1 Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt;
every man and his household came with Jacob.
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 Egypt already.
6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and
multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
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 Israel.
13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
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 , and did not as the king of Egypt commanded
them, but saved the men children alive.
18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have
ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?
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 ELOHIM dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and
waxed very mighty.
21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared ELOHIM, 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.
~ Exodus 2 ~
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 land of Midian: and he sat down by a
well.
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 Egypt died: and the
children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their
cry came up unto ELOHIM by reason of the bondage.
24 And ELOHIM heard their groaning, and ELOHIM remembered his covenant with
Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
25 And ELOHIM looked upon the children of Israel, and ELOHIM had respect unto
them.
~ Exodus 3 ~
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 mountain of
ELOHIM, even to Horeb.
2 And the angel of YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH saw that he turned aside to see, ELOHIM called unto him out
of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
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 ELOHIM of thy father, the ELOHIM of Abraham, the
ELOHIM of Isaac, and the ELOHIM of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was
afraid to look upon ELOHIM.
7 And YAHUVEH 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 Israel is come unto me: and
I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring
forth MY people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
11 And Moses said unto ELOHIM, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and
that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
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
Egypt, ye shall serve ELOHIM upon this mountain.
13 And Moses said unto ELOHIM, Behold, when I come unto the children of
Israel, and shall say unto them, The ELOHIM of your fathers hath sent me unto
you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?
14 And ELOHIM said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and HE said, Thus shalt thou say
unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
15 And ELOHIM said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of
Israel, YAHUVEH of your fathers, the ELOHIM of Abraham, the ELOHIM of Isaac, and
the ELOHIM of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this isMY name for ever, and this
isMY memorial unto all generations.
16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, YAHUVEH of
your fathers, the ELOHIM 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, YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH our ELOHIM.
19 And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty
hand.
20 And I will stretch out MY hand, and smite Egypt with all MY wonders which I
will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.
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.
~ Exodus 4 ~
1 And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor
hearken unto my voice: for they will say, YAHUVEH hath not appeared unto thee.
2 And YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH of their fathers, the ELOHIM of Abraham,
the ELOHIM of Isaac, and the ELOHIM of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.
6 And YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH, O my LORD, 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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH?
12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou
shalt say.
13 And he said, O my LORD, send, I pray THEE, by the hand of him whomTHOU
wilt send.
14 And the anger of YAHUVEH 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 ELOHIM.
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 YAHUVEH said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men
are dead which sought thy life.
20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he
returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of ELOHIM in his hand.
21 And YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH, Israel isMY son,
evenMY 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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went,
and met him in the mount of ELOHIM, and kissed him.
28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of YAHUVEH 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 Israel:
30 And Aaron spake all the words which YAHUVEH had spoken unto Moses, and did
the signs in the sight of the people.
31 And the people believed: and when they heard that YAHUVEH had visited the
children of Israel, and that HE had looked upon their affliction, then they
bowed their heads and worshipped.
~ Exodus 5 ~
1 And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith YAHUVEH of
Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
2 And Pharaoh said, Who isYAHUVEH, that I should obey his voice to let Israel
go? I know not YAHUVEH, neither will I let Israel go.
3 And they said, The ELOHIM of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray
thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto YAHUVEH our
ELOHIM; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.
4 And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let
the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.
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 ELOHIM.
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 land of Egypt to
gather stubble instead of straw.
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 Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh,
saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
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 YAHUVEH.
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 Israel did see that they were in evil
case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your
daily task.
20 And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from
Pharaoh:
21 And they said unto them, YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH, and said, LORD, wherefore hast thou so
evil entreated this people? why is it thatTHOU 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.
~ Exodus 6 ~
1 Then YAHUVEH 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 ELOHIM spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I AMYAHUVEH:
3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of EL
SHADDAI, but by MY name YAHUVEH was I not known to them.
4 And I have also established MY covenant with them, to give them the land of
Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
5 And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the
Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered MY covenant.
6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I AMYAHUVEH, 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 ELOHIM: and ye
shall know that I AMYAHUVEH your ELOHIM, 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 AMYAHUVEH.
9 And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto
Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
10 And YAHUVEH spake unto Moses, saying,
11 Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel
go out of his land.
12 And Moses spake before YAHUVEH, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have
not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised
lips?
13 And YAHUVEH spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the
children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of
Israel out of the land of Egypt.
14 These be the heads of their fathers' houses: The sons of Reuben the
firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these be the
families of Reuben.
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 Hebron, and Uzziel: and the
years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years.
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 YAHUVEH said, Bring out the
children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies.
27 These are they which spake to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the
children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and Aaron.
28 And it came to pass on the day whenYAHUVEH spake unto Moses in the land of
Egypt,
29 That YAHUVEH spake unto Moses, saying, I AMYAHUVEH: speak thou unto
Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto thee.
30 And Moses said before YAHUVEH, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how
shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?
~ Exodus 7 ~
1 And YAHUVEH said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a elohim 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 Israel out of his land.
3 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply MY signs and MY wonders in the
land of Egypt.
4 But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay MY hand upon Egypt, and
bring forth mine armies, andMY people the children of Israel, out of the land
of Egypt by great judgments.
5 And the Egyptians shall know that I AMYAHUVEH, when I stretch forth mine
hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.
6 And Moses and Aaron did as YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH 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
Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.
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 YAHUVEH
had said.
14 And YAHUVEH 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, YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH, In this thou shalt know that I AMYAHUVEH: 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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH 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 land of Egypt.
22 And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments: and Pharaoh's
heart was hardened, neither did he hearken unto them; as YAHUVEH had said.
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 YAHUVEH had smitten the river.
~ Exodus 8 ~
1 And YAHUVEH spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith
YAHUVEH, 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 YAHUVEH 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 land of Egypt.
6 And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came
up, and covered the land of Egypt.
7 And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon
the land of Egypt.
8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Intreat YAHUVEH, 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 YAHUVEH.
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 YAHUVEH our ELOHIM.
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 YAHUVEH
because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh.
13 And YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH had said.
16 And YAHUVEH 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 land of Egypt.
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 land of Egypt.
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 ELOHIM: and
Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as YAHUVEH had
said.
20 And YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH,
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
AMYAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house
of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the
land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies.
25 And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to
your ELOHIM in the land.
26 And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the
abomination of the Egyptians to YAHUVEH our ELOHIM: 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 YAHUVEH
our ELOHIM, as HE shall command us.
28 And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to YAHUVEH your
ELOHIM 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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH.
30 And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated YAHUVEH.
31 And YAHUVEH 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.
~ Exodus 9 ~
1 Then YAHUVEH said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith
YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt:
and there shall nothing die of all that is the children's of Israel.
5 And YAHUVEH appointed a set time, saying, To morrow YAHUVEH shall do this
thing in the land.
6 And YAHUVEH did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died:
but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.
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 YAHUVEH 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 land of Egypt, and shall be a boil
breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the land
of Egypt.
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 YAHUVEH hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as
YAHUVEH had spoken unto Moses.
13 And YAHUVEH said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before
Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith YAHUVEH 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 Egypt since the foundation thereof even until
now.
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 YAHUVEH among the servants of Pharaoh made his
servants and his cattle flee into the houses:
21 And he that regarded not the word of YAHUVEH left his servants and his cattle
in the field.
22 And YAHUVEH said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that
there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon
every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.
23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and YAHUVEH sent thunder and
hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and YAHUVEH rained hail upon the
land of Egypt.
24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as
there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
25 And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the
field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake
every tree of the field.
26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no
hail.
27 And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have
sinned this time: YAHUVEHis righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
28 Intreat YAHUVEH (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 YAHUVEH; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there
be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth isYAHUVEH's.
30 But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear YAHUVEH.
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
YAHUVEH: 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
Israel go; as YAHUVEH had spoken by Moses. ~
~ Exodus 10 ~
1 And YAHUVEH 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 AMYAHUVEH.
3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith
YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH their ELOHIM: knowest thou not
yet that Egypt is destroyed?
8 And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them,
Go, serve YAHUVEH your ELOHIM: 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 YAHUVEH.
10 And he said unto them, Let YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH; for that ye did desire.
And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.
12 And YAHUVEH said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt
for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every
herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.
13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and YAHUVEH brought
an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was
morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the
coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such
locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
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 land of Egypt.
16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned
against YAHUVEH your ELOHIM, and against you.
17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat
YAHUVEH your ELOHIM, that he may take away from me this death only.
18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated YAHUVEH.
19 And YAHUVEH 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 Egypt.
20 But YAHUVEH hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children
of Israel go.
21 And YAHUVEH said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there
may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick
darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:
23 They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but
all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
24 And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve YAHUVEH; 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 YAHUVEH our ELOHIM.
26 Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind; for
thereof must we take to serve YAHUVEH our ELOHIM; and we know not with what we
must serve YAHUVEH, until we come thither.
27 But YAHUVEH 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. ~
~ Exodus 11 ~
1 And YAHUVEH said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh,
and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go,
he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.
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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH, 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 land of Egypt, such as there
was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.
7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue,
against man or beast: that ye may know how that YAHUVEH doth put a difference
between the Egyptians and Israel.
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 YAHUVEH said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you; that my
wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.
10 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and YAHUVEH
hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go out
of his land. ~
~ Exodus 12 ~
1 And YAHUVEH spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
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 Israel shall kill it in the evening.
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 isYAHUVEH'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 AMYAHUVEH.
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 land of Egypt.
14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast
to YAHUVEH 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 Israel.
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 land of Egypt: therefore shall ye
observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
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 Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat
unleavened bread.
21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out
and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.
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 YAHUVEH will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the
blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH's passover, who passed
over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when HE smote the Egyptians,
and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
28 And the children of Israel went away, and did as YAHUVEH had commanded Moses
and Aaron, so did they.
29 And it came to pass, that at midnight YAHUVEH 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 Egypt; for there was not a house where
there was not one dead.
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 Israel; and go, serve
YAHUVEH, as ye have said.
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 Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they
borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:
36 And YAHUVEH gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that
they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the
Egyptians.
37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six
hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
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 Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four
hundred and thirty years.
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 YAHUVEH went out from the
land of Egypt.
42 It is a night to be much observed unto YAHUVEH for bringing them out from
the land of Egypt: this is that night of YAHUVEH to be observed of all the
children of Israel in their generations.
43 And YAHUVEH 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 Israel shall keep it.
48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to
YAHUVEH, 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 Israel; as YAHUVEH commanded Moses and Aaron, so
did they.
51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, thatYAHUVEH did bring the children
of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies. ~
~ Exodus 13 ~
1 And YAHUVEH spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Sanctify unto ME all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the
children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is MINE.
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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH.
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 whichYAHUVEH did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.
9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial
between thine eyes, that YAHUVEH's law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong
hand hath YAHUVEH brought thee out of Egypt.
10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.
11 And it shall be when YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH all that openeth the matrix, and every
firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall beYAHUVEH'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 YAHUVEH brought us out
from Egypt, from the house of bondage:
15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that YAHUVEH slew
all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the
firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH brought us forth out of Egypt.
17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that ELOHIM led them
not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near;
for ELOHIM said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they
return to Egypt:
18 But ELOHIM 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 Israel, saying, ELOHIM will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up
my bones away hence with you.
20 And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge
of the wilderness.
21 And YAHUVEH 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. ~
~ Exodus 14 ~
1 And YAHUVEH spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth,
between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon: before it shall ye encamp
by the sea.
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 AMYAHUVEH. And they did so.
5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of
Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why
have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?
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 Egypt, and
captains over every one of them.
8 And YAHUVEH hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after
the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand.
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 Israel lifted up their eyes, and,
behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the
children of Israel cried out unto YAHUVEH.
11 And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou
taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us,
to carry us forth out of Egypt?
12 Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone,
that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the
Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.
13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the
salvation of YAHUVEH, 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 YAHUVEH shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
15 And YAHUVEH said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto ME? speak unto the
children of Israel, that they go forward:
16 But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide
it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the
sea.
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 AMYAHUVEH, when I have gotten me
honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
19 And the RUACH ha KODESH of ELOHIM, 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 YAHUVEH 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 Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry
ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on
their left.
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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH fighteth for
them against the Egyptians.
26 And YAHUVEH 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
YAHUVEH 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 Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea;
and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
30 Thus YAHUVEH saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and
Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.
31 And Israel saw that great work which YAHUVEH did upon the Egyptians: and the
people feared YAHUVEH, and believed YAHUVEH, and HIS servant Moses. ~
~ Exodus 15 ~
1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto YAHUVEH, and spake,
saying, I will sing unto YAHUVEH, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse
and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
2 YAHUVEHisMY strength and song, and he is become MY salvation: HEisMYELOHIM, and I will prepare HIM an habitation; my father's ELOHIM, and I will
exalt HIM.
3 YAHUVEHis a man of war: YAHUVEHisHIS name.
4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains
also are drowned in the Red sea.
5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
6 THY right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: THY right hand, O LORD,
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 LORD, among the Elohims? 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 Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling
shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.
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 LORD, 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 LORD, whichTHOU hast made for THEE to dwell
in, in the Sanctuary, O LORD, whichTHY hands have established.
18 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH, for he hath triumphed
gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the
wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no
water.
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 YAHUVEH; and YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH thy ELOHIM,
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 AMYAHUVEH 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. ~
~ Exodus 16 ~
1 And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the
children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and
Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the
land of Egypt.
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 ELOHIM we had died by the
hand of YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH 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 Israel, At even, then ye
shall know that YAHUVEH hath brought you out from the land of Egypt:
7 And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of YAHUVEH; for that HE
heareth your murmurings against YAHUVEH: and what are we, that ye murmur
against us?
8 And Moses said, This shall be, when YAHUVEH shall give you in the evening
flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that YAHUVEH heareth
your murmurings which ye murmur against HIM: and what are we? your murmurings
are not against us, but against YAHUVEH.
9 And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of
Israel, Come near before YAHUVEH: for he hath heard your murmurings.
10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the
children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the
glory of YAHUVEH appeared in the cloud.
11 And YAHUVEH spake unto Moses, saying,
12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them,
saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with
bread; and ye shall know that I AMYAHUVEH your ELOHIM.
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 Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is
manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the
bread which YAHUVEH hath given you to eat.
16 This is the thing which YAHUVEH 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 Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.
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 YAHUVEH hath said, To morrow is
the rest of the holy sabbath unto YAHUVEH: 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 YAHUVEH: 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 YAHUVEH said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep MY commandments and
MY laws?
29 See, for that YAHUVEH 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 Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like
coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
32 And Moses said, This is the thing which YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH, to be kept for your generations.
34 As YAHUVEH commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be
kept.
35 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a
land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land
of Canaan.
36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah. ~
~ Exodus 17 ~
1 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the
wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of
YAHUVEH, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to
drink.
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
YAHUVEH?
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
Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
4 And Moses cried unto YAHUVEH, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they
be almost ready to stone me.
5 And YAHUVEH said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of
the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in
thine hand, and go.
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 Israel.
7 And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the
chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted YAHUVEH, saying, Is
YAHUVEH among us, or not?
8 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
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 ELOHIM 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 Israel prevailed: and
when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
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 YAHUVEH 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 Jehovahnissi:
16 For he said, Because YAHUVEH hath sworn thatYAHUVEHwill have war with
Amalek from generation to generation. ~
~ Exodus 18 ~
1 When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard of all that
ELOHIM had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that YAHUVEH 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 ELOHIM 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 ELOHIM:
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 YAHUVEH had done unto Pharaoh and to
the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the travail that had come upon them
by the way, and howYAHUVEH delivered them.
9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which YAHUVEH had done to Israel,
whom HE had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.
10 And Jethro said, Blessed beYAHUVEH, 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 YAHUVEHis greater than all Elohims: 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
ELOHIM: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses'
father in law before ELOHIM.
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 ELOHIM:
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 ELOHIM, 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 ELOHIM shall be with
thee: Be thou for the people to ELOHIM-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes
unto ELOHIM:
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
ELOHIM, 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 ELOHIM 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 Israel, and made them heads over the
people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers
of tens.
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. ~
~ Exodus 19 ~
1 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the
land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai,
and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.
3 And Moses went up unto ELOHIM, and YAHUVEH 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 Israel.
7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their
faces all these words which YAHUVEH commanded him.
8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that YAHUVEH hath spoken
we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto YAHUVEH.
9 And YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH.
10 And YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH 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 ELOHIM; and
they stood at the nether part of the mount.
18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because YAHUVEH 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 ELOHIM answered him by a voice.
20 And YAHUVEH came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and YAHUVEH
called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
21 And YAHUVEH said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break
through unto YAHUVEH to gaze, and many of them perish.
22 And let the priests also, which come near to YAHUVEH, sanctify themselves,
lest YAHUVEH break forth upon them.
23 And Moses said unto YAHUVEH, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for
thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.
24 And YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH, lest he break forth upon them.
25 So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.
~ Exodus 20 ~
1 And ELOHIM spake all these words, saying,
2 I AMYAHUVEH thy ELOHIM, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other Elohims 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 YAHUVEH thy
ELOHIMAM a jealous ELOHIM, 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 take the name of YAHUVEH thy ELOHIM in vain; for YAHUVEH will
not hold him guiltless that taketh HIS name in vain.
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 YAHUVEH thy ELOHIM: 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 YAHUVEH made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in
them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore YAHUVEH blessed the sabbath
day, and hallowed it.
12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land
which YAHUVEH thy ELOHIM 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
ELOHIM speak with us, lest we die.
20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for ELOHIM 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 ELOHIMwas.
22 And YAHUVEH said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel,
Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
23 Ye shall not make with me Elohims of silver, neither shall ye make unto you
Elohims 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.
~ Exodus 21 ~
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 the judges; 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 ELOHIM 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.
~ Exodus 22 ~
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
the judges, 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 the judges; and whom the
judges 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 YAHUVEH 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 Elohim, save unto YAHUVEH only, he shall be
utterly destroyed.
21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in
the land of Egypt.
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 ofMY 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 the Elohims, 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.
~ Exodus 23 ~
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 land of Egypt.
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 Elohims, 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 YAHUVEH.
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
YAHUVEH thy ELOHIM. 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 Elohims, 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 YAHUVEH your ELOHIM, 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 Red sea even unto the sea of the
Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the
inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before
thee.
32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their Elohims.
33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against ME: for if
thou serve their Elohims, it will surely be a snare unto thee.
~ Exodus 24 ~
1 And HE said unto Moses, Come up unto YAHUVEH, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and
Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off.
2 And Moses alone shall come near YAHUVEH: 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 YAHUVEH, and all the
judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words
which YAHUVEH hath said will we do.
4 And Moses wrote all the words of YAHUVEH, and rose up early in the morning,
and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve
tribes of Israel.
5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt
offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto YAHUVEH.
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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH 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 ELOHIM 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 ELOHIM, and did eat and drink.
12 And YAHUVEH 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 ELOHIM.
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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEHwas like devouring fire on the top of
the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
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.
~ Exodus 25 ~
1 And YAHUVEH spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring ME an offering: of every
man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.
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 alway.
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.
~ Exodus 26 ~
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.
~ Exodus 27 ~
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 Israel, that they bring thee pure oil
olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.
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
YAHUVEH: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf
of the children of Israel.
~ Exodus 28 ~
1 And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among
the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office,
even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.
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 Israel:
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 Israel: thou
shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.
12 And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for
stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names
before YAHUVEH upon his two shoulders for a memorial.
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 Israel, twelve,
according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his
name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.
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 Israel in the breastplate
of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a
memorial before YAHUVEH continually.
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 YAHUVEH: and Aaron
shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before YAHUVEH
continually.
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 YAHUVEH, 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 YAHUVEH.
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 YAHUVEH.
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.
~ Exodus 29 ~
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 YAHUVEH, 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 YAHUVEH: it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto YAHUVEH.
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 YAHUVEH:
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 YAHUVEH.
25 And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar
for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before YAHUVEH: it is an offering
made by fire unto YAHUVEH.
26 And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron's consecration, and wave
it for a wave offering before YAHUVEH: 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 YAHUVEH.
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 YAHUVEH.
42 This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before YAHUVEH: where I will meet
you, to speak there unto thee.
43 And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall
be sanctified by MY glory.
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 Israel, and will be their ELOHIM.
46 And they shall know that I AMYAHUVEH their ELOHIM, that brought them forth
out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I AMYAHUVEH their
ELOHIM.
~ Exodus 30 ~
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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH.
11 And YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH, 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 YAHUVEH.
14 Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old
and above, shall give an offering unto YAHUVEH.
15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a
shekel, when they give an offering unto YAHUVEH, to make an atonement for your
souls.
16 And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shalt
appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be
a memorial unto the children of Israel before YAHUVEH, to make an atonement for
your souls.
17 And YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH:
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 YAHUVEH 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 Israel, saying, This shall be an
holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations.
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 YAHUVEH 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
YAHUVEH.
38 Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off
from his people.
~ Exodus 31 ~
1 And YAHUVEH 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 ELOHIM, 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 YAHUVEH 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 AMYAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be
put to death.
16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the
sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
17 It is a sign between ME and the children of Israel for ever: for in six
days YAHUVEH made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day HE rested, and was
refreshed.
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 ELOHIM.
~ Exodus 32 ~
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
Elohims, 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 Elohims, O
Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made
proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to YAHUVEH.
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 YAHUVEH 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 Elohims, O Israel, which have brought thee
up out of the land of Egypt.
9 And YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH his ELOHIM, and said, LORD, 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 YAHUVEH 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 ELOHIM, and the writing was the writing
of ELOHIM, 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
Israel drink of it.
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 Elohims, 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.
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 YAHUVEH'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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH, 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 YAHUVEH; peradventure I shall make
an atonement for your sin.
31 And Moses returned unto YAHUVEH, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a
great sin, and have made them Elohims 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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
~ Exodus 33 ~
1 And YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a
stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and
consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know
what to do unto thee.
6 And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount
Horeb.
7 And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from
the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass,
that every one which sought YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH, 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 isTHY 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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH 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.
~ Exodus 34 ~
1 And YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH had commanded him, and
took in his hand the two tables of stone.
5 And YAHUVEH descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed
the name of YAHUVEH.
6 And YAHUVEH passed by before him, and proclaimed, YAHUVEH, YAHUVEH, 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 LORD, let my LORD, 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 YAHUVEH: 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 ELOHIM: for YAHUVEH, whose name is Jealous,
is a jealous ELOHIM:
15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a
whoring after their Elohims, and do sacrifice unto their Elohims, 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 Elohims, and make thy sons go a whoring after their Elohims.
17 Thou shalt make thee no molten Elohims.
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 Egypt.
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 men children appear before YAHUVEH, the
ELOHIM of Israel.
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 YAHUVEH
thy ELOHIM 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
YAHUVEH thy ELOHIM. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
27 And YAHUVEH said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of
these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
28 And he was there with YAHUVEH 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 Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of
his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.
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 Israel came nigh: and he gave them in
commandment all that YAHUVEH had spoken with him in mount Sinai.
33 And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.
34 But when Moses went in before YAHUVEH to speak with him, he took the vail
off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel
that which he was commanded.
35 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses'
face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to
speak with him.
~ Exodus 35 ~
1 And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together,
and said unto them, These are the words which YAHUVEH hath commanded, that
ye should do them.
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 YAHUVEH: 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 YAHUVEH commanded, saying,
5 Take ye from among you an offering unto YAHUVEH: whosoever is of a willing
heart, let him bring it, an offering of YAHUVEH; 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 YAHUVEH 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 Israel departed from the presence
of Moses.
21 And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his
spirit made willing, and they brought YAHUVEH'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 YAHUVEH.
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 YAHUVEH'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 Israel brought a willing offering unto YAHUVEH, every man and
woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which
YAHUVEH had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.
30 And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, YAHUVEH 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 ELOHIM, 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.
~ Exodus 36 ~
1 Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom YAHUVEH
put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the
service of the sanctuary, according to all that YAHUVEH had commanded.
2 And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whose
heart YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH 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.
~ Exodus 37 ~
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.
~ Exodus 38 ~
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 Judah, made all
that YAHUVEH commanded Moses.
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.
~ Exodus 39 ~
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 YAHUVEH
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 YAHUVEH 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 Israel.
7 And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they should be stones
for a memorial to the children of Israel; as YAHUVEH commanded Moses.
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 Israel,
twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one
with his name, according to the twelve tribes.
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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH.
31 And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten it on high upon the mitre;
as YAHUVEH commanded Moses.
32 Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation
finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that YAHUVEH commanded
Moses, so did they.
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 shewbread,
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 YAHUVEH commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made
all the work.
43 And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as
YAHUVEH had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.
~ Exodus 40 ~
1 And YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH; as YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH; as YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH 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 YAHUVEH
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 YAHUVEH filled the tabernacle.
36 And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of
Israel went onward in all their journeys:
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 YAHUVEHwas upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it
by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their
journeys.