Those among Pharaoh’s officials who feared the word of the Lord made their servants and livestock flee to shelters,

but those who didn’t take the Lord’s word seriously left their servants and livestock in the field.

You are to hold a sacred assembly on the first day and another sacred assembly on the seventh day. No work may be done on those days except for preparing what people need to eat—you may do only that.

Unleavened bread is to be eaten for those seven days. Nothing leavened may be found among you, and no yeast may be found among you in all your territory.

You must not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the fathers’ sin, to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

but showing faithful love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commands.

They must eat those things by which atonement was made at the time of their ordination and consecration. An unauthorized person must not eat them, for these things are holy.

All the skilled craftsmen among those doing the work made the tabernacle with 10 curtains. Bezalel made them of finely spun linen, as well as blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, with a design of cherubim worked into them.

five crossbars for the planks on the other side of the tabernacle, and five crossbars for those at the back of the tabernacle on the west.

The silver from those of the community who were registered was 7,544 pounds, according to the sanctuary shekel—