Every woman will ask her neighbor and the one who happens to be staying in her house for items of silver and gold and for clothing. You will put these articles on your sons and daughters -- thus you will plunder Egypt!"

Then the Lord became angry with Moses, and he said, "What about your brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he can speak very well. Moreover, he is coming to meet you, and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart.

When the fish that were in the Nile died, the Nile began to stink, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood everywhere in the land of Egypt!

All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water of the Nile.

When the magicians attempted to bring forth gnats by their secret arts, they could not. So there were gnats on people and on animals.

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

For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with plague, and you would have been destroyed from the earth.

No one could see another person, and no one could rise from his place for three days. But the Israelites had light in the places where they lived.

Instruct the people that each man and each woman is to request from his or her neighbor items of silver and gold."

Now the Israelites had done as Moses told them -- they had requested from the Egyptians silver and gold items and clothing.

They baked cakes of bread without yeast using the dough they had brought from Egypt, for it was made without yeast -- because they were thrust out of Egypt and were not able to delay, they could not prepare food for themselves either.

Now the Lord was going before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them in the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel day or night.

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

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

It came between the Egyptian camp and the Israelite camp; it was a dark cloud and it lit up the night so that one camp did not come near the other the whole night.

In the morning watch the Lord looked down on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and cloud, and he threw the Egyptian army into a panic.

As Aaron spoke to the whole community of the Israelites and they looked toward the desert, there the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud,

When they measured with an omer, the one who gathered much had nothing left over, and the one who gathered little lacked nothing; each one had gathered what he could eat.

So they gathered it each morning, each person according to what he could eat, and when the sun got hot, it would melt.

The Lord said to Moses, "I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people may hear when I speak with you and so that they will always believe in you." And Moses told the words of the people to the Lord.

On the third day in the morning there was thunder and lightning and a dense cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a very loud horn; all the people who were in the camp trembled.

You must not make gods of silver alongside me, nor make gods of gold for yourselves.

"If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guilt for him.

If the sun has risen on him, then there is blood guilt for him. A thief must surely make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he will be sold for his theft.

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

The glory of the Lord resided on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day he called to Moses from within the cloud.

Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

This is the offering you are to accept from them: gold, silver, bronze,

You are to overlay it with pure gold -- both inside and outside you must overlay it, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold over it.

You are to cast four gold rings for it and put them on its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other side.

You are to make poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold,

"You are to make an atonement lid of pure gold; its length is to be three feet nine inches, and its width is to be two feet three inches.

You are to make two cherubim of gold; you are to make them of hammered metal on the two ends of the atonement lid.

You are to overlay it with pure gold, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold for it.

You are to make a surrounding frame for it about three inches broad, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold for its frame.

You are to make four rings of gold for it and attach the rings at the four corners where its four legs are.

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

You are to make its plates, its ladles, its pitchers, and its bowls, to be used in pouring out offerings; you are to make them of pure gold.

"You are to make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand is to be made of hammered metal; its base and its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its blossoms are to be from the same piece.

Their buds and their branches will be one piece, all of it one hammered piece of pure gold.

Its trimmers and its trays are to be of pure gold.

About seventy-five pounds of pure gold is to be used for it and for all these utensils.

You are to make fifty gold clasps and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle is a unit.

You are to overlay the frames with gold and make their rings of gold to provide places for the bars, and you are to overlay the bars with gold.

You are to hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold, set in four silver bases.

You are to make for the hanging five posts of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and their hooks will be gold, and you are to cast five bronze bases for them.

The artisans are to use the gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine linen.

"They are to make the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen, the work of an artistic designer.

The artistically woven waistband of the ephod that is on it is to be like it, of one piece with the ephod, of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen.

You are to engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel with the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a seal; you are to have them set in gold filigree settings.

You are to make filigree settings of gold

and two braided chains of pure gold, like a cord, and attach the chains to the settings.

"You are to make a breastpiece for use in making decisions, the work of an artistic designer; you are to make it in the same fashion as the ephod; you are to make it of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen.

and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They are to be enclosed in gold in their filigree settings.

"You are to make for the breastpiece braided chains like cords of pure gold,

and you are to make for the breastpiece two gold rings and attach the two rings to the upper two ends of the breastpiece.

You are to attach the two gold chains to the two rings at the ends of the breastpiece;

You are to make two rings of gold and put them on the other two ends of the breastpiece, on its edge that is on the inner side of the ephod.

You are to make two more gold rings and attach them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces on the front of the ephod, close to the juncture above the waistband of the ephod.

You are to make pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet all around its hem and bells of gold between them all around.

The pattern is to be a gold bell and a pomegranate, a gold bell and a pomegranate, all around the hem of the robe.

"You are to make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it the way a seal is engraved: "Holiness to the Lord."

You are to overlay it with pure gold -- its top, its four walls, and its horns -- and make a surrounding border of gold for it.

You are to make two gold rings for it under its border, on its two flanks; you are to make them on its two sides. The rings will be places for poles to carry it with.

You are to make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

to make artistic designs for work with gold, with silver, and with bronze,

So Aaron said to them, "Break off the gold earrings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me."

So all the people broke off the gold earrings that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron.

He accepted the gold from them, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molten calf. Then they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt."

So I said to them, 'Whoever has gold, break it off.' So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out."

So Moses returned to the Lord and said, "Alas, this people has committed a very serious sin, and they have made for themselves gods of gold.

And 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.

When all the people would see the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people, each one at the entrance of his own tent, would rise and worship.

The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the Lord by name.

Take an offering for the Lord. Let everyone who has a willing heart bring an offering to the Lord: gold, silver, bronze,

They came, men and women alike, all who had willing hearts. They brought brooches, earrings, rings and ornaments, all kinds of gold jewelry, and everyone came who waved a wave offering of gold to the Lord.

to design artistic designs, to work in gold, in silver, and in bronze,

He made fifty gold clasps and joined the curtains together to one another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle was a unit.

He overlaid the frames with gold and made their rings of gold to provide places for the bars, and he overlaid the bars with gold.

He made for it four posts of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold, with gold hooks, and he cast for them four silver bases.

and its five posts and their hooks. He overlaid their tops and their bands with gold, but their five bases were bronze.

He overlaid it with pure gold, inside and out, and he made a surrounding border of gold for it.

He cast four gold rings for it that he put on its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other side.

He made poles of acacia wood, overlaid them with gold,

He made an atonement lid of pure gold; its length was three feet nine inches, and its width was two feet three inches.

He made two cherubim of gold; he made them of hammered metal on the two ends of the atonement lid,

He overlaid it with pure gold, and he made a surrounding border of gold for it.

He made a surrounding frame for it about three inches wide, and he made a surrounding border of gold for its frame.

He cast four gold rings for it and attached the rings at the four corners where its four legs were.

He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table.

He made the vessels which were on the table out of pure gold, its plates, its ladles, its pitchers, and its bowls, to be used in pouring out offerings.

He made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of hammered metal; its base and its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its blossoms were from the same piece.

Their buds and their branches were of one piece; all of it was one hammered piece of pure gold.

He made its seven lamps, its trimmers, and its trays of pure gold.

He made the lampstand and all its accessories with seventy-five pounds of pure gold.

He overlaid it with pure gold -- its top, its four walls, and its horns -- and he made a surrounding border of gold for it.

He also made two gold rings for it under its border, on its two sides, on opposite sides, as places for poles to carry it with.

He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.

All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary (namely, the gold of the wave offering) was twenty-nine talents and 730 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen.