1:1 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came
into
Egypt; every man and
his family came with Jacob.
1:2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;
1:3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;
1:4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
1:5 All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons: and
Joseph
had come to Egypt
before them.
1:6 Then Joseph came to his end, and all his brothers, and
all
that generation.
1:7 And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very
greatly in numbers
and in power; and the land was full of them.
1:8 Now a new king came to power in Egypt, who had no
knowledge
of Joseph.
1:9 And he said to his people, See, the people of Israel are
greater in number and
in power than we are:
1:10 Let us take care for fear that their numbers may become
even greater, and if
there is a war, they may be joined with
those who are against
us, and make an attack on us, and go up
out of the land.
1:11 So they put overseers of forced work over them, in
order to
make their strength
less by the weight of their work. And they
made store-towns for
Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.
1:12 But the more cruel they were to them, the more their
number
increased, till all
the land was full of them. And the children
of Israel were hated
by the Egyptians.
1:13 And they gave the children of Israel even harder work
to
do:
1:14 And made their lives bitter with hard work, making
building-material and
bricks, and doing all sorts of work in
the fields under the
hardest conditions.
1:15 And the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew women who gave
help at the time of
childbirth (the name of the one was
Shiphrah and the name
of the other Puah),
1:16 When you are looking after the Hebrew women in
childbirth,
if it is a son you
are to put him to death; but if it is a
daughter, she may go
on living.
1:17 But the women had the fear of God, and did not do as
the
king of Egypt said,
but let the male children go on living.
1:18 And the king of Egypt sent for the women, and said to
them,
Why have you done
this, and let the male children go on living?
1:19 And they said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are
not
like the Egyptian
women, for they are strong, and the birth
takes place before we
come to them.
1:20 And the blessing of God was on these women: and the
people
were increased in
number and became very strong.
1:21 And because the women who took care of the Hebrew
mothers
had the fear of God,
he gave them families.
1:22 And Pharaoh gave orders to all his people, saying,
Every
son who comes to
birth is to be put into the river, but every
daughter may go on
living.
2:1 Now a man of the house of Levi took as his wife a
daughter
of Levi.
2:2 And she became with child and gave birth to a Son; and
when
she saw that he was a
beautiful child, she kept him secretly
for three months.
2:3 And when she was no longer able to keep him secret, she
made
him a basket out of
the stems of water-plants, pasting sticky
earth over it to keep
the water out; and placing the baby in it
she put it among the
plants by the edge of the Nile.
2:4 And his sister took her place at a distance to see what
would become of him.
2:5 Now Pharaoh's daughter came down to the Nile to take a
bath,
while her women were
walking by the riverside; and she saw the
basket among the
river-plants, and sent her servant-girl to get
it.
2:6 And opening it, she saw the child, and he was crying.
And
she had pity on him,
and said, This is one of the Hebrews'
children.
2:7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, May I go and
get
you one of the Hebrew
women to give him the breast?
2:8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the girl
went
and got the child's
mother.
2:9 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Take the child away
and
give it milk for me,
and I will give you payment. And the woman
took the child and
gave it milk at her breast.
2:10 And when the child was older, she took him to Pharaoh's
daughter and he
became her son, and she gave him the name
Moses, Because, she
said, I took him out of the water.
2:11 Now when Moses had become a man, one day he went out to
his
people and saw how
hard their work was; and he saw an Egyptian
giving blows to a
Hebrew, one of his people.
2:12 And turning this way and that, and seeing no one, he
put
the Egyptian to
death, covering his body with sand.
2:13 And he went out the day after and saw two of the
Hebrews
fighting: and he said
to him who was in the wrong, Why are you
fighting your
brother?
2:14 And he said, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
are
you going to put me
to death as you did the Egyptian? And Moses
was in fear, and
said, It is clear that the thing has come to
light.
2:15 Now when Pharaoh had news of this, he would have put
Moses
to death. But Moses
went in flight from Pharaoh into the land
of Midian: and he
took his seat by a water-spring.
2:16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they
came
to get water for
their father's flock.
2:17 And the keepers of the sheep came up and were driving
them
away; but Moses got
up and came to their help, watering their
flock for them.
2:18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How
is
it that you have come
back so quickly today?
2:19 And they said, An Egyptian came to our help against the
keepers of sheep and
got water for us and gave it to the flock.
2:20 And he said to his daughters, Where is he? why have you
let
the man go? make him
come in and give him a meal.
2:21 And Moses was happy to go on living with the man; and
he
gave his daughter
Zipporah to Moses.
2:22 And she gave birth to a son, to whom he gave the name
Gershom: for he said,
I have been living in a strange land.
2:23 Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his
end:
and the children of
Israel were crying in their grief under the
weight of their work,
and their cry for help came to the ears
of God.
2:24 And at the sound of their weeping the agreement which
God
had made with Abraham
and Isaac and Jacob came to his mind.
2:25 And God's eyes were turned to the children of Israel
and he
gave them the
knowledge of himself.
3:1 Now Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his
father-in-law, the
priest of Midian: and he took the flock to
the back of the waste
land and came to Horeb, the mountain of
God.
3:2 And the angel of the Lord was seen by him in a flame of
fire
coming out of a
thorn-tree: and he saw that the tree was on
fire, but it was not
burned up.
3:3 And Moses said, I will go and see this strange thing,
why
the tree is not
burned up,
3:4 And when the Lord saw him turning to one side to see,
God
said his name out of
the tree, crying, Moses, Moses. And he
said, Here am I.
3:5 And he said, Do not come near: take off your shoes from
your
feet, for the place
where you are is holy.
3:6 And he said, I am the God of your fathers, the God of
Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses kept
his face covered for
fear of looking on God.
3:7 And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people
in
Egypt, and their cry
because of their cruel masters has come to
my ears; for I have
knowledge of their sorrows;
3:8 And I have come down to take them out of the hands of
the
Egyptians, guiding
them out of that land into a good land and
wide, into a land
flowing with milk and honey; into the place
of the Canaanite and
the Hittite and the Amorite and the
Perizzite and the
Hivite and the Jebusite.
3:9 For now, truly, the cry of the children of Israel has
come
to me, and I have
seen the cruel behaviour of the Egyptians to
them.
3:10 Come, then, and I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you
may
take my people, the
children of Israel, out of Egypt.
3:11 And Moses said to God, Who am I to go to Pharaoh and
take
the children of
Israel out of Egypt?
3:12 And he said, Truly I will be with you; and this will be
the
sign to you that I
have sent you: when you have taken the
children of Israel
out of Egypt, you will give worship to God
on this mountain.
3:13 And Moses said to God, When I come to the children of
Israel and say to
them, The God of your fathers has sent me to
you: and they say to
me, What is his name? what am I to say to
them?
3:14 And God said to him, I AM WHAT I AM: and he said, Say
to
the children of
Israel, I AM has sent me to you.
3:15 And God went on to say to Moses, Say to the children of
Israel, The Lord, the
God of your fathers, the God of Abraham,
of Isaac, and of
Jacob, has sent me to you: this is my name for
ever, and this is my
sign to all generations.
3:16 Go and get together the chiefs of the children of
Israel,
and say to them, The
Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of
Abraham, of Isaac,
and of Jacob, has been seen by me, and has
said, Truly I have
taken up your cause, because of what is done
to you in Egypt;
3:17 And I have said, I will take you up out of the sorrows
of
Egypt into the land
of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the
Amorite and the
Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, into
a land flowing with
milk and honey.
3:18 And they will give ear to your voice: and you, with the
chiefs of Israel,
will go to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and
say to him, The Lord,
the God of the Hebrews, has come to us:
let us then go three
days' journey into the waste land to make
an offering to the
Lord our God.
3:19 And I am certain that the king of Egypt will not let
you go
without being forced.
3:20 But I will put out my hand and overcome Egypt with all
the
wonders which I will
do among them: and after that he will let
you go.
3:21 And I will give this people grace in the eyes of the
Egyptians, so that
when you go out you will go out with your
hands full.
3:22 For every woman will get from her neighbour and from
the
woman living in her
house, ornaments of silver and gold, and
clothing; and you
will put them on your sons and your
daughters; you will
take the best of their goods from the
Egyptians.
4:1 And Moses, answering, said, It is certain that they will
not
have faith in me or
give ear to my voice; for they will say,
You have not seen the
Lord.
4:2 And the Lord said to him, What is that in your hand? And
he
said, A rod.
4:3 And he said, Put it down on the earth. And he put it
down on
the earth and it
became a snake; and Moses went running from
it.
4:4 And the Lord said to Moses, Put out your hand and take
it by
the tail: (and he put
out his hand and took a grip of it and it
became a rod in his
hand:)
4:5 So that they may be certain that the Lord, the God of
their
fathers, the God of
Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has been
seen by you.
4:6 Then the Lord said to him again, Put your hand inside
your
clothing. And he put
his hand inside his robe: and when he took
it out it was like
the hand of a leper, as white as snow.
4:7 And he said, Put your hand inside your robe again. (And
he
put his hand into his
robe again, and when he took it out he
saw that it had
become like his other flesh.)
4:8 And if they do not have faith in you or give ear to the
voice of the first
sign, they will have faith in the second
sign.
4:9 And if they have no faith even in these two signs and
will
not give ear to your
voice, then you are to take the water of
the Nile and put it
on the dry land: and the water you take out
of the river will
become blood on the dry land.
4:10 And Moses said to the Lord, O Lord, I am not a man of
words; I have never
been so, and am not now, even after what
you have said to your
servant: for talking is hard for me, and
I am slow of tongue.
4:11 And the Lord said to him, Who has made man's mouth? who
takes away a man's
voice or hearing, or makes him seeing or
blind? Is it not I,
the Lord?
4:12 So go now, and I will be with your mouth, teaching you
what
to say.
4:13 And he said, O Lord, send, if you will, by the hand of
anyone whom it seems
good to you to send.
4:14 And the Lord was angry with Moses, and said, Is there
not
Aaron, your brother,
the Levite? To my knowledge he is good at
talking. And now he
is coming out to you: and when he sees you
he will be glad in
his heart.
4:15 Let him give ear to your voice, and you will put my
words
in his mouth; and I
will be with your mouth and with his,
teaching you what you
have to do.
4:16 And he will do the talking for you to the people: he
will
be to you as a mouth
and you will be to him as God.
4:17 And take in your hand this rod with which you will do
the
signs.
4:18 And Moses went back to Jethro, his father-in-law, and
said
to him, Let me go
back now to my relations in Egypt and see if
they are still
living. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
4:19 And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, Go back to Egypt,
for
all the men are dead
who were attempting to take your life.
4:20 And Moses took his wife and his sons and put them on an
ass
and went back to the
land of Egypt: and he took the rod of God
in his hand.
4:21 And the Lord said to Moses, When you go back to Egypt,
see
that you do before
Pharaoh all the wonders which I have given
you power to do: but
I will make his heart hard and he will not
let the people go.
4:22 And you are to say to Pharaoh, The Lord says, Israel is
the
first of my sons:
4:23 And I said to you, Let my son go, so that he may give
me
worship; and you did
not let him go: so now I will put the
first of your sons to
death.
4:24 Now on the journey, at the night's resting-place, the
Lord
came in his way and
would have put him to death.
4:25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cutting off the
skin
of her son's private
parts, and touching his feet with it, she
said, Truly you are a
husband of blood to me.
4:26 So he let him go. Then she said, You are a husband of
blood
because of the
circumcision.
4:27 And the Lord said to Aaron, Go into the waste land and
you
will see Moses. So he
went and came across Moses at the
mountain of God, and
gave him a kiss.
4:28 And Moses gave Aaron an account of all the words of the
Lord which he had
sent him to say, and of all the signs which
he had given him
orders to do.
4:29 Then Moses and Aaron went and got together all the
chiefs
of the children of
Israel:
4:30 And Aaron said to them all the words the Lord had said
to
Moses, and did the
signs before all the people.
4:31 And the people had faith in them; and hearing that the
Lord
had taken up the
cause of the children of Israel and had seen
their troubles, with
bent heads they gave him worship.
5:1 And after that, Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and
said,
The Lord, the God of
Israel, says, Let my people go so that
they may keep a feast
to me in the waste land.
5:2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, to whose voice I am
to
give ear and let
Israel go? I have no knowledge of the Lord and
I will not let Israel
go.
5:3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews has come to us:
let us
then go three days'
journey into the waste land to make an
offering to the Lord
our God, so that he may not send death on
us by disease or the
sword.
5:4 And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do you, Moses
and
Aaron, take the
people away from their work? get back to your
work.
5:5 And Pharaoh said, Truly, the people of the land are
increasing in number,
and you are keeping them back from their
work.
5:6 The same day Pharaoh gave orders to the overseers and
those
who were responsible
for the work, saying,
5:7 Give these men no more dry stems for their brick-making
as
you have been doing;
let them go and get the material for
themselves.
5:8 But see that they make the same number of bricks as
before,
and no less: for they
have no love for work; and so they are
crying out and
saying, Let us go and make an offering to our
God.
5:9 Give the men harder work, and see that they do it; let
them
not give attention to
false words.
5:10 And the overseers of the people and their responsible
men
went out and said to
the people, Pharaoh says, I will give you
no more dry stems.
5:11 Go yourselves and get dry stems wherever you are able;
for
your work is not to
be any less.
5:12 So the people were sent in all directions through the
land
of Egypt to get dry
grass for stems.
5:13 And the overseers went on driving them and saying, Do
your
full day's work as
before when there were dry stems for you.
5:14 And the responsible men of the children of Israel, whom
Pharaoh's overseers
had put over them, were given blows, and
they said to them,
Why have you not done your regular work, in
making bricks as
before?
5:15 Then the responsible men of the children of Israel came
to
Pharaoh, protesting
and saying, Why are you acting in this way
to your servants?
5:16 They give us no dry stems and they say to us, Make
bricks:
and they give your
servants blows; but it is your people who
are in the wrong.
5:17 But he said, You have no love for work: that is why you
say, Let us go and
make an offering to the Lord.
5:18 Go now, get back to your work; no dry stems will be
given
to you, but you are
to make the full number of bricks.
5:19 Then the responsible men of the children of Israel saw
that
they were purposing
evil when they said, The number of bricks
which you have to
make every day will be no less than before.
5:20 And they came face to face with Moses and Aaron, who
were
in their way when
they came out from Pharaoh:
5:21 And they said to them, May the Lord take note of you
and be
your judge; for you
have given Pharaoh and his servants a bad
opinion of us,
putting a sword in their hands for our
destruction.
5:22 And Moses went back to the Lord and said, Lord, why
have
you done evil to this
people? why have you sent me?
5:23 For from the time when I came to Pharaoh to put your
words
before him, he has
done evil to this people, and you have given
them no help.
6:1 And the Lord said to Moses, Now you will see what I am
about
to do to Pharaoh; for
by a strong hand he will be forced to let
them go, driving them
out of his land because of my
outstretched arm.
6:2 And God said to Moses, I am Yahweh:
6:3 I let myself be seen by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as
God,
the Ruler of all; but
they had no knowledge of my name Yahweh.
6:4 And I made an agreement with them, to give them the land
of
Canaan, the land of
their wanderings.
6:5 And truly my ears are open to the cry of the children of
Israel whom the
Egyptians keep under their yoke; and I have
kept in mind my
agreement.
6:6 Say then to the children of Israel, I am Yahweh, and I
will
take you out from
under the yoke of the Egyptians, and make you
safe from their
power, and will make you free by the strength
of my arm after great
punishments.
6:7 And I will take you to be my people and I will be your
God;
and you will be
certain that I am the Lord your God, who takes
you out from under
the yoke of the Egyptians.
6:8 And I will be your guide into the land which I made an
oath
to give to Abraham,
to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it
to you for your
heritage: I am Yahweh.
6:9 And Moses said these words to the children of Israel,
but
they gave no
attention to him, because of the grief of their
spirit and the cruel
weight of their work.
6:10 And the Lord said to Moses,
6:11 Go in and say to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, that he is to
let
the children of
Israel go out of his land.
6:12 And Moses, answering the Lord, said, See, the children
of
Israel will not give
ear to me; how then will Pharaoh give ear
to me, whose lips are
unclean?
6:13 And the word of the Lord came to Moses and Aaron, with
orders for the
children of Israel and for Pharaoh, king of
Egypt, to take the
children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
6:14 These are the heads of their fathers' families: the
sons of
Reuben the oldest son
of Israel: Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and
Carmi: these are the
families of Reuben.
6:15 And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and
Jachin and Zohar and
Shaul, the son of a woman of Canaan: these
are the families of
Simeon.
6:16 And these are the names of the sons of Levi in the
order of
their generations:
Gershon and Kohath and Merari: and the years
of Levi's life were a
hundred and thirty-seven.
6:17 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, in the order of
their families.
6:18 And the sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and
Uzziel: and the years
of Kohath's life were a hundred and
thirty-three.
6:19 And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi: these are the
families of the
Levites, in the order of their generations.
6:20 And Amram took Jochebed, his father's sister, as wife;
and
she gave birth to
Aaron and Moses: and the years of Amram's
life were a hundred
and thirty-seven.
6:21 And the sons of Izhar: Korah and Nepheg and Zichri.
6:22 And the sons of Uzziel: Mishael and Elzaphan and
Sithri.
6:23 And Aaron took as his wife Elisheba, the daughter of
Amminadab, the sister
of Nahshon; and she gave birth to Nadab
and Abihu, Eleazar
and Ithamar.
6:24 And the sons of Korah: Assir and Elkanah and Abiasaph:
these are the
families of the Korahites.
6:25 And Eleazar, Aaron's son, took as his wife one of the
daughters of Putiel;
and she gave birth to Phinehas. These are
the heads of the
families of the Levites, in the order of their
families.
6:26 These are the same Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord
said,
Take the children of
Israel out of the land of Egypt in their
armies.
6:27 These are the men who gave orders to Pharaoh to let the
children of Israel go
out of Egypt: these are the same Moses
and Aaron.
6:28 And on the day when the word of the Lord came to Moses
in
the land of Egypt,
6:29 The Lord said to Moses, I am the Lord: say to Pharaoh,
king
of Egypt, everything
I am saying to you.
6:30 And Moses said to the Lord, My lips are unclean; how is
it
possible that Pharaoh
will give me a hearing?
7:1 And the Lord said to Moses, See I have made you a god to
Pharaoh, and Aaron
your brother will be your prophet.
7:2 Say whatever I give you orders to say: and Aaron your
brother will give
word to Pharaoh to let the children of Israel
go out of his land.
7:3 And I will make Pharaoh's heart hard, and my signs and
wonders will be
increased in the land of Egypt.
7:4 But Pharaoh will not give ear to you, and I will put my
hand
on Egypt, and take my
armies, my people, the children of
Israel, out of Egypt,
after great punishments.
7:5 And the Egyptians will see that I am the Lord, when my
hand
is stretched out over
Egypt, and I take the children of Israel
out from among them.
7:6 And Moses and Aaron did so: as the Lord gave them
orders, so
they did.
7:7 And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three
years
old, when they gave
the Lord's word to Pharaoh.
7:8 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
7:9 If Pharaoh says to you, Let me see a wonder: then say to
Aaron, Take your rod
and put it down on the earth before
Pharaoh so that it
may become a snake.
7:10 Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and they did as
the
Lord had said: and
Aaron put his rod down on the earth before
Pharaoh and his
servants, and it became a snake.
7:11 Then Pharaoh sent for the wise men and the
wonder-workers,
and they, the
wonder-workers of Egypt, did the same with their
secret arts.
7:12 For every one of them put down his rod on the earth,
and
they became snakes:
but Aaron's rod made a meal of their rods.
7:13 But Pharaoh's heart was made hard, and he did not give
ear
to them, as the Lord
had said.
7:14 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Pharaoh's heart
is
unchanged; he will
not let the people go.
7:15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning; when he goes out to the
water, you will be
waiting for him by the edge of the Nile,
with the rod which
was turned into a snake in your hand;
7:16 And say to him, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has
sent
me to you, saying,
Let my people go so that they may give me
worship in the waste
land; but up to now you have not given ear
to his words.
7:17 So the Lord says, By this you may be certain that I am
the
Lord; see, by the
touch of this rod in my hand the waters of
the Nile will be
turned to blood;
7:18 And the fish in the Nile will come to destruction, and
the
river will send up a
bad smell, and the Egyptians will not be
able, for disgust, to
make use of the water of the Nile for
drinking.
7:19 And the Lord said, Say to Aaron, Let the rod in your
hand
be stretched out over
the waters of Egypt, and over the rivers
and the streams and
the pools, and over every stretch of water,
so that they may be
turned to blood; and there will be blood
through all the land
of Egypt, in vessels of wood and in
vessels of stone.
7:20 And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had said; and when
his
rod had been lifted
up and stretched out over the waters of the
Nile before the eyes
of Pharaoh and his servants, all the water
in the Nile was
turned to blood;
7:21 And the fish in the Nile came to destruction, and a bad
smell went up from
the river, and the Egyptians were not able
to make use of the
water of the Nile for drinking; and there
was blood through all
the land of Egypt.
7:22 And the wonder-workers of Egypt did the same with their
secret arts: but
Pharaoh's heart was made hard, and he would
not give ear to them,
as the Lord had said.
7:23 Then Pharaoh went into his house, and did not take even
this to heart.
7:24 And all the Egyptians made holes round about the Nile
to
get drinking-water,
for they were not able to make use of the
Nile water.
7:25 And seven days went past, after the Lord had put his
hand
on the Nile.
8:1 And this is what the Lord said to Moses: Go to Pharaoh
and
say to him, The Lord
says, Let my people go so that they may
give me worship.
8:2 And if you will not let them go, see, I will send frogs
into
every part of your
land:
8:3 The Nile will be full of frogs, and they will come up
into
your house and into
your bedrooms and on your bed, and into the
houses of your
servants and your people, and into your ovens
and into your
bread-basins.
8:4 The frogs will come up over you and your people and all
your
servants.
8:5 And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Let the rod in
your hand be
stretched out over the streams and the waterways
and the pools,
causing frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.
8:6 And when Aaron put out his hand over the waters of
Egypt,
the frogs came up and
all the land of Egypt was covered with
them.
8:7 And the wonder-workers did the same with their secret
arts,
making frogs come up
over the land of Egypt.
8:8 Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said, Make
prayer
to the Lord that he
will take away these frogs from me and my
people; and I will
let the people go and make their offering to
the Lord.
8:9 And Moses said, I will let you have the honour of saying
when I am to make
prayer for you and your servants and your
people, that the
frogs may be sent away from you and your
houses, and be only
in the Nile.
8:10 And he said, By tomorrow. And he said, Let it be as you
say: so that you may
see that there is no other like the Lord
our God.
8:11 And the frogs will be gone from you and from your
houses
and from your
servants and from your people and will be only in
the Nile.
8:12 Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh; and Moses
made
prayer to the Lord
about the frogs which he had sent on
Pharaoh.
8:13 And the Lord did as Moses said; and there was an end of
all
the frogs in the
houses and in the open spaces and in the
fields.
8:14 And they put them together in masses, and a bad smell
went
up from the land.
8:15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was peace for a time,
he
made his heart hard
and did not give ear to them, as the Lord
had said.
8:16 And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Let your rod
be
stretched out over
the dust of the earth so that it may become
insects through all
the land of Egypt.
8:17 And they did so; and Aaron, stretching out the rod in
his
hand, gave a touch to
the dust of the earth, and insects came
on man and on beast;
all the dust of the earth was changed into
insects through all
the land of Egypt.
8:18 And the wonder-workers with their secret arts,
attempting
to make insects, were
unable to do so: and there were insects
on man and on beast.
8:19 Then the wonder-workers said to Pharaoh, This is the
finger
of God: but Pharaoh's
heart was hard, and he did not give ear
to them, as the Lord
had said.
8:20 And the Lord said to Moses, Get up early in the morning
and
take your place
before Pharaoh when he comes out to the water;
and say to him, This
is what the Lord says: Let my people go to
give me worship.
8:21 For if you do not let my people go, see, I will send
clouds
of flies on you and
on your servants and on your people and
into their houses;
and the houses of the Egyptians and the land
where they are will
be full of flies.
8:22 And at that time I will make a division between your
land
and the land of
Goshen where my people are, and no flies will
be there; so that you
may see that I am the Lord over all the
earth.
8:23 And I will put a division between my people and your
people; tomorrow this
sign will be seen.
8:24 And the Lord did so; and great clouds of flies came
into
the house of Pharaoh
and into his servants' houses, and all the
land of Egypt was
made waste because of the flies.
8:25 And Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said, Go and
make
your offering to your
God here in the land.
8:26 And Moses said, It is not right to do so; for we make
our
offerings of that to
which the Egyptians give worship; and if
we do so before their
eyes, certainly we will be stoned.
8:27 But we will go three days' journey into the waste land
and
make an offering to
the Lord our God as he may give us orders.
8:28 Then Pharaoh said, I will let you go to make an
offering to
the Lord your God in
the waste land; but do not go very far
away, and make prayer
for me.
8:29 And Moses said, When I go out from you I will make
prayer
to the Lord that the
cloud of flies may go away from Pharaoh
and from his people
and from his servants tomorrow: only let
Pharaoh no longer by
deceit keep back the people from making
their offering to the
Lord.
8:30 Then Moses went out from Pharaoh and made prayer to the
Lord.
8:31 And the Lord did as Moses said, and took away the cloud
of
flies from Pharaoh
and from his servants and from his people;
not one was to be
seen.
8:32 But again Pharaoh made his heart hard and did not let
the
people go.
9:1 Then the Lord said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh and say to
him, This is what the
Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let
my people go so that
they may give me worship.
9:2 For if you will not let them go, but still keep them in
your
power,
9:3 Then the hand of the Lord will put on your cattle in the
field, on the horses
and the asses and the camels, on the herds
and the flocks, a
very evil disease.
9:4 And the Lord will make a division between the cattle of
Israel and the cattle
of Egypt; there will be no loss of any of
the cattle of Israel.
9:5 And the time was fixed by the Lord, and he said,
Tomorrow
the Lord will do this
thing in the land.
9:6 And on the day after, the Lord did as he had said,
causing
the death of all the
cattle of Egypt, but there was no loss of
any of the cattle of
Israel.
9:7 And Pharaoh sent and got word that there was no loss of
any
of the cattle of
Israel. But the heart of Pharaoh was hard and
he did not let the
people go.
9:8 And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron, Take in your
hand a
little dust from the
fire and let Moses send it in a shower up
to heaven before the
eyes of Pharaoh.
9:9 And it will become small dust over all the land of
Egypt,
and will be a
skin-disease bursting out in wounds on man and
beast through all the
land of Egypt.
9:10 So they took some dust from the fire, and placing
themselves before
Pharaoh, Moses sent it out in a shower up to
heaven; and it became
a skin-disease bursting out on man and on
beast.
9:11 And the wonder-workers were not able to take their
places
before Moses, because
of the disease; for the disease was on
the wonder-workers
and on all the Egyptians.
9:12 And the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he would
not
give ear to them, as
the Lord had said.
9:13 And the Lord said to Moses, Get up early in the morning
and
take your place
before Pharaoh, and say to him, This is what
the Lord, the God of
the Hebrews, says: Let my people go so
that they may give me
worship.
9:14 For this time I will send all my punishments on
yourself
and on your servants
and on your people; so that you may see
that there is no
other like me in all the earth.
9:15 For if I had put the full weight of my hand on you and
your
people, you would
have been cut off from the earth:
9:16 But, for this very reason, I have kept you from
destruction, to make
clear to you my power, and so that my name
may be honoured
through all the earth.
9:17 Are you still uplifted in pride against my people so
that
you will not let them
go?
9:18 Truly, tomorrow about this time I will send down an
ice-storm, such as
never was in Egypt from its earliest days
till now.
9:19 Then send quickly and get in your cattle and all you
have
from the fields; for
if any man or beast in the field has not
been put under cover,
the ice-storm will come down on them with
destruction.
9:20 Then everyone among the servants of Pharaoh who had the
fear of the Lord,
made his servants and his cattle come quickly
into the house:
9:21 And he who gave no attention to the word of the Lord,
kept
his servants and his
cattle in the field.
9:22 And the Lord said to Moses, Now let your hand be
stretched
out to heaven so that
there may be an ice-storm on all the land
of Egypt, on man and
on beast and on every plant of the field
through all the land
of Egypt.
9:23 And Moses put out his rod to heaven: and the Lord sent
thunder, and an
ice-storm, and fire running down on the earth;
the Lord sent an
ice-storm on the land of Egypt.
9:24 So there was an ice-storm with fire running through it,
coming down with
great force, such as never was in all the land
of Egypt from the
time when it became a nation.
9:25 And through all the land of Egypt the ice-storm came
down
on everything which
was in the fields, on man and on beast; and
every green plant was
crushed and every tree of the field
broken.
9:26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of
Israel
were, there was no
ice-storm.
9:27 Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron, and said to
them, I
have done evil this
time: the Lord is upright, and I and my
people are sinners.
9:28 Make prayer to the Lord; for there has been enough of
these
thunderings of God
and this ice-storm; and I will let you go
and will keep you no
longer.
9:29 And Moses said, When I am gone outside the town, my
hands
will be stretched out
to the Lord; the thunders and the
ice-storm will come
to an end, so that you may see that the
earth is the Lord's.
9:30 But as for you and your servants, I am certain that
even
now the fear of the
Lord God will not be in your hearts.
9:31 And the flax and the barley were damaged, for the
barley
was almost ready to
be cut and the flax was in flower.
9:32 But the rest of the grain-plants were undamaged, for
they
had not come up.
9:33 So Moses went out of the town, and stretching out his
hands
made prayer to God:
and the thunders and the ice-storm came to
an end; and the fall
of rain was stopped.
9:34 But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the ice-storm
and
the thunders were
ended, he went on sinning, and made his heart
hard, he and his
servants.
9:35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hard, and he did not let
the
people go, as the
Lord had said by the mouth of Moses.
10:1 And the Lord said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh: for I
have
made his heart and
the hearts of his servants hard, so that I
may let my signs be
seen among them:
10:2 And so that you may be able to give to your son and to
your
son's son the story
of my wonders in Egypt, and the signs which
I have done among
them; so that you may see that I am the Lord.
10:3 Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to
him,
This is what the
Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long
will you be lifted up
in your pride before me? let my people go
so that they may give
me worship.
10:4 For if you will not let my people go, tomorrow I will
send
locusts into your
land:
10:5 And the face of the earth will be covered with them, so
that you will not be
able to see the earth: and they will be
the destruction of
everything which up to now has not been
damaged, everything which
was not crushed by the ice-storm, and
every tree still
living in your fields.
10:6 And your houses will be full of them, and the houses of
your servants and of
all the Egyptians; it will be worse than
anything your fathers
have seen or their fathers, from the day
when they were living
on the earth till this day. And so he
went out from
Pharaoh.
10:7 And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long is this
man to
be the cause of evil
to us? let the men go so that they may
give worship to the
Lord their God: are you not awake to
Egypt's danger?
10:8 Then Moses and Aaron came in again before Pharaoh: and
he
said to them, Go and
give worship to the Lord your God: but
which of you are
going?
10:9 And Moses said, We will go with our young and our old,
with
our sons and our
daughters, with our flocks and our herds; for
we are to keep a
feast to the Lord.
10:10 And he said to them, May the Lord be with you, if I
will
let you and your
little ones go! take care, for your purpose
clearly is evil.
10:11 Not so; but let your males go and give worship to the
Lord, as your desire
is. This he said, driving them out from
before him.
10:12 And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched
out
over the land of
Egypt so that the locusts may come up on the
land for the
destruction of every green plant in the land, even
everything untouched
by the ice-storm.
10:13 And Moses' rod was stretched out over the land of
Egypt,
and the Lord sent an
east wind over the land all that day and
all the night; and in
the morning the locusts came up with the
east wind.
10:14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt,
resting on every part
of the land, in very great numbers; such
an army of locusts
had never been seen before, and never will
be again.
10:15 For all the face of the earth was covered with them,
so
that the land was
black; and every green plant and all the
fruit of the trees
which was untouched by the ice-storm they
took for food: not one
green thing, no plant or tree, was to be
seen in all the land
of Egypt.
10:16 Then Pharaoh quickly sent for Moses and Aaron, and
said, I
have done evil
against the Lord your God and against you.
10:17 Let me now have forgiveness for my sin this time only,
and
make prayer to the
Lord your God that he will take away from me
this death only.
10:18 So he went out from Pharaoh and made prayer to the
Lord.
10:19 And the Lord sent a very strong west wind, which took
up
the locusts, driving
them into the Red Sea; not one locust was
to be seen in any
part of Egypt.
10:20 But the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he did not
let
the children of
Israel go.
10:21 And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched
out
to heaven, and all
the land of Egypt will be dark, so that men
will be feeling their
way about in the dark.
10:22 And when Moses' hand was stretched out, dark night
came
over all the land of
Egypt for three days;
10:23 They were not able to see one another, and no one got
up
from his place for
three days: but where the children of Israel
were living it was
light.
10:24 Then Pharaoh sent for Moses, and said, Go and give
worship
to the Lord; only let
your flocks and your herds be kept here:
your little ones may
go with you.
10:25 But Moses said, You will have to let us take burned
offerings to put
before the Lord our God.
10:26 So our cattle will have to go with us, not one may be
kept
back; for they are
needed for the worship of the Lord our God;
we have no knowledge
what offering we have to give till we come
to the place.
10:27 But the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he would
not
let them go.
10:28 And Pharaoh said to him, Go away from me, take care
that
you come not again
before me; for the day when you see my face
again will be your
last.
10:29 And Moses said, You say truly; I will not see your
face
again.
11:1 And the Lord said to Moses, I will send one more
punishment
on Pharaoh and on
Egypt; after that he will let you go; and
when he does let you
go, he will not keep one of you back, but
will send you out by
force.
11:2 So go now and give orders to the people that every man
and
every woman is to get
from his or her neighbour ornaments of
silver and of gold.
11:3 And the Lord gave the people grace in the eyes of the
Egyptians. For the
man Moses was highly honoured in the land of
Egypt, by Pharaoh's
servants and the people.
11:4 And Moses said, This is what the Lord says: About the
middle of the night I
will go out through Egypt:
11:5 And death will come to every mother's first male child
in
all the land of
Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of
power, to the child
of the servant-girl crushing the grain; and
the first births of
all the cattle.
11:6 And there will be a great cry through all the land of
Egypt, such as never
has been or will be again.
11:7 But against the children of Israel, man or beast, not
so
much as the tongue of
a dog will be moved: so that you may see
how the Lord makes a
division between Israel and the Egyptians.
11:8 And all these your servants will come to me, going down
on
their faces before me
and saying, Go out, and all your people
with you: and after
that I will go out. And he went away from
Pharaoh burning with
wrath.
11:9 And the Lord said to Moses, Pharaoh will not give ear
to
you, so that my
wonders may be increased in the land of Egypt.
11:10 All these wonders Moses and Aaron did before Pharaoh:
but
the Lord made
Pharaoh's heart hard, and he did not let the
children of Israel go
out of his land.
12:1 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of
Egypt,
12:2 Let this month be to you the first of months, the first
month of the year.
12:3 Say to all the children of Israel when they are come
together, In the
tenth day of this month every man is to take a
lamb, by the number
of their fathers' families, a lamb for
every family:
12:4 And if the lamb is more than enough for the family, let
that family and its
nearest neighbour have a lamb between them,
taking into account
the number of persons and how much food is
needed for every man.
12:5 Let your lamb be without a mark, a male in its first
year:
you may take it from
among the sheep or the goats:
12:6 Keep it till the fourteenth day of the same month, when
everyone who is of
the children of Israel is to put it to death
between sundown and
dark.
12:7 Then take some of the blood and put it on the two sides
of
the door and over the
door of the house where the meal is to be
taken.
12:8 And let your food that night be the flesh of the lamb,
cooked with fire in
the oven, together with unleavened bread
and bitter-tasting
plants.
12:9 Do not take it uncooked or cooked with boiling water,
but
let it be cooked in
the oven; its head with its legs and its
inside parts.
12:10 Do not keep any of it till the morning; anything which
is
not used is to be
burned with fire.
12:11 And take your meal dressed as if for a journey, with
your
shoes on your feet
and your sticks in your hands: take it
quickly: it is the
Lord's Passover.
12:12 For on that night I will go through the land of Egypt,
sending death on
every first male child, of man and of beast,
and judging all the
gods of Egypt: I am the Lord.
12:13 And the blood will be a sign on the houses where you
are:
when I see the blood
I will go over you, and no evil will come
on you for your
destruction, when my hand is on the land of
Egypt.
12:14 And this day is to be kept in your memories: you are
to
keep it as a feast to
the Lord through all your generations, as
an order for ever.
12:15 For seven days let your food be unleavened bread; from
the
first day no leaven
is to be seen in your houses: whoever takes
bread with leaven in
it, from the first till the seventh day,
will be cut off from
Israel.
12:16 And on the first day there is to be a holy meeting and
on
the seventh day a
holy meeting; no sort of work may be done on
those days but only
to make ready what is necessary for
everyone's food.
12:17 So keep the feast of unleavened bread; for on this
very
day I have taken your
armies out of the land of Egypt: this
day, then, is to be
kept through all your generations by an
order for ever.
12:18 In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth
day, let your food be
unleavened bread till the evening of the
twenty-first day of
the month.
12:19 For seven days no leaven is to be seen in your houses:
for
whoever takes bread
which is leavened will be cut off from the
people of Israel, if
he is from another country or if he is an
Israelite by birth.
12:20 Take nothing which has leaven in it; wherever you are
living let your food
be unleavened cakes.
12:21 Then Moses sent for the chiefs of Israel, and said to
them, See that lambs
are marked out for yourselves and your
families, and let the
Passover lamb be put to death.
12:22 And take some hyssop and put it in the blood in the
basin,
touching the two
sides and the top of the doorway with the
blood from the basin;
and let not one of you go out of his
house till the
morning.
12:23 For the Lord will go through the land, sending death
on
the Egyptians; and
when he sees the blood on the two sides and
the top of the door,
the Lord will go over your door and will
not let death come in
for your destruction.
12:24 And you are to keep this as an order to you and to
your
sons for ever.
12:25 And when you come into the land which the Lord will
make
yours, as he gave his
word, you are to keep this act of
worship.
12:26 And when your children say to you, What is the reason
of
this act of worship?
12:27 Then you will say, This is the offering of the Lord's
Passover; for he went
over the houses of the children of Israel
in Egypt, when he
sent death on the Egyptians, and kept our
families safe. And
the people gave worship with bent heads.
12:28 And the children of Israel went and did so; as the
Lord
had given orders to
Moses and Aaron, so they did.
12:29 And in the middle of the night the Lord sent death on
every first male
child in the land of Egypt, from the child of
Pharaoh on his seat
of power to the child of the prisoner in
the prison; and the
first births of all the cattle.
12:30 Then Pharaoh got up in the night, he and all his
servants
and all the
Egyptians; and a great cry went up from Egypt; for
there was not a house
where someone was not dead.
12:31 And he sent for Moses and Aaron by night, and said,
Get up
and go out from among
my people, you and the children of
Israel; go and give
worship to the Lord as you have said.
12:32 And take your flocks and your herds as you have said,
and
be gone; and give me
your blessing.
12:33 And the Egyptians were forcing the people on, to get
them
out of the land
quickly; for they said, We are all dead men.
12:34 And the people took their bread-paste before it was
leavened, putting
their basins in their clothing on their
backs.
12:35 And the children of Israel had done as Moses had said;
and
they got from the
Egyptians ornaments of silver and of gold,
and clothing:
12:36 And the Lord had given the people grace in the eyes of
the
Egyptians so that
they gave them whatever was requested. So
they took away all
their goods from the Egyptians.
12:37 And the children of Israel made the journey from
Rameses
to Succoth; there
were about six hundred thousand men on foot,
as well as children.
12:38 And a mixed band of people went with them; and flocks
and
herds in great
numbers.
12:39 And they made unleavened cakes from the paste which
they
had taken out of
Egypt; it was not leavened, for they had been
sent out of Egypt so
quickly, that they had no time to make any
food ready.
12:40 Now the children of Israel had been living in Egypt
for
four hundred and
thirty years.
12:41 And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, to
the
very day, all the
armies of the Lord went out of the land of
Egypt.
12:42 It is a watch-night before the Lord who took them out
of
the land of Egypt:
this same night is a watch-night to the Lord
for all the children
of Israel, through all their generations.
12:43 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, This is the law
of
the Passover: no man
who is not an Israelite is to take of it:
12:44 But every man's servant, whom he has got for money,
may
take of it, when he
has had circumcision.
12:45 A man from a strange country living among you, and a
servant working for
payment, may not take part in it.
12:46 It is to be taken in one house; not a bit of the flesh
is
to be taken out of
the house, and no bone of it may be broken.
12:47 All Israel is to keep the feast.
12:48 And if a man from another country is living with you,
and
has a desire to keep
the Passover to the Lord, let all the
males of his family
undergo circumcision, and then let him come
near and keep it; for
he will then be as one of your people;
but no one without
circumcision may keep it.
12:49 The law is the same for him who is an Israelite by
birth
and for the man from
a strange country who is living with you.
12:50 So the children of Israel did as the Lord gave orders
to
Moses and Aaron.
12:51 And on that very day the Lord took the children of
Israel
out of the land of
Egypt by their armies.
13:1 And the Lord said to Moses,
13:2 Let the first male child of every mother among the
children
of Israel be kept
holy for me, even the first male birth among
man or beast; for it
is mine.
13:3 And Moses said to the people, Let this day, on which
you
came out of Egypt,
out of your prison-house, be kept for ever
in memory; for by the
strength of his hand the Lord has taken
you out from this
place; let no leavened bread be used.
13:4 On this day, in the month Abib, you are going out.
13:5 And it will be that, when the Lord takes you into the
land
of the Canaanite and
the Hittite and the Amorite and the Hivite
and the Jebusite, the
land which he made an oath to your
fathers that he would
give you, a land flowing with milk and
honey, you will do
this act of worship in this month.
13:6 For seven days let your food be unleavened cakes; and
on
the seventh day there
is to be a feast to the Lord.
13:7 Unleavened cakes are to be your food through all the
seven
days; let no leavened
bread be seen among you, or any leaven,
in any part of your
land.
13:8 And you will say to your son in that day, It is because
of
what the Lord did for
me when I came out of Egypt.
13:9 And this will be for a sign to you on your hand and for
a
mark on your brow, so
that the law of the Lord may be in your
mouth: for with a
strong hand the Lord took you out of Egypt.
13:10 So let this order be kept, at the right time, from
year to
year.
13:11 And when the Lord takes you into the land of Canaan,
as he
made his oath to you
and to your fathers, and gives it to you,
13:12 You are to put on one side for the Lord every mother's
first male child, the
first-fruit of her body, and the first
young one of every
beast; every male is holy to the Lord.
13:13 And for the young of an ass you may give a lamb in
payment, or if you
will not make payment for it, its neck is to
be broken; but for
all the first sons among your children, let
payment be made.
13:14 And when your son says to you in time to come, What is
the
reason for this? say
to him, By the strength of his hand the
Lord took us out of
Egypt, out of the prison-house:
13:15 And when Pharaoh made his heart hard and would not let
us
go, the Lord sent
death on all the first sons in Egypt, of man
and of beast: and so
every first male who comes to birth is
offered to the Lord;
but for all the first of my sons I give a
price.
13:16 And this will be for a sign on your hand and for a
mark on
your brow: for by the
strength of his hand the Lord took us out
of Egypt.
13:17 Now after Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not
take
them through the land
of the Philistines, though that was near:
for God said, If the
people see war, they may have a change of
heart and go back to
Egypt.
13:18 But God took the people round by the waste land near
the
Red Sea: and the
children of Israel went up in fighting order
out of the land of
Egypt.
13:19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for
Joseph
had made the children
of Israel take an oath, saying, God will
certainly keep you in
mind; and you are to take my bones away
with you.
13:20 Then they went on their journey from Succoth, and put
up
their tents in Etham
at the edge of the waste land.
13:21 And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of
cloud,
guiding them on their
way; and by night in a pillar of fire to
give them light: so
that they were able to go on day and night:
13:22 The pillar of cloud went ever before them by day, and
the
pillar of fire by
night.
14:1 And the Lord said to Moses,
14:2 Give orders to the children of Israel to go back and
put up
their tents before
Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, in
front of Baal-zephon,
opposite to which you are to put up your
tents by the sea.
14:3 And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They
are
wandering without
direction, they are shut in by the waste
land.
14:4 And I will make Pharaoh's heart hard, and he will come
after them and I will
be honoured over Pharaoh and all his
army, so that the
Egyptians may see that I am the Lord. And
they did so.
14:5 And word came to Pharaoh of the flight of the people:
and
the feeling of
Pharaoh and of his servants about the people was
changed, and they
said, Why have we let Israel go, so that they
will do no more work
for us?
14:6 So he had his war-carriage made ready and took his
people
with him:
14:7 And he took six hundred carriages, all the carriages of
Egypt, and captains
over all of them.
14:8 And the Lord made the heart of Pharaoh hard, and he
went
after the children of
Israel: for the children of Israel had
gone out without
fear.
14:9 But the Egyptians went after them, all the horses and
carriages of Pharaoh,
and his horsemen, and his army, and
overtook them in
their tents by the sea, by Pihahiroth, before
Baal-zephon.
14:10 And when Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel,
lifting up their
eyes, saw the Egyptians coming after them, and
were full of fear;
and their cry went up to God.
14:11 And they said to Moses, Was there no resting-place for
the
dead in Egypt, that
you have taken us away to come to our death
in the waste land?
why have you taken us out of Egypt?
14:12 Did we not say to you in Egypt, Let us be as we are,
working for the
Egyptians? for it is better to be the servants
of the Egyptians than
to come to our death in the waste land.
14:13 But Moses said, Keep where you are and have no fear;
now
you will see the
salvation of the Lord which he will give you
today; for the
Egyptians whom you see today you will never see
again.
14:14 The Lord will make war for you, you have only to keep
quiet.
14:15 And the Lord said to Moses, Why are you crying out to
me?
give the children of
Israel the order to go forward.
14:16 And let your rod be lifted up and your hand stretched
out
over the sea, and it
will be parted in two; and the children of
Israel will go
through on dry land.
14:17 And I will make the heart of the Egyptians hard, and
they
will go in after
them: and I will be honoured over Pharaoh and
over his army, his
war-carriages, and his horsemen.
14:18 And the Egyptians will see that I am the Lord, when I
get
honour over Pharaoh
and his war-carriages and his horsemen.
14:19 Then the angel of God, who had been before the tents
of
Israel, took his
place at their back; and the pillar of cloud,
moving from before
them, came to rest at their back:
14:20 And it came between the army of Egypt and the army of
Israel; and there was
a dark cloud between them, and they went
on through the night;
but the one army came no nearer to the
other all the night.
14:21 And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea,
the
Lord with a strong
east wind made the sea go back all night,
and the waters were
parted in two and the sea became dry land.
14:22 And the children of Israel went through the sea on dry
land: and the waters
were a wall on their right side and on
their left.
14:23 Then the Egyptians went after them into the middle of
the
sea, all Pharaoh's
horses and his war-carriages and his
horsemen.
14:24 And in the morning watch, the Lord, looking out on the
armies of the
Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, sent
trouble on the army
of the Egyptians;
14:25 And made the wheels of their war-carriages stiff, so
that
they had hard work
driving them: so the Egyptians said, Let us
go in flight from
before the face of Israel, for the Lord is
fighting for them
against the Egyptians.
14:26 And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched
out
over the sea, and the
waters will come back again on the
Egyptians, and on
their war-carriages and on their horsemen.
14:27 And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea,
at
dawn the sea came
flowing back, meeting the Egyptians in their
flight, and the Lord
sent destruction on the Egyptians in the
middle of the sea.
14:28 And the waters came back, covering the war-carriages
and
the horsemen and all
the army of Pharaoh which went after them
into the middle of
the sea; not one of them was to be seen.
14:29 But the children of Israel went through the sea
walking on
dry land, and the
waters were a wall on their right side and on
their left.
14:30 So that day the Lord gave Israel salvation from the
hands
of the Egyptians; and
Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the
sea's edge.
14:31 And Israel saw the great work which the Lord had done
against the
Egyptians, and the fear of the Lord came on the
people and they had
faith in the Lord and in his servant Moses.
15:1 Then Moses and the children of Israel made this song to
the
Lord, and said, I
will make a song to the Lord, for he is
lifted up in glory:
the horse and the horseman he has sent down
into the sea.
15:2 The Lord is my strength and my strong helper, he has
become
my salvation: he is
my God and I will give him praise; my
father's God and I
will give him glory.
15:3 The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name.
15:4 Pharaoh's war-carriages and his army he has sent down
into
the sea: the best of
his captains have gone down into the Red
Sea.
15:5 They were covered by the deep waters: like a stone they
went down under the
waves.
15:6 Full of glory, O Lord, is the power of your right hand;
by
your right hand those
who came against you are broken.
15:7 When you are lifted up in power, all those who come
against
you are crushed: when
you send out your wrath, they are burned
up like dry grass.
15:8 By your breath the waves were massed together, the
flowing
waters were lifted up
like a pillar; the deep waters became
solid in the heart of
the sea.
15:9 Egypt said, I will go after them, I will overtake, I
will
make division of
their goods: my desire will have its way with
them; my sword will
be uncovered, my hand will send destruction
on them.
15:10 You sent your wind and the sea came over them: they
went
down like lead into
the great waters.
15:11 Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? who is like
you,
in holy glory, to be
praised with fear, doing wonders?
15:12 When your right hand was stretched out, the mouth of
the
earth was open for
them.
15:13 In your mercy you went before the people whom you have
made yours; guiding
them in your strength to your holy place.
15:14 Hearing of you the peoples were shaking in fear: the
people of Philistia
were gripped with pain.
15:15 The chiefs of Edom were troubled in heart; the strong
men
of Moab were in the
grip of fear: all the people of Canaan
became like water.
15:16 Fear and grief came on them; by the strength of your
arm
they were turned to
stone; till your people went over, O Lord,
till the people went
over whom you have made yours.
15:17 You will take them in, planting them in the mountain
of
your heritage, the
place, O Lord, where you have made your
house, the holy
place, O Lord, the building of your hands.
15:18 The Lord is King for ever and ever.
15:19 For the horses of Pharaoh, with his war-carriages and
his
horsemen, went into
the sea, and the Lord sent the waters of
the sea back over
them; but the children of Israel went through
the sea on dry land.
15:20 And Miriam, the woman prophet, the sister of Aaron,
took
an instrument of
music in her hand; and all the women went
after her with music
and dances.
15:21 And Miriam, answering, said, Make a song to the Lord,
for
he is lifted up in
glory; the horse and the horseman he has
sent into the sea.
15:22 Then Moses took Israel forward from the Red Sea, and
they
went out into the
waste land of Shur; and for three days they
were in the waste
land where there was no water.
15:23 And when they came to Marah, the water was no good for
drinking, for the
waters of Marah were bitter, which is why it
was named Marah.
15:24 And the people, crying out against Moses, said, What
are
we to have for drink?
15:25 And in answer to his prayer, the Lord made him see a
tree,
and when he put it
into the water, the water was made sweet.
There he gave them a
law and an order, testing them;
15:26 And he said, If with all your heart you will give
attention to the
voice of the Lord your God, and do what is
right in his eyes,
giving ear to his orders and keeping his
laws, I will not put
on you any of the diseases which I put on
the Egyptians: for I
am the Lord your life-giver.
15:27 And they came to Elim where there were twelve
water-springs and
seventy palm-trees: and they put up their
tents there by the
waters.
16:1 And they went on their way from Elim, and all the
children
of Israel came into
the waste land of Sin, which is between
Elim and Sinai, on
the fifteenth day of the second month after
they went out of the
land of Egypt.
16:2 And all the children of Israel were crying out against
Moses and Aaron in
the waste land:
16:3 And the children of Israel said to them, It would have
been
better for the Lord
to have put us to death in the land of
Egypt, where we were
seated by the flesh-pots and had bread
enough for our needs;
for you have taken us out to this waste
of sand, to put all
this people to death through need of food.
16:4 Then the Lord said to Moses, See, I will send down
bread
from heaven for you;
and the people will go out every day and
get enough for the
day's needs; so that I may put them to the
test to see if they
will keep my laws or not.
16:5 And on the sixth day they are to make ready what they
get
in, and it will be
twice as much as they get on the other days.
16:6 And Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel,
This evening it will
be clear to you that it is the Lord who
has taken you out of
the land of Egypt:
16:7 And in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord;
for
your angry words
against the Lord have come to his ears: and
what are we that you
are crying out against us?
16:8 And Moses said, The Lord will give you meat for your
food
at evening, and in
the morning bread in full measure; for your
outcry against the
Lord has come to his ears: for what are we?
your outcry is not
against us but against the Lord.
16:9 And Moses said to Aaron, Say to all the people of
Israel,
Come near before the
Lord for he has given ear to your outcry.
16:10 And while Aaron was talking to the children of Israel,
their eyes were
turned in the direction of the waste land, and
they saw the glory of
the Lord shining in the cloud.
16:11 And the Lord said to Moses,
16:12 The outcry of the children of Israel has come to my
ears:
say to them now, At
nightfall you will have meat for your food,
and in the morning
bread in full measure; and you will see that
I am the Lord your
God.
16:13 And it came about that in the evening little birds
came up
and the place was
covered with them: and in the morning there
was dew all round
about the tents.
16:14 And when the dew was gone, on the face of the earth
was a
small round thing,
like small drops of ice on the earth.
16:15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said to
one
another, What is it?
for they had no idea what it was. And
Moses said to them,
It is the bread which the Lord has given
you for your food.
16:16 This is what the Lord has said, Let every man take up
as
much as he has need
of; at the rate of one omer for every
person, let every man
take as much as is needed for his family.
16:17 And the children of Israel did so, and some took more
and
some less.
16:18 And when it was measured, he who had taken up much had
nothing over, and he
who had little had enough; every man had
taken what he was
able to make use of.
16:19 And Moses said to them, Let nothing be kept till the
morning.
16:20 But they gave no attention to Moses, and some of them
kept
it till the morning
and there were worms in it and it had an
evil smell: and Moses
was angry with them.
16:21 And they took it up morning by morning, every man as
he
had need: and when
the sun was high it was gone.
16:22 And on the sixth day they took up twice as much of the
bread, two omers for
every person: and all the rulers of the
people gave Moses
word of it.
16:23 And he said, This is what the Lord has said, Tomorrow
is a
day of rest, a holy
Sabbath to the Lord: what has to be cooked
may be cooked; and
what is over, put on one side to be kept
till the morning.
16:24 And they kept it till the morning as Moses had said:
and
no smell came from
it, and it had no worms.
16:25 And Moses said, Make your meal today of what you have,
for
this day is a Sabbath
to the Lord: today you will not get any
in the fields.
16:26 For six days you will get it, but on the seventh day,
the
Sabbath, there will
not be any.
16:27 But still on the seventh day some of the people went
out
to get it, and there
was not any.
16:28 And the Lord said to Moses, How long will you go
against
my orders and my
laws?
16:29 See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, he
gives
you on the sixth day
bread enough for two days; let every man
keep where he is; let
no man go out of his place on the seventh
day.
16:30 So the people took their rest on the seventh day.
16:31 And this bread was named manna by Israel: it was
white,
like a grain seed,
and its taste was like cakes made with
honey.
16:32 And Moses said, This is the order which the Lord has
given: Let one omer
of it be kept for future generations, so
that they may see the
bread which I gave you for your food in
the waste land, when
I took you out from the land of Egypt.
16:33 And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot and put one omer
of
manna in it, and put
it away before the Lord, to be kept for
future generations.
16:34 So Aaron put it away in front of the holy chest to be
kept, as the Lord
gave orders to Moses.
16:35 And the children of Israel had manna for their food
for
forty years, till
they came to a land with people in it, till
they came to the edge
of the land of Canaan.
16:36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
17:1 And the children of Israel went on from the waste land
of
Sin, by stages as the
Lord gave them orders, and put up their
tents in Rephidim:
and there was no drinking-water for the
people.
17:2 So the people were angry with Moses, and said, Give us
water for drinking.
And Moses said, Why are you angry with me?
and why do you put
God to the test?
17:3 And the people were in great need of water; and they
made
an outcry against
Moses, and said, Why have you taken us out of
Egypt to send death
on us and our children and our cattle
through need of
water?
17:4 And Moses, crying out to the Lord, said, What am I to
do to
this people? they are
almost ready to put me to death by
stoning.
17:5 And the Lord said to Moses, Go on before the people,
and
take some of the
chiefs of Israel with you, and take in your
hand the rod which
was stretched out over the Nile, and go.
17:6 See, I will take my place before you on the rock in
Horeb;
and when you give the
rock a blow, water will come out of it,
and the people will
have drink. And Moses did so before the
eyes of the chiefs of
Israel.
17:7 And he gave that place the name Massah and Meribah,
because
the children of
Israel were angry, and because they put the
Lord to the test,
saying, Is the Lord with us or not?
17:8 Then Amalek came and made war on Israel in Rephidim.
17:9 And Moses said to Joshua, Get together a band of men
for us
and go out, make war
on Amalek: tomorrow I will take my place
on the top of the
hill with the rod of God in my hand.
17:10 So Joshua did as Moses said to him, and went to war
with
Amalek: and Moses,
Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the
hill.
17:11 Now while Moses' hand was lifted up, Israel was the
stronger: but when he
let his hand go down, Amalek became the
stronger.
17:12 But Moses' hands became tired; so they put a stone under
him and he took his
seat on it, Aaron and Hur supporting his
hands, one on one
side and one on the other; so his hands were
kept up without
falling till the sun went down.
17:13 And Joshua overcame Amalek and his people with the
sword.
17:14 And the Lord said to Moses, Make a record of this in a
book, so that it may
be kept in memory, and say it again in the
ears of Joshua: that
all memory of Amalek is to be completely
uprooted from the
earth.
17:15 Then Moses put up an altar and gave it the name of
Yahweh-nissi:
17:16 For he said, The Lord has taken his oath that there
will
be war with Amalek
from generation to generation.
18:1 Now news came to Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses'
father-in-law, of all
God had done for Moses and for Israel his
people, and how the
Lord had taken Israel out of Egypt.
18:2 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses'
wife, after he had
sent her away,
18:3 And her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom, for he
said, I have been
living in a strange land:
18:4 And the name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, The
God
of my father was my
help, and kept me safe from the sword of
Pharaoh:
18:5 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons
and
his wife to where
Moses had put up his tent in the waste land,
by the mountain of
God.
18:6 And he said to Moses, I, your father-in-law, have come
to
you, with your wife
and your two sons.
18:7 And Moses went out to his father-in-law, and went down
on
his face before him
and gave him a kiss; and they said to one
another, Are you
well? and they came into the tent.
18:8 And Moses gave his father-in-law an account of all the
Lord
had done to Pharaoh
and to the Egyptians because of Israel, and
of all the troubles
which had come on them by the way, and how
the Lord had given
them salvation.
18:9 And Jethro was glad because the Lord had been good to
Israel, freeing them
from the power of the Egyptians.
18:10 And Jethro said, Praise be to the Lord, who has taken
you
out of the hand of
Pharaoh and out of the hand of the
Egyptians; freeing
the people from the yoke of the Egyptians.
18:11 Now I am certain that the Lord is greater than all
gods,
for he has overcome
them in their pride.
18:12 Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, made a burned
offering
to God: and Aaron
came, with the chiefs of Israel, and had a
meal with Moses'
father-in-law, before God.
18:13 Now on the day after, Moses took his seat to give
decisions for the
people: and the people were waiting before
Moses from morning
till evening.
18:14 And when Moses' father-in-law saw all he was doing, he
said, What is this
you are doing for the people? why are you
seated here by
yourself, with all the people waiting before you
from morning till
evening?
18:15 And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the
people
come to me to get
directions from God:
18:16 And if they have any question between themselves, they
come to me, and I am
judge between a man and his neighbour, and
I give them the
orders and laws of God.
18:17 And Moses' father-in-law said to him, What you are
doing
is not good.
18:18 Your strength and that of the people will be
completely
used up: this work is
more than you are able to do by yourself.
18:19 Give ear now to my suggestion, and may God be with
you:
you are to be the
people's representative before God, taking
their causes to him:
18:20 Teaching them his rules and his laws, guiding them in
the
way they have to go,
and making clear to them the work they
have to do.
18:21 But for the rest, take from among the people able men,
such as have the fear
of God, true men hating profits wrongly
made; and put such
men over them, to be captains of thousands,
captains of hundreds
and of fifties and of tens;
18:22 And let them be judges in the causes of the people at
all
times: and let them
put before you all important questions, but
in small things let
them give decisions themselves: in this
way, it will be less
hard for you, and they will take the
weight off you.
18:23 If you do this, and God gives approval, then you will
be
able to go on without
weariness, and all this people will go to
their tents in peace.
18:24 So Moses took note of the words of his father-in-law,
and
did as he had said.
18:25 And he made selection of able men out of all Israel,
and
made them heads over
the people, captains of thousands,
captains of hundreds
and of fifties and of tens.
18:26 And they were judges in the causes of the people at
all
times: the hard
questions they put before Moses; but on every
small point they gave
decisions themselves.
18:27 And Moses let his father-in-law go away, and he went
back
to his land.
19:1 In the third month after the children of Israel went
out
from Egypt, on the
same day, they came into the waste land of
Sinai.
19:2 And when they had gone away from Rephidim and had come
into
the waste land of
Sinai, they put up their tents in the waste
land before the
mountain: there Israel put up its tents.
19:3 And Moses went up to God, and the voice of the Lord
came to
him from the
mountain, saying, Say to the family of Jacob, and
give word to the
children of Israel:
19:4 You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I
took
you, as on eagles'
wings, guiding you to myself.
19:5 If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my
agreement, you will
be my special property out of all the
peoples: for all the
earth is mine:
19:6 And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy
nation. These are the
words which you are to say to the
children of Israel.
19:7 And Moses came and sent for the chiefs of the people
and
put before them all
these words which the Lord had given him
orders to say.
19:8 And all the people, answering together, said, Whatever
the
Lord has said we will
do. And Moses took back to the Lord the
words of the people.
19:9 And the Lord said to Moses, See, I will come to you in
a
thick cloud, so that
what I say to you may come to the ears of
the people and they
may have belief in you for ever. And Moses
gave the Lord word of
what the people had said.
19:10 And the Lord said to Moses, Go to the people and make
them
holy today and
tomorrow, and let their clothing be washed.
19:11 And by the third day let them be ready: for on the
third
day the Lord will
come down on Mount Sinai, before the eyes of
all the people.
19:12 And let limits be marked out for the people round the
mountain, and say to
them, Take care not to go up the mountain
or near the sides of
it: whoever puts his foot on the mountain
will certainly come
to his death:
19:13 He is not to be touched by a hand, but is to be stoned
or
have an arrow put
through him; man or beast, he is to be put to
death: at the long
sounding of a horn they may come up to the
mountain.
19:14 Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people,
and
made the people holy;
and their clothing was washed.
19:15 And he said to the people, Be ready by the third day:
do
not come near a
woman.
19:16 And when morning came on the third day, there were
thunders and flames
and a thick cloud on the mountain, and a
horn sounding very
loud; and all the people in the tents were
shaking with fear.
19:17 And Moses made the people come out of their tents and
take
their places before
God; and they came to the foot of the
mountain,
19:18 And all the mountain of Sinai was smoking, for the
Lord
had come down on it
in fire: and the smoke of it went up like
the smoke of a great
burning; and all the mountain was shaking.
19:19 And when the sound of the horn became louder and
louder,
Moses' words were
answered by the voice of God.
19:20 Then the Lord came down on to Mount Sinai, to the top
of
the mountain, and the
Lord sent for Moses to come up to the top
of the mountain, and
Moses went up.
19:21 And the Lord said to Moses, Go down and give the
people
orders to keep back,
for fear that a great number of them,
forcing their way
through to see the Lord, may come to
destruction.
19:22 And let the priests who come near to the Lord make
themselves holy, for
fear that the Lord may come on them
suddenly.
19:23 And Moses said to the Lord, The people will not be
able to
come up the mountain,
for you gave us orders to put limits
round the mountain,
marking it out and making it holy.
19:24 And the Lord said to him, Go down, and you and Aaron
may
come up; but let not
the priests and the people make their way
through to the Lord,
or he will come on them suddenly.
19:25 So Moses went down to the people and said this to
them.
20:1 And God said all these words:
20:2 I am the Lord your God who took you out of the land of
Egypt, out of the
prison-house.
20:3 You are to have no other gods but me.
20:4 You are not to make an image or picture of anything in
heaven or on the
earth or in the waters under the earth:
20:5 You may not go down on your faces before them or give
them
worship: for I, the
Lord your God, am a God who will not give
his honour to
another; and I will send punishment on the
children for the
wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and
fourth generation of
my haters;
20:6 And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on
those who have love
for me and keep my laws.
20:7 You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your
God
for an evil purpose;
whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips
for an evil purpose
will be judged a sinner by the Lord
20:8 Keep in memory the Sabbath and let it be a holy day.
20:9 On six days do all your work:
20:10 But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God;
on
that day you are to
do no work, you or your son or your
daughter, your
man-servant or your woman-servant, your cattle
or the man from a
strange country who is living among you:
20:11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and
the
sea, and everything
in them, and he took his rest on the
seventh day: for this
reason the Lord has given his blessing to
the seventh day and
made it holy.
20:12 Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that
your life may be long
in the land which the Lord your God is
giving you.
20:13 Do not put anyone to death without cause.
20:14 Do not be false to the married relation.
20:15 Do not take the property of another.
20:16 Do not give false witness against your neighbour.
20:17 Let not your desire be turned to your neighbour's
house,
or his wife or his
man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox
or his ass or
anything which is his.
20:18 And all the people were watching the thunderings and
the
flames and the sound
of the horn and the mountain smoking; and
when they saw it,
they kept far off, shaking with fear.
20:19 And they said to Moses, To your words we will give
ear,
but let not the voice
of God come to our ears, for fear death
may come on us.
20:20 And Moses said to the people, Have no fear: for God
has
come to put you to
the test, so that fearing him you may be
kept from sin.
20:21 And the people kept their places far off, but Moses
went
near to the dark
cloud where God was.
20:22 And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of
Israel,
You yourselves have
seen that my voice has come to you from
heaven
20:23 Gods of silver and gods of gold you are not to make
for
yourselves.
20:24 Make for me an altar of earth, offering on it your
burned
offerings and your
peace-offerings, your sheep and your oxen:
in every place where
I have put the memory of my name, I will
come to you and give
you my blessing.
20:25 And if you make me an altar of stone do not make it of
cut
stones: for the touch
of an instrument will make it unclean.
20:26 And do not go up by steps to my altar, for fear that
your
bodies may be seen
uncovered.
21:1 Now these are the laws which you are to put before
them.
21:2 If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your
servant for six
years, and in the seventh year you are to let
him go free without
payment.
21:3 If he comes to you by himself, let him go away by
himself:
if he is married, let
his wife go away with him.
21:4 If his master gives him a wife, and he gets sons or
daughters by her, the
wife and her children will be the
property of the
master, and the servant is to go away by
himself.
21:5 But if the servant says clearly, My master and my wife
and
children are dear to
me; I have no desire to be free:
21:6 Then his master is to take him to the gods of the
house,
and at the door, or
at its framework, he is to make a hole in
his ear with a
sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his
servant for ever.
21:7 And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a
servant, she is not
to go away free as the men-servants do.
21:8 If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her
for
himself, let a
payment be made for her so that she may go free;
her master has no
power to get a price for her and send her to
a strange land,
because he has been false to her.
21:9 And if he gives her to his son, he is to do everything
for
her as if she was his
daughter.
21:10 And if he takes another woman, her food and clothing
and
her married rights
are not to be less.
21:11 And if he does not do these three things for her, she
has
the right to go free
without payment.
21:12 He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put
to
death.
21:13 But if he had no evil purpose against him, and God
gave
him into his hand, I
will give you a place to which he may go
in flight.
21:14 But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on
purpose,
to put him to death
by deceit, you are to take him from my
altar and put him to
death.
21:15 Any man who gives a blow to his father or his mother
is
certainly to be put
to death.
21:16 Any man who gets another into his power in order to
get a
price for him is to
be put to death, if you take him in the
act.
21:17 Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put
to
death.
21:18 If, in a fight, one man gives another a blow with a
stone,
or with the shut
hand, not causing his death, but making him
keep in bed;
21:19 If he is able to get up again and go about with a
stick,
the other will be let
off; only he will have to give him
payment for the loss
of his time, and see that he is cared for
till he is well.
21:20 If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant
blows
with a rod, causing
death, he is certainly to undergo
punishment.
21:21 But, at the same time, if the servant goes on living
for a
day or two, the
master is not to get punishment, for the
servant is his
property.
21:22 If men, while fighting, do damage to a woman with
child,
causing the loss of
the child, but no other evil comes to her,
the man will have to
make payment up to the amount fixed by her
husband, in agreement
with the decision of the judges.
21:23 But if damage comes to her, let life be given in
payment
for life,
21:24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for
foot,
21:25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, blow for blow.
21:26 If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a
blow
in the eye, causing
its destruction, he is to let him go free
on account of the
damage to his eye.
21:27 Or if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow, he
will
let him go free on
account of his tooth.
21:28 If an ox comes to be the cause of death to a man or a
woman, the ox is to
be stoned, and its flesh may not be used
for food; but the
owner will not be judged responsible.
21:29 But if the ox has frequently done such damage in the
past,
and the owner has had
word of it and has not kept it under
control, so that it
has been the cause of the death of a man or
woman, not only is
the ox to be stoned, but its owner is to be
put to death.
21:30 If a price is put on his life, let him make payment of
whatever price is
fixed.
21:31 If the death of a son or of a daughter has been
caused,
the punishment is to
be in agreement with this rule.
21:32 If the death of a man-servant or of a woman-servant is
caused by the ox, the
owner is to give their master thirty
shekels of silver,
and the ox is to be stoned.
21:33 If a man makes a hole in the earth without covering it
up,
and an ox or an ass
dropping into it comes to its death;
21:34 The owner of the hole is responsible; he will have to
make
payment to their
owner, but the dead beast will be his.
21:35 And if one man's ox does damage to another man's ox,
causing its death, then
the living ox is to be exchanged for
money, and division
made of the price of it, and of the price
of the dead one.
21:36 But if it is common knowledge that the ox has
frequently
done such damage in
the past, and its owner has not kept it
under control, he
will have to give ox for ox; and the dead
beast will be his.
22:1 If a man takes without right another man's ox or his
sheep,
and puts it to death
or gets a price for it, he is to give five
oxen for an ox, or
four sheep for a sheep, in payment: the
thief will have to
make payment for what he has taken; if he
has no money, he
himself will have to be exchanged for money,
so that payment may
be made.
22:2 If a thief is taken in the act of forcing his way into
a
house, and his death
is caused by a blow, the owner of the
house is not
responsible for his blood.
22:3 But if it is after dawn, he will be responsible.
22:4 If he still has what he had taken, whatever it is, ox
or
ass or sheep, he is
to give twice its value.
22:5 If a man makes a fire in a field or a vine-garden, and
lets
the fire do damage to
another man's field, he is to give of the
best produce of his
field or his vine-garden to make up for it.
22:6 If there is a fire and the flames get to the thorns at
the
edge of the field,
causing destruction of the cut grain or of
the living grain, or
of the field, he who made the fire will
have to make up for
the damage.
22:7 If a man puts money or goods in the care of his
neighbour
to keep for him, and
it is taken from the man's house, if they
get the thief, he
will have to make payment of twice the value.
22:8 If they do not get the thief, let the master of the
house
come before the
judges and take an oath that he has not put his
hand on his
neighbour's goods.
22:9 In any question about an ox or an ass or a sheep or
clothing, or about
the loss of any property which anyone says
is his, let the two
sides put their cause before God; and he
who is judged to be
in the wrong is to make payment to his
neighbour of twice
the value.
22:10 If a man puts an ass or an ox or a sheep or any beast
into
the keeping of his
neighbour, and it comes to death or is
damaged or is taken
away, without any person seeing it:
22:11 If he takes his oath before the Lord that he has not
put
his hand to his
neighbour's goods, the owner is to take his
word for it and he
will not have to make payment for it.
22:12 But if it is taken from him by a thief, he is to make
up
for the loss of it to
its owner.
22:13 But if it has been damaged by a beast, and he is able
to
make this clear, he
will not have to make payment for what was
damaged.
22:14 If a man gets from his neighbour the use of one of his
beasts, and it is
damaged or put to death when the owner is not
with it, he will
certainly have to make payment for the loss.
22:15 If the owner is with it, he will not have to make
payment:
if he gave money for
the use of it, the loss is covered by the
payment.
22:16 If a man takes a virgin, who has not given her word to
another man, and has
connection with her, he will have to give
a bride-price for her
to be his wife.
22:17 If her father will not give her to him on any account,
he
will have to give the
regular payment for virgins.
22:18 Any woman using unnatural powers or secret arts is to
be
put to death.
22:19 Any man who has sex connection with a beast is to be
put
to death.
22:20 Complete destruction will come on any man who makes
offerings to any
other god but the Lord.
22:21 Do no wrong to a man from a strange country, and do
not be
hard on him; for you
yourselves were living in a strange
country, in the land
of Egypt.
22:22 Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is
dead.
22:23 If you are cruel to them in any way, and their cry
comes
up to me, I will
certainly give ear;
22:24 And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death
with
the sword, so that
your wives will be widows and your children
without fathers.
22:25 If you let any of the poor among my people have the
use of
your money, do not be
a hard creditor to him, and do not take
interest.
22:26 If ever you take your neighbour's clothing in exchange
for
the use of your
money, let him have it back before the sun goes
down:
22:27 For it is the only thing he has for covering his skin;
what is he to go to
sleep in? and when his cry comes up to me,
I will give ear, for
my mercy is great.
22:28 You may not say evil of the judges, or put a curse on
the
ruler of your people.
22:29 Do not keep back your offerings from the wealth of
your
grain and your vines.
The first of your sons you are to give to
me.
22:30 In the same way with your oxen and your sheep: for
seven
days let the young
one be with its mother; on the eighth day
give it to me.
22:31 You are to be holy men to me: the flesh of no animal
whose
death has been caused
by the beasts of the field may be used
for your food; it is
to be given to the dogs.
23:1 Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an
agreement with
evil-doers to be a false witness.
23:2 Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or
give
the support of your
words to a wrong decision:
23:3 But, on the other hand, do not be turned from what is
right
in order to give
support to a poor man's cause.
23:4 If you come across the ox or the ass of one who is no
friend to you
wandering from its way, you are to take it back
to him.
23:5 If you see the ass of one who has no love for you bent
down
to the earth under
the weight which is put on it, you are to
come to its help,
even against your desire.
23:6 Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's
cause.
23:7 Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let
the
upright or him who
has done no wrong be put to death: for I
will make the
evil-doer responsible for his sin.
23:8 Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind
those
who have eyes to see,
and make the decisions of the upright
false.
23:9 Do not be hard on the man from a strange country who is
living among you; for
you have had experience of the feelings
of one who is far
from the land of his birth, because you
yourselves were
living in Egypt, in a strange land.
23:10 For six years put seed into your fields and get in the
increase;
23:11 But in the seventh year let the land have a rest and
be
unplanted; so that
the poor may have food from it: and let the
beasts of the field
take the rest. Do the same with your
vine-gardens and your
olive-trees.
23:12 For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep
the
Sabbath; so that your
ox and your ass may have rest, together
with the son of your
servant and the man from a strange land
living among you.
23:13 Take note of all these things which I have said to
you,
and let not the names
of other gods come into your minds or
from your lips.
23:14 Three times in the year you are to keep a feast to me.
23:15 You are to keep the feast of unleavened bread; for
seven
days let your bread
be without leaven, as I gave you orders, at
the regular time in
the month Abib (for in it you came out of
Egypt); and let no
one come before me without an offering:
23:16 And the feast of the grain-cutting, the first-fruits
of
your planted fields:
and the feast at the start of the year,
when you have got in
all the fruit from your fields.
23:17 Three times in the year let all your males come before
the
Lord God.
23:18 Do not give the blood of my offering with leavened
bread;
and do not let the
fat of my feast be kept all night till the
morning.
23:19 The best of the first-fruits of your land are to be
taken
into the house of the
Lord your God. The young goat is not to
be cooked in its
mother's milk.
23:20 See, I am sending an angel before you, to keep you on
your
way and to be your
guide into the place which I have made ready
for you.
23:21 Give attention to him and give ear to his voice; do
not go
against him; for your
wrongdoing will not be overlooked by him,
because my name is in
him.
23:22 But if you truly give ear to his voice, and do
whatever I
say, then I will be
against those who are against you, fighting
those who are
fighting you.
23:23 And my angel will go before you, guiding you into the
land
of the Amorite and
the Hittite and the Perizzite and the
Canaanite and the
Hivite and the Jebusite, and they will be cut
off by my hand.
23:24 Do not go down on your faces and give worship to their
gods, or do as they
do; but overcome them completely, and let
their pillars be
broken down.
23:25 And give worship to the Lord your God, who will send
his
blessing on your
bread and on your water; and I will take all
disease away from
among you.
23:26 All your animals will give birth without loss, not one
will be without young
in all your land; I will give you a full
measure of life.
23:27 I will send my fear before you, putting to flight all
the
people to whom you
come; all those who are against you will go
in flight, turning
their backs before you.
23:28 I will send hornets before you, driving out the Hivite
and
the Canaanite and the
Hittite before your face.
23:29 I will not send them all out in one year, for fear
that
their land may become
waste, and the beasts of the field be
increased overmuch
against you.
23:30 Little by little I will send them away before you,
till
your numbers are
increased and you take up your heritage in the
land.
23:31 I will let the limits of your land be from the Red Sea
to
the sea of the
Philistines, and from the waste land to the
river Euphrates: for
I will give the people of those lands into
your power; and you
will send them out before you.
23:32 Make no agreement with them or with their gods.
23:33 Let them not go on living in your land, or they will
make
you do evil against
me: for if you give worship to their gods,
it will certainly be
a cause of sin to you.
24:1 And he said to Moses, Come up to the Lord, you and
Aaron,
and Nadab and Abihu
and seventy of the chiefs of Israel; and
give me worship from
a distance.
24:2 And Moses only may come near to the Lord; but the
others
are not to come near,
and the people may not come up with them.
24:3 Then Moses came and put before the people all the words
of
the Lord and his
laws: and all the people, answering with one
voice, said, Whatever
the Lord has said we will do.
24:4 Then Moses put down in writing all the words of the
Lord,
and he got up early
in the morning and made an altar at the
foot of the mountain,
with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes
of Israel.
24:5 And he sent some of the young men of the children of
Israel
to make burned
offerings and peace-offerings of oxen to the
Lord.
24:6 And Moses took half the blood and put it in basins;
draining out half of
the blood over the altar.
24:7 And he took the book of the agreement, reading it in
the
hearing of the
people: and they said, Everything which the Lord
has said we will do,
and we will keep his laws.
24:8 Then Moses took the blood and let it come on the
people,
and said, This blood
is the sign of the agreement which the
Lord has made with
you in these words.
24:9 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of
the
chiefs of Israel went
up:
24:10 And they saw the God of Israel; and under his feet
there
was, as it seemed, a
jewelled floor, clear as the heavens.
24:11 And he put not his hand on the chiefs of the children
of
Israel: they saw God,
and took food and drink.
24:12 And the Lord said to Moses, Come up to me on the
mountain,
and take your place
there: and I will give you the stones on
which I have put in
writing the law and the orders, so that you
may give the people
knowledge of them.
24:13 Then Moses and Joshua his servant got up; and Moses
went
up into the mountain
of God.
24:14 And he said to the chiefs, Keep your places here till
we
come back to you:
Aaron and Hur are with you; if anyone has any
cause let him go to
them.
24:15 And Moses went up into the mountain, and it was
covered by
the cloud.
24:16 And the glory of the Lord was resting on Mount Sinai,
and
the cloud was over it
for six days; and on the seventh day he
said Moses' name out
of the cloud.
24:17 And the glory of the Lord was like a flame on the top
of
the mountain before
the eyes of the children of Israel.
24:18 And Moses went up the mountain, into the cloud, and
was
there for forty days
and forty nights.
25:1 And the Lord said to Moses,
25:2 Say to the children of Israel that they are to make me
an
offering; from every
man who has the impulse in his heart take
an offering for me.
25:3 And this is the offering you are to take from them:
gold
and silver and brass;
25:4 And blue and purple and red, and the best linen, and
goats'
hair;
25:5 And sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard
wood;
25:6 Oil for the light, spices for the sweet-smelling oil,
sweet
perfumes for burning;
25:7 Beryls and stones of value to be put on the ephod and
on
the priest's bag.
25:8 And let them make me a holy place, so that I may be
ever
present among them.
25:9 Make the House and everything in it from the designs
which
I will give you.
25:10 And they are to make an ark of hard wood; two and a
half
cubits long, and a
cubit and a half wide and high.
25:11 It is to be plated inside and out with the best gold,
with
an edge of gold all
round it
25:12 And make four rings of gold for it, to be fixed on its
four feet, two rings
on one side of it and two on the other.
25:13 And make rods of the same wood, plating them with
gold.
25:14 And put the rods through the rings at the sides of the
ark, for lifting it.
25:15 The rods are to be kept in the rings, and never taken
out.
25:16 Inside the ark you are to put the record which I will
give
you.
25:17 And you are to make a cover of the best gold, two and
a
half cubits long and
a cubit and a half wide.
25:18 And at the two ends of the cover you are to make two
winged ones of
hammered gold,
25:19 One at one end and one at the other; the winged ones
are
to be part of the
cover.
25:20 And their wings are to be outstretched over the cover,
and
the winged ones are
to be opposite one another, facing the
cover.
25:21 And put the cover over the ark, and in the ark the
record
which I will give
you.
25:22 And there, between the two winged ones on the cover of
the
ark, I will come to
you, face to face, and make clear to you
all the orders I have
to give you for the children of Israel.
25:23 And you are to make a table of the same wood, two
cubits
long, a cubit wide
and a cubit and a half high,
25:24 Plated with the best gold, with a gold edge all round
it;
25:25 And make a frame all round it, as wide as a man's
hand,
with a gold edge to
the frame.
25:26 And make four gold rings and put them at the four
angles,
on the four feet of
the table;
25:27 The rings are to be fixed under the frame to take the
rods
with which the table
is to be lifted.
25:28 Make rods of the same wood, plated with gold, for
lifting
the table.
25:29 And make the table-vessels, the spoons and the cups
and
the basins for
liquids, all of the best gold.
25:30 And on the table at all times you are to keep my holy
bread.
25:31 And you are to make a support for lights, of the best
gold; its base and
its pillar are to be of hammered gold; its
cups, its buds, and
its flowers are to be made of the same
metal.
25:32 It is to have six branches coming out from its sides;
three branches from
one side and three from the other.
25:33 Every branch having three cups made like almond
flowers,
every cup with a bud
and a flower, on all the branches.
25:34 And on the pillar, four cups like almond flowers,
every
one with its bud and
its flower:
25:35 And under every two branches a bud, made with the
branch,
for all the six
branches of it.
25:36 The buds and the branches are to be made of the same
metal; all together
one complete work of hammered gold.
25:37 Then you are to make its seven vessels for the lights,
putting them in their
place so that they give light in front of
it.
25:38 And the instruments and trays for use with it are all
to
be of the best gold.
25:39 A talent of gold will be needed for it, with all these
vessels.
25:40 And see that you make them from the design which you
saw
on the mountain.
26:1 And you are to make a House for me, with ten curtains
of
the best linen, blue
and purple and red, worked with designs of
winged ones by a good
workman.
26:2 Every curtain is to be twenty-eight cubits long and
four
cubits wide, all of
the same measure.
26:3 Five curtains are to be joined together, and the other
five
are to be joined together.
26:4 And you are to put twists of blue cord on the edge of
the
outside curtain of
the first group of five, and on the edge of
the outside curtain
of the second group of five;
26:5 Fifty twists on one curtain and fifty on the other, the
twists to be opposite
one another.
26:6 Then make fifty gold hooks, joining the curtains
together
by the hooks, and in
this way the House will be made.
26:7 And you are to make curtains of goats' hair for a tent
over
the House, eleven
curtains.
26:8 Every curtain is to be thirty cubits long and four
cubits
wide, all of the same
measure.
26:9 Five of these curtains are to be joined together, and
the
other six are to be
joined together, the sixth being folded
over to make a
hanging in front of the tent.
26:10 And you are to put fifty twists of cord on the edge of
the
outside curtain of
one group, and fifty twists on the edge of
the outside curtain
of the other group.
26:11 Then make fifty brass hooks and put the hooks into the
twists, joining the
tent together to make it one.
26:12 And the folded part which is over of the curtains of
the
tent, the
half-curtain which is folded back, will be hanging
down over the back of
the House.
26:13 And the cubit which is over of the ten curtains at the
sides will be hanging
over the two sides of the House as a
cover.
26:14 And then you are to make a cover for the tent, of
sheepskins coloured
red, and a cover of leather over that.
26:15 And you are to make upright boards of hard wood for
the
House.
26:16 Every board is to be ten cubits high and a cubit and a
half wide.
26:17 Every board is to be joined to the one nearest to it
by
two tongues, and so
for every board in the House.
26:18 These are the boards needed for the house; twenty
boards
for the south side,
26:19 With forty silver bases under the twenty boards, two
bases
under every board to
take its tongues.
26:20 And twenty boards for the second side of the house on
the
north,
26:21 With their forty silver bases, two under every board.
26:22 And six boards for the back of the House on the west,
26:23 With two boards for the angles of the House at the
back.
26:24 The two are to be joined together at the base and at
the
top to one ring,
forming the two angles.
26:25 So there are to be eight boards, with their sixteen
silver
bases, two bases
under every board.
26:26 And make rods of the same wood, five for the boards on
the
one side,
26:27 And five for the boards on the other side of the
House,
and five for the west
side of the House at the back.
26:28 And the middle rod is to go through the rings of all
the
boards from end to
end.
26:29 And the boards are to be plated with gold, having gold
rings for the rods to
go through: and the rods are to be plated
with gold.
26:30 And you are to make the House from the design which
you
saw on the mountain.
26:31 And you are to make a veil of the best linen, blue and
purple and red,
worked with designs of winged ones by a good
workman:
26:32 Hanging it by gold hooks from four pillars of wood, plated
with gold and fixed
in silver bases.
26:33 And you are to put up the veil under the hooks, and
put
inside it the ark of
the law: the veil is to be a division
between the holy
place and the most holy.
26:34 You are to put the cover on the ark of the law, inside
the
most holy place.
26:35 And outside the veil you are to put the table, and the
support for the
lights opposite the table on the south side of
the House; and the
table is to be on the north side.
26:36 And you are to make a curtain for the doorway of the
Tent,
of the best linen
with needlework of blue and purple and red.
26:37 And make five pillars for the curtain, of hard wood
plated
with gold; their
hooks are to be of gold and their bases of
brass
27:1 And make an altar of hard wood, a square altar, five
cubits
long, five cubits
wide and three cubits high.
27:2 Put horns at the four angles of it, made of the same,
plating it all with
brass.
27:3 And make all its vessels, the baskets for taking away
the
dust of the fire, the
spades and basins and meat-hooks and
fire-trays, of brass.
27:4 And make a network of brass, with four brass rings at
its
four angles.
27:5 And put the network under the shelf round the altar so
that
the net comes
half-way up the altar.
27:6 And make rods for the altar, of hard wood, plated with
brass.
27:7 And put the rods through the rings at the two opposite
sides of the altar,
for lifting it.
27:8 The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make
it
from the design which
you saw on the mountain.
27:9 And let there be an open space round the House, with
hangings for its
south side of the best linen, a hundred cubits
long.
27:10 Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases are to be
of
brass; the hooks of
the pillars and their bands are to be of
silver.
27:11 And on the north side in the same way, hangings a
hundred
cubits long, with
twenty pillars of brass on bases of brass;
their hooks and their
bands are to be of silver.
27:12 And for the open space on the west side, the hangings
are
to be fifty cubits
wide, with ten pillars and ten bases;
27:13 And on the east side the space is to be fifty cubits
wide.
27:14 On the one side of the doorway will be hangings
fifteen
cubits long, with
three pillars and three bases;
27:15 And on the other side, hangings fifteen cubits long,
with
three pillars and
three bases.
27:16 And across the doorway, a veil of twenty cubits of the
best linen, made of
needlework of blue and purple and red, with
four pillars and four
bases.
27:17 All the pillars round the open space are to have
silver
bands, with hooks of
silver and bases of brass.
27:18 The open space is to be a hundred cubits long, fifty
cubits wide, with
sides five cubits high, curtained with the
best linen, with
bases of brass.
27:19 All the instruments for the work of the House, and all
its
nails, and the nails
of the open space are to be of brass.
27:20 Give orders to the children of Israel to give you
clear
olive oil for the
lights, so that a light may be burning there
at all times.
27:21 Let Aaron and his sons put this in order, evening and
morning, before the
Lord, inside the Tent of meeting, outside
the veil which is
before the ark; this is to be an order for
ever, from generation
to generation, to be kept by the children
of Israel.
28:1 Now let Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, come
near from among the
children of Israel, so that they may be my
priests, even Aaron,
and Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar,
his sons.
28:2 And make holy robes for Aaron your brother, so that he
may
be clothed with glory
and honour.
28:3 Give orders to all the wise-hearted workmen, whom I
have
made full of the
spirit of wisdom, to make robes for Aaron, so
that he may be made
holy as my priest.
28:4 This is what they are to make: a priest's bag, an
ephod,
and a robe, and a
coat of coloured needlework, a head-dress,
and a linen band;
they are to make holy robes for Aaron your
brother and for his
sons, so that they may do the work of
priests for me.
28:5 They are to take the gold and blue and purple and red
and
the best linen,
28:6 And make the ephod of gold and blue and purple and red
and
the best linen, the
work of a designer.
28:7 It is to have two bands stitched to it at the top of
the
arms, joining it
together.
28:8 And the beautifully worked band, which goes on it, is
to be
of the same work and
the same material, of gold and blue and
purple and red and
twisted linen-work.
28:9 You are to take two beryl stones, on which the names of
the
children of Israel
are to be cut:
28:10 Six names on the one stone and six on the other, in
the
order of their birth.
28:11 With the work of a jeweller, like the cutting of a
stamp,
the names of the
children of Israel are to be cut on them, and
they are to be fixed
in twisted frames of gold.
28:12 And the two stones are to be placed on the ephod, over
the
arm-holes, to be
stones of memory for the children of Israel:
Aaron will have their
names on his arms when he goes in before
the Lord, to keep the
Lord in mind of them.
28:13 And you are to make twisted frames of gold;
28:14 And two chains of the best gold, twisted like cords;
and
have the chains fixed
on to the frames.
28:15 And make a priest's bag for giving decisions, designed
like the ephod, made
of gold and blue and purple and red and
the best linen.
28:16 It is to be square, folded in two, a hand-stretch long
and
a hand-stretch wide.
28:17 And on it you are to put four lines of jewels; the
first
line is to be a
cornelian, a chrysolite, and an emerald;
28:18 The second, a ruby, a sapphire, and an onyx;
28:19 The third, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
28:20 The fourth, a topaz, a beryl, and a jasper; they are
to be
fixed in twisted
frames of gold.
28:21 The jewels are to be twelve in number, for the names
of
the children of
Israel; every jewel having the name of one of
the twelve tribes cut
on it as on a stamp.
28:22 And you are to make two chains of gold, twisted like
cords, to be fixed to
the priest's bag.
28:23 And put two gold rings on the two ends of the bag.
28:24 Put the two gold chains on the two rings at the ends
of
the bag;
28:25 Joining the other ends of the chains to the gold
frames
and putting them on
the front of the ephod, at the top of the
arms.
28:26 Then make two gold rings and put them on the lower
ends of
the bag, at the edge
of it on the inner side nearest to the
ephod.
28:27 And make two more gold rings and put them on the front
of
the ephod at the top
of the arms, at the join, over the worked
band:
28:28 So that the rings on the bag may be fixed to the rings
of
the ephod by a blue
cord and on to the band of the ephod, so
that the bag may not
come loose from the ephod.
28:29 And so Aaron will have the names of the children of
Israel
on the priest's bag
over his heart whenever he goes into the
holy place, to keep
the memory of them before the Lord.
28:30 And in the bag you are to put the Urim and Thummim, so
that they may be on
Aaron's heart whenever he goes in before
the Lord; and Aaron
may have the power of making decisions for
the children of
Israel before the Lord at all times.
28:31 The robe which goes with the ephod is to be made all
of
blue;
28:32 With a hole at the top, in the middle of it; the hole
is
to be edged with a
band to make it strong like the hole in the
coat of a
fighting-man, so that it may not be broken open.
28:33 And round the skirts of it put fruits in blue and
purple
and red, with bells of
gold between;
28:34 A gold bell and a fruit in turn all round the skirts
of
the robe.
28:35 Aaron is to put it on for his holy work; and the sound
of
it will be clear,
when he goes into the holy place before the
Lord, and when he
comes out, keeping him safe from death.
28:36 You are to make a plate of the best gold, cutting on
it,
as on a stamp, these
words: HOLY TO THE LORD.
28:37 Put a blue cord on it and put it on the front of the
twisted head-dress:
28:38 And it will be over Aaron's brow, so that Aaron will
be
responsible for any
error in all the holy offerings made by the
children of Israel;
it will be on his brow at all times, so
that their offerings
may be pleasing to the Lord.
28:39 The coat is to be made of the best linen, worked in
squares; and you are
to make a head-dress of linen, and a linen
band worked in
needlework.
28:40 And for Aaron's sons you are to make coats, and bands,
and
head-dresses, so that
they may be clothed with glory and
honour.
28:41 These you are to put on Aaron, your brother, and on
his
sons, putting oil on
them, separating them and making them
holy, to do the work
of priests to me.
28:42 And you are to make them linen trousers, covering
their
bodies from the
middle to the knee;
28:43 Aaron and his sons are to put these on whenever they
go
into the Tent of
meeting or come near the altar, when they are
doing the work of the
holy place, so that they may be free from
any sin causing
death: this is to be an order for him and his
seed after him for
ever.
29:1 This is what you are to do to make them holy, to do the
work of priests to
me: Take one young ox and two male sheep,
without any mark on
them,
29:2 And unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mixed with
oil,
and thin unleavened
cakes on which oil has been put, made of
the best bread-meal;
29:3 Put these in a basket and take them, with the ox and
the
two sheep.
29:4 And let Aaron and his sons come to the door of the Tent
of
meeting, and there
let them be washed with water.
29:5 Take the robes, and put the coat and the dress and the
ephod and the
priest's bag on Aaron; put the band of needlework
round him,
29:6 And let the head-dress be placed on his head and the
holy
crown on the
head-dress.
29:7 Then take the oil and put it on his head.
29:8 And take his sons and put their robes on them;
29:9 And put the linen bands round Aaron and his sons, and
the
head-dresses on them,
to make them priests by my order for
ever: so you are to
make Aaron and his sons holy to me.
29:10 Then let the ox be taken in front of the Tent of
meeting:
and let Aaron and his
sons put their hands on its head.
29:11 And you are to put the ox to death before the Lord at
the
door of the Tent of
meeting.
29:12 Then take some of the blood of the ox, and put it on
the
horns of the altar
with your finger, draining out all the rest
of the blood at the
base of the altar.
29:13 And take all the fat covering the inside of the ox,
and
the fat joining the
liver and the two kidneys with the fat
round them, and let
them be burned on the altar;
29:14 But the flesh of the ox and its skin and its waste
parts
are to be burned
outside the circle of the tents, for it is a
sin-offering.
29:15 Then take one of the sheep, and let Aaron and his sons
put
their hands on its
head.
29:16 Then let it be put to death, so that the sides of the
altar are marked with
its blood.
29:17 Then the sheep is to be cut up into its parts, and
after
washing its legs and
its inside parts, you are to put them with
the parts and the
head,
29:18 And let them all be burned on the altar as a burned
offering to the Lord:
a sweet smell, an offering made by fire
to the Lord.
29:19 Then take the other sheep; and after Aaron and his
sons
have put their hands
on its head,
29:20 You are to put the sheep to death, and take some of
its
blood and put it on
the point of Aaron's right ear, and of the
right ears of his
sons, and on the thumbs of their right hands
and the great toes of
their right feet, dropping the rest of
the blood on the
sides of the altar.
29:21 Then take some of the blood on the altar, and the oil,
and
put it on Aaron and
his robes and on his sons and on their
robes, so that he and
his robes and his sons and their robes
may be made holy.
29:22 Then take the fat of the sheep, the fat tail, the fat
covering the insides,
and the fat joining the liver and the two
kidneys with the fat
round them, and the right leg; for by the
offering of this
sheep they are to be marked out as priests:
29:23 And take one bit of bread and one cake of oiled bread
and
one thin cake out of
the basket of unleavened bread which is
before the Lord:
29:24 And put them all on the hands of Aaron and of his
sons, to
be waved for a wave
offering before the Lord.
29:25 Then take them from their hands, and let them be
burned on
the burned offering
on the altar, a sweet smell before the
Lord, an offering
made by fire to the Lord.
29:26 Then take the breast of Aaron's sheep, waving it
before
the Lord; and it is
to be your part of the offering.
29:27 So you are to make holy the breast of the sheep which
is
waved and the leg
which is lifted up on high, that is, of the
sheep which is
offered for Aaron and his sons;
29:28 And it will be their part as a right for ever from the
children of Israel,
it is a special offering from the children
of Israel, made from
their peace-offerings, a special offering
lifted up to the
Lord.
29:29 And Aaron's holy robes will be used by his sons after
him;
they will put them on
when they are made priests.
29:30 For seven days the son who becomes priest in his place
will put them on when
he comes into the Tent of meeting to do
the work of the holy
place.
29:31 Then take the sheep of the wave offering and let its
flesh
be cooked in water in
a holy place.
29:32 And let Aaron and his sons make a meal of it, with the
bread in the basket,
at the door of the Tent of meeting.
29:33 All those things which were used as offerings to take
away
sin, and to make them
holy to be priests, they may have for
food: but no one who
is not a priest may have them, for they
are holy food.
29:34 And if any of the flesh of the offering or of the
bread is
over till the
morning, let it be burned with fire; it is not to
be used for food, for
it is holy.
29:35 All these things you are to do to Aaron and his sons
as I
have given you
orders: for seven days the work of making them
priests is to go on.
29:36 Every day an ox is to be offered as a sin-offering, to
take away sins: and
by this offering on it, you will make the
altar clean from sin;
and you are to put oil on it and make it
holy.
29:37 For seven days you are to make offerings for the altar
and
make it holy, so that
it may become completely holy, and
anything touching it
will become holy.
29:38 Now this is the offering which you are to make on the
altar: two lambs in
their first year, every day regularly.
29:39 One lamb is to be offered in the morning and the other
in
the evening:
29:40 And with the one lamb, a tenth part of an ephah of the
best meal, mixed with
a fourth part of a hin of clear oil; and
the fourth part of a
hin of wine for a drink offering.
29:41 And the other lamb is to be offered in the evening,
and
with it the same meal
offering and drink offering, for a sweet
smell, an offering
made by fire to the Lord.
29:42 This is to be a regular burned offering made from
generation to
generation, at the door of the Tent of meeting
before the Lord,
where I will come face to face with you and
have talk with you.
29:43 There I will come face to face with the children of
Israel, and the Tent
will be made holy by my glory
29:44 I will make holy the Tent of meeting and the altar:
and
Aaron and his sons I
will make holy, to be my priests
29:45 Among the children of Israel I will make my
living-place,
and I will be their
God.
29:46 And they will see that I am the Lord their God, who
took
them out of the land
of Egypt, so that I might be ever with
them: I am the Lord
their God.
30:1 And you are to make an altar for the burning of
perfume; of
hard wood let it be
made.
30:2 The altar is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit
wide,
and two cubits high,
and its horns are to be made of the same.
30:3 It is to be plated with the best gold, the top of it
and
the sides and the
horns, with an edging of gold all round it.
30:4 Under the edge on the two opposite sides, you are to
make
two gold rings, to
take the rods for lifting it.
30:5 And make these rods of the same wood, plating them with
gold.
30:6 And let it be placed in front of the veil before the
ark of
the law, before the
cover which is over the law, where I will
come face to face
with you.
30:7 And on this altar sweet spices are to be burned by
Aaron
every morning when he
sees to the lights.
30:8 And every evening, when he puts the lights up in their
places, the spices
are to be burned, a sweet-smelling smoke
going up before the
Lord from generation to generation for
ever.
30:9 No strange perfume, no burned offering or meal
offering,
and no drink offering
is to be offered on it.
30:10 And once every year Aaron is to make its horns clean:
with
the blood of the
sin-offering he is to make it clean once every
year from generation
to generation: it is most holy to the
Lord.
30:11 And the Lord said to Moses,
30:12 When you are taking the number of the children of
Israel,
let every man who is
numbered give to the Lord a price for his
life, so that no
disease may come on them when they are
numbered.
30:13 And this is what they are to give; let every man who
is
numbered give half a
shekel, by the scale of the holy place:
(the shekel being
valued at twenty gerahs:) this money is an
offering to the Lord.
30:14 Everyone who is numbered, from twenty years old and
over,
is to give an
offering to the Lord.
30:15 The man of wealth is to give no more and the poor man
no
less than the
half-shekel of silver, when the offering is made
to the Lord as the
price for your lives.
30:16 And you are to take this money from the children of
Israel
to be used for the
work of the Tent of meeting, to keep the
memory of the
children of Israel before the Lord and to be the
price of your lives.
30:17 And the Lord said to Moses,
30:18 You are to make a brass washing-vessel, with a brass
base;
and put it between
the Tent of meeting and the altar, with
water in it;
30:19 That it may be used by Aaron and his sons for washing
their hands and feet;
30:20 Whenever they go into the Tent of meeting they are to
be
washed with water, to
keep them from death; and whenever they
come near to do the
work of the altar, or to make an offering
by fire to the Lord,
30:21 Their hands and feet are to be washed. so that they
may be
safe from death: this
is an order to them for ever; to him and
his seed from
generation to generation.
30:22 And the Lord said to Moses,
30:23 Take the best spices, five hundred shekels' weight of
liquid myrrh, and of
sweet cinnamon half as much, that is, two
hundred and fifty
shekels, and two hundred and fifty shekels of
sweet calamus,
30:24 And of cassia, five hundred shekels' weight measured
by
the scale of the holy
place, and of olive oil a hin:
30:25 And make these into a holy oil, a perfume made by the
art
of the perfume-maker;
it is to be a holy oil.
30:26 This oil is to be put on the Tent of meeting, and on
the
ark of the law,
30:27 And on the table and all its vessels, and on the
support
for the lights, with
its vessels, and on the altar for burning
spices,
30:28 And on the altar of burned offerings with its vessels,
and
on the washing-vessel
and its base.
30:29 And you are to make them most holy; anything touching
them
will become holy.
30:30 And put the oil on Aaron and his sons, making them
holy to
do the work of
priests to me.
30:31 And say to the children of Israel, This is to be the
Lord's holy oil, from
generation to generation.
30:32 It is not to be used for man's flesh, and no other is
to
be made like it: holy
it is, and you are to keep it holy.
30:33 Whoever makes any like it, or puts it on one who is
not a
priest, will be cut
off from his people.
30:34 And the Lord said to Moses, Take sweet spices, stacte
and
onycha and galbanum,
with the best frankincense, in equal
weights;
30:35 And make from them a perfume, such as is made by the
art
of the perfume-maker,
mixed with salt, and clean and holy.
30:36 And put some of it, crushed very small, in front of
the
ark in the Tent of
meeting, where I will come face to face with
you; it is to be most
holy.
30:37 You are not to make any perfume like it for
yourselves: it
is to be kept holy to
the Lord.
30:38 Whoever makes any like it, for its sweet smell, will
be
cut off from his
people.
31:1 And the Lord said to Moses,
31:2 I have made selection of Bezalel, the son of Uri, by
name,
the son of Hur, of
the tribe of Judah:
31:3 And I have given him the spirit of God and made him
wise
and full of knowledge
and expert in every sort of handwork,
31:4 To do all sorts of delicate work in gold and silver and
brass;
31:5 In cutting stones for framing, and to do every form of
woodwork.
31:6 And I have made selection of Oholiab with him, the son
of
Ahisamach, of the
tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all who
are wise I have put
the knowledge to make whatever I have given
you orders to have
made;
31:7 The Tent of meeting, and the ark of the law, and the
cover
which is on it, and
all the things for the tent,
31:8 And the table with its vessels, and the holy
light-support
with all its vessels,
and the altar for the burning of spices,
31:9 And the altar of burned offerings with all its vessels,
and
the washing-vessel
with its base,
31:10 And the robes of needlework, the holy robes for Aaron
and
for his sons, for
their use when acting as priests,
31:11 And the holy oil, and the perfume of sweet spices for
the
holy place; they will
do whatever I have given you orders to
have done.
31:12 And the Lord said to Moses,
31:13 Say to the children of Israel that they are to keep my
Sabbaths; for the
Sabbath day is a sign between me and you
through all your
generations; so that you may see that I am the
Lord who makes you
holy.
31:14 So you are to keep the Sabbath as a holy day; and
anyone
not honouring it will
certainly be put to death: whoever does
any work on that day
will be cut off from his people.
31:15 Six days may work be done, but the seventh day is a
Sabbath of complete
rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any
work on the Sabbath
day is to be put to death.
31:16 And the children of Israel are to keep the Sabbath
holy,
from generation to
generation, by an eternal agreement.
31:17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for
ever; because in six
days the Lord made heaven and earth, and
on the seventh day he
took his rest and had pleasure in it.
31:18 And when his talk with Moses on Mount Sinai was ended,
he
gave him the two
stones of the law, two stones on which was the
writing made by the
finger of God.
32:1 And when the people saw that Moses was a long time
coming
down from the
mountain, they all came to Aaron and said to him,
Come, make us a god
to go before us: as for this Moses, who
took us up out of the
land of Egypt, we have no idea what has
become of him.
32:2 Then Aaron said to them, Take off the gold rings which
are
in the ears of your
wives and your sons and your daughters, and
give them to me.
32:3 And all the people took the gold rings from their ears
and
gave them to Aaron.
32:4 And he took the gold from them and, hammering it with
an
instrument, he made
it into the metal image of a young ox: and
they said, This is
your god, O Israel, who took you out of the
land of Egypt.
32:5 And when Aaron saw this, he made an altar before it,
and
made a public
statement, saying, Tomorrow there will be a feast
to the Lord.
32:6 So early on the day after they got up and made burned
offerings and
peace-offerings; and took their seats at the
feast, and then gave
themselves to pleasure.
32:7 And the Lord said to Moses, Go down quickly; for your
people, whom you took
out of the land of Egypt, are turned to
evil ways;
32:8 Even now they are turned away from the rule I gave
them,
and have made
themselves a metal ox and given worship to it and
offerings, saying,
This is your god, O Israel, who took you up
out of the land of
Egypt.
32:9 And the Lord said to Moses, I have been watching this
people, and I see
that they are a stiff-necked people.
32:10 Now do not get in my way, for my wrath is burning
against
them; I will send
destruction on them, but of you I will make a
great nation.
32:11 But Moses made prayer to God, saying, Lord, why is
your
wrath burning against
your people whom you took out of the land
of Egypt, with great
power and with the strength of your hand?
32:12 Why let the Egyptians say, He took them out to an evil
fate, to put them to
death on the mountains, cutting them off
from the earth? Let
your wrath be turned away from them, and
send not this evil on
your people.
32:13 Have in mind Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your
servants, to
whom you gave your
oath, saying, I will make your seed like the
stars of heaven in
number, and all this land will I give to
your seed, as I said,
to be their heritage for ever.
32:14 So the Lord let himself be turned from his purpose of
sending punishment on
his people.
32:15 Then Moses came down the mountain with the two stones
of
the law in his hand;
the stones had writing on their two sides,
on the front and on
the back.
32:16 The stones were the work of God, and the writing was
the
writing of God, cut
on the stones.
32:17 Now when the noise and the voices of the people came
to
the ears of Joshua,
he said to Moses, There is a noise of war
in the tents.
32:18 And Moses said, It is not the voice of men who are
overcoming in the
fight, or the cry of those who have been
overcome; it is the
sound of songs which comes to my ear.
32:19 And when he came near the tents he saw the image of
the
ox, and the people
dancing; and in his wrath Moses let the
stones go from his
hands, and they were broken at the foot of
the mountain.
32:20 And he took the ox which they had made, burning it in
the
fire and crushing it
to powder, and he put it in the water and
made the children of
Israel take a drink of it.
32:21 And Moses said to Aaron, What did the people do to you
that you let this
great sin come on them?
32:22 And Aaron said, Let not my lord be angry; you have
seen
how the purposes of
this people are evil.
32:23 For they said to me, Make us a god to go before us: as
for
this Moses, who took
us up out of the land of Egypt, we have no
idea what has come to
him.
32:24 Then I said to them, Whoever has any gold, let him
take it
off; so they gave it
to me, and I put it in the fire, and this
image of an ox came
out.
32:25 And Moses saw that the people were out of control, for
Aaron had let them
loose to their shame before their haters:
32:26 Then Moses took his place at the way into the tents,
and
said, Whoever is on
the Lord's side, let him come to me. And
all the sons of Levi
came together to him.
32:27 And he said to them, This is the word of the Lord, the
God
of Israel: Let every
man take his sword at his side, and go
from one end of the
tents to the other, putting to death his
brother and his friend
and his neighbour.
32:28 And the sons of Levi did as Moses said; and about
three
thousand of the
people were put to death that day.
32:29 And Moses said, You have made yourselves priests to
the
Lord this day; for
every one of you has made the offering of
his son and his
brother; the blessing of the Lord is on you
this day.
32:30 And on the day after, Moses said to the people, Great
has
been your sin: but I
will go up to the Lord, and see if I may
get forgiveness for
your sin.
32:31 Then Moses went back to the Lord and said, This people
has
done a great sin,
making themselves a god of gold;
32:32 But now, if you will give them forgiveness--but if
not,
let my name be taken
out of your book.
32:33 And the Lord said to Moses, Whoever has done evil
against
me will be taken out
of my book.
32:34 But now, go, take the people into that place of which
I
have given you word;
see, my angel will go before you: but when
the time of my
judging has come, I will send punishment on them
for their sin.
32:35 And the Lord sent punishment on the people because
they
gave worship to the
ox which Aaron made.
33:1 And the Lord said to Moses, Go forward from this place,
you
and the people whom
you have taken up out of the land of Egypt,
to that land about
which I made an oath to Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, saying, To
your seed will I give it.
33:2 And I will send an angel before you, driving out the
Canaanite and the
Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and
the Hivite and the
Jebusite:
33:3 Go up to that land flowing with milk and honey; but I
will
not go up among you,
for you are a stiff-necked people, for
fear that I send
destruction on you while you are on the way.
33:4 Hearing this bad news the people were full of grief,
and no
one put on his
ornaments.
33:5 And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of
Israel,
You are a
stiff-necked people: if I come among you, even for a
minute, I will send
destruction on you; so take off all your
ornaments, so that I
may see what to do with you.
33:6 So the children of Israel took off their ornaments at
Mount
Horeb, and did not
put them on again.
33:7 Now it was Moses' way to put up the Tent of meeting
outside
the tent-circle, at
some distance away; giving it the name of
The Tent of meeting.
And everyone desiring to make his prayer
to the Lord went to
the Tent of meeting outside the
tent-circle.
33:8 And whenever Moses went out to the Tent of meeting, all
the
people got up and
everyone went to the door of his tent,
looking after Moses
till he went inside the Tent.
33:9 And whenever Moses went into the Tent, the pillar of
cloud
came down, and took
its place by the door of the Tent, as long
as the Lord was
talking with Moses.
33:10 And all the people saw the cloud at the door of the
Tent,
and they went down on
their faces, everyone at the door of his
tent.
33:11 And the Lord had talk with Moses face to face, as a
man
may have talk with
his friend. And when Moses came back to the
tents, his servant,
the young man Joshua, the son of Nun, did
not come away from
the Tent.
33:12 And Moses said to the Lord, See, you say to me, Be
this
people's guide on
their journey, but you have not made clear to
me whom you will send
with me. But you have said, I have
knowledge of you by
name, and you have grace in my eyes.
33:13 If then I have grace in your eyes, let me see your
ways,
so that I may have
knowledge of you and be certain of your
grace; and my prayer
is that you will keep in mind that this
nation is your
people.
33:14 And he said, I myself will go with you and give you
rest.
33:15 And Moses said, If you yourself are not going with us,
do
not send us on from
here.
33:16 For is not the fact of your going with us the sign
that I
and this people have
grace in your eyes, so that we, that is, I
and your people, are
separate from all other people on the face
of the earth?
33:17 And the Lord said to Moses, I will do as you say: for
you
have grace in my
eyes, and I have knowledge of you by your
name.
33:18 And Moses said, O Lord, let me see your glory.
33:19 And he said, I will make all the light of my being
come
before you, and will
make clear to you what I am; I will be
kind to those to whom
I will be kind, and have mercy on those
on whom I will have
mercy.
33:20 But it is not possible for you to see my face, for no
man
may see me and still
go on living.
33:21 And the Lord said, See, there is a place near me, and
you
may take your place
on the rock:
33:22 And when my glory goes by, I will put you in a hole in
the
rock, covering you
with my hand till I have gone past:
33:23 Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my
back:
but my face is not to
be seen.
34:1 And the Lord said to Moses, Make two other stones like
the
first two; and I will
put on them the words which were on the
first stones, which
were broken by you.
34:2 And be ready by the morning, and come up on Mount
Sinai,
and come before me
there in the morning, on the top of the
mountain.
34:3 No one is to come up with you, and let no man be seen
anywhere on the
mountain; let no flocks or herds come near to
get their food at its
foot.
34:4 So Moses got two stones cut like the first; and early
in
the morning he went
up Mount Sinai, as the Lord had said, with
the two stones in his
hand.
34:5 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.
34:6 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;
34:7 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.
34:8 Then Moses quickly went down on his face in worship.
34:9 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.
34:10 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.
34:11 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.
34:12 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.
34:13 But their altars are to be overturned and their pillars
broken and their
images cut down:
34:14 For you are to be worshippers of no other god: for the
Lord is a God who
will not give his honour to another.
34:15 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,
34:16 Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their
daughters give
worship before their gods, they will make your
sons take part with
them.
34:17 Make for yourselves no gods of metal.
34:18 Keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days
your
food is to be bread
without leaven, as I gave you orders, at
the regular time in
the month Abib; for in that month you came
out of Egypt.
34:19 Every first male child is mine; the first male birth
of
your cattle, the
first male of every ox and sheep.
34:20 A lamb may be given in payment for the young of an
ass,
but if you will not
make payment for it, its neck will have to
be broken. For all
the first of your sons you are to make
payment. No one is to
come before me without an offering.
34:21 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.
34:22 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.
34:23 Three times in the year let all your males come before
the
Lord, the God of
Israel.
34:24 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.
34:25 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.
34:26 Take the first-fruits of your land as an offering to
the
house of the Lord
your God. Let not the young goat be cooked in
its mother's milk
34:27 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.
34:28 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.
34:29 Now when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the
two
stones in his hand,
he was not conscious that his face was
shining because of
his talk with God.
34:30 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.
34:31 Then Moses sent for them; and Aaron, with the chiefs
of
the people, came to
him; and Moses had talk with them.
34:32 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.
34:33 And at the end of his talk with them, Moses put a veil
over his face.
34:34 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;
34:35 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.
35:1 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.
35:2 Six days let work be done, but the seventh day is to be
a
holy day to you, a
Sabbath of rest to the Lord; whoever does
any work on that day
is to be put to death.
35:3 No fire is to be lighted in any of your houses on the
Sabbath day.
35:4 And Moses said to all the meeting of the children of
Israel, This is the
order which the Lord has given:
35:5 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;
35:6 And blue and purple and red and the best linen and goats'
hair,
35:7 And sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard
wood,
35:8 And oil for the lights, and spices for the holy oil and
for
the sweet perfumes
for burning.
35:9 And beryls and jewels to be cut for the ephod and for
the
priest's bag.
35:10 And let every wise-hearted man among you come and make
whatever has been
ordered by the Lord;
35:11 The House and its tent and its cover, its hooks and
its
boards, its rods and
its pillars and its bases;
35:12 The ark with its cover and its rods and the veil
hanging
before it;
35:13 The table and its rods and all its vessels, and the
holy
bread;
35:14 And the support for the lights, with its vessels and
its
lights and the oil
for the light;
35:15 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;
35:16 The altar of burned offerings, with its network of
brass,
its rods, and all its
vessels, the washing-vessel and its base;
35:17 The hangings for the open space, its pillars and their
bases, and the
curtain for the doorway;
35:18 The nails for the House, and the nails for the open
space
and their cords;
35:19 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.
35:20 And all the children of Israel went away from Moses.
35:21 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.
35:22 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.
35:23 And everyone who had blue and purple and red and the
best
linen and goats' hair
and sheepskins coloured red and leather,
gave them.
35:24 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.
35:25 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.
35:26 And those women who had the knowledge, made the goats'
hair into cloth.
35:27 And the rulers gave the beryls and the cut jewels for
the
ephod and the
priest's bag;
35:28 And the spice and the oil for the light, and the holy
oil
and the sweet
perfumes.
35:29 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.
35:30 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;
35:31 And he has made him full of the spirit of God, in all
wisdom and knowledge
and art of every sort;
35:32 As an expert designer of beautiful things, working in
gold
and silver and brass;
35:33 Trained in the cutting of stones and the ornamenting
of
wood and in every
sort of handwork.
35:34 And he has given to him, and to Oholiab, the son of
Ahisamach, of the
tribe of Dan, the power of training others.
35:35 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.
36:1 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.
36:2 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:
36:3 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.
36:4 Then the wise men, who were doing all the work of the
holy
place, came from
their work;
36:5 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.
36:6 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.
36:7 For the material they had was enough and more than
enough
for all the work
which had to be done.
36:8 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.
36:9 Every curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four
cubits
wide, all of the same
measure.
36:10 And five curtains were joined together, and the other
five
curtains were joined
together.
36:11 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.
36:12 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.
36:13 And they made fifty hooks of gold, joining the
curtains
one to another with
the hooks; and so the House was made.
36:14 And they made curtains of goats' hair for the tent;
eleven
curtains were made.
36:15 Every curtain was thirty cubits long and four cubits
wide,
all of the same
measure.
36:16 Five curtains were joined together to make one group,
and
six curtains were
joined together to make the other group.
36:17 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,
36:18 And fifty hooks of brass for joining them together to
make
the tent.
36:19 And they made a cover of sheepskins coloured red, to
go
over the tent, and a
cover of leather over that.
36:20 And for the uprights of the House they made boards of
hard
wood.
36:21 The boards were ten cubits long and one cubit and a
half
wide.
36:22 Every board had two tongues fixed into it; all the
boards
were made in this
way.
36:23 They made twenty boards for the south side of the
House:
36:24 And for these twenty boards, forty silver bases, two
bases
under every board, to
take its tongues.
36:25 And for the second side of the House, on the north,
they
made twenty boards,
36:26 With their forty silver bases, two bases for every
board.
36:27 And for the west side of the House, at the back, they
made
six boards,
36:28 And two boards for the angles at the back.
36:29 These were joined together at the base and at the top
to
one ring, so forming
the two angles.
36:30 So there were eight boards with sixteen bases of
silver,
two bases under every
board.
36:31 And they made rods of hard wood; five for the boards
on
one side of the
House,
36:32 And five for the boards on the other side of the
House,
and five for the
boards at the back, on the west.
36:33 The middle rod was made to go right through the rings
of
all the boards from
one end to the other.
36:34 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.
36:35 And he made the veil of the best linen, blue and
purple
and red, worked with
winged ones designed by expert workmen.
36:36 And they made four pillars for it of hard wood plated
with
gold: they had hooks
of gold and four silver bases.
36:37 And they made a curtain for the door of the tent, of
the
best linen with
needlework of blue and purple and red;
36:38 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.
37:1 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;
37:2 Plating it inside and out with the best gold, and
putting
an edge of gold all
round it.
37:3 And he made four gold rings for its four angles, two on
one
side and two on the
other,
37:4 And rods of the same wood plated with gold.
37:5 These rods he put in the rings at the sides of the ark,
for
lifting it.
37:6 And he made the cover all of gold, two and a half
cubits
long and a cubit and
a half wide.
37:7 And he made two winged ones, hammered out of one bit of
gold, for the two
ends of the cover;
37:8 Placing one at one end and one at the other; the winged
ones were part of the
cover.
37:9 And their wings were stretched out over the cover; the
faces of the winged
ones were opposite one another and facing
the cover.
37:10 And he made the table of hard wood, two cubits long, a
cubit wide and a
cubit and a half high;
37:11 Plating it with the best gold and putting a gold edge
all
round it.
37:12 And he made a frame all round it about as wide as a
man's
hand, edged with gold
all round.
37:13 And he made four gold rings, and put the rings at the
angles of its four
feet.
37:14 The rings were fixed under the frame to take the rods
with
which the table was
to be lifted.
37:15 The rods for lifting the table he made of hard wood
plated
with gold.
37:16 And all the table-vessels, the plates and spoons and
basins and the cups
for liquids, he made of the best gold.
37:17 Then he made the support for the lights, all of the
best
gold; its base and
its pillar were of hammered gold; its cups
and buds and flowers
were all made out of the same metal:
37:18 It had six branches coming out from its sides, three
from
one side and three
from the other;
37:19 Every branch having three cups made like almond
flowers,
every cup with a bud
and a flower on all the branches;
37:20 And on its pillar, four cups like almond flowers,
every
one with its bud and
its flower;
37:21 And under every two branches a bud, made with the
branch,
for all six branches
of it.
37:22 The buds and the branches were made of the same metal,
all
together one complete
work of the best hammered gold.
37:23 And he made the seven vessels for the lights, and all
the
necessary instruments
for it, of gold.
37:24 A talent of the best gold was used for the making of
it
and its vessels.
37:25 And he made the altar for the burning of spices, using
the
same hard wood; it
was square, a cubit long and a cubit wide
and two cubits high;
the horns made of the same.
37:26 The top and the sides and the horns were all plated
with
the best gold; and he
put an edge of gold all round it.
37:27 And he made two gold rings, placing them on the two
opposite sides under
the edge, to take the rods for lifting it.
37:28 The rods he made of the same hard wood, plating them
with
gold.
37:29 And he made the holy oil and the perfume of sweet
spices
for burning, after
the art of the perfume-maker.
38:1 The altar of burned offerings he made of hard wood; a
square altar, five
cubits long, five cubits wide and three
cubits high,
38:2 And he put horns at its four angles made of the same,
plating it all with
brass;
38:3 And brass was used for all the vessels of the altar,
the
baskets and the
spades, the basins and the meat-hooks and the
fire-trays; all the
vessels he made of brass
38:4 And he made a network of brass for the altar, under the
frame round it,
stretching half-way up;
38:5 And four rings for the four angles of this network, to
take
the rods.
38:6 The rods he made of hard wood plated with brass.
38:7 He put the rods through the rings at the opposite sides
of
the altar for lifting
it; he made the altar hollow, boarded in
with wood.
38:8 And he made the washing-vessel of brass on a brass
base,
using the polished
brass looking-glasses given by the women who
did work at the doors
of the Tent of meeting.
38:9 To make the open space, he put hangings on the south
side,
of the best linen, a
hundred cubits long:
38:10 Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were
brass;
and the hooks of the
pillars and their bands were of silver.
38:11 And for the north side. hangings a hundred cubits
long, on
twenty brass pillars
in brass bases, with silver hooks and
bands.
38:12 And on the west side, hangings fifty cubits long, on
ten
pillars in ten bases,
with silver bands.
38:13 And on the east side, the open space was fifty cubits
long.
38:14 The hangings on one side of the doorway were fifteen
cubits long, on three
pillars with their three bases;
38:15 And the same on the other side of the doorway; on this
side and on that the
hangings were fifteen cubits long, on
three pillars with
their three bases.
38:16 All the hangings were of the best linen.
38:17 And the bases of the pillars were of brass; their
hooks
and the bands round
the tops of them were of silver; all the
pillars were ringed
with silver.
38:18 And the curtain for the doorway of the open space was
of
the best linen, with
designs of blue and purple and red in
needlework; it was
twenty cubits long and five cubits high, to
go with the hangings
round the sides.
38:19 There were four pillars with their bases, all of
brass,
the hooks being of
silver, and their tops and their bands being
covered with silver.
38:20 All the nails used for the House and the open space
round
it were of brass.
38:21 This is the price of the making of the House, even the
House of witness, as
it was valued by the word of Moses, for
the work of the
Levites under the direction of Ithamar, the son
of Aaron the priest.
38:22 Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe
of
Judah, made
everything as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
38:23 And with him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the
tribe of Dan; a
designer and a trained workman, expert in
needlework of blue
and purple and red and the best linen.
38:24 The gold used for all the different work done for the
holy
place, the gold which
was given, was twenty-nine talents, and
seven hundred and
thirty shekels in weight, by the scale of the
holy place.
38:25 And the silver given by those who were numbered of the
people was a hundred
talents, and a thousand, seven hundred and
seventy-five shekels
in weight, by the scale of the holy place.
38:26 A beka, that is, half a shekel by the holy scale, for
everyone who was
numbered; there were six hundred and three
thousand, five
hundred and fifty men of twenty years old and
over.
38:27 Of this silver, a hundred talents was used for making
the
bases of the pillars
of the holy place and of the veil; a
talent for every
base.
38:28 And a thousand, seven hundred and seventy-five shekels
of
silver was used to
make the hooks for the pillars, and for
plating the tops of
the pillars and for making their bands.
38:29 The brass which was given was seventy talents, two
thousand four hundred
shekels;
38:30 From it he made the bases of the doorway of the Tent
of
meeting and the brass
altar and the network for it and all the
vessels for the
altar,
38:31 And the bases for the open space all round and for its
doorway, and all the
nails for the House and for the open
space.
39:1 And from the needlework of blue and purple and red they
made the robes used
for the work of the holy place, and the
holy robes for Aaron,
as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
39:2 The ephod he made of gold and blue and purple and red
and
the best linen;
39:3 Hammering the gold into thin plates and cutting it into
wires to be worked
into the blue and the purple and the red and
the linen by the
designer.
39:4 And they made two bands for joining its edges together
at
the top of the arms.
39:5 And the beautifully worked band which went on it was of
the
same design and the
same material, worked in gold and blue and
purple and red and
twisted linen-work, as the Lord gave orders
to Moses.
39:6 Then they made the beryl stones, fixed in twisted
frames of
gold and cut like the
cutting of a stamp, with the names of the
children of Israel.
39:7 These he put on the ephod, over the arm-holes, to be
stones
of memory for the
children of Israel, as the Lord had said to
Moses.
39:8 The priest's bag was designed like the ephod, of the
best
linen worked with
gold and blue and purple and red.
39:9 It was square and folded in two, as long and as wide as
the
stretch of a man's
hand;
39:10 And on it they put four lines of stones: in the first
line
was a carnelian, a
chrysolite, and an emerald;
39:11 In the second, a ruby, a sapphire, and an onyx;
39:12 In the third, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
39:13 In the fourth, a topaz, a beryl, and a jasper; they
were
fixed in twisted
frames of gold.
39:14 There were twelve stones for the twelve tribes of
Israel;
on every one the name
of one of the tribes of Israel was cut,
like the cutting of a
stamp.
39:15 And on the bag they put gold chains, twisted like
cords.
39:16 And they made two gold frames and two gold rings, the
rings being fixed to
the ends of the priest's bag;
39:17 And they put the two twisted chains on the two rings
at
the ends of the
priest's bag;
39:18 And the other two ends of the chains were joined to
the
two frames and fixed
to the front of the ephod over the
arm-holes.
39:19 And they made two rings of gold and put them on the
two
lower ends of the
bag, on the inner side nearest to the ephod.
39:20 And two other gold rings were put on the front of the
ephod, over the
arm-holes, at the join, and over the worked
band.
39:21 And the rings on the bag were fixed to the rings of
the
ephod by a blue cord,
keeping it in place over the band, so
that the bag might
not get loose, as the Lord gave orders to
Moses.
39:22 The robe which went with the ephod was made all of
blue;
39:23 With a hole at the top in the middle, like the hole in
the
coat of a
fighting-man, edged with a band to make it strong.
39:24 The skirts of the robe were worked all round with
fruits
in blue and purple
and red made of twisted linen.
39:25 And between the fruits all round the skirt they put
gold
bells, as the Lord
gave orders to Moses.
39:26 All round the skirt of the robe were bells and fruits
in
turn.
39:27 The coats for Aaron and his sons they made of the best
linen;
39:28 And the twisted head-dress for Aaron, and beautiful
head-dresses of
linen, and linen trousers,
39:29 And a linen band worked with a design of blue and
purple
and red, as the Lord
had said to Moses.
39:30 The plate for the holy crown was made of the best
gold,
and on it were cut
these words, HOLY TO THE LORD.
39:31 It was fixed to the head-dress by a blue cord, as the
Lord
had given orders to
Moses.
39:32 So all the work on the House of the Tent of meeting
was
done; as the Lord had
given orders to Moses, so the children of
Israel did it.
39:33 Then they took the House to Moses, the tent with all
the
things for it; its
hooks, its boards, its rods, its pillars,
and its bases;
39:34 The outer cover of sheepskins coloured red, and the
cover
of leather, and the
veil for the doorway;
39:35 The ark of the law, with its rods and its cover;
39:36 The table, with all its vessels and the holy bread;
39:37 The support for the lights, with the vessels for the
lights to be put in
their places on it, and all its vessels,
and the oil for the
lights;
39:38 And the gold altar, and the holy oil, and the sweet
perfume for burning,
and the curtain for the doorway of the
tent;
39:39 And the brass altar, with its network of brass, and
its
rods and all its
vessels, and the washing-vessel and its base;
39:40 The hangings for the open space, with the pillars and
their bases, and the
curtain for the doorway, and the cords and
nails, and all the
instruments necessary for the work of the
House of the Tent of
meeting;
39:41 The robes for use in the holy place, and the holy
robes
for Aaron and his
sons when acting as priests.
39:42 The children of Israel did everything as the Lord had
given orders to
Moses.
39:43 Then Moses, when he saw all their work and saw that
they
had done everything
as the Lord had said, gave them his
blessing.
40:1 And the Lord said to Moses,
40:2 On the first day of the first month you are to put up
the
House of the Tent of
meeting.
40:3 And inside it put the ark of the law, hanging the veil
before it.
40:4 And put the table inside, placing all the things on it
in
order; and put in the
support for the lights, and let its
lights be burning.
40:5 And put the gold altar for burning perfumes in front of
the
ark of the law,
hanging the curtain over the doorway of the
House.
40:6 And put the altar of burned offerings before the
doorway of
the House of the Tent
of meeting.
40:7 And let the washing-vessel, with water in it, be put
between the Tent of
meeting and the altar.
40:8 And put up the hangings forming the open space all
round
it, with the curtain
over its doorway.
40:9 And take the holy oil and put it on the House and
everything in it, and
make it and everything in it holy:
40:10 And put oil on the altar of burned offering, and make
it
and all its vessels
holy; this altar is to be most holy.
40:11 And put oil on the washing-vessel and its base, and
make
them holy.
40:12 Then let Aaron and his sons come to the door of the
Tent
of meeting; and after
washing them with water,
40:13 You are to put on Aaron the holy robes; and you are to
put
oil on him, and make
him holy, so that he may be my priest.
40:14 And take his sons with him and put coats on them;
40:15 And put oil on them as you did on their father, so
that
they may be my
priests: the putting on of oil will make them
priests for ever,
from generation to generation.
40:16 And Moses did this; as the Lord gave him orders, so he
did.
40:17 So on the first day of the first month in the second
year
the House was put up.
40:18 Moses put up the House; placing its bases in position
and
lifting up its
uprights, putting in the rods and planting the
pillars in their
places;
40:19 Stretching the outer tent over it, and covering it, as
the
Lord had given him
orders.
40:20 And he took the law and put it inside the ark, and put
the
rods at its side and
the cover over it;
40:21 And he took the ark into the House, hanging up the
veil
before it as the Lord
had given him orders.
40:22 And he put the table in the Tent of meeting, on the
north
side outside the
veil.
40:23 And he put the bread on it in order before the Lord,
as
the Lord had said.
40:24 The support for the lights he put in the Tent of
meeting,
opposite the table,
on the south side:
40:25 Lighting the lights before the Lord, as the Lord had
given
him orders.
40:26 And he put the gold altar in the Tent of meeting, in
front
of the veil:
40:27 Burning sweet perfumes on it, as the Lord had given
him
orders.
40:28 And he put up the curtain at the doorway of the House.
40:29 And at the door of the House of the Tent of meeting,
he
put the altar of
burned offerings, offering on it the burned
offering and the meal
offering, as the Lord had given him
orders.
40:30 And between the altar and the Tent of meeting he put
the
vessel with water in
it for washing.
40:31 In it the hands and feet of Moses and Aaron and his
sons
were washed,
40:32 Whenever they went into the Tent of meeting, and when
they
came near the altar,
as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
40:33 And he put up the hangings forming the open space
round
the House and the
altar, and put the curtain over the doorway.
So Moses made the
work complete.
40:34 Then the cloud came down covering the Tent of meeting,
and
the House was full of
the glory of the Lord;
40:35 So that Moses was not able to go into the Tent of
meeting,
because the cloud was
resting on it, and the House was full of
the glory of the
Lord.
40:36 And whenever the cloud was taken up from the House,
the
children of Israel
went forward on their journey:
40:37 But while the cloud was there, they made no move till
it
was taken up.
40:38 For the cloud of the Lord was resting on the House by
day,
and at night there
was fire in the cloud, before the eyes of
all the people of
Israel, and so it was through all their
journeys.