. |
|
5:9 |
Give
the men harder work, and see that they do it; let them not give attention to
False words. |
|
5:10 |
And
the overseers of the people and their responsible men went out and said to
the people, Pharaoh says, I will give you no more dry stems. |
|
5:11 |
Go
yourselves and get dry stems wherever you are able; for your work is not to
be any less. |
|
5:12 |
So
the people were sent in all directions through the land of Egypt to get dry
grass for stems. |
|
5:13 |
And
the overseers went on driving them and saying, Do your full day's work as
before when there were dry stems for you. |
|
5:14 |
And
the responsible men of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's overseers had
put over them, were given blows, and they said to them, Why have you not done
your regular work, in making bricks as before? |
|
5:15 |
Then
the responsible men of the children of Israel came to Pharaoh, protesting and
saying, Why are you acting in this way to your servants? |
|
5:16 |
They
give us no dry stems and they say to us, Make bricks: and they give your
servants blows; but it is your people who are in the wrong. |
|
5:17 |
But
he said, You have no love for work: that is why you say, Let us go and make
an offering to the Lord. |
|
5:18 |
Go
now, get back to your work; no dry stems will be given to you, but you are to
make the full number of bricks. |
|
5:19 |
Then
the responsible men of the children of Israel saw that they were purposing
evil when they said, The number of bricks which you have to make every day
will be no less than before. |
|
5:20 |
And
they came face to face with Moses and Aaron, who were in their way when they
came out from Pharaoh: |
|
5:21 |
And
they said to them, May the Lord take note of you and be your judge; for you
have given Pharaoh and his servants a bad opinion of us, putting a sword in
their hands for our destruction. |
|
5:22 |
And
Moses went back to the Lord and said, Lord, why have you done evil to this
people? why have you sent me? |
|
5:23 |
For
from the time when I came to Pharaoh to put your words before him, he has
done evil to this people, and you have given them no help. |
|
6:1 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, Now you will see what I am about to do to Pharaoh;
for by a strong hand he will be forced to let them go, driving them out of
his land because of my outstretched arm. |
|
6:2 |
And God said
to Moses, I am Yahweh: |
|
6:3 |
I
let myself be seen by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God, the Ruler of all;
but they had no knowledge of my name Yahweh. |
|
6:4 |
And
I made an agreement with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of
their wanderings. |
|
6:5 |
And
truly my ears are open to the cry of the children of Israel whom the
Egyptians keep under their yoke; and I have kept in mind my agreement. |
|
6:6 |
Say
then to the children of Israel, I am Yahweh, and I will take you out from
under the yoke of the Egyptians, and make you safe from their power, and will
make you free by the strength of my arm after great punishments. |
|
6:7 |
And
I will take you to be my people and I will be your God; and you will be
certain that I am the Lord your God, who takes you out from under the yoke of
the Egyptians. |
|
6:8 |
And
I will be your guide into the land which I made an oath to give to Abraham,
to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for your heritage: I am
Yahweh. |
|
6:9 |
And
Moses said these words to the children of Israel, but they gave no attention
to him, because of the grief of their spirit and the cruel weight of their
work. |
|
6:10 |
And the Lord said to
Moses, |
|
6:11 |
Go
in and say to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, that he is to let the children of
Israel go out of his land. |
|
6:12 |
And
Moses, answering the Lord, said, See, the children of Israel will not give
ear to me; how then will Pharaoh give ear to me, whose lips are unclean? |
|
6:13 |
And
the word of the Lord came to Moses and Aaron, with orders for the children of
Israel and for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to take the children of Israel out of
the land of Egypt. |
|
6:14 |
These
are the heads of their fathers' families: the sons of Reuben the oldest son
of Israel: Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi: these are the families of
Reuben. |
|
6:15 |
And
the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul,
the son of a woman of Canaan: these are the families of Simeon. |
|
6:16 |
And
these are the names of the sons of Levi in the order of their generations:
Gershon and Kohath and Merari: and the years of Levi's life were a hundred
and thirty-seven. |
|
6:17 |
The
sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, in the order of their families. |
|
6:18 |
And
the sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel: and the years of
Kohath's life were a hundred and thirty-three. |
|
6:19 |
And
the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi: these are the families of the Levites,
in the order of their generations. |
|
6:20 |
And
Amram took Jochebed, his father's sister, as wife; and she gave birth to
Aaron and Moses: and the years of Amram's life were a hundred and
thirty-seven. |
|
6:21 |
And the sons of
Izhar: Korah and Nepheg and Zichri. |
|
6:22 |
And the
sons of Uzziel: Mishael and Elzaphan and Sithri. |
|
6:23 |
And
Aaron took as his wife Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of
Nahshon; and she gave birth to Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. |
|
6:24 |
And
the sons of Korah: Assir and Elkanah and Abiasaph: these are the families of
the Korahites. |
|
6:25 |
And
Eleazar, Aaron's son, took as his wife one of the daughters of Putiel; and
she gave birth to Phinehas. These are the heads of the families of the
Levites, in the order of their families. |
|
6:26 |
These
are the same Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said, Take the children of
Israel out of the land of Egypt in their armies. |
|
6:27 |
These
are the men who gave orders to Pharaoh to let the children of Israel go out
of Egypt: these are the same Moses and Aaron. |
|
6:28 |
And
on the day when the word of the Lord came to Moses in the land of Egypt, |
|
6:29 |
The
Lord said to Moses, I am the Lord: say to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, everything
I am saying to you. |
|
6:30 |
And
Moses said to the Lord, My lips are unclean; how is it possible that Pharaoh
will give me a hearing? |
|
7:1 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, See I have made you a god to Pharaoh, and Aaron your
brother will be your prophet. |
|
7:2 |
Say
whatever I give you orders to say: and Aaron your brother will give word to
Pharaoh to let the children of Israel go out of his land. |
|
7:3 |
And
I will make Pharaoh's heart hard, and my signs and wonders will be increased
in the land of Egypt. |
|
7:4 |
But
Pharaoh will not give ear to you, and I will put my hand on Egypt, and take
my armies, my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt, after great
punishments. |
|
7:5 |
And
the Egyptians will see that I am the Lord, when my hand is stretched out over
Egypt, and I take the children of Israel out from among them. |
|
7:6 |
And
Moses and Aaron did so: as the Lord gave them orders, so they did. |
|
7:7 |
And
Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they gave
the Lord's word to Pharaoh. |
|
7:8 |
And the
Lord said to Moses and Aaron, |
|
7:9 |
If
Pharaoh says to you, Let me see a wonder: then say to Aaron, Take your rod
and put it down on the earth before Pharaoh so that it may become a
snake. |
|
7:10 |
Then
Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and they did as the Lord had said: and
Aaron put his rod down on the earth before Pharaoh and his servants, and it
became a snake. |
|
7:11 |
Then
Pharaoh sent for the wise men and the wonder-workers, and they, the
wonder-workers of Egypt, did the same with their secret arts. |
|
7:12 |
For
every one of them put down his rod on the earth, and they became snakes: but
Aaron's rod made a meal of their rods. |
|
7:13 |
But
Pharaoh's heart was made hard, and he did not give ear to them, as the Lord
had said. |
|
7:14 |
And
the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Pharaoh's heart is unchanged; he will not
let the people go. |
|
7:15 |
Go
to Pharaoh in the morning; when he goes out to the water, you will be waiting
for him by the edge of the Nile, with the rod which was turned into a snake
in your hand; |
|
7:16 |
And
say to him, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, Let
my people go so that they may give me worship in the waste land; but up to
now you have not given ear to his words. |
|
7:17 |
So
the Lord says, By this you may be certain that I am the Lord; see, by the
touch of this rod in my hand the waters of the Nile will be turned to
blood; |
|
7:18 |
And
the fish in the Nile will come to destruction, and the river will send up a
bad smell, and the Egyptians will not be able, for disgust, to make use of
the water of the Nile for drinking. |
|
7:19 |
And
the Lord said, Say to Aaron, Let the rod in your hand be stretched out over
the waters of Egypt, and over the rivers and the streams and the pools, and
over every stretch of water, so that they may be turned to blood; and there
will be blood through all the land of Egypt, in vessels of wood and in
vessels of stone. |
|
7:20 |
And
Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had said; and when his rod had been lifted up
and stretched out over the waters of the Nile before the eyes of Pharaoh and
his servants, all the water in the Nile was turned to blood; |
|
7:21 |
And
the fish in the Nile came to destruction, and a bad smell went up from the
river, and the Egyptians were not able to make use of the water of the Nile
for drinking; and there was blood through all the land of Egypt. |
|
7:22 |
And
the wonder-workers of Egypt did the same with their secret arts: but
Pharaoh's heart was made hard, and he would not give ear to them, as the Lord
had said. |
|
7:23 |
Then
Pharaoh went into his house, and did not take even this to heart. |
|
7:24 |
And
all the Egyptians made holes round about the Nile to get drinking-water, for
they were not able to make use of the Nile water. |
|
7:25 |
And
seven days went past, after the Lord had put his hand on the Nile. |
|
8:1 |
And
this is what the Lord said to Moses: Go to Pharaoh and say to him, The Lord
says, Let my people go so that they may give me worship. |
|
8:2 |
And
if you will not let them go, see, I will send frogs into every part of your
land: |
|
8:3 |
The
Nile will be full of frogs, and they will come up into your house and into
your bedrooms and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and your
people, and into your ovens and into your bread-basins. |
|
8:4 |
The
frogs will come up over you and your people and all your servants. |
|
8:5 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Let the rod in your hand be stretched
out over the streams and the waterways and the pools, causing frogs to come
up on the land of Egypt. |
|
8:6 |
And
when Aaron put out his hand over the waters of Egypt, the frogs came up and
all the land of Egypt was covered with them. |
|
8:7 |
And
the wonder-workers did the same with their secret arts, making frogs come up
over the land of Egypt. |
|
8:8 |
Then
Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said, Make prayer to the Lord that he
will take away these frogs from me and my people; and I will let the people
go and make their offering to the Lord. |
|
8:9 |
And
Moses said, I will let you have the honour of saying when I am to make prayer
for you and your servants and your people, that the frogs may be sent away
from you and your houses, and be only in the Nile. |
|
8:10 |
And
he said, By tomorrow. And he said, Let it be as you say: so that you may see
that there is no other like the Lord our God. |
|
8:11 |
And
the frogs will be gone from you and from your houses and from your servants
and from your people and will be only in the Nile. |
|
8:12 |
Then
Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh; and Moses made prayer to the Lord
about the frogs which he had sent on Pharaoh. |
|
8:13 |
And
the Lord did as Moses said; and there was an end of all the frogs in the
houses and in the open spaces and in the fields. |
|
8:14 |
And
they put them together in masses, and a bad smell went up from the land. |
|
8:15 |
But
when Pharaoh saw that there was peace for a time, he made his heart hard and
did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said. |
|
8:16 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Let your rod be stretched out over the
dust of the earth so that it may become insects through all the land of
Egypt. |
|
8:17 |
And
they did so; and Aaron, stretching out the rod in his hand, gave a touch to
the dust of the earth, and insects came on man and on beast; all the dust of
the earth was changed into insects through all the land of Egypt. |
|
8:18 |
And
the wonder-workers with their secret arts, attempting to make insects, were
unable to do so: and there were insects on man and on beast. |
|
8:19 |
Then
the wonder-workers said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: but Pharaoh's
heart was hard, and he did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said. |
|
8:20 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, Get up early in the morning and take your place
before Pharaoh when he comes out to the water; and say to him, This is what
the Lord says: Let my people go to give me worship. |
|
8:21 |
For
if you do not let my people go, see, I will send clouds of flies on you and
on your servants and on your people and into their houses; and the houses of
the Egyptians and the land where they are will be full of flies. |
|
8:22 |
And
at that time I will make a division between your land and the land of Goshen
where my people are, and no flies will be there; so that you may see that I
am the Lord over all the earth. |
|
8:23 |
And
I will put a division between my people and your people; tomorrow this sign
will be seen. |
|
8:24 |
And
the Lord did so; and great clouds of flies came into the house of Pharaoh and
into his servants' houses, and all the land of Egypt was made waste because
of the flies. |
|
8:25 |
And
Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said, Go and make your offering to your
God here in the land. |
|
8:26 |
And
Moses said, It is not right to do so; for we make our offerings of that to
which the Egyptians give worship; and if we do so before their eyes,
certainly we will be stoned. |
|
8:27 |
But
we will go three days' journey into the waste land and make an offering to
the Lord our God as he may give us orders. |
|
8:28 |
Then
Pharaoh said, I will let you go to make an offering to the Lord your God in
the waste land; but do not go very far away, and make prayer for me. |
|
8:29 |
And
Moses said, When I go out from you I will make prayer to the Lord that the
cloud of flies may go away from Pharaoh and from his people and from his
servants tomorrow: only let Pharaoh no longer by deceit keep back the people
from making their offering to the Lord. |
|
8:30 |
Then
Moses went out from Pharaoh and made prayer to the Lord. |
|
8:31 |
And
the Lord did as Moses said, and took away the cloud of flies from Pharaoh and
from his servants and from his people; not one was to be seen. |
|
8:32 |
But
again Pharaoh made his heart hard and did not let the people go. |
|
9:1 |
Then
the Lord said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, This is what the
Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go so that they may give me
worship. |
|
9:2 |
For
if you will not let them go, but still keep them in your power, |
|
9:3 |
Then
the hand of the Lord will put on your cattle in the field, on the horses and
the asses and the camels, on the herds and the flocks, a very evil
disease. |
|
9:4 |
And
the Lord will make a division between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of
Egypt; there will be no loss of any of the cattle of Israel. |
|
9:5 |
And
the time was fixed by the Lord, and he said, Tomorrow the Lord will do this
thing in the land. |
|
9:6 |
And
on the day after, the Lord did as he had said, causing the death of all the
cattle of Egypt, but there was no loss of any of the cattle of Israel. |
|
9:7 |
And
Pharaoh sent and got word that there was no loss of any of the cattle of
Israel. But the heart of Pharaoh was hard and he did not let the people
go. |
|
9:8 |
And
the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron, Take in your hand a little dust from the
fire and let Moses send it in a shower up to heaven before the eyes of
Pharaoh. |
|
9:9 |
And
it will become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and will be a
skin-disease bursting out in wounds on man and beast through all the land of
Egypt. |
|
9:10 |
So
they took some dust from the fire, and placing themselves before Pharaoh,
Moses sent it out in a shower up to heaven; and it became a skin-disease
bursting out on man and on beast. |
|
9:11 |
And
the wonder-workers were not able to take their places before Moses, because
of the disease; for the disease was on the wonder-workers and on all the
Egyptians. |
|
9:12 |
And
the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he would not give ear to them, as the
Lord had said. |
|
9:13 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, Get up early in the morning and take your place
before Pharaoh, and say to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the
Hebrews, says: Let my people go so that they may give me worship. |
|
9:14 |
For
this time I will send all my punishments on yourself and on your servants and
on your people; so that you may see that there is no other like me in all the
earth. |
|
9:15 |
For
if I had put the full weight of my hand on you and your people, you would
have been cut off from the earth: |
|
9:16 |
But,
for this very reason, I have kept you from destruction, to make clear to you
my power, and so that my name may be honoured through all the earth. |
|
9:17 |
Are
you still uplifted in pride against my people so that you will not let them
go? |
|
9:18 |
Truly,
tomorrow about this time I will send down an ice-storm, such as never was in
Egypt from its earliest days till now. |
|
9:19 |
Then
send quickly and get in your cattle and all you have from the fields; for if
any man or beast in the field has not been put under cover, the ice-storm
will come down on them with destruction. |
|
9:20 |
Then
everyone among the servants of Pharaoh who had the fear of the Lord, made his
servants and his cattle come quickly into the house: |
|
9:21 |
And
he who gave no attention to the word of the Lord, kept his servants and his
cattle in the field. |
|
9:22 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, Now let your hand be stretched out to heaven so that
there may be an ice-storm on all the land of Egypt, on man and on beast and
on every plant of the field through all the land of Egypt. |
|
9:23 |
And
Moses put out his rod to heaven: and the Lord sent thunder, and an ice-storm,
and fire running down on the earth; the Lord sent an ice-storm on the land of
Egypt. |
|
9:24 |
So
there was an ice-storm with fire running through it, coming down with great
force, such as never was in all the land of Egypt from the time when it
became a nation. |
|
9:25 |
And
through all the land of Egypt the ice-storm came down on everything which was
in the fields, on man and on beast; and every green plant was crushed and
every tree of the field broken. |
|
9:26 |
Only
in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no
ice-storm. |
|
9:27 |
Then
Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have done evil this
time: the Lord is upright, and I and my people are sinners. |
|
9:28 |
Make
prayer to the Lord; for there has been enough of these thunderings of God and
this ice-storm; and I will let you go and will keep you no longer. |
|
9:29 |
And
Moses said, When I am gone outside the town, my hands will be stretched out
to the Lord; the thunders and the ice-storm will come to an end, so that you
may see that the earth is the Lord's. |
|
9:30 |
But
as for you and your servants, I am certain that even now the fear of the Lord
God will not be in your hearts. |
|
9:31 |
And
the flax and the barley were damaged, for the barley was almost ready to be
cut and the flax was in flower. |
|
9:32 |
But
the rest of the grain-plants were undamaged, for they had not come up. |
|
9:33 |
So
Moses went out of the town, and stretching out his hands made prayer to God:
and the thunders and the ice-storm came to an end; and the fall of rain was
stopped. |
|
9:34 |
But
when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the ice-storm and the thunders were ended,
he went on sinning, and made his heart hard, he and his servants. |
|
9:35 |
And
the heart of Pharaoh was hard, and he did not let the people go, as the Lord
had said by the mouth of Moses. |
|
10:1 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh: for I have made his heart and the
hearts of his servants hard, so that I may let my signs be seen among
them: |
|
10:2 |
And
so that you may be able to give to your son and to your son's son the story
of my wonders in Egypt, and the signs which I have done among them; so that
you may see that I am the Lord. |
|
10:3 |
Then
Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, This is what the Lord,
the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you be lifted up in your pride
before me? let my people go so that they may give me worship. |
|
10:4 |
For
if you will not let my people go, tomorrow I will send locusts into your
land: |
|
10:5 |
And
the face of the earth will be covered with them, so that you will not be able
to see the earth: and they will be the destruction of everything which up to
now has not been damaged, everything which was not crushed by the ice-storm,
and every tree still living in your fields. |
|
10:6 |
And
your houses will be full of them, and the houses of your servants and of all
the Egyptians; it will be worse than anything your fathers have seen or their
fathers, from the day when they were living on the earth till this day. And
so he went out from Pharaoh. |
|
10:7 |
And
Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long is this man to be the cause of evil
to us? let the men go so that they may give worship to the Lord their God:
are you not awake to Egypt's danger? |
|
10:8 |
Then
Moses and Aaron came in again before Pharaoh: and he said to them, Go and
give worship to the Lord your God: but which of you are going? |
|
10:9 |
And
Moses said, We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our
daughters, with our flocks and our herds; for we are to keep a feast to the
Lord. |
|
10:10 |
And
he said to them, May the Lord be with you, if I will let you and your little
ones go! take care, for your purpose clearly is evil. |
|
10:11 |
Not
so; but let your males go and give worship to the Lord, as your desire is.
This he said, driving them out from before him. |
|
10:12 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out over the land of Egypt
so that the locusts may come up on the land for the destruction of every
green plant in the land, even everything untouched by the ice-storm. |
|
10:13 |
And
Moses' rod was stretched out over the land of Egypt, and the Lord sent an
east wind over the land all that day and all the night; and in the morning
the locusts came up with the east wind. |
|
10:14 |
And
the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, resting on every part of the
land, in very great numbers; such an army of locusts had never been seen
before, and never will be again. |
|
10:15 |
For
all the face of the earth was covered with them, so that the land was black;
and every green plant and all the fruit of the trees which was untouched by
the ice-storm they took for food: not one green thing, no plant or tree, was
to be seen in all the land of Egypt. |
|
10:16 |
Then
Pharaoh quickly sent for Moses and Aaron, and said, I have done evil against
the Lord your God and against you. |
|
10:17 |
Let
me now have forgiveness for my sin this time only, and make prayer to the
Lord your God that he will take away from me this death only. |
|
10:18 |
So he went
out from Pharaoh and made prayer to the Lord. |
|
10:19 |
And
the Lord sent a very strong west wind, which took up the locusts, driving
them into the Red Sea; not one locust was to be seen in any part of
Egypt. |
|
10:20 |
But
the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he did not let the children of Israel
go. |
|
10:21 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out to heaven, and all the
land of Egypt will be dark, so that men will be feeling their way about in
the dark. |
|
10:22 |
And
when Moses' hand was stretched out, dark night came over all the land of
Egypt for three days; |
|
10:23 |
They
were not able to see one another, and no one got up from his place for three
days: but where the children of Israel were living it was light. |
|
10:24 |
Then
Pharaoh sent for Moses, and said, Go and give worship to the Lord; only let
your flocks and your herds be kept here: your little ones may go with
you. |
|
10:25 |
But
Moses said, You will have to let us take burned offerings to put before the
Lord our God. |
|
10:26 |
So
our cattle will have to go with us, not one may be kept back; for they are
needed for the worship of the Lord our God; we have no knowledge what
offering we have to give till we come to the place. |
|
10:27 |
But
the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he would not let them go. |
|
10:28 |
And
Pharaoh said to him, Go away from me, take care that you come not again
before me; for the day when you see my face again will be your last. |
|
10:29 |
And
Moses said, You say truly; I will not see your face again. |
|
11:1 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, I will send one more punishment on Pharaoh and on
Egypt; after that he will let you go; and when he does let you go, he will
not keep one of you back, but will send you out by force. |
|
11:2 |
So
go now and give orders to the people that every man and every woman is to get
from his or her neighbour ornaments of silver and of gold. |
|
11:3 |
And
the Lord gave the people grace in the eyes of the Egyptians. For the man
Moses was highly honoured in the land of Egypt, by Pharaoh's servants and the
people. |
|
11:4 |
And
Moses said, This is what the Lord says: About the middle of the night I will
go out through Egypt: |
|
11:5 |
And
death will come to every mother's first male child in all the land of Egypt,
from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power, to the child of the
servant-girl crushing the grain; and the first births of all the cattle. |
|
11:6 |
And
there will be a great cry through all the land of Egypt, such as never has
been or will be again. |
|
11:7 |
But
against the children of Israel, man or beast, not so much as the tongue of a
dog will be moved: so that you may see how the Lord makes a division between
Israel and the Egyptians. |
|
11:8 |
And
all these your servants will come to me, going down on their faces before me
and saying, Go out, and all your people with you: and after that I will go
out. And he went away from Pharaoh burning with wrath. |
|
11:9 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, Pharaoh will not give ear to you, so that my wonders
may be increased in the land of Egypt. |
|
11:10 |
All
these wonders Moses and Aaron did before Pharaoh: but the Lord made Pharaoh's
heart hard, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of his
land. |
|
12:1 |
And the
Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, |
|
12:2 |
Let
this month be to you the first of months, the first month of the year. |
|
12:3 |
Say
to all the children of Israel when they are come together, In the tenth day
of this month every man is to take a lamb, by the number of their fathers'
families, a lamb for every family: |
|
12:4 |
And
if the lamb is more than enough for the family, let that family and its
nearest neighbour have a lamb between them, taking into account the number of
persons and how much food is needed for every man. |
|
12:5 |
Let
your lamb be without a mark, a male in its first year: you may take it from
among the sheep or the goats: |
|
12:6 |
Keep
it till the fourteenth day of the same month, when everyone who is of the
children of Israel is to put it to death between sundown and dark. |
|
12:7 |
Then
take some of the blood and put it on the two sides of the door and over the
door of the house where the meal is to be taken. |
|
12:8 |
And
let your food that night be the flesh of the lamb, cooked with fire in the
oven, together with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants. |
|
12:9 |
Do
not take it uncooked or cooked with boiling water, but let it be cooked in
the oven; its head with its legs and its inside parts. |
|
12:10 |
Do
not keep any of it till the morning; anything which is not used is to be
burned with fire. |
|
12:11 |
And
take your meal dressed as if for a journey, with your shoes on your feet and
your sticks in your hands: take it quickly: it is the Lord's Passover. |
|
12:12 |
For
on that night I will go through the land of Egypt, sending death on every
first male child, of man and of beast, and judging all the gods of Egypt: I
am the Lord. |
|
12:13 |
And
the blood will be a sign on the houses where you are: when I see the blood I
will go over you, and no evil will come on you for your destruction, when my
hand is on the land of Egypt. |
|
12:14 |
And
this day is to be kept in your memories: you are to keep it as a feast to the
Lord through all your generations, as an order for ever. |
|
12:15 |
For
seven days let your food be unleavened bread; from the first day no leaven is
to be seen in your houses: whoever takes bread with leaven in it, from the
first till the seventh day, will be cut off from Israel. |
|
12:16 |
And
on the first day there is to be a holy meeting and on the seventh day a holy
meeting; no sort of work may be done on those days but only to make ready
what is necessary for everyone's food. |
|
12:17 |
So
keep the feast of unleavened bread; for on this very day I have taken your
armies out of the land of Egypt: this day, then, is to be kept through all
your generations by an order for ever. |
|
12:18 |
In
the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day, let your food be
unleavened bread till the evening of the twenty-first day of the month. |
|
12:19 |
For
seven days no leaven is to be seen in your houses: for whoever takes bread
which is leavened will be cut off from the people of Israel, if he is from
another country or if he is an Israelite by birth. |
|
12:20 |
Take
nothing which has leaven in it; wherever you are living let your food be
unleavened cakes. |
|
12:21 |
Then
Moses sent for the chiefs of Israel, and said to them, See that lambs are
marked out for yourselves and your families, and let the Passover lamb be put
to death. |
|
12:22 |
And
take some hyssop and put it in the blood in the basin, touching the two sides
and the top of the doorway with the blood from the basin; and let not one of
you go out of his house till the morning. |
|
12:23 |
For
the Lord will go through the land, sending death on the Egyptians; and when
he sees the blood on the two sides and the top of the door, the Lord will go
over your door and will not let death come in for your destruction. |
|
12:24 |
And
you are to keep this as an order to you and to your sons for ever. |
|
12:25 |
And
when you come into the land which the Lord will make yours, as he gave his
word, you are to keep this act of worship. |
|
12:26 |
And
when your children say to you, What is the reason of this act of
worship? |
|
12:27 |
Then
you will say, This is the offering of the Lord's Passover; for he went over
the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he sent death on the
Egyptians, and kept our families safe. And the people gave worship with bent
heads. |
|
12:28 |
And
the children of Israel went and did so; as the Lord had given orders to Moses
and Aaron, so they did. |
|
12:29 |
And
in the middle of the night the Lord sent death on every first male child in
the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power to the
child of the prisoner in the prison; and the first births of all the cattle. |
|
12:30 |
Then
Pharaoh got up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians;
and a great cry went up from Egypt; for there was not a house where someone
was not dead. |
|
12:31 |
And
he sent for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Get up and go out from among
my people, you and the children of Israel; go and give worship to the Lord as
you have said. |
|
12:32 |
And
take your flocks and your herds as you have said, and be gone; and give me
your blessing. |
|
12:33 |
And
the Egyptians were forcing the people on, to get them out of the land
quickly; for they said, We are all dead men. |
|
12:34 |
And
the people took their bread-paste before it was leavened, putting their
basins in their clothing on their backs. |
|
12:35 |
And
the children of Israel had done as Moses had said; and they got from the
Egyptians ornaments of silver and of gold, and clothing: |
|
12:36 |
And
the Lord had given the people grace in the eyes of the Egyptians so that they
gave them whatever was requested. So they took away all their goods from the
Egyptians. |
|
12:37 |
And
the children of Israel made the journey from Rameses to Succoth; there were
about six hundred thousand men on foot, as well as children. |
|
12:38 |
And
a mixed band of people went with them; and flocks and herds in great
numbers. |
|
12:39 |
And
they made unleavened cakes from the paste which they had taken out of Egypt;
it was not leavened, for they had been sent out of Egypt so quickly, that
they had no time to make any food ready. |
|
12:40 |
Now
the children of Israel had been living in Egypt for four hundred and thirty
years. |
|
12:41 |
And
at the end of four hundred and thirty years, to the very day, all the armies
of the Lord went out of the land of Egypt. |
|
12:42 |
It
is a watch-night before the Lord who took them out of the land of Egypt: this
same night is a watch-night to the Lord for all the children of Israel,
through all their generations. |
|
12:43 |
And
the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, This is the law of the Passover: no man who
is not an Israelite is to take of it: |
|
12:44 |
But
every man's servant, whom he has got for money, may take of it, when he has
had circumcision. |
|
12:45 |
A
man from a strange country living among you, and a servant working for
payment, may not take part in it. |
|
12:46 |
It
is to be taken in one house; not a bit of the flesh is to be taken out of the
house, and no bone of it may be broken. |
|
12:47 |
All Israel is
to keep the feast. |
|
12:48 |
And
if a man from another country is living with you, and has a desire to keep
the Passover to the Lord, let all the males of his family undergo
circumcision, and then let him come near and keep it; for he will then be as
one of your people; but no one without circumcision may keep it. |
|
12:49 |
The
law is the same for him who is an Israelite by birth and for the man from a
strange country who is living with you. |
|
12:50 |
So
the children of Israel did as the Lord gave orders to Moses and Aaron. |
|
12:51 |
And
on that very day the Lord took the children of Israel out of the land of
Egypt by their armies. |
|
13:1 |
And the Lord said to
Moses, |
|
13:2 |
Let
the first male child of every mother among the children of Israel be kept
holy for me, even the first male birth among man or beast; for it is
mine. |
|
13:3 |
And
Moses said to the people, Let this day, on which you came out of Egypt, out
of your prison-house, be kept for ever in memory; for by the strength of his
hand the Lord has taken you out from this place; let no leavened bread be
used. |
|
13:4 |
On this day, in
the month Abib, you are going out. |
|
13:5 |
And
it will be that, when the Lord takes you into the land of the Canaanite and
the Hittite and the Amorite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, the land which
he made an oath to your fathers that he would give you, a land flowing with
milk and honey, you will do this act of worship in this month. |
|
13:6 |
For
seven days let your food be unleavened cakes; and on the seventh day there is
to be a feast to the Lord. |
|
13:7 |
Unleavened
cakes are to be your food through all the seven days; let no leavened bread
be seen among you, or any leaven, in any part of your land. |
|
13:8 |
And
you will say to your son in that day, It is because of what the Lord did for
me when I came out of Egypt. |
|
13:9 |
And
this will be for a sign to you on your hand and for a mark on your brow, so
that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth: for with a strong hand the
Lord took you out of Egypt. |
|
13:10 |
So
let this order be kept, at the right time, from year to year. |
|
13:11 |
And
when the Lord takes you into the land of Canaan, as he made his oath to you
and to your fathers, and gives it to you, |
|
13:12 |
You
are to put on one side for the Lord every mother's first male child, the
first-fruit of her body, and the first young one of every beast; every male
is holy to the Lord. |
|
13:13 |
And
for the young of an ass you may give a lamb in payment, or if you will not
make payment for it, its neck is to be broken; but for all the first sons
among your children, let payment be made. |
|
13:14 |
And
when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for this? say
to him, By the strength of his hand the Lord took us out of Egypt, out of the
prison-house: |
|
13:15 |
And
when Pharaoh made his heart hard and would not let us go, the Lord sent death
on all the first sons in Egypt, of man and of beast: and so every first male
who comes to birth is offered to the Lord; but for all the first of my sons I
give a price. |
|
13:16 |
And
this will be for a sign on your hand and for a mark on your brow: for by the
strength of his hand the Lord took us out of Egypt. |
|
13:17 |
Now
after Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not take them through the land
of the Philistines, though that was near: for God said, If the people see
war, they may have a change of heart and go back to Egypt. |
|
13:18 |
But
God took the people round by the waste land near the Red Sea: and the
children of Israel went up in fighting order out of the land of Egypt. |
|
13:19 |
And
Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the children of
Israel take an oath, saying, God will certainly keep you in mind; and you are
to take my bones away with you. |
|
13:20 |
Then
they went on their journey from Succoth, and put up their tents in Etham at
the edge of the waste land. |
|
13:21 |
And
the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, guiding them on their
way; and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light: so that they were
able to go on day and night: |
|
13:22 |
The
pillar of cloud went ever before them by day, and the pillar of fire by
night. |
|
14:1 |
And the Lord said to
Moses, |
|
14:2 |
Give
orders to the children of Israel to go back and put up their tents before
Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon, opposite to
which you are to put up your tents by the sea. |
|
14:3 |
And
Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are wandering without
direction, they are shut in by the waste land. |
|
14:4 |
And
I will make Pharaoh's heart hard, and he will come after them and I will be
honoured over Pharaoh and all his army, so that the Egyptians may see that I
am the Lord. And they did so. |
|
14:5 |
And
word came to Pharaoh of the flight of the people: and the feeling of Pharaoh
and of his servants about the people was changed, and they said, Why have we
let Israel go, so that they will do no more work for us? |
|
14:6 |
So
he had his war-carriage made ready and took his people with him: |
|
14:7 |
And
he took six hundred carriages, all the carriages of Egypt, and captains over
all of them. |
|
14:8 |
And
the Lord made the heart of Pharaoh hard, and he went after the children of
Israel: for the children of Israel had gone out without fear. |
|
14:9 |
But
the Egyptians went after them, all the horses and carriages of Pharaoh, and
his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them in their tents by the sea, by
Pihahiroth, before Baal-zephon. |
|
14:10 |
And
when Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel, lifting up their eyes, saw
the Egyptians coming after them, and were full of fear; and their cry went up
to God. |
|
14:11 |
And
they said to Moses, Was there no resting-place for the dead in Egypt, that
you have taken us away to come to our death in the waste land? why have you
taken us out of Egypt? |
|
14:12 |
Did
we not say to you in Egypt, Let us be as we are, working for the Egyptians?
for it is better to be the servants of the Egyptians than to come to our
death in the waste land. |
|
14:13 |
But
Moses said, Keep where you are and have no fear; now you will see the
salvation of the Lord which he will give you today; for the Egyptians whom
you see today you will never see again. |
|
14:14 |
The
Lord will make war for you, you have only to keep quiet. |
|
14:15 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, Why are you crying out to me? give the children of
Israel the order to go forward. |
|
14:16 |
And
let your rod be lifted up and your hand stretched out over the sea, and it
will be parted in two; and the children of Israel will go through on dry
land. |
|
14:17 |
And
I will make the heart of the Egyptians hard, and they will go in after them:
and I will be honoured over Pharaoh and over his army, his war-carriages, and
his horsemen. |
|
14:18 |
And
the Egyptians will see that I am the Lord, when I get honour over Pharaoh and
his war-carriages and his horsemen. |
|
14:19 |
Then
the angel of God, who had been before the tents of Israel, took his place at
their back; and the pillar of cloud, moving from before them, came to rest at
their back: |
|
14:20 |
And
it came between the army of Egypt and the army of Israel; and there was a
dark cloud between them, and they went on through the night; but the one army
came no nearer to the other all the night. |
|
14:21 |
And
when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, the Lord with a strong east
wind made the sea go back all night, and the waters were parted in two and
the sea became dry land. |
|
14:22 |
And
the children of Israel went through the sea on dry land: and the waters were
a wall on their right side and on their left. |
|
14:23 |
Then
the Egyptians went after them into the middle of the sea, all Pharaoh's
horses and his war-carriages and his horsemen. |
|
14:24 |
And
in the morning watch, the Lord, looking out on the armies of the Egyptians
from the pillar of fire and cloud, sent trouble on the army of the
Egyptians; |
|
14:25 |
And
made the wheels of their war-carriages stiff, so that they had hard work
driving them: so the Egyptians said, Let us go in flight from before the face
of Israel, for the Lord is fighting for them against the Egyptians. |
|
14:26 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out over the sea, and the
waters will come back again on the Egyptians, and on their war-carriages and
on their horsemen. |
|
14:27 |
And
when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, at dawn the sea came flowing
back, meeting the Egyptians in their flight, and the Lord sent destruction on
the Egyptians in the middle of the sea. |
|
14:28 |
And
the waters came back, covering the war-carriages and the horsemen and all the
army of Pharaoh which went after them into the middle of the sea; not one of
them was to be seen. |
|
14:29 |
But
the children of Israel went through the sea walking on dry land, and the
waters were a wall on their right side and on their left. |
|
14:30 |
So
that day the Lord gave Israel salvation from the hands of the Egyptians; and
Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the sea's edge. |
|
14:31 |
And
Israel saw the great work which the Lord had done against the Egyptians, and
the fear of the Lord came on the people and they had faith in the Lord and in
his servant Moses. |
|
15:1 |
Then
Moses and the children of Israel made this song to the Lord, and said, I will
make a song to the Lord, for he is lifted up in glory: the horse and the
horseman he has sent down into the sea. |
|
15:2 |
The
Lord is my strength and my strong helper, he has become my salvation: he is
my God and I will give him praise; my father's God and I will give him
glory. |
|
15:3 |
The
Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name. |
|
15:4 |
Pharaoh's
war-carriages and his army he has sent down into the sea: the best of his
captains have gone down into the Red Sea. |
|
15:5 |
They
were covered by the deep waters: like a stone they went down under the
waves. |
|
15:6 |
Full
of glory, O Lord, is the power of your right hand; by your right hand those
who came against you are broken. |
|
15:7 |
When
you are lifted up in power, all those who come against you are crushed: when
you send out your wrath, they are burned up like dry grass. |
|
15:8 |
By
your breath the waves were massed together, the flowing waters were lifted up
like a pillar; the deep waters became solid in the heart of the sea. |
|
15:9 |
Egypt
said, I will go after them, I will overtake, I will make division of their
goods: my desire will have its way with them; my sword will be uncovered, my
hand will send destruction on them. |
|
15:10 |
You
sent your wind and the sea came over them: they went down like lead into the
great waters. |
|
15:11 |
Who
is like you, O Lord, among the gods? who is like you, in holy glory, to be
praised with fear, doing wonders? |
|
15:12 |
When
your right hand was stretched out, the mouth of the earth was open for
them. |
|
15:13 |
In
your mercy you went before the people whom you have made yours; guiding them
in your strength to your holy place. |
|
15:14 |
Hearing
of you the peoples were shaking in fear: the people of Philistia were gripped
with pain. |
|
15:15 |
The
chiefs of Edom were troubled in heart; the strong men of Moab were in the
grip of fear: all the people of Canaan became like water. |
|
15:16 |
Fear
and grief came on them; by the strength of your arm they were turned to
stone; till your people went over, O Lord, till the people went over whom you
have made yours. |
|
15:17 |
You
will take them in, planting them in the mountain of your heritage, the place,
O Lord, where you have made your house, the holy place, O Lord, the building
of your hands. |
|
15:18 |
The Lord is
King for ever and ever. |
|
15:19 |
For
the horses of Pharaoh, with his war-carriages and his horsemen, went into the
sea, and the Lord sent the waters of the sea back over them; but the children
of Israel went through the sea on dry land. |
|
15:20 |
And
Miriam, the woman prophet, the sister of Aaron, took an instrument of music
in her hand; and all the women went after her with music and dances. |
|
15:21 |
And
Miriam, answering, said, Make a song to the Lord, for he is lifted up in
glory; the horse and the horseman he has sent into the sea. |
|
15:22 |
Then
Moses took Israel forward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the waste
land of Shur; and for three days they were in the waste land where there was
no water. |
|
15:23 |
And
when they came to Marah, the water was no good for drinking, for the waters
of Marah were bitter, which is why it was named Marah. |
|
15:24 |
And
the people, crying out against Moses, said, What are we to have for
drink? |
|
15:25 |
And
in answer to his prayer, the Lord made him see a tree, and when he put it
into the water, the water was made sweet. There he gave them a law and an
order, testing them; |
|
15:26 |
And
he said, If with all your heart you will give attention to the voice of the
Lord your God, and do what is right in his eyes, giving ear to his orders and
keeping his laws, I will not put on you any of the diseases which I put on
the Egyptians: for I am the Lord your life-giver. |
|
15:27 |
And
they came to Elim where there were twelve water-springs and seventy
palm-trees: and they put up their tents there by the waters. |
|
16:1 |
And
they went on their way from Elim, and all the children of Israel came into
the waste land of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day
of the second month after they went out of the land of Egypt. |
|
16:2 |
And
all the children of Israel were crying out against Moses and Aaron in the
waste land: |
|
16:3 |
And
the children of Israel said to them, It would have been better for the Lord
to have put us to death in the land of Egypt, where we were seated by the
flesh-pots and had bread enough for our needs; for you have taken us out to
this waste of sand, to put all this people to death through need of
food. |
|
16:4 |
Then
the Lord said to Moses, See, I will send down bread from heaven for you; and
the people will go out every day and get enough for the day's needs; so that
I may put them to the test to see if they will keep my laws or not. |
|
16:5 |
And
on the sixth day they are to make ready what they get in, and it will be
twice as much as they get on the other days. |
|
16:6 |
And
Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, This evening it will be
clear to you that it is the Lord who has taken you out of the land of
Egypt: |
|
16:7 |
And
in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord; for your angry words
against the Lord have come to his ears: and what are we that you are crying
out against us? |
|
16:8 |
And
Moses said, The Lord will give you meat for your food at evening, and in the
morning bread in full measure; for your outcry against the Lord has come to
his ears: for what are we? your outcry is not against us but against the
Lord. |
|
16:9 |
And
Moses said to Aaron, Say to all the people of Israel, Come near before the
Lord for he has given ear to your outcry. |
|
16:10 |
And
while Aaron was talking to the children of Israel, their eyes were turned in
the direction of the waste land, and they saw the glory of the Lord shining
in the cloud. |
|
16:11 |
And the Lord said to
Moses, |
|
16:12 |
The
outcry of the children of Israel has come to my ears: say to them now, At
nightfall you will have meat for your food, and in the morning bread in full
measure; and you will see that I am the Lord your God. |
|
16:13 |
And
it came about that in the evening little birds came up and the place was
covered with them: and in the morning there was dew all round about the
tents. |
|
16:14 |
And
when the dew was gone, on the face of the earth was a small round thing, like
small drops of ice on the earth. |
|
16:15 |
And
when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, What is it? for
they had no idea what it was. And Moses said to them, It is the bread which
the Lord has given you for your food. |
|
16:16 |
This
is what the Lord has said, Let every man take up as much as he has need of;
at the rate of one omer for every person, let every man take as much as is
needed for his family. |
|
16:17 |
And
the children of Israel did so, and some took more and some less. |
|
16:18 |
And
when it was measured, he who had taken up much had nothing over, and he who
had little had enough; every man had taken what he was able to make use
of. |
|
16:19 |
And
Moses said to them, Let nothing be kept till the morning. |
|
16:20 |
But
they gave no attention to Moses, and some of them kept it till the morning
and there were worms in it and it had an evil smell: and Moses was angry with
them. |
|
16:21 |
And
they took it up morning by morning, every man as he had need: and when the
sun was high it was gone. |
|
16:22 |
And
on the sixth day they took up twice as much of the bread, two omers for every
person: and all the rulers of the people gave Moses word of it. |
|
16:23 |
And
he said, This is what the Lord has said, Tomorrow is a day of rest, a holy
Sabbath to the Lord: what has to be cooked may be cooked; and what is over,
put on one side to be kept till the morning. |
|
16:24 |
And
they kept it till the morning as Moses had said: and no smell came from it,
and it had no worms. |
|
16:25 |
And
Moses said, Make your meal today of what you have, for this day is a Sabbath
to the Lord: today you will not get any in the fields. |
|
16:26 |
For
six days you will get it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not
be any. |
|
16:27 |
But
still on the seventh day some of the people went out to get it, and there was
not any. |
|
16:28 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, How long will you go against my orders and my
laws? |
|
16:29 |
See,
because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, he gives you on the sixth day
bread enough for two days; let every man keep where he is; let no man go out
of his place on the seventh day. |
|
16:30 |
So
the people took their rest on the seventh day. |
|
16:31 |
And
this bread was named manna by Israel: it was white, like a grain seed, and
its taste was like cakes made with honey. |
|
16:32 |
And
Moses said, This is the order which the Lord has given: Let one omer of it be
kept for future generations, so that they may see the bread which I gave you
for your food in the waste land, when I took you out from the land of Egypt. |
|
16:33 |
And
Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot and put one omer of manna in it, and put it
away before the Lord, to be kept for future generations. |
|
16:34 |
So
Aaron put it away in front of the holy chest to be kept, as the Lord gave
orders to Moses. |
|
16:35 |
And
the children of Israel had manna for their food for forty years, till they
came to a land with people in it, till they came to the edge of the land of
Canaan. |
|
16:36 |
Now
an omer is the tenth part of an ephah. |
|
17:1 |
And
the children of Israel went on from the waste land of Sin, by stages as the
Lord gave them orders, and put up their tents in Rephidim: and there was no
drinking-water for the people. |
|
17:2 |
So
the people were angry with Moses, and said, Give us water for drinking. And
Moses said, Why are you angry with me? and why do you put God to the
test? |
|
17:3 |
And
the people were in great need of water; and they made an outcry against
Moses, and said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to send death on us and
our children and our cattle through need of water? |
|
17:4 |
And
Moses, crying out to the Lord, said, What am I to do to this people? they are
almost ready to put me to death by stoning. |
|
17:5 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, Go on before the people, and take some of the chiefs
of Israel with you, and take in your hand the rod which was stretched out
over the Nile, and go. |
|
17:6 |
See,
I will take my place before you on the rock in Horeb; and when you give the
rock a blow, water will come out of it, and the people will have drink. And
Moses did so before the eyes of the chiefs of Israel. |
|
17:7 |
And
he gave that place the name Massah and Meribah, because the children of
Israel were angry, and because they put the Lord to the test, saying, Is the
Lord with us or not? |
|
17:8 |
Then Amalek
came and made war on Israel in Rephidim. |
|
17:9 |
And
Moses said to Joshua, Get together a band of men for us and go out, make war
on Amalek: tomorrow I will take my place on the top of the hill with the rod
of God in my hand. |
|
17:10 |
So
Joshua did as Moses said to him, and went to war with Amalek: and Moses,
Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. |
|
17:11 |
Now
while Moses' hand was lifted up, Israel was the stronger: but when he let his
hand go down, Amalek became the stronger. |
|
17:12 |
But
Moses' hands became tired; so they put a stone under him and he took his seat
on it, Aaron and Hur supporting his hands, one on one side and one on the
other; so his hands were kept up without falling till the sun went down. |
|
17:13 |
And Joshua
overcame Amalek and his people with the sword. |
|
17:14 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, Make a record of this in a book, so that it may be
kept in memory, and say it again in the ears of Joshua: that all memory of
Amalek is to be completely uprooted from the earth. |
|
17:15 |
Then
Moses put up an altar and gave it the name of Yahweh-nissi: |
|
17:16 |
For
he said, The Lord has taken his oath that there will be war with Amalek from
generation to generation. |
|
18:1 |
Now
news came to Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, of all God
had done for Moses and for Israel his people, and how the Lord had taken
Israel out of Egypt. |
|
18:2 |
And
Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent
her away, |
|
18:3 |
And
her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom, for he said, I have been living
in a strange land: |
|
18:4 |
And
the name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, The God of my father was my
help, and kept me safe from the sword of Pharaoh: |
|
18:5 |
And
Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to where Moses
had put up his tent in the waste land, by the mountain of God. |
|
18:6 |
And
he said to Moses, I, your father-in-law, have come to you, with your wife and
your two sons. |
|
18:7 |
And
Moses went out to his father-in-law, and went down on his face before him and
gave him a kiss; and they said to one another, Are you well? and they came
into the tent. |
|
18:8 |
And
Moses gave his father-in-law an account of all the Lord had done to Pharaoh
and to the Egyptians because of Israel, and of all the troubles which had
come on them by the way, and how the Lord had given them salvation. |
|
18:9 |
And
Jethro was glad because the Lord had been good to Israel, freeing them from
the power of the Egyptians. |
|
18:10 |
And
Jethro said, Praise be to the Lord, who has taken you out of the hand of
Pharaoh and out of the hand of the Egyptians; freeing the people from the
yoke of the Egyptians. |
|
18:11 |
Now
I am certain that the Lord is greater than all gods, for he has overcome them
in their pride. |
|
18:12 |
Then
Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, made a burned offering to God: and Aaron came,
with the chiefs of Israel, and had a meal with Moses' father-in-law, before
God. |
|
18:13 |
Now
on the day after, Moses took his seat to give decisions for the people: and
the people were waiting before Moses from morning till evening. |
|
18:14 |
And
when Moses' father-in-law saw all he was doing, he said, What is this you are
doing for the people? why are you seated here by yourself, with all the
people waiting before you from morning till evening? |
|
18:15 |
And
Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to get
directions from God: |
|
18:16 |
And
if they have any question between themselves, they come to me, and I am judge
between a man and his neighbour, and I give them the orders and laws of
God. |
|
18:17 |
And
Moses' father-in-law said to him, What you are doing is not good. |
|
18:18 |
Your
strength and that of the people will be completely used up: this work is more
than you are able to do by yourself. |
|
18:19 |
Give
ear now to my suggestion, and may God be with you: you are to be the people's
representative before God, taking their causes to him: |
|
18:20 |
Teaching
them his rules and his laws, guiding them in the way they have to go, and
making clear to them the work they have to do. |
|
18:21 |
But
for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of
God, True men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be
captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens; |
|
18:22 |
And
let them be judges in the causes of the people at all times: and let them put
before you all important questions, but in small things let them give
decisions themselves: in this way, it will be less hard for you, and they
will take the weight off you. |
|
18:23 |
If
you do this, and God gives approval, then you will be able to go on without
weariness, and all this people will go to their tents in peace. |
|
18:24 |
So
Moses took note of the words of his father-in-law, and did as he had
said. |
|
18:25 |
And
he made selection of able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the
people, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of
tens. |
|
18:26 |
And
they were judges in the causes of the people at all times: the hard questions
they put before Moses; but on every small point they gave decisions
themselves. |
|
18:27 |
And
Moses let his father-in-law go away, and he went back to his land. |
|
19:1 |
In
the third month after the children of Israel went out from Egypt, on the same
day, they came into the waste land of Sinai. |
|
19:2 |
And
when they had gone away from Rephidim and had come into the waste land of
Sinai, they put up their tents in the waste land before the mountain: there
Israel put up its tents. |
|
19:3 |
And
Moses went up to God, and the voice of the Lord came to him from the
mountain, saying, Say to the family of Jacob, and give word to the children
of Israel: |
|
19:4 |
You
have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I took you, as on eagles'
wings, guiding you to myself. |
|
19:5 |
If
now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my
special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine: |
|
19:6 |
And
you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the
words which you are to say to the children of Israel. |
|
19:7 |
And
Moses came and sent for the chiefs of the people and put before them all
these words which the Lord had given him orders to say. |
|
19:8 |
And
all the people, answering together, said, Whatever the Lord has said we will
do. And Moses took back to the Lord the words of the people. |
|
19:9 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, See, I will come to you in a thick cloud, so that
what I say to you may come to the ears of the people and they may have belief
in you for ever. And Moses gave the Lord word of what the people had said. |
|
19:10 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, Go to the people and make them holy today and
tomorrow, and let their clothing be washed. |
|
19:11 |
And
by the third day let them be ready: for on the third day the Lord will come
down on Mount Sinai, before the eyes of all the people. |
|
19:12 |
And
let limits be marked out for the people round the mountain, and say to them,
Take care not to go up the mountain or near the sides of it: whoever puts his
foot on the mountain will certainly come to his death: |
|
19:13 |
He
is not to be touched by a hand, but is to be stoned or have an arrow put
through him; man or beast, he is to be put to death: at the long sounding of
a horn they may come up to the mountain. |
|
19:14 |
Then
Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and made the people holy;
and their clothing was washed. |
|
19:15 |
And
he said to the people, Be ready by the third day: do not come near a
woman. |
|
19:16 |
And
when morning came on the third day, there were thunders and flames and a
thick cloud on the mountain, and a horn sounding very loud; and all the
people in the tents were shaking with fear. |
|
19:17 |
And
Moses made the people come out of their tents and take their places before
God; and they came to the foot of the mountain, |
|
19:18 |
And
all the mountain of Sinai was smoking, for the Lord had come down on it in
fire: and the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a great burning; and all
the mountain was shaking. |
|
19:19 |
And
when the sound of the horn became louder and louder, Moses' words were
answered by the voice of God. |
|
19:20 |
Then
the Lord came down on to Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, and the
Lord sent for Moses to come up to the top of the mountain, and Moses went
up. |
|
19:21 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, Go down and give the people orders to keep back, for
fear that a great number of them, forcing their way through to see the Lord,
may come to destruction. |
|
19:22 |
And
let the priests who come near to the Lord make themselves holy, for fear that
the Lord may come on them suddenly. |
|
19:23 |
And
Moses said to the Lord, The people will not be able to come up the mountain,
for you gave us orders to put limits round the mountain, marking it out and
making it holy. |
|
19:24 |
And
the Lord said to him, Go down, and you and Aaron may come up; but let not the
priests and the people make their way through to the Lord, or he will come on
them suddenly. |
|
19:25 |
So Moses
went down to the people and said this to them. |
|
20:1 |
And God said all
these words: |
|
20:2 |
I
am the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the
prison-house. |
|
20:3 |
You are to
have no other gods but me. |
|
20:4 |
You
are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or
in the waters under the earth: |
|
20:5 |
You
may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the
Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will
send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the
third and fourth generation of my haters; |
|
20:6 |
And
I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for
me and keep my laws. |
|
20:7 |
You
are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose;
whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged
a sinner by the Lord |
|
20:8 |
Keep in memory
the Sabbath and let it be a holy day. |
|
20:9 |
On six days do all
your work: |
|
20:10 |
But
the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day you are to do
no work, you or your son or your daughter, your man-servant or your
woman-servant, your cattle or the man from a strange country who is living
among you: |
|
20:11 |
For
in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and everything in
them, and he took his rest on the seventh day: for this reason the Lord has
given his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy. |
|
20:12 |
Give
honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in
the land which the Lord your God is giving you. |
|
20:13 |
Do not
put anyone to death without cause. |
|
20:14 |
Do not
be False to the married relation. |
|
20:15 |
Do not take
the property of another. |
|
20:16 |
Do
not give False witness against your neighbour. |
|
20:17 |
Let
not your desire be turned to your neighbour's house, or his wife or his
man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is
his. |
|
20:18 |
And
all the people were watching the thunderings and the flames and the sound of
the horn and the mountain smoking; and when they saw it, they kept far off,
shaking with fear. |
|
20:19 |
And
they said to Moses, To your words we will give ear, but let not the voice of
God come to our ears, for fear death may come on us. |
|
20:20 |
And
Moses said to the people, Have no fear: for God has come to put you to the
test, so that fearing him you may be kept from sin. |
|
20:21 |
And
the people kept their places far off, but Moses went near to the dark cloud
where God was. |
|
20:22 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You yourselves have
seen that my voice has come to you from heaven |
|
20:23 |
Gods
of silver and gods of gold you are not to make for yourselves. |
|
20:24 |
Make
for me an altar of earth, offering on it your burned offerings and your
peace-offerings, your sheep and your oxen: in every place where I have put
the memory of my name, I will come to you and give you my blessing. |
|
20:25 |
And
if you make me an altar of stone do not make it of cut stones: for the touch
of an instrument will make it unclean. |
|
20:26 |
And
do not go up by steps to my altar, for fear that your bodies may be seen
uncovered. |
|
21:1 |
Now these
are the laws which you are to put before them. |
|
21:2 |
If
you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years,
and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment. |
|
21:3 |
If
he comes to you by himself, let him go away by himself: if he is married, let
his wife go away with him. |
|
21:4 |
If
his master gives him a wife, and he gets sons or daughters by her, the wife
and her children will be the property of the master, and the servant is to go
away by himself. |
|
21:5 |
But
if the servant says clearly, My master and my wife and children are dear to
me; I have no desire to be free: |
|
21:6 |
Then
his master is to take him to the gods of the house, and at the door, or at
its framework, he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed
instrument; and he will be his servant for ever. |
|
21:7 |
And
if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go
away free as the men-servants do. |
|
21:8 |
If
she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for himself, let a
payment be made for her so that she may go free; her master has no power to
get a price for her and send her to a strange land, because he has been False
to her. |
|
21:9 |
And
if he gives her to his son, he is to do everything for her as if she was his
daughter. |
|
21:10 |
And
if he takes another woman, her food and clothing and her married rights are
not to be less. |
|
21:11 |
And
if he does not do these three things for her, she has the right to go free
without payment. |
|
21:12 |
He
who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death. |
|
21:13 |
But
if he had no evil purpose against him, and God gave him into his hand, I will
give you a place to which he may go in flight. |
|
21:14 |
But
if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by
deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death. |
|
21:15 |
Any
man who gives a blow to his father or his mother is certainly to be put to
death. |
|
21:16 |
Any
man who gets another into his power in order to get a price for him is to be
put to death, if you take him in the act. |
|
21:17 |
Any
man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death. |
|
21:18 |
If,
in a fight, one man gives another a blow with a stone, or with the shut hand,
not causing his death, but making him keep in bed; |
|
21:19 |
If
he is able to get up again and go about with a stick, the other will be let
off; only he will have to give him payment for the loss of his time, and see
that he is cared for till he is well. |
|
21:20 |
If
a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing
death, he is certainly to undergo punishment. |
|
21:21 |
But,
at the same time, if the servant goes on living for a day or two, the master
is not to get punishment, for the servant is his property. |
|
21:22 |
If
men, while fighting, do damage to a woman with child, causing the loss of the
child, but no other evil comes to her, the man will have to make payment up
to the amount fixed by her husband, in agreement with the decision of the
judges. |
|
21:23 |
But
if damage comes to her, let life be given in payment for life, |
|
21:24 |
Eye for
eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, |
|
21:25 |
Burning for
burning, wound for wound, blow for blow. |
|
21:26 |
If
a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing
its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his
eye. |
|
21:27 |
Or
if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow, he will let him go free on
account of his tooth. |
|
21:28 |
If
an ox comes to be the cause of death to a man or a woman, the ox is to be
stoned, and its flesh may not be used for food; but the owner will not be
judged responsible. |
|
21:29 |
But
if the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and the owner has had
word of it and has not kept it under control, so that it has been the cause
of the death of a man or woman, not only is the ox to be stoned, but its
owner is to be put to death. |
|
21:30 |
If
a price is put on his life, let him make payment of whatever price is
fixed. |
|
21:31 |
If
the death of a son or of a daughter has been caused, the punishment is to be
in agreement with this rule. |
|
21:32 |
If
the death of a man-servant or of a woman-servant is caused by the ox, the
owner is to give their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox is to be
stoned. |
|
21:33 |
If
a man makes a hole in the earth without covering it up, and an ox or an ass
dropping into it comes to its death; |
|
21:34 |
The
owner of the hole is responsible; he will have to make payment to their
owner, but the dead beast will be his. |
|
21:35 |
And
if one man's ox does damage to another man's ox, causing its death, then the
living ox is to be exchanged for money, and division made of the price of it,
and of the price of the dead one. |
|
21:36 |
But
if it is common knowledge that the ox has frequently done such damage in the
past, and its owner has not kept it under control, he will have to give ox
for ox; and the dead beast will be his. |
|
22:1 |
If
a man takes without right another man's ox or his sheep, and puts it to death
or gets a price for it, he is to give five oxen for an ox, or four sheep for
a sheep, in payment: the thief will have to make payment for what he has
taken; if he has no money, he himself will have to be exchanged for money, so
that payment may be made. |
22:2 |
If
a thief is taken in the act of forcing his way into a house, and his death is
caused by a blow, the owner of the house is not responsible for his
blood. |
|
22:3 |
But
if it is after dawn, he will be responsible. |
|
22:4 |
If
he still has what he had taken, whatever it is, ox or ass or sheep, he is to
give twice its value. |
|
22:5 |
If
a man makes a fire in a field or a vine-garden, and lets the fire do damage
to another man's field, he is to give of the best produce of his field or his
vine-garden to make up for it. |
|
22:6 |
If
there is a fire and the flames get to the thorns at the edge of the field,
causing destruction of the cut grain or of the living grain, or of the field,
he who made the fire will have to make up for the damage. |
|
22:7 |
If
a man puts money or goods in the care of his neighbour to keep for him, and
it is taken from the man's house, if they get the thief, he will have to make
payment of twice the value. |
|
22:8 |
If
they do not get the thief, let the master of the house come before the judges
and take an oath that he has not put his hand on his neighbour's goods. |
|
22:9 |
In
any question about an ox or an ass or a sheep or clothing, or about the loss
of any property which anyone says is his, let the two sides put their cause
before God; and he who is judged to be in the wrong is to make payment to his
neighbour of twice the value. |
|
22:10 |
If
a man puts an ass or an ox or a sheep or any beast into the keeping of his
neighbour, and it comes to death or is damaged or is taken away, without any
person seeing it: |
|
22:11 |
If
he takes his oath before the Lord that he has not put his hand to his
neighbour's goods, the owner is to take his word for it and he will not have
to make payment for it. |
|
22:12 |
But
if it is taken from him by a thief, he is to make up for the loss of it to
its owner. |
|
22:13 |
But
if it has been damaged by a beast, and he is able to make this clear, he will
not have to make payment for what was damaged. |
|
22:14 |
If
a man gets from his neighbour the use of one of his beasts, and it is damaged
or put to death when the owner is not with it, he will certainly have to make
payment for the loss. |
|
22:15 |
If
the owner is with it, he will not have to make payment: if he gave money for
the use of it, the loss is covered by the payment. |
|
22:16 |
If
a man takes a virgin, who has not given her word to another man, and has
connection with her, he will have to give a bride-price for her to be his
wife. |
|
22:17 |
If
her father will not give her to him on any account, he will have to give the
regular payment for virgins. |
|
22:18 |
Any
woman using unnatural powers or secret arts is to be put to death. |
|
22:19 |
Any
man who has sex connection with a beast is to be put to death. |
|
22:20 |
Complete
destruction will come on any man who makes offerings to any other god but the
Lord. |
|
22:21 |
Do
no wrong to a man from a strange country, and do not be hard on him; for you
yourselves were living in a strange country, in the land of Egypt. |
|
22:22 |
Do no
wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead. |
|
22:23 |
If
you are cruel to them in any way, and their cry comes up to me, I will
certainly give ear; |
|
22:24 |
And
in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your
wives will be widows and your children without fathers. |
|
22:25 |
If
you let any of the poor among my people have the use of your money, do not be
a hard creditor to him, and do not take interest. |
|
22:26 |
If
ever you take your neighbour's clothing in exchange for the use of your
money, let him have it back before the sun goes down: |
|
22:27 |
For
it is the only thing he has for covering his skin; what is he to go to sleep
in? and when his cry comes up to me, I will give ear, for my mercy is
great. |
|
22:28 |
You
may not say evil of the judges, or put a curse on the ruler of your
people. |
|
22:29 |
Do
not keep back your offerings from the wealth of your grain and your vines.
The first of your sons you are to give to me. |
|
22:30 |
In
the same way with your oxen and your sheep: for seven days let the young one
be with its mother; on the eighth day give it to me. |
|
22:31 |
You
are to be holy men to me: the flesh of no animal whose death has been caused
by the beasts of the field may be used for your food; it is to be given to
the dogs. |
|
23:1 |
Do
not let a False statement go further; do not make an agreement with
evil-doers to be a False witness. |
|
23:2 |
Do
not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your
words to a wrong decision: |
|
23:3 |
But,
on the other hand, do not be turned from what is right in order to give
support to a poor man's cause. |
|
23:4 |
If
you come across the ox or the ass of one who is no friend to you wandering
from its way, you are to take it back to him. |
|
23:5 |
If
you see the ass of one who has no love for you bent down to the earth under
the weight which is put on it, you are to come to its help, even against your
desire. |
|
23:6 |
Let no
wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause. |
|
23:7 |
Keep
yourselves far from any False business; never let the upright or him who has
done no wrong be put to death: for I will make the evil-doer responsible for
his sin. |
|
23:8 |
Take
no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and
make the decisions of the upright false. |
|
23:9 |
Do
not be hard on the man from a strange country who is living among you; for
you have had experience of the feelings of one who is far from the land of
his birth, because you yourselves were living in Egypt, in a strange land. |
|
23:10 |
For
six years put seed into your fields and get in the increase; |
|
23:11 |
But
in the seventh year let the land have a rest and be unplanted; so that the
poor may have food from it: and let the beasts of the field take the rest. Do
the same with your vine-gardens and your olive-trees. |
|
23:12 |
For
six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your
ox and your ass may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the
man from a strange land living among you. |
|
23:13 |
Take
note of all these things which I have said to you, and let not the names of
other gods come into your minds or from your lips. |
|
23:14 |
Three times
in the year you are to keep a feast to me. |
|
23:15 |
You
are to keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your bread be
without leaven, as I gave you orders, at the regular time in the month Abib
(for in it you came out of Egypt); and let no one come before me without an
offering: |
|
23:16 |
And
the feast of the grain-cutting, the first-fruits of your planted fields: and
the feast at the start of the year, when you have got in all the fruit from
your fields. |
|
23:17 |
Three
times in the year let all your males come before the Lord God. |
|
23:18 |
Do
not give the blood of my offering with leavened bread; and do not let the fat
of my feast be kept all night till the morning. |
|
23:19 |
The
best of the first-fruits of your land are to be taken into the house of the
Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk. |
|
23:20 |
See,
I am sending an angel before you, to keep you on your way and to be your
guide into the place which I have made ready for you. |
|
23:21 |
Give
attention to him and give ear to his voice; do not go against him; for your
wrongdoing will not be overlooked by him, because my name is in him. |
|
23:22 |
But
if you truly give ear to his voice, and do whatever I say, then I will be
against those who are against you, fighting those who are fighting you. |
|
23:23 |
And
my angel will go before you, guiding you into the land of the Amorite and the
Hittite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hivite and the Jebusite,
and they will be cut off by my hand. |
|
23:24 |
Do
not go down on your faces and give worship to their gods, or do as they do;
but overcome them completely, and let their pillars be broken down. |
|
23:25 |
And
give worship to the Lord your God, who will send his blessing on your bread
and on your water; and I will take all disease away from among you. |
|
23:26 |
All
your animals will give birth without loss, not one will be without young in
all your land; I will give you a full measure of life. |
|
23:27 |
I
will send my fear before you, putting to flight all the people to whom you
come; all those who are against you will go in flight, turning their backs
before you. |
|
23:28 |
I
will send hornets before you, driving out the Hivite and the Canaanite and
the Hittite before your face. |
|
23:29 |
I
will not send them all out in one year, for fear that their land may become
waste, and the beasts of the field be increased overmuch against you. |
|
23:30 |
Little
by little I will send them away before you, till your numbers are increased
and you take up your heritage in the land. |
|
23:31 |
I
will let the limits of your land be from the Red Sea to the sea of the
Philistines, and from the waste land to the river Euphrates: for I will give
the people of those lands into your power; and you will send them out before
you. |
|
23:32 |
Make
no agreement with them or with their gods. |
|
23:33 |
Let
them not go on living in your land, or they will make you do evil against me:
for if you give worship to their gods, it will certainly be a cause of sin to
you. |
|
24:1 |
And
he said to Moses, Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, and Nadab and Abihu and
seventy of the chiefs of Israel; and give me worship from a distance. |
|
24:2 |
And
Moses only may come near to the Lord; but the others are not to come near,
and the people may not come up with them. |
|
24:3 |
Then
Moses came and put before the people all the words of the Lord and his laws:
and all the people, answering with one voice, said, Whatever the Lord has
said we will do. |
|
24:4 |
Then
Moses put down in writing all the words of the Lord, and he got up early in
the morning and made an altar at the foot of the mountain, with twelve
pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel. |
|
24:5 |
And
he sent some of the young men of the children of Israel to make burned
offerings and peace-offerings of oxen to the Lord. |
|
24:6 |
And
Moses took half the blood and put it in basins; draining out half of the
blood over the altar. |
|
24:7 |
And
he took the book of the agreement, reading it in the hearing of the people:
and they said, Everything which the Lord has said we will do, and we will
keep his laws. |
|
24:8 |
Then
Moses took the blood and let it come on the people, and said, This blood is
the sign of the agreement which the Lord has made with you in these
words. |
|
24:9 |
Then
Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the chiefs of Israel went
up: |
|
24:10 |
And
they saw the God of Israel; and under his feet there was, as it seemed, a
jewelled floor, clear as the heavens. |
|
24:11 |
And
he put not his hand on the chiefs of the children of Israel: they saw God,
and took food and drink. |
|
24:12 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, Come up to me on the mountain, and take your place
there: and I will give you the stones on which I have put in writing the law
and the orders, so that you may give the people knowledge of them. |
|
24:13 |
Then
Moses and Joshua his servant got up; and Moses went up into the mountain of
God. |
|
24:14 |
And
he said to the chiefs, Keep your places here till we come back to you: Aaron
and Hur are with you; if anyone has any cause let him go to them. |
|
24:15 |
And
Moses went up into the mountain, and it was covered by the cloud. |
|
24:16 |
And
the glory of the Lord was resting on Mount Sinai, and the cloud was over it
for six days; and on the seventh day he said Moses' name out of the
cloud. |
|
24:17 |
And
the glory of the Lord was like a flame on the top of the mountain before the
eyes of the children of Israel. |
|
24:18 |
And
Moses went up the mountain, into the cloud, and was there for forty days and
forty nights. |
|
25:1 |
And the Lord said to
Moses, |
|
25:2 |
Say
to the children of Israel that they are to make me an offering; from every
man who has the impulse in his heart take an offering for me. |
|
25:3 |
And
this is the offering you are to take from them: gold and silver and
brass; |
|
25:4 |
And
blue and purple and red, and the best linen, and goats' hair; |
|
25:5 |
And
sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard wood; |
|
25:6 |
Oil
for the light, spices for the sweet-smelling oil, sweet perfumes for
burning; |
|
25:7 |
Beryls
and stones of value to be put on the ephod and on the priest's bag. |
|
25:8 |
And
let them make me a holy place, so that I may be ever present among them. |
|
25:9 |
Make
the House and everything in it from the designs which I will give you. |
|
25:10 |
And
they are to make an ark of hard wood; two and a half cubits long, and a cubit
and a half wide and high. |
|
25:11 |
It
is to be plated inside and out with the best gold, with an edge of gold all
round it |
|
25:12 |
And
make four rings of gold for it, to be fixed on its four feet, two rings on
one side of it and two on the other. |
|
25:13 |
And make
rods of the same wood, plating them with gold. |
|
25:14 |
And
put the rods through the rings at the sides of the ark, for lifting it. |
|
25:15 |
The rods
are to be kept in the rings, and never taken out. |
|
25:16 |
Inside
the ark you are to put the record which I will give you. |
|
25:17 |
And
you are to make a cover of the best gold, two and a half cubits long and a
cubit and a half wide. |
|
25:18 |
And
at the two ends of the cover you are to make two winged ones of hammered
gold, |
|
25:19 |
One
at one end and one at the other; the winged ones are to be part of the
cover. |
|
25:20 |
And
their wings are to be outstretched over the cover, and the winged ones are to
be opposite one another, facing the cover. |
|
25:21 |
And
put the cover over the ark, and in the ark the record which I will give
you. |
|
25:22 |
And
there, between the two winged ones on the cover of the ark, I will come to
you, face to face, and make clear to you all the orders I have to give you
for the children of Israel. |
|
25:23 |
And
you are to make a table of the same wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide and a
cubit and a half high, |
|
25:24 |
Plated
with the best gold, with a gold edge all round it; |
|
25:25 |
And
make a frame all round it, as wide as a man's hand, with a gold edge to the
frame. |
|
25:26 |
And
make four gold rings and put them at the four angles, on the four feet of the
table; |
|
25:27 |
The
rings are to be fixed under the frame to take the rods with which the table
is to be lifted. |
|
25:28 |
Make
rods of the same wood, plated with gold, for lifting the table. |
|
25:29 |
And
make the table-vessels, the spoons and the cups and the basins for liquids,
all of the best gold. |
|
25:30 |
And on
the table at all times you are to keep my holy bread. |
|
25:31 |
And
you are to make a support for lights, of the best gold; its base and its
pillar are to be of hammered gold; its cups, its buds, and its flowers are to
be made of the same metal. |
|
25:32 |
It
is to have six branches coming out from its sides; three branches from one
side and three from the other. |
|
25:33 |
Every
branch having three cups made like almond flowers, every cup with a bud and a
flower, on all the branches. |
|
25:34 |
And
on the pillar, four cups like almond flowers, every one with its bud and its
flower: |
|
25:35 |
And
under every two branches a bud, made with the branch, for all the six
branches of it. |
|
25:36 |
The
buds and the branches are to be made of the same metal; all together one
complete work of hammered gold. |
|
25:37 |
Then
you are to make its seven vessels for the lights, putting them in their place
so that they give light in front of it. |
|
25:38 |
And
the instruments and trays for use with it are all to be of the best
gold. |
|
25:39 |
A
talent of gold will be needed for it, with all these vessels. |
|
25:40 |
And
see that you make them from the design which you saw on the mountain. |
|
26:1 |
And
you are to make a House for me, with ten curtains of the best linen, blue and
purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman. |
|
26:2 |
Every
curtain is to be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the
same measure. |
|
26:3 |
Five
curtains are to be joined together, and the other five are to be joined
together. |
|
26:4 |
And
you are to put twists of blue cord on the edge of the outside curtain of the
first group of five, and on the edge of the outside curtain of the second
group of five; |
|
26:5 |
Fifty
twists on one curtain and fifty on the other, the twists to be opposite one
another. |
|
26:6 |
Then
make fifty gold hooks, joining the curtains together by the hooks, and in
this way the House will be made. |
|
26:7 |
And
you are to make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the House, eleven
curtains. |
|
26:8 |
Every
curtain is to be thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same
measure. |
|
26:9 |
Five
of these curtains are to be joined together, and the other six are to be
joined together, the sixth being folded over to make a hanging in front of
the tent. |
|
26:10 |
And
you are to put fifty twists of cord on the edge of the outside curtain of one
group, and fifty twists on the edge of the outside curtain of the other
group. |
|
26:11 |
Then
make fifty brass hooks and put the hooks into the twists, joining the tent
together to make it one. |
|
26:12 |
And
the folded part which is over of the curtains of the tent, the half-curtain
which is folded back, will be hanging down over the back of the House. |
|
26:13 |
And
the cubit which is over of the ten curtains at the sides will be hanging over
the two sides of the House as a cover. |
|
26:14 |
And
then you are to make a cover for the tent, of sheepskins coloured red, and a
cover of leather over that. |
|
26:15 |
And
you are to make upright boards of hard wood for the House. |
|
26:16 |
Every
board is to be ten cubits high and a cubit and a half wide. |
|
26:17 |
Every
board is to be joined to the one nearest to it by two tongues, and so for
every board in the House. |
|
26:18 |
These
are the boards needed for the house; twenty boards for the south side, |
|
26:19 |
With
forty silver bases under the twenty boards, two bases under every board to
take its tongues. |
|
26:20 |
And
twenty boards for the second side of the house on the north, |
|
26:21 |
With their
forty silver bases, two under every board. |
|
26:22 |
And six boards
for the back of the House on the west, |
|
26:23 |
With two
boards for the angles of the House at the back. |
|
26:24 |
The
two are to be joined together at the base and at the top to one ring, forming
the two angles. |
|
26:25 |
So
there are to be eight boards, with their sixteen silver bases, two bases
under every board. |
|
26:26 |
And
make rods of the same wood, five for the boards on the one side, |
|
26:27 |
And
five for the boards on the other side of the House, and five for the west
side of the House at the back. |
|
26:28 |
And
the middle rod is to go through the rings of all the boards from end to
end. |
|
26:29 |
And
the boards are to be plated with gold, having gold rings for the rods to go
through: and the rods are to be plated with gold. |
|
26:30 |
And
you are to make the House from the design which you saw on the mountain. |
|
26:31 |
And
you are to make a veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked
with designs of winged ones by a good workman: |
|
26:32 |
Hanging
it by gold hooks from four pillars of wood, plated with gold and fixed in
silver bases. |
|
26:33 |
And
you are to put up the veil under the hooks, and put inside it the ark of the
law: the veil is to be a division between the holy place and the most
holy. |
|
26:34 |
You
are to put the cover on the ark of the law, inside the most holy place. |
|
26:35 |
And
outside the veil you are to put the table, and the support for the lights
opposite the table on the south side of the House; and the table is to be on
the north side. |
|
26:36 |
And
you are to make a curtain for the doorway of the Tent, of the best linen with
needlework of blue and purple and red. |
|
26:37 |
And
make five pillars for the curtain, of hard wood plated with gold; their hooks
are to be of gold and their bases of brass |
|
27:1 |
And
make an altar of hard wood, a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits
wide and three cubits high. |
|
27:2 |
Put
horns at the four angles of it, made of the same, plating it all with
brass. |
|
27:3 |
And
make all its vessels, the baskets for taking away the dust of the fire, the
spades and basins and meat-hooks and fire-trays, of brass. |
|
27:4 |
And
make a network of brass, with four brass rings at its four angles. |
|
27:5 |
And
put the network under the shelf round the altar so that the net comes
half-way up the altar. |
|
27:6 |
And
make rods for the altar, of hard wood, plated with brass. |
|
27:7 |
And
put the rods through the rings at the two opposite sides of the altar, for
lifting it. |
|
27:8 |
The
altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which
you saw on the mountain. |
|
27:9 |
And
let there be an open space round the House, with hangings for its south side
of the best linen, a hundred cubits long. |
|
27:10 |
Their
twenty pillars and their twenty bases are to be of brass; the hooks of the
pillars and their bands are to be of silver. |
|
27:11 |
And
on the north side in the same way, hangings a hundred cubits long, with
twenty pillars of brass on bases of brass; their hooks and their bands are to
be of silver. |
|
27:12 |
And
for the open space on the west side, the hangings are to be fifty cubits
wide, with ten pillars and ten bases; |
|
27:13 |
And on
the east side the space is to be fifty cubits wide. |
|
27:14 |
On
the one side of the doorway will be hangings fifteen cubits long, with three
pillars and three bases; |
|
27:15 |
And
on the other side, hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three
bases. |
|
27:16 |
And
across the doorway, a veil of twenty cubits of the best linen, made of
needlework of blue and purple and red, with four pillars and four bases. |
|
27:17 |
All
the pillars round the open space are to have silver bands, with hooks of
silver and bases of brass. |
|
27:18 |
The
open space is to be a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, with sides five
cubits high, curtained with the best linen, with bases of brass. |
|
27:19 |
All
the instruments for the work of the House, and all its nails, and the nails
of the open space are to be of brass. |
|
27:20 |
Give
orders to the children of Israel to give you clear olive oil for the lights,
so that a light may be burning there at all times. |
|
27:21 |
Let
Aaron and his sons put this in order, evening and morning, before the Lord,
inside the Tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the ark; this is
to be an order for ever, from generation to generation, to be kept by the
children of Israel. |
|
28:1 |
Now
let Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, come near from among the
children of Israel, so that they may be my priests, even Aaron, and Nadab,
Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, his sons. |
|
28:2 |
And
make holy robes for Aaron your brother, so that he may be clothed with glory
and honour. |
|
28:3 |
Give
orders to all the wise-hearted workmen, whom I have made full of the spirit
of wisdom, to make robes for Aaron, so that he may be made holy as my
priest. |
|
28:4 |
This
is what they are to make: a priest's bag, an ephod, and a robe, and a coat of
coloured needlework, a head-dress, and a linen band; they are to make holy
robes for Aaron your brother and for his sons, so that they may do the work
of priests for me. |
|
28:5 |
They
are to take the gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen, |
|
28:6 |
And
make the ephod of gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen, the
work of a designer. |
|
28:7 |
It
is to have two bands stitched to it at the top of the arms, joining it
together. |
|
28:8 |
And
the beautifully worked band, which goes on it, is to be of the same work and
the same material, of gold and blue and purple and red and twisted
linen-work. |
|
28:9 |
You
are to take two beryl stones, on which the names of the children of Israel
are to be cut: |
|
28:10 |
Six
names on the one stone and six on the other, in the order of their
birth. |
|
28:11 |
With
the work of a jeweller, like the cutting of a stamp, the names of the
children of Israel are to be cut on them, and they are to be fixed in twisted
frames of gold. |
|
28:12 |
And
the two stones are to be placed on the ephod, over the arm-holes, to be
stones of memory for the children of Israel: Aaron will have their names on
his arms when he goes in before the Lord, to keep the Lord in mind of them. |
|
28:13 |
And
you are to make twisted frames of gold; |
|
28:14 |
And
two chains of the best gold, twisted like cords; and have the chains fixed on
to the frames. |
|
28:15 |
And
make a priest's bag for giving decisions, designed like the ephod, made of
gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen. |
|
28:16 |
It
is to be square, folded in two, a hand-stretch long and a hand-stretch
wide. |
|
28:17 |
And
on it you are to put four lines of jewels; the first line is to be a
cornelian, a chrysolite, and an emerald; |
|
28:18 |
The
second, a ruby, a sapphire, and an onyx; |
|
28:19 |
The
third, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; |
|
28:20 |
The
fourth, a topaz, a beryl, and a jasper; they are to be fixed in twisted
frames of gold. |
|
28:21 |
The
jewels are to be twelve in number, for the names of the children of Israel;
every jewel having the name of one of the twelve tribes cut on it as on a
stamp. |
|
28:22 |
And
you are to make two chains of gold, twisted like cords, to be fixed to the
priest's bag. |
|
28:23 |
And put two gold
rings on the two ends of the bag. |
|
28:24 |
Put
the two gold chains on the two rings at the ends of the bag; |
|
28:25 |
Joining
the other ends of the chains to the gold frames and putting them on the front
of the ephod, at the top of the arms. |
|
28:26 |
Then
make two gold rings and put them on the lower ends of the bag, at the edge of
it on the inner side nearest to the ephod. |
|
28:27 |
And
make two more gold rings and put them on the front of the ephod at the top of
the arms, at the join, over the worked band: |
|
28:28 |
So
that the rings on the bag may be fixed to the rings of the ephod by a blue
cord and on to the band of the ephod, so that the bag may not come loose from
the ephod. |
|
28:29 |
And
so Aaron will have the names of the children of Israel on the priest's bag
over his heart whenever he goes into the holy place, to keep the memory of
them before the Lord. |
|
28:30 |
And
in the bag you are to put the Urim and Thummim, so that they may be on
Aaron's heart whenever he goes in before the Lord; and Aaron may have the
power of making decisions for the children of Israel before the Lord at all
times. |
|
28:31 |
The
robe which goes with the ephod is to be made all of blue; |
|
28:32 |
With
a hole at the top, in the middle of it; the hole is to be edged with a band
to make it strong like the hole in the coat of a fighting-man, so that it may
not be broken open. |
|
28:33 |
And
round the skirts of it put fruits in blue and purple and red, with bells of
gold between; |
|
28:34 |
A
gold bell and a fruit in turn all round the skirts of the robe. |
|
28:35 |
Aaron
is to put it on for his holy work; and the sound of it will be clear, when he
goes into the holy place before the Lord, and when he comes out, keeping him
safe from death. |
|
28:36 |
You
are to make a plate of the best gold, cutting on it, as on a stamp, these
words: HOLY TO THE LORD. |
|
28:37 |
Put
a blue cord on it and put it on the front of the twisted head-dress: |
|
28:38 |
And
it will be over Aaron's brow, so that Aaron will be responsible for any error
in all the holy offerings made by the children of Israel; it will be on his
brow at all times, so that their offerings may be pleasing to the Lord. |
|
28:39 |
The
coat is to be made of the best linen, worked in squares; and you are to make
a head-dress of linen, and a linen band worked in needlework. |
|
28:40 |
And
for Aaron's sons you are to make coats, and bands, and head-dresses, so that
they may be clothed with glory and honour. |
|
28:41 |
These
you are to put on Aaron, your brother, and on his sons, putting oil on them,
separating them and making them holy, to do the work of priests to me. |
|
28:42 |
And
you are to make them linen trousers, covering their bodies from the middle to
the knee; |
|
28:43 |
Aaron
and his sons are to put these on whenever they go into the Tent of meeting or
come near the altar, when they are doing the work of the holy place, so that
they may be free from any sin causing death: this is to be an order for him
and his seed after him for ever. |
|
29:1 |
This
is what you are to do to make them holy, to do the work of priests to me:
Take one young ox and two male sheep, without any mark on them, |
|
29:2 |
And
unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and thin unleavened
cakes on which oil has been put, made of the best bread-meal; |
|
29:3 |
Put
these in a basket and take them, with the ox and the two sheep. |
|
29:4 |
And
let Aaron and his sons come to the door of the Tent of meeting, and there let
them be washed with water. |
|
29:5 |
Take
the robes, and put the coat and the dress and the ephod and the priest's bag
on Aaron; put the band of needlework round him, |
|
29:6 |
And
let the head-dress be placed on his head and the holy crown on the
head-dress. |
|
29:7 |
Then
take the oil and put it on his head. |
|
29:8 |
And
take his sons and put their robes on them; |
|
29:9 |
And
put the linen bands round Aaron and his sons, and the head-dresses on them,
to make them priests by my order for ever: so you are to make Aaron and his
sons holy to me. |
|
29:10 |
Then
let the ox be taken in front of the Tent of meeting: and let Aaron and his
sons put their hands on its head. |
|
29:11 |
And
you are to put the ox to death before the Lord at the door of the Tent of
meeting. |
|
29:12 |
Then
take some of the blood of the ox, and put it on the horns of the altar with
your finger, draining out all the rest of the blood at the base of the
altar. |
|
29:13 |
And
take all the fat covering the inside of the ox, and the fat joining the liver
and the two kidneys with the fat round them, and let them be burned on the
altar; |
|
29:14 |
But
the flesh of the ox and its skin and its waste parts are to be burned outside
the circle of the tents, for it is a sin-offering. |
|
29:15 |
Then
take one of the sheep, and let Aaron and his sons put their hands on its
head. |
|
29:16 |
Then
let it be put to death, so that the sides of the altar are marked with its
blood. |
|
29:17 |
Then
the sheep is to be cut up into its parts, and after washing its legs and its
inside parts, you are to put them with the parts and the head, |
|
29:18 |
And
let them all be burned on the altar as a burned offering to the Lord: a sweet
smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord. |
|
29:19 |
Then
take the other sheep; and after Aaron and his sons have put their hands on
its head, |
|
29:20 |
You
are to put the sheep to death, and take some of its blood and put it on the
point of Aaron's right ear, and of the right ears of his sons, and on the
thumbs of their right hands and the great toes of their right feet, dropping
the rest of the blood on the sides of the altar. |
|
29:21 |
Then
take some of the blood on the altar, and the oil, and put it on Aaron and his
robes and on his sons and on their robes, so that he and his robes and his
sons and their robes may be made holy. |
|
29:22 |
Then
take the fat of the sheep, the fat tail, the fat covering the insides, and
the fat joining the liver and the two kidneys with the fat round them, and
the right leg; for by the offering of this sheep they are to be marked out as
priests: |
|
29:23 |
And
take one bit of bread and one cake of oiled bread and one thin cake out of
the basket of unleavened bread which is before the Lord: |
|
29:24 |
And
put them all on the hands of Aaron and of his sons, to be waved for a wave
offering before the Lord. |
|
29:25 |
Then
take them from their hands, and let them be burned on the burned offering on
the altar, a sweet smell before the Lord, an offering made by fire to the
Lord. |
|
29:26 |
Then
take the breast of Aaron's sheep, waving it before the Lord; and it is to be
your part of the offering. |
|
29:27 |
So
you are to make holy the breast of the sheep which is waved and the leg which
is lifted up on high, that is, of the sheep which is offered for Aaron and
his sons; |
|
29:28 |
And
it will be their part as a right for ever from the children of Israel, it is
a special offering from the children of Israel, made from their
peace-offerings, a special offering lifted up to the Lord. |
|
29:29 |
And
Aaron's holy robes will be used by his sons after him; they will put them on
when they are made priests. |
|
29:30 |
For
seven days the son who becomes priest in his place will put them on when he
comes into the Tent of meeting to do the work of the holy place. |
|
29:31 |
Then
take the sheep of the wave offering and let its flesh be cooked in water in a
holy place. |
|
29:32 |
And
let Aaron and his sons make a meal of it, with the bread in the basket, at
the door of the Tent of meeting. |
|
29:33 |
All
those things which were used as offerings to take away sin, and to make them
holy to be priests, they may have for food: but no one who is not a priest
may have them, for they are holy food. |
|
29:34 |
And
if any of the flesh of the offering or of the bread is over till the morning,
let it be burned with fire; it is not to be used for food, for it is
holy. |
|
29:35 |
All
these things you are to do to Aaron and his sons as I have given you orders:
for seven days the work of making them priests is to go on. |
|
29:36 |
Every
day an ox is to be offered as a sin-offering, to take away sins: and by this
offering on it, you will make the altar clean from sin; and you are to put
oil on it and make it holy. |
|
29:37 |
For
seven days you are to make offerings for the altar and make it holy, so that
it may become completely holy, and anything touching it will become
holy. |
|
29:38 |
Now
this is the offering which you are to make on the altar: two lambs in their
first year, every day regularly. |
|
29:39 |
One
lamb is to be offered in the morning and the other in the evening: |
|
29:40 |
And
with the one lamb, a tenth part of an ephah of the best meal, mixed with a
fourth part of a hin of clear oil; and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a
drink offering. |
|
29:41 |
And
the other lamb is to be offered in the evening, and with it the same meal
offering and drink offering, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to
the Lord. |
|
29:42 |
This
is to be a regular burned offering made from generation to generation, at the
door of the Tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will come face to face
with you and have talk with you. |
|
29:43 |
There
I will come face to face with the children of Israel, and the Tent will be
made holy by my glory |
|
29:44 |
I
will make holy the Tent of meeting and the altar: and Aaron and his sons I
will make holy, to be my priests |
|
29:45 |
Among
the children of Israel I will make my living-place, and I will be their
God. |
|
29:46 |
And
they will see that I am the Lord their God, who took them out of the land of
Egypt, so that I might be ever with them: I am the Lord their God. |
|
30:1 |
And
you are to make an altar for the burning of perfume; of hard wood let it be
made. |
|
30:2 |
The
altar is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high,
and its horns are to be made of the same. |
|
30:3 |
It
is to be plated with the best gold, the top of it and the sides and the
horns, with an edging of gold all round it. |
|
30:4 |
Under
the edge on the two opposite sides, you are to make two gold rings, to take
the rods for lifting it. |
|
30:5 |
And
make these rods of the same wood, plating them with gold. |
|
30:6 |
And
let it be placed in front of the veil before the ark of the law, before the
cover which is over the law, where I will come face to face with you. |
|
30:7 |
And
on this altar sweet spices are to be burned by Aaron every morning when he
sees to the lights. |
|
30:8 |
And
every evening, when he puts the lights up in their places, the spices are to
be burned, a sweet-smelling smoke going up before the Lord from generation to
generation for ever. |
|
30:9 |
No
strange perfume, no burned offering or meal offering, and no drink offering
is to be offered on it. |
|
30:10 |
And
once every year Aaron is to make its horns clean: with the blood of the
sin-offering he is to make it clean once every year from generation to
generation: it is most holy to the Lord. |
|
30:11 |
And the Lord said to
Moses, |
|
30:12 |
When
you are taking the number of the children of Israel, let every man who is
numbered give to the Lord a price for his life, so that no disease may come
on them when they are numbered. |
|
30:13 |
And
this is what they are to give; let every man who is numbered give half a
shekel, by the scale of the holy place: (the shekel being valued at twenty
gerahs:) this money is an offering to the Lord. |
|
30:14 |
Everyone
who is numbered, from twenty years old and over, is to give an offering to
the Lord. |
|
30:15 |
The
man of wealth is to give no more and the poor man no less than the
half-shekel of silver, when the offering is made to the Lord as the price for
your lives. |
|
30:16 |
And
you are to take this money from the children of Israel to be used for the
work of the Tent of meeting, to keep the memory of the children of Israel
before the Lord and to be the price of your lives. |
|
30:17 |
And the Lord said to
Moses, |
|
30:18 |
You
are to make a brass washing-vessel, with a brass base; and put it between the
Tent of meeting and the altar, with water in it; |
|
30:19 |
That
it may be used by Aaron and his sons for washing their hands and feet; |
|
30:20 |
Whenever
they go into the Tent of meeting they are to be washed with water, to keep
them from death; and whenever they come near to do the work of the altar, or
to make an offering by fire to the Lord, |
|
30:21 |
Their
hands and feet are to be washed. so that they may be safe from death: this is
an order to them for ever; to him and his seed from generation to
generation. |
|
30:22 |
And the Lord said to
Moses, |
|
30:23 |
Take
the best spices, five hundred shekels' weight of liquid myrrh, and of sweet
cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, and two
hundred and fifty shekels of sweet calamus, |
|
30:24 |
And
of cassia, five hundred shekels' weight measured by the scale of the holy
place, and of olive oil a hin: |
|
30:25 |
And
make these into a holy oil, a perfume made by the art of the perfume-maker;
it is to be a holy oil. |
|
30:26 |
This
oil is to be put on the Tent of meeting, and on the ark of the law, |
|
30:27 |
And
on the table and all its vessels, and on the support for the lights, with its
vessels, and on the altar for burning spices, |
|
30:28 |
And
on the altar of burned offerings with its vessels, and on the washing-vessel
and its base. |
|
30:29 |
And
you are to make them most holy; anything touching them will become holy. |
|
30:30 |
And
put the oil on Aaron and his sons, making them holy to do the work of priests
to me. |
|
30:31 |
And
say to the children of Israel, This is to be the Lord's holy oil, from
generation to generation. |
|
30:32 |
It
is not to be used for man's flesh, and no other is to be made like it: holy
it is, and you are to keep it holy. |
|
30:33 |
Whoever
makes any like it, or puts it on one who is not a priest, will be cut off
from his people. |
|
30:34 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, Take sweet spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum,
with the best frankincense, in equal weights; |
|
30:35 |
And
make from them a perfume, such as is made by the art of the perfume-maker,
mixed with salt, and clean and holy. |
|
30:36 |
And
put some of it, crushed very small, in front of the ark in the Tent of
meeting, where I will come face to face with you; it is to be most holy. |
|
30:37 |
You
are not to make any perfume like it for yourselves: it is to be kept holy to
the Lord. |
|
30:38 |
Whoever
makes any like it, for its sweet smell, will be cut off from his people. |
|
31:1 |
And the Lord said to
Moses, |
|
31:2 |
I
have made selection of Bezalel, the son of Uri, by name, the son of Hur, of
the tribe of Judah: |
|
31:3 |
And
I have given him the spirit of God and made him wise and full of knowledge
and expert in every sort of handwork, |
|
31:4 |
To do
all sorts of delicate work in gold and silver and brass; |
|
31:5 |
In
cutting stones for framing, and to do every form of woodwork. |
|
31:6 |
And
I have made selection of Oholiab with him, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe
of Dan; and in the hearts of all who are wise I have put the knowledge to
make whatever I have given you orders to have made; |
|
31:7 |
The
Tent of meeting, and the ark of the law, and the cover which is on it, and
all the things for the tent, |
|
31:8 |
And
the table with its vessels, and the holy light-support with all its vessels,
and the altar for the burning of spices, |
|
31:9 |
And
the altar of burned offerings with all its vessels, and the washing-vessel
with its base, |
|
31:10 |
And
the robes of needlework, the holy robes for Aaron and for his sons, for their
use when acting as priests, |
|
31:11 |
And
the holy oil, and the perfume of sweet spices for the holy place; they will
do whatever I have given you orders to have done. |
|
31:12 |
And the Lord said to
Moses, |
|
31:13 |
Say
to the children of Israel that they are to keep my Sabbaths; for the Sabbath
day is a sign between me and you through all your generations; so that you
may see that I am the Lord who makes you holy. |
|
31:14 |
So
you are to keep the Sabbath as a holy day; and anyone not honouring it will
certainly be put to death: whoever does any work on that day will be cut off
from his people. |
|
31:15 |
Six
days may work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest,
holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to
death. |
|
31:16 |
And
the children of Israel are to keep the Sabbath holy, from generation to
generation, by an eternal agreement. |
|
31:17 |
It
is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever; because in six days
the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he took his rest and
had pleasure in it. |
|
31:18 |
And
when his talk with Moses on Mount Sinai was ended, he gave him the two stones
of the law, two stones on which was the writing made by the finger of
God. |
|
32:1 |
And
when the people saw that Moses was a long time coming down from the mountain,
they all came to Aaron and said to him, Come, make us a god to go before us:
as for this Moses, who took us up out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea
what has become of him. |
|
32:2 |
Then
Aaron said to them, Take off the gold rings which are in the ears of your
wives and your sons and your daughters, and give them to me. |
|
32:3 |
And
all the people took the gold rings from their ears and gave them to
Aaron. |
|
32:4 |
And
he took the gold from them and, hammering it with an instrument, he made it
into the metal image of a young ox: and they said, This is your god, O
Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt. |
|
32:5 |
And
when Aaron saw this, he made an altar before it, and made a public statement,
saying, Tomorrow there will be a feast to the Lord. |
|
32:6 |
So
early on the day after they got up and made burned offerings and
peace-offerings; and took their seats at the feast, and then gave themselves
to pleasure. |
|
32:7 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, Go down quickly; for your people, whom you took out
of the land of Egypt, are turned to evil ways; |
|
32:8 |
Even
now they are turned away from the rule I gave them, and have made themselves
a metal ox and given worship to it and offerings, saying, This is your god, O
Israel, who took you up out of the land of Egypt. |
|
32:9 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, I have been watching this people, and I see that they
are a stiff-necked people. |
|
32:10 |
Now
do not get in my way, for my wrath is burning against them; I will send
destruction on them, but of you I will make a great nation. |
|
32:11 |
But
Moses made prayer to God, saying, Lord, why is your wrath burning against
your people whom you took out of the land of Egypt, with great power and with
the strength of your hand? |
|
32:12 |
Why
let the Egyptians say, He took them out to an evil fate, to put them to death
on the mountains, cutting them off from the earth? Let your wrath be turned
away from them, and send not this evil on your people. |
|
32:13 |
Have
in mind Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you gave your
oath, saying, I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and
all this land will I give to your seed, as I said, to be their heritage for
ever. |
|
32:14 |
So
the Lord let himself be turned from his purpose of sending punishment on his
people. |
|
32:15 |
Then
Moses came down the mountain with the two stones of the law in his hand; the
stones had writing on their two sides, on the front and on the back. |
|
32:16 |
The
stones were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, cut on
the stones. |
|
32:17 |
Now
when the noise and the voices of the people came to the ears of Joshua, he
said to Moses, There is a noise of war in the tents. |
|
32:18 |
And
Moses said, It is not the voice of men who are overcoming in the fight, or
the cry of those who have been overcome; it is the sound of songs which comes
to my ear. |
|
32:19 |
And
when he came near the tents he saw the image of the ox, and the people
dancing; and in his wrath Moses let the stones go from his hands, and they
were broken at the foot of the mountain. |
|
32:20 |
And
he took the ox which they had made, burning it in the fire and crushing it to
powder, and he put it in the water and made the children of Israel take a
drink of it. |
|
32:21 |
And
Moses said to Aaron, What did the people do to you that you let this great
sin come on them? |
|
32:22 |
And
Aaron said, Let not my lord be angry; you have seen how the purposes of this
people are evil. |
|
32:23 |
For
they said to me, Make us a god to go before us: as for this Moses, who took
us up out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has come to him. |
|
32:24 |
Then
I said to them, Whoever has any gold, let him take it off; so they gave it to
me, and I put it in the fire, and this image of an ox came out. |
|
32:25 |
And
Moses saw that the people were out of control, for Aaron had let them loose
to their shame before their haters: |
|
32:26 |
Then
Moses took his place at the way into the tents, and said, Whoever is on the
Lord's side, let him come to me. And all the sons of Levi came together to
him. |
|
32:27 |
And
he said to them, This is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: Let every
man take his sword at his side, and go from one end of the tents to the
other, putting to death his brother and his friend and his neighbour. |
|
32:28 |
And
the sons of Levi did as Moses said; and about three thousand of the people
were put to death that day. |
|
32:29 |
And
Moses said, You have made yourselves priests to the Lord this day; for every
one of you has made the offering of his son and his brother; the blessing of
the Lord is on you this day. |
|
32:30 |
And
on the day after, Moses said to the people, Great has been your sin: but I
will go up to the Lord, and see if I may get forgiveness for your sin. |
|
32:31 |
Then
Moses went back to the Lord and said, This people has done a great sin,
making themselves a god of gold; |
|
32:32 |
But
now, if you will give them forgiveness--but if not, let my name be taken out
of your book. |
|
32:33 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, Whoever has done evil against me will be taken out of
my book. |
|
32:34 |
But
now, go, take the people into that place of which I have given you word; see,
my angel will go before you: but when the time of my judging has come, I will
send punishment on them for their sin. |
|
32:35 |
And
the Lord sent punishment on the people because they gave worship to the ox
which Aaron made. |
|
33:1 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, Go forward from this place, you and the people whom
you have taken up out of the land of Egypt, to that land about which I made
an oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, To your seed will I give it. |
|
33:2 |
And
I will send an angel before you, driving out the Canaanite and the Amorite
and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite: |
|
33:3 |
Go
up to that land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you,
for you are a stiff-necked people, for fear that I send destruction on you
while you are on the way. |
|
33:4 |
Hearing
this bad news the people were full of grief, and no one put on his
ornaments. |
|
33:5 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You are a stiff-necked
people: if I come among you, even for a minute, I will send destruction on
you; so take off all your ornaments, so that I may see what to do with you. |
|
33:6 |
So
the children of Israel took off their ornaments at Mount Horeb, and did not
put them on again. |
|
33:7 |
Now
it was Moses' way to put up the Tent of meeting outside the tent-circle, at
some distance away; giving it the name of The Tent of meeting. And everyone
desiring to make his prayer to the Lord went to the Tent of meeting outside
the tent-circle. |
|
33:8 |
And
whenever Moses went out to the Tent of meeting, all the people got up and
everyone went to the door of his tent, looking after Moses till he went
inside the Tent. |
|
33:9 |
And
whenever Moses went into the Tent, the pillar of cloud came down, and took
its place by the door of the Tent, as long as the Lord was talking with
Moses. |
|
33:10 |
And
all the people saw the cloud at the door of the Tent, and they went down on
their faces, everyone at the door of his tent. |
|
33:11 |
And
the Lord had talk with Moses face to face, as a man may have talk with his
friend. And when Moses came back to the tents, his servant, the young man
Joshua, the son of Nun, did not come away from the Tent. |
|
33:12 |
And
Moses said to the Lord, See, you say to me, Be this people's guide on their
journey, but you have not made clear to me whom you will send with me. But
you have said, I have knowledge of you by name, and you have grace in my
eyes. |
|
33:13 |
If
then I have grace in your eyes, let me see your ways, so that I may have
knowledge of you and be certain of your grace; and my prayer is that you will
keep in mind that this nation is your people. |
|
33:14 |
And he
said, I myself will go with you and give you rest. |
|
33:15 |
And
Moses said, If you yourself are not going with us, do not send us on from
here. |
|
33:16 |
For
is not the fact of your going with us the sign that I and this people have
grace in your eyes, so that we, that is, I and your people, are separate from
all other people on the face of the earth? |
|
33:17 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, I will do as you say: for you have grace in my eyes,
and I have knowledge of you by your name. |
|
33:18 |
And
Moses said, O Lord, let me see your glory. |
|
33:19 |
And
he said, I will make all the light of my being come before you, and will make
clear to you what I am; I will be kind to those to whom I will be kind, and
have mercy on those on whom I will have mercy. |
|
33:20 |
But
it is not possible for you to see my face, for no man may see me and still go
on living. |
|
33:21 |
And
the Lord said, See, there is a place near me, and you may take your place on
the rock: |
|
33:22 |
And
when my glory goes by, I will put you in a hole in the rock, covering you
with my hand till I have gone past: |
|
33:23 |
Then
I will take away my hand, and you will see my back: but my face is not to be
seen. |
|
34:1 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, Make two other stones like the first two; and I will
put on them the words which were on the first stones, which were broken by
you. |
|
34:2 |
And
be ready by the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai, and come before me there
in the morning, on the top of the mountain. |
|
34:3 |
No
one is to come up with you, and let no man be seen anywhere on the mountain;
let no flocks or herds come near to get their food at its foot. |
|
34:4 |
So
Moses got two stones cut like the first; and early in the morning he went up
Mount Sinai, as the Lord had said, with the two stones in his hand. |
|
34:5 |
And
the Lord came down in the cloud and took his place by the side of Moses, and
Moses gave worship to the name of the Lord. |
|
34:6 |
And
the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of
pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith; |
|
34:7 |
Having
mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let
wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of
their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth
generation. |
|
34:8 |
Then Moses
quickly went down on his face in worship. |
|
34:9 |
And
he said, If now I have grace in your eyes, let the Lord go among us, for this
is a stiff-necked people, and give us forgiveness for our wrongdoing and our
sin, and take us for your heritage. |
|
34:10 |
And
the Lord said, See, this is what I will undertake: before the eyes of your
people I will do wonders, such as have not been done in all the earth or in
any nation: and all your people will see the work of the Lord, for what I am
about to do for you is greatly to be feared. |
|
34:11 |
Take
care to do the orders which I give you today; I will send out from before you
the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the
Hivite and the Jebusite. |
|
34:12 |
But
take care, and do not make any agreement with the people of the land where
you are going, for it will be a cause of sin to you. |
|
34:13 |
But
their altars are to be overturned and their pillars broken and their images
cut down: |
|
34:14 |
For
you are to be worshippers of no other god: for the Lord is a God who will not
give his honour to another. |
|
34:15 |
So
see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go
after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their
feasts, |
|
34:16 |
Or
take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship
before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them. |
|
34:17 |
Make for
yourselves no gods of metal. |
|
34:18 |
Keep
the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days your food is to be bread
without leaven, as I gave you orders, at the regular time in the month Abib;
for in that month you came out of Egypt. |
|
34:19 |
Every
first male child is mine; the first male birth of your cattle, the first male
of every ox and sheep. |
|
34:20 |
A
lamb may be given in payment for the young of an ass, but if you will not
make payment for it, its neck will have to be broken. For all the first of
your sons you are to make payment. No one is to come before me without an
offering. |
|
34:21 |
Six
days let work be done, but on the seventh day take your rest: at ploughing
time and at the grain-cutting you are to have a day for rest. |
|
34:22 |
And
you are to keep the feast of weeks when you get in the first-fruits of the
grain, and the feast at the turn of the year when you take in the produce of
your fields. |
|
34:23 |
Three
times in the year let all your males come before the Lord, the God of
Israel. |
|
34:24 |
For
I will send out the nations before you and make wide the limits of your land;
and no man will make an attempt to take your land while you go up to give
worship to the Lord, three times in the year. |
|
34:25 |
No
leaven is to be offered with the blood of my offering, and the offering of
the Passover feast may not be kept till the morning. |
|
34:26 |
Take
the first-fruits of your land as an offering to the house of the Lord your
God. Let not the young goat be cooked in its mother's milk |
|
34:27 |
And
the Lord said to Moses, Put all these words in writing; for on them is based
the agreement which I will make with you. |
|
34:28 |
And
for forty days and forty nights Moses was there with the Lord, and in that
time he had no food or drink. And he put in writing on the stones the words
of the agreement, the ten rules of the law. |
|
34:29 |
Now
when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two stones in his hand, he
was not conscious that his face was shining because of his talk with
God. |
|
34:30 |
But
when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, and the shining of his
face, they would not come near him for fear. |
|
34:31 |
Then
Moses sent for them; and Aaron, with the chiefs of the people, came to him;
and Moses had talk with them. |
|
34:32 |
And
later, all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them all the orders
which the Lord had given him on Mount Sinai. |
|
34:33 |
And
at the end of his talk with them, Moses put a veil over his face. |
|
34:34 |
But
whenever Moses went in before the Lord to have talk with him, he took off the
veil till he came out. And whenever he came out he said to the children of
Israel what he had been ordered to say; |
|
34:35 |
And
the children of Israel saw that the face of Moses was shining: so Moses put
the veil over his face again till he went to the Lord. |
|
35:1 |
And
Moses sent for all the children of Israel to come together, and said to them,
This is what the Lord has said and these are his orders. |
|
35:2 |
Six
days let work be done, but the seventh day is to be a holy day to you, a
Sabbath of rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on that day is to be put
to death. |
|
35:3 |
No
fire is to be lighted in any of your houses on the Sabbath day. |
|
35:4 |
And
Moses said to all the meeting of the children of Israel, This is the order
which the Lord has given: |
|
35:5 |
Take
from among you an offering to the Lord; everyone who has the impulse in his
heart, let him give his offering to the Lord; gold and silver and brass; |
|
35:6 |
And
blue and purple and red and the best linen and goats' hair, |
|
35:7 |
And
sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard wood, |
|
35:8 |
And
oil for the lights, and spices for the holy oil and for the sweet perfumes
for burning. |
|
35:9 |
And
beryls and jewels to be cut for the ephod and for the priest's bag. |
|
35:10 |
And
let every wise-hearted man among you come and make whatever has been ordered
by the Lord; |
|
35:11 |
The
House and its tent and its cover, its hooks and its boards, its rods and its
pillars and its bases; |
|
35:12 |
The
ark with its cover and its rods and the veil hanging before it; |
|
35:13 |
The
table and its rods and all its vessels, and the holy bread; |
|
35:14 |
And
the support for the lights, with its vessels and its lights and the oil for
the light; |
|
35:15 |
And
the altar for burning spices, with its rods, and the holy oil and the sweet
perfume, and the curtain for the door, at the door of the House; |
|
35:16 |
The
altar of burned offerings, with its network of brass, its rods, and all its
vessels, the washing-vessel and its base; |
|
35:17 |
The
hangings for the open space, its pillars and their bases, and the curtain for
the doorway; |
|
35:18 |
The
nails for the House, and the nails for the open space and their cords; |
|
35:19 |
The
robes of needlework for the work of the holy place, the holy robes for Aaron
the priest, and the robes for his sons when acting as priests. |
|
35:20 |
And all the
children of Israel went away from Moses. |
|
35:21 |
And
everyone whose heart was moved, everyone who was guided by the impulse of his
spirit, came with his offering for the Lord, for whatever was needed for the
Tent of meeting and its work and for the holy robes. |
|
35:22 |
They
came, men and women, all who were ready to give, and gave pins and nose-rings
and finger-rings and neck-ornaments, all of gold; everyone gave an offering
of gold to the Lord. |
|
35:23 |
And
everyone who had blue and purple and red and the best linen and goats' hair
and sheepskins coloured red and leather, gave them. |
|
35:24 |
Everyone
who had silver and brass gave an offering of them to the Lord; and everyone
who had hard wood, such as was needed for the work, gave it. |
|
35:25 |
And
all the women who were expert with their hands, made cloth, and gave the work
of their hands, blue and purple and red and the best linen. |
|
35:26 |
And
those women who had the knowledge, made the goats' hair into cloth. |
|
35:27 |
And
the rulers gave the beryls and the cut jewels for the ephod and the priest's
bag; |
|
35:28 |
And
the spice and the oil for the light, and the holy oil and the sweet
perfumes. |
|
35:29 |
The
children of Israel, every man and woman, from the impulse of their hearts,
gave their offerings freely to the Lord for the work which the Lord had given
Moses orders to have done. |
|
35:30 |
And
Moses said to the children of Israel, See, the Lord has made selection of
Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; |
|
35:31 |
And
he has made him full of the spirit of God, in all wisdom and knowledge and
art of every sort; |
|
35:32 |
As
an expert designer of beautiful things, working in gold and silver and
brass; |
|
35:33 |
Trained
in the cutting of stones and the ornamenting of wood and in every sort of
handwork. |
|
35:34 |
And
he has given to him, and to Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of
Dan, the power of training others. |
|
35:35 |
To
them he has given knowledge of all the arts of the handworker, of the
designer, and the expert workman; of the maker of needlework in blue and
purple and red and the best linen, and of the maker of cloth; in all the arts
of the designer and the trained workman they are expert. |
|
36:1 |
So
let Bezalel and Oholiab get to work, with every wise-hearted man to whom the
Lord has given wisdom and knowledge, to do whatever is necessary for the
ordering of the holy place, as the Lord has given orders. |
|
36:2 |
Then
Moses sent for Bezalel and Oholiab, and for all the wise-hearted men to whom
the Lord had given wisdom, even everyone who was moved by the impulse of his
heart to come and take part in the work: |
|
36:3 |
And
they took from Moses all the offerings which the children of Israel had given
for the building of the holy place. And still they went on giving him more
free offerings every morning. |
|
36:4 |
Then
the wise men, who were doing all the work of the holy place, came from their
work; |
|
36:5 |
And
said to Moses, The people are giving much more than is needed for the work
which the Lord has given us orders to do. |
|
36:6 |
So
Moses made an order and had it given out through all the tents, saying, Let
no man or woman make any more offerings for the holy place. So the people
were kept from giving more. |
|
36:7 |
For
the material they had was enough and more than enough for all the work which
had to be done. |
|
36:8 |
Then
all the expert workmen among them made the House with its ten curtains; of
the best linen, blue and purple and red, they made them, with winged ones
worked by expert designers. |
|
36:9 |
Every
curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same
measure. |
|
36:10 |
And
five curtains were joined together, and the other five curtains were joined
together. |
|
36:11 |
And
they put twists of blue cord on the edge of the outside curtain of the first
group, and in the same way on the outside curtain of the second group. |
|
36:12 |
Fifty
twists on the one curtain and fifty on the edge of the curtain of the other
group; the twists being opposite to one another. |
|
36:13 |
And
they made fifty hooks of gold, joining the curtains one to another with the
hooks; and so the House was made. |
|
36:14 |
And
they made curtains of goats' hair for the tent; eleven curtains were
made. |
|
36:15 |
Every
curtain was thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same
measure. |
|
36:16 |
Five
curtains were joined together to make one group, and six curtains were joined
together to make the other group. |
|
36:17 |
And
they put fifty twists of cord on the edge of the outside curtain of the first
group, and fifty twists on the edge of the outside curtain of the second
group, |
|
36:18 |
And
fifty hooks of brass for joining them together to make the tent. |
|
36:19 |
And
they made a cover of sheepskins coloured red, to go over the tent, and a
cover of leather over that. |
|
36:20 |
And
for the uprights of the House they made boards of hard wood. |
|
36:21 |
The
boards were ten cubits long and one cubit and a half wide. |
|
36:22 |
Every
board had two tongues fixed into it; all the boards were made in this
way. |
|
36:23 |
They made
twenty boards for the south side of the House: |
|
36:24 |
And
for these twenty boards, forty silver bases, two bases under every board, to
take its tongues. |
|
36:25 |
And
for the second side of the House, on the north, they made twenty boards, |
|
36:26 |
With their
forty silver bases, two bases for every board. |
|
36:27 |
And
for the west side of the House, at the back, they made six boards, |
|
36:28 |
And
two boards for the angles at the back. |
|
36:29 |
These
were joined together at the base and at the top to one ring, so forming the
two angles. |
|
36:30 |
So
there were eight boards with sixteen bases of silver, two bases under every
board. |
|
36:31 |
And
they made rods of hard wood; five for the boards on one side of the
House, |
|
36:32 |
And
five for the boards on the other side of the House, and five for the boards
at the back, on the west. |
|
36:33 |
The
middle rod was made to go right through the rings of all the boards from one
end to the other. |
|
36:34 |
All
the boards were plated with gold, and the rings through which the rods went
were of gold, and the rods were plated with gold. |
|
36:35 |
And
he made the veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with
winged ones designed by expert workmen. |
|
36:36 |
And
they made four pillars for it of hard wood plated with gold: they had hooks
of gold and four silver bases. |
|
36:37 |
And
they made a curtain for the door of the tent, of the best linen with
needlework of blue and purple and red; |
|
36:38 |
And
five pillars for the curtain, with their hooks; the heads of the pillars were
of gold and they were circled with bands of gold; and their five bases were
of brass. |
|
37:1 |
And
Bezalel made the ark of hard wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a
half wide and a cubit and a half high; |
|
37:2 |
Plating
it inside and out with the best gold, and putting an edge of gold all round
it. |
|
37:3 |
And
he made four gold rings for its four angles, two on one side and two on the
other, |
|
37:4 |
And
rods of the same wood plated with gold. |
|
37:5 |
These
rods he put in the rings at the sides of the ark, for lifting it. |
|
37:6 |
And
he made the cover all of gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a
half wide. |
|
37:7 |
And
he made two winged ones, hammered out of one bit of gold, for the two ends of
the cover; |
|
37:8 |
Placing
one at one end and one at the other; the winged ones were part of the
cover. |
|
37:9 |
And
their wings were stretched out over the cover; the faces of the winged ones
were opposite one another and facing the cover. |
|
37:10 |
And
he made the table of hard wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and
a half high; |
|
37:11 |
Plating
it with the best gold and putting a gold edge all round it. |
|
37:12 |
And
he made a frame all round it about as wide as a man's hand, edged with gold
all round. |
|
37:13 |
And
he made four gold rings, and put the rings at the angles of its four
feet. |
|
37:14 |
The
rings were fixed under the frame to take the rods with which the table was to
be lifted. |
|
37:15 |
The
rods for lifting the table he made of hard wood plated with gold. |
|
37:16 |
And
all the table-vessels, the plates and spoons and basins and the cups for
liquids, he made of the best gold. |
|
37:17 |
Then
he made the support for the lights, all of the best gold; its base and its
pillar were of hammered gold; its cups and buds and flowers were all made out
of the same metal: |
|
37:18 |
It
had six branches coming out from its sides, three from one side and three
from the other; |
|
37:19 |
Every
branch having three cups made like almond flowers, every cup with a bud and a
flower on all the branches; |
|
37:20 |
And
on its pillar, four cups like almond flowers, every one with its bud and its
flower; |
|
37:21 |
And
under every two branches a bud, made with the branch, for all six branches of
it. |
|
37:22 |
The
buds and the branches were made of the same metal, all together one complete
work of the best hammered gold. |
|
37:23 |
And
he made the seven vessels for the lights, and all the necessary instruments
for it, of gold. |
|
37:24 |
A
talent of the best gold was used for the making of it and its vessels. |
|
37:25 |
And
he made the altar for the burning of spices, using the same hard wood; it was
square, a cubit long and a cubit wide and two cubits high; the horns made of
the same. |
|
37:26 |
The
top and the sides and the horns were all plated with the best gold; and he
put an edge of gold all round it. |
|
37:27 |
And
he made two gold rings, placing them on the two opposite sides under the
edge, to take the rods for lifting it. |
|
37:28 |
The
rods he made of the same hard wood, plating them with gold. |
|
37:29 |
And
he made the holy oil and the perfume of sweet spices for burning, after the
art of the perfume-maker. |
|
38:1 |
The
altar of burned offerings he made of hard wood; a square altar, five cubits
long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, |
|
38:2 |
And
he put horns at its four angles made of the same, plating it all with
brass; |
|
38:3 |
And
brass was used for all the vessels of the altar, the baskets and the spades,
the basins and the meat-hooks and the fire-trays; all the vessels he made of
brass |
|
38:4 |
And
he made a network of brass for the altar, under the frame round it,
stretching half-way up; |
|
38:5 |
And
four rings for the four angles of this network, to take the rods. |
|
38:6 |
The
rods he made of hard wood plated with brass. |
|
38:7 |
He
put the rods through the rings at the opposite sides of the altar for lifting
it; he made the altar hollow, boarded in with wood. |
|
38:8 |
And
he made the washing-vessel of brass on a brass base, using the polished brass
looking-glasses given by the women who did work at the doors of the Tent of
meeting. |
|
38:9 |
To
make the open space, he put hangings on the south side, of the best linen, a
hundred cubits long: |
|
38:10 |
Their
twenty pillars and their twenty bases were brass; and the hooks of the
pillars and their bands were of silver. |
|
38:11 |
And
for the north side. hangings a hundred cubits long, on twenty brass pillars
in brass bases, with silver hooks and bands. |
|
38:12 |
And
on the west side, hangings fifty cubits long, on ten pillars in ten bases,
with silver bands. |
|
38:13 |
And on
the east side, the open space was fifty cubits long. |
|
38:14 |
The
hangings on one side of the doorway were fifteen cubits long, on three
pillars with their three bases; |
|
38:15 |
And
the same on the other side of the doorway; on this side and on that the
hangings were fifteen cubits long, on three pillars with their three
bases. |
|
38:16 |
All the
hangings were of the best linen. |
|
38:17 |
And
the bases of the pillars were of brass; their hooks and the bands round the
tops of them were of silver; all the pillars were ringed with silver. |
|
38:18 |
And
the curtain for the doorway of the open space was of the best linen, with
designs of blue and purple and red in needlework; it was twenty cubits long
and five cubits high, to go with the hangings round the sides. |
|
38:19 |
There
were four pillars with their bases, all of brass, the hooks being of silver,
and their tops and their bands being covered with silver. |
|
38:20 |
All
the nails used for the House and the open space round it were of brass. |
|
38:21 |
This
is the price of the making of the House, even the House of witness, as it was
valued by the word of Moses, for the work of the Levites under the direction
of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest. |
|
38:22 |
Bezalel,
the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything as the
Lord had given orders to Moses. |
|
38:23 |
And
with him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; a designer
and a trained workman, expert in needlework of blue and purple and red and
the best linen. |
|
38:24 |
The
gold used for all the different work done for the holy place, the gold which
was given, was twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels in
weight, by the scale of the holy place. |
|
38:25 |
And
the silver given by those who were numbered of the people was a hundred
talents, and a thousand, seven hundred and seventy-five shekels in weight, by
the scale of the holy place. |
|
38:26 |
A
beka, that is, half a shekel by the holy scale, for everyone who was
numbered; there were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty
men of twenty years old and over. |
|
38:27 |
Of
this silver, a hundred talents was used for making the bases of the pillars
of the holy place and of the veil; a talent for every base. |
|
38:28 |
And
a thousand, seven hundred and seventy-five shekels of silver was used to make
the hooks for the pillars, and for plating the tops of the pillars and for
making their bands. |
|
38:29 |
The
brass which was given was seventy talents, two thousand four hundred
shekels; |
|
38:30 |
From
it he made the bases of the doorway of the Tent of meeting and the brass
altar and the network for it and all the vessels for the altar, |
|
38:31 |
And
the bases for the open space all round and for its doorway, and all the nails
for the House and for the open space. |
|
39:1 |
And
from the needlework of blue and purple and red they made the robes used for
the work of the holy place, and the holy robes for Aaron, as the Lord had
given orders to Moses. |
|
39:2 |
The
ephod he made of gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen; |
|
39:3 |
Hammering
the gold into thin plates and cutting it into wires to be worked into the
blue and the purple and the red and the linen by the designer. |
|
39:4 |
And
they made two bands for joining its edges together at the top of the
arms. |
|
39:5 |
And
the beautifully worked band which went on it was of the same design and the
same material, worked in gold and blue and purple and red and twisted
linen-work, as the Lord gave orders to Moses. |
|
39:6 |
Then
they made the beryl stones, fixed in twisted frames of gold and cut like the
cutting of a stamp, with the names of the children of Israel. |
|
39:7 |
These
he put on the ephod, over the arm-holes, to be stones of memory for the
children of Israel, as the Lord had said to Moses. |
|
39:8 |
The
priest's bag was designed like the ephod, of the best linen worked with gold
and blue and purple and red. |
|
39:9 |
It
was square and folded in two, as long and as wide as the stretch of a man's
hand; |
|
39:10 |
And
on it they put four lines of stones: in the first line was a carnelian, a
chrysolite, and an emerald; |
|
39:11 |
In
the second, a ruby, a sapphire, and an onyx; |
|
39:12 |
In the third, a
jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; |
|
39:13 |
In
the fourth, a topaz, a beryl, and a jasper; they were fixed in twisted frames
of gold. |
|
39:14 |
There
were twelve stones for the twelve tribes of Israel; on every one the name of
one of the tribes of Israel was cut, like the cutting of a stamp. |
|
39:15 |
And on the
bag they put gold chains, twisted like cords. |
|
39:16 |
And
they made two gold frames and two gold rings, the rings being fixed to the
ends of the priest's bag; |
|
39:17 |
And
they put the two twisted chains on the two rings at the ends of the priest's
bag; |
|
39:18 |
And
the other two ends of the chains were joined to the two frames and fixed to
the front of the ephod over the arm-holes. |
|
39:19 |
And
they made two rings of gold and put them on the two lower ends of the bag, on
the inner side nearest to the ephod. |
|
39:20 |
And
two other gold rings were put on the front of the ephod, over the arm-holes,
at the join, and over the worked band. |
|
39:21 |
And
the rings on the bag were fixed to the rings of the ephod by a blue cord,
keeping it in place over the band, so that the bag might not get loose, as
the Lord gave orders to Moses. |
|
39:22 |
The robe
which went with the ephod was made all of blue; |
|
39:23 |
With
a hole at the top in the middle, like the hole in the coat of a fighting-man,
edged with a band to make it strong. |
|
39:24 |
The
skirts of the robe were worked all round with fruits in blue and purple and
red made of twisted linen. |
|
39:25 |
And
between the fruits all round the skirt they put gold bells, as the Lord gave
orders to Moses. |
|
39:26 |
All
round the skirt of the robe were bells and fruits in turn. |
|
39:27 |
The
coats for Aaron and his sons they made of the best linen; |
|
39:28 |
And
the twisted head-dress for Aaron, and beautiful head-dresses of linen, and
linen trousers, |
|
39:29 |
And
a linen band worked with a design of blue and purple and red, as the Lord had
said to Moses. |
|
39:30 |
The
plate for the holy crown was made of the best gold, and on it were cut these
words, HOLY TO THE LORD. |
|
39:31 |
It
was fixed to the head-dress by a blue cord, as the Lord had given orders to
Moses. |
|
39:32 |
So
all the work on the House of the Tent of meeting was done; as the Lord had
given orders to Moses, so the children of Israel did it. |
|
39:33 |
Then
they took the House to Moses, the tent with all the things for it; its hooks,
its boards, its rods, its pillars, and its bases; |
|
39:34 |
The
outer cover of sheepskins coloured red, and the cover of leather, and the
veil for the doorway; |
|
39:35 |
The
ark of the law, with its rods and its cover; |
|
39:36 |
The table, with
all its vessels and the holy bread; |
|
39:37 |
The
support for the lights, with the vessels for the lights to be put in their
places on it, and all its vessels, and the oil for the lights; |
|
39:38 |
And
the gold altar, and the holy oil, and the sweet perfume for burning, and the
curtain for the doorway of the tent; |
|
39:39 |
And
the brass altar, with its network of brass, and its rods and all its vessels,
and the washing-vessel and its base; |
|
39:40 |
The
hangings for the open space, with the pillars and their bases, and the
curtain for the doorway, and the cords and nails, and all the instruments
necessary for the work of the House of the Tent of meeting; |
|
39:41 |
The
robes for use in the holy place, and the holy robes for Aaron and his sons
when acting as priests. |
|
39:42 |
The
children of Israel did everything as the Lord had given orders to Moses. |
|
39:43 |
Then
Moses, when he saw all their work and saw that they had done everything as
the Lord had said, gave them his blessing. |
|
40:1 |
And the Lord said to
Moses, |
|
40:2 |
On
the first day of the first month you are to put up the House of the Tent of
meeting. |
|
40:3 |
And
inside it put the ark of the law, hanging the veil before it. |
|
40:4 |
And
put the table inside, placing all the things on it in order; and put in the
support for the lights, and let its lights be burning. |
|
40:5 |
And
put the gold altar for burning perfumes in front of the ark of the law,
hanging the curtain over the doorway of the House. |
|
40:6 |
And
put the altar of burned offerings before the doorway of the House of the Tent
of meeting. |
|
40:7 |
And
let the washing-vessel, with water in it, be put between the Tent of meeting
and the altar. |
|
40:8 |
And
put up the hangings forming the open space all round it, with the curtain
over its doorway. |
|
40:9 |
And
take the holy oil and put it on the House and everything in it, and make it
and everything in it holy: |
|
40:10 |
And
put oil on the altar of burned offering, and make it and all its vessels
holy; this altar is to be most holy. |
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And
put oil on the washing-vessel and its base, and make them holy. |
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Then
let Aaron and his sons come to the door of the Tent of meeting; and after
washing them with water, |
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You
are to put on Aaron the holy robes; and you are to put oil on him, and make
him holy, so that he may be my priest. |
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And
take his sons with him and put coats on them; |
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And
put oil on them as you did on their father, so that they may be my priests:
the putting on of oil will make them priests for ever, from generation to
generation. |
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And
Moses did this; as the Lord gave him orders, so he did. |
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So
on the first day of the first month in the second year the House was put
up. |
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Moses
put up the House; placing its bases in position and lifting up its uprights,
putting in the rods and planting the pillars in their places; |
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Stretching
the outer tent over it, and covering it, as the Lord had given him
orders. |
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And
he took the law and put it inside the ark, and put the rods at its side and
the cover over it; |
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And
he took the ark into the House, hanging up the veil before it as the Lord had
given him orders. |
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And
he put the table in the Tent of meeting, on the north side outside the
veil. |
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And
he put the bread on it in order before the Lord, as the Lord had said. |
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The
support for the lights he put in the Tent of meeting, opposite the table, on
the south side: |
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Lighting
the lights before the Lord, as the Lord had given him orders. |
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And
he put the gold altar in the Tent of meeting, in front of the veil: |
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Burning
sweet perfumes on it, as the Lord had given him orders. |
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And he put up
the curtain at the doorway of the House. |
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And
at the door of the House of the Tent of meeting, he put the altar of burned
offerings, offering on it the burned offering and the meal offering, as the
Lord had given him orders. |
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And
between the altar and the Tent of meeting he put the vessel with water in it
for washing. |
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In
it the hands and feet of Moses and Aaron and his sons were washed, |
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Whenever
they went into the Tent of meeting, and when they came near the altar, as the
Lord had given orders to Moses. |
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And
he put up the hangings forming the open space round the House and the altar,
and put the curtain over the doorway. So Moses made the work complete. |
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40:34 |
Then
the cloud came down covering the Tent of meeting, and the House was full of
the glory of the Lord; |
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So
that Moses was not able to go into the Tent of meeting, because the cloud was
resting on it, and the House was full of the glory of the Lord. |
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And
whenever the cloud was taken up from the House, the children of Israel went
forward on their journey: |
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But
while the cloud was there, they made no move till it was taken up. |
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For
the cloud of the Lord was resting on the House by day, and at night there was
fire in the cloud, before the eyes of all the people of Israel, and so it was
through all their journeys. |
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