For every woman will get from her neighbour and from the woman living in her house, ornaments of silver and gold, and clothing; and you will put them on your sons and your daughters; you will take the best of their goods from the Egyptians.

And the Lord was angry with Moses, and said, Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? To my knowledge he is good at talking. And now he is coming out to you: and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart.

And Moses said, When I go out from you I will make prayer to the Lord that the cloud of flies may go away from Pharaoh and from his people and from his servants tomorrow: only let Pharaoh no longer by deceit keep back the people from making their offering to the Lord.

And the Lord did as Moses said, and took away the cloud of flies from Pharaoh and from his servants and from his people; not one was to be seen.

So go now and give orders to the people that every man and every woman is to get from his or her neighbour ornaments of silver and of gold.

And the children of Israel had done as Moses had said; and they got from the Egyptians ornaments of silver and of gold, and clothing:

And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, guiding them on their way; and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light: so that they were able to go on day and night:

The pillar of cloud went ever before them by day, and the pillar of fire by night.

Then the angel of God, who had been before the tents of Israel, took his place at their back; and the pillar of cloud, moving from before them, came to rest at their back:

And it came between the army of Egypt and the army of Israel; and there was a dark cloud between them, and they went on through the night; but the one army came no nearer to the other all the night.

And in the morning watch, the Lord, looking out on the armies of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, sent trouble on the army of the Egyptians;

And while Aaron was talking to the children of Israel, their eyes were turned in the direction of the waste land, and they saw the glory of the Lord shining in the cloud.

And Jethro was glad because the Lord had been good to Israel, freeing them from the power of the Egyptians.

And the Lord said to Moses, See, I will come to you in a thick cloud, so that what I say to you may come to the ears of the people and they may have belief in you for ever. And Moses gave the Lord word of what the people had said.

And when morning came on the third day, there were thunders and flames and a thick cloud on the mountain, and a horn sounding very loud; and all the people in the tents were shaking with fear.

And the people kept their places far off, but Moses went near to the dark cloud where God was.

Gods of silver and gods of gold you are not to make for yourselves.

And Moses went up into the mountain, and it was covered by the cloud.

And the glory of the Lord was resting on Mount Sinai, and the cloud was over it for six days; and on the seventh day he said Moses' name out of the cloud.

And Moses went up the mountain, into the cloud, and was there for forty days and forty nights.

And this is the offering you are to take from them: gold and silver and brass;

It is to be plated inside and out with the best gold, with an edge of gold all round it

And make four rings of gold for it, to be fixed on its four feet, two rings on one side of it and two on the other.

And make rods of the same wood, plating them with gold.

And you are to make a cover of the best gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

And at the two ends of the cover you are to make two winged ones of hammered gold,

Plated with the best gold, with a gold edge all round it;

And make a frame all round it, as wide as a man's hand, with a gold edge to the frame.

And make four gold rings and put them at the four angles, on the four feet of the table;

Make rods of the same wood, plated with gold, for lifting the table.

And make the table-vessels, the spoons and the cups and the basins for liquids, all of the best gold.

And you are to make a support for lights, of the best gold; its base and its pillar are to be of hammered gold; its cups, its buds, and its flowers are to be made of the same metal.

The buds and the branches are to be made of the same metal; all together one complete work of hammered gold.

And the instruments and trays for use with it are all to be of the best gold.

A talent of gold will be needed for it, with all these vessels.

Then make fifty gold hooks, joining the curtains together by the hooks, and in this way the House will be made.

And the boards are to be plated with gold, having gold rings for the rods to go through: and the rods are to be plated with gold.

Hanging it by gold hooks from four pillars of wood, plated with gold and fixed in silver bases.

And make five pillars for the curtain, of hard wood plated with gold; their hooks are to be of gold and their bases of brass

They are to take the gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen,

And make the ephod of gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen, the work of a designer.

And the beautifully worked band, which goes on it, is to be of the same work and the same material, of gold and blue and purple and red and twisted linen-work.

With the work of a jeweller, like the cutting of a stamp, the names of the children of Israel are to be cut on them, and they are to be fixed in twisted frames of gold.

And you are to make twisted frames of gold;

And two chains of the best gold, twisted like cords; and have the chains fixed on to the frames.

And make a priest's bag for giving decisions, designed like the ephod, made of gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen.

The fourth, a topaz, a beryl, and a jasper; they are to be fixed in twisted frames of gold.

And you are to make two chains of gold, twisted like cords, to be fixed to the priest's bag.

And put two gold rings on the two ends of the bag.

Put the two gold chains on the two rings at the ends of the bag;

Joining the other ends of the chains to the gold frames and putting them on the front of the ephod, at the top of the arms.

Then make two gold rings and put them on the lower ends of the bag, at the edge of it on the inner side nearest to the ephod.

And make two more gold rings and put them on the front of the ephod at the top of the arms, at the join, over the worked band:

And round the skirts of it put fruits in blue and purple and red, with bells of gold between;

A gold bell and a fruit in turn all round the skirts of the robe.

You are to make a plate of the best gold, cutting on it, as on a stamp, these words: HOLY TO THE LORD.

It is to be plated with the best gold, the top of it and the sides and the horns, with an edging of gold all round it.

Under the edge on the two opposite sides, you are to make two gold rings, to take the rods for lifting it.

And make these rods of the same wood, plating them with gold.

To do all sorts of delicate work in gold and silver and brass;

Then Aaron said to them, Take off the gold rings which are in the ears of your wives and your sons and your daughters, and give them to me.

And all the people took the gold rings from their ears and gave them to Aaron.

And he took the gold from them and, hammering it with an instrument, he made it into the metal image of a young ox: and they said, This is your god, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.

Then I said to them, Whoever has any gold, let him take it off; so they gave it to me, and I put it in the fire, and this image of an ox came out.

Then Moses went back to the Lord and said, This people has done a great sin, making themselves a god of gold;

And whenever Moses went into the Tent, the pillar of cloud came down, and took its place by the door of the Tent, as long as the Lord was talking with Moses.

And all the people saw the cloud at the door of the Tent, and they went down on their faces, everyone at the door of his tent.

And the Lord came down in the cloud and took his place by the side of Moses, and Moses gave worship to the name of the Lord.

Take from among you an offering to the Lord; everyone who has the impulse in his heart, let him give his offering to the Lord; gold and silver and brass;

They came, men and women, all who were ready to give, and gave pins and nose-rings and finger-rings and neck-ornaments, all of gold; everyone gave an offering of gold to the Lord.

As an expert designer of beautiful things, working in gold and silver and brass;

And they made fifty hooks of gold, joining the curtains one to another with the hooks; and so the House was made.

All the boards were plated with gold, and the rings through which the rods went were of gold, and the rods were plated with gold.

And they made four pillars for it of hard wood plated with gold: they had hooks of gold and four silver bases.

And five pillars for the curtain, with their hooks; the heads of the pillars were of gold and they were circled with bands of gold; and their five bases were of brass.

Plating it inside and out with the best gold, and putting an edge of gold all round it.

And he made four gold rings for its four angles, two on one side and two on the other,

And rods of the same wood plated with gold.

And he made the cover all of gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

And he made two winged ones, hammered out of one bit of gold, for the two ends of the cover;

Plating it with the best gold and putting a gold edge all round it.

And he made a frame all round it about as wide as a man's hand, edged with gold all round.

And he made four gold rings, and put the rings at the angles of its four feet.

The rods for lifting the table he made of hard wood plated with gold.

And all the table-vessels, the plates and spoons and basins and the cups for liquids, he made of the best gold.

Then he made the support for the lights, all of the best gold; its base and its pillar were of hammered gold; its cups and buds and flowers were all made out of the same metal:

The buds and the branches were made of the same metal, all together one complete work of the best hammered gold.

And he made the seven vessels for the lights, and all the necessary instruments for it, of gold.

A talent of the best gold was used for the making of it and its vessels.

The top and the sides and the horns were all plated with the best gold; and he put an edge of gold all round it.

And he made two gold rings, placing them on the two opposite sides under the edge, to take the rods for lifting it.

The rods he made of the same hard wood, plating them with gold.

The gold used for all the different work done for the holy place, the gold which was given, was twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels in weight, by the scale of the holy place.

The ephod he made of gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen;

Hammering the gold into thin plates and cutting it into wires to be worked into the blue and the purple and the red and the linen by the designer.

And the beautifully worked band which went on it was of the same design and the same material, worked in gold and blue and purple and red and twisted linen-work, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

Then they made the beryl stones, fixed in twisted frames of gold and cut like the cutting of a stamp, with the names of the children of Israel.

The priest's bag was designed like the ephod, of the best linen worked with gold and blue and purple and red.

In the fourth, a topaz, a beryl, and a jasper; they were fixed in twisted frames of gold.

And on the bag they put gold chains, twisted like cords.