20:1 ¹ 

God spoke all these words: ² 

20:2 “I, ³  the Lord, am your God, ⁴  who brought you ⁵  from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery. ⁶ 

20:3 “You shall have no ⁷  other gods before me. ⁸ 

20:4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image ⁹  or any likeness ¹⁰  of anything ¹¹  that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below. ¹²  20:5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, ¹³  for I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous ¹⁴  God, responding to ¹⁵  the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations ¹⁶  of those who reject me, ¹⁷  20:6 and showing covenant faithfulness ¹⁸  to a thousand generations ¹⁹  of those who love me and keep my commandments.

20:7 “You shall not take ²⁰  the name of the Lord your God in vain, ²¹  for the Lord will not hold guiltless ²²  anyone who takes his name in vain.

20:8 “Remember ²³  the Sabbath ²⁴  day to set it apart as holy. ²⁵  20:9 For six days ²⁶  you may labor ²⁷  and do all your work, ²⁸  20:10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on it ²⁹  you shall not do any work, you, ³⁰  or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle, or the resident foreigner who is in your gates. ³¹  20:11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, and he rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.

20:12 “Honor ³²  your father and your mother, that you may live a long time ³³  in the land ³⁴  the Lord your God is giving to you.

20:13 “You shall not murder. ³⁵ 

20:14 “You shall not commit adultery. ³⁶ 

20:15 “You shall not steal. ³⁷ 

20:16 “You shall not give ³⁸  false testimony ³⁹  against your neighbor.

20:17 “You shall not covet ⁴⁰  your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.” ⁴¹ 

20:18 All the people were seeing ⁴²  the thundering and the lightning, and heard ⁴³  the sound of the horn, and saw ⁴⁴  the mountain smoking – and when ⁴⁵  the people saw it they trembled with fear ⁴⁶  and kept their distance. ⁴⁷  20:19 They said to Moses, “You speak ⁴⁸  to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak with us, lest we die.” 20:20 Moses said to the people, “Do not fear, for God has come to test you, ⁴⁹  that the fear of him ⁵⁰  may be before you so that you do not ⁵¹  sin.” 20:21 The people kept ⁵²  their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness ⁵³  where God was. ⁵⁴ 

20:22 ⁵⁵ 

The Lord said ⁵⁶  to Moses: “Thus you will tell the Israelites: ‘You yourselves have seen that I have spoken with you from heaven. 20:23 You must not make gods of silver alongside me, ⁵⁷  nor make gods of gold for yourselves. ⁵⁸ 

20:24 ‘You must make for me an altar made of earth, ⁵⁹  and you will sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, ⁶⁰  your sheep and your cattle. In every place ⁶¹  where I cause my name to be honored ⁶²  I will come to you and I will bless you. 20:25 If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it ⁶³  of stones shaped with tools, ⁶⁴  for if you use your tool on it you have defiled it. ⁶⁵  20:26 And you must not go up by steps to my altar, so that your nakedness is not exposed.’ ⁶⁶ 

21:1 ⁶⁷ 

“These are the decisions that you will set before them:

21:2 ⁶⁸ 

“If you buy ⁶⁹  a Hebrew servant, ⁷⁰  he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he will go out free ⁷¹  without paying anything. ⁷²  21:3 If he came ⁷³  in by himself ⁷⁴  he will go out by himself; if he had ⁷⁵  a wife when he came in, then his wife will go out with him. 21:4 If his master gave ⁷⁶  him a wife, and she bore sons or daughters, the wife and the children will belong to her master, and he will go out by himself. 21:5 But if the servant should declare, ⁷⁷  ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out ⁷⁸  free,’ 21:6 then his master must bring him to the judges, ⁷⁹  and he will bring him to the door or the doorposts, and his master will pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him forever. ⁸⁰ 

21:7 “If a man sells his daughter ⁸¹  as a female servant, ⁸²  she will not go out as the male servants do. 21:8 If she does not please ⁸³  her master, who has designated her ⁸⁴  for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. ⁸⁵  He has no right ⁸⁶  to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has dealt deceitfully ⁸⁷  with her. 21:9 If he designated her for his son, then he will deal with her according to the customary rights ⁸⁸  of daughters. 21:10 If he takes another wife, ⁸⁹  he must not diminish the first one’s food, ⁹⁰  her clothing, or her marital rights. ⁹¹  21:11 If he does not provide her with these three things, then she will go out free, without paying money. ⁹² 

21:12 ⁹³ 

“Whoever strikes someone ⁹⁴  so that he dies ⁹⁵  must surely be put to death. ⁹⁶  21:13 But if he does not do it with premeditation, ⁹⁷  but it happens by accident, ⁹⁸  then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee. 21:14 But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly, ⁹⁹  you will take him even from my altar that he may die.

21:15 “Whoever strikes ¹⁰⁰  his father or his mother must surely be put to death.

21:16 “Whoever kidnaps someone ¹⁰¹  and sells him, ¹⁰²  or is caught still holding him, ¹⁰³  must surely be put to death.

21:17 “Whoever treats his father or his mother disgracefully ¹⁰⁴  must surely be put to death.

21:18 “If men fight, and one strikes his neighbor with a stone or with his fist and he does not die, but must remain in bed, ¹⁰⁵  21:19 and then ¹⁰⁶  if he gets up and walks about ¹⁰⁷  outside on his staff, then the one who struck him is innocent, except he must pay ¹⁰⁸  for the injured person’s ¹⁰⁹  loss of time ¹¹⁰  and see to it that he is fully healed.

21:20 “If a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a staff so that he or she ¹¹¹  dies as a result of the blow, ¹¹²  he will surely be punished. ¹¹³  21:21 However, if the injured servant ¹¹⁴  survives one or two days, the owner ¹¹⁵  will not be punished, for he has suffered the loss. ¹¹⁶ 

21:22 “If men fight and hit a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, ¹¹⁷  but there is no serious injury, he will surely be punished in accordance with what the woman’s husband demands of him, and he will pay what the court decides. ¹¹⁸  21:23 But if there is serious injury, then you will give a life for a life, 21:24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 21:25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise. ¹¹⁹ 

21:26 “If a man strikes the eye of his male servant or his female servant so that he destroys it, ¹²⁰  he will let the servant ¹²¹  go free ¹²²  as compensation for the eye. 21:27 If he knocks out the tooth of his male servant or his female servant, he will let the servant ¹²³  go free as compensation for the tooth.

21:28 ¹²⁴ 

“If an ox ¹²⁵  gores a man or a woman so that either dies, ¹²⁶  then the ox must surely ¹²⁷  be stoned and its flesh must not be eaten, but the owner of the ox will be acquitted. 21:29 But if the ox had the habit of goring, and its owner was warned, ¹²⁸  and he did not take the necessary precautions, ¹²⁹  and then it killed a man or a woman, the ox must be stoned and the man must be put to death. 21:30 If a ransom is set for him, ¹³⁰  then he must pay the redemption for his life according to whatever amount was set for him. 21:31 If the ox ¹³¹  gores a son or a daughter, the owner ¹³²  will be dealt with according to this rule. ¹³³  21:32 If the ox gores a male servant or a female servant, the owner ¹³⁴  must pay thirty shekels of silver, ¹³⁵  and the ox must be stoned. ¹³⁶ 

21:33 “If a man opens a pit or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it, 21:34 the owner of the pit must repay ¹³⁷  the loss. He must give money ¹³⁸  to its owner, and the dead animal ¹³⁹  will become his. 21:35 If the ox of one man injures the ox of his neighbor so that it dies, then they will sell the live ox and divide its proceeds, ¹⁴⁰  and they will also divide the dead ox. ¹⁴¹  21:36 Or if it is known that the ox had the habit of goring, and its owner did not take the necessary precautions, he must surely pay ¹⁴²  ox for ox, and the dead animal will become his. ¹⁴³ 

22:1 ¹⁴⁴ 

¹⁴⁵  “If a man steals an ox or a sheep and kills it or sells it, he must pay back ¹⁴⁶  five head of cattle for the ox, and four sheep for the one sheep. ¹⁴⁷ 

22:2 “If a thief is caught ¹⁴⁸  breaking in ¹⁴⁹  and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guilt for him. ¹⁵⁰  22:3 If the sun has risen on him, then there is blood guilt for him. A thief ¹⁵¹  must surely make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he will be sold for his theft. 22:4 If the stolen item should in fact be found ¹⁵²  alive in his possession, ¹⁵³  whether it be an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he must pay back double. ¹⁵⁴ 

22:5 “If a man grazes ¹⁵⁵  his livestock ¹⁵⁶  in a field or a vineyard, and he lets the livestock loose and they graze in the field of another man, he must make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.

22:6 “If a fire breaks out and spreads ¹⁵⁷  to thorn bushes, ¹⁵⁸  so that stacked grain or standing grain or the whole field is consumed, the one who started ¹⁵⁹  the fire must surely make restitution.

22:7 “If a man gives his neighbor money or articles ¹⁶⁰  for safekeeping, ¹⁶¹  and it is stolen from the man’s house, if the thief is caught, ¹⁶²  he must repay double. 22:8 If the thief is not caught, ¹⁶³  then the owner of the house will be brought before the judges ¹⁶⁴  to see ¹⁶⁵  whether he has laid ¹⁶⁶  his hand on his neighbor’s goods. 22:9 In all cases of illegal possessions, ¹⁶⁷  whether for an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any kind of lost item, about which someone says ‘This belongs to me,’ ¹⁶⁸  the matter of the two of them will come before the judges, ¹⁶⁹  and the one whom ¹⁷⁰  the judges declare guilty ¹⁷¹  must repay double to his neighbor. 22:10 If a man gives his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep, and it dies or is hurt ¹⁷²  or is carried away ¹⁷³  without anyone seeing it, ¹⁷⁴  22:11 then there will be an oath to the Lord ¹⁷⁵  between the two of them, that he has not laid his hand on his neighbor’s goods, and its owner will accept this, and he will not have to pay. 22:12 But if it was stolen ¹⁷⁶  from him, ¹⁷⁷  he will pay its owner. 22:13 If it is torn in pieces, then he will bring it for evidence, ¹⁷⁸  and he will not have to pay for what was torn.

22:14 “If a man borrows an animal ¹⁷⁹  from his neighbor, and it is hurt or dies when its owner was not with it, the man who borrowed it ¹⁸⁰  will surely pay. 22:15 If its owner was with it, he will not have to pay; if it was hired, what was paid for the hire covers it. ¹⁸¹ 

22:16 ¹⁸² 

“If a man seduces a virgin ¹⁸³  who is not engaged ¹⁸⁴  and has sexual relations with her, he must surely endow ¹⁸⁵  her to be his wife. 22:17 If her father refuses to give her to him, he must pay money for the bride price of virgins.

22:18 “You must not allow a sorceress to live. ¹⁸⁶ 

22:19 “Whoever has sexual relations ¹⁸⁷  with a beast must surely be put to death.

22:20 “Whoever sacrifices to a god other than the Lord ¹⁸⁸  alone must be utterly destroyed. ¹⁸⁹ 

22:21 “You must not wrong ¹⁹⁰  a foreigner ¹⁹¹  nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

22:22 “You must not afflict ¹⁹²  any widow or orphan. 22:23 If you afflict them ¹⁹³  in any way ¹⁹⁴  and they cry to me, I will surely hear ¹⁹⁵  their cry, 22:24 and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless. ¹⁹⁶ 

22:25 “If you lend money to any of ¹⁹⁷  my people who are needy among you, do not be like a moneylender ¹⁹⁸  to him; do not charge ¹⁹⁹  him interest. ²⁰⁰  22:26 If you do take ²⁰¹  the garment of your neighbor in pledge, you must return it to him by the time the sun goes down, ²⁰²  22:27 for it is his only covering – it is his garment for his body. ²⁰³  What else can he sleep in? ²⁰⁴  And ²⁰⁵  when he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am gracious.

22:28 “You must not blaspheme ²⁰⁶  God ²⁰⁷  or curse the ruler of your people.

22:29 “Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats. ²⁰⁸  You must give me the firstborn of your sons. 22:30 You must also do this for your oxen and for your sheep; seven days they may remain with their mothers, but give them to me on the eighth day.

22:31 “You will be holy ²⁰⁹  people to me; you must not eat any meat torn by animals in the field. ²¹⁰  You must throw it to the dogs.

23:1 ²¹¹ 

“You must not give ²¹²  a false report. ²¹³  Do not make common cause ²¹⁴  with the wicked ²¹⁵  to be a malicious ²¹⁶  witness.

23:2 “You must not follow a crowd ²¹⁷  in doing evil things; ²¹⁸  in a lawsuit you must not offer testimony that agrees with a crowd so as to pervert justice, ²¹⁹  23:3 and you must not show partiality ²²⁰  to a poor man in his lawsuit.

23:4 “If you encounter ²²¹  your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, you must by all means return ²²²  it to him. 23:5 If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen under its load, you must not ignore him, ²²³  but be sure to help ²²⁴  him with it. ²²⁵ 

23:6 “You must not turn away justice for your poor people in their lawsuits. 23:7 Keep your distance ²²⁶  from a false charge ²²⁷  – do not kill the innocent and the righteous, ²²⁸  for I will not justify the wicked. ²²⁹ 

23:8 “You must not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see ²³⁰  and subverts the words of the righteous.

23:9 “You must not oppress ²³¹  a foreigner, since you know the life ²³²  of a foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

23:10 ²³³ 

“For six years ²³⁴  you are to sow your land and gather in its produce. 23:11 But in the seventh year ²³⁵  you must let it lie fallow and leave it alone so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave any animal in the field ²³⁶  may eat; you must do likewise with your vineyard and your olive grove. 23:12 For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, in order that your ox and your donkey may rest and that your female servant’s son and any hired help ²³⁷  may refresh themselves. ²³⁸ 

23:13 “Pay attention to do ²³⁹  everything I have told you, and do not even mention ²⁴⁰  the names of other gods – do not let them be heard on your lips. ²⁴¹ 

23:14 “Three times ²⁴²  in the year you must make a pilgrim feast ²⁴³  to me. 23:15 You are to observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread; seven days ²⁴⁴  you must eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you, at the appointed time of the month of Abib, for at that time ²⁴⁵  you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before ²⁴⁶  me empty-handed.

23:16 “You are also to observe ²⁴⁷  the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors that you have sown in the field, and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year ²⁴⁸  when you have gathered in ²⁴⁹  your harvest ²⁵⁰  out of the field. 23:17 At ²⁵¹  three times in the year all your males will appear before the Lord God. ²⁵² 

23:18 “You must not offer ²⁵³  the blood of my sacrifice with bread containing yeast; the fat of my festal sacrifice must not remain until morning. ²⁵⁴  23:19 The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the Lord your God.

“You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk. ²⁵⁵ 

23:20 ²⁵⁶ 

“I am going to send ²⁵⁷  an angel ²⁵⁸  before you to protect you as you journey ²⁵⁹  and to bring you into the place that I have prepared. ²⁶⁰  23:21 Take heed because of him, and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgressions, for my name ²⁶¹  is in him. 23:22 But if you diligently obey him ²⁶²  and do all that I command, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will be an adversary to your adversaries. 23:23 For my angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I will destroy them completely. ²⁶³ 

23:24 “You must not bow down to their gods; you must not serve them or do according to their practices. Instead you must completely overthrow them and smash their standing stones ²⁶⁴  to pieces. ²⁶⁵  23:25 You must serve ²⁶⁶  the Lord your God, and he ²⁶⁷  will bless your bread and your water, ²⁶⁸  and I will remove sickness from your midst. 23:26 No woman will miscarry her young ²⁶⁹  or be barren in your land. I will fulfill ²⁷⁰  the number of your days.

23:27 “I will send my terror ²⁷¹  before you, and I will destroy ²⁷²  all the people whom you encounter; I will make all your enemies turn their backs ²⁷³  to you. 23:28 I will send ²⁷⁴  hornets before you that will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you. 23:29 I will not drive them out before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild animals ²⁷⁵  multiply against you. 23:30 Little by little ²⁷⁶  I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land. 23:31 I will set ²⁷⁷  your boundaries from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the River, ²⁷⁸  for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

23:32 “You must make no covenant with them or with their gods. 23:33 They must not live in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare ²⁷⁹  to you.”

24:1 ²⁸⁰ 

But to Moses the Lord ²⁸¹  said, “Come up ²⁸²  to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from a distance. ²⁸³  24:2 Moses alone may come ²⁸⁴  near the Lord, but the others ²⁸⁵  must not come near, ²⁸⁶  nor may the people go up with him.”

24:3 Moses came ²⁸⁷  and told the people all the Lord’s words ²⁸⁸  and all the decisions. All the people answered together, ²⁸⁹  “We are willing to do ²⁹⁰  all the words that the Lord has said,” 24:4 and Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. Early in the morning he built ²⁹¹  an altar at the foot ²⁹²  of the mountain and arranged ²⁹³  twelve standing stones ²⁹⁴  – according to the twelve tribes of Israel. 24:5 He sent young Israelite men, ²⁹⁵  and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls for peace offerings ²⁹⁶  to the Lord. 24:6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and half of the blood he splashed on the altar. ²⁹⁷  24:7 He took the Book of the Covenant ²⁹⁸  and read it aloud ²⁹⁹  to the people, and they said, “We are willing to do and obey ³⁰⁰  all that the Lord has spoken.” 24:8 So Moses took the blood and splashed it on ³⁰¹  the people and said, “This is the blood of the covenant ³⁰²  that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

24:9 Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel went up, ³⁰³  24:10 and they saw ³⁰⁴  the God of Israel. Under his feet ³⁰⁵  there was something like a pavement ³⁰⁶  made of sapphire, clear like the sky itself. ³⁰⁷  24:11 But he did not lay a hand ³⁰⁸  on the leaders of the Israelites, so they saw God, ³⁰⁹  and they ate and they drank. ³¹⁰ 

24:12 ³¹¹ 

The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me to the mountain and remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets ³¹²  with ³¹³  the law and the commandments that I have written, so that you may teach them.” ³¹⁴  24:13 So Moses set out ³¹⁵  with ³¹⁶  Joshua his attendant, and Moses went up the mountain of God. 24:14 He told the elders, “Wait for us in this place until we return to you. Here are ³¹⁷  Aaron and Hur with you. Whoever has any matters of dispute ³¹⁸  can approach ³¹⁹  them.”

24:15 Moses went up the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. 24:16 The glory of the Lord resided ³²⁰  on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. ³²¹  On the seventh day he called to Moses from within the cloud. 24:17 Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in plain view ³²²  of the people. 24:18 Moses went into the cloud when he went up ³²³  the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights. ³²⁴ 

25:1 ³²⁵ 

The Lord spoke to Moses: 25:2 “Tell the Israelites to take ³²⁶  an offering ³²⁷  for me; from every person motivated by a willing ³²⁸  heart you ³²⁹  are to receive my offering. 25:3 This is the offering you ³³⁰  are to accept from them: gold, silver, bronze, 25:4 blue, ³³¹  purple, ³³²  scarlet, ³³³  fine linen, ³³⁴  goat’s hair, ³³⁵  25:5 ram skins dyed red, ³³⁶  fine leather, ³³⁷  acacia ³³⁸  wood, 25:6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for fragrant incense, 25:7 onyx stones, and other gems to be set in the ephod and in the breastpiece. 25:8 Let them make ³³⁹  for me a sanctuary, ³⁴⁰  so that I may live among them. 25:9 According to all that I am showing you ³⁴¹  – the pattern of the tabernacle ³⁴²  and the pattern of all its furnishings – you ³⁴³  must make it exactly so. ³⁴⁴ 

25:10 ³⁴⁵ 

“They are to make an ark ³⁴⁶  of acacia wood – its length is to be three feet nine inches, its width two feet three inches, and its height two feet three inches. ³⁴⁷  25:11 You are to overlay ³⁴⁸  it with pure gold – both inside and outside you must overlay it, ³⁴⁹  and you are to make a surrounding border ³⁵⁰  of gold over it. 25:12 You are to cast four gold rings for it and put them on its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other side. 25:13 You are to make poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold, 25:14 and put the poles into the rings at the sides of the ark in order to carry the ark with them. 25:15 The poles must remain in the rings of the ark; they must not be removed from it. 25:16 You are to put into the ark the testimony ³⁵¹  that I will give to you.

25:17 “You are to make an atonement lid ³⁵²  of pure gold; ³⁵³  its length is to be three feet nine inches, and its width is to be two feet three inches. 25:18 You are to make two cherubim ³⁵⁴  of gold; you are to make them of hammered metal on the two ends of the atonement lid. 25:19 Make ³⁵⁵  one cherub on one end ³⁵⁶  and one cherub on the other end; from the atonement lid ³⁵⁷  you are to make the cherubim on the two ends. 25:20 The cherubim are to be spreading their wings upward, overshadowing ³⁵⁸  the atonement lid with their wings, and the cherubim are to face each other, ³⁵⁹  looking ³⁶⁰  toward the atonement lid. 25:21 You are to put the atonement lid on top of the ark, and in the ark you are to put the testimony I am giving you. 25:22 I will meet with you there, ³⁶¹  and ³⁶²  from above the atonement lid, from between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will command you for the Israelites.

25:23 ³⁶³ 

“You are to make a table of acacia wood; its length is to be three feet, its width one foot six inches, and its height two feet three inches. 25:24 You are to overlay it with ³⁶⁴  pure gold, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold for it. 25:25 You are to make a surrounding frame ³⁶⁵  for it about three inches broad, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold for its frame. 25:26 You are to make four rings of gold for it and attach ³⁶⁶  the rings at the four corners where its four legs are. ³⁶⁷  25:27 The rings are to be close to the frame to provide places ³⁶⁸  for the poles to carry the table. 25:28 You are to make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that the table may be carried with them. ³⁶⁹  25:29 You are to make its plates, ³⁷⁰  its ladles, ³⁷¹  its pitchers, and its bowls, to be used in pouring out offerings; ³⁷²  you are to make them of pure gold. 25:30 You are to set the Bread of the Presence ³⁷³  on the table before me continually.

25:31 ³⁷⁴ 

“You are to make a lampstand ³⁷⁵  of pure gold. The lampstand is to be made of hammered metal; its base and its shaft, its cups, ³⁷⁶  its buds, and its blossoms are to be from the same piece. ³⁷⁷  25:32 Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand, ³⁷⁸  three branches of the lampstand from one side of it and three branches of the lampstand from the other side of it. ³⁷⁹  25:33 Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on one branch, and three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on the next ³⁸⁰  branch, and the same ³⁸¹  for the six branches extending from the lampstand. 25:34 On the lampstand there are to be four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms, 25:35 with a bud under the first ³⁸²  two branches from it, and a bud under the next ³⁸³  two branches from it, and a bud under the third ³⁸⁴  two branches from it, according to the six branches that extend from the lampstand. 25:36 Their buds and their branches will be one piece, ³⁸⁵  all of it one hammered piece of pure gold.

25:37 “You are to make its seven lamps, ³⁸⁶  and then set ³⁸⁷  its lamps up on it, so that it will give light ³⁸⁸  to the area in front of it. 25:38 Its trimmers and its trays ³⁸⁹  are to be ³⁹⁰  of pure gold. 25:39 About seventy-five pounds ³⁹¹  of pure gold is to be used for it ³⁹²  and for all these utensils. 25:40 Now be sure to make ³⁹³  them according to the pattern you were shown ³⁹⁴  on the mountain. ³⁹⁵ 

26:1 ³⁹⁶ 

“The tabernacle itself ³⁹⁷  you are to make with ³⁹⁸  ten curtains of fine twisted linen and blue and purple and scarlet; ³⁹⁹  you are to make them with ⁴⁰⁰  cherubim that are the work of an artistic designer. 26:2 The length of each ⁴⁰¹  curtain is to be forty-two feet, and the width of each curtain is to be six feet ⁴⁰²  – the same size for each of the curtains. 26:3 Five curtains are to be joined, ⁴⁰³  one to another, ⁴⁰⁴  and the other ⁴⁰⁵  five curtains are to be joined, one to another. 26:4 You are to make loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in one set, and in the same way you are to make loops ⁴⁰⁶  in the outer edge of the end curtain in the second set. 26:5 You are to make fifty loops on the one curtain, and you are to make fifty loops on the end curtain which is on the second set, so that the loops are opposite one to another. ⁴⁰⁷  26:6 You are to make fifty gold clasps and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle is a unit. ⁴⁰⁸ 

26:7 “You are to make curtains of goats’ hair ⁴⁰⁹  for a tent over the tabernacle; ⁴¹⁰  you are to make ⁴¹¹  eleven curtains. 26:8 The length of each ⁴¹²  curtain is to be forty-five feet, and the width of each curtain is to be six feet – the same size for the eleven curtains. 26:9 You are to join five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves. You are to double over ⁴¹³  the sixth curtain at the front of the tent. 26:10 You are to make fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in one set and fifty loops along the edge of the curtain that joins the second set. 26:11 You are to make fifty bronze clasps and put the clasps into the loops and join the tent together so that it is a unit. ⁴¹⁴  26:12 Now the part that remains of the curtains of the tent – the half curtain that remains will hang over at the back of the tabernacle. ⁴¹⁵  26:13 The foot and a half ⁴¹⁶  on the one side and the foot and a half on the other side of what remains in the length of the curtains of the tent will hang over the sides of the tabernacle, on one side and the other side, to cover it. ⁴¹⁷ 

26:14 “You are to make a covering ⁴¹⁸  for the tent out of ram skins dyed red and over that a covering of fine leather. ⁴¹⁹ 

26:15 “You are to make the frames ⁴²⁰  for the tabernacle out of ⁴²¹  acacia wood as uprights. ⁴²²  26:16 Each ⁴²³  frame is to be fifteen feet long, and each frame is to be two feet three inches wide, 26:17 with two projections ⁴²⁴  per frame parallel one to another. ⁴²⁵  You are to make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way. 26:18 So you are to make the frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side, ⁴²⁶  26:19 and you are to make forty silver bases to go under the twenty frames – two bases under the first frame for its two projections, and likewise ⁴²⁷  two bases under the next frame for its two projections; 26:20 and for the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, twenty frames, 26:21 and their forty silver bases, two bases under the first frame, and two bases under the next frame. 26:22 And for the back of the tabernacle on the west ⁴²⁸  you will make six frames. 26:23 You are to make two frames for the corners ⁴²⁹  of the tabernacle on the back. 26:24 At the two corners ⁴³⁰  they must be doubled at the lower end and finished together at the top in one ring. So it will be for both. 26:25 So there are to be eight frames and their silver bases, sixteen bases, two bases under the first frame, and two bases under the next frame.

26:26 “You are to make bars of acacia wood, five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle, 26:27 and five bars for the frames on the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames on the back of the tabernacle on the west. 26:28 The middle bar in the center of the frames will reach from end to end. ⁴³¹  26:29 You are to overlay the frames with gold and make their rings of gold to provide places for the bars, and you are to overlay the bars with gold. 26:30 You are to set up the tabernacle according to the plan ⁴³²  that you were shown on the mountain.

26:31 “You are to make a special curtain ⁴³³  of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen; it is to be made ⁴³⁴  with cherubim, the work of an artistic designer. 26:32 You are to hang it ⁴³⁵  with gold hooks ⁴³⁶  on four posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold, set in ⁴³⁷  four silver bases. 26:33 You are to hang this curtain under the clasps and bring the ark of the testimony in there behind the curtain. ⁴³⁸  The curtain will make a division for you between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place. ⁴³⁹  26:34 You are to put the atonement lid on the ark of the testimony in the Most Holy Place. 26:35 You are to put the table outside the curtain and the lampstand on the south side of the tabernacle, opposite the table, and you are to place the table on the north side.

26:36 “You are to make a hanging ⁴⁴⁰  for the entrance of the tent of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer. ⁴⁴¹  26:37 You are to make for the hanging five posts of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and their hooks will be ⁴⁴²  gold, and you are to cast five bronze bases for them. ⁴⁴³ 

27:1 “You are to make the ⁴⁴⁴  altar of acacia wood, seven feet six inches long, ⁴⁴⁵  and seven feet six inches wide; the altar is to be square, ⁴⁴⁶  and its height is to be ⁴⁴⁷  four feet six inches. 27:2 You are to make its four horns ⁴⁴⁸  on its four corners; its horns will be part of it, ⁴⁴⁹  and you are to overlay it with bronze. 27:3 You are to make its pots for the ashes, ⁴⁵⁰  its shovels, its tossing bowls, ⁴⁵¹  its meat hooks, and its fire pans – you are to make all ⁴⁵²  its utensils of bronze. 27:4 You are to make a grating ⁴⁵³  for it, a network of bronze, and you are to make on the network four bronze rings on its four corners. 27:5 You are to put it under the ledge of the altar below, so that the network will come ⁴⁵⁴  halfway up the altar. ⁴⁵⁵  27:6 You are to make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and you are to overlay them with bronze. 27:7 The poles are to be put ⁴⁵⁶  into the rings so that the poles will be on two sides of the altar when carrying it. ⁴⁵⁷  27:8 You are to make the altar hollow, out of boards. Just as it was shown you ⁴⁵⁸  on the mountain, so they must make it. ⁴⁵⁹ 

27:9 “You are to make the courtyard ⁴⁶⁰  of the tabernacle. For the south side ⁴⁶¹  there are to be hangings ⁴⁶²  for the courtyard of fine twisted linen, one hundred fifty feet long for one side, ⁴⁶³  27:10 with ⁴⁶⁴  twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver. 27:11 Likewise ⁴⁶⁵  for its length on the north side, there are to be ⁴⁶⁶  hangings for one hundred fifty feet, with twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with silver hooks and bands ⁴⁶⁷  on the posts. 27:12 The width of the court on the west side is to be seventy-five feet with hangings, with their ten posts and their ten bases. 27:13 The width of the court on the east side, toward the sunrise, is to be seventy-five feet. 27:14 The hangings on one side ⁴⁶⁸  of the gate are to be ⁴⁶⁹  twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases. 27:15 On the second side ⁴⁷⁰  there are to be ⁴⁷¹  hangings twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases. 27:16 For the gate of the courtyard there is to be a curtain of thirty feet, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer, with four posts and their four bases. 27:17 All the posts around the courtyard are to have silver bands; ⁴⁷²  their hooks are to be ⁴⁷³  silver, and their bases bronze. 27:18 The length of the courtyard is to be one hundred fifty feet ⁴⁷⁴  and the width seventy-five feet, ⁴⁷⁵  and the height of the fine twisted linen hangings ⁴⁷⁶  is to be ⁴⁷⁷  seven and a half feet, with their bronze bases. 27:19 All ⁴⁷⁸  the utensils of the tabernacle used ⁴⁷⁹  in all its service, all its tent pegs, and all the tent pegs of the courtyard are to be made of bronze. ⁴⁸⁰ 

27:20 “You are to command the Israelites that they bring ⁴⁸¹  to you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, so that the lamps ⁴⁸²  will burn ⁴⁸³  regularly. ⁴⁸⁴  27:21 In the tent of meeting ⁴⁸⁵  outside the curtain that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons are to arrange it from evening ⁴⁸⁶  to morning before the Lord. This is to be a lasting ordinance among the Israelites for generations to come. ⁴⁸⁷ 

28:1 ⁴⁸⁸ “And you, bring near ⁴⁸⁹  to you your brother Aaron and his sons with him from among the Israelites, so that they may minister as my priests ⁴⁹⁰  – Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons. 28:2 You must make holy garments ⁴⁹¹  for your brother Aaron, for glory and for beauty. ⁴⁹²  28:3 You ⁴⁹³  are to speak to all who are specially skilled, ⁴⁹⁴  whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, ⁴⁹⁵  so that they may make ⁴⁹⁶  Aaron’s garments to set him apart ⁴⁹⁷  to minister as my priest. 28:4 Now these are the garments that they are to make: a breastpiece, ⁴⁹⁸  an ephod, ⁴⁹⁹  a robe, a fitted ⁵⁰⁰  tunic, a turban, and a sash. They are to make holy garments for your brother Aaron and for his sons, that they may minister as my priests. 28:5 The artisans ⁵⁰¹  are to use ⁵⁰²  the gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine linen.

28:6 “They are to make the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen, the work of an artistic designer. 28:7 It is to have two shoulder pieces attached to two of its corners, so it can be joined together. ⁵⁰³  28:8 The artistically woven waistband ⁵⁰⁴  of the ephod that is on it is to be like it, of one piece with the ephod, ⁵⁰⁵  of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen.

28:9 “You are to take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel, ⁵⁰⁶  28:10 six ⁵⁰⁷  of their names on one stone, and the six remaining names on the second stone, according to the order of their birth. ⁵⁰⁸  28:11 You are to engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel with the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a seal; ⁵⁰⁹  you are to have them set ⁵¹⁰  in gold filigree ⁵¹¹  settings. 28:12 You are to put the two stones on the shoulders of the ephod, stones of memorial for the sons of Israel, and Aaron will bear their names before the Lord on his two shoulders for a memorial. ⁵¹²  28:13 You are to make filigree settings of gold 28:14 and two braided chains of pure gold, like a cord, and attach the chains to the settings.

28:15 “You are to make a breastpiece for use in making decisions, ⁵¹³  the work of an artistic designer; you are to make it in the same fashion as the ephod; you are to make it of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen. 28:16 It is to be square ⁵¹⁴  when ⁵¹⁵  doubled, nine inches ⁵¹⁶  long and nine inches wide. 28:17 You are to set in it a setting for stones, four rows of stones, a row with a ruby, a topaz, and a beryl – the first row; 28:18 and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald; 28:19 and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; 28:20 and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. ⁵¹⁷  They are to be enclosed in gold in their filigree settings. 28:21 The stones are to be for the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to the number of ⁵¹⁸  their names. Each name according to the twelve tribes is to be like ⁵¹⁹  the engravings of a seal.

28:22 “You are to make for the breastpiece braided chains like cords of pure gold, 28:23 and you are to make for the breastpiece two gold rings and attach ⁵²⁰  the two rings to the upper ⁵²¹  two ends of the breastpiece. 28:24 You are to attach the two gold chains to the two rings at the ends of the breastpiece; 28:25 the other ⁵²²  two ends of the two chains you will attach to the two settings and then attach them ⁵²³  to the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it. 28:26 You are to make two rings of gold and put them on the other ⁵²⁴  two ends of the breastpiece, on its edge that is on the inner side of the ephod. 28:27 You are to make two more ⁵²⁵  gold rings and attach them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces on the front of the ephod, close to the juncture above the waistband of the ephod. 28:28 They are to tie the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod by blue cord, so that it may be above the waistband of the ephod, and so that the breastpiece will not be loose from the ephod. 28:29 Aaron will bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breastpiece of decision over his heart ⁵²⁶  when he goes into the holy place, for a memorial before the Lord continually.

28:30 “You are to put the Urim and the Thummim ⁵²⁷  into the breastpiece of decision; and they are to be over Aaron’s heart when he goes in before the Lord. Aaron is to bear the decisions ⁵²⁸  of the Israelites over his heart before the Lord continually.

28:31 “You are to make the robe ⁵²⁹  of the ephod completely blue. 28:32 There is to be an opening ⁵³⁰  in its top ⁵³¹  in the center of it, with an edge all around the opening, the work of a weaver, ⁵³²  like the opening of a collar, ⁵³³  so that it cannot be torn. ⁵³⁴  28:33 You are to make pomegranates ⁵³⁵  of blue, purple, and scarlet all around its hem ⁵³⁶  and bells of gold between them all around. 28:34 The pattern is to be ⁵³⁷  a gold bell and a pomegranate, a gold bell and a pomegranate, all around the hem of the robe. 28:35 The robe ⁵³⁸  is to be on Aaron as he ministers, ⁵³⁹  and his sound will be heard ⁵⁴⁰  when he enters the Holy Place before the Lord and when he leaves, so that he does not die.

28:36 “You are to make a plate ⁵⁴¹  of pure gold and engrave on it the way a seal is engraved: ⁵⁴²  “Holiness to the Lord.” ⁵⁴³  28:37 You are to attach to it a blue cord so that it will be ⁵⁴⁴  on the turban; it is to be ⁵⁴⁵  on the front of the turban, 28:38 It will be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron will bear the iniquity of the holy things, ⁵⁴⁶  which the Israelites are to sanctify by all their holy gifts; ⁵⁴⁷  it will always be on his forehead, for their acceptance ⁵⁴⁸  before the Lord. 28:39 You are to weave ⁵⁴⁹  the tunic of fine linen and make the turban of fine linen, and make the sash the work of an embroiderer.

28:40 “For Aaron’s sons you are to make tunics, sashes, and headbands ⁵⁵⁰  for glory and for beauty.

28:41 “You are to clothe them – your brother Aaron and his sons with him – and anoint them ⁵⁵¹  and ordain them ⁵⁵²  and set them apart as holy, ⁵⁵³  so that they may minister as my priests. 28:42 Make for them linen undergarments to cover their naked bodies; ⁵⁵⁴  they must cover ⁵⁵⁵  from the waist to the thighs. 28:43 These must be on Aaron and his sons when they enter ⁵⁵⁶  to the tent of meeting, or when they approach ⁵⁵⁷  the altar to minister in the Holy Place, so that they bear no iniquity and die. ⁵⁵⁸  It is to be a perpetual ordinance for him and for his descendants ⁵⁵⁹  after him. ⁵⁶⁰ 

29:1 ⁵⁶¹ 

“Now this is what ⁵⁶²  you are to do for them to consecrate them so that they may minister as my priests. Take a young ⁵⁶³  bull and two rams without blemish; ⁵⁶⁴  29:2 and ⁵⁶⁵  bread made without yeast, and perforated cakes without yeast mixed with oil, and wafers without yeast spread ⁵⁶⁶  with oil – you are to make them using ⁵⁶⁷  fine wheat flour. 29:3 You are to put them in one basket and present ⁵⁶⁸  them in the basket, along with ⁵⁶⁹  the bull and the two rams.

29:4 “You are to present ⁵⁷⁰  Aaron and his sons at the entrance of the tent of meeting. You are to wash ⁵⁷¹  them with water 29:5 and take the garments and clothe Aaron with the tunic, ⁵⁷²  the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastpiece; you are to fasten the ephod on him by using the skillfully woven waistband. ⁵⁷³  29:6 You are to put the turban on his head and put the holy diadem ⁵⁷⁴  on the turban. 29:7 You are to take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him. ⁵⁷⁵  29:8 You are to present his sons and clothe them with tunics 29:9 and wrap the sashes around Aaron and his sons ⁵⁷⁶  and put headbands on them, and so the ministry of priesthood will belong to them by a perpetual ordinance. Thus you are to consecrate ⁵⁷⁷  Aaron and his sons.

29:10 “You are to present the bull at the front of the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons are to put ⁵⁷⁸  their hands on the head ⁵⁷⁹  of the bull. 29:11 You are to kill the bull before the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting 29:12 and take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar ⁵⁸⁰  with your finger; all the rest of ⁵⁸¹  the blood you are to pour out at the base of the altar. 29:13 You are to take all the fat that covers the entrails, and the lobe ⁵⁸²  that is above the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and burn them ⁵⁸³  on the altar. 29:14 But the meat of the bull, its skin, and its dung you are to burn up ⁵⁸⁴  outside the camp. ⁵⁸⁵  It is the purification offering. ⁵⁸⁶ 

29:15 “You are to take one ram, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on the ram’s head, 29:16 and you are to kill the ram and take its blood and splash it all around on the altar. 29:17 Then you are to cut the ram into pieces and wash the entrails and its legs and put them on its pieces and on its head 29:18 and burn ⁵⁸⁷  the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering ⁵⁸⁸  to the Lord, a soothing aroma; it is an offering made by fire ⁵⁸⁹  to the Lord. ⁵⁹⁰ 

29:19 “You are to take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on the ram’s head, 29:20 and you are to kill the ram and take some of its blood and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, on the tip of the right ear of his sons, on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot, ⁵⁹¹  and then splash the blood all around on the altar. 29:21 You are to take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil and sprinkle it ⁵⁹²  on Aaron, on his garments, on his sons, and on his sons’ garments with him, so that he may be holy, ⁵⁹³  he and his garments along with his sons and his sons’ garments.

29:22 “You are to take from the ram the fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails, the lobe ⁵⁹⁴  of the liver, the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and the right thigh – for it is the ram for consecration ⁵⁹⁵  – 29:23 and one round flat cake of bread, one perforated cake of oiled bread, and one wafer from the basket of bread made without yeast that is before the Lord. 29:24 You are to put all these ⁵⁹⁶  in Aaron’s hands ⁵⁹⁷  and in his sons’ hands, and you are to wave them as a wave offering ⁵⁹⁸  before the Lord. 29:25 Then you are to take them from their hands and burn ⁵⁹⁹  them ⁶⁰⁰  on the altar for a burnt offering, for a soothing aroma before the Lord. It is an offering made by fire to the Lord. 29:26 You are to take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration; you are to wave it as a wave offering before the Lord, and it is to be your share. 29:27 You are to sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution, ⁶⁰¹  which were waved and lifted up as a contribution from the ram of consecration, from what belongs to Aaron and to his sons. 29:28 It is to belong to Aaron and to his sons from the Israelites, by a perpetual ordinance, for it is a contribution. It is to be a contribution from the Israelites from their peace offerings, their contribution to the Lord.

29:29 “The holy garments that belong to Aaron are to belong to his sons after him, so that they may be anointed ⁶⁰²  in them and consecrated ⁶⁰³  in them. 29:30 The priest who succeeds him ⁶⁰⁴  from his sons, when he first comes ⁶⁰⁵  to the tent of meeting to minister in the Holy Place, is to wear them for seven days. ⁶⁰⁶ 

29:31 “You are to take the ram of the consecration and cook ⁶⁰⁷  its meat in a holy place. ⁶⁰⁸  29:32 Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that was in the basket at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 29:33 They are to eat those things by which atonement was made ⁶⁰⁹  to consecrate and to set them apart, but no one else ⁶¹⁰  may eat them, for they are holy. 29:34 If any of the meat from the consecration offerings ⁶¹¹  or any of the bread is left over ⁶¹²  until morning, then you are to burn up ⁶¹³  what is left over. It must not be eaten, ⁶¹⁴  because it is holy.

29:35 “Thus you are to do for Aaron and for his sons, according to all that I have commanded you; you are to consecrate them ⁶¹⁵  for ⁶¹⁶  seven days. 29:36 Every day you are to prepare a bull for a purification offering ⁶¹⁷  for atonement. ⁶¹⁸  You are to purge ⁶¹⁹  the altar by making atonement ⁶²⁰  for it, and you are to anoint it to set it apart as holy. 29:37 For seven days ⁶²¹  you are to make atonement for the altar and set it apart as holy. Then the altar will be most holy. ⁶²²  Anything that touches the altar will be holy. ⁶²³ 

29:38 “Now this is what you are to prepare ⁶²⁴  on the altar every day continually: two lambs a year old. 29:39 The first lamb you are to prepare in the morning, and the second lamb you are to prepare around sundown. ⁶²⁵  29:40 With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah ⁶²⁶  of fine flour mixed with a fourth of a hin ⁶²⁷  of oil from pressed olives, and a fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering. 29:41 The second lamb you are to offer around sundown; you are to prepare for it the same meal offering as for the morning and the same drink offering, for a soothing aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

29:42 “This will be a regular ⁶²⁸  burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will meet ⁶²⁹  with you to speak to you there. 29:43 There I will meet ⁶³⁰  with the Israelites, and it will be set apart as holy by my glory. ⁶³¹ 

29:44 “So I will set apart as holy ⁶³²  the tent of meeting and the altar, and I will set apart as holy Aaron and his sons, that they may minister as priests to me. 29:45 I will reside ⁶³³  among the Israelites, and I will be their God, 29:46 and they will know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them out from the land of Egypt, so that I may reside among them. I am the Lord their God.

30:1 ⁶³⁴ 

“You are to make an altar for burning incense; ⁶³⁵  you are to make it of ⁶³⁶  acacia wood. ⁶³⁷  30:2 Its length is to be a foot and a half ⁶³⁸  and its width a foot and a half; it will be square. Its height is to be three feet, ⁶³⁹  with its horns of one piece with it. ⁶⁴⁰  30:3 You are to overlay it with pure gold – its top, ⁶⁴¹  its four walls, ⁶⁴²  and its horns – and make a surrounding border of gold for it. ⁶⁴³  30:4 You are to make two gold rings for it under its border, on its two flanks; you are to make them on its two sides. ⁶⁴⁴  The rings ⁶⁴⁵  will be places ⁶⁴⁶  for poles to carry it with. 30:5 You are to make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

30:6 “You are to put it in front of the curtain that is before the ark of the testimony (before the atonement lid that is over the testimony), where I will meet you. 30:7 Aaron is to burn sweet incense ⁶⁴⁷  on it morning by morning; when he attends ⁶⁴⁸  to the lamps he is to burn incense. ⁶⁴⁹  30:8 When Aaron sets up the lamps around sundown he is to burn incense on it; it is to be a regular incense offering before the Lord throughout your generations. 30:9 You must not offer strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering, and you must not pour out a drink offering on it. 30:10 Aaron is to make atonement on its horns once in the year with some of the blood of the sin offering for atonement; ⁶⁵⁰  once in the year ⁶⁵¹  he is to make atonement on it throughout your generations. It is most holy to the Lord.” ⁶⁵² 

30:11 ⁶⁵³ 

The Lord spoke to Moses: ⁶⁵⁴  30:12 “When you take a census ⁶⁵⁵  of the Israelites according to their number, ⁶⁵⁶  then each man is to pay a ransom ⁶⁵⁷  for his life to the Lord when you number them, ⁶⁵⁸  so that there will be no plague among them when you number them. 30:13 Everyone who crosses over to those who are numbered ⁶⁵⁹  is to pay this: a half shekel ⁶⁶⁰  according to the shekel of the sanctuary ⁶⁶¹  (a shekel weighs twenty gerahs). The half shekel is to be an offering ⁶⁶²  to the Lord. 30:14 Everyone who crosses over to those numbered, from twenty years old and up, is to pay an offering to the Lord. 30:15 The rich are not to increase it, ⁶⁶³  and the poor are not to pay less than the half shekel when giving ⁶⁶⁴  the offering of the Lord, to make atonement ⁶⁶⁵  for your lives. 30:16 You are to receive the atonement money ⁶⁶⁶  from the Israelites and give it for the service ⁶⁶⁷  of the tent of meeting. It will be a memorial ⁶⁶⁸  for the Israelites before the Lord, to make atonement ⁶⁶⁹  for your lives.”

30:17 ⁶⁷⁰ 

The Lord spoke to Moses: ⁶⁷¹  30:18 “You are also to make a large bronze ⁶⁷²  basin with a bronze stand ⁶⁷³  for washing. You are to put it between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it, ⁶⁷⁴  30:19 and Aaron and his sons must wash their hands and their feet from it. ⁶⁷⁵  30:20 When they enter ⁶⁷⁶  the tent of meeting, they must wash with ⁶⁷⁷  water so that they do not die. ⁶⁷⁸  Also, when they approach ⁶⁷⁹  the altar to minister by burning incense ⁶⁸⁰  as an offering made by fire ⁶⁸¹  to the Lord, 30:21 they must wash ⁶⁸²  their hands and their feet so that they do not die. And this ⁶⁸³  will be a perpetual ordinance for them and for their descendants ⁶⁸⁴  throughout their generations.” ⁶⁸⁵ 

30:22 ⁶⁸⁶ 

The Lord spoke to Moses: ⁶⁸⁷  30:23 “Take ⁶⁸⁸  choice spices: ⁶⁸⁹  twelve and a half pounds ⁶⁹⁰  of free-flowing myrrh, ⁶⁹¹  half that – about six and a quarter pounds – of sweet-smelling cinnamon, six and a quarter pounds of sweet-smelling cane, 30:24 and twelve and a half pounds of cassia, all weighed ⁶⁹²  according to the sanctuary shekel, and four quarts ⁶⁹³  of olive oil. 30:25 You are to make this ⁶⁹⁴  into ⁶⁹⁵  a sacred anointing oil, a perfumed compound, ⁶⁹⁶  the work of a perfumer. It will be sacred anointing oil.

30:26 “With it you are to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, 30:27 the table and all its utensils, the lampstand and its utensils, the altar of incense, 30:28 the altar for the burnt offering and all its utensils, and the laver and its base. 30:29 So you are to sanctify them, ⁶⁹⁷  and they will be most holy; ⁶⁹⁸  anything that touches them will be holy. ⁶⁹⁹ 

30:30 “You are to anoint Aaron and his sons and ⁷⁰⁰  sanctify them, so that they may minister as my priests. 30:31 And you are to tell the Israelites: ‘This is to be my sacred anointing oil throughout your generations. 30:32 It must not be applied ⁷⁰¹  to people’s bodies, and you must not make any like it with the same recipe. It is holy, and it must be holy to you. 30:33 Whoever makes perfume like it and whoever puts any of it on someone not a priest ⁷⁰²  will be cut off ⁷⁰³  from his people.’”

30:34 The Lord said to Moses: “Take ⁷⁰⁴  spices, gum resin, ⁷⁰⁵  onycha, ⁷⁰⁶  galbanum, ⁷⁰⁷  and pure frankincense ⁷⁰⁸  of equal amounts ⁷⁰⁹  30:35 and make it into an incense, ⁷¹⁰  a perfume, ⁷¹¹  the work of a perfumer. It is to be finely ground, ⁷¹²  and pure and sacred. 30:36 You are to beat some of it very fine and put some of it before the ark of the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you; it is to be most holy to you. 30:37 And the incense that you are to make, you must not make for yourselves using the same recipe; it is to be most holy to you, belonging to the Lord. 30:38 Whoever makes anything like it, to use as perfume, ⁷¹³  will be cut off from his people.”

31:1 ⁷¹⁴ 

The Lord spoke to Moses: ⁷¹⁵  31:2 “See, I have chosen ⁷¹⁶  Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, 31:3 and I have filled him with the Spirit of God ⁷¹⁷  in skill, ⁷¹⁸  in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds ⁷¹⁹  of craftsmanship, 31:4 to make artistic designs ⁷²⁰  for work with gold, with silver, and with bronze, 31:5 and with cutting and setting stone, and with cutting wood, to work in all kinds of craftsmanship. 31:6 Moreover, ⁷²¹  I have also given him Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, and I have given ability to all the specially skilled, ⁷²²  that they may make ⁷²³  everything I have commanded you: 31:7 the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, the atonement lid that is on it, all the furnishings ⁷²⁴  of the tent, 31:8 the table with its utensils, the pure lampstand with all its utensils, the altar of incense, 31:9 the altar for the burnt offering with all its utensils, the large basin with its base, 31:10 the woven garments, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons, to minister as priests, 31:11 the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the Holy Place. They will make all these things just as I have commanded you.”

31:12 ⁷²⁵ 

The Lord said to Moses, ⁷²⁶  31:13 “Tell the Israelites, ‘Surely you must keep my Sabbaths, ⁷²⁷  for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you. ⁷²⁸  31:14 So you must keep the Sabbath, for it is holy for you. Everyone who defiles it ⁷²⁹  must surely be put to death; indeed, ⁷³⁰  if anyone does ⁷³¹  any ⁷³²  work on it, then that person will be cut off from among his ⁷³³  people. 31:15 Six days ⁷³⁴  work may be done, ⁷³⁵  but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, ⁷³⁶  holy to the Lord; anyone who does work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death. 31:16 The Israelites must keep the Sabbath by observing the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant. 31:17 It is a sign between me and the Israelites forever; for in six days ⁷³⁷  the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’” ⁷³⁸ 

31:18 He gave Moses two tablets of testimony when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, tablets of stone written by the finger of God. ⁷³⁹ 

32:1 ⁷⁴⁰ 

When the people saw that Moses delayed ⁷⁴¹  in coming down ⁷⁴²  from the mountain, they ⁷⁴³  gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Get up, ⁷⁴⁴  make us gods ⁷⁴⁵  that will go before us. As for this fellow Moses, ⁷⁴⁶  the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what ⁷⁴⁷  has become of him!”

32:2 So Aaron said to them, “Break off the gold earrings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.” ⁷⁴⁸  32:3 So all ⁷⁴⁹  the people broke off the gold earrings that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron. 32:4 He accepted the gold ⁷⁵⁰  from them, ⁷⁵¹  fashioned ⁷⁵²  it with an engraving tool, and made a molten calf. ⁷⁵³  Then they said, “These are your gods, ⁷⁵⁴  O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”

32:5 When ⁷⁵⁵  Aaron saw this, ⁷⁵⁶  he built an altar before it, ⁷⁵⁷  and Aaron made a proclamation ⁷⁵⁸  and said, “Tomorrow will be a feast ⁷⁵⁹  to the Lord.” 32:6 So they got up early on the next day and offered up burnt offerings and brought peace offerings, and the people sat down to eat and drink, ⁷⁶⁰  and they rose up to play. ⁷⁶¹ 

32:7 The Lord spoke to Moses: “Go quickly, descend, ⁷⁶²  because your ⁷⁶³  people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have acted corruptly. 32:8 They have quickly turned aside ⁷⁶⁴  from the way that I commanded them – they have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt.’”

32:9 Then the Lord said to Moses: “I have seen this people. ⁷⁶⁵  Look ⁷⁶⁶  what a stiff-necked people they are! ⁷⁶⁷  32:10 So now, leave me alone ⁷⁶⁸  so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them, and I will make from you a great nation.”

32:11 But Moses sought the favor ⁷⁶⁹  of the Lord his God and said, “O Lord, why does your anger burn against your people, whom you have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 32:12 Why ⁷⁷⁰  should the Egyptians say, ⁷⁷¹  ‘For evil ⁷⁷²  he led them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy ⁷⁷³  them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger, and relent ⁷⁷⁴  of this evil against your people. 32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and told them, ‘I will multiply your descendants ⁷⁷⁵  like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken about ⁷⁷⁶  I will give to your descendants, ⁷⁷⁷  and they will inherit it forever.’” 32:14 Then the Lord relented over the evil that he had said he would do to his people.

32:15 Moses turned and went down from the mountain with ⁷⁷⁸  the two tablets of the testimony in his hands. The tablets were written on both sides – they were written on the front and on the back. 32:16 Now the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets. 32:17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, ⁷⁷⁹  he said to Moses, “It is the sound of war in the camp!” 32:18 Moses ⁷⁸⁰  said, “It is not the sound of those who shout for victory, ⁷⁸¹  nor is it the sound of those who cry because they are overcome, ⁷⁸²  but the sound of singing ⁷⁸³  I hear.” ⁷⁸⁴ 

32:19 When he approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses became extremely angry. ⁷⁸⁵  He threw the tablets from his hands and broke them to pieces at the bottom of the mountain. ⁷⁸⁶  32:20 He took the calf they had made and burned it in the fire, ground it ⁷⁸⁷  to powder, poured it out on the water, and made the Israelites drink it. ⁷⁸⁸ 

32:21 Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you, that you have brought on them so great a sin?” 32:22 Aaron said, “Do not let your anger burn hot, my lord; ⁷⁸⁹  you know these people, that they tend to evil. ⁷⁹⁰  32:23 They said to me, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this fellow Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’ 32:24 So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, break it off.’ So they gave it ⁷⁹¹  to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out.” ⁷⁹² 

32:25 Moses saw that the people were running wild, ⁷⁹³  for Aaron had let them get completely out of control, causing derision from their enemies. ⁷⁹⁴  32:26 So Moses stood at the entrance of the camp and said, “Whoever is for the Lord, come ⁷⁹⁵  to me.” ⁷⁹⁶  All the Levites gathered around him, 32:27 and he said to them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Each man fasten ⁷⁹⁷  his sword on his side, and go back and forth ⁷⁹⁸  from entrance to entrance throughout the camp, and each one kill his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.’” ⁷⁹⁹ 

32:28 The Levites did what Moses ordered, ⁸⁰⁰  and that day about three thousand men of the people died. ⁸⁰¹  32:29 Moses said, “You have been consecrated ⁸⁰²  today for the Lord, for each of you was against his son or against his brother, so he has given a blessing to you today.” ⁸⁰³ 

32:30 The next day Moses said to the people, ⁸⁰⁴  “You have committed a very serious sin, ⁸⁰⁵  but now I will go up to the Lord – perhaps I can make atonement ⁸⁰⁶  on behalf of your sin.”

32:31 So Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Alas, this people has committed a very serious sin, ⁸⁰⁷  and they have made for themselves gods of gold. 32:32 But now, if you will forgive their sin…, ⁸⁰⁸  but if not, wipe me out ⁸⁰⁹  from your book that you have written.” ⁸¹⁰  32:33 The Lord said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me – that person I will wipe out of my book. 32:34 So now go, lead the people to the place I have spoken to you about. See, ⁸¹¹  my angel will go before you. But on the day that I punish, I will indeed punish them for their sin.” ⁸¹² 

32:35 And the Lord sent a plague on the people because they had made the calf ⁸¹³  – the one Aaron made. ⁸¹⁴ 

33:1 The Lord said to Moses, “Go up ⁸¹⁵  from here, you and the people whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land I promised on oath ⁸¹⁶  to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ ⁸¹⁷  33:2 I will send an angel ⁸¹⁸  before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. ⁸¹⁹  33:3 Go up ⁸²⁰  to a land flowing with milk and honey. But ⁸²¹  I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, and I might destroy you ⁸²²  on the way.”

33:4 When the people heard this troubling word ⁸²³  they mourned; ⁸²⁴  no one put on his ornaments. 33:5 For ⁸²⁵  the Lord had said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I went up among you for a moment, ⁸²⁶  I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments, ⁸²⁷  that I may know ⁸²⁸  what I should do to you.’” ⁸²⁹  33:6 So the Israelites stripped off their ornaments by Mount Horeb.

33:7 ⁸³⁰ 

Moses took ⁸³¹  the tent ⁸³²  and pitched it outside the camp, at a good distance ⁸³³  from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. Anyone ⁸³⁴  seeking ⁸³⁵  the Lord would go out to the tent of meeting that was outside the camp.

33:8 And when Moses went out ⁸³⁶  to the tent, all the people would get up ⁸³⁷  and stand at the entrance to their tents ⁸³⁸  and watch ⁸³⁹  Moses until he entered the tent. ⁸⁴⁰  33:9 And ⁸⁴¹  whenever Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and the Lord ⁸⁴²  would speak with Moses. ⁸⁴³  33:10 When all the people would see the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people, each one at the entrance of his own tent, would rise and worship. ⁸⁴⁴  33:11 The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, ⁸⁴⁵  the way a person speaks ⁸⁴⁶  to a friend. Then Moses ⁸⁴⁷  would return to the camp, but his servant, Joshua son of Nun, a young man, did not leave the tent. ⁸⁴⁸ 

33:12 Moses said to the Lord, “See, you have been saying to me, ‘Bring this people up,’ ⁸⁴⁹  but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. But you said, ‘I know you by name, ⁸⁵⁰  and also you have found favor in my sight.’ 33:13 Now if I have found favor in your sight, show me ⁸⁵¹  your way, that I may know you, ⁸⁵²  that I may continue to find ⁸⁵³  favor in your sight. And see ⁸⁵⁴  that this nation is your people.”

33:14 And the Lord ⁸⁵⁵  said, “My presence ⁸⁵⁶  will go with you, ⁸⁵⁷  and I will give you rest.” ⁸⁵⁸ 

33:15 And Moses ⁸⁵⁹  said to him, “If your presence does not go ⁸⁶⁰  with us, ⁸⁶¹  do not take us up from here. ⁸⁶²  33:16 For how will it be known then that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not by your going with us, so that we will be distinguished, I and your people, from all the people who are on the face of the earth?” ⁸⁶³ 

33:17 The Lord said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have requested, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know ⁸⁶⁴  you by name.”

33:18 And Moses ⁸⁶⁵  said, “Show me your glory.” ⁸⁶⁶ 

33:19 And the Lord ⁸⁶⁷  said, “I will make all my goodness ⁸⁶⁸  pass before your face, and I will proclaim the Lord by name ⁸⁶⁹  before you; I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy.” ⁸⁷⁰  33:20 But he added, “You cannot see my face, for no one can ⁸⁷¹  see me and live.” ⁸⁷²  33:21 The Lord said, “Here ⁸⁷³  is a place by me; you will station yourself ⁸⁷⁴  on a rock. 33:22 When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and will cover ⁸⁷⁵  you with my hand ⁸⁷⁶  while I pass by. ⁸⁷⁷  33:23 Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back, ⁸⁷⁸  but my face must not be seen.” ⁸⁷⁹ 

34:1 ⁸⁸⁰ 

The Lord said to Moses, “Cut out ⁸⁸¹  two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write ⁸⁸²  on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you smashed. 34:2 Be prepared ⁸⁸³  in the morning, and go up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and station yourself ⁸⁸⁴  for me there on the top of the mountain. 34:3 No one is to come up with you; do not let anyone be seen anywhere on the mountain; not even the flocks or the herds may graze in front of that mountain.” 34:4 So Moses ⁸⁸⁵  cut out two tablets of stone like the first; ⁸⁸⁶  early in the morning he went up ⁸⁸⁷  to Mount Sinai, just as the Lord had commanded him, and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.

34:5 The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the Lord by name. ⁸⁸⁸  34:6 The Lord passed by before him and proclaimed: ⁸⁸⁹  “The Lord, the Lord, ⁸⁹⁰  the compassionate and gracious ⁸⁹¹  God, slow to anger, ⁸⁹²  and abounding in loyal love and faithfulness, ⁸⁹³  34:7 keeping loyal love for thousands, ⁸⁹⁴  forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin. But he by no means leaves the guilty unpunished, responding to the transgression ⁸⁹⁵  of fathers by dealing with children and children’s children, to the third and fourth generation.”

34:8 Moses quickly bowed ⁸⁹⁶  to the ground and worshiped 34:9 and said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, let my Lord ⁸⁹⁷  go among us, for we ⁸⁹⁸  are a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

34:10 He said, “See, I am going to make ⁸⁹⁹  a covenant before all your people. I will do wonders such as have not been done ⁹⁰⁰  in all the earth, nor in any nation. All the people among whom you live will see the work of the Lord, for it is a fearful thing that I am doing with you. ⁹⁰¹ 

34:11 “Obey ⁹⁰²  what I am commanding you this day. I am going to drive out ⁹⁰³  before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 34:12 Be careful not to make ⁹⁰⁴  a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare ⁹⁰⁵  among you. 34:13 Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles. ⁹⁰⁶  34:14 For you must not worship ⁹⁰⁷  any other god, ⁹⁰⁸  for the Lord, whose name ⁹⁰⁹  is Jealous, is a jealous God. 34:15 Be careful ⁹¹⁰  not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when ⁹¹¹  they prostitute themselves ⁹¹²  to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you, ⁹¹³  you will eat from his sacrifice; 34:16 and you then take ⁹¹⁴  his daughters for your sons, and when his daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will make your sons prostitute themselves to their gods as well. 34:17 You must not make yourselves molten gods.

34:18 “You must keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days ⁹¹⁵  you must eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you; do this ⁹¹⁶  at the appointed time of the month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt.

34:19 “Every firstborn of the womb ⁹¹⁷  belongs to me, even every firstborn ⁹¹⁸  of your cattle that is a male, ⁹¹⁹  whether ox or sheep. 34:20 Now the firstling ⁹²⁰  of a donkey you may redeem with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, then break its neck. ⁹²¹  You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons.

“No one will appear before me empty-handed. ⁹²² 

34:21 “On six days ⁹²³  you may labor, but on the seventh day you must rest; ⁹²⁴  even at the time of plowing and of harvest ⁹²⁵  you are to rest. ⁹²⁶ 

34:22 “You must observe ⁹²⁷  the Feast of Weeks – the firstfruits of the harvest of wheat – and the Feast of Ingathering at the end ⁹²⁸  of the year. 34:23 At three times ⁹²⁹  in the year all your men ⁹³⁰  must appear before the Lord God, ⁹³¹  the God of Israel. 34:24 For I will drive out ⁹³²  the nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one will covet ⁹³³  your land when you go up ⁹³⁴  to appear before the Lord your God three times ⁹³⁵  in the year.

34:25 “You must not offer the blood of my sacrifice with yeast; the sacrifice from the feast of Passover must not remain until the following morning. ⁹³⁶ 

34:26 “The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the Lord your God.

You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.” ⁹³⁷ 

34:27 The Lord said to Moses, “Write down ⁹³⁸  these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” 34:28 So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; ⁹³⁹  he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. ⁹⁴⁰ 

34:29 ⁹⁴¹ 

Now when Moses came down ⁹⁴²  from Mount Sinai with ⁹⁴³  the two tablets of the testimony in his hand ⁹⁴⁴  – when he came down ⁹⁴⁵  from the mountain, Moses ⁹⁴⁶  did not know that the skin of his face shone ⁹⁴⁷  while he talked with him. 34:30 When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face shone; ⁹⁴⁸  and they were afraid to approach him. 34:31 But Moses called to them, so Aaron and all the leaders of the community came back to him, and Moses spoke to them. 34:32 After this all the Israelites approached, and he commanded them all that the Lord had spoken to him on Mount Sinai. 34:33 When Moses finished ⁹⁴⁹  speaking ⁹⁵⁰  with them, he would ⁹⁵¹  put a veil on his face. 34:34 But when Moses went in ⁹⁵²  before the Lord to speak with him, he would remove the veil until he came out. ⁹⁵³  Then he would come out and tell the Israelites what he had been commanded. ⁹⁵⁴  34:35 When the Israelites would see ⁹⁵⁵  the face of Moses, that ⁹⁵⁶  the skin of Moses’ face shone, Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with the Lord. ⁹⁵⁷ 

35:1 Moses assembled the whole community of the Israelites and said to them, “These are the things that the Lord has commanded you to do. ⁹⁵⁸  35:2 In six days ⁹⁵⁹  work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a holy day ⁹⁶⁰  for you, a Sabbath of complete rest to the Lord. ⁹⁶¹  Anyone who does work on it will be put to death. 35:3 You must not kindle a fire ⁹⁶²  in any of your homes ⁹⁶³  on the Sabbath day.” ⁹⁶⁴ 

35:4 ⁹⁶⁵ 

Moses spoke to the whole community of the Israelites, “This is the word that the Lord has commanded: 35:5 ‘Take ⁹⁶⁶  an offering for the Lord. Let everyone who has a willing heart ⁹⁶⁷  bring ⁹⁶⁸  an offering to the Lord: ⁹⁶⁹  gold, silver, bronze, 35:6 blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, fine linen, goat’s hair, 35:7 ram skins dyed red, fine leather, ⁹⁷⁰  acacia wood, 35:8 olive oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, 35:9 onyx stones, and other gems ⁹⁷¹  for mounting ⁹⁷²  on the ephod and the breastpiece. 35:10 Every skilled person ⁹⁷³  among you is to come and make all that the Lord has commanded: 35:11 the tabernacle with ⁹⁷⁴  its tent, its covering, its clasps, its frames, its crossbars, its posts, and its bases; 35:12 the ark, with its poles, the atonement lid, and the special curtain that conceals it; 35:13 the table with its poles and all its vessels, and the Bread of the Presence; 35:14 the lampstand for ⁹⁷⁵  the light and its accessories, its lamps, and oil for the light; 35:15 and the altar of incense with its poles, the anointing oil, and the fragrant incense; the hanging for the door at the entrance of the tabernacle; 35:16 the altar for the burnt offering with its bronze grating that is on it, its poles, and all its utensils; the large basin and its pedestal; 35:17 the hangings of the courtyard, its posts and its bases, and the curtain for the gateway to the courtyard; 35:18 tent pegs for the tabernacle and tent pegs for the courtyard and their ropes; 35:19 the woven garments for serving in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments for his sons to minister as priests.”

35:20 So the whole community of the Israelites went out from the presence of Moses. 35:21 Everyone ⁹⁷⁶  whose heart stirred him to action ⁹⁷⁷  and everyone whose spirit was willing ⁹⁷⁸  came and brought the offering for the Lord for the work of the tent of meeting, for all its service, and for the holy garments. ⁹⁷⁹  35:22 They came, men and women alike, ⁹⁸⁰  all who had willing hearts. They brought brooches, earrings, rings and ornaments, all kinds of gold jewelry, ⁹⁸¹  and everyone came who waved ⁹⁸²  a wave offering of gold to the Lord.

35:23 Everyone who had ⁹⁸³  blue, purple, or ⁹⁸⁴  scarlet yarn, fine linen, goats’ hair, ram skins dyed red, or fine leather ⁹⁸⁵  brought them. ⁹⁸⁶  35:24 Everyone making an offering of silver or bronze brought it as ⁹⁸⁷  an offering to the Lord, and everyone who had acacia wood ⁹⁸⁸  for any work of the service brought it. ⁹⁸⁹  35:25 Every woman who was skilled ⁹⁹⁰  spun with her hands and brought what she had spun, blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, or fine linen, 35:26 and all the women whose heart stirred them to action and who were skilled ⁹⁹¹  spun goats’ hair.

35:27 The leaders brought onyx stones and other gems to be mounted ⁹⁹²  for the ephod and the breastpiece, 35:28 and spices and olive oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense.

35:29 The Israelites brought a freewill offering to the Lord, every man and woman whose heart was willing to bring materials for all the work that the Lord through ⁹⁹³  Moses had commanded them ⁹⁹⁴  to do.

35:30 Moses said to the Israelites, “See, the Lord has chosen ⁹⁹⁵  Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. 35:31 He has filled him with the Spirit of God – with skill, with understanding, with knowledge, and in all kinds of work, 35:32 to design artistic designs, to work in gold, in silver, and in bronze, 35:33 and in cutting stones for their setting, ⁹⁹⁶  and in cutting wood, to do work in every artistic craft. ⁹⁹⁷  35:34 And he has put it in his heart ⁹⁹⁸  to teach, he and Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. 35:35 He has filled them with skill ⁹⁹⁹  to do all kinds of work ¹⁰⁰⁰  as craftsmen, as designers, as embroiderers in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and in fine linen, and as weavers. They are ¹⁰⁰¹  craftsmen in all the work ¹⁰⁰²  and artistic designers. ¹⁰⁰³  36:1 So Bezalel and Oholiab and every skilled person ¹⁰⁰⁴  in whom the Lord has put skill ¹⁰⁰⁵  and ability ¹⁰⁰⁶  to know how ¹⁰⁰⁷  to do all the work for the service ¹⁰⁰⁸  of the sanctuary are to do the work ¹⁰⁰⁹  according to all that the Lord has commanded.”

36:2 Moses summoned ¹⁰¹⁰  Bezalel and Oholiab and every skilled person in whom ¹⁰¹¹  the Lord had put skill – everyone whose heart stirred him ¹⁰¹²  to volunteer ¹⁰¹³  to do the work, 36:3 and they received from Moses all the offerings the Israelites had brought to do ¹⁰¹⁴  the work for the service of the sanctuary, and they still continued to bring him a freewill offering each morning. ¹⁰¹⁵  36:4 So all the skilled people who were doing all the work on the sanctuary came from the work ¹⁰¹⁶  they were doing 36:5 and told Moses, “The people are bringing much more than ¹⁰¹⁷  is needed for the completion ¹⁰¹⁸  of the work which the Lord commanded us to do!” ¹⁰¹⁹ 

36:6 Moses instructed them to take ¹⁰²⁰  his message ¹⁰²¹  throughout the camp, saying, “Let no man or woman do any more work for the offering for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing any more. ¹⁰²²  36:7 Now the materials were more than enough ¹⁰²³  for them to do all the work. ¹⁰²⁴ 

36:8 All the skilled among those who were doing the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twisted linen and blue and purple and scarlet; they were made with cherubim that were the work of an artistic designer. 36:9 The length of one curtain was forty-two feet, and the width of one curtain was six feet – the same size for each of the curtains. 36:10 He joined ¹⁰²⁵  five of the curtains to one another, and the other ¹⁰²⁶  five curtains he joined to one another. 36:11 He made loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in the first set; he did the same along the edge of the end curtain in the second set. 36:12 He made fifty loops on the first curtain, and he made fifty loops on the end curtain that was in the second set, with the loops opposite one another. 36:13 He made fifty gold clasps and joined the curtains together to one another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle was a unit. ¹⁰²⁷ 

36:14 He made curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven curtains. ¹⁰²⁸  36:15 The length of one curtain was forty-five feet, and the width of one curtain was six feet – one size for all eleven curtains. 36:16 He joined five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves. 36:17 He made fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in the first set and fifty loops along the edge of the curtain that joined the second set. 36:18 He made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent together so that it might be a unit. ¹⁰²⁹  36:19 He made a covering for the tent out of ram skins dyed red and over that a covering of fine leather. ¹⁰³⁰ 

36:20 He made the frames ¹⁰³¹  for the tabernacle of acacia wood ¹⁰³²  as uprights. ¹⁰³³  36:21 The length of each ¹⁰³⁴  frame was fifteen feet, the width of each ¹⁰³⁵  frame was two and a quarter feet, 36:22 with ¹⁰³⁶  two projections per frame parallel one to another. ¹⁰³⁷  He made all the frames of the tabernacle in this way. 36:23 So he made frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side. 36:24 He made forty silver bases under the twenty frames – two bases under the first frame for its two projections, and likewise ¹⁰³⁸  two bases under the next frame for its two projections, 36:25 and for the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, he made twenty frames 36:26 and their forty silver bases, two bases under the first frame and two bases under the next ¹⁰³⁹  frame. 36:27 And for the back of the tabernacle on the west he made six frames. 36:28 He made two frames for the corners of the tabernacle on the back. 36:29 At the two corners ¹⁰⁴⁰  they were doubled at the lower end and ¹⁰⁴¹  finished together at the top in one ring. So he did for both. 36:30 So there were eight frames and their silver bases, sixteen bases, two bases under each frame.

36:31 He made bars of acacia wood, five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle 36:32 and five bars for the frames on the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames of the tabernacle for the back side on the west. 36:33 He made the middle bar to reach from end to end in the center of the frames. 36:34 He overlaid the frames with gold and made their rings of gold to provide places ¹⁰⁴²  for the bars, and he overlaid the bars with gold.

36:35 He made the special curtain of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen; he made ¹⁰⁴³  it with cherubim, the work of an artistic designer. 36:36 He made for it four posts of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold, with gold hooks, ¹⁰⁴⁴  and he cast for them four silver bases.

36:37 He made a hanging for the entrance of the tent of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer, 36:38 and its five posts and their hooks. He overlaid their tops ¹⁰⁴⁵  and their bands with gold, but their five bases were bronze. ¹⁰⁴⁶ 

37:1 Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood; its length was three feet nine inches, its width two feet three inches, and its height two feet three inches. 37:2 He overlaid it with pure gold, inside and out, and he made a surrounding border ¹⁰⁴⁷  of gold for it. 37:3 He cast four gold rings for it that he put ¹⁰⁴⁸  on its four feet, with ¹⁰⁴⁹  two rings on one side and two rings on the other side. 37:4 He made poles of acacia wood, overlaid them with gold, 37:5 and put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark in order to carry the ark.

37:6 He made ¹⁰⁵⁰  an atonement lid of pure gold; its length was three feet nine inches, and its width was two feet three inches. 37:7 He made two cherubim of gold; he made them of hammered metal on the two ends of the atonement lid, 37:8 one cherub on one end ¹⁰⁵¹  and one cherub on the other end. ¹⁰⁵²  He made the cherubim from the atonement lid on its two ends. 37:9 The cherubim were spreading their wings ¹⁰⁵³  upward, overshadowing the atonement lid with their wings. The cherubim ¹⁰⁵⁴  faced each other, ¹⁰⁵⁵  looking toward the atonement lid. ¹⁰⁵⁶ 

37:10 He made the table of acacia wood; its length was three feet, its width one foot six inches, and its height two feet three inches. 37:11 He overlaid it with pure gold, and he made a surrounding border of gold for it. 37:12 He made a surrounding frame for it about three inches wide, and he made a surrounding border of gold for its frame. 37:13 He cast four gold rings for it and attached the rings at the four corners where its four legs were. 37:14 The rings were close to the frame to provide places for the poles to carry the table. 37:15 He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table. 37:16 He made the vessels which were on the table out of pure gold, its ¹⁰⁵⁷  plates, its ladles, its pitchers, and its bowls, to be used in pouring out offerings.

37:17 He made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of hammered metal; its base and its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its blossoms were from the same piece. ¹⁰⁵⁸  37:18 Six branches were extending from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from one side of it, and three branches of the lampstand from the other side of it. 37:19 Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms were on the first branch, and three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms were on the next ¹⁰⁵⁹  branch, and the same ¹⁰⁶⁰  for the six branches that were extending from the lampstand. 37:20 On the lampstand there were four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms, 37:21 with a bud under the first two branches from it, and a bud under the next two branches from it, and a bud under the third two branches from it; according to the six branches that extended from it. ¹⁰⁶¹  37:22 Their buds and their branches were of one piece; ¹⁰⁶²  all of it was one hammered piece of pure gold. 37:23 He made its seven lamps, its trimmers, and its trays of pure gold. 37:24 He made the lampstand ¹⁰⁶³  and all its accessories with seventy-five pounds of pure gold.

37:25 He made the incense altar of acacia wood. Its length was a foot and a half and its width a foot and a half – a square – and its height was three feet. Its horns were of one piece with it. ¹⁰⁶⁴  37:26 He overlaid it with pure gold – its top, ¹⁰⁶⁵  its four walls, ¹⁰⁶⁶  and its horns – and he made a surrounding border of gold for it. ¹⁰⁶⁷  37:27 He also made ¹⁰⁶⁸  two gold rings for it under its border, on its two sides, on opposite sides, ¹⁰⁶⁹  as places ¹⁰⁷⁰  for poles to carry it with. 37:28 He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.

37:29 He made the sacred anointing oil and the pure fragrant incense, the work of a perfumer.

38:1 He made the altar for the burnt offering of acacia wood seven feet six inches long and seven feet six inches wide – it was square – and its height was four feet six inches. 38:2 He made its horns on its four corners; its horns were part of it, ¹⁰⁷¹  and he overlaid it with bronze. 38:3 He made all the utensils of the altar – the pots, the shovels, the tossing bowls, the meat hooks, and the fire pans – he made all its utensils of bronze. 38:4 He made a grating for the altar, a network of bronze under its ledge, halfway up from the bottom. 38:5 He cast four rings for the four corners of the bronze grating, to provide places for the poles. 38:6 He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze. 38:7 He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made the altar ¹⁰⁷²  hollow, out of boards.

38:8 He made the large basin of bronze and its pedestal of bronze from the mirrors of the women who served ¹⁰⁷³  at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

38:9 He made the courtyard. For the south side ¹⁰⁷⁴  the hangings of the courtyard were of fine twisted linen, one hundred fifty feet long, 38:10 with ¹⁰⁷⁵  their twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver. 38:11 For the north side the hangings were ¹⁰⁷⁶  one hundred fifty feet, with their twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver. 38:12 For the west side there were ¹⁰⁷⁷  hangings seventy-five feet long, with ¹⁰⁷⁸  their ten posts and their ten bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver. 38:13 For the east side, toward the sunrise, it was seventy-five feet wide, ¹⁰⁷⁹  38:14 with hangings on one side ¹⁰⁸⁰  of the gate that were twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases, 38:15 and for the second side of the gate of the courtyard, just like the other, ¹⁰⁸¹  the hangings were twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases. 38:16 All the hangings around the courtyard were of fine twisted linen. 38:17 The bases for the posts were bronze. The hooks of the posts and their bands were silver, their tops were overlaid with silver, and all the posts of the courtyard had silver bands. ¹⁰⁸²  38:18 The curtain ¹⁰⁸³  for the gate of the courtyard was of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer. It was thirty feet long, and like the hangings in the courtyard, it was seven and a half feet high, 38:19 with four posts and their four bronze bases. Their hooks and their bands were silver, and their tops were overlaid with silver. 38:20 All the tent pegs of the tabernacle and of the courtyard all around were bronze.

38:21 This is the inventory ¹⁰⁸⁴  of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, which was counted ¹⁰⁸⁵  by the order ¹⁰⁸⁶  of Moses, being the work ¹⁰⁸⁷  of the Levites under the direction ¹⁰⁸⁸  of Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest. 38:22 Now Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything that the Lord had commanded Moses; 38:23 and with him was Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an artisan, a designer, and an embroiderer in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine linen.

38:24 All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary ¹⁰⁸⁹  (namely, ¹⁰⁹⁰  the gold of the wave offering) was twenty-nine talents and 730 shekels, ¹⁰⁹¹  according to the sanctuary shekel.

38:25 The silver of those who were numbered of the community was one hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, ¹⁰⁹²  according to the sanctuary shekel, 38:26 one beka per person, that is, a half shekel, ¹⁰⁹³  according to the sanctuary shekel, for everyone who crossed over to those numbered, from twenty years old or older, ¹⁰⁹⁴  603,550 in all. ¹⁰⁹⁵  38:27 The one hundred talents of silver were used for casting the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the special curtain – one hundred bases for one hundred talents, one talent per base. 38:28 From the remaining 1,775 shekels ¹⁰⁹⁶  he made hooks for the posts, overlaid their tops, and made bands for them.

38:29 The bronze of the wave offering was seventy talents and 2,400 shekels. ¹⁰⁹⁷  38:30 With it he made the bases for the door of the tent of meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, and all the utensils of the altar, 38:31 the bases for the courtyard all around, the bases for the gate of the courtyard, all the tent pegs of the tabernacle, and all the tent pegs of the courtyard all around. ¹⁰⁹⁸ 

39:1 From the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn they made woven garments for serving in the sanctuary; they made holy garments that were for Aaron, just as the Lord had commanded Moses. ¹⁰⁹⁹ 

39:2 He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen. 39:3 They hammered the gold into thin sheets and cut it into narrow strips to weave ¹¹⁰⁰  them into the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and into the fine linen, the work of an artistic designer. 39:4 They made shoulder pieces for it, attached to two of its corners, so it could be joined together. 39:5 The artistically woven waistband of the ephod that was on it was like it, of one piece with it, ¹¹⁰¹  of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

39:6 They set the onyx stones in gold filigree settings, engraved as with the engravings of a seal ¹¹⁰²  with the names of the sons of Israel. ¹¹⁰³  39:7 He put ¹¹⁰⁴  them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as stones of memorial for the Israelites, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

39:8 He made the breastpiece, the work of an artistic designer, in the same fashion as the ephod, of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet, and fine twisted linen. 39:9 It was square – they made the breastpiece doubled, nine inches long and nine inches wide when doubled. 39:10 They set on it ¹¹⁰⁵  four rows of stones: a row with a ruby, a topaz, and a beryl – the first row; 39:11 and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald; 39:12 and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; 39:13 and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold filigree settings. 39:14 The stones were for the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, corresponding to the number of ¹¹⁰⁶  their names. Each name corresponding to one of the twelve tribes was like the engravings of a seal.

39:15 They made for the breastpiece braided chains like cords of pure gold, 39:16 and they made two gold filigree settings and two gold rings, and they attached the two rings to the upper ¹¹⁰⁷  two ends of the breastpiece. 39:17 They attached the two gold chains to the two rings at the ends of the breastpiece; 39:18 the other ¹¹⁰⁸  two ends of the two chains they attached to the two settings, and they attached them to the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it. 39:19 They made two rings of gold and put them on the other ¹¹⁰⁹  two ends of the breastpiece on its edge, which is on the inner side of the ephod. ¹¹¹⁰  39:20 They made two more ¹¹¹¹  gold rings and attached them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces on the front of the ephod, close to the juncture above the waistband of the ephod. 39:21 They tied the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod by blue cord, so that it was above the waistband of the ephod, so that the breastpiece would not be loose from the ephod, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

39:22 He made the robe of the ephod completely blue, the work of a weaver. 39:23 There was an opening in the center of the robe, like the opening of a collar, with an edge all around the opening so that it could not be torn. 39:24 They made pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and twisted linen ¹¹¹²  around the hem of the robe. 39:25 They made bells of pure gold and attached the bells between the pomegranates around the hem of the robe between the pomegranates. 39:26 There was ¹¹¹³  a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, all around the hem of the robe, to be used in ministering, ¹¹¹⁴  just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

39:27 They made tunics of fine linen – the work of a weaver, for Aaron and for his sons – 39:28 and the turban of fine linen, the headbands of fine linen, and the undergarments of fine twisted linen. 39:29 The sash was of fine twisted linen and blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, the work of an embroiderer, just as the Lord had commanded Moses. 39:30 They made a plate, the holy diadem, of pure gold and wrote on it an inscription, as on the engravings of a seal, “Holiness to the Lord.” 39:31 They attached to it a blue cord, to attach it to the turban above, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

39:32 ¹¹¹⁵ 

So all the work of the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was completed, and the Israelites did according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses – they did it exactly so. 39:33 They brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent and all its furnishings, clasps, frames, bars, posts, and bases; 39:34 and the coverings of ram skins dyed red, the covering of fine leather, ¹¹¹⁶  and the protecting ¹¹¹⁷  curtain; 39:35 the ark of the testimony and its poles, and the atonement lid; 39:36 the table, all its utensils, and the Bread of the Presence; 39:37 the pure ¹¹¹⁸  lampstand, its lamps, with the lamps set in order, and all its accessories, and oil for the light; 39:38 and the gold altar, and the anointing oil, and the fragrant incense; and the curtain for the entrance to the tent; 39:39 the bronze altar and its bronze grating, its poles, and all its utensils; the large basin with its pedestal; 39:40 the hangings of the courtyard, its posts and its bases, and the curtain for the gateway of the courtyard, its ropes and its tent pegs, and all the furnishings ¹¹¹⁹  for the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting; 39:41 the woven garments for serving ¹¹²⁰  in the sanctuary, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments for his sons to minister as priests.

39:42 The Israelites did all the work according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses. 39:43 Moses inspected ¹¹²¹  all the work – and ¹¹²²  they had done it just as the Lord had commanded – they had done it exactly – and Moses blessed them. ¹¹²³ 

40:1 ¹¹²⁴ 

Then the Lord spoke to Moses: ¹¹²⁵  40:2 “On the first day of the first month you are to set up ¹¹²⁶  the tabernacle, the tent of meeting. 40:3 You are to place the ark of the testimony in it and shield the ark with the special curtain. 40:4 You are to bring in the table and set out the things that belong on it; ¹¹²⁷  then you are to bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps. 40:5 You are to put ¹¹²⁸  the gold altar for incense in front of the ark of the testimony and put the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle. 40:6 You are to put the altar for the burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting. 40:7 You are to put the large basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it. ¹¹²⁹  40:8 You are to set up the courtyard around it and put the curtain at the gate of the courtyard. 40:9 And take ¹¹³⁰  the anointing oil, and anoint ¹¹³¹  the tabernacle and all that is in it, and sanctify ¹¹³²  it and all its furnishings, and it will be holy. 40:10 Then you are to anoint the altar for the burnt offering with ¹¹³³  all its utensils; you are to sanctify the altar, and it will be the most holy altar. 40:11 You must also anoint the large basin and its pedestal, and you are to sanctify it. ¹¹³⁴ 

40:12 “You are to bring ¹¹³⁵  Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and wash them with water. 40:13 Then you are to clothe Aaron with the holy garments and anoint him and sanctify him so that he may minister as my priest. 40:14 You are to bring ¹¹³⁶  his sons and clothe them with tunics 40:15 and anoint them just as you anointed their father, so that they may minister as my priests; their anointing will make them a priesthood that will continue throughout their generations.” 40:16 This is what Moses did, according to all the Lord had commanded him – so he did.

40:17 So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month, in the second year. 40:18 When Moses set up the tabernacle and put its bases in place, he set up its frames, attached its bars, and set up its posts. 40:19 Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent over it, as the Lord had commanded Moses. 40:20 He took the testimony and put it in the ark, attached the poles to the ark, and then put the atonement lid on the ark. 40:21 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, hung ¹¹³⁷  the protecting curtain, ¹¹³⁸  and shielded the ark of the testimony from view, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

40:22 And he put the table in the tent of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the curtain. 40:23 And he set the bread in order on it ¹¹³⁹  before the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

40:24 And he put the lampstand in the tent of meeting opposite the table, on the south side of the tabernacle. 40:25 Then he set up the lamps before the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

40:26 And he put the gold altar in the tent of meeting in front of the curtain, 40:27 and he burned fragrant incense on it, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

40:28 Then he put the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle. 40:29 He also put the altar for the burnt offering by the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal offering, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

40:30 Then he put the large basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it ¹¹⁴⁰  for washing. 40:31 Moses and Aaron and his sons would wash their hands and their feet from it. 40:32 Whenever they entered ¹¹⁴¹  the tent of meeting, and whenever they approached ¹¹⁴²  the altar, they would wash, ¹¹⁴³  just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

40:33 And he set up the courtyard around the tabernacle and the altar, and put the curtain at the gate of the courtyard. So Moses finished the work.

40:34 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 40:35 Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 40:36 But when the cloud was lifted up ¹¹⁴⁴  from the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out ¹¹⁴⁵  on all their journeys; 40:37 but if the cloud was not lifted up, then they would not journey further until the day it was lifted up. ¹¹⁴⁶  40:38 For the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day, but fire would be ¹¹⁴⁷  on it at night, in plain view ¹¹⁴⁸  of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.