EXODUS
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Exodus 1
1 Now these [are] the names of the children of
2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for
Joseph was in
6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
7 And the children of
8 Now there arose up a new king over
9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel
[are] more and mightier than we:
10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to
pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies,
and fight against us, and [so] get them up out of the land.
11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their
burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And
they were grieved because of the children of
13 And the Egyptians made the children of
14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick,
and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made
them serve, [was] with rigour.
15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the
one [was] Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see
[them] upon the stools; if it [be] a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it
[be] a daughter, then she shall live.
17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of
18 And the king of
19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women [are] not as
the Egyptian women; for they [are] lively, and are delivered ere the midwives
come in unto them.
20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and
waxed very mighty.
21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that He made them
houses.
22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall
cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took [to wife] a daughter
of Levi.
2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he [was a]
goodly [child], she hid him three months.
3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes,
and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she
laid [it] in the flags by the river's brink.
4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash [herself] at the river; and her
maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the
flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
6 And when she had opened [it], she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept.
And she had compassion on him, and said, This [is one] of the Hebrews'
children.
7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a
nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the
child's mother.
9 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for
me, and I will give [thee] thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed
it.
10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he
became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him
out of the water.
11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out
unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian
smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that [there was] no
man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
13 And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove
together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy
fellow?
14 And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to
kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this
thing is known.
15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled
from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the
16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew
[water], and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped
them, and watered their flock.
18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How [is it that] ye are
come so soon to day?
19 And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds,
and also drew [water] enough for us, and watered the flock.
20 And he said unto his daughters, And where [is] he? why [is] it [that] ye
have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his
daughter.
22 And she bare [him] a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I
have been a stranger in a strange land.
23 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of
24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham,
with Isaac, and with Jacob.
25 And God looked upon the children of
1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of
Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the
2 And the Angel of Yahweh appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst
of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush
[was] not consumed.
3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush
is not burnt.
4 And when Yahweh saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of
the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here [am]
5 And He said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for
the place whereon thou standest [is] holy ground.
6 Moreover He said, I [am] the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God
of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to
look upon God.
7 And Yahweh said, I have surely seen the affliction of My people which [are]
in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know
their sorrows;
8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to
bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land
flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the
Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
Jebusites.
9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of
10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest
bring forth My people the children of
11 And Moses said unto God, Who [am] I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that
I should bring forth the children of
12 And He said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this [shall be] a token unto
thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of
13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, [when] I come unto the children of
14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and He said, Thus shalt thou say
unto the children of
15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of
Israel, Yahweh, God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and
the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this [is] My name for ever, and this
[is] My memorial unto all generations.
16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, Yahweh, God
of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me,
saying, I have surely visited you, and [seen] that which is done to you in
Egypt:
17 And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the
land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites,
and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
18 And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the
elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, Yahweh,
God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three
days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.
19 And I am sure that the king of
20 And I will stretch out My hand, and smite
21 And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it
shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty:
22 But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in
her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put [them]
upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.
1 And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor
hearken unto my voice: for they will say, Yahweh hath not appeared unto thee.
2 And Yahweh said unto him, What [is] that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.
3 And He said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it
became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
4 And Yahweh said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail.
And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:
5 That they may believe that Yahweh, God of their fathers, the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.
6 And Yahweh said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And
he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand [was]
leprous as snow.
7 And He said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into
his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned
again as his [other] flesh.
8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to
the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter
sign.
9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs,
neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river,
and pour [it] upon the dry [land]: and the water which thou takest out of the
river shall become blood upon the dry [land].
10 And Moses said unto Yahweh, O Yahweh, I [am] not eloquent, neither
heretofore, nor since Thou hast spoken unto Thy servant: but I [am] slow of
speech, and of a slow tongue.
11 And Yahweh said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or Who maketh the dumb,
or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I, Yahweh?
12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou
shalt say.
13 And he said, O Yahweh, send, I pray Thee, by the hand [of him whom] Thou
wilt send.
14 And the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Moses, and He said, [Is] not
Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold,
he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his
heart.
15 And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be
with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.
16 And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, [even] he
shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.
17 And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.
18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him,
Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which [are] in Egypt, and
see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
19 And Yahweh said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into
20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he
returned to the
21 And Yahweh said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that
thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I
will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.
22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith Yahweh, Israel [is] My son,
[even] My firstborn:
23 And I say unto thee, Let My son go, that he may serve Me: and if thou refuse
to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, [even] thy firstborn.
24 And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that Yahweh met him, and sought
to kill him.
25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and
cast [it] at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband [art] thou to me.
26 So He let him go: then she said, A bloody husband [thou art], because of the
circumcision.
27 And Yahweh said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went,
and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.
28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahweh Who had sent him, and all the
signs which He had commanded him.
29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the
children of
30 And Aaron spake all the words which Yahweh had spoken unto Moses, and did
the signs in the sight of the people.
31 And the people believed: and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the
children of
1 And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith
Yahweh, God of Israel, Let My people go, that they may hold a feast unto Me in
the wilderness.
2 And Pharaoh said, Who [is] Yahweh, that I should obey His voice to let
3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray
thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto Yahweh our God;
lest He fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.
4 And the king of
5 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now [are] many, and ye make
them rest from their burdens.
6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their
officers, saying,
7 Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them
go and gather straw for themselves.
8 And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon
them; ye shall not diminish [ought] thereof: for they [be] idle; therefore they
cry, saying, Let us go [and] sacrifice to our God.
9 Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and
let them not regard vain words.
10 And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they
spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
11 Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall
be diminished.
12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the
13 And the taskmasters hasted [them], saying, Fulfil your works, [your] daily
tasks, as when there was straw.
14 And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had
set over them, were beaten, [and] demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled
your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
15 Then the officers of the children of
16 There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick:
and, behold, thy servants [are] beaten; but the fault [is] in thine own people.
17 But he said, Ye [are] idle, [ye are] idle: therefore ye say, Let us go [and]
do sacrifice to Yahweh.
18 Go therefore now, [and] work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet
shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
19 And the officers of the children of
20 And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from
Pharaoh:
21 And they said unto them, Yahweh look upon you, and judge; because ye have
made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his
servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
22 And Moses returned unto Yahweh, and said, Yahweh, wherefore hast Thou [so]
evil entreated this people? why [is] it [that] Thou hast sent me?
23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Thy name, he hath done evil to this
people; neither hast Thou delivered Thy people at all.
1 Then Yahweh said unto Moses, Now
shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let
them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.
2 And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I [am] Yahweh:
3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as GOD ALMIGHTY; but
by My name YAHWEH was I not known to them?
4 And I have also established My covenant with them, to give them the
5 And I have also heard the groaning of the children of
6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I [am] Yahweh, and I will bring
you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of
their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great
judgments:
7 And I will take you to Me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye
shall know that I [am] Yahweh your God, Which bringeth you out from under the
burdens of the Egyptians.
8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to
give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an
heritage: I [am] Yahweh.
9 And Moses spake so unto the children of
10 And Yahweh spake unto Moses, saying,
11 Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of
12 And Moses spake before Yahweh, saying, Behold, the children of
13 And Yahweh spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the
children of
14 These [be] the heads of their
fathers' houses: The sons of Reuben the firstborn of
15 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel,
and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish
woman: these [are] the families of Simeon.
16 And these [are] the names of the sons of Levi according to their
generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi
[were] an hundred thirty and seven years.
17 The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families.
18 And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and
19 And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these [are] the families of Levi
according to their generations.
20 And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him
Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram [were] an hundred and
thirty and seven years.
21 And the sons of Izhar; Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.
22 And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri.
23 And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to
wife; and she bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
24 And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these [are] the
families of the Korhites.
25 And Eleazar Aaron's son took him [one] of the daughters of Putiel to wife;
and she bare him Phinehas: these [are] the heads of the fathers of the Levites
according to their families.
26 These [are] that Aaron and Moses, to whom Yahweh said, Bring out the
children of
27 These [are] they which spake to Pharaoh king of
28 And it came to pass on the day [when] Yahweh spake unto Moses in the
29 That Yahweh spake unto Moses, saying, I [am] Yahweh: speak thou unto Pharaoh
king of
30 And Moses said before Yahweh, Behold, I [am] of uncircumcised lips, and how
shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?
1 And Yahweh said unto Moses, See,
I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
2 Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak
unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of
3 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply My signs and My wonders in
the
4 But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay My hand upon
5 And the Egyptians shall know that I [am] Yahweh, when I stretch forth Mine
hand upon
6 And Moses and Aaron did as Yahweh commanded them, so did they.
7 And Moses [was] fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old,
when they spake unto Pharaoh.
8 And Yahweh spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
9 When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for you: then thou
shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast [it] before Pharaoh, [and] it
shall become a serpent.
10 And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as Yahweh had
commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants,
and it became a serpent.
11 Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians
of
12 For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's
rod swallowed up their rods.
13 And He hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he hearkened not unto them; as Yahweh
had said.
14 And Yahweh said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart [is] hardened, he refuseth to
let the people go.
15 Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and
thou shalt stand by the river's brink against he come; and the rod which was
turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.
16 And thou shalt say unto him, Yahweh, God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto
thee, saying, Let My people go, that they may serve Me in the wilderness: and,
behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear.
17 Thus saith Yahweh, In this thou shalt know that I [am] Yahweh: behold, I
will smite with the rod that [is] in mine hand upon the waters which [are] in
the river, and they shall be turned to blood.
18 And the fish that [is] in the river shall die, and the river shall stink;
and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.
19 And Yahweh spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out
thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and
upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become
blood; and [that] there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in
[vessels of] wood, and in [vessels of] stone.
20 And Moses and Aaron did so, as
Yahweh commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that [were] in
the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all
the waters that [were] in the river were turned to blood.
21 And the fish that [was] in the river died; and the river stank, and the
Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood
throughout all the
22 And the magicians of
23 And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he set his heart to
this also.
24 And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for
they could not drink of the water of the river.
25 And seven days were fulfilled, after that Yahweh had smitten the river.
1 And Yahweh spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith
Yahweh, Let My people go, that they may serve Me.
2 And if thou refuse to let [them] go, behold, I will smite all thy borders
with frogs:
3 And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come
into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house
of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy
kneadingtroughs:
4 And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.
5 And Yahweh spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with
thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs
to come up upon the
6 And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of
7 And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon
the
8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Intreat Yahweh, that He
may take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people
go, that they may do sacrifice unto Yahweh.
9 And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I intreat for thee,
and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the frogs from thee and
thy houses, [that] they may remain in the river only?
10 And he said, To morrow. And he said, [Be it] according to thy word: that
thou mayest know that [there is] none like unto Yahweh our God.
11 And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy
servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river only.
12 And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto Yahweh
because of the frogs which He had brought against Pharaoh.
13 And Yahweh did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the
houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields.
14 And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.
15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and
hearkened not unto them; as Yahweh had said.
16 And Yahweh said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite
the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the
17 And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote
the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of
the land became lice throughout all the
18 And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but
they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast.
19 Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This [is] the finger of God: and
Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as Yahweh had
said.
20 And Yahweh said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before
Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto him, Thus saith Yahweh,
Let My people go, that they may serve Me.
21 Else, if thou wilt not let My people go, behold, I will send swarms [of
flies] upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy
houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms [of flies], and
also the ground whereon they [are].
22 And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which My people dwell,
that no swarms [of flies] shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I
[am] Yahweh in the midst of the earth.
23 And I will put a division between My people and thy people: to morrow shall
this sign be.
24 And Yahweh did so; and there came a grievous swarm [of flies] into the house
of Pharaoh, and [into] his servants' houses, and into all the
25 And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to
your God in the land.
26 And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the
abomination of the Egyptians to Yahweh our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the
abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?
27 We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh
our God, as He shall command us.
28 And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to Yahweh your
God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: intreat for me.
29 And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat Yahweh that
the swarms [of flies] may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his
people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting
the people go to sacrifice to Yahweh.
30 And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated Yahweh.
31 And Yahweh did according to the word of Moses; and He removed the swarms [of
flies] from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; there remained not
one.
32 And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the
people go.
1 Then Yahweh said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith
Yahweh, God of the Hebrews, Let My people go, that they may serve Me.
2 For if thou refuse to let [them] go, and wilt hold them still,
3 Behold, the hand of Yahweh is upon thy cattle which [is] in the field, upon
the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep:
[there shall be] a very grievous murrain.
4 And Yahweh shall sever between the cattle of
5 And Yahweh appointed a set time, saying, To morrow Yahweh shall do this thing
in the land.
6 And Yahweh did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of
7 And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one of the cattle of the
Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the
people go.
8 And Yahweh said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of
the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of
Pharaoh.
9 And it shall become small dust in all the
10 And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses
sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth [with]
blains upon man, and upon beast.
11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the
boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians.
12 And Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as
Yahweh had spoken unto Moses.
13 And Yahweh said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before
Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith Yahweh, God of the Hebrews, Let My people
go, that they may serve Me.
14 For I will at this time send all My plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy
servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that [there is] none like
Me in all the earth.
15 For now I will stretch out My hand, that I may smite thee and thy people
with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.
16 And in very deed for this [cause] have I raised thee up, for to shew [in]
thee My power; and that My name may be declared throughout all the earth.
17 As yet exaltest thou thyself against My people, that thou wilt not let them
go?
18 Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous
hail, such as hath not been in
19 Send therefore now, [and] gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the
field; [for upon] every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and
shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall
die.
20 He that feared the word of Yahweh among the servants of Pharaoh made his
servants and his cattle flee into the houses:
21 And he that regarded not the word of Yahweh left his servants and his cattle
in the field.
22 And Yahweh said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that
there may be hail in all the
23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and Yahweh sent thunder and
hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and Yahweh rained hail upon the
24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as
there was none like it in all the
25 And the hail smote throughout all the
26 Only in the
27 And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have
sinned this time: Yahweh [is] righteous, and I and my people [are] wicked.
28 Intreat Yahweh (for [it is] enough) that there be no [more] mighty
thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.
29 And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread
abroad my hands unto Yahweh; [and] the thunder shall cease, neither shall there
be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth [is] Yahweh's.
30 But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear Yahweh
God.
31 And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley [was] in the ear,
and the flax [was] bolled.
32 But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they [were] not grown up.
33 And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands
unto Yahweh: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon
the earth.
34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were
ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the children of
1 And Yahweh said unto Moses, Go in
unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants,
that I might shew these My signs before him:
2 And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what
things I have wrought in Egypt, and My signs which I have done among them; that
ye may know how that I [am] Yahweh.
3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith
Yahweh, God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before
Me? let My people go, that they may serve Me.
4 Else, if thou refuse to let My people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the
locusts into thy coast:
5 And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see
the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which
remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for
you out of the field:
6 And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the
houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers'
fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day.
And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.
7 And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto
us? let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh their God: knowest thou not yet
that
8 And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them,
Go, serve Yahweh your God: [but] who [are] they that shall go?
9 And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and
with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we [must
hold] a feast unto Yahweh.
10 And he said unto them, Let Yahweh be so with you, as I will let you go, and
your little ones: look [to it]; for evil [is] before you.
11 Not so: go now ye [that are] men, and serve Yahweh; for that ye did desire.
And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.
12 And Yahweh said unto Moses,
Stretch out thine hand over the
13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the
14 And the locusts went up over all the
15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened;
and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which
the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in
the herbs of the field, through all the
16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned
against Yahweh your God, and against you.
17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat
Yahweh your God, that He may take away from me this death only.
18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated Yahweh.
19 And Yahweh turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts,
and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts
of
20 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children
of
21 And Yahweh said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there
may be darkness over the
22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick
darkness in all the
23 They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days:
but all the children of
24 And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve Yahweh; only let your
flocks and your herds be stayed: let your little ones also go with you.
25 And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that
we may sacrifice unto Yahweh our God.
26 Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind;
for thereof must we take to serve Yahweh our God; and we know not with what we
must serve Yahweh, until we come thither.
27 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go.
28 And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my
face no more; for in [that] day thou seest my face thou shalt die.
29 And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well, I will see thy face again no more.
1 And Yahweh said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague [more] upon
Pharaoh, and upon
2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his
neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of
gold.
3 And Yahweh gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the
man Moses [was] very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's
servants, and in the sight of the people.
4 And Moses said, Thus saith Yahweh, About midnight will I go out into the
midst of Egypt:
5 And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of
Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the
maidservant that [is] behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.
6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the
7 But against any of the children of
8 And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow down themselves
unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee: and after
that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger.
9 And Yahweh said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you; that My
wonders may be multiplied in the
10 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and Yahweh
hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of
1 And Yahweh spake unto Moses and Aaron in the
2 This month [shall be] unto you the beginning of months: it [shall be] the
first month of the year to you.
3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth [day] of
this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of
[their] fathers, a lamb for an house:
4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour
next unto his house take [it] according to the number of the souls; every man
according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take
[it] out from the sheep, or from the goats:
6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole
assembly of the congregation of
7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike [it] on the two side posts and
on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened
bread; [and] with bitter [herbs] they shall eat it.
9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast [with] fire; his
head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which
remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
11 And thus shall ye eat it; [with] your loins girded, your shoes on your feet,
and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it [is] Yahweh's
passover.
12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the
firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of
Egypt I will execute judgment: I [am] Yahweh.
13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye [are]:
and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be
upon you to destroy [you], when I smite the
14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast
to Yahweh throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance
for ever.
15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put
away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the
first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from
16 And in the first day [there shall be] an holy convocation, and in the
seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall
be done in them, save [that] which every man must eat, that only may be done of
you.
17 And ye shall observe [the feast of] unleavened bread; for in this selfsame
day have I brought your armies out of the
18 In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall
eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever
eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the
congregation of
20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat
unleavened bread.
21 Then Moses called for all the elders of
22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip [it] in the blood that [is] in
the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that [is]
in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the
morning.
23 For Yahweh will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He seeth the
blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, Yahweh will pass over the
door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite
[you].
24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for
ever.
25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which Yahweh will
give you, according as He hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean
ye by this service?
27 That ye shall say, It [is] the sacrifice of Yahweh's passover, Who passed
over the houses of the children of
28 And the children of
29 And it came to pass, that at midnight Yahweh smote all the firstborn in the
land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the
firstborn of the captive that [was] in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of
cattle.
30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the
Egyptians; and there was a great cry in
31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, [and] get you
forth from among my people, both ye and the children of
32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and
bless me also.
33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out
of the land in haste; for they said, We [be] all dead [men].
34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their
kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
35 And the children of
36 And Yahweh gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that
they lent unto them. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
37 And the children of
38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, [even]
very much cattle.
39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of
Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and
could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
40 Now the sojourning of the children of
41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even
the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of Yahweh went out from
the
42 It [is] a night to be much observed unto Yahweh for bringing them out from
the
43 And Yahweh said unto Moses and Aaron, This [is] the ordinance of the
passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
44 But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised
him, then shall he eat thereof.
45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the
flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
47 All the congregation of
48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to
Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep
it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised
person shall eat thereof.
49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that
sojourneth among you.
50 Thus did all the children of
51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, [that] Yahweh did bring the children
of
1 And Yahweh spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Sanctify unto Me all the
firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of
3 And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from
Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought you
out from this [place]: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.
4 This day came ye out in the month Abib.
5 And it shall be when Yahweh shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites,
and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which
He sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey,
that thou shalt keep this service in this month.
6 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day [shall be]
a feast to Yahweh.
7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread
be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy
quarters.
8 And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, [This is done] because of
that [which] Yahweh did unto me when I came forth out of
9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial
between thine eyes, that Yahweh's law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong
hand hath Yahweh brought thee out of
10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.
11 And it shall be when Yahweh shall bring thee into the land of the
Canaanites, as He sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee,
12 That thou shalt set apart unto Yahweh all that openeth the matrix, and every
firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males [shall be]
Yahweh's.
13 And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou
wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of
man among thy children shalt thou redeem.
14 And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What [is]
this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out
from Egypt, from the house of bondage:
15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that Yahweh slew
all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the
firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to Yahweh all that openeth the
matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.
16 And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine
eyes: for by strength of hand Yahweh brought us forth out of
17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them
not [through] the way of the land of the Philistines, although that [was] near;
for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they
return to Egypt:
18 But God led the people about, [through] the way of the wilderness of the Red
sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.
19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the
children of
20 And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge
of the wilderness.
21 And Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the
way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and
night:
22 He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by
night, [from] before the people.
1 And Yahweh spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of
3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They [are] entangled in the
land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I
will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may
know that I [am] Yahweh. And they did so.
5 And it was told the king of
6 And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:
7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of
8 And Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of
9 But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses [and] chariots of
Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the
sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon.
10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of
11 And they said unto Moses, Because [there were] no graves in
12 [Is] not this the word that we did tell thee in
13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the
salvation of Yahweh, which He will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom
ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.
14 Yahweh shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
15 And Yahweh said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto Me? speak unto the children
of
16 But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and
divide it: and the children of
17 And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall
follow them: and I will get Me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon
his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
18 And the Egyptians shall know that I [am] Yahweh, when I have gotten Me
honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
19 And the Angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went
behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood
behind them:
20 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it
was a cloud and darkness [to them], but it gave light by night [to these]: so
that the one came not near the other all the night.
21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and Yahweh caused the sea to
go [back] by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry [land],
and the waters were divided.
22 And the children of
23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea,
[even] all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
24 And it came to pass, that in the morning watch Yahweh looked unto the host
of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the
host of the Egyptians,
25 And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the
Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for Yahweh fighteth for
them against the Egyptians.
26 And Yahweh said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the
waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their
horsemen.
27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his
strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and
Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, [and]
all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not
so much as one of them.
29 But the children of
30 Thus Yahweh saved
31 And
1 Then sang Moses and the children
of
2 Yah [is] my strength and song, and He is become my salvation: He [is] my God,
and I will prepare Him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt Him.
3 Yahweh [is] a man of war: Yahweh
[is] His name.
4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath He cast into the sea: his chosen
captains also are drowned in the
5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
6 Thy right hand, O Yahweh, is become glorious in power: Thy right hand, O
Yahweh, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
7 And in the greatness of Thine excellency Thou hast overthrown them that rose
up against Thee: Thou sentest forth Thy wrath, [which] consumed them as
stubble.
8 And with the blast of Thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the
floods stood upright as an heap, [and] the depths were congealed in the heart
of the sea.
9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my
lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy
them.
10 Thou didst blow with Thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in
the mighty waters.
11 Who [is] like unto Thee, O Yahweh, among the gods? who [is] like Thee,
glorious in holiness, fearful [in] praises, doing wonders?
12 Thou stretchedst out Thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
13 Thou in Thy mercy hast led forth the people [which] Thou hast redeemed: Thou
hast guided [them] in Thy strength unto Thy holy habitation.
14 The people shall hear, [and] be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the
inhabitants of Palestina.
15 Then the dukes of
16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of Thine arm they
shall be [as] still as a stone; till Thy people pass over, O Yahweh, till the
people pass over, [which] Thou hast purchased.
17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of Thine
inheritance, [in] the place, O Yahweh, [which] Thou hast made for Thee to dwell
in, [in] the Sanctuary, O Yahweh, [which] Thy hands have established.
18 Yahweh shall reign for ever and ever.
19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen
into the sea, and Yahweh brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the
children of Israel went on dry [land] in the midst of the sea.
20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand;
and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to Yahweh, for He hath triumphed
gloriously; the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea.
22 So Moses brought
23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah,
for they [were] bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.
24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
25 And he cried unto Yahweh; and Yahweh shewed him a tree, [which] when he had
cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there He made for them a
statute and an ordinance, and there He proved them,
26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of Yahweh thy God,
and wilt do that which is right in His sight, and wilt give ear to His
commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon
thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I [am] Yahweh That healeth
thee.
27 And they came to Elim, where [were] twelve wells of water, and threescore
and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
1 And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the
children of
2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses
and Aaron in the wilderness:
3 And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the
hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, [and] when
we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this
wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
4 Then said Yahweh unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you;
and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may
prove them, whether they will walk in My law, or no.
5 And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare [that]
which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.
6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of
7 And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of Yahweh; for that He
heareth your murmurings against Yahweh: and what [are] we, that ye murmur
against us?
8 And Moses said, [This shall be], when Yahweh shall give you in the evening
flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that Yahweh heareth
your murmurings which ye murmur against Him: and what [are] we? your murmurings
[are] not against us, but against Yahweh.
9 And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of
10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the
children of
11 And Yahweh spake unto Moses, saying,
12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of
13 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp:
and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.
14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the
wilderness [there lay] a small round thing, [as] small as the hoar frost on the
ground.
15 And when the children of
16 This [is] the thing which Yahweh hath commanded, Gather of it every man
according to his eating, an omer for every man, [according to] the number of
your persons; take ye every man for [them] which [are] in his tents.
17 And the children of
18 And when they did mete [it] with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing
over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man
according to his eating.
19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.
20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it
until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
21 And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and
when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
22 And it came to pass, [that] on the sixth day they gathered twice as much
bread, two omers for one [man]: and all the rulers of the congregation came and
told Moses.
23 And he said unto them, This [is that] which Yahweh hath said, To morrow [is]
the rest of the holy sabbath unto Yahweh: bake [that] which ye will bake [to
day], and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for
you to be kept until the morning.
24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink,
neither was there any worm therein.
25 And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day [is] a sabbath unto Yahweh: to
day ye shall not find it in the field.
26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, [which is] the sabbath,
in it there shall be none.
27 And it came to pass, [that] there went out [some] of the people on the
seventh day for to gather, and they found none.
28 And Yahweh said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep My commandments and
My laws?
29 See, for that Yahweh hath given you the sabbath, therefore He giveth you on
the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no
man go out of his place on the seventh day.
30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
31 And the house of
32 And Moses said, This [is] the thing which Yahweh commandeth, Fill an omer of
it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I
have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of
Egypt.
33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna
therein, and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept for your generations.
34 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be
kept.
35 And the children of
36 Now an omer [is] the tenth [part] of an ephah.
1 And all the congregation of the children of
2 Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we
may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye
tempt Yahweh?
3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against
Moses, and said, Wherefore [is] this [that] thou hast brought us up out of
4 And Moses cried unto Yahweh, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they
be almost ready to stone me.
5 And Yahweh said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of
the elders of
6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt
smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may
drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of
7 And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the
chiding of the children of
8 Then came Amalek, and fought with
9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek:
to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.
10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses,
Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that
12 But Moses' hands [were] heavy; and they took a stone, and put [it] under
him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the
one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the
going down of the sun.
13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
14 And Yahweh said unto Moses, Write this [for] a memorial in a book, and
rehearse [it] in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance
of Amalek from under heaven.
15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Yahweh-nissi:
16 For he said, Because Yahweh hath sworn [that] Yahweh [will have] war with
Amalek from generation to generation.
1 When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard of all that
God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, [and] that Yahweh had
brought Israel out of Egypt;
2 Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had
sent her back,
3 And her two sons; of which the name of the one [was] Gershom; for he said, I
have been an alien in a strange land:
4 And the name of the other [was] Eliezer; for the God of my father, [said he,
was] mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:
5 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses
into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:
6 And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy
wife, and her two sons with her.
7 And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed
him; and they asked each other of [their] welfare; and they came into the tent.
8 And Moses told his father in law all that Yahweh had done unto Pharaoh and to
the Egyptians for
9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Yahweh had done to
10 And Jethro said, Blessed [be] Yahweh, Who hath delivered you out of the hand
of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, Who hath delivered the people
from under the hand of the Egyptians.
11 Now I know that Yahweh [is] greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein
they dealt proudly [He was] above them.
12 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for
God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of
13 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and
the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.
14 And when Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said,
What [is] this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself
alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even?
15 And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to
enquire of God:
16 When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and
another, and I do make [them] know the statutes of God, and His laws.
17 And Moses' father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest [is] not
good.
18 Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that [is] with thee:
for this thing [is] too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself
alone.
19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with
thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes
unto God:
20 And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way
wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.
21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear
God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place [such] over them, [to be]
rulers of thousands, [and] rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of
tens:
22 And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, [that] every
great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall
judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear [the burden] with
thee.
23 If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee [so], then thou shalt be
able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.
24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he
had said.
25 And Moses chose able men out of all
26 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto
Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
27 And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into his own
land.
1 In the third month, when the children of
2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come [to] the
3 And Moses went up unto God, and Yahweh called unto him out of the mountain,
saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of
Israel;
4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and [how] I bare you on eagles'
wings, and brought you unto Myself.
5 Now therefore, if ye will obey My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then ye
shall be a peculiar treasure unto Me above all people: for all the earth [is]
Mine:
6 And ye shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These [are]
the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of
7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their
faces all these words which Yahweh commanded him.
8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that Yahweh hath spoken
we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto Yahweh.
9 And Yahweh said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the
people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses
told the words of the people unto Yahweh.
10 And Yahweh said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and
to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
11 And be ready against the third day: for the third day Yahweh will come down
in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to
yourselves, [that ye] go [not] up into the mount, or touch the border of it:
whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:
13 There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot
through; whether [it be] beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet
soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.
14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the
people; and they washed their clothes.
15 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at
[your] wives.
16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders
and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet
exceeding loud; so that all the people that [was] in the camp trembled.
17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and
they stood at the nether part of the mount.
18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because Yahweh descended upon it
in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the
whole mount quaked greatly.
19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder,
Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.
20 And Yahweh came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and Yahweh
called Moses [up] to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
21 And Yahweh said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break
through unto Yahweh to gaze, and many of them perish.
22 And let the priests also, which come near to Yahweh, sanctify themselves,
lest Yahweh break forth upon them.
23 And Moses said unto Yahweh, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for
Thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.
24 And Yahweh said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou,
and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to
come up unto Yahweh, lest He break forth upon them.
25 So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.
1 And God spake all these words,
saying,
2 I [am] Yahweh thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out
of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness [of any
thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that
[is] in the water under the earth:
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I Yahweh thy God
[am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto
the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate Me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me, and keep My
commandments.
7 Thou shalt not consider the name of Yahweh thy God to be a vain thing: for
Yahweh will not hold him guiltless that considers His name meaningless.
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day [is] the sabbath of Yahweh thy God: [in it] thou shalt
not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy
maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that [is] within thy gates:
11 For [in] six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in
them [is], and rested the seventh day: wherefore Yahweh blessed the sabbath
day, and hallowed it.
12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land
which Yahweh thy God giveth thee.
13 Thou shalt not kill.
14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15 Thou shalt not steal.
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy
neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his
ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbour's.
18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of
the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw [it], they
removed, and stood afar off.
19 And they said unto Moses, Speak
thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and
that His fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness
where God [was].
22 And Yahweh said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of
23 Ye shall not make with Me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you
gods of gold.
24 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto Me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy
burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all
places where I record My name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.
25 And if thou wilt make Me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn
stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto Mine altar, that thy nakedness be not
discovered thereon.
1 Now these [are] the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh
he shall go out free for nothing.
3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married,
then his wife shall go out with him.
4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters;
the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by
himself.
5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my
children; I will not go out free:
6 Then his master shall bring him unto God; he shall also bring him to the
door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an
aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as
the menservants do.
8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall
he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no
power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the
manner of daughters.
10 If he take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage,
shall he not diminish.
11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without
money.
12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver [him] into his hand; then I
will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile;
thou shalt take him from Mine altar, that he may die.
15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand,
he shall surely be put to death.
17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
18 And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with
[his] fist, and he die not, but keepeth [his] bed:
19 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote
[him] be quit: only he shall pay [for] the loss of
his time, and shall cause [him] to be thoroughly healed.
20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under
his hand; he shall be surely punished.
21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for
he [is] his money.
22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart [from
her], and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the
woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges [determine].
23 And if [any] mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it
perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he
shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely
stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox [shall be]
quit.
29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been
testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a
man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to
death.
30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of
his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
31 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this
judgment shall it be done unto him.
32 If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their
master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover
it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
34 The owner of the pit shall make [it] good, [and] give money unto the owner
of them; and the dead [beast] shall be his.
35 And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the
live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead [ox] also they shall divide.
36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner
hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his
own.
1 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall
restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, [there shall] no
blood [be shed] for him.
3 If the sun be risen upon him, [there shall be] blood [shed] for him; [for] he
should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his
theft.
4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass,
or sheep; he shall restore double.
5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his
beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and
of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.
6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the
standing corn, or the field, be consumed [therewith]; he that kindled the fire
shall surely make restitution.
7 If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be
stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.
8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto
God, [to see] whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's goods.
9 For all manner of trespass, [whether it be] for ox, for ass, for sheep, for
raiment, [or] for any manner of lost thing, which [another] challengeth to be
his, the cause of both parties shall come before God; [and] whom God shall
condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.
10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any
beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing [it]:
11 [Then] shall an oath of Yahweh be between them both, that he hath not put
his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept
[thereof], and he shall not make [it] good.
12 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner
thereof.
13 If it be torn in pieces, [then] let him bring it [for] witness, [and] he
shall not make good that which was torn.
14 And if a man borrow [ought] of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the
owner thereof [being] not with it, he shall surely make [it] good.
15 [But] if the owner thereof [be] with it, he shall not make [it] good: if it
[be] an hired [thing], it came for his hire.
16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall
surely endow her to be his wife.
17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money
according to the dowry of virgins.
18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
20 He that sacrificeth unto [any] god, save unto Yahweh only, he shall be
utterly destroyed.
21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in
the
22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto Me, I will surely
hear their cry;
24 And My wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your
wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
25 If thou lend money to [any of] My people [that is] poor by thee, thou shalt
not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it
unto him by that the sun goeth down:
27 For that [is] his covering only, it [is] his raiment for his skin: wherein
shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto Me, that I will
hear; for I [am] gracious.
28 Thou shalt not revile God, nor curse the ruler of thy people.
29 Thou shalt not delay [to offer] the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy
liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto Me.
30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, [and] with thy sheep: seven days it
shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it Me.
31 And ye shall be holy men unto Me: neither shall ye eat [any] flesh [that is]
torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.
1 Thou shalt not raise a false
report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to [do] evil; neither shalt thou speak in a
cause to decline after many to wrest [judgment]:
3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely
bring it back to him again.
5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and
wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou
not: for I will not justify the wicked.
8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth
the words of the righteous.
9 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger,
seeing ye were strangers in the
10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits
thereof:
11 But the seventh [year] thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor
of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat.
In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, [and] with thy oliveyard.
12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest:
that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the
stranger, may be refreshed.
13 And in all [things] that I have
said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods,
neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.
14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto Me in the year.
15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened
bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib;
for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before Me empty:)
16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast
sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, [which is] in the end of the
year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.
18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; neither
shall the fat of My sacrifice remain until the morning.
19 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of
Yahweh thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
20 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring
thee into the place which I have prepared.
21 Beware of Him, and obey His voice, provoke Him not; for He will not pardon
your transgressions: for My name [is] in Him.
22 But if thou shalt indeed obey His voice, and do all that I speak; then I
will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.
23 For Mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites,
and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the
Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their
works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their
images.
25 And ye shall serve Yahweh your God, and He shall bless thy bread, and thy
water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number
of thy days I will fulfil.
27 I will send My fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom
thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.
28 And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite,
and the Hittite, from before thee.
29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become
desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be
increased, and inherit the land.
31 And I will set thy bounds from the
32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against Me: for if
thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.
1 And he said unto Moses, Come up unto Yahweh, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and
Abihu, and seventy of the elders of
2 And Moses alone shall come near Yahweh: but they shall not come nigh; neither
shall the people go up with him.
3 And Moses came and told the people all the words of Yahweh, and all the
judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words
which Yahweh hath said will we do.
4 And Moses wrote all the words of Yahweh, and rose up early in the morning,
and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the
twelve tribes of
5 And he sent young men of the children of
6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put [it] in basons; and half of the
blood he sprinkled on the altar.
7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people:
and they said, All that Yahweh hath said will we do, and be obedient.
8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled [it] on the people, and said, Behold
the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh hath made with you concerning all these
words.
9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of
Israel:
10 And they saw the God of Israel: and [there was] under His feet as it were a
paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in [His]
clearness.
11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel He laid not His hand: also
they saw God, and did eat and drink.
12 And Yahweh said unto Moses, Come up to Me into the mount, and be there: and
I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have
written; that thou mayest teach them.
13 And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount
of God.
14 And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto
you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur [are] with you: if any man have any matters to
do, let him come unto them.
15 And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.
16 And the glory of Yahweh abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six
days: and the seventh day He called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
17 And the sight of the glory of Yahweh [was] like devouring fire on the top of
the mount in the eyes of the children of
18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount:
and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
1 And Yahweh spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Speak unto the children of
3 And this [is] the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and
brass,
4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ [hair],
5 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,
6 Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
7 Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.
8 And let them make Me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
9 According to all that I shew thee, [after] the pattern of the tabernacle, and
the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make [it].
10 And they shall make an ark [of] shittim wood: two cubits and a half [shall
be] the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit
and a half the height thereof.
11 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou
overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.
12 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put [them] in the four
corners thereof; and two rings [shall be] in the one side of it, and two rings
in the other side of it.
13 And thou shalt make staves [of] shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
14 And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that
the ark may be borne with them.
15 The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from
it.
16 And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.
17 And thou shalt make a mercy seat [of] pure gold: two cubits and a half
[shall be] the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
18 And thou shalt make two cherubims [of] gold, [of] beaten work shalt thou
make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.
19 And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end:
[even] of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
20 And the cherubims shall stretch forth [their] wings on high, covering the mercy
seat with their wings, and their faces [shall look] one to another; toward the
mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.
21 And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou
shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the
mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which [are] upon the ark of the
testimony, of all [things] which I will give thee in commandment unto the
children of Israel.
23 Thou shalt also make a table [of] shittim wood: two cubits [shall be] the
length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the
height thereof.
24 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold
round about.
25 And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and
thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
26 And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four
corners that [are] on the four feet thereof.
27 Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear
the table.
28 And thou shalt make the staves [of] shittim wood, and overlay them with
gold, that the table may be borne with them.
29 And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers
thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: [of] pure gold shalt thou make
them.
30 And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before Me always.
31 And thou shalt make a
candlestick [of] pure gold: [of] beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his
shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the
same.
32 And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the
candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of
the other side:
33 Three bowls made like unto almonds, [with] a knop and a flower in one
branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, [with] a knop
and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.
34 And in the candlestick [shall be] four bowls made like unto almonds, [with]
their knops and their flowers.
35 And [there shall be] a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under
two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according
to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick.
36 Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it [shall be] one
beaten work [of] pure gold.
37 And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps
thereof, that they may give light over against it.
38 And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, [shall be of] pure gold.
39 [Of] a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.
40 And look that thou make [them] after their pattern, which was shewed thee in
the mount.
1 Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle [with] ten curtains [of] fine
twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: [with] cherubims of cunning
work shalt thou make them.
2 The length of one curtain [shall be] eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth
of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one
measure.
3 The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and [other] five
curtains [shall be] coupled one to another.
4 And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the
selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of
[another] curtain, in the coupling of the second.
5 Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou
make in the edge of the curtain that [is] in the coupling of the second; that
the loops may take hold one of another.
6 And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together
with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.
7 And thou shalt make curtains [of] goats' [hair] to be a covering upon the
tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.
8 The length of one curtain [shall be] thirty cubits, and the breadth of one
curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains [shall be all] of one measure.
9 And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by
themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the
tabernacle.
10 And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain [that is]
outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which
coupleth the second.
11 And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the
loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
12 And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain
that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.
13 And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which
remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the
sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.
14 And thou shalt make a covering for the tent [of] rams' skins dyed red, and a
covering above [of] badgers' skins.
15 And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle [of] shittim wood standing up.
16 Ten cubits [shall be] the length of a board, and a cubit and a half [shall
be] the breadth of one board.
17 Two tenons [shall there be] in one board, set in order one against another:
thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
18 And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the
south side southward.
19 And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two
sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board
for his two tenons.
20 And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side [there shall be]
twenty boards:
21 And their forty sockets [of] silver; two sockets under one board, and two
sockets under another board.
22 And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.
23 And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two
sides.
24 And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled
together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both;
they shall be for the two corners.
25 And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets [of] silver, sixteen
sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
26 And thou shalt make bars [of] shittim wood; five for the boards of the one
side of the tabernacle,
27 And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five
bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward.
28 And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end.
29 And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings [of] gold
[for] places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.
30 And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which
was shewed thee in the mount.
31 And thou shalt make a vail [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:
32 And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim [wood] overlaid with
gold: their hooks [shall be of] gold, upon the four sockets of silver.
33 And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in
thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide
unto you between the holy [place] and the most holy.
34 And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most
holy [place].
35 And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over
against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou
shalt put the table on the north side.
36 And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, [of] blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.
37 And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars [of] shittim [wood], and
overlay them with gold, [and] their hooks [shall be of] gold: and thou shalt
cast five sockets of brass for them.
1 And thou shalt make an altar [of] shittim wood, five cubits long, and five
cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof [shall be]
three cubits.
2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns
shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.
3 And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his
basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou
shalt make [of] brass.
4 And thou shalt make for it a grate of network [of] brass; and upon the net
shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof.
5 And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net
may be even to the midst of the altar.
6 And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves [of] shittim wood, and
overlay them with brass.
7 And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the
two sides of the altar, to bear it.
8 Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so
shall they make [it].
9 And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward
[there shall be] hangings for the court [of] fine twined linen of an hundred
cubits long for one side:
10 And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets [shall be of] brass;
the hooks of the pillars and their fillets [shall be of] silver.
11 And likewise for the north side in length [there shall be] hangings of an
hundred [cubits] long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets [of]
brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets [of] silver.
12 And [for] the breadth of the court on the west side [shall be] hangings of
fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
13 And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward [shall be] fifty
cubits.
14 The hangings of one side [of the gate shall be] fifteen cubits: their
pillars three, and their sockets three.
15 And on the other side [shall be] hangings fifteen [cubits]: their pillars
three, and their sockets three.
16 And for the gate of the court [shall be] an hanging of twenty cubits, [of]
blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework:
[and] their pillars [shall be] four, and their sockets four.
17 All the pillars round about the court [shall be] filleted with silver; their
hooks [shall be of] silver, and their sockets [of] brass.
18 The length of the court [shall be] an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty
every where, and the height five cubits [of] fine twined linen, and their
sockets [of] brass.
19 All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the
pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, [shall be of] brass.
20 And thou shalt command the children of
21 In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which [is] before the
testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before
Yahweh: [it shall be] a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf
of the children of
1 And take thou unto thee Aaron thy
brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of
2 And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for glory and for
beauty.
3 And thou shalt speak unto all [that are] wise hearted, whom I have filled
with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments to consecrate
him, that he may minister unto Me in the priest's office.
4 And these [are] the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an
ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall
make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister
unto Me in the priest's office.
5 And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.
6 And they shall make the ephod [of] gold, [of] blue, and [of] purple, [of]
scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.
7 It shall have the two
shoulderpieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and [so] it shall be
joined together.
8 And the curious girdle of the ephod, which [is] upon it, shall be of the
same, according to the work thereof; [even of] gold, [of] blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine twined linen.
9 And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the
children of
10 Six of their names on one stone,
and [the other] six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their
birth.
11 With the work of an engraver in stone, [like] the engravings of a signet,
shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of
12 And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod [for]
stones of memorial unto the children of
13 And thou shalt make ouches [of] gold;
14 And two chains [of] pure gold at the ends; [of] wreathen work shalt thou
make them, and fasten the wreathen chains to the ouches.
15 And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the
work of the ephod thou shalt make it; [of] gold, [of] blue, and [of] purple,
and [of] scarlet, and [of] fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.
16 Foursquare it shall be [being] doubled; a span [shall be] the length
thereof, and a span [shall be] the breadth thereof.
17 And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, [even] four rows of stones:
[the first] row [shall be] a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: [this shall be]
the first row.
18 And the second row [shall be] an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
19 And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in
gold in their inclosings.
21 And the stones shall be with the names of the children of
22 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the ends [of] wreathen
work [of] pure gold.
23 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and shalt put
the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
24 And thou shalt put the two wreathen [chains] of gold in the two rings [which
are] on the ends of the breastplate.
25 And [the other] two ends of the two wreathen [chains] thou shalt fasten in
the two ouches, and put [them] on the shoulderpieces of the ephod before it.
26 And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them upon the two
ends of the breastplate in the border thereof, which [is] in the side of the
ephod inward.
27 And two [other] rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them on the two
sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof, over against the
[other] coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.
28 And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of
the ephod with a lace of blue, that [it] may be above the curious girdle of the
ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.
29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of
30 And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim;
and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before Yahweh: and Aaron
shall bear the judgment of the children of
31 And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all [of] blue.
32 And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall
have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of
an habergeon, that it be not rent.
33 And [beneath] upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates [of] blue, and
[of] purple, and [of] scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold
between them round about:
34 A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the
hem of the robe round about.
35 And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be heard when he
goeth in unto the holy [place] before Yahweh, and when he cometh out, that he
die not.
36 And thou shalt make a plate [of] pure gold, and grave upon it, [like] the
engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO YAHWEH.
37 And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre; upon
the forefront of the mitre it shall be.
38 And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of
the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy
gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted
before Yahweh.
39 And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt make the
mitre [of] fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle [of] needlework.
40 And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them
girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty.
41 And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and
shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may
minister unto Me in the priest's office.
42 And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the
loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:
43 And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in unto the
tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto the altar to
minister in the holy [place]; that they bear not iniquity, and die: [it shall
be] a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him.
1 And this [is] the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to
minister unto Me in the priest's office: Take one young bullock, and two rams
without blemish,
2 And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers
unleavened anointed with oil: [of] wheaten flour shalt thou make them.
3 And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with
the bullock and the two rams.
4 And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation, and shalt wash them with water.
5 And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe
of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious
girdle of the ephod:
6 And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the
mitre.
7 Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour [it] upon his head, and
anoint him.
8 And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them.
9 And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets
on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and
thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
10 And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the
congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the
bullock.
11 And thou shalt kill the bullock before Yahweh, [by] the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation.
12 And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put [it] upon the horns
of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the
altar.
13 And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul
[that is] above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that [is] upon
them, and burn [them] upon the altar.
14 But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn
with fire without the camp: it [is] a sin offering.
15 Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands
upon the head of the ram.
16 And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle
[it] round about upon the altar.
17 And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his
legs, and put [them] unto his pieces, and unto his head.
18 And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it [is] a burnt offering
unto Yahweh: it [is] a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto Yahweh.
19 And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their
hands upon the head of the ram.
20 Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put [it] upon the
tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons,
and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right
foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.
21 And thou shalt take of the blood that [is] upon the altar, and of the
anointing oil, and sprinkle [it] upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon
his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed,
and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.
22 Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat that
covereth the inwards, and the caul [above] the liver, and the two kidneys, and
the fat that [is] upon them, and the right shoulder; for it [is] a ram of
consecration:
23 And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the
basket of the unleavened bread that [is] before Yahweh:
24 And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons;
and shalt wave them [for] a wave offering before Yahweh.
25 And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn [them] upon the altar
for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before Yahweh: it [is] an offering
made by fire unto Yahweh.
26 And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron's consecration, and wave
it [for] a wave offering before Yahweh: and it shall be thy part.
27 And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of
the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the
consecration, [even] of [that] which [is] for Aaron, and of [that] which is for
his sons:
28 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute for ever from the
children of Israel: for it [is] an heave offering: and it shall be an heave
offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings,
[even] their heave offering unto Yahweh.
29 And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed
therein, and to be consecrated in them.
30 [And] that son that is priest in his stead shall put them on seven days,
when he cometh into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy
[place].
31 And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his flesh in the
holy place.
32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that
[is] in the basket, [by] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
33 And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to
consecrate [and] to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat [thereof],
because they [are] holy.
34 And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the bread, remain unto
the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be
eaten, because it [is] holy.
35 And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to all
[things] which I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou consecrate them.
36 And thou shalt offer every day a bullock [for] a sin offering for atonement:
and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and
thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.
37 Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and
it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.
38 Now this [is that] which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the
first year day by day continually.
39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt
offer at even:
40 And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of
an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine [for] a drink
offering.
41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according
to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering
thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto Yahweh.
42 [This shall be] a continual burnt offering throughout your generations [at]
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before Yahweh: where I will meet
you, to speak there unto thee.
43 And there I will meet with the children of
44 And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: I
will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to Me in the priest's
office.
45 And I will dwell among the children of
46 And they shall know that I [am] Yahweh their God, That brought them forth
out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I [am] Yahweh their God.
1 And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: [of] shittim wood shalt
thou make it.
2 A cubit [shall be] the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof;
foursquare shall it be: and two cubits [shall be] the height thereof: the horns
thereof [shall be] of the same.
3 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides
thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown
of gold round about.
4 And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it, by the two
corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make [it]; and they shall
be for places for the staves to bear it withal.
5 And thou shalt make the staves [of] shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
6 And thou shalt put it before the vail that [is] by the ark of the testimony,
before the mercy seat that [is] over the testimony, where I will meet with
thee.
7 And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth
the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.
8 And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a
perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations.
9 Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat
offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.
10 And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with
the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make
atonement upon it throughout your generations: it [is] most holy unto Yahweh.
11 And Yahweh spake unto Moses, saying,
12 When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then
shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto Yahweh, when thou
numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when [thou] numberest them.
13 This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered,
half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel [is] twenty gerahs:)
an half shekel [shall be] the offering of Yahweh.
14 Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old
and above, shall give an offering unto Yahweh.
15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a
shekel, when [they] give an offering unto Yahweh, to make an atonement for your
souls.
16 And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of
17 And Yahweh spake unto Moses, saying,
18 Thou shalt also make a laver [of] brass, and his foot [also of] brass, to
wash [withal]: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation
and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein.
19 For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat:
20 When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with
water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to
burn offering made by fire unto Yahweh:
21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it
shall be a statute for ever to them, [even] to him and to his seed throughout
their generations.
22 Moreover Yahweh spake unto Moses, saying,
23 Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred
[shekels], and of sweet cinnamon half so much, [even] two hundred and fifty
[shekels], and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty [shekels],
24 And of cassia five hundred [shekels], after the shekel of the sanctuary, and
of oil olive an hin:
25 And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after
the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil.
26 And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the
ark of the testimony,
27 And the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and
the altar of incense,
28 And the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his
foot.
29 And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever
toucheth them shall be holy.
30 And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that [they]
may minister unto Me in the priest's office.
31 And thou shalt speak unto the children of
32 Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make [any other]
like it, after the composition of it: it [is] holy, [and] it shall be holy unto
you.
33 Whosoever compoundeth [any] like it, or whosoever putteth [any] of it upon a
stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.
34 And Yahweh said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha,
and galbanum; [these] sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there
be a like [weight]:
35 And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the
apothecary, tempered together, pure [and] holy:
36 And thou shalt beat [some] of it very small, and put of it before the
testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee:
it shall be unto you most holy.
37 And [as for] the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to
yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for
Yahweh.
38 Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off
from his people.
1 And Yahweh spake unto Moses, saying,
2 See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the
tribe of Judah:
3 And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in
understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,
4 To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
5 And in cutting of stones, to set [them], and in carving of timber, to work in
all manner of workmanship.
6 And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the
tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom,
that they may make all that I have commanded thee;
7 The tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy
seat that [is] thereupon, and all the furniture of the tabernacle,
8 And the table and his furniture, and the pure candlestick with all his
furniture, and the altar of incense,
9 And the altar of burnt offering with all his furniture, and the laver and his
foot,
10 And the cloths of service, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and
the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office,
11 And the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the holy [place]: according to
all that I have commanded thee shall they do.
12 And Yahweh spake unto Moses, saying,
13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily My sabbaths ye
shall keep: for it [is] a sign between Me and you throughout your generations;
that [ye] may know that I [am] Yahweh That doth sanctify you.
14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it [is] holy unto you: every one
that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth [any] work
therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh [is] the sabbath of rest, holy
to Yahweh: whosoever doeth [any] work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be
put to death.
16 Wherefore the children of
17 It [is] a sign between Me and the children of
18 And He gave unto Moses, when He had made an end of communing with him upon
mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger
of God.
1 And when the people saw that
Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves
together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before
us; for [as for] this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of
Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which [are] in the
ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring [them] unto
me.
3 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which [were] in their ears,
and brought [them] unto Aaron.
4 And he received [them] at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool,
after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These [be] thy gods, O
Israel, which brought thee up out of the
5 And when Aaron saw [it], he built an altar before it; and Aaron made
proclamation, and said, To morrow [is] a feast to Yahweh.
6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and
brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose
up to play.
7 And Yahweh said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou
broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted [themselves]:
8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they
have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed
thereunto, and said, These [be] thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up
out of the land of Egypt.
9 And Yahweh said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it [is] a
stiffnecked people:
10 Now therefore let Me alone, that My wrath may wax hot against them, and that
I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
11 And Moses besought Yahweh his God, and said, Yahweh, why doth Thy wrath wax
hot against Thy people, which Thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt
with great power, and with a mighty hand?
12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did He bring
them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of
the earth? Turn from Thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against Thy
people.
13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Thy servants, to whom Thou swarest by
Thine own Self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of
heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and
they shall inherit [it] for ever.
14 And Yahweh repented of the evil which He thought to do unto His people.
15 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the
testimony [were] in his hand: the tables [were] written on both their sides; on
the one side and on the other [were] they written.
16 And the tables [were] the work of God, and the writing [was] the writing of
God, graven upon the tables.
17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto
Moses, [There is] a noise of war in the camp.
18 And he said, [It is] not the voice of [them that] shout for mastery, neither
[is it] the voice of [them that] cry for being overcome: [but] the noise of
[them that] sing do I hear.
19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the
calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out
of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt [it] in the fire, and
ground [it] to powder, and strawed [it] upon the water, and made the children
of
21 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast
brought so great a sin upon them?
22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the
people, that they [are set] on mischief.
23 For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for [as for]
this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the
24 And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break [it] off. So
they gave [it] me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.
25 And when Moses saw that the people [were] naked; (for Aaron had made them
naked unto [their] shame among their enemies:)
26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who [is] on Yahweh's
side? [let him come] unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves
together unto him.
27 And he said unto them, Thus saith Yahweh, God of Israel, Put every man his
sword by his side, [and] go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp,
and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his
neighbour.
28 And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell
of the people that day about three thousand men.
29 For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to day to Yahweh, even every man
upon his son, and upon his brother; that He may bestow upon you a blessing this
day.
30 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have
sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto Yahweh; peradventure I shall make
an atonement for your sin.
31 And Moses returned unto Yahweh, and said, Oh, this
people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.
32 Yet now, if Thou wilt forgive
their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray Thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast
written.
33 And Yahweh said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against Me,
him will I blot out of My book.
34 Therefore now go, lead the people unto [the place] of which I have spoken
unto thee: behold, Mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day
when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.
35 And Yahweh plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
1 And Yahweh said unto Moses, Depart, [and] go up hence, thou and the people
which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I
sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give
it:
2 And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the
Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
3 Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of
thee; for thou [art] a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.
4 And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did
put on him his ornaments.
5 For Yahweh had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of
6 And the children of
7 And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from
the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of congregation. And it came to pass,
[that] every one which sought Yahweh went out unto the tabernacle of the
congregation, which [was] without the camp.
8 And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, [that] all the
people rose up, and stood every man [at] his tent door, and looked after Moses,
until he was gone into the tabernacle.
9 And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar
descended, and stood [at] the door of the tabernacle, and [Yahweh] talked with
Moses.
10 And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand [at] the tabernacle door: and
all the people rose up and worshipped, every man [in] his tent door.
11 And Yahweh spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend.
And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a
young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.
12 And Moses said unto Yahweh, See, Thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people:
and Thou hast not let me know whom Thou wilt send with me. Yet Thou hast said,
I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in My sight.
13 Now therefore, I pray Thee, if I have found grace in Thy sight, shew me now
Thy way, that I may know Thee, that I may find grace in Thy sight: and consider
that this nation [is] Thy people.
14 And He said, My presence shall go [with thee], and I will give thee rest.
15 And he said unto Him, If Thy presence go not [with me], carry us not up
hence.
16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and Thy people have found grace in
Thy sight? [is it] not in that Thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I
and Thy people, from all the people that [are] upon the face of the earth.
17 And Yahweh said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken:
for thou hast found grace in My sight, and I know thee by name.
18 And he said, I beseech Thee, shew me Thy glory.
19 And He said, I will make all My goodness pass before thee, and I will
proclaim the name of Yahweh before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be
gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
20 And He said, Thou canst not see My face: for there shall no man see Me, and
live.
21 And Yahweh said, Behold, [there is] a place by Me, and thou shalt stand upon
a rock:
22 And it shall come to pass, while My glory passeth by, that I will put thee
in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with My hand while I pass by:
23 And I will take away Mine hand, and thou shalt see My back parts: but My
face shall not be seen.
1 And Yahweh said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the
first: and I will write upon [these] tables the words that were in the first
tables, which thou brakest.
2 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and
present thyself there to Me in the top of the mount.
3 And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout
all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.
4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early
in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and
took in his hand the two tables of stone.
5 And Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed
the name of Yahweh.
6 And Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, Yahweh, Yahweh God, merciful
and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin,
and that will by no means clear [the guilty]; visiting the iniquity of the
fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and
to the fourth [generation].
8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.
9 And he said, If now I have found grace in Thy sight, O Yahweh, let Yahweh, I
pray Thee, go among us; for it [is] a stiffnecked people; and pardon our
iniquity and our sin, and take us for Thine inheritance.
10 And He said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do
marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and
all the people among which thou [art] shall see the work of Yahweh: for it [is]
a terrible thing that I will do with thee.
11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before
thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and
the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the
land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:
13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their
groves:
14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for Yahweh, Whose name [is] Jealous,
[is] a jealous God:
15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a
whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and [one] call
thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a
whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
18 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat
unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in
the month Abib thou camest out from
19 All that openeth the matrix [is] Mine; and every firstling among thy cattle,
[whether] ox or sheep, [that is male].
20 But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou
redeem [him] not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons
thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before Me empty.
21 Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing
time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest,
and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
23 Thrice in the year shall all your menchildren appear before the Lord Yahweh,
the God of
24 For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders:
neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before
Yahweh thy God thrice in the year.
25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leaven; neither shall
the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.
26 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of
Yahweh thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
27 And Yahweh said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of
these words I have made a covenant with thee and with
28 And he was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat
bread, nor drink water. And He wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant,
the ten commandments.
29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two
tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that
Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while He talked with him.
30 And when Aaron and all the children of
31 And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation
returned unto him: and Moses talked with them.
32 And afterward all the children of
33 And [till] Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.
34 But when Moses went in before Yahweh to speak with Him, he took the vail
off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of
35 And the children of
1 And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of
2 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an
holy day, a sabbath of rest to Yahweh: whosoever doeth work therein shall be
put to death.
3 Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
4 And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying,
This [is] the thing which Yahweh commanded, saying,
5 Take ye from among you an offering unto Yahweh: whosoever [is] of a willing heart, let him bring it, an
offering of Yahweh; gold, and silver, and brass,
6 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' [hair],
7 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,
8 And oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for the sweet
incense,
9 And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.
10 And every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that Yahweh hath
commanded;
11 The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his
bars, his pillars, and his sockets,
12 The ark, and the staves thereof, [with] the mercy seat, and the vail of the
covering,
13 The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the shewbread,
14 The candlestick also for the light, and his furniture, and his lamps, with
the oil for the light,
15 And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet
incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle,
16 The altar of burnt offering, with his brasen grate, his staves, and all his
vessels, the laver and his foot,
17 The hangings of the court, his pillars, and their sockets, and the hanging
for the door of the court,
18 The pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords,
19 The cloths of service, to do service in the holy [place], the holy garments
for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's
office.
20 And all the congregation of the children of
21 And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his
spirit made willing, [and] they brought Yahweh's offering to the work of the
tabernacle of the congregation, and for all His service, and for the holy
garments.
22 And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, [and]
brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold:
and every man that offered [offered] an offering of gold unto Yahweh.
23 And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
linen, and goats' [hair], and red skins of rams, and badgers' skins, brought
[them].
24 Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought Yahweh's
offering: and every man, with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the
service, brought [it].
25 And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and
brought that which they had spun, [both] of blue, and of purple, [and] of
scarlet, and of fine linen.
26 And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats' [hair].
27 And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and
for the breastplate;
28 And spice, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the
sweet incense.
29 The children of
30 And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, Yahweh hath called by name
Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;
31 And He hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding,
and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;
32 And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
33 And in the cutting of stones, to set [them], and in carving of wood, to make
any manner of cunning work.
34 And He hath put in his heart that he may teach, [both] he, and Aholiab, the
son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.
35 Them hath He filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the
engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in
purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, [even] of them that
do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.
1 Then wrought Bezaleel and
Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom Yahweh put wisdom and
understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the
sanctuary, according to all that Yahweh had commanded.
2 And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whose
heart Yahweh had put wisdom, [even] every one whose heart stirred him up to
come unto the work to do it:
3 And they received of Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel had
brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it [withal]. And
they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning.
4 And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every
man from his work which they made;
5 And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for
the service of the work, which Yahweh commanded to make.
6 And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout
the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering
of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.
7 For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too
much.
8 And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle
made ten curtains [of] fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet:
[with] cherubims of cunning work made he them.
9 The length of one curtain [was] twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of
one curtain four cubits: the curtains [were] all of one size.
10 And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and [the other] five
curtains he coupled one unto another.
11 And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the selvedge in
the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost side of [another] curtain, in
the coupling of the second.
12 Fifty loops made he in one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of
the curtain which [was] in the coupling of the second: the loops held one
[curtain] to another.
13 And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another
with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.
14 And he made curtains [of] goats' [hair] for the tent over the tabernacle:
eleven curtains he made them.
15 The length of one curtain [was] thirty cubits, and four cubits [was] the
breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains [were] of one size.
16 And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
17 And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain in the
coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which coupleth
the second.
18 And he made fifty taches [of] brass to couple the tent together, that it
might be one.
19 And he made a covering for the tent [of] rams' skins dyed red, and a
covering [of] badgers' skins above [that].
20 And he made boards for the tabernacle [of] shittim wood, standing up.
21 The length of a board [was] ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit
and a half.
22 One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make
for all the boards of the tabernacle.
23 And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side
southward:
24 And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets
under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his
two tenons.
25 And for the other side of the tabernacle, [which is] toward the north
corner, he made twenty boards,
26 And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two
sockets under another board.
27 And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
28 And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.
29 And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head thereof, to
one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners.
30 And there were eight boards; and their sockets [were] sixteen sockets of
silver, under every board two sockets.
31 And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the
tabernacle,
32 And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five
bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the sides westward.
33 And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to
the other.
34 And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings [of] gold [to be]
places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
35 And he made a vail [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
linen: [with] cherubims made he it of cunning work.
36 And he made thereunto four pillars [of] shittim [wood], and overlaid them
with gold: their hooks [were of] gold; and he cast for them four sockets of
silver.
37 And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door [of] blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;
38 And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets [were of] brass.
1 And Bezaleel made the ark [of] shittim wood: two cubits and a half [was]
the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a
half the height of it:
2 And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of
gold to it round about.
3 And he cast for it four rings of gold, [to be set] by the four corners of it;
even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other side of
it.
4 And he made staves [of] shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.
5 And he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, to bear the
ark.
6 And he made the mercy seat [of] pure gold: two cubits and a half [was] the
length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
7 And he made two cherubims [of] gold, beaten out of one piece made he them, on
the two ends of the mercy seat;
8 One cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on the [other] end on
that side: out of the mercy seat made he the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
9 And the cherubims spread out [their] wings on high, [and] covered with their
wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to another; [even] to the mercy
seatward were the faces of the cherubims.
10 And he made the table [of] shittim wood: two cubits [was] the length
thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height
thereof:
11 And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a crown of gold round
about.
12 Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a
crown of gold for the border thereof round about.
13 And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings upon the four
corners that [were] in the four feet thereof.
14 Over against the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear
the table.
15 And he made the staves [of] shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold, to
bear the table.
16 And he made the vessels which [were] upon the table, his dishes, and his
spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to cover withal, [of] pure gold.
17 And he made the candlestick [of] pure gold: [of] beaten work made he the
candlestick; his shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers,
were of the same:
18 And six branches going out of the sides thereof; three branches of the
candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick
out of the other side thereof:
19 Three bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one branch, a knop and a
flower; and three bowls made like almonds in another branch, a knop and a
flower: so throughout the six branches going out of the candlestick.
20 And in the candlestick [were] four bowls made like almonds, his knops, and
his flowers:
21 And a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of
the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six
branches going out of it.
22 Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it [was] one beaten
work [of] pure gold.
23 And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his snuffdishes, [of]
pure gold.
24 [Of] a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels thereof.
25. And he made the incense altar [of] shittim wood: the length of it [was] a
cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; [it was] foursquare; and two cubits [was]
the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.
26 And he overlaid it with pure gold, [both] the top of it, and the sides
thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made unto it a crown of gold
round about.
27 And he made two rings of gold for it under the crown thereof, by the two
corners of it, upon the two sides thereof, to be places for the staves to bear
it withal.
28 And he made the staves [of] shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.
29 And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices,
according to the work of the apothecary.
1 And he made the altar of burnt
offering [of] shittim wood: five cubits [was] the length thereof, and five
cubits the breadth thereof; [it was] foursquare; and three cubits the height
thereof.
2 And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof
were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.
3 And he made all the vessels of
the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, [and] the fleshhooks, and
the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he [of] brass.
4 And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass thereof
beneath unto the midst of it.
5 And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, [to be]
places for the staves.
6 And he made the staves [of] shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass.
7 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it
withal; he made the altar hollow with boards.
8 And he made the laver [of] brass, and the foot of it [of] brass, of the
lookingglasses of [the women] assembling, which assembled [at] the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation.
9 And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court
[were of] fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:
10 Their pillars [were] twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of
the pillars and their fillets [were of] silver.
11 And for the north side [the hangings were] an hundred cubits, their pillars
[were] twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and
their fillets [of] silver.
12 And for the west side [were] hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten,
and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets [of] silver.
13 And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
14 The hangings of the one side [of the gate were] fifteen cubits; their
pillars three, and their sockets three.
15 And for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and that hand, [were]
hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
16 All the hangings of the court round about [were] of fine twined linen.
17 And the sockets for the pillars [were of] brass; the hooks of the pillars
and their fillets [of] silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters [of]
silver; and all the pillars of the court [were] filleted with silver.
18 And the hanging for the gate of the court [was] needlework, [of] blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits [was] the length,
and the height in the breadth [was] five cubits, answerable to the hangings of
the court.
19 And their pillars [were] four, and their sockets [of] brass four; their
hooks [of] silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets [of]
silver.
20 And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, [were of]
brass.
21 This is the sum of the tabernacle, [even] of the tabernacle of testimony, as
it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, [for] the service of the
Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.
22 And Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of
23 And with him [was] Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an
engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and
in scarlet, and fine linen.
24 All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy
[place], even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven
hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
25 And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation [was] an
hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
26 A bekah for every man, [that is], half a shekel, after the shekel of the
sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and
upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty
[men].
27 And of the hundred talents of
silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an
hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
28 And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for
the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.
29 And the brass of the offering [was] seventy talents, and two thousand and
four hundred shekels.
30 And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, and the brasen altar, and the brasen grate for it, and all the
vessels of the altar,
31 And the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the court gate,
and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.
1 And of the blue, and purple, and
scarlet, they made cloths of service, to do service in the holy [place], and
made the holy garments for Aaron; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
2 And he made the ephod [of] gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
twined linen.
3 And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut [it into] wires, to work
[it] in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen,
[with] cunning work.
4 They made shoulderpieces for it, to couple [it] together: by the two edges
was it coupled together.
5 And the curious girdle of his ephod, that [was] upon it, [was] of the same,
according to the work thereof; [of] gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
fine twined linen; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
6 And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets
are graven, with the names of the children of
7 And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, [that they should be] stones
for a memorial to the children of
8 And he made the breastplate [of] cunning work, like the work of the ephod;
[of] gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
9 It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span [was] the length
thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, [being] doubled.
10 And they set in it four rows of stones: [the first] row [was] a sardius, a
topaz, and a carbuncle: this [was] the first row.
11 And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
12 And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
13 And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: [they were] inclosed in
ouches of gold in their inclosings.
14 And the stones [were] according to the names of the children of
15 And they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends, [of] wreathen work
[of] pure gold.
16 And they made two ouches [of] gold, and two gold rings; and put the two
rings in the two ends of the breastplate.
17 And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of
the breastplate.
18 And the two ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened in the two ouches,
and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod, before it.
19 And they made two rings of gold, and put [them] on the two ends of the
breastplate, upon the border of it, which [was] on the side of the ephod
inward.
20 And they made two [other] golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the
ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over against the [other] coupling
thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.
21 And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the ephod
with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious girdle of the ephod,
and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as Yahweh
commanded Moses.
22 And he made the robe of the ephod [of] woven work, all [of] blue.
23 And [there was] an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an
habergeon, [with] a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.
24 And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates [of] blue, and purple,
and scarlet, [and] twined [linen].
25 And they made bells [of] pure gold, and put the bells between the
pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the pomegranates;
26 A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of
the robe to minister [in]; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
27 And they made coats [of] fine linen [of] woven work for Aaron, and for his
sons,
28 And a mitre [of] fine linen, and goodly bonnets [of] fine linen, and linen
breeches [of] fine twined linen,
29 And a girdle [of] fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, [of]
needlework; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
30 And they made the plate of the holy crown [of] pure gold, and wrote upon it
a writing, [like to] the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO YAHWEH.
31 And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten [it] on high upon the mitre;
as Yahweh commanded Moses.
32 Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation
finished: and the children of
33 And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent, and all his furniture,
his taches, his boards, his bars, and his pillars, and his sockets,
34 And the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers' skins,
and the vail of the covering,
35 The ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat,
36 The table, [and] all the vessels thereof, and the showbread,
37 The pure candlestick, [with] the
lamps thereof, [even with] the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels
thereof, and the oil for light,
38 And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the
hanging for the tabernacle door,
39 The brasen altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels,
the laver and his foot,
40 The hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for
the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of
the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation,
41 The cloths of service to do service in the holy [place], and the holy
garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons' garments, to minister in the
priest's office.
42 According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of
43 And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as
Yahweh had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.
1 And Yahweh spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the
tent of the congregation.
3 And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with
the vail.
4 And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be
set in order upon it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and light the
lamps thereof.
5 And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the
testimony, and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle.
6 And thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the
tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
7 And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the
altar, and shalt put water therein.
8 And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the
court gate.
9 And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all
that [is] therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it
shall be holy.
10 And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all his vessels,
and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most holy.
11 And thou shalt anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify it.
12 And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation, and wash them with water.
13 And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him, and
sanctify him; that he may minister unto Me in the priest's office.
14 And thou shalt bring his sons, and clothe them with coats:
15 And thou shalt anoint them, as
thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto Me in the priest's
office: for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood
throughout their generations.
16 Thus did Moses: according to all that Yahweh commanded him, so did he.
17 And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first [day]
of the month, [that] the tabernacle was reared up.
18 And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the
boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars.
19 And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of
the tent above upon it; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
20 And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the
ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:
21 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the vail of the
covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
22 And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the
tabernacle northward, without the vail.
23 And he set the bread in order upon it before Yahweh; as Yahweh had commanded
Moses.
24 And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation, over against the
table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.
25 And he lighted the lamps before Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
26 And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail:
27 And he burnt sweet incense thereon; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
28 And he set up the hanging [at] the door of the tabernacle.
29 And he put the altar of burnt offering [by] the door of the tabernacle of
the tent of the congregation, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the
meat offering; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
30 And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and
put water there, to wash [withal].
31 And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat:
32 When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near
unto the altar, they washed; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
33 And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set
up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.
34 Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of Yahweh
filled the tabernacle.
35 And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because
the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of Yahweh filled the tabernacle.
36 And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of
37 But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day
that it was taken up.
38 For the cloud of Yahweh [was] upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it
by night, in the sight of all the house of