1 {1:1} Now these [are] the names of the children of Israel,
which came into Egypt; every man and his household came
with Jacob. {1:2} Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, {1:3}
Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, {1:4} Dan, and Naphtali,
Gad, and Asher. {1:5} And all the souls that came out of the
loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt
[already. ]{1:6} And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and
all that generation.
{1:7} And the children of Israel were fruitful, and
increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding
mighty; and the land was filled with them. {1:8} Now there
arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
{1:9} And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the
children of Israel [are] more and mightier than we: {1:10}
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. {1:11} Therefore they did
set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens.
And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and
Raamses. {1:12} But the more they afflicted them, the more
they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of
the children of Israel. {1:13} And the Egyptians made the
children of Israel to serve with rigour: {1:14} 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.
{1:15} 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: {1:16} 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. {1:17} But
the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt
commanded them, but saved the men children alive. {1:18}
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? {1:19} 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. {1:20} Therefore God
dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and
waxed very mighty. {1:21} And it came to pass, because
the midwives feared God, that he made them houses. {1:22}
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.
2 {21:1} And there went a man of the house of Levi, and
took [to wife] a daughter of Levi. {2:2} And the woman
conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he
[was a] goodly [child,] she hid him three months. {2:3} 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. {2:4} And his sister stood afar off, to wit what
would be done to him.
{2:5} 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. {2:6} 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. {2:7} 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? {2:8} And
Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and
called the child’s mother. {2:9} 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. {2:10} 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.
{2:11} 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. {2:12} 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. {2:13} 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? {2:14} 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. {2:15} 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. {2:16} Now the
priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and
drew [water,] and filled the troughs to water their father’s
flock. {2:17} And the shepherds came and drove them
away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered
their flock. {2:18} And when they came to Reuel their
father, he said, How [is it that] ye are come so soon to day?
{2:19} 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. {2:20} 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. {2:21} And
Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave
Moses Zipporah his daughter. {2:22} And she bare [him] a
son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have
been a stranger in a strange land.
{2:23} 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 God by reason of the bondage. {2:24} And God heard
their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with
Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. {2:25} And God
looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect
unto [them.]
3 {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 God,
[even] to Horeb. {3:2} And the angel of the LORD
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. {3:3} And Moses said, I
will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is
not burnt. {3:4} And when the LORD saw that he turned
aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the
bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here [am] I.
{3:5} And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes
from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is
holy ground. {3:6} Moreover he said, I [am] the God of thy
father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God
of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look
upon God.
{3:7} And the LORD 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; {3:8} 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. {3:9} 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. {3:10} Come now therefore, and I
will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth
my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
{3:11} And Moses said unto God, Who [am] I, that I
should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the
children of Israel out of Egypt? {3:12} 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 God upon this mountain.
{3:13} And Moses said unto God, Behold, [when] I come
unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The
God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall
say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?
{3:14} And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and
he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I
AM hath sent me unto you. {3:15} And God said moreover
unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel,
The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you:
this [is] my name for ever, and this [is] my memorial unto
all generations. {3:16} Go, and gather the elders of Israel
together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your
fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob,
appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and
[seen] that which is done to you in Egypt: {3:17} 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. {3:18}
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, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath
met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days’
journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the
LORD our God.
{3:19} And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let
you go, no, not by a mighty hand. {3:20} 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.
{3:21} 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: {3:22} 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.
4 {4:1} And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they
will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they
will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee. {4:2} And
the LORD said unto him, What [is] that in thine hand? And
he said, A rod. {4:3} 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. {4:4} And the LORD 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: {4:5} That they may believe that the LORD God of
their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and
the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.
{4:6} And the LORD 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. {4:7} 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. {4:8} 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. {4:9}
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.]
{4:10} And Moses said unto the LORD, 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. {4:11} And the LORD 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 the LORD? {4:12}
Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach
thee what thou shalt say. {4:13} And he said, O my Lord,
send, I pray thee, by the hand [of him whom] thou wilt
send. {4:14} And the anger of the LORD 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. {4:15} 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.
{4:16} And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and
he shall be, [even] he shall be to thee instead of a mouth,
and thou shalt be to him instead of God. {4:17} And thou
shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do
signs.
{4:18} 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.
{4:19} And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go,
return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy
life. {4:20} 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 God in his hand. {4:21} And the
LORD 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. {4:22} And thou shalt say
unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel [is] my son,
[even] my firstborn: {4:23} 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.
{4:24} And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the
LORD met him, and sought to kill him. {4:25} 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. {4:26} So he let him go: then she
said, A bloody husband [thou art,] because of the
circumcision.
{4:27} And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the
wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the
mount of God, and kissed him. {4:28} And Moses told
Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent him, and all
the signs which he had commanded him.
{4:29} And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together
all the elders of the children of Israel: {4:30} And Aaron
spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto
Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people. {4:31}
And the people believed: and when they heard that the
LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had
looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads
and worshipped.
5 {5:1} And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told
Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people
go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
{5:2} And Pharaoh said, Who [is] the LORD, that I should
obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD,
neither will I let Israel go. {5:3} And they said, The God of
the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three
days’ journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD
our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the
sword. {5:4} 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. {5:5} And Pharaoh
said, Behold, the people of the land now [are] many, and ye
make them rest from their burdens. {5:6} And Pharaoh
commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and
their officers, saying, {5:7} Ye shall no more give the
people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and
gather straw for themselves. {5:8} And the tale of the
bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon
them; ye shall not diminish [ought] thereof: for they [be]
idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go [and] sacrifice to
our God. {5:9} Let there more work be laid upon the men,
that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain
words.
{5:10} 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. {5:11} Go ye, get
you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work
shall be diminished. {5:12} So the people were scattered
abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble
instead of straw. {5:13} And the taskmasters hasted [them,]
saying, Fulfil your works, [your] daily tasks, as when there
was straw. {5:14} 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?
{5:15} Then the officers of the children of Israel came
and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus
with thy servants? {5:16} 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.
{5:17} But he said, Ye [are] idle, [ye are] idle: therefore ye
say, Let us go [and] do sacrifice to the LORD. {5:18} Go
therefore now, [and] work; for there shall no straw be given
you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks. {5:19} 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.
{5:20} And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the
way, as they came forth from Pharaoh: {5:21} And they
said unto them, The LORD 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. {5:22} And Moses returned unto the
LORD, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou [so] evil
entreated this people? why [is] it [that] thou hast sent me?
{5:23} 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.
6 {6:1} Then the LORD 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. {6:2} And God spake unto Moses, and said
unto him, I [am] the LORD: {6:3} And I appeared unto
Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by [the name of] God
Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to
them. {6:4} 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. {6:5} And I have
also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the
Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my
covenant. {6:6} Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I
[am] the LORD, 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: {6:7} And I will take you to me
for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know
that I [am] the LORD your God, which bringeth you out
from under the burdens of the Egyptians. {6:8} And I will
bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear
to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give
it you for an heritage: I [am] the LORD.
{6:9} And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but
they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for
cruel bondage. {6:10} And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying, {6:11} Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt,
that he let the children of Israel go out of his land. {6:12}
And Moses spake before the LORD, saying, Behold, the
children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then
shall Pharaoh hear me, who [am] of uncircumcised lips?
{6:13} And the LORD 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.
{6:14} 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.
{6:15} 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.
{6:16} 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. {6:17} The sons of Gershon; Libni,
and Shimi, according to their families. {6:18} 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. {6:19} And the sons of Merari; Mahali and
Mushi: these [are] the families of Levi according to their
generations. {6:20} 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.
{6:21} And the sons of Izhar; Korah, and Nepheg, and
Zichri. {6:22} And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and
Elzaphan, and Zithri. {6:23} And Aaron took him Elisheba,
daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to wife; and she
bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. {6:24}
And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph:
these [are] the families of the Korhites. {6:25} 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. {6:26}
These [are] that Aaron and Moses, to whom the LORD said,
Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt
according to their armies. {6:27} 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.
{6:28} And it came to pass on the day [when] the LORD
spake unto Moses in the land of Egypt, {6:29} That the
LORD spake unto Moses, saying, I [am] the LORD: speak
thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto thee.
{6:30} And Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I [am] of
uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?
7 {7:1} And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made
thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy
prophet. {7:2} 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. {7:3} And I will
harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my
wonders in the land of Egypt. {7:4} But Pharaoh shall not
hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and
bring forth mine armies, [and] my people the children of
Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. {7:5}
And the Egyptians shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I
stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the
children of Israel from among them. {7:6} And Moses and
Aaron did as the LORD commanded them, so did they.
{7:7} And Moses [was] fourscore years old, and Aaron
fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto
Pharaoh.
{7:8} And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron,
saying, {7:9} 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.
{7:10} And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and
they did so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast
down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it
became a serpent. {7:11} Then Pharaoh also called the wise
men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they
also did in like manner with their enchantments. {7:12} For
they cast down every man his rod, and they became
serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods. {7:13}
And he hardened Pharaoh’s heart, that he hearkened not
unto them; as the LORD had said.
{7:14} And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh’s heart
[is] hardened, he refuseth to let the people go. {7:15} 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. {7:16} And thou shalt say unto him, The
LORD God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying,
Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness:
and, behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear. {7:17} Thus
saith the LORD, In this thou shalt know that I [am] the
LORD: 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. {7:18} 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.
{7:19} And the LORD 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. {7:20} And Moses and Aaron did
so, as the LORD 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. {7:21} 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. {7:22}
And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments:
and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, neither did he hearken
unto them; as the LORD had said. {7:23} And Pharaoh
turned and went into his house, neither did he set his heart
to this also. {7:24} And all the Egyptians digged round
about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of
the water of the river. {7:25} And seven days were fulfilled,
after that the LORD had smitten the river.
8 {8:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto
Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my
people go, that they may serve me. {8:2} And if thou refuse
to let [them] go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with
frogs: {8:3} 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: {8:4} And the frogs
shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon
all thy servants.
{8:5} And the LORD 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. {8:6} And Aaron stretched out his
hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and
covered the land of Egypt. {8:7} And the magicians did so
with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land
of Egypt.
{8:8} Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and
said, Intreat the LORD, 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 the LORD. {8:9} 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? {8:10} And he said, To morrow.
And he said, [Be it] according to thy word: that thou mayest
know that [there is] none like unto the LORD our God.
{8:11} 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. {8:12} And Moses and Aaron
went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto the LORD
because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh.
{8:13} And the LORD did according to the word of Moses;
and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and
out of the fields. {8:14} And they gathered them together
upon heaps: and the land stank. {8:15} But when Pharaoh
saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and
hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
{8:16} And the LORD 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. {8:17}
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. {8:18} 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.
{8:19} Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This [is] the
finger of God: and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he
hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
{8:20} And the LORD 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 the LORD, Let
my people go, that they may serve me. {8:21} 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.]{8:22} And I will sever in that day the
land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms
[of flies] shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I
[am] the LORD in the midst of the earth. {8:23} And I will
put a division between my people and thy people: to
morrow shall this sign be. {8:24} And the LORD 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.]
{8:25} And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and
said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land. {8:26} And
Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the
abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo,
shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before
their eyes, and will they not stone us? {8:27} We will go
three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the
LORD our God, as he shall command us. {8:28} And
Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the
LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go
very far away: intreat for me. {8:29} And Moses said,
Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat the LORD 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 the LORD. {8:30} And Moses went out
from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD. {8:31} And the
LORD 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. {8:32} And
Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would
he let the people go.
9 {9:1} Then the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto
Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD God of the
Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me. {9:2}
For if thou refuse to let [them] go, and wilt hold them still,
{9:3} Behold, the hand of the LORD 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.1 {9:4} And the LORD 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. {9:5} And the LORD appointed a set time, saying,
To morrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land. {9:6}
And the LORD 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. {9:7} 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.
{9:8} And the LORD 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. {9:9}
And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and
shall be a boil breaking forth [with] blains2 upon man, and
upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt. {9:10} 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.
{9:11} And the magicians could not stand before Moses
because of the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians,
and upon all the Egyptians. {9:12} And the LORD
hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto
them; as the LORD had spoken unto Moses.
{9:13} And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in
the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him,
Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people
go, that they may serve me. {9:14} 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. {9:15} 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. {9:16}
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. {9:17} As yet exaltest
thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them
go? {9:18} 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. {9:19} 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. {9:20} He
that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of
Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the
houses: {9:21} And he that regarded not the word of the
LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field.
{9:22} And the LORD 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. {9:23} And
Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD
sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the
ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
{9:24} 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. {9:25} 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. {9:26} Only in
the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel [were,]
was there no hail.
{9:27} And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and
Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the
LORD [is] righteous, and I and my people [are] wicked.
{9:28} Intreat the LORD (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. {9:29} And Moses said unto
him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread
abroad my hands unto the LORD; [and] the thunder shall
cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest
know how that the earth [is] the LORD’S. {9:30} But as for
thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear the
LORD God. {9:31} And the flax and the barley was
smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax [was]
bolled. {9:32} But the wheat and the rie were not smitten:
for they [were] not grown up. {9:33} And Moses went out
of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto
the LORD: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain
was not poured upon the earth. {9:34} 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. {9:35} And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened,
neither would he let the children of Israel go; as the LORD
had spoken by Moses.
10 {10:1} And the LORD 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:
{10:2} And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and
of thy son’s son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and
my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know
how that I [am] the LORD. {10:3} And Moses and Aaron
came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the
LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to
humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may
serve me. {10:4} Else, if thou refuse to let my people go,
behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
{10:5} 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: {10:6} 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. {10:7} 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 the LORD their God: knowest thou not
yet that Egypt is destroyed? {10:8} And Moses and Aaron
were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them,
Go, serve the LORD your God: [but] who [are] they that
shall go? {10:9} 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 the LORD. {10:10} And he
said unto them, Let the LORD be so with you, as I will let
you go, and your little ones: look [to it;] for evil [is] before
you. {10:11} Not so: go now ye [that are] men, and serve
the LORD; for that ye did desire. And they were driven out
from Pharaoh’s presence.
{10:12} And the LORD 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. {10:13} And
Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and
the LORD 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. {10:14} 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.
{10:15} 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
herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
{10:16} Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in
haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your
God, and against you. {10:17} Now therefore forgive, I
pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the LORD your
God, that he may take away from me this death only.
{10:18} And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the
LORD. {10:19} And the LORD 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. {10:20} But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart,
so that he would not let the children of Israel go.
{10:21} And the LORD 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.
{10:22} And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven;
and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three
days: {10:23} 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.
{10:24} And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye,
serve the LORD; only let your flocks and your herds be
stayed: let your little ones also go with you. {10:25} And
Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt
offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God.
{10:26} Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an
hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the
LORD our God; and we know not with what we must serve
the LORD, until we come thither.
{10:27} But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he
would not let them go. {10:28} 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.
{10:29} And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well, I will see
thy face again no more.
11 {11:1} And the LORD 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. {11:2}
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. {11:3} And
the LORD 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. {11:4} And Moses said, Thus saith the
LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of
Egypt: {11:5} 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. {11:6} 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.
{11:7} 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 the LORD doth put a difference between the
Egyptians and Israel. {11:8} 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. {11:9} And the LORD said unto Moses,
Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you; that my wonders may
be multiplied in the land of Egypt. {11:10} And Moses and
Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and the LORD
hardened Pharaoh’s heart, so that he would not let the
children of Israel go out of his land.
12 {12:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in
the land of Egypt, saying, {12:2} This month [shall be] unto
you the beginning of months: it [shall be] the first month of
the year to you.
{12:3} 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: {12:4} 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. {12:5} Your lamb shall be without
blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take [it] out from
the sheep, or from the goats: {12:6} 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. {12:7} 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. {12:8} And they shall eat
the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread;
[and] with bitter [herbs] they shall eat it. {12:9} 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. {12:10}
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.
{12:11} And thus shall ye eat it; [with] your loins girded,
your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye
shall eat it in haste: it [is] the LORD’S passover. {12:12}
For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will
smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and
beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute
judgment: I [am] the LORD. {12:13} 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. {12:14} And this day shall be unto you for a
memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD
throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an
ordinance for ever. {12:15} 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. {12:16} 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. {12:17} 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.
{12:18} 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. {12:19} 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. {12:20} Ye shall eat
nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat
unleavened bread.
{12:21} 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. {12:22} And ye shall
take a bunch of hyssop,3 and dip [it] in the blood that [is] in
the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with
the blood that [is] in the bason; and none of you shall go out
at the door of his house until the morning. {12:23} For the
LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when
he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts,
the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the
destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite [you.]
{12:24} And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to
thee and to thy sons for ever. {12:25} And it shall come to
pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will
give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep
this service. {12:26} And it shall come to pass, when your
children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
{12:27} That ye shall say, It [is] the sacrifice of the
LORD’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. {12:28} And the children of Israel went
away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and
Aaron, so did they.
{12:29} And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD
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. {12:30} 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.
{12:31} 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 the LORD,
as ye have said. {12:32} Also take your flocks and your
herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
{12:33} 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. ]{12:34} And the people took
their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs
being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
{12:35} 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: {12:36} And the
LORD 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.
{12:37} And the children of Israel journeyed from
Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot
[that were] men, beside children. {12:38} And a mixed
multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds,
[even] very much cattle. {12:39} 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.
{12:40} Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who
dwelt in Egypt, [was] four hundred and thirty years.
{12:41} 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 the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
{12:42} It [is] a night to be much observed unto the LORD
for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this [is] that
night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of
Israel in their generations.
{12:43} And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This
[is] the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger
eat thereof: {12:44} But every man’s servant that is bought
for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he
eat thereof. {12:45} A foreigner and an hired servant shall
not eat thereof. {12:46} 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. {12:47} All the
congregation of Israel shall keep it. {12:48} And when a
stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover
to the LORD, 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. {12:49} One law shall be to him that is homeborn,
and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you. {12:50}
Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD
commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. {12:51} And it
came to pass the selfsame day, [that] the LORD did bring
the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their
armies.
13 {13:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {13:2}
Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the
womb among the children of Israel, [both] of man and of
beast: it [is] mine.
{13:3} 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 the LORD brought you out
from this [place:] there shall no leavened bread be eaten.
{13:4} This day came ye out in the month Abib.
{13:5} And it shall be when the LORD 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.
{13:6} Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in
the seventh day [shall be] a feast to the LORD. {13:7}
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.
{13:8} And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying,
[This is done] because of that [which] the LORD did unto
me when I came forth out of Egypt. {13:9} And it shall be
for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial
between thine eyes, that the LORD’S law may be in thy
mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee
out of Egypt. {13:10} Thou shalt therefore keep this
ordinance in his season from year to year.
{13:11} And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee
into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to
thy fathers, and shall give it thee, {13:12} That thou shalt
set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the matrix, and
every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the
males [shall be] the LORD’S. {13:13} 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.
{13:14} 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 the LORD brought us out from
Egypt, from the house of bondage: {13:15} And it came to
pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD
slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn
of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the
LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the
firstborn of my children I redeem. {13:16} And it shall be
for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine
eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out
of Egypt.
{13:17} And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the
people go, that God led them not [through] the way of the
land of the Philistines, although that [was] near; for God
said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see
war, and they return to Egypt: {13:18} But God led the
people about, [through] the way of the wilderness of the
Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of
the land of Egypt. {13:19} And Moses took the bones of
Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of
Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry
up my bones away hence with you.
{13:20} And they took their journey from Succoth, and
encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness. {13:21}
And the LORD 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: {13:22} He took
not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire
by night, [from] before the people.
{14:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {14:2}
Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp
before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over
against Baal-zephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea.
{14:3} For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They
[are] entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
{14:4} And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, that he shall
follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh,
and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I
[am] the LORD. And they did so.
{14:5} 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? {14:6} And he
made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:
{14:7} And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the
chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.
{14:8} And the LORD 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. {14:9} 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 Pi-hahiroth,
before Baal-zephon.
{14:10} 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 the LORD. {14:11} And
they said unto Moses, Was it because Egypt lacked
graves that thou taken us away to die in the wilderness?
wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out
of Egypt? {14:12} [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.
{14:13} And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not,
stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, 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. {14:14} The
LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
{14:15} And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore
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criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that
they go forward: {14:16} 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. {14:17} 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. {14:18} And the
Egyptians shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have
gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and
upon his horsemen.
{14:19} And the angel of God, which went before the
camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the
pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood
behind them: {14:20} 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. {14:21}
And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the
LORD 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. {14:22} 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.
{14:23} 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. {14:24} And it came to pass,
that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of
the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and
troubled the host of the Egyptians, {14:25} 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
the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
{14:26} And the LORD 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. {14:27} 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 the
LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
{14:28} 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. {14:29} 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. {14:30}
Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the
Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea
shore. {14:31} And Israel saw that great work which the
LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the
LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses.
15 {15:1} Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this
song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the
LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his
rider hath he thrown into the sea. {15:2} The LORD [is] my
strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he [is]
my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s
God, and I will exalt him. {15:3} The LORD [is] a man of
war: the LORD [is] his name. {15:4} Pharaoh’s chariots
and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains
also are drowned in the Red sea. {15:5} The depths have
covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone. {15:6}
Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy
right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
{15:7} 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. {15:8}
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. {15:9} 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. {15:10} Thou didst
blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead
in the mighty waters. {15:11} Who [is] like unto thee, O
LORD, among the gods? who [is] like thee, glorious in
holiness, fearful [in] praises, doing wonders? {15:12} Thou
stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
{15:13} Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people [which]
thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided [them] in thy strength
unto thy holy habitation. {15:14} The people shall hear,
[and] be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of
Palestina. {15:15} 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.
{15:16} 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. {15:17} Thou shalt bring them
in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, [in]
the place, O LORD, [which] thou hast made for thee to
dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, [which] thy hands have
established. {15:18} The LORD shall reign for ever and
ever. {15:19} For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his
chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD
brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the
children of Israel went on dry [land] in the midst of the sea.
{15:20} 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. {15:21} And Miriam
answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed
gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the
sea. {15:22} 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.
{15:23} 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. {15:24} And the
people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we
drink? {15:25} And he cried unto the LORD; and the
LORD 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,
{15:26} And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the
voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right
in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and
keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon
thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I [am]
the LORD that healeth thee.
{15:27} And they came to Elim, where [were] twelve
wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they
encamped there by the waters.
16 {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. {16:2} And the whole congregation of
the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in
the wilderness: {16:3} And the children of Israel said unto
them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD
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.
{16:4} Then said the LORD 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. {16:5} 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. {16:6} And Moses and Aaron said unto all the
children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the
LORD hath brought you out from the land of Egypt: {16:7}
And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the
LORD; for that he heareth your murmurings against the
LORD: and what [are] we, that ye murmur against us?
{16:8} And Moses said, [This shall be,] when the LORD
shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the
morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your
murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what [are]
we? your murmurings [are] not against us, but against the
LORD.
{16:9} And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the
congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the
LORD: for he hath heard your murmurings. {16:10} 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 the LORD appeared in
the cloud.
{16:11} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
{16:12} 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 [am] the LORD your God. {16:13} 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. {16:14} 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.
{16:15} 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 the
LORD hath given you to eat.
{16:16} This [is] the thing which the LORD 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. {16:17} And the children of Israel did so, and
gathered, some more, some less. {16:18} 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. {16:19} And
Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning. {16:20}
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. {16:21} And they
gathered it every morning, every man according to his
eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
{16:22} 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.
{16:23} And he said unto them, This [is that] which the
LORD hath said, To morrow [is] the rest of the holy sabbath
unto the LORD: 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. {16:24} And they
laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not
stink, neither was there any worm therein. {16:25} And
Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day [is] a sabbath unto
the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field. {16:26}
Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, [which
is] the sabbath, in it there shall be none.
{16:27} And it came to pass, [that] there went out [some]
of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they
found none. {16:28} And the LORD said unto Moses, How
long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?
{16:29} See, for that the LORD 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. {16:30} So the people rested
on the seventh day. {16:31} 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.
{16:32} And Moses said, This [is] the thing which the
LORD 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. {16:33} And Moses said unto Aaron,
Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it
up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.
{16:34} As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it
up before the Testimony, to be kept. {16:35} 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. {16:36} Now an omer
[is] the tenth [part] of an ephah.
17 {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 the LORD, and pitched
in Rephidim: and [there was] no water for the people to
drink. {17:2} 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
the LORD? {17:3} 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?
{17:4} And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall
I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
{17:5} And the LORD 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. {17:6} 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. {17:7} And
he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah,
because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because
they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or
not?
{17:8} Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in
Rephidim. {17:9} And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us
out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will
stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine
hand. {17:10} 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. {17:11} And it came to pass, when
Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he
let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. {17:12} 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 o-
ther side; and his hands were steady until the going down
of the sun. {17:13} And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his
people with the edge of the sword. {17:14} And the LORD
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. {17:15}
And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jeho-
vahnissi: {17:16} For he said, Because the LORD hath
sworn [that] the LORD [will have] war with Amalek from
generation to generation.
18 {18:1} When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father
in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for
Israel his people, [and] that the LORD had brought Israel
out of Egypt; {18:2} Then Jethro, Moses’ father in law,
took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back,
{18:3} 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: {18:4} And the name of the other [was]
Eliezer; for the God of my father, [said he, was] mine help,
and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh: {18:5} And
Jethro, Moses’ father in law, came with his sons and his
wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at
the mount of God: {18:6} And he said unto Moses, I thy
father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and
her two sons with her.
{18:7} 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. {18:8} And
Moses told his father in law all that the LORD 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
[how] the LORD delivered them. {18:9} And Jethro
rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to
Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the
Egyptians. {18:10} And Jethro said, Blessed [be] the
LORD, 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.
{18:11} Now I know that the LORD [is] greater than all
gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly [he was]
above them. {18:12} And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took
a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came,
and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father
in law before God.
{18:13} 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. {18:14} 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? {18:15} And Moses said unto his father in law,
Because the people come unto me to enquire of God:
{18:16} When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I
judge between one and another, and I do make [them] know
the statutes of God, and his laws. {18:17} And Moses’
father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest [is]
not good. {18:18} 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.
{18:19} Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee
counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people
to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God:
{18:20} 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. {18:21} Moreover thou shalt
provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God,
men of truth, hating covetousness; and place [such] over
them, [to be] rulers of thousands, [and] rulers of hundreds,
rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: {18:22} 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. {18:23} If thou shalt
do this thing, and God command thee [so,] then thou shalt
be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their
place in peace. {18:24} So Moses hearkened to the voice of
his father in law, and did all that he had said. {18:25} 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. {18:26} And
they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they
brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged
themselves.
{18:27} And Moses let his father in law depart; and he
went his way into his own land.
19 {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. {19:2} 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. {19:3} And Moses went up unto
God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain,
saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell
the children of Israel; {19:4} Ye have seen what I did unto
the Egyptians, and [how] I bare you on eagles’ wings, and
brought you unto myself. {19:5} 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: {19:6} 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.
{19:7} And Moses came and called for the elders of the
people, and laid before their faces all these words which the
LORD commanded him. {19:8} And all the people
answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken
we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people
unto the LORD. {19:9} And the LORD 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 the LORD.
{19:10} And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the
people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let
them wash their clothes, {19:11} And be ready against the
third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the
sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. {19:12} 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: {19:13} 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.
{19:14} And Moses went down from the mount unto the
people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their
clothes. {19:15} And he said unto the people, Be ready
against the third day: come not at [your] wives.
{19:16} 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. {19:17} And Moses brought forth the people out
of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether
part of the mount. {19:18} And mount Sinai was altogether
on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire:
and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace,
and the whole mount quaked greatly. {19:19} And when the
voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and
louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.
{19:20} And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on
the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses [up] to
the top of the mount; and Moses went up. {19:21} And the
LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest
they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of
them perish. {19:22} And let the priests also, which come
near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD
break forth upon them. {19:23} And Moses said unto the
LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou
chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and
sanctify it. {19:24} And the LORD 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 the LORD, lest he break forth
upon them. {19:25} So Moses went down unto the people,
and spake unto them.
20 {20:1} And God spake all these words, saying, {20:2} I
[am] the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of
the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. {20:3} Thou
shalt have no other gods before me. {20:4} 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: {20:5}
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them:
for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and
fourth [generation] of them that hate me; {20:6} And
shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and
keep my commandments. {20:7} Thou shalt not take the
name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not
hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. {20:8}
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. {20:9} Six days
shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: {20:10} But the
seventh day [is] the sabbath of the LORD thy God: [in it]
thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy
daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy
cattle, nor thy stranger that [is] within thy gates: {20:11}
For [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea,
and all that in them [is,] and rested the seventh day:
wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed
it.
{20:12} Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days
may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee. {20:13} Thou shalt not kill. {20:14} Thou shalt not
commit adultery. {20:15} Thou shalt not steal. {20:16}
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
{20:17} 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.
{20:18} 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. {20:19} And they said unto Moses, Speak
thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with
us, lest we die. {20:20} And Moses said unto the people,
Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear
may be before your faces, that ye sin not. {20:21} And the
people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick
darkness where God [was. ]
{20:22} And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt
say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have
talked with you from heaven. {20:23} Ye shall not make
with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you
gods of gold.
{20:24} 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.
{20:25} 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. {20:26} Neither shalt thou go
up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not
discovered thereon.
21 {21:1} Now these [are] the judgments which thou shalt
set before them. {21:2} If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six
years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free
for nothing. {21:3} If he came in by himself, he shall go out
by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out
with him. {21:4} 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. {21:5} And if the servant shall plainly say, I love
my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
{21:6} 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.
{21:7} And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant,
she shall not go out as the menservants do. {21:8} 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. {21:9} And if he have betrothed her
unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of
daughters. {21:10} If he take him another [wife;] her food,
her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
{21:11} And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she
go out free without money.
{21:12} He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be
surely put to death. {21:13} And if a man lie not in wait, but
God deliver [him] into his hand; then I will appoint thee a
place whither he shall flee. {21:14} 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.
{21:15} And he that smiteth his father, or his mother,
shall be surely put to death.
{21:16} And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if
he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
{21:17} And he that curseth his father, or his mother,
shall surely be put to death.
{21:18} And if men strive together, and one smite another
with a stone, or with [his] fist, and he die not, but keepeth
[his] bed: {21:19} 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.
{21:20} And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with
a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely
punished. {21:21} Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or
two, he shall not be punished: for he [is] his money.
{21:22} 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. ]{21:23} And if [any] mischief follow, then
thou shalt give life for life, {21:24} Eye for eye, tooth for
tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, {21:25} Burning for
burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
{21:26} 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. {21:27} 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.
{21:28} 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. {21:29} 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. {21:30} 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. {21:31}
Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter,
according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
{21:32} 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.
{21:33} 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;
{21:34} The owner of the pit shall make [it] good, [and]
give money unto the owner of them; and the dead [beast]
shall be his.
{21:35} 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. {21:36} 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.
22 {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.
{22:2} If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that
he die, [there shall] no blood [be shed] for him. {22:3} 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. {22:4} If the
theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox,
or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.
{22:5} 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.
{22:6} 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.
{22:7} 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. {22:8} 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. {22:9} 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. {22:10} 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: ]{22:11} [Then] shall an oath of the LORD 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. {22:12} And if it
be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner
thereof. {22:13} If it be torn in pieces, [then] let him bring
it [for] witness, [and] he shall not make good that which
was torn.
{22:14} 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. {22:15} [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.
{22:16} And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed,
and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
{22:17} If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he
shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
{22:18} Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
{22:19} Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put
to death.
{22:20} He that sacrificeth unto [any] god, save unto the
LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.
{22:21} Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress
him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
{22:22} Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless
child. {22:23} If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry
at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; {22:24} And my
wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and
your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
{22:25} If thou lend money to [any of] my people [that is]
poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither
shalt thou lay upon him usury. {22:26} If thou at all take
thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto
him by that the sun goeth down: {22:27} 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.
{22:28} Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler
of thy people.
{22:29} 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. {22:30} 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.
{22:31} 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.
23 {23:1} Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not
thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
{23:2} Thou shalt not follow a multitude to [do] evil;
neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to
wrest [judgment:]
{23:3} Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his
cause.
{23:4} If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going
astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. {23:5} 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. {23:6} Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of
thy poor in his cause. {23:7} Keep thee far from a false
matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I
will not justify the wicked.
{23:8} And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth
the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
{23:9} Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know
the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land
of Egypt. {23:10} And six years thou shalt sow thy land,
and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: {23:11} 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. {23:12} 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. {23:13} And
in all [things] that I have said unto you be circumspect: and
make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be
heard out of thy mouth.
{23:14} Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the
year. {23:15} 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:) {23:16} 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.
{23:17} Three times in the year all thy males shall appear
before the Lord GOD. {23:18} Thou shalt not offer the
blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the
fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning. {23:19} The
first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the
house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in
his mother’s milk.
{23:20} Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee
in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have
prepared. {23:21} Beware of him, and obey his voice,
provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions:
for my name [is] in him. {23:22} 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. {23:23} For mine Angel shall go before thee,
and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and
the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the
Jebusites: and I will cut them off. {23:24} Thou shalt not
bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their
works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite
break down their images. {23:25} And ye shall serve the
LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy
water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
{23:26} There shall nothing cast their young, nor be
barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
{23:27} 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. {23:28} And I will
send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite,
the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. {23:29} 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. {23:30} By little and little I will drive them
out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the
land. {23:31} 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.
{23:32} Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with
their gods. {23:33} They shall not dwell in thy land, lest
they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods,
it will surely be a snare unto thee.
24 {24:1} And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the
LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of
the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off. {24:2} And
Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not
come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
{24:3} And Moses came and told the people all the words
of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people
answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the
LORD hath said will we do. {24:4} And Moses wrote all
the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning,
and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars,
according to the twelve tribes of Israel. {24:5} And he sent
young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt
offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the
LORD. {24:6} And Moses took half of the blood, and put
[it] in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the
altar. {24:7} And he took the book of the covenant, and
read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that
the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient. {24:8}
And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled [it] on the people,
and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the
LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
{24:9} Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and
Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: {24:10} And they
saw the God of Israel: and [there was] under his feet as it
were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the
body of heaven in [his] clearness. {24:11} And upon the
nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also
they saw God, and did eat and drink.
{24:12} And the LORD 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. {24:13} And Moses rose up,
and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount
of God. {24:14} 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. {24:15} And Moses went up into
the mount, and a cloud covered the mount. {24:16} And the
glory of the LORD 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. {24:17} And the sight
of the glory of the LORD [was] like devouring fire on the
top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
{24:18} 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.
25 {25:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {25:2}
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. {25:3} And this [is] the offering
which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,
{25:4} And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and
goats [hair, ]{25:5} And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’
skins, and shittim4 wood, {25:6} Oil for the light, spices for
anointing oil, and for sweet incense, {25:7} Onyx stones,
and stones to be set in the ephod,5 and in the breastplate.
{25:8} And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell
among them. {25:9} 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.]
{25:10} 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. {25:11} 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. {25:12} 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. {25:13} And thou
shalt make staves [of] shittim wood, and overlay them with
gold. {25:14} And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by
the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.
{25:15} The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they
shall not be taken from it. {25:16} And thou shalt put into
the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. {25:17} 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. {25:18} And thou shalt make two
cherubims [of] gold, [of] beaten work shalt thou make them,
in the two ends of the mercy seat. {25:19} 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. {25:20} And the cherubim 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.
{25:21} 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. {25:22} 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.
{25:23} 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.
{25:24} And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make
thereto a crown of gold round about. {25:25} 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. {25:26} 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. {25:27} Over against the border shall
the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table.
{25:28} And thou shalt make the staves [of] shittim wood,
and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne
with them. {25:29} 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.
{25:30} And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before
me alway.
{25:31} 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 knobs, and his flowers,
shall be of the same. {25:32} 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: {25:33} Three bowls made like unto almonds,
[with] a knob and a flower in one branch; and three bowls
made like almonds in the other branch, [with] a knob and a
flower: so in the six branches that come out of the
candlestick. {25:34} And in the candlestick [shall be] four
bowls made like unto almonds, [with] their knobs and their
flowers. {25:35} And [there shall be] a knob under two
branches of the same, and a knob under two branches of the
same, and a knob under two branches of the same,
according to the six branches that proceed out of the
candlestick. {25:36} Their knobs and their branches shall be
of the same: all it [shall be] one beaten work [of] pure gold.
{25:37} And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and
they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light
over against it. {25:38} And the tongs thereof, and the
snuffdishes thereof, [shall be of] pure gold. {25:39} [Of] a
talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.
{25:40} And look that thou make [them] after their pattern,
which was shewed thee in the mount.
26 {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. {26:2} 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.
{26:3} The five curtains shall be coupled together one to
another; and [other] five curtains [shall be] coupled one to
another. {26:4} And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the
edge of the one curtain from the selvedge6 in the coupling;
and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of
[another] curtain, in the coupling of the second. {26:5} 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. {26:6} And thou shalt make fifty taches7 of gold,
and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall
be one tabernacle.
{26:7} And thou shalt make curtains [of] goats’ [hair] to
be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou
make. {26:8} 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. {26:9} 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. {26:10} 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. {26:11} 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. {26:12}
And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent,
the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside
of the tabernacle. {26:13} 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.
{26:14} And thou shalt make a covering for the tent [of]
rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering above [of] badgers
skins.
{26:15} And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle
[of] shittim wood standing up. {26:16} Ten cubits [shall be]
the length of a board, and a cubit and a half [shall be] the
breadth of one board. {26:17} 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. {26:18} And
thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards
on the south side southward. {26:19} 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. {26:20} And for the
second side of the tabernacle on the north side [there shall
be] twenty boards: {26:21} And their forty sockets [of]
silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under
another board. {26:22} And for the sides of the tabernacle
westward thou shalt make six boards. {26:23} And two
boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in
the two sides. {26:24} 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. {26:25} And they shall be eight
boards, and their sockets [of] silver, sixteen sockets; two
sockets under one board, and two sockets under another
board.
{26:26} And thou shalt make bars [of] shittim wood; five
for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, {26:27}
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. {26:28} And the
middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to
end. {26:29} 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. {26:30} And thou
shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof
which was shewed thee in the mount.
{26:31} 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: {26:32} 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.
{26:33} 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. {26:34} And thou shalt
put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most
holy [place. ]{26:35} 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. {26:36} 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.
{26:37} 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.
27 {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.
{27:2} 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. {27:3} 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. {27:4} 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. {27:5}
And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath,
that the net may be even to the midst of the altar. {27:6}
And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves [of] shittim
wood, and overlay them with brass. {27:7} And the staves
shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the
two sides of the altar, to bear it. {27:8} Hollow with boards
shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so
shall they make [it.]
{27:9} 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: {27:10} 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. {27:11} 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.
{27:12} And [for] the breadth of the court on the west
side [shall be] hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and
their sockets ten. {27:13} And the breadth of the court on
the east side eastward [shall be] fifty cubits. {27:14} The
hangings of one side [of the gate shall be] fifteen cubits:
their pillars three, and their sockets three. {27:15} And on
the other side [shall be] hangings fifteen [cubits:] their
pillars three, and their sockets three.
{27:16} 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. {27:17} All
the pillars round about the court [shall be] filleted with
silver; their hooks [shall be of] silver, and their sockets of
brass.
{27:18} 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.
{27:19} 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.
{27:20} 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. {27:21} 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 the LORD: [it shall be] a statute for ever
unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
{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.
{28:2} And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy
brother for glory and for beauty. {28:3} 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. {28:4} 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.
{28:5} And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine linen.
{28:6} And they shall make the ephod [of] gold, [of] blue,
and [of] purple, [of] scarlet, and fine twined linen, with
cunning work. {28:7} It shall have the two shoulderpieces
thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and [so] it shall be
joined together. {28:8} 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. {28:9} And thou shalt take
two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the
children of Israel: {28:10} Six of their names on one stone,
and [the other] six names of the rest on the other stone,
according to their birth. {28:11} 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.
{28:12} 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
the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.
{28:13} And thou shalt make ouches [of] gold; {28:14}
And two chains [of] pure gold at the ends; [of] wreathen
work shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreathen chains
to the ouches.
{28:15} 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.
{28:16} Foursquare it shall be [being] doubled; a span
[shall be] the length thereof, and a span [shall be] the
breadth thereof. {28:17} 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. {28:18} And the second row [shall be] an emerald, a
sapphire, and a diamond. {28:19} And the third row a
ligure, an agate, and an amethyst. {28:20} And the fourth
row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in
gold in their inclosings. {28:21} 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.
{28:22} And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains
at the ends [of] wreathen work [of] pure gold. {28:23} And
thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and
shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
{28:24} And thou shalt put the two wreathen [chains] of
gold in the two rings [which are] on the ends of the
breastplate. {28:25} 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.
{28:26} 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.
{28:27} 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.
{28:28} 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. {28:29} 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 the LORD
continually.
{28:30} 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 the LORD: and Aaron shall
bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart
before the LORD continually.
{28:31} And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all
[of] blue. {28:32} 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.
{28:33} 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: {28:34} A golden bell and a
pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the
hem of the robe round about. {28:35} And it shall be upon
Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be heard when he
goeth in unto the holy [place] before the LORD, and when
he cometh out, that he die not.
{28:36} And thou shalt make a plate [of] pure gold, and
grave upon it, [like] the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS
TO THE LORD. {28:37} 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. {28:38} 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 the LORD.
{28:39} 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.
{28:40} 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. {28:41} 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. {28:42} And thou shalt make them linen breeches to
cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs
they shall reach: {28:43} 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.
29 {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 ble-
mish, {29:2} And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened
tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil:
[of] wheaten flour shalt thou make them. {29:3} And thou
shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket,
with the bullock and the two rams. {29:4} And Aaron and
his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation, and shalt wash them with water. {29:5}
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: {29:6} And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head,
and put the holy crown upon the mitre. {29:7} Then shalt
thou take the anointing oil, and pour [it] upon his head, and
anoint him. {29:8} And thou shalt bring his sons, and put
coats upon them. {29:9} 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. {29:10} 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. {29:11} And
thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, [by] the door
of the tabernacle of the congregation. {29:12} 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. {29:13} 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. {29:14} 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.
{29:15} Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his
sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram. {29:16}
And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood,
and sprinkle [it] round about upon the altar. {29:17} 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. {29:18} And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon
the altar: it [is] a burnt offering unto the LORD: it [is] a
sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
{29:19} And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and
his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.
{29:20} 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. {29:21}
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.
{29:22} 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: {29:23} 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 the LORD: {29:24} 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
the LORD. {29:25} And thou shalt receive them of their
hands, and burn [them] upon the altar for a burnt offering,
for a sweet savour before the LORD: it [is] an offering
made by fire unto the LORD. {29:26} And thou shalt take
the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration, and wave it
[for] a wave offering before the LORD: and it shall be thy
part. {29:27} 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: {29:28} 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 the LORD.
{29:29} And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his
sons’ after him, to be anointed therein, and to be
consecrated in them. {29:30} [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. ]
{29:31} And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration,
and seethe his flesh in the holy place. {29:32} 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. {29:33} 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. {29:34} 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. {29:35} 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. {29:36} 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. {29:37} 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.
{29:38} Now this [is that] which thou shalt offer upon the
altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually.
{29:39} The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and
the other lamb thou shalt offer at even: {29:40} 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. {29:41} 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 the LORD. {29:42} [This shall be] a continual
burnt offering throughout your generations [at] the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where
I will meet you, to speak there unto thee. {29:43} And there
I will meet with the children of Israel, and [the tabernacle]
shall be sanctified by my glory. {29:44} 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.
{29:45} And I will dwell among the children of Israel,
and will be their God. {29:46} And they shall know that I
[am] the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of
the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I [am] the
LORD their God.
30 {30:1} And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense
upon: [of] shittim wood shalt thou make it. {30:2} 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. {30:3} 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. {30:4} 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. {30:5} And thou shalt make the staves [of]
shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. {30:6} 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. {30:7} And Aaron
shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he
dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it. {30:8}
And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn
incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD
throughout your generations. {30:9} Ye shall offer no
strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat
offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.
{30:10} 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
the LORD.
{30:11} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
{30:12} 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 the LORD, when thou numberest them;
that there be no plague among them, when [thou] numberest
them. {30:13} 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 the LORD. {30:14}
Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from
twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the
LORD. {30:15} The rich shall not give more, and the poor
shall not give less than half a shekel, when [they] give an
offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your
souls. {30:16} 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 the LORD, to
make an atonement for your souls.
{30:17} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
{30:18} 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. {30:19} For Aaron and his
sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat: {30:20}
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 the LORD: {30:21} 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.
{30:22} Moreover the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
{30:23} 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, ]{30:24}
And of cassia five hundred [shekels,] after the shekel of the
sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin: {30:25} 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.
{30:26} And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the
congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony,
{30:27} And the table and all his vessels, and the
candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense, {30:28}
And the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the
laver and his foot. {30:29} And thou shalt sanctify them,
that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall
be holy. {30:30} And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons,
and consecrate them, that [they] may minister unto me in
the priest’s office. {30:31} And thou shalt speak unto the
children of Israel, saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil
unto me throughout your generations. {30:32} 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. {30:33} Whosoever compoundeth
[any] like it, or whosoever putteth [any] of it upon a
stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.
{30:34} And the LORD 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: ]{30:35} And thou shalt make it a perfume, a
confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered
together, pure [and] holy: {30:36} 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. {30:37} 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 the LORD. {30:38} Whosoever shall
make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off
from his people.
31 {31:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {31:2}
See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son
of Hur, of the tribe of Judah: {31:3} And I have filled him
with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and
in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, {31:4}
To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and
in brass, {31:5} And in cutting of stones, to set [them,] and
in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.
{31:6} 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; {31:7} 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, {31:8} And the table and his furniture,
and the pure candlestick with all his furniture, and the altar
of incense, {31:9} And the altar of burnt offering with all
his furniture, and the laver and his foot, {31:10} 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, {31:11} And the anointing oil, and sweet
incense for the holy [place:] according to all that I have
commanded thee shall they do.
{31:12} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
{31:13} Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying,
Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between
me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know
that I [am] the LORD that doth sanctify you. {31:14} 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. {31:15} Six days may work be
done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the
LORD: whosoever doeth [any] work in the sabbath day, he
shall surely be put to death. {31:16} Wherefore the children
of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath
throughout their generations, [for] a perpetual covenant.
{31:17} It [is] a sign between me and the children of Israel
for ever: for [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth,
and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
{31:18} And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an
end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables
of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
32 {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 gods, which shall go before us; for [as for] this
Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt,
we wot not what is become of him. {32:2} 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. {32:3} And all the people brake off
the golden earrings which [were] in their ears, and brought
[them] unto Aaron. {32:4} And he received [them] at their
hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had
made it a molten calf: and they said, These [be] thy gods, O
Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
{32:5} And when Aaron saw [it,] he built an altar before it;
and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow [is] a
feast to the LORD. {32:6} 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.
{32:7} And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee
down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land
of Egypt, have corrupted [themselves: ]{32:8} They have
turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded
them: they have made them a molten calf, and have
worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said,
These [be] thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up
out of the land of Egypt. {32:9} And the LORD said unto
Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it [is] a
stiffnecked people: {32:10} 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.
{32:11} And Moses besought the LORD his God, 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? {32:12} 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.
{32:13} 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. {32:14} And the
LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his
people.
{32:15} 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. {32:16} And
the tables [were] the work of God, and the writing [was] the
writing of God, graven upon the tables. {32:17} 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. {32:18}
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.
{32:19} 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. {32:20} 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. ]{32:21} And
Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that
thou hast brought so great a sin upon them? {32:22} And
Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou
knowest the people, that they are [set] on mischief. {32:23}
For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before
us: for [as for] this Moses, the man that brought us up out of
the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
{32:24} 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.
{32:25} And when Moses saw that the people [were]
naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto [their] shame
among their enemies:) {32:26} Then Moses stood in the
gate of the camp, and said, Who [is] on the LORD’S side?
[let him come] unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered
themselves together unto him. {32:27} And he said unto
them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man
his sword by his side, [and] go in and out from gate to gate
throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and
every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.
{32:28} And the children of Levi did according to the word
of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three
thousand men. {32:29} For Moses had said, Today you have
ordained yourselves to the Lord's service, even every man
upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow u-
pon you a blessing this day.
{32:30} 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 the LORD; peradventure I shall make an
atonement for your sin. {32:31} And Moses returned unto
the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin,
and have made them gods of gold. {32:32} Yet now, if thou
wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out
of thy book which thou hast written. {32:33} And the
LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me,
him will I blot out of my book. {32:34} 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.
{32:35} And the LORD plagued the people, because they
made the calf, which Aaron made.
33 {33:1} And the LORD 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: {33:2} 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: {33:3} 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.
{33:4} And when the people heard these evil tidings, they
mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments. {33:5}
For the LORD 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. {33:6} And the children of Israel stripped
themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb. {33:7}
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 the LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the
congregation, which [was] without the camp. {33:8} 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. {33:9} And it came to pass, as Moses
entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and
stood [at] the door of the tabernacle, and [the] LORD talked
with Moses. {33:10} 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. {33:11}
And the LORD 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.
{33:12} And Moses said unto the LORD, 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. {33:13} Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found
grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know
thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that
this nation [is] thy people. {33:14} And he said, My
presence shall go [with thee,] and I will give thee rest.
{33:15} And he said unto him, If thy presence go not [with
me,] carry us not up hence. {33:16} 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. {33:17} And the LORD 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. {33:18} And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy
glory. {33:19} And he said, I will make all my goodness
pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD
before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be
gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
{33:20} And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there
shall no man see me, and live. {33:21} And the LORD said,
Behold, [there is] a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a
rock: {33:22} 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: {33:23} And I
will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts:
but my face shall not be seen.
34 {34:1} And the LORD 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. {34:2} 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. {34:3} 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.
{34:4} 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 the LORD had commanded him, and
took in his hand the two tables of stone. {34:5} And the
LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there,
and proclaimed the name of the LORD. {34:6} And the
LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD,
The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and
abundant in goodness and truth, {34:7} 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.]
{34:8} And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward
the earth, and worshipped. {34:9} 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.
{34:10} 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 the LORD: for it [is] a
terrible thing that I will do with thee. {34:11} 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. {34:12}
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: {34:13} But ye shall destroy their
altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
{34:14} For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD,
whose name [is] Jealous, [is] a jealous God: {34:15} Lest
thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and
they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto
their gods, and [one] call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
{34:16} And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and
their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy
sons go a whoring after their gods. {34:17} Thou shalt
make thee no molten gods.
{34:18} 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. {34:19} All that
openeth the matrix [is] mine; and every firstling among thy
cattle, [whether] ox or sheep, [that is male. ]{34:20} 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.
{34:21} Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day
thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
{34:22} And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the
firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at
the year’s end.
{34:23} Thrice in the year shall all your men children
appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel. {34:24} 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 the LORD thy God thrice in the
year. {34:25} 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. {34:26} The first of the
firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the
LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s
milk. {34:27} And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou
these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a
covenant with thee and with Israel. {34:28} And he was
there with the LORD 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.
{34:29} 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. {34:30} 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. {34:31} And
Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the
congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with
them. {34:32} And afterward all the children of Israel came
nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD
had spoken with him in mount Sinai. {34:33} And [till]
Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his
face. {34:34} But when Moses went in before the LORD 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. {34:35} 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.
35 {35:1} And Moses gathered all the congregation of the
children of Israel together, and said unto them, These [are]
the words which the LORD hath commanded, that [ye]
should do them. {35:2} Six days shall work be done, but on
the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath
of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be
put to death. {35:3} Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your
habitations upon the sabbath day.
{35:4} And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the
children of Israel, saying, This [is] the thing which the
LORD commanded, saying, {35:5} Take ye from among
you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever [is] of a willing
heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and
silver, and brass, {35:6} And blue, and purple, and scarlet,
and fine linen, and goats’ [hair, ]{35:7} And rams’ skins
dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood, {35:8} And
oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for the
sweet incense, {35:9} And onyx stones, and stones to be set
for the ephod, and for the breastplate. {35:10} And every
wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that the
LORD hath commanded; {35:11} The tabernacle, his tent,
and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his
pillars, and his sockets, {35:12} The ark, and the staves
thereof, [with] the mercy seat, and the vail of the covering,
{35:13} The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and
the shewbread, {35:14} The candlestick also for the light,
and his furniture, and his lamps, with the oil for the light,
{35:15} 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, {35:16} The altar
of burnt offering, with his brasen grate, his staves, and all
his vessels, the laver and his foot, {35:17} The hangings of
the court, his pillars, and their sockets, and the hanging for
the door of the court, {35:18} The pins of the tabernacle,
and the pins of the court, and their cords, {35:19} 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.
{35:20} And all the congregation of the children of Israel
departed from the presence of Moses. {35:21} And they
came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one
whom his spirit made willing, [and] they brought the
LORD’S offering to the work of the tabernacle of the
congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy
garments. {35:22} 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 the
LORD. {35:23} 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. ]{35:24} Every one that did offer an offering of
silver and brass brought the LORD’S offering: and every
man, with whom was found shittim wood for any work of
the service, brought [it. ]{35:25} 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. {35:26} And all the
women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats’
[hair. ]{35:27} And the rulers brought onyx stones, and
stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;
{35:28} And spice, and oil for the light, and for the
anointing oil, and for the sweet incense. {35:29} The
children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD,
every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to
bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had
commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.
{35:30} And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See,
the LORD hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the
son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; {35:31} And he hath filled
him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding,
and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;
{35:32} And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and
in silver, and in brass, {35:33} And in the cutting of stones,
to set [them,] and in carving of wood, to make any manner
of cunning work. {35:34} And he hath put in his heart that
he may teach, [both] he, and Aholiab, the son of
Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. {35:35} 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.
36 {36:1} Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every
wise hearted man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and
understanding to know how to work all manner of work for
the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD
had commanded. {36:2} And Moses called Bezaleel and
Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whose heart the
LORD had put wisdom, [even] every one whose heart
stirred him up to come unto the work to do it: {36:3} 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. {36:4} And all the wise
men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every
man from his work which they made;
{36:5} And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people
bring much more than enough for the service of the work,
which the LORD commanded to make. {36:6} 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. {36:7} For the
stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and
too much.
{36:8} 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. {36:9} 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. {36:10} And he coupled the five curtains one unto
another: and [the other] five curtains he coupled one unto
another. {36:11} 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. {36:12} 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. {36:13} And he made fifty taches
of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the
taches: so it became one tabernacle.
{36:14} And he made curtains [of] goats’ [hair] for the
tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.
{36:15} The length of one curtain [was] thirty cubits, and
four cubits [was] the breadth of one curtain: the eleven
curtains [were] of one size. {36:16} And he coupled five
curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
{36:17} 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. {36:18} And
he made fifty taches [of] brass to couple the tent together,
that it might be one. {36:19} And he made a covering for
the tent [of] rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering [of]
badgers’ skins above [that.]
{36:20} And he made boards for the tabernacle [of]
shittim wood, standing up. {36:21} The length of a board
[was] ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a
half. {36:22} One board had two tenons, equally distant one
from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the
tabernacle. {36:23} And he made boards for the tabernacle;
twenty boards for the south side southward: {36:24} 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. {36:25} And for the
other side of the tabernacle, [which is] toward the north
corner, he made twenty boards, {36:26} And their forty
sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two
sockets under another board. {36:27} And for the sides of
the tabernacle westward he made six boards. {36:28} And
two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the
two sides. {36:29} 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. {36:30} And there were
eight boards; and their sockets [were] sixteen sockets of
silver, under every board two sockets.
{36:31} And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the
boards of the one side of the tabernacle, {36:32} 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. {36:33} And he made the middle bar to shoot
through the boards from the one end to the other. {36:34}
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.
{36:35} And he made a vail [of] blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine twined linen: [with] cherubims made he it
of cunning work. {36:36} 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.
{36:37} And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door
[of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of
needlework; {36:38} 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.
37 {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:
{37:2} And he overlaid it with pure gold within and
without, and made a crown of gold to it round about. {37:3}
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. {37:4} And he made staves
[of] shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold. {37:5} And
he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, to
bear the ark.
{37:6} 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. {37:7} And he made two
cherubims [of] gold, beaten out of one piece made he them,
on the two ends of the mercy seat; {37:8} 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. {37:9} 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.
{37:10} 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: {37:11}
And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a
crown of gold round about. {37:12} Also he made thereunto
a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown
of gold for the border thereof round about. {37:13} And he
cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings upon the four
corners that [were] in the four feet thereof. {37:14} Over
against the border were the rings, the places for the staves to
bear the table. {37:15} And he made the staves [of] shittim
wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.
{37:16} 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.
{37:17} And he made the candlestick [of] pure gold: [of]
beaten work made he the candlestick; his shaft, and his
branch, his bowls, his knobs, and his flowers, were of the
same: {37:18} 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: {37:19} Three bowls made after the
fashion of almonds in one branch, a knob and a flower; and
three bowls made like almonds in another branch, a knob
and a flower: so throughout the six branches going out of
the candlestick. {37:20} And in the candlestick [were] four
bowls made like almonds, his knobs, and his flowers:
{37:21} And a knob under two branches of the same, and a
knob under two branches of the same, and a knob under two
branches of the same, according to the six branches going
out of it. {37:22} Their knobs and their branches were of
the same: all of it [was] one beaten work [of] pure gold.
{37:23} And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and
his snuffdishes, [of] pure gold. {37:24} [Of] a talent of pure
gold made he it, and all the vessels thereof.
{37:25} 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. {37:26} 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. {37:27} 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. {37:28} And he made the staves [of] shittim
wood, and overlaid them with gold.
{37:29} And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure
incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the
apothecary.
38 {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. {38:2} 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. {38:3} 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. {38:4} And he made for
the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass
thereof beneath unto the midst of it. {38:5} And he cast four
rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, [to be] places
for the staves. {38:6} And he made the staves [of] shittim
wood, and overlaid them with brass. {38:7} 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.
{38:8} 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.
{38:9} And he made the court: on the south side
southward the hangings of the court [were of] fine twined
linen, an hundred cubits: {38:10} Their pillars [were]
twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the
pillars and their fillets [were of] silver. {38:11} 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. {38:12} 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. {38:13} And for the east side eastward
fifty cubits. {38:14} The hangings of the one side [of the
gate were] fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their
sockets three. {38:15} 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. {38:16}
All the hangings of the court round about [were] of fine
twined linen. {38:17} 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. {38:18} 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.
{38:19} 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. {38:20} And all
the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about,
[were of] brass.
{38:21} 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. {38:22} And
Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of
Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses. {38:23}
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. {38:24} 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. {38:25}
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: {38:26} 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. ]{38:27} 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. {38:28} And of the
thousand seven hundred seventy and five [shekels] he made
hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and
filleted them. {38:29} And the brass of the offering [was]
seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels.
{38:30} 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,
{38:31} 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.
39 {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 the LORD commanded
Moses. {39:2} And he made the ephod [of] gold, blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. {39:3} 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. {39:4} They
made shoulderpieces for it, to couple [it] together: by the
two edges was it coupled together. {39:5} 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 the LORD commanded
Moses.
{39:6} And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches
of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the
children of Israel. {39:7} And he put them on the shoulders
of the ephod, [that they should be] stones for a memorial to
the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
{39:8} 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. {39:9} It was foursquare;
they made the breastplate double: a span [was] the length
thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, [being] doubled.
{39:10} 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. {39:11} And the second row, an emerald, a
sapphire, and a diamond. {39:12} And the third row, a
ligure, an agate, and an amethyst. {39:13} And the fourth
row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: [they were] inclosed in
ouches of gold in their inclosings. {39:14} 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. {39:15} And they made upon the breastplate chains
at the ends, [of] wreathen work [of] pure gold. {39:16} And
they made two ouches [of] gold, and two gold rings; and put
the two rings in the two ends of the breastplate. {39:17}
And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two
rings on the ends of the breastplate. {39:18} 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. {39:19} 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. {39:20}
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. {39:21} 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 the LORD commanded Moses.
{39:22} And he made the robe of the ephod [of] woven
work, all [of] blue. {39:23} 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. {39:24} And
they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates [of]
blue, and purple, and scarlet, [and] twined [linen. ]{39:25}
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; {39:26} A bell and a
pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the
hem of the robe to minister [in;] as the LORD commanded
Moses.
{39:27} And they made coats [of] fine linen [of] woven
work for Aaron, and for his sons, {39:28} And a mitre [of]
fine linen, and goodly bonnets [of] fine linen, and linen
breeches [of] fine twined linen, {39:29} And a girdle [of]
fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, [of]
needlework; as the LORD commanded Moses.
{39:30} 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 THE LORD.
{39:31} And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten [it] on
high upon the mitre; as the LORD commanded Moses.
{39:32} 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 the LORD commanded Moses, so
did they.
{39:33} 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, {39:34} And the covering of
rams’ skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers’ skins,
and the vail of the covering, {39:35} The ark of the
testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat,
{39:36} The table, [and] all the vessels thereof, and the
shewbread, {39:37} 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, {39:38} And the
golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense,
and the hanging for the tabernacle door, {39:39} The brasen
altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels,
the laver and his foot, {39:40} 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,
{39:41} 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. {39:42}
According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the
children of Israel made all the work. {39:43} And Moses
did look upon all the work, and, behold, they have done it as
the LORD had commanded, even so had they done it: and
Moses blessed them.
40 {40:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {40:2}
On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the
tabernacle of the tent of the congregation. {40:3} And thou
shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark
with the vail. {40:4} 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. {40:5} 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. {40:6} And thou shalt set the
altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle
of the tent of the congregation. {40:7} And thou shalt set
the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar,
and shalt put water therein. {40:8} And thou shalt set up the
court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court
gate. {40:9} 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.
{40:10} 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. {40:11} And thou shalt anoint
the laver and his foot, and sanctify it. {40:12} And thou
shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water.
{40:13} 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. {40:14} And thou shalt bring his
sons, and clothe them with coats: {40:15} 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. {40:16} Thus did Moses: according to all that
the LORD commanded him, so did he.
{40:17} 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. {40:18} 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.
{40:19} And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle,
and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
{40:20} 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: {40:21} And he brought the ark into the
tabernacle, and set up the vail of the covering, and covered
the ark of the testimony; as the LORD commanded Moses.
{40:22} And he put the table in the tent of the
congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward,
without the vail. {40:23} And he set the bread in order upon
it before the LORD; as the LORD had commanded Moses.
{40:24} And he put the candlestick in the tent of the
congregation, over against the table, on the side of the
tabernacle southward. {40:25} And he lighted the lamps
before the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
{40:26} And he put the golden altar in the tent of the
congregation before the vail: {40:27} And he burnt sweet
incense thereon; as the LORD commanded Moses.
{40:28} And he set up the hanging [at] the door of the
tabernacle. {40:29} 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 the LORD commanded Moses.
{40:30} And he set the laver between the tent of the
congregation and the altar, and put water there, to wash
[withal. ]{40:31} And Moses and Aaron and his sons
washed their hands and their feet thereat: {40:32} When
they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they
came near unto the altar, they washed; as the LORD
commanded Moses. {40:33} 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.
{40:34} Then a cloud covered the tent of the
congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the
tabernacle. {40:35} And Moses was not able to enter into
the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode
thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
{40:36} And when the cloud was taken up from over the
tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their
journeys: {40:37} But if the cloud were not taken up, then
they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up. {40:38}
For the cloud of the LORD [was] 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.