Most Popular Bible Verses in Exodus

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All the persons who came from the loins of Jacob were seventy in number, but Joseph was already in Egypt.

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Then God spoke all these words, saying,

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You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.

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Now Moses was pasturing the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

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And afterward Moses and Aaron came and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Let My people go that they may celebrate a feast to Me in the wilderness.’”

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Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine;

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If a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to go free as the male slaves do.

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Then the Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth;

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You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,

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You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

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And He said, “If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the Lord, am your healer.”

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“If men struggle with each other and strike a woman with child so that she gives birth prematurely, yet there is no injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband may demand of him, and he shall pay as the judges decide.

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For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a holy day, a sabbath of complete rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.

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So the people stood at a distance, while Moses approached the thick cloud where God was.

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Now the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,

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Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

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Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin;

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Now when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people assembled about Aaron and said to him, “Come, make us a god who will go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”

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“that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

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Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to the Lord, and said,
I will sing to the Lord, for He is highly exalted;
The horse and its rider He has hurled into the sea.

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But the sons of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly, and multiplied, and became exceedingly mighty, so that the land was filled with them.

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Then Moses said to God, “Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you.’ Now they may say to me, ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?”

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The angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the midst of a bush; and he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, yet the bush was not consumed.

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So the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this thing, and let the boys live?”

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Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation.

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Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Israel is My son, My firstborn.

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Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob; they came each one with his household:

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But when she could hide him no longer, she got him a wicker basket and covered it over with tar and pitch. Then she put the child into it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.

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In the third month after the sons of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that very day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.

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It came about when Moses was coming down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the testimony were in Moses’ hand as he was coming down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because of his speaking with Him.

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Come, let us deal wisely with them, or else they will multiply and in the event of war, they will also join themselves to those who hate us, and fight against us and depart from the land.”

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Terror and dread fall upon them;
By the greatness of Your arm they are motionless as stone;
Until Your people pass over, O Lord,
Until the people pass over whom You have purchased.

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Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a daughter of Levi.

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Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.

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He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the sons of Israel are more and mightier than we.

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But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out, so that they were in dread of the sons of Israel.

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Then the Lord said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘You yourselves have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven.

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Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

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and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name, Lord, I did not make Myself known to them.

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and he said, “When you are helping the Hebrew women to give birth and see them upon the birthstool, if it is a son, then you shall put him to death; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”

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and they made their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks and at all kinds of labor in the field, all their labors which they rigorously imposed on them.

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You shall not make other gods besides Me; gods of silver or gods of gold, you shall not make for yourselves.

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The Egyptians compelled the sons of Israel to labor rigorously;

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Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “Every son who is born you are to cast into the Nile, and every daughter you are to keep alive.”

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So God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied, and became very mighty.

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Because the midwives feared God, He established households for them.

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The Lord furthermore said to him, “Now put your hand into your bosom.” So he put his hand into his bosom, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous like snow.

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The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife can get to them.”

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So they took soot from a kiln, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses threw it toward the sky, and it became boils breaking out with sores on man and beast.

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So the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters over the people and their foremen, saying,

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The sons of Israel did so, and some gathered much and some little.

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Then I will take you for My people, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

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You shall not worship their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their deeds; but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their sacred pillars in pieces.

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And it shall be when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ then you shall say to him, ‘With a powerful hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

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then teach them the statutes and the laws, and make known to them the way in which they are to walk and the work they are to do.

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Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien or a native of the land.

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“When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Work a miracle,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a serpent.’”

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Then the Lord spoke to Moses, “Go down, warn the people, so that they do not break through to the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish.

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The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were on the magicians as well as on all the Egyptians.

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Not so! Go now, the men among you, and serve the Lord, for that is what you desire.” So they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.

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You will bring them and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance,
The place, O Lord, which You have made for Your dwelling,
The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established.

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It came about, when Pharaoh was stubborn about letting us go, that the Lord killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of beast. Therefore, I sacrifice to the Lord the males, the first offspring of every womb, but every firstborn of my sons I redeem.’

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If you afflict him at all, and if he does cry out to Me, I will surely hear his cry;

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You shall make an altar of earth for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen; in every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.

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On the first day you shall have a holy assembly, and another holy assembly on the seventh day; no work at all shall be done on them, except what must be eaten by every person, that alone may be prepared by you.

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If you do this thing and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace.”

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His sister stood at a distance to find out what would happen to him.

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Also let the priests who come near to the Lord consecrate themselves, or else the Lord will break out against them.”

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I will bring you to the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you for a possession; I am the Lord.’”

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Then He said, “Put your hand into your bosom again.” So he put his hand into his bosom again, and when he took it out of his bosom, behold, it was restored like the rest of his flesh.

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“If they will not believe you or heed the witness of the first sign, they may believe the witness of the last sign.

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Moses said to Pharaoh, “The honor is yours to tell me: when shall I entreat for you and your servants and your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses, that they may be left only in the Nile?”

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You shall also observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as a permanent ordinance.

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Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt and eat every plant of the land, even all that the hail has left.”

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As for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, and the sons of Israel shall go through the midst of the sea on dry land.

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Now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me; furthermore, I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them.

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“You are no longer to give the people straw to make brick as previously; let them go and gather straw for themselves.

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You shall make four gold rings for it and put rings on the four corners which are on its four feet.

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Then the Lord said to him, “Go down and come up again, you and Aaron with you; but do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to the Lord, or He will break forth upon them.”

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For each one threw down his staff and they turned into serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.

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and My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

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So it shall serve as a sign on your hand and as phylacteries on your forehead, for with a powerful hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt.”

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And the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had spoken to Moses.

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And when your children say to you, ‘What does this rite mean to you?’

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Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers, and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same with their secret arts.

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Therefore, come now, and I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you may bring My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt.”

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In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.

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The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the Nile, with her maidens walking alongside the Nile; and she saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid, and she brought it to her.

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You shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘This shall be a holy anointing oil to Me throughout your generations.

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So I said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’

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Aaron shall carry the names of the sons of Israel in the breastpiece of judgment over his heart when he enters the holy place, for a memorial before the Lord continually.

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And He said, “Certainly I will be with you, and this shall be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall worship God at this mountain.”

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Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and take for yourselves lambs according to your families, and slay the Passover lamb.

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The locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and settled in all the territory of Egypt; they were very numerous. There had never been so many locusts, nor would there be so many again.

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So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and thus they did just as the Lord had commanded; and Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent.

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But if they will not believe even these two signs or heed what you say, then you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground; and the water which you take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.”

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Then he said, “Tomorrow.” So he said, “May it be according to your word, that you may know that there is no one like the Lord our God.

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Now listen to me: I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You be the people’s representative before God, and you bring the disputes to God,

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Moses said to the Lord, “The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, for You warned us, saying, ‘Set bounds about the mountain and consecrate it.’”

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As for Me, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them; and I will be honored through Pharaoh and all his army, through his chariots and his horsemen.

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For seven days the one of his sons who is priest in his stead shall put them on when he enters the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place.

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I will grant this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and it shall be that when you go, you will not go empty-handed.

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But the quota of bricks which they were making previously, you shall impose on them; you are not to reduce any of it. Because they are lazy, therefore they cry out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’

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When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the boy was crying. And she had pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”

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They gathered it morning by morning, every man as much as he should eat; but when the sun grew hot, it would melt.

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You shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts; and none of you shall go outside the door of his house until morning.

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Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even a darkness which may be felt.”

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Yet Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

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So Moses spoke thus to the sons of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses on account of their despondency and cruel bondage.

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Hence God led the people around by the way of the wilderness to the Red Sea; and the sons of Israel went up in martial array from the land of Egypt.

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Then he called for Moses and Aaron at night and said, “Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the sons of Israel; and go, worship the Lord, as you have said.

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Then Pharaoh hurriedly called for Moses and Aaron, and he said, “I have sinned against the Lord your God and against you.

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Now therefore, please forgive my sin only this once, and make supplication to the Lord your God, that He would only remove this death from me.”

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You shall not eat anything leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.’”

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If you make an altar of stone for Me, you shall not build it of cut stones, for if you wield your tool on it, you will profane it.

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But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the sons of Israel go.

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Then Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, “Go, serve the Lord; only let your flocks and your herds be detained. Even your little ones may go with you.”

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He went out from Pharaoh and made supplication to the Lord.

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So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord directed an east wind on the land all that day and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

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The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. And she named him Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”

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For the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, and the Lord brought back the waters of the sea on them, but the sons of Israel walked on dry land through the midst of the sea.

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Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go ahead.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother.

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Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I am indeed concerned about you and what has been done to you in Egypt.

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Moses said to them, “Let no man leave any of it until morning.”

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Let the labor be heavier on the men, and let them work at it so that they will pay no attention to false words.”

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When you enter the land which the Lord will give you, as He has promised, you shall observe this rite.

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The frogs will depart from you and your houses and your servants and your people; they will be left only in the Nile.”

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And you shall observe this event as an ordinance for you and your children forever.

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But he said, “Please, Lord, now send the message by whomever You will.”

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You shall put in the breastpiece of judgment the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be over Aaron’s heart when he goes in before the Lord; and Aaron shall carry the judgment of the sons of Israel over his heart before the Lord continually.

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then he said to them, “This is what the Lord meant: Tomorrow is a sabbath observance, a holy sabbath to the Lord. Bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over put aside to be kept until morning.”

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For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to smite you.

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For I will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments—I am the Lord.

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Then the Lord said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

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Behold, about this time tomorrow, I will send a very heavy hail, such as has not been seen in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

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Then the anger of the Lord burned against Moses, and He said, “Is there not your brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he speaks fluently. And moreover, behold, he is coming out to meet you; when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

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Then the sons of Israel went and did so; just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

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Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.

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Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

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Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women that she may nurse the child for you?”

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Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the Lord concerning the frogs which He had inflicted upon Pharaoh.

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Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no home where there was not someone dead.

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So the taskmasters of the people and their foremen went out and spoke to the people, saying, “Thus says Pharaoh, ‘I am not going to give you any straw.

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Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is stubborn; he refuses to let the people go.

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So he looked this way and that, and when he saw there was no one around, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

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They will pay heed to what you say; and you with the elders of Israel will come to the king of Egypt and you will say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now, please, let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.’

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But Moses spoke before the Lord, saying, “Behold, the sons of Israel have not listened to me; how then will Pharaoh listen to me, for I am unskilled in speech?”

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Moreover, the foremen of the sons of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, “Why have you not completed your required amount either yesterday or today in making brick as previously?”

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You go and get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, but none of your labor will be reduced.’”

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The rings shall be close to the rim as holders for the poles to carry the table.

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The fish that were in the Nile died, and the Nile became foul, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. And the blood was through all the land of Egypt.

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Then the foremen of the sons of Israel came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you deal this way with your servants?

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The taskmasters pressed them, saying, “Complete your work quota, your daily amount, just as when you had straw.”

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So they put it aside until morning, as Moses had ordered, and it did not become foul nor was there any worm in it.

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Now on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one. When all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses,

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Then they set out from Succoth and camped in Etham on the edge of the wilderness.

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Now you shall eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste—it is the Lord’s Passover.

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Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

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Then Moses departed and returned to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Please, let me go, that I may return to my brethren who are in Egypt, and see if they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

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And you shall not go up by steps to My altar, so that your nakedness will not be exposed on it.’

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For this time I will send all My plagues on you and your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth.

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Thus says the Lord, “By this you shall know that I am the Lord: behold, I will strike the water that is in the Nile with the staff that is in my hand, and it will be turned to blood.

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So the people scattered through all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

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you shall say, ‘It is a Passover sacrifice to the Lord who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, but spared our homes.’” And the people bowed low and worshiped.

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You are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I, even I, will be with your mouth and his mouth, and I will teach you what you are to do.

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Miriam answered them,
Sing to the Lord, for He is highly exalted;
The horse and his rider He has hurled into the sea.”

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Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

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The Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your power; but I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.

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For they covered the surface of the whole land, so that the land was darkened; and they ate every plant of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Thus nothing green was left on tree or plant of the field through all the land of Egypt.

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When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the presence of Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

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So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My miracles which I shall do in the midst of it; and after that he will let you go.

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You shall take in your hand this staff, with which you shall perform the signs.”

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And you shall not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall burn with fire.

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The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” And he said, “A staff.”

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The house of Israel named it manna, and it was like coriander seed, white, and its taste was like wafers with honey.

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Then the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a charge to the sons of Israel and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

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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 rear side to the west.

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The Lord did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the houses, the courts, and the fields.

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Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a sabbath to the Lord; today you will not find it in the field.

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Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the sons of Israel go out of his land.”

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They said to them, “May the Lord look upon you and judge you, for you have made us odious in Pharaoh’s sight and in the sight of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.”

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So I said to you, ‘Let My son go that he may serve Me’; but you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.”’”

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So the Lord shifted the wind to a very strong west wind which took up the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea; not one locust was left in all the territory of Egypt.

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When they left Pharaoh’s presence, they met Moses and Aaron as they were waiting for them.

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They shall eat the flesh that same night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

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Now if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house are to take one according to the number of persons in them; according to what each man should eat, you are to divide the lamb.

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Then the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord, when I am honored through Pharaoh, through his chariots and his horsemen.”

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Then Moses returned to the Lord and said, “O Lord, why have You brought harm to this people? Why did You ever send me?

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Moreover, he shall speak for you to the people; and he will be as a mouth for you and you will be as God to him.

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You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it at twilight.

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Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become gnats through all the land of Egypt.’”

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But I know that the king of Egypt will not permit you to go, except under compulsion.

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There shall be no one miscarrying or barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.

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But they did not listen to Moses, and some left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with them.

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He went out the next day, and behold, two Hebrews were fighting with each other; and he said to the offender, “Why are you striking your companion?”

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So Moses took his wife and his sons and mounted them on a donkey, and returned to the land of Egypt. Moses also took the staff of God in his hand.

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You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that with them the table may be carried.

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But every woman shall ask of her neighbor and the woman who lives in her house, articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing; and you will put them on your sons and daughters. Thus you will plunder the Egyptians.”

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So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.

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The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was beautiful, she hid him for three months.

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Then the Lord said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for under compulsion he will let them go, and under compulsion he will drive them out of his land.”

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So Moses said, “I must turn aside now and see this marvelous sight, why the bush is not burned up.”

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But, indeed, for this reason I have allowed you to remain, in order to show you My power and in order to proclaim My name through all the earth.

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Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and threw it at Moses’ feet, and she said, “You are indeed a bridegroom of blood to me.”

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The sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the families of Simeon.

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These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari; and the length of Levi’s life was one hundred and thirty-seven years.

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But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and did not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

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Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.

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So they piled them in heaps, and the land became foul.

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He did not take away the pillar of cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.

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When they came to Reuel their father, he said, “Why have you come back so soon today?”

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Ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has done harm to this people, and You have not delivered Your people at all.”

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“If one man’s ox hurts another’s so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide its price equally; and also they shall divide the dead ox.

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There is no straw given to your servants, yet they keep saying to us, ‘Make bricks!’ And behold, your servants are being beaten; but it is the fault of your own people.”

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But he said, “Who made you a prince or a judge over us? Are you intending to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and said, “Surely the matter has become known.”

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Now the Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are dead.”

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Moses was willing to dwell with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses.

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Then she gave birth to a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.”

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Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar and put an omerful of manna in it, and place it before the Lord to be kept throughout your generations.”

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I will send hornets ahead of you so that they will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites before you.

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When they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter; therefore it was named Marah.

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Then Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the sons of Israel;

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They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days, but all the sons of Israel had light in their dwellings.

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Whether it gores a son or a daughter, it shall be done to him according to the same rule.

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Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he is going out to the water, and station yourself to meet him on the bank of the Nile; and you shall take in your hand the staff that was turned into a serpent.

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If the ox gores a male or female slave, the owner shall give his or her master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

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If a ransom is demanded of him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is demanded of him.

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The sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel; and the length of Kohath’s life was one hundred and thirty-three years.

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and Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had spoken to Moses. He then performed the signs in the sight of the people.

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These are the heads of their fathers’ households. The sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn: Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben.

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So it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud along with the darkness, yet it gave light at night. Thus the one did not come near the other all night.

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Now the Lord said to Moses, “One more plague I will bring on Pharaoh and on Egypt; after that he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will surely drive you out from here completely.

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I will send My terror ahead of you, and throw into confusion all the people among whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

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Whoever shall mix any like it or whoever puts any of it on a layman shall be cut off from his people.’”

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Then Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded, ‘Let an omerful of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread that I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”

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For if by now I had put forth My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, you would then have been cut off from the earth.

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But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was not willing to let them go.

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Now the Lord said to Aaron, “Go to meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him.

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Then He said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it.

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Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

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So the people rested on the seventh day.

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Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses; and the length of Amram’s life was one hundred and thirty-seven years.

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But he said, “You are lazy, very lazy; therefore you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.’

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You shall say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me in the wilderness. But behold, you have not listened until now.”

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See that you make them after the pattern for them, which was shown to you on the mountain.

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Therefore, our livestock too shall go with us; not a hoof shall be left behind, for we shall take some of them to serve the Lord our God. And until we arrive there, we ourselves do not know with what we shall serve the Lord.”

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But Moses said, “You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice them to the Lord our God.

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But the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand and grasp it by its tail”—so he stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand—

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So go now and work; for you will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the quota of bricks.”

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As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the Testimony, to be kept.

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When Pharaoh does not listen to you, then I will lay My hand on Egypt and bring out My hosts, My people the sons of Israel, from the land of Egypt by great judgments.

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and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your grandson, how I made a mockery of the Egyptians and how I performed My signs among them, that you may know that I am the Lord.”

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So God heard their groaning; and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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Moses said, “Thus says the Lord, ‘About midnight I am going out into the midst of Egypt,

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The magicians tried with their secret arts to bring forth gnats, but they could not; so there were gnats on man and beast.

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It shall not be poured on anyone’s body, nor shall you make any like it in the same proportions; it is holy, and it shall be holy to you.

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The fish that are in the Nile will die, and the Nile will become foul, and the Egyptians will find difficulty in drinking water from the Nile.”’”

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Now the Lord said to Moses, “Rise early in the morning and present yourself before Pharaoh, as he comes out to the water, and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

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Moses said, “You are right; I shall never see your face again!”

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Then the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and helped them and watered their flock.

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Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness; only you shall not go very far away. Make supplication for me.”

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Only in the land of Goshen, where the sons of Israel were, there was no hail.

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Then Pharaoh said to him, “Get away from me! Beware, do not see my face again, for in the day you see my face you shall die!”

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Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather roasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with its entrails.

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Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God.” But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

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“If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall surely be stoned and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall go unpunished.

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The foremen of the sons of Israel saw that they were in trouble because they were told, “You must not reduce your daily amount of bricks.”

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Is this not the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

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The Lord said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book.

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They did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff, and struck the dust of the earth, and there were gnats on man and beast. All the dust of the earth became gnats through all the land of Egypt.

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But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you draw the people away from their work? Get back to your labors!”

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So they said, “An Egyptian delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and what is more, he even drew the water for us and watered the flock.”

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Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their reservoirs of water, that they may become blood; and there will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”

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and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of the Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the millstones; all the firstborn of the cattle as well.

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But against any of the sons of Israel a dog will not even bark, whether against man or beast, that you may understand how the Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.’

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He said to his daughters, “Where is he then? Why is it that you have left the man behind? Invite him to have something to eat.”

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Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and speak to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

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So Moses and Aaron did even as the Lord had commanded. And he lifted up the staff and struck the water that was in the Nile, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, and all the water that was in the Nile was turned to blood.

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But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where My people are living, so that no swarms of flies will be there, in order that you may know that I, the Lord, am in the midst of the land.

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Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

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Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

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For if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.

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But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite your whole territory with frogs.

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The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.

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Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah;

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Then your houses shall be filled and the houses of all your servants and the houses of all the Egyptians, something which neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from the day that they came upon the earth until this day.’” And he turned and went out from Pharaoh.

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Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that My wonders will be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”

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“You shall take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place.

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Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying, “God will surely take care of you, and you shall carry my bones from here with you.”

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Then the Lord did so. And there came great swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh and the houses of his servants and the land was laid waste because of the swarms of flies in all the land of Egypt.

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The Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Furthermore, the man Moses himself was greatly esteemed in the land of Egypt, both in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants and in the sight of the people.

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Speak now in the hearing of the people that each man ask from his neighbor and each woman from her neighbor for articles of silver and articles of gold.”

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I will put a division between My people and your people. Tomorrow this sign will occur.”’”

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Moses said, “We shall go with our young and our old; with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds we shall go, for we must hold a feast to the Lord.”

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the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall become his.

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Moses and Aaron performed all these wonders before Pharaoh; yet the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the sons of Israel go out of his land.

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“Now these are the ordinances which you are to set before them:

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Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God. Do you not realize that Egypt is destroyed?”

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The sons of Izhar: Korah and Nepheg and Zichri.

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Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please, let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, otherwise He will fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.”

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Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord with which He had sent him, and all the signs that He had commanded him to do.

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So He let him alone. At that time she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood”—because of the circumcision.

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Still you exalt yourself against My people by not letting them go.

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The sons of Korah: Assir and Elkanah and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites.

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They shall cover the surface of the land, so that no one will be able to see the land. They will also eat the rest of what has escaped—what is left to you from the hail—and they will eat every tree which sprouts for you out of the field.

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Again Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land are now many, and you would have them cease from their labors!”

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But if there is any further injury, then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life,

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For if you do not let My people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you and on your servants and on your people and into your houses; and the houses of the Egyptians will be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they dwell.

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the hangings for the court, its pillars and its sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court, its cords and its pegs and all the equipment for the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting;

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I will not drive them out before you in a single year, that the land may not become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.

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The sons of Uzziel: Mishael and Elzaphan and Sithri.

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But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart that I may multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.

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Moreover, there shall be a great cry in all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been before and such as shall never be again.

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I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they sojourned.

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The one among the servants of Pharaoh who feared the word of the Lord made his servants and his livestock flee into the houses;

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Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God within the land.”

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The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out My hand on Egypt and bring out the sons of Israel from their midst.”

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Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid; for God has come in order to test you, and in order that the fear of Him may remain with you, so that you may not sin.”

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You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.

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Now therefore send, bring your livestock and whatever you have in the field to safety. Every man and beast that is found in the field and is not brought home, when the hail comes down on them, will die.”’”

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Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

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Aaron’s son Eleazar married one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites according to their families.

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All these your servants will come down to me and bow themselves before me, saying, ‘Go out, you and all the people who follow you,’ and after that I will go out.” And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

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If you ever take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, you are to return it to him before the sun sets,

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Now when Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, even though it was near; for God said, “The people might change their minds when they see war, and return to Egypt.”

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But the magicians of Egypt did the same with their secret arts; and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

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Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said, “Entreat the Lord that He remove the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to the Lord.”

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Furthermore I have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, because the Egyptians are holding them in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant.

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The Nile will swarm with frogs, which will come up and go into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and on your people, and into your ovens and into your kneading bowls.

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Then he said to them, “Thus may the Lord be with you, if ever I let you and your little ones go! Take heed, for evil is in your mind.

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Then all the congregation of the sons of Israel journeyed by stages from the wilderness of Sin, according to the command of the Lord, and camped at Rephidim, and there was no water for the people to drink.

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Now it came about on the day when the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,

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They were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt about bringing out the sons of Israel from Egypt; it was the same Moses and Aaron.

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Moses chose able men out of all Israel and made them heads over the people, leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens.

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You shall not delay the offering from your harvest and your vintage. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to Me.

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He caused their chariot wheels to swerve, and He made them drive with difficulty; so the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from Israel, for the Lord is fighting for them against the Egyptians.”

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So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve the Lord your God! Who are the ones that are going?”

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Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses returned to the camp, his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.

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“If a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave, and destroys it, he shall let him go free on account of his eye.

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We must go a three days’ journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the Lord our God as He commands us.”

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the sons of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone. So Moses would replace the veil over his face until he went in to speak with Him.

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Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Take for yourselves handfuls of soot from a kiln, and let Moses throw it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.

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Then Moses said, “Behold, I am going out from you, and I shall make supplication to the Lord that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow; only do not let Pharaoh deal deceitfully again in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.”

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It was the same Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said, “Bring out the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their hosts.”

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but he who paid no regard to the word of the Lord left his servants and his livestock in the field.

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But Moses said, “It is not right to do so, for we will sacrifice to the Lord our God what is an abomination to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice what is an abomination to the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not then stone us?

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Then the Lord smote the people, because of what they did with the calf which Aaron had made.

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He made a screen for the doorway of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet material, and fine twisted linen, the work of a weaver;

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You shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before Me at all times.

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So all the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink of the water of the Nile.

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You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall speak to Pharaoh that he let the sons of Israel go out of his land.

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Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. And the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt.

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So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.

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Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the streams and over the pools, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.’”

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Seven days passed after the Lord had struck the Nile.

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The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families.

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Thus the Lord saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

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Now the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that hail may fall on all the land of Egypt, on man and on beast and on every plant of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.”

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Then Pharaoh turned and went into his house with no concern even for this.

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The Lord came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain; and the Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

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Now it came about in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brethren and looked on their hard labors; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren.

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The sons of Israel went through the midst of the sea on the dry land, and the waters were like a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

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Now the time that the sons of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.

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The Lord did as Moses asked, and removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants and from his people; not one remained.

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that the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “I am the Lord; speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I speak to you.”

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“But as for you, speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘You shall surely observe My sabbaths; for this is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

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The hail struck all that was in the field through all the land of Egypt, both man and beast; the hail also struck every plant of the field and shattered every tree of the field.

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Then the Lord said to Moses, “Take for yourself spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, spices with pure frankincense; there shall be an equal part of each.

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But Moses said before the Lord, “Behold, I am unskilled in speech; how then will Pharaoh listen to me?”

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But Moses said to the people, “Do not fear! Stand by and see the salvation of the Lord which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will never see them again forever.

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Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time; the Lord is the righteous one, and I and my people are the wicked ones.

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The middle bar in the center of the boards shall pass through from end to end.

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Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other was named Puah;

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So the frogs will come up on you and your people and all your servants.”’”

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Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel His people, how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt.

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God spoke further to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord;

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Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took the timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dancing.

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Moses said to him, “As soon as I go out of the city, I will spread out my hands to the Lord; the thunder will cease and there will be hail no longer, that you may know that the earth is the Lord’s.

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behold, the hand of the Lord will come with a very severe pestilence on your livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks.

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So Moses and Aaron did it; as the Lord commanded them, thus they did.

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But go now, lead the people where I told you. Behold, My angel shall go before you; nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin.”

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“Then bring near to yourself Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the sons of Israel, to minister as priest to Me—Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.

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for that is his only covering; it is his cloak for his body. What else shall he sleep in? And it shall come about that when he cries out to Me, I will hear him, for I am gracious.

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Then the Egyptians took up the pursuit, and all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots and his horsemen went in after them into the midst of the sea.

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Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord swept the sea back by a strong east wind all night and turned the sea into dry land, so the waters were divided.

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but the seventh day is a sabbath of the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you.

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And He said, “I Myself will make all My goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of the Lord before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show compassion on whom I will show compassion.”

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Let them judge the people at all times; and let it be that every major dispute they will bring to you, but every minor dispute they themselves will judge. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you.

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God, furthermore, said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is My memorial-name to all generations.

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So it came about on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunder and lightning flashes and a thick cloud upon the mountain and a very loud trumpet sound, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled.

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You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to Myself.

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The whole congregation of the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

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He said also, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.

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It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and will become boils breaking out with sores on man and beast through all the land of Egypt.”

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So the Lord did this thing on the next day, and all the livestock of Egypt died; but of the livestock of the sons of Israel, not one died.

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Then Moses said, “I pray You, show me Your glory!”

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The Lord is my strength and song,
And He has become my salvation;
This is my God, and I will praise Him;
My father’s God, and I will extol Him.

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Sanctify to Me every firstborn, the first offspring of every womb among the sons of Israel, both of man and beast; it belongs to Me.”

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Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket, at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

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Pharaoh sent, and behold, there was not even one of the livestock of Israel dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.

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But the Lord will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing will die of all that belongs to the sons of Israel.”’”

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Make supplication to the Lord, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail; and I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”

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So Moses went out from Pharaoh and made supplication to the Lord.

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The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live; and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

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So there was hail, and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very severe, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

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If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for the ox and four sheep for the sheep.

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Then the Lord said to Moses, “See, I make you as God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.

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Now it came about at the lodging place on the way that the Lord met him and sought to put him to death.

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Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob and tell the sons of Israel:

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Then Moses said to the Lord, “Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither recently nor in time past, nor since You have spoken to Your servant; for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”

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And if he knocks out a tooth of his male or female slave, he shall let him go free on account of his tooth.

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“Take also for yourself the finest of spices: of flowing myrrh five hundred shekels, and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, two hundred and fifty, and of fragrant cane two hundred and fifty,

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Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. Then he arose early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

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Then he cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree; and he threw it into the waters, and the waters became sweet.There He made for them a statute and regulation, and there He tested them.

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Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may come back over the Egyptians, over their chariots and their horsemen.”

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The Lord set a definite time, saying, “Tomorrow the Lord will do this thing in the land.”

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You shall not follow the masses in doing evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after a multitude in order to pervert justice;

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“If a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod and he dies at his hand, he shall be punished.

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Then the Lord said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the sons of Israel to go forward.

458

At the morning watch, the Lord looked down on the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud and brought the army of the Egyptians into confusion.

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and he made its five pillars with their hooks, and he overlaid their tops and their bands with gold; but their five sockets were of bronze.

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Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

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For if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,

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When the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.”

465

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether or not they will walk in My instruction.

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But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the Lord God.”

467

Then Moses said, “What if they will not believe me or listen to what I say? For they may say, ‘The Lord has not appeared to you.’”

468

So Moses went down to the people and told them.

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But Moses’ hands were heavy. Then they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it; and Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other. Thus his hands were steady until the sun set.

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I will fix your boundary from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River Euphrates; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

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who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”

473

So they appointed taskmasters over them to afflict them with hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh storage cities, Pithom and Raamses.

474

Then he took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people; and they said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient!”

476

The Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have given heed to their cry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings.

477

If you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, you are not to act as a creditor to him; you shall not charge him interest.

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You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.

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But you shall serve the Lord your God, and He will bless your bread and your water; and I will remove sickness from your midst.

480

Then Moses came and recounted to the people all the words of the Lord and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice and said, “All the words which the Lord has spoken we will do!”

481

Now the Lord said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commandment which I have written for their instruction.”

482

Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twisted linen and blue and purple and scarlet material; you shall make them with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman.

483

So Moses listened to his father-in-law and did all that he had said.

484

So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

485

So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal state at daybreak, while the Egyptians were fleeing right into it; then the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

488

The angel of God, who had been going before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them.

490

See, the Lord has given you the sabbath; therefore He gives you bread for two days on the sixth day. Remain every man in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.”

491

Then He said, “Do not come near here; remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”

492

He took this from their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool and made it into a molten calf; and they said, “This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

493

Then they set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the sons of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departure from the land of Egypt.

494

When they set out from Rephidim, they came to the wilderness of Sinai and camped in the wilderness; and there Israel camped in front of the mountain.

495

Each day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement, and you shall purify the altar when you make atonement for it, and you shall anoint it to consecrate it.

497

Say, therefore, to the sons of Israel, ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage. I will also redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.

498

Then Moses said to the Lord, “See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people!’ But You Yourself have not let me know whom You will send with me. Moreover, You have said, ‘I have known you by name, and you have also found favor in My sight.’

499

This is what the Lord has commanded, ‘Gather of it every man as much as he should eat; you shall take an omer apiece according to the number of persons each of you has in his tent.’”

500

They shall not live in your land, because they will make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

501

But the sons of Israel walked on dry land through the midst of the sea, and the waters were like a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

502

Then Moses led 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.

503

“Moreover, you shall make an altar as a place for burning incense; you shall make it of acacia wood.

504

As Pharaoh drew near, the sons of Israel looked, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them, and they became very frightened; so the sons of Israel cried out to the Lord.

505

“You shall bring the choice first fruits of your soil into the house of the Lord your God.You are not to boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.

506

Furthermore, you shall select out of all the people able men who fear God, men of truth, those who hate dishonest gain; and you shall place these over them as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens.

507

If the thief is caught while breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no bloodguiltiness on his account.

509

Then you shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand and its base and its shaft are to be made of hammered work; its cups, its bulbs and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.

511

Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

512

Now it came about at midnight that the Lord struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle.

513

Then they came to Elim where there were twelve springs of water and seventy date palms, and they camped there beside the waters.

514

The Lord descended in the cloud and stood there with him as he called upon the name of the Lord.

515

Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

516

Now Mount Sinai was all in smoke because the Lord descended upon it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.

517

It is a sign between Me and the sons of Israel forever; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, but on the seventh day He ceased from labor, and was refreshed.”

518

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this in a book as a memorial and recite it to Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”

519

If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey wandering away, you shall surely return it to him.

520

They shall construct an ark of acacia wood two and a half cubits long, and one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high.

522

Six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you shall cease from labor so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave, as well as your stranger, may refresh themselves.

523

Then He said to Moses, “Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the elders of Israel, and you shall worship at a distance.

524

It came about the next day that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood about Moses from the morning until the evening.

525

Now the Lord said to Moses, “Cut out for yourself two stone tablets like the former ones, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets which you shattered.

526

You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep. It shall be with its mother seven days; on the eighth day you shall give it to Me.

529

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

530

All the people perceived the thunder and the lightning flashes and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood at a distance.

531

So Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

532

Now the sons of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, aside from children.

534

You shall make on its hem pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet material, all around on its hem, and bells of gold between them all around:

535

When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his servants had a change of heart toward the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”

537

Thus they shall eat those things by which atonement was made at their ordination and consecration; but a layman shall not eat them, because they are holy.

539

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may perform these signs of Mine among them,

540

So the sons of Israel shall observe the sabbath, to celebrate the sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.’

541

then his master shall bring him to God, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently.

542

Also you shall observe the Feast of the Harvest of the first fruits of your labors from what you sow in the field; also the Feast of the Ingathering at the end of the year when you gather in the fruit of your labors from the field.

543

Now the sons of Israel had done according to the word of Moses, for they had requested from the Egyptians articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing;

544

Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,

545

When they measured it with an omer, he who had gathered much had no excess, and he who had gathered little had no lack; every man gathered as much as he should eat.

546

“You shall make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twisted linen; it shall be made with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman.

547

The Lord also spoke to Moses, saying,

548

‘Now this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance.

549

You shall make two cherubim of gold, make them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat.

550

You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring in the ark of the testimony there within the veil; and the veil shall serve for you as a partition between the holy place and the holy of holies.

551

The Lord said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes him mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?

552

and they saw the God of Israel; and under His feet there appeared to be a pavement of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.

553

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, “Go down at once, for your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.

554

There I will meet with you; and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, I will speak to you about all that I will give you in commandment for the sons of Israel.

558

“You shall charge the sons of Israel, that they bring you clear oil of beaten olives for the light, to make a lamp burn continually.

559

You shall make a breastpiece of judgment, the work of a skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it: of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twisted linen you shall make it.

560

If, however, an ox was previously in the habit of goring and its owner has been warned, yet he does not confine it and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned and its owner also shall be put to death.

561

Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month they are each one to take a lamb for themselves, according to their fathers’ households, a lamb for each household.

562

So the Lord changed His mind about the harm which He said He would do to His people.

563

It is to be eaten in a single house; you are not to bring forth any of the flesh outside of the house, nor are you to break any bone of it.

564

The Lord also said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments;

565

Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

566

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

567

Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, a good distance from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. And everyone who sought the Lord would go out to the tent of meeting which was outside the camp.

568

Therefore you are to observe the sabbath, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people.

569

Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the sabbath, there will be none.”

570

There shall be an opening at its top in the middle of it; around its opening there shall be a binding of woven work, like the opening of a coat of mail, so that it will not be torn.

571

Then Moses said to the sons of Israel, “See, the Lord has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

573

Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water that we may drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?”

574

You shall be holy men to Me, therefore you shall not eat any flesh torn to pieces in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.

575

You shall set bounds for the people all around, saying, ‘Beware that you do not go up on the mountain or touch the border of it; whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.

576

then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, “Whoever is for the Lord, come to me!” And all the sons of Levi gathered together to him.

577

He said to them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Every man of you put his sword upon his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate in the camp, and kill every man his brother, and every man his friend, and every man his neighbor.’”

578

Moses said to the people, “Remember this day in which you went out from Egypt, from the house of slavery; for by a powerful hand the Lord brought you out from this place. And nothing leavened shall be eaten.

579

Now it came about in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry for help because of their bondage rose up to God.

580

Six branches shall go out from its sides; three branches of the lampstand from its one side and three branches of the lampstand from its other side.

581

Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for I will not acquit the guilty.

582

Now then let Me alone, that My anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them; and I will make of you a great nation.”

583

Then Moses assembled all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and said to them, “These are the things that the Lord has commanded you to do:

584

Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.

585

You shall make its dishes and its pans and its jars and its bowls with which to pour drink offerings; you shall make them of pure gold.

586

Moreover, the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

587

A bulb shall be under the first pair of branches coming out of it, and a bulb under the second pair of branches coming out of it, and a bulb under the third pair of branches coming out of it, for the six branches coming out of the lampstand.

588

So I have come down to deliver them from the power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

589

He who kidnaps a man, whether he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall surely be put to death.

590

Three cups shall be shaped like almond blossoms in the one branch, a bulb and a flower, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bulb and a flower—so for six branches going out from the lampstand;

591

“See, I have called by name Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

592

The Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I will come to you in a thick cloud, so that the people may hear when I speak with you and may also believe in you forever.” Then Moses told the words of the people to the Lord.

593

A mixed multitude also went up with them, along with flocks and herds, a very large number of livestock.

594

And it shall serve as a sign to you on your hand, and as a reminder on your forehead, that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth; for with a powerful hand the Lord brought you out of Egypt.

595

If any of the flesh of ordination or any of the bread remains until morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire; it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

596

For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the sabbath day shall surely be put to death.

597

Then they said to Moses, “Speak to us yourself and we will listen; but let not God speak to us, or we will die.”

598

Then Moses entreated the Lord his God, and said, “O Lord, why does Your anger burn against Your people whom You have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

600

“Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two one year old lambs each day, continuously.

601

Then the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My instructions?

602

“Thus you shall do to Aaron and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you; you shall ordain them through seven days.

603

You shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks, that is, the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.

604

“Tell the sons of Israel to turn back and camp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea; you shall camp in front of Baal-zephon, opposite it, by the sea.

605

“If a man opens a pit, or digs a pit and does not cover it over, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

606

You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.

607

Now concerning everything which I have said to you, be on your guard; and do not mention the name of other gods, nor let them be heard from your mouth.

608

The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even Pharaoh’s entire army that had gone into the sea after them; not even one of them remained.

609

Watch yourself that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, or it will become a snare in your midst.

610

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, “Depart, go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up from the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give it.’

611

and there shall be one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and one-fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering with one lamb.

612

Tell the sons of Israel to raise a contribution for Me; from every man whose heart moves him you shall raise My contribution.

613

Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets which were written on both sides; they were written on one side and the other.

615

When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him with thunder.

616

You shall overlay the boards with gold and make their rings of gold as holders for the bars; and you shall overlay the bars with gold.

617

He named the place Massah and Meribah because of the quarrel of the sons of Israel, and because they tested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us, or not?”

618

When the sons of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “It is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat.

619

“And you shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar shall be square, and its height shall be three cubits.

620

Then God said, “Behold, I am going to make a covenant. Before all your people I will perform miracles which have not been produced in all the earth nor among any of the nations; and all the people among whom you live will see the working of the Lord, for it is a fearful thing that I am going to perform with you.

621

I will drive them out before you little by little, until you become fruitful and take possession of the land.

622

The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil;
My desire shall be gratified against them;
I will draw out my sword, my hand will destroy them.’

623

“You shall also make a plate of pure gold and shall engrave on it, like the engravings of a seal, ‘Holy to the Lord.’

624

The sons of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the Lord’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

625

According to all that I am going to show you, as the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furniture, just so you shall construct it.

626

They judged the people at all times; the difficult dispute they would bring to Moses, but every minor dispute they themselves would judge.

627

But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife and my children; I will not go out as a free man,’

628

The Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, they are an obstinate people.

629

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

630

Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once a year; he shall make atonement on it with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once a year throughout your generations. It is most holy to the Lord.”

631

These are the garments which they shall make: a breastpiece and an ephod and a robe and a tunic of checkered work, a turban and a sash, and they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons, that he may minister as priest to Me.

632

You shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. And none shall appear before Me empty-handed.

633

If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the dowry for virgins.

634

Now Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood; its length was two and a half cubits, and its width one and a half cubits, and its height one and a half cubits;

635

All the people answered together and said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do!” And Moses brought back the words of the people to the Lord.

637

“If men have a quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but remains in bed,

638

Moreover, from the blue and purple and scarlet material, they made finely woven garments for ministering in the holy place as well as the holy garments which were for Aaron, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

639

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover: no foreigner is to eat of it;

640

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, because you are an obstinate people, and I might destroy you on the way.”

641

But if a stranger sojourns with you, and celebrates the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near to celebrate it; and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat of it.

642

Now when Moses saw that the people were out of control—for Aaron had let them get out of control to be a derision among their enemies—

643

So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us and go out, fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will station myself on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.”

644

Then you shall erect the tabernacle according to its plan which you have been shown in the mountain.

645

Now therefore, I pray You, if I have found favor in Your sight, let me know Your ways that I may know You, so that I may find favor in Your sight. Consider too, that this nation is Your people.”

646

So the people took their dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls bound up in the clothes on their shoulders.

647

“You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

648

Then Moses bade his father-in-law farewell, and he went his way into his own land.

649

Moses entered the midst of the cloud as he went up to the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

650

But the people thirsted there for water; and they grumbled against Moses and said, “Why, now, have you brought us up from Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”

651

So it came about at evening that the quails came up and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.

652

Thus I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will chase after them; and I will be honored through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.” And they did so.

653

The sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

654

You shall tell your son on that day, saying, ‘It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

655

and the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have their request. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.

656

Their bulbs and their branches shall be of one piece with it; all of it shall be one piece of hammered work of pure gold.

657

Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Moses’ wife Zipporah, after he had sent her away,

658

Be sure to observe what I am commanding you this day: behold, I am going to drive out the Amorite before you, and the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite.

659

a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, all around on the hem of the robe.

660

And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, to the very day, all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.

661

For My angel will go before you and bring you in to the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will completely destroy them.

662

and he said, “The Lord has sworn; the Lord will have war against Amalek from generation to generation.”

663

So the next day they rose early and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

664

So the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord was concerned about the sons of Israel and that He had seen their affliction, then they bowed low and worshiped.

665

The other was named Eliezer, for he said, “The God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.”

666

It came about on the seventh day that some of the people went out to gather, but they found none.

667

When the layer of dew evaporated, behold, on the surface of the wilderness there was a fine flake-like thing, fine as the frost on the ground.

668

Then he made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits wide, square, and three cubits high.

669

This is what everyone who is numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as a contribution to the Lord.

670

But rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and cut down their Asherim

671

On this day in the month of Abib, you are about to go forth.

672

Then you shall make its lamps seven in number; and they shall mount its lamps so as to shed light on the space in front of it.

673

And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

674

Then the Egyptians chased after them with all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen and his army, and they overtook them camping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon.

675

Therefore, you shall keep this ordinance at its appointed time from year to year.

676

The Egyptians urged the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We will all be dead.”

677

If, however, he survives a day or two, no vengeance shall be taken; for he is his property.

678

On the next day Moses said to the people, “You yourselves have committed a great sin; and now I am going up to the Lord, perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”

679

You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold, their hooks also being of gold, on four sockets of silver.

680

You shall make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long and one cubit wide and one and a half cubits high.

681

So Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, “What shall I do to this people? A little more and they will stone me.”

682

You shall beat some of it very fine, and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you; it shall be most holy to you.

683

The peoples have heard, they tremble;
Anguish has gripped the inhabitants of Philistia.

684

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pass before the people and take with you some of the elders of Israel; and take in your hand your staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.

685

You shall put into the ark the testimony which I shall give you.

686

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

687

“When you take a census of the sons of Israel to number them, then each one of them shall give a ransom for himself to the Lord, when you number them, so that there will be no plague among them when you number them.

688

Be on your guard before him and obey his voice; do not be rebellious toward him, for he will not pardon your transgression, since My name is in him.

689

Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go, and bless me also.”

690

At the blast of Your nostrils the waters were piled up,
The flowing waters stood up like a heap;
The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

691

If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying helpless under its load, you shall refrain from leaving it to him, you shall surely release it with him.

692

and in the lampstand four cups shaped like almond blossoms, its bulbs and its flowers.

693

It shall be when the Lord brings you to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall observe this rite in this month.

695

Then Moses went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

696

(Now the flax and the barley were ruined, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud.

697

This is the number of the things for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were numbered according to the command of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

698

The Lord said to Moses, “I will also do this thing of which you have spoken; for you have found favor in My sight and I have known you by name.”

699

So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and consecrated the people, and they washed their garments.

701

So it came about when Moses held his hand up, that Israel prevailed, and when he let his hand down, Amalek prevailed.

702

“Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed;
The leaders of Moab, trembling grips them;
All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.

703

But every first offspring of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck; and every firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem.

704

It came about as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud.

705

nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his dispute.

706

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants to whom You swore by Yourself, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and all this land of which I have spoken I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’”

708

With it you shall make incense, a perfume, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, and holy.

709

You shall mount on it four rows of stones; the first row shall be a row of ruby, topaz and emerald;

710

They baked the dough which they had brought out of Egypt into cakes of unleavened bread. For it had not become leavened, since they were driven out of Egypt and could not delay, nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves.

711

but on the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the beast of the field may eat. You are to do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.

712

Then they said to Moses, “Is it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you dealt with us in this way, bringing us out of Egypt?

713

You shall not pervert the justice due to your needy brother in his dispute.

714

If the thief is not caught, then the owner of the house shall appear before the judges, to determine whether he laid his hands on his neighbor’s property.

715

and it will come about, while My glory is passing by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed by.

716

You shall speak to all the skillful persons whom I have endowed with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron’s garments to consecrate him, that he may minister as priest to Me.

717

“You shall make the court of the tabernacle. On the south side there shall be hangings for the court of fine twisted linen one hundred cubits long for one side;

718

Then I will take My hand away and you shall see My back, but My face shall not be seen.”

719

“Now Bezalel and Oholiab, and every skillful person in whom the Lord has put skill and understanding to know how to perform all the work in the construction of the sanctuary, shall perform in accordance with all that the Lord has commanded.”

720

I have heard the grumblings of the sons of Israel; speak to them, saying, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God.’”

721

If, however, a man acts presumptuously toward his neighbor, so as to kill him craftily, you are to take him even from My altar, that he may die.

722

The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he chased after the sons of Israel as the sons of Israel were going out boldly.

723

Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a meal with Moses’ father-in-law before God.

724

Whenever Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent; and the Lord would speak with Moses.

725

The tablets were God’s work, and the writing was God’s writing engraved on the tablets.

726

It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall take away the iniquity of the holy things which the sons of Israel consecrate, with regard to all their holy gifts; and it shall always be on his forehead, that they may be accepted before the Lord.

727

Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it; he shall burn it every morning when he trims the lamps.

728

If what he stole is actually found alive in his possession, whether an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he shall pay double.

729

“They shall also make the ephod of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twisted linen, the work of the skillful workman.

730

It is a night to be observed for the Lord for having brought them out from the land of Egypt; this night is for the Lord, to be observed by all the sons of Israel throughout their generations.

731

The glory of the Lord rested on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days; and on the seventh day He called to Moses from the midst of the cloud.

732

“If a fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes, so that stacked grain or the standing grain or the field itself is consumed, he who started the fire shall surely make restitution.

733

For every breach of trust, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any lost thing about which one says, ‘This is it,’ the case of both parties shall come before the judges; he whom the judges condemn shall pay double to his neighbor.

734

Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, ‘With evil intent He brought them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your burning anger and change Your mind about doing harm to Your people.

735

Pharaoh’s chariots and his army He has cast into the sea;
And the choicest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.

736

For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the Lord.

737

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods; indeed, it was proven when they dealt proudly against the people.”

739

If a man gives his neighbor money or goods to keep for him and it is stolen from the man’s house, if the thief is caught, he shall pay double.

740

and unleavened bread and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil; you shall make them of fine wheat flour.

741

“You shall bring the very first of the first fruits of your soil into the house of the Lord your God.“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

742

You shall take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel,

743

“If a man lets a field or vineyard be grazed bare and lets his animal loose so that it grazes in another man’s field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.

744

Moreover, he made the laver of bronze with its base of bronze, from the mirrors of the serving women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

745

you shall devote to the Lord the first offspring of every womb, and the first offspring of every beast that you own; the males belong to the Lord.

746

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

747

The same law shall apply to the native as to the stranger who sojourns among you.”

748

You shall gird them with sashes, Aaron and his sons, and bind caps on them, and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute. So you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.

749

All the skillful men among those who were performing the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twisted linen and blue and purple and scarlet material, with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman, Bezalel made them.

750

Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the doorway of the tent of meeting and wash them with water.

751

But if you truly obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

752

But to the elders he said, “Wait here for us until we return to you. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you; whoever has a legal matter, let him approach them.”

753

No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether beast or man, he shall not live.’ When the ram’s horn sounds a long blast, they shall come up to the mountain.”

754

You shall not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the sabbath day.”

755

“Now when the Lord brings you to the land of the Canaanite, as He swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,

756

Its snuffers and their trays shall be of pure gold.

757

If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out alone.

758

Moses said, “This will happen when the Lord gives you meat to eat in the evening, and bread to the full in the morning; for the Lord hears your grumblings which you grumble against Him. And what are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against the Lord.”

759

and in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord, for He hears your grumblings against the Lord; and what are we, that you grumble against us?”

760

Aaron said to them, “Tear off the gold rings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”

761

Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord God.

762

and you shall slaughter the ram and shall take its blood and sprinkle it around on the altar.

763

“The deeps cover them;
They went down into the depths like a stone.

764

You shall make for them linen breeches to cover their bare flesh; they shall reach from the loins even to the thighs.

765

But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint you a place to which he may flee.

766

You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them;
They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

767

And to the eyes of the sons of Israel the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a consuming fire on the mountain top.

768

On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily.”

769

Moses spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which the Lord has commanded, saying,

770

Then Moses returned to the Lord, and said, “Alas, this people has committed a great sin, and they have made a god of gold for themselves.

771

“You shall weave the tunic of checkered work of fine linen, and shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash, the work of a weaver.

772

For throughout all their journeys, the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel.

773

So Moses came and called the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which the Lord had commanded him.

774

But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he did not let the people go.

775

Now when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the Lord.”

776

and he took six hundred select chariots, and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them.

777

and let them be ready for the third day, for on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

778

Moses alone, however, shall come near to the Lord, but they shall not come near, nor shall the people come up with him.”

779

The incense which you shall make, you shall not make in the same proportions for yourselves; it shall be holy to you for the Lord.

780

I will send an angel before you and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite.

781

Then he said to Him, “If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here.

782

It shall be on Aaron when he ministers; and its tinkling shall be heard when he enters and leaves the holy place before the Lord, so that he will not die.

783

For Pharaoh will say of the sons of Israel, ‘They are wandering aimlessly in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.’

784

But whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with Him, he would take off the veil until he came out; and whenever he came out and spoke to the sons of Israel what he had been commanded,

785

“And in the greatness of Your excellence You overthrow those who rise up against You;
You send forth Your burning anger, and it consumes them as chaff.

786

He took the calf which they had made and burned it with fire, and ground it to powder, and scattered it over the surface of the water and made the sons of Israel drink it.

787

You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony which I will give to you.

789

“For Aaron’s sons you shall make tunics; you shall also make sashes for them, and you shall make caps for them, for glory and for beauty.

790

otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they would play the harlot with their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone might invite you to eat of his sacrifice,

791

Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and nothing leavened shall be seen among you, nor shall any leaven be seen among you in all your borders.

792

Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought against Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

793

If its owner is with it, he shall not make restitution; if it is hired, it came for its hire.

794

and her two sons, of whom one was named Gershom, for Moses said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.”

795

He sent young men of the sons of Israel, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as peace offerings to the Lord.

796

For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that we, I and Your people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are upon the face of the earth?”

797

if he gets up and walks around outside on his staff, then he who struck him shall go unpunished; he shall only pay for his loss of time, and shall take care of him until he is completely healed.

799

But if the sun has risen on him, there will be bloodguiltiness on his account. He shall surely make restitution; if he owns nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

800

The other lamb you shall offer at twilight, and shall offer with it the same grain offering and the same drink offering as in the morning, for a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to the Lord.

801

You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the holy of holies.

802

If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He does not have authority to sell her to a foreign people because of his unfairness to her.

803

You shall make of these a holy anointing oil, a perfume mixture, the work of a perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil.

804

Then you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and shall consecrate it and all its furnishings; and it shall be holy.

805

You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south; and you shall put the table on the north side.

806

But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart, he and his servants.

807

“You shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.

808

Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

809

Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness where he was camped, at the mount of God.

810

You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; nor is the fat of My feast to remain overnight until morning.

811

Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and the other half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

812

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

813

Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “The thing that you are doing is not good.

814

So the sons of Levi did as Moses instructed, and about three thousand men of the people fell that day.

815

Or if it is known that the ox was previously in the habit of goring, yet its owner has not confined it, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal shall become his.

816

rams’ skins dyed red, porpoise skins, acacia wood,

817

Yet He did not stretch out His hand against the nobles of the sons of Israel; and they saw God, and they ate and drank.

818

If he comes alone, he shall go out alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall go out with him.

819

Everyone whose heart stirred him and everyone whose spirit moved him came and brought the Lord’s contribution for the work of the tent of meeting and for all its service and for the holy garments.

820

You will surely wear out, both yourself and these people who are with you, for the task is too heavy for you; you cannot do it alone.

821

He said, “If now I have found favor in Your sight, O Lord, I pray, let the Lord go along in our midst, even though the people are so obstinate, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your own possession.”

822

For the gate of the court there shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twisted linen, the work of a weaver, with their four pillars and their four sockets.

824

You shall put them on Aaron your brother and on his sons with him; and you shall anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, that they may serve Me as priests.

825

In the tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the Lord; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout their generations for the sons of Israel.

826

and you might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might play the harlot with their gods and cause your sons also to play the harlot with their gods.

827

“Then you shall make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright.

828

They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. They have made for themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it and have sacrificed to it and said, ‘This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!’”

829

“You shall also make a laver of bronze, with its base of bronze, for washing; and you shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.

830

So Moses arose with Joshua his servant, and Moses went up to the mountain of God.

831

The cherubim shall have their wings spread upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings and facing one another; the faces of the cherubim are to be turned toward the mercy seat.

832

Then all the sons of Israel did so; they did just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.

833

Moses made haste to bow low toward the earth and worship.

834

For seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it; then the altar shall be most holy, and whatever touches the altar shall be holy.

835

You shall offer up in smoke the whole ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to the Lord: it is a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to the Lord.

836

You shall redeem with a lamb the first offspring from a donkey; and if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem all the firstborn of your sons. None shall appear before Me empty-handed.

837

a beka a head (that is, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary), for each one who passed over to those who were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for 603,550 men.

838

Then Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you, that you have brought such great sin upon them?”

839

And He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding and in knowledge and in all craftsmanship;

840

Take from among you a contribution to the Lord; whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it as the Lord’s contribution: gold, silver, and bronze,

841

So he cut out two stone tablets like the former ones, and Moses rose up early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and he took two stone tablets in his hand.

842

If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters.

843

So the sons of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward.

845

It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the doorway of the tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will meet with you, to speak to you there.

846

When Aaron trims the lamps at twilight, he shall burn incense. There shall be perpetual incense before the Lord throughout your generations.

847

Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardship that had befallen them on the journey, and how the Lord had delivered them.

848

You shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and out you shall overlay it, and you shall make a gold molding around it.

849

Then the Lord said, “Behold, there is a place by Me, and you shall stand there on the rock;

850

You shall make a screen for the doorway of the tent of blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twisted linen, the work of a weaver.

851

The one lamb you shall offer in the morning and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight;

852

So he made his chariot ready and took his people with him;

853

Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting was completed; and the sons of Israel did according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses; so they did.

854

Whoever shall make any like it, to use as perfume, shall be cut off from his people.”

855

He has filled them with skill to perform every work of an engraver and of a designer and of an embroiderer, in blue and in purple and in scarlet material, and in fine linen, and of a weaver, as performers of every work and makers of designs.

856

And behold, I Myself have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all who are skillful I have put skill, that they may make all that I have commanded you:

857

With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,

858

You shall not offer any strange incense on this altar, or burnt offering or meal offering; and you shall not pour out a drink offering on it.

859

oil for lighting, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,

860

“You shall also take the fat from the ram and the fat tail, and the fat that covers the entrails and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them and the right thigh (for it is a ram of ordination),

861

Then he took the testimony and put it into the ark, and attached the poles to the ark, and put the mercy seat on top of the ark.

862

Then he made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of hammered work, its base and its shaft; its cups, its bulbs and its flowers were of one piece with it.

863

Then you shall take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and on his garments and on his sons and on his sons’ garments with him; so he and his garments shall be consecrated, as well as his sons and his sons’ garments with him.

864

You shall put the two stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, as stones of memorial for the sons of Israel, and Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord on his two shoulders for a memorial.

865

On the first day of the first month you shall set up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

866

So Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

867

You shall make five pillars of acacia for the screen and overlay them with gold, their hooks also being of gold; and you shall cast five sockets of bronze for them.

868

Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

869

and you shall anoint them even as you have anointed their father, that they may minister as priests to Me; and their anointing will qualify them for a perpetual priesthood throughout their generations.”

870

Then Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every skillful person in whom the Lord had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him, to come to the work to perform it.

871

“If a man gives his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep for him, and it dies or is hurt or is driven away while no one is looking,

872

You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread, nor is the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover to be left over until morning.

873

For the Lord had said to Moses, “Say to the sons of Israel, ‘You are an obstinate people; should I go up in your midst for one moment, I would destroy you. Now therefore, put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what I shall do with you.’”

874

Now in the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was erected.

875

Now when Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit as judge and all the people stand about you from morning until evening?”

876

You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.

877

But the wheat and the spelt were not ruined, for they ripen late.)

878

So Moses and Aaron said to all the sons of Israel, “At evening you will know that the Lord has brought you out of the land of Egypt;

879

The Israelites, all the men and women, whose heart moved them to bring material for all the work, which the Lord had commanded through Moses to be done, brought a freewill offering to the Lord.

880

So Jethro said, “Blessed be the Lord who delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of Pharaoh, and who delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

881

“If a man borrows anything from his neighbor, and it is injured or dies while its owner is not with it, he shall make full restitution.

882

You shall cast four gold rings for it and fasten them on its four feet, and two rings shall be on one side of it and two rings on the other side of it.

883

The skillfully woven band, which is on it, shall be like its workmanship, of the same material: of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twisted linen.

884

Then all whose hearts moved them, both men and women, came and brought brooches and earrings and signet rings and bracelets, all articles of gold; so did every man who presented an offering of gold to the Lord.

885

As a jeweler engraves a signet, you shall engrave the two stones according to the names of the sons of Israel; you shall set them in filigree settings of gold.

886

You stretched out Your right hand,
The earth swallowed them.

887

The silver of those of the congregation who were numbered was 100 talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary;

888

and the fourth row a beryl and an onyx and a jasper; they shall be set in gold filigree.

889

Then Moses said to Aaron, “Say to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, ‘Come near before the Lord, for He has heard your grumblings.’”

890

Then Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and he bowed down and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare and went into the tent.

891

You shall take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.

892

So the sons of Israel did all the work according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses.

893

A sojourner or a hired servant shall not eat of it.

894

I will meet there with the sons of Israel, and it shall be consecrated by My glory.

895

You shall fasten it on a blue cord, and it shall be on the turban; it shall be at the front of the turban.

896

So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to the Lord; and the thunder and the hail ceased, and rain no longer poured on the earth.

897

Jethro rejoiced over all the goodness which the Lord had done to Israel, in delivering them from the hand of the Egyptians.

898

Now when Joshua heard the sound of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is a sound of war in the camp.”

899

When they have a dispute, it comes to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor and make known the statutes of God and His laws.”

900

When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.

901

You shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red and a covering of porpoise skins above.

902

“Then you shall bring the bull before the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.

903

“Then you shall make curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; you shall make eleven curtains in all.

904

So when Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.

905

The rich shall not pay more and the poor shall not pay less than the half shekel, when you give the contribution to the Lord to make atonement for yourselves.

906

an oath before the Lord shall be made by the two of them that he has not laid hands on his neighbor’s property; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.

907

You shall put this altar in front of the veil that is near the ark of the testimony, in front of the mercy seat that is over the ark of the testimony, where I will meet with you.

908

This is the contribution which you are to raise from them: gold, silver and bronze,

909

But the flesh of the bull and its hide and its refuse, you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

910

Its length shall be a cubit, and its width a cubit, it shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits; its horns shall be of one piece with it.

911

If he will not do these three things for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.

912

All the skilled women spun with their hands, and brought what they had spun, in blue and purple and scarlet material and in fine linen.

913

You shall take all the fat that covers the entrails and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and offer them up in smoke on the altar.

914

It shall be made from a talent of pure gold, with all these utensils.

915

You shall consecrate the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering which was waved and which was offered from the ram of ordination, from the one which was for Aaron and from the one which was for his sons.

917

The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, that in them they may be anointed and ordained.

918

Let every skillful man among you come, and make all that the Lord has commanded:

919

For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no man shall covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the Lord your God.

920

They shall be on Aaron and on his sons when they enter the tent of meeting, or when they approach the altar to minister in the holy place, so that they do not incur guilt and die. It shall be a statute forever to him and to his descendants after him.

921

and you shall set the turban on his head and put the holy crown on the turban.

922

Then all the people tore off the gold rings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.

923

Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

924

Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he did not let the sons of Israel go, just as the Lord had spoken through Moses.

925

The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains shall have the same measurements.

926

You shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the tunic and the robe of the ephod and the ephod and the breastpiece, and gird him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod;

927

You shall take the atonement money from the sons of Israel and shall give it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may be a memorial for the sons of Israel before the Lord, to make atonement for yourselves.”

928

Then Moses said, “Dedicate yourselves today to the Lord—for every man has been against his son and against his brother—in order that He may bestow a blessing upon you today.”

929

The stones shall be according to the names of the sons of Israel: twelve, according to their names; they shall be like the engravings of a seal, each according to his name for the twelve tribes.

930

You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark with them.

931

You shall make for yourself no molten gods.

932

and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire and a diamond;

933

You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set, and likewise you shall make them on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second set.

934

Then he made the altar of incense of acacia wood: a cubit long and a cubit wide, square, and two cubits high; its horns were of one piece with it.

935

He sent word to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons with her.”

936

and its pillars shall be twenty, with their twenty sockets of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be of silver.

937

Then all the congregation of the sons of Israel departed from Moses’ presence.

938

And Moses examined all the work and behold, they had done it; just as the Lord had commanded, this they had done. So Moses blessed them.

939

I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them tear it off.’ So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”

940

but every man’s slave purchased with money, after you have circumcised him, then he may eat of it.

941

and of cassia five hundred, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin.

942

You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and join the curtains to one another with the clasps so that the tabernacle will be a unit.

943

The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be removed from it.

944

But he said,
“It is not the sound of the cry of triumph,
Nor is it the sound of the cry of defeat;
But the sound of singing I hear.”

945

But if it is actually stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner.

946

Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the doorway of the tent of meeting and wash them with water.

947

You shall make its pails for removing its ashes, and its shovels and its basins and its forks and its firepans; you shall make all its utensils of bronze.

948

the woven garments for ministering in the holy place and the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, to minister as priests.

949

when they enter the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, so that they will not die; or when they approach the altar to minister, by offering up in smoke a fire sacrifice to the Lord.

950

And he made the holy anointing oil and the pure, fragrant incense of spices, the work of a perfumer.

951

You shall make two rings of gold and shall place them on the two ends of the breastpiece, on the edge of it, which is toward the inner side of the ephod.

952

Throughout all their journeys whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the sons of Israel would set out;

953

From it Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet.

954

He spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent on top of it, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

955

He made the ephod of gold, and of blue and purple and scarlet material, and fine twisted linen.

956

and the third row a jacinth, an agate and an amethyst;

957

And on that same day the Lord brought the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.

958

He made the breastpiece, the work of a skillful workman, like the workmanship of the ephod: of gold and of blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twisted linen.

959

“Then you shall take the breast of Aaron’s ram of ordination, and wave it as a wave offering before the Lord; and it shall be your portion.

960

and they said to Moses, “The people are bringing much more than enough for the construction work which the Lord commanded us to perform.”

961

Then he made the court: for the south side the hangings of the court were of fine twisted linen, one hundred cubits;

962

Make one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end; you shall make the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at its two ends.

963

He also has put in his heart to teach, both he and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.

964

It shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever from the sons of Israel, for it is a heave offering; and it shall be a heave offering from the sons of Israel from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their heave offering to the Lord.

965

You shall make for it a grating of network of bronze, and on the net you shall make four bronze rings at its four corners.

966

Aaron said, “Do not let the anger of my lord burn; you know the people yourself, that they are prone to evil.

967

You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

968

You shall put the holy garments on Aaron and anoint him and consecrate him, that he may minister as a priest to Me.

969

When all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people would arise and worship, each at the entrance of his tent.

970

The first offspring from every womb belongs to Me, and all your male livestock, the first offspring from cattle and sheep.

971

So be ready by morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to Me on the top of the mountain.

972

Everyone who is numbered, from twenty years old and over, shall give the contribution to the Lord.

973

All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the wave offering, was 29 talents and 730 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.

974

He made a rim for it of a handbreadth all around, and made a gold molding for its rim all around.

975

When the people heard this sad word, they went into mourning, and none of them put on his ornaments.

976

If it is all torn to pieces, let him bring it as evidence; he shall not make restitution for what has been torn to pieces.

977

and you shall put all these in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons, and shall wave them as a wave offering before the Lord.

978

Then he made the table of acacia wood, two cubits long and a cubit wide and one and a half cubits high.

979

Thus Moses did; according to all that the Lord had commanded him, so he did.

980

You shall also consecrate them, that they may be most holy; whatever touches them shall be holy.

981

You shall slaughter the ram, and take some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear and on the lobes of his sons’ right ears and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet, and sprinkle the rest of the blood around on the altar.

982

They shall know that I am the Lord their God who brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them; I am the Lord their God.

983

and the turban of fine linen, and the decorated caps of fine linen, and the linen breeches of fine twisted linen,

984

You shall make it hollow with planks; as it was shown to you in the mountain, so they shall make it.

985

Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet from it;

986

With him was Oholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and a skillful workman and a weaver in blue and in purple and in scarlet material, and fine linen.

987

So they shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they will not die; and it shall be a perpetual statute for them, for Aaron and his descendants throughout their generations.”

988

For the rear of the tabernacle, to the west, you shall make six boards.

989

He erected the court all around the tabernacle and the altar, and hung up the veil for the gateway of the court. Thus Moses finished the work.

990

three cups shaped like almond blossoms, a bulb and a flower in one branch, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms, a bulb and a flower in the other branch—so for the six branches going out of the lampstand.

991

For the width of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits with their ten pillars and their ten sockets.

992

You shall make for it a rim of a handbreadth around it; and you shall make a gold border for the rim around it.

993

All the women whose heart stirred with a skill spun the goats’ hair.

994

onyx stones and setting stones for the ephod and for the breastpiece.

995

the woven garments as well, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, with which to carry on their priesthood;

996

For the material they had was sufficient and more than enough for all the work, to perform it.

997

and the sash of fine twisted linen, and blue and purple and scarlet material, the work of the weaver, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

998

six of their names on the one stone and the names of the remaining six on the other stone, according to their birth.

999

and one cake of bread and one cake of bread mixed with oil and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread which is set before the Lord;

1000

They shall take the gold and the blue and the purple and the scarlet material and the fine linen.