"The elders of Israel will listen to you, and then you and they are to go to the king of Egypt and say to him, "The LORD God of the Hebrews has met with us. Now, let us take a three-day journey into the desert to sacrifice to the LORD our God.'

Then the LORD was angry with Moses and said, "There's your brother Aaron, a descendant of Levi, isn't there? I know that he certainly is eloquent. Right now he's coming to meet you and he will be pleased to see you.

But later on, at the lodging place along the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him.

The LORD told Aaron, "Go meet Moses in the desert." So Aaron went, found him at the mountain of God, and embraced him.

Then they said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a three-day journey into the desert to offer sacrifices to the LORD our God so he does not strike us with pestilence or sword."

As they left Pharaoh's presence, they met Moses and Aaron standing there.

The supervisors told them, "May the LORD look on you and judge you! You have made us repulsive to Pharaoh and his servants. You have put a sword in their hands to kill us."

Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he's going down to the water. Stand on the bank of the Nile River and meet him. Be sure to take with you the staff that was turned into a snake.

The LORD made Pharaoh's heart stubborn so that he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had told Moses.

Whoever feared the message from the LORD among Pharaoh's officials made his servants and livestock flee into shelters.

But the LORD made Pharaoh's heart stubborn and he would not let the Israelis go.

The LORD made Pharaoh's heart stubborn, and he did not want to let them go.

The LORD made the Egyptians look on the people with favor. Also the man Moses was highly regarded in the land of Egypt, both in the opinion of Pharaoh's officials and in the opinion of the people.

Moses and Aaron did all these wonders in front of Pharaoh, but the LORD made Pharaoh's heart stubborn, and he would not let the Israelis go out from his land.

That very night they're to eat the meat, roasted over the fire, with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

It is to be eaten in one house, and you are not to take any of the meat outside the house, nor are you to break any of its bones.

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, because Joseph had made the Israelis take this solemn oath: "God will certainly take notice of you, and then you must carry my bones up with you from here."

I've made Pharaoh's heart stubborn so he will pursue them. But I'll receive honor by means of Pharaoh and his army, so that the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD." So this is what the Israelis did.

The LORD made the heart of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, stubborn, and he defiantly pursued the Israelis as they were leaving.

He made the wheels of their chariots wobble so that they drove them with difficulty. The Egyptians said, "Let's flee from Israel because the LORD is fighting for them and against us."

"You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of your inheritance. You have made a place where you will reside, LORD. Your own hands have established a sanctuary, LORD.

Moses also said, "When the LORD gives you meat to eat in the evening, and bread in the morning to satisfy you, the LORD will hear your complaints directed against him. Who are we? Your complaints aren't against us, but rather against the LORD."

"I've heard the complaints of the Israelis. Tell them, "At twilight you are to eat meat and in the morning you are to be filled with bread, so you may know that I am the LORD your God.'"

The Israelis named it "manna". It was white like coriander seed, and tasted like a wafer made with honey.

When Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, he bowed low and kissed him, and they greeted one another. Then they went into the tent.

Moses brought the people from the camp to meet God, and they stood at the base of the mountain.

because the LORD made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them in six days. Then he rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, "This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD made with you based on all these words."

and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky.

I'll meet with you there, and I'll tell you all my commandments for the Israelis from above the Mercy Seat, from between the two cherubim that are on the Ark of the Testimony."

Their calyxes and their branches are to be of one piece with it; all of it is to be made of one piece of hammered work of pure gold.

The lamp stand together with all its furnishings is to be made from a talent of pure gold.

It is to have 20 pillars, with 20 bronze sockets, and the hooks of the pillars and their bands are to be made of silver.

Likewise for the length of the north side there are to be hangings 100 cubits long, and it is to have 20 pillars with 20 bronze sockets, and the hooks of the pillars and their bands are to be made of silver.

All the pillars around the court are to be banded with silver. Their hooks are to be made of silver and their sockets made of bronze.

All the utensils of the tent for its service, all its pegs, and all the pegs for the court are to be made of bronze."

The skillfully woven band that is on it is to be made like it, that is, of one piece with it, of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet material, and fine woven linen.

"You are to make a breast piece to be worn by the high priest when he makes legal decisions. It is to be skillfully worked, made like the work of the ephod from gold, blue, purple, and scarlet material, and from fine woven linen.

They shall eat these things by which atonement was made at their ordination to consecrate them, but an unqualified person is not to eat because these things are holy.

It is to be a regular burnt offering throughout your generations at the doorway to the Tent of Meeting in the LORD's presence, where I'll meet with you to speak to you there.

I'll meet there with the Israelis, and it is to be consecrated bymy glory.

You are to put the altar in front of the curtain that is over the Ark of the Testimony, in front of the Mercy Seat that is over the Testimony where I'll meet with you.

You are to make them into a holy anointing oil, a perfume mixture made by a perfumer. It is to be a holy anointing oil.

You are to grind some of it fine, and put some before the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting where I will meet with you. It is to be most holy to you.

It is a sign forever between me and the Israelis, because the LORD made the heavens and the earth in six days, but on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.'"

They have been quick to turn aside from the way I commanded them, and they have made for themselves a molten calf. They have bowed down to it in worship, they have offered sacrifices to it, and they have said, "This, Israel, is your god who brought you out of the land of Egypt.'"

He took the calf that they had made, burned it with fire, and ground it into powder. He scattered it on the water and made the Israelis drink it.

Then the LORD sent a plague on the people because they made the calf (the one Aaron made).

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey, but I won't go up among you, because you are an obstinate people, and otherwise I might consume you along the way."

All the skilled craftsmen among the workers made the tent with ten curtains of fine woven linen, blue, purple, and scarlet material. He made them with cherubim skillfully worked into them.

He made loops of blue material along the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set, and likewise, he made loops along the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set.

He made 50 loops in the one curtain, and he made 50 loops along the edge of the curtain that is in the second set, with the loops opposite each other.

Then he made 50 gold clasps, and joined the curtains to each other with the clasps so the tent was one piece.

He made curtains of goat hair for a tent over the tent; he made 11 curtains.

He made 50 loops along the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set, and 50 loops along the edge of the curtain of the other set.

He made 50 bronze clasps to join the tent together so it would be one piece.

Then he made a cover for the tent of ram skins dyed red and a covering of dolphin skins above that.

Then he made upright boards of acacia wood for the tent.

He made the boards for the tent: 20 boards for the south side.

He made 40 silver sockets under the 20 boards: two sockets under one board for its two pegs and two sockets under the next board for its two pegs.

For the second side of the tent to the north he made 20 boards,

For the rear of the tent on the west he made six boards,

and he made two boards for the rear corners of the tent.

Then he made bars of acacia wood, five for the boards on one side of the tent,

He made the middle bar in the center of the boards pass through from end to end.

He overlaid the boards with gold, and made gold rings for them as holders for the bars, and he overlaid the bars with gold.

He made a curtain of blue, purple, and scarlet material, and fine woven linen. He made it with cherubim skillfully worked into it.

He made four pillars of acacia for it and overlaid them with gold, along with their gold hooks, and he cast four silver sockets for them.

For the doorway of the tent, he made a screen of blue, purple, and scarlet material and fine woven linen, the work of an embroiderer,

and five pillars of acacia along with their hooks. He overlaid their tops and their bands with gold. Their five sockets were made of bronze.

Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood two and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high.

He overlaid it with pure gold, inside and outside, and made a gold molding around it.

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

He made a Mercy Seat of pure gold two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

He made two cherubim of gold; he made them of hammered work at the two ends of the Mercy Seat.

One cherub was at one end and one cherub at the other end. He made the cherubim at the two ends of the Mercy Seat and of one piece with it.

Then he made a table of acacia wood two cubits long, one cubit wide, and one and a half cubits high.

He made a rim one handbreadth wide around it, and made a gold molding around the rim.

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

He made the utensils which were on the table, its plates, dishes, bowls, and jars out of which libations are poured. He made them of pure gold.

He made the lamp stand of pure gold. He made the lamp stand, its base, and stem of hammered work and its cups, calyxes, and flowers were of one piece with it.

He made its seven lamps, its tongs, and its trays from pure gold.

He made it and all of its furnishings from a talent of pure gold.

He made the altar for burning incense of acacia wood, a square, one cubit long, one cubit wide, and two cubits high, with its horns of one piece with it.

He overlaid it with pure gold its top, its sides all around, and its horns and he made a gold molding around it.

He made two gold rings for it under its molding, on its two opposite sides, as holders for poles by which to carry it.

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

And he made the holy anointing oil and the pure aromatic incense, the work of a perfumer.

Then he made the altar for burnt offerings of acacia wood. It was a square, five cubits long and five cubits wide, and it was three cubits high.

He made horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.

He made all the utensils for the altar the pans, the shovels, the bowls, the forks, and the fire-pans and he made all its utensils of bronze.

He made a lattice, a netting of bronze, for the altar. It was under its ledge, extending halfway up.

He made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze.

And he put the poles through rings on the sides of the altar to carry it. He made it hollow, out of boards.

He made the bronze basin and its bronze base from mirrors contributed by the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

Then hemade the court. On the south side the hangings for the court were made of fine woven linen, 100 cubits long.

He made their 20 pillars and their 20 sockets of bronze, while the hooks of the pillars and their bands were made of silver.

The north side was 100 cubits long, and its 20 pillars and 20 sockets were made of bronze, and the hooks of the pillars and their bands were made of silver.

For the west side there were hangings 50 cubits long with their ten pillars and ten sockets. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were made of silver.

All the hangings around the court were made of fine woven linen.