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

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

When Israel saw the great power which the Lord had used against the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord, and they believed in the Lord and in His servant Moses.

“Your right hand, O Lord, is majestic in power,
Your right hand, O Lord, shatters the enemy.

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.

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

“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

“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.

“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.

“You shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.

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

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

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

You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a gold border around it.

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.

“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.

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.

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.

Its snuffers and their trays shall be of pure gold.

It shall be made from a talent of pure gold, with all these utensils.

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

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.

and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them of twisted cordage work, and you shall put the corded chains on the filigree settings.

You shall make on the breastpiece chains of twisted cordage work in pure gold.

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

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

Then you shall take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him.

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.

You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides all around, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding all around for it.

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.

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.

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.

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

the table also and its utensils, and the pure gold lampstand with all its utensils, and the altar of incense,

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?

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.”

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

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.”

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

and he overlaid it with pure gold inside and out, and made a gold molding for it all around.

He made a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding for it all around.

He made the utensils which were on the table, its dishes and its pans and its bowls and its jars, with which to pour out drink offerings, of pure gold.

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.

and a bulb was 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.

Their bulbs and their branches were of one piece with it; the whole of it was a single hammered work of pure gold.

He made its seven lamps with its snuffers and its trays of pure gold.

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

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

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

They made on the breastpiece chains like cords, of twisted cordage work in pure gold.

They also made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates all around on the hem of the robe,

They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and inscribed it like the engravings of a signet, “Holy to the Lord.”

the pure gold lampstand, with its arrangement of lamps and all its utensils, and the oil for the light;