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.

And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith;

Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation.

Then Moses quickly went down on his face in worship.

And he said, If now I have grace in your eyes, let the Lord go among us, for this is a stiff-necked people, and give us forgiveness for our wrongdoing and our sin, and take us for your heritage.

And the Lord said, See, this is what I will undertake: before the eyes of your people I will do wonders, such as have not been done in all the earth or in any nation: and all your people will see the work of the Lord, for what I am about to do for you is greatly to be feared.

Take care to do the orders which I give you today; I will send out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

But take care, and do not make any agreement with the people of the land where you are going, for it will be a cause of sin to you.

But their altars are to be overturned and their pillars broken and their images cut down:

So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,

Every first male child is mine; the first male birth of your cattle, the first male of every ox and sheep.

Six days let work be done, but on the seventh day take your rest: at ploughing time and at the grain-cutting you are to have a day for rest.

And you are to keep the feast of weeks when you get in the first-fruits of the grain, and the feast at the turn of the year when you take in the produce of your fields.

For I will send out the nations before you and make wide the limits of your land; and no man will make an attempt to take your land while you go up to give worship to the Lord, three times in the year.

No leaven is to be offered with the blood of my offering, and the offering of the Passover feast may not be kept till the morning.

And the Lord said to Moses, Put all these words in writing; for on them is based the agreement which I will make with you.

And for forty days and forty nights Moses was there with the Lord, and in that time he had no food or drink. And he put in writing on the stones the words of the agreement, the ten rules of the law.

But when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, and the shining of his face, they would not come near him for fear.

Then Moses sent for them; and Aaron, with the chiefs of the people, came to him; and Moses had talk with them.

And later, all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them all the orders which the Lord had given him on Mount Sinai.

And at the end of his talk with them, Moses put a veil over his face.

But whenever Moses went in before the Lord to have talk with him, he took off the veil till he came out. And whenever he came out he said to the children of Israel what he had been ordered to say;

And the children of Israel saw that the face of Moses was shining: so Moses put the veil over his face again till he went to the Lord.

And Moses sent for all the children of Israel to come together, and said to them, This is what the Lord has said and these are his orders.

And Moses said to all the meeting of the children of Israel, This is the order which the Lord has given:

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;

And blue and purple and red and the best linen and goats' hair,

And sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard wood,

And oil for the lights, and spices for the holy oil and for the sweet perfumes for burning.

And beryls and jewels to be cut for the ephod and for the priest's bag.

And let every wise-hearted man among you come and make whatever has been ordered by the Lord;

The House and its tent and its cover, its hooks and its boards, its rods and its pillars and its bases;

The ark with its cover and its rods and the veil hanging before it;

The table and its rods and all its vessels, and the holy bread;

And the support for the lights, with its vessels and its lights and the oil for the light;

And the altar for burning spices, with its rods, and the holy oil and the sweet perfume, and the curtain for the door, at the door of the House;

The altar of burned offerings, with its network of brass, its rods, and all its vessels, the washing-vessel and its base;

The hangings for the open space, its pillars and their bases, and the curtain for the doorway;

The nails for the House, and the nails for the open space and their cords;

The robes of needlework for the work of the holy place, the holy robes for Aaron the priest, and the robes for his sons when acting as priests.

And all the children of Israel went away from Moses.

And everyone whose heart was moved, everyone who was guided by the impulse of his spirit, came with his offering for the Lord, for whatever was needed for the Tent of meeting and its work and for the holy robes.

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.

And everyone who had blue and purple and red and the best linen and goats' hair and sheepskins coloured red and leather, gave them.

Everyone who had silver and brass gave an offering of them to the Lord; and everyone who had hard wood, such as was needed for the work, gave it.

And all the women who were expert with their hands, made cloth, and gave the work of their hands, blue and purple and red and the best linen.

And those women who had the knowledge, made the goats' hair into cloth.

And the rulers gave the beryls and the cut jewels for the ephod and the priest's bag;

And the spice and the oil for the light, and the holy oil and the sweet perfumes.

The children of Israel, every man and woman, from the impulse of their hearts, gave their offerings freely to the Lord for the work which the Lord had given Moses orders to have done.

And Moses said to the children of Israel, See, the Lord has made selection of Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;

And he has made him full of the spirit of God, in all wisdom and knowledge and art of every sort;

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

Trained in the cutting of stones and the ornamenting of wood and in every sort of handwork.

And he has given to him, and to Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, the power of training others.

To them he has given knowledge of all the arts of the handworker, of the designer, and the expert workman; of the maker of needlework in blue and purple and red and the best linen, and of the maker of cloth; in all the arts of the designer and the trained workman they are expert.

So let Bezalel and Oholiab get to work, with every wise-hearted man to whom the Lord has given wisdom and knowledge, to do whatever is necessary for the ordering of the holy place, as the Lord has given orders.

Then Moses sent for Bezalel and Oholiab, and for all the wise-hearted men to whom the Lord had given wisdom, even everyone who was moved by the impulse of his heart to come and take part in the work:

And they took from Moses all the offerings which the children of Israel had given for the building of the holy place. And still they went on giving him more free offerings every morning.

And said to Moses, The people are giving much more than is needed for the work which the Lord has given us orders to do.

So Moses made an order and had it given out through all the tents, saying, Let no man or woman make any more offerings for the holy place. So the people were kept from giving more.

For the material they had was enough and more than enough for all the work which had to be done.

Then all the expert workmen among them made the House with its ten curtains; of the best linen, blue and purple and red, they made them, with winged ones worked by expert designers.

Every curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.

And five curtains were joined together, and the other five curtains were joined together.

And they put twists of blue cord on the edge of the outside curtain of the first group, and in the same way on the outside curtain of the second group.

Fifty twists on the one curtain and fifty on the edge of the curtain of the other group; the twists being opposite to one another.

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

And they made curtains of goats' hair for the tent; eleven curtains were made.

Every curtain was thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.

Five curtains were joined together to make one group, and six curtains were joined together to make the other group.

And they put fifty twists of cord on the edge of the outside curtain of the first group, and fifty twists on the edge of the outside curtain of the second group,

And fifty hooks of brass for joining them together to make the tent.

And they made a cover of sheepskins coloured red, to go over the tent, and a cover of leather over that.

And for the uprights of the House they made boards of hard wood.

The boards were ten cubits long and one cubit and a half wide.

Every board had two tongues fixed into it; all the boards were made in this way.

And for these twenty boards, forty silver bases, two bases under every board, to take its tongues.

And for the second side of the House, on the north, they made twenty boards,

And for the west side of the House, at the back, they made six boards,

And two boards for the angles at the back.

These were joined together at the base and at the top to one ring, so forming the two angles.

And they made rods of hard wood; five for the boards on one side of the House,

And five for the boards on the other side of the House, and five for the boards at the back, on the west.

The middle rod was made to go right through the rings of all the boards from one end to the other.

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 he made the veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with winged ones designed by expert workmen.

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

And they made a curtain for the door of the tent, of the best linen with needlework of blue and purple and red;

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.

And Bezalel made the ark of hard wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide and a cubit and a half high;

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;

Placing one at one end and one at the other; the winged ones were part of the cover.

And their wings were stretched out over the cover; the faces of the winged ones were opposite one another and facing the cover.

And he made the table of hard wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high;

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