EXODUS 34
1 The Lord said to Moses, "Cut two tablets of stone like the
former ones, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former
tablets, which you broke.
2 Be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai
and present yourself there to me, on the top of the mountain.
3 No one shall come up with you, and do not let anyone be seen
throughout all the mountain; and do not let flocks or herds graze in front of
that mountain."
4 So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the former ones; and he
rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded
him, and took in his hand the two tablets of stone.
5 The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and
proclaimed the name, "The Lord."
6 The Lord passed before him, and proclaimed, "The Lord, the
Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast
love and faithfulness,
7 keeping steadfast love for the thousandth generation, forgiving
iniquity and transgression and sin, yet by no means clearing the guilty, but
visiting the iniquity of the parents upon the children and the children's
children, to the third and the fourth generation."
8 And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth, and
worshiped.
9 He said, "If now I have found favour in your sight, O Lord, I
pray, let the Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, pardon
our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance."
10 He said: I hereby make a covenant. Before all your people I will
perform marvels, such as have not been performed in all the earth or in any
nation; and all the people among whom you live shall see the work of the Lord;
for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.
11 Observe what I command you today. See, I will drive out before you the
Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the
Jebusites.
12 Take care not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land
to which you are going, or it will become a snare among you.
13 You shall tear down their altars, break their pillars, and cut
down their sacred poles
14 (for you shall worship no other god, because the Lord, whose name is
Jealous, is a jealous God).
15 You shall not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land,
for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to their gods,
someone among them will invite you, and you will eat of the sacrifice.
16 And you will take wives from among their daughters for your sons, and
their daughters who prostitute themselves to their gods will make your sons
also prostitute themselves to their gods.
17 You shall not make cast idols.
18 You shall keep the festival of unleavened bread. Seven days you
shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the
month of Abib; for in the month of Abib you came out from Egypt.
19 All that first opens the womb is mine, all your male livestock,
the firstborn of cow and sheep.
20 The firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not
redeem it you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall
redeem. No one shall appear before me empty-handed.
21 Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest;
even in ploughing time and in harvest time you shall rest.
22 You shall observe the festival of weeks, the first fruits of wheat
harvest, and the festival of ingathering at the turn of the year.
23Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord God,
the God of Israel.
24 For I will cast out nations before you, and enlarge your borders;
no one shall covet your land when you go up to appear before the Lord your God
three times in the year.
25 You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven, and the
sacrifice of the festival of the Passover shall not be left until the
morning.
26 The best of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring to the
house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's
milk.
27 The Lord said to Moses: Write these words; in accordance with
these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.
28 He was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither
ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the
covenant, the Ten Commandments.
29 Moses came down from Mount Sinai. As he came down from the mountain with
the two tablets of the covenant in his hand, Moses did not know that the skin
of his face shone because he had been talking with God.
30 When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face
was shining, and they were afraid to come near him.
31 But Moses called to them; and Aaron and all the leaders of the
congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke with them.
32Afterward all the Israelites came near, and he gave them in commandment
all that the Lord had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.
33 When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his
face;
34 but whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he
would take the veil off, until he came out; and when he came out, and told the
Israelites what he had been commanded,
35 the Israelites would see the face of Moses that the skin of his
face was shining; and Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went
in to speak with him.
EXODUS 35
1 Moses assembled all the congregation of the Israelites and said to
them: These are the things that the Lord has commanded you to do:
2 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day you shall have
a holy Sabbath of solemn rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on it shall be
put to death.
3 You shall kindle no fire in all your dwellings on the Sabbath
day.
4 Moses said to all the congregation of the Israelites: This is the
thing that the Lord has commanded:
5 Take from among you an offering to the Lord; let whoever is of a
generous heart bring the Lord's offering: gold, silver, and bronze;
6 blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and fine linen; goats'
hair,
7 tanned rams' skins, and fine leather; acacia wood,
8 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the
fragrant incense,
9 and onyx stones and gems to be set in the ephod and the
breastpiece.
10 All who are skill-full among you shall come and make all that the
Lord has commanded: the tabernacle,
11 its tent and its covering, its clasps and its frames, its bars,
its pillars, and its bases;
12 the ark with its poles, the mercy seat, and the curtain for the
screen;
13 the table with its poles and all its utensils, and the bread of
the Presence;
14 the lampstand also for the light, with its utensils and its lamps,
and the oil for the light;
15 and the altar of incense, with its poles, and the anointing oil
and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the entrance, the entrance of the
tabernacle;
16 the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and
all its utensils, the basin with its stand;
17 the hangings of the court, its pillars and its bases, and the
screen for the gate of the court;
18 the pegs of the tabernacle and the pegs of the court, and their
cords;
19 the finely worked vestments for ministering in the holy place, the
holy vestments for the priest Aaron, and the vestments of his sons, for their
service as priests.
20 Then all the congregation of the Israelites withdrew from the
presence of Moses.
21 And they came, everyone whose heart was stirred, and everyone
whose spirit was willing, and brought the Lord's offering to be used for the
tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the sacred vestments.
22 So they came, both men and women; all who were of a willing heart
brought brooches and earrings and signet rings and pendants, all sorts of gold
objects, everyone bringing an offering of gold to the Lord.
23 And everyone who possessed blue or purple or crimson yarn or fine
linen or goats' hair or tanned rams' skins or fine leather, brought them.
24 Everyone who could make an offering of silver or bronze brought it
as the Lord's offering; and everyone who possessed acacia wood of any use in
the work, brought it.
25 All the skilful women spun with their hands, and brought what they
had spun in blue and purple and crimson yarns and fine linen;
26 all the women whose hearts moved them to use their skill spun the
goats' hair.
27 And the leaders brought onyx stones and gems to be set in the
ephod and the breastpiece,
28 and spices and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and
for the fragrant incense.
29 All the Israelite men and women whose hearts made them willing to
bring anything for the work that the Lord had commanded by Moses to be done, brought
it as a freewill offering to the Lord.
30 Then Moses said to the Israelites: See, the Lord has called by
name Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;
31 he has filled him with divine spirit, with skill, intelligence,
and knowledge in every kind of craft,
32 to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and
bronze,
33 in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, in every kind
of craft.
34 And he has inspired him to teach, both him and Oholiab son of
Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.
35 He has filled them with skill to do every kind of work done by an
artisan or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue, purple, and crimson
yarns, and in fine linen, or by a weaver—by any sort of artisan or skilled
designer.
EXODUS 36
1 Bezalel and Oholiab and every skill-full one to whom the Lord has
given skill and understanding to know how to do any work in the construction of
the sanctuary shall work in accordance with all that the Lord has
commanded.
2 Moses then called Bezalel and Oholiab and every skill-full one to whom
the Lord had given skill, everyone whose heart was stirred to come to do the
work;
3 and they received from Moses all the freewill offerings that the
Israelites had brought for doing the work on the sanctuary. They still kept
bringing him freewill offerings every morning,
4 so that all the artisans who were doing every sort of task on the
sanctuary came, each from the task being performed,
5 and said to Moses, "The people are bringing much more than
enough for doing the work that the Lord has commanded us to do."
6 So Moses gave command, and word was proclaimed throughout the
camp: "No man or woman is to make anything else as an offering for the
sanctuary." So the people were restrained from bringing;
7 for what they had already brought was more than enough to do all
the work.
8 All those with skill among the workers made the tabernacle with
ten curtains; they were made of fine twisted linen, and blue, purple, and
crimson yarns, with cherubim skill-fully worked into them.
9 The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width
of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains were of the same size.
10 He joined five curtains to one another, and the other five
curtains he joined to one another.
11 He made loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain of the
first set; likewise he made them on the edge of the outermost curtain of the
second set;
12 he made fifty loops on the one curtain, and he made fifty loops on
the edge of the curtain that was in the second set; the loops were opposite one
another.
13 And he made fifty clasps of gold, and joined the curtains one to
the other with clasps; so the tabernacle was one whole.
14 He also made curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the
tabernacle; he made eleven curtains.
15 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and the width of
each curtain four cubits; the eleven curtains were of the same size.
16 He joined five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by
themselves.
17 He made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain of the
one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the other connecting curtain.
18 He made fifty clasps of bronze to join the tent together so that
it might be one whole.
19 And he made for the tent a covering of tanned rams' skins and an
outer covering of fine leather.
20 Then he made the upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia
wood.
21 Ten cubits was the length of a frame, and a cubit and a half the
width of each frame.
22 Each frame had two pegs for fitting together; he did this for all
the frames of the tabernacle.
23 The frames for the tabernacle he made in this way: twenty frames
for the south side;
24 and he made forty bases of silver under the twenty frames, two bases
under the first frame for its two pegs, and two bases under the next frame for
its two pegs.
25 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made
twenty frames
26 and their forty bases of silver, two bases under the first frame
and two bases under the next frame.
27 For the rear of the tabernacle westward he made six frames.
28 He made two frames for corners of the tabernacle in the
rear.
29 They were separate beneath, but joined at the top, at the first
ring; he made two of them in this way, for the two corners.
30 There were eight frames with their bases of silver: sixteen bases, under
every frame two bases.
31 He made bars of acacia wood, five for the frames of the one side
of the tabernacle,
32 and five bars for the frames of the other side of the tabernacle,
and five bars for the frames of the tabernacle at the rear westward.
33 He made the middle bar to pass through from end to end halfway up
the frames.
34 And he overlaid the frames with gold, and made rings of gold for
them to hold the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
35 He made the curtain of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and fine
twisted linen, with cherubim skill-fully worked into it.
36 For it he made four pillars of acacia, and overlaid them with
gold; their hooks were of gold, and he cast for them four bases of
silver.
37 He also made a screen for the entrance to the tent, of blue,
purple, and crimson yarns, and fine twisted linen, embroidered with needlework;
38 and its five pillars with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals
and their bases with gold, but their five bases were of bronze.
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