Exodus 33-36

Exodus 33

¹And Jehovah said to Moses, Depart, go up hence, thou and the people that thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, into the land that I swore unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it,

²(and I will send an angel before thee, and dispossess the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite,)

³into a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in the midst of thee, for thou art a stiff-necked people, -- lest I consume thee on the way.

⁴And when the people heard this evil word, they mourned; and no man put on his ornaments.

⁵Now Jehovah had said to Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiff-necked people: in one moment I will come up into the midst of thee and will consume thee. And now put off thine ornaments from thee, and I will know what I will do unto thee.

⁶And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments at mount Horeb.

⁷And Moses took the tent, and pitched it outside the camp, far from the camp, and called it the Tent of meeting. And it came to pass that every one who sought Jehovah went out to the tent of meeting which was outside the camp.

⁸And it came to pass, when Moses went out to the tent, all the people rose up, and stood every man at the entrance of his tent, and they looked after Moses until he entered into the tent.

⁹And it came to pass when Moses entered into the tent, the pillar of cloud descended, and stood at the entrance of the tent, and Jehovah talked with Moses.

¹⁰And all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent; and all the people rose and worshipped, every man at the entrance of his tent.

¹¹And Jehovah spoke with Moses face to face, as a man speaks with his friend. And he returned to the camp; but his attendant, Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, departed not from within the tent.

¹²And Moses said to Jehovah, Behold, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people; but thou dost not let me know whom thou wilt send with me; and thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in mine eyes.

¹³And now, if indeed I have found grace in thine eyes, make me now to know thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thine eyes; and consider that this nation is thy people!

¹⁴And he said, My presence shall go, and I will give thee rest.

¹⁵And he said to him, If thy presence do not go, bring us not up hence.

¹⁶And how shall it be known then that I have found grace in thine eyes -- I and thy people? Is it not by thy going with us? so shall we be distinguished, I and thy people, from every people that is on the face of the earth.

¹⁷And Jehovah said to Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast said; for thou hast found grace in mine eyes, and I know thee by name.

¹⁸And he said, Let me, I pray thee, see thy glory.

¹⁹And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thy face, and I will proclaim the name of Jehovah before thee; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.

²⁰And he said, Thou canst not see my face; for Man shall not see me, and live.

²¹And Jehovah said, Behold, there is a place by me: there shalt thou stand on the rock.

²²And it shall come to pass, when my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a cleft of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand, until I have passed by.

²³And I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see me from behind; but my face shall not be seen.

Exodus 34

¹And Jehovah said to Moses, Hew for thyself two tables of stone like the first; and I will write upon the tables the words that were upon the first tables, which thou hast broken.

²And be ready for the morning, and go up in the morning to mount Sinai, and stand there before me on the top of the mountain.

³And let no man go up with thee, neither shall any man be seen on all the mountain; neither shall sheep and oxen feed in front of that mountain.

⁴And he hewed two tables of stone like the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning and went up to mount Sinai, as Jehovah had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.

⁵And Jehovah came down in the cloud, and stood beside him there, and proclaimed the name of Jehovah.

⁶And Jehovah passed by before his face, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth,

⁷keeping mercy unto thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but by no means clearing the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

⁸And Moses made haste, and bowed his head to the earth and worshipped,

⁹and said, If indeed I have found grace in thine eyes, Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in our midst; for it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for an inheritance!

¹⁰And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels that have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people in the midst of which thou art shall see the work of Jehovah; for a terrible thing it shall be that I will do with thee.

¹¹Observe what I command thee this day: behold, I will drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

¹²Take heed to thyself, that thou make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which thou shalt come, lest it be a snare in the midst of thee;

¹³but ye shall demolish their altars, shatter their statues, and hew down their Asherahs.

¹⁴For thou shalt worship no other God; for Jehovah -- Jealous is his name -- is a jealous God;

¹⁵lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and then, when they go a whoring after their gods, and sacrifice unto their gods, thou be invited, and eat of their sacrifice,

¹⁶and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

¹⁷-- Thou shalt make thyself no molten gods.

¹⁸-- The feast of the unleavened bread shalt thou keep: seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I have commanded thee, at the appointed time of the month Abib; for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.

¹⁹-- All that openeth the womb is mine; and all the cattle that is born a male, the firstling of ox and sheep.

²⁰But the firstling of an ass thou shalt ransom with a lamb; and if thou ransom it not, then shalt thou break its neck. All the first-born of thy sons thou shalt ransom; and none shall appear before me empty.

²¹-- Six days shalt thou work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; in ploughing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

²²-- And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the first-fruits of wheat-harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the turn of the year.

²³Thrice in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord Jehovah, the God of Israel.

²⁴For I will dispossess the nations before thee, and enlarge thy border, and no man shall desire thy land, when thou goest up to appear before the face of Jehovah thy God thrice in the year.

²⁵-- Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left over night until the morning.

²⁶-- The first of the first-fruits of thy land shalt thou bring into the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

²⁷And Jehovah said to Moses, Write thee these words; for after the tenor of these words have I made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

²⁸-- And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread, and drank no water. -- And he wrote on the tables the words of the covenant, the ten words.

²⁹And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai -- and the two tables of testimony were in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mountain -- that Moses knew not that the skin of his face shone through his talking with him.

³⁰And Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.

³¹And Moses called to them; and they turned to him, -- Aaron and all the principal men of the assembly; and Moses talked with them.

³²And afterwards, all the children of Israel came near; and he gave them in commandment all that Jehovah had spoken with him on mount Sinai.

³³And Moses ended speaking with them; and he had put on his face a veil.

³⁴And when Moses went in before Jehovah to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Israel what he was commanded.

³⁵And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone; and Moses put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

Exodus 35

¹And Moses collected all the assembly of the children of Israel, and said to them, These are the things which Jehovah has commanded, to do them.

²Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of rest to Jehovah: whoever does work on it shall be put to death.

³Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your dwellings upon the sabbath day.

⁴And Moses spoke to all the assembly of the children of Israel, saying, This is the word which Jehovah has commanded, saying,

⁵Take from among you a heave-offering to Jehovah: every one whose heart is willing, let him bring it, Jehovah's heave-offering -- gold, and silver, and copper,

⁶and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and byssus, and goats' hair,

⁷and rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and acacia-wood,

⁸and oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil, and for the incense of fragrant drugs;

⁹and onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.

¹⁰And all who are wise-hearted among you shall come and make all that Jehovah has commanded:

¹¹the tabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its clasps, and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its bases;

¹²the ark, and its staves; the mercy-seat, and the veil of separation;

¹³the table and its staves, and all its utensils, and the shewbread;

¹⁴and the lamp-stand for the light, and its utensils, and its lamps, and the oil for the light;

¹⁵and the altar of incense, and its staves; and the anointing-oil, and the incense of fragrant drugs; and the entrance-curtain at the entrance of the tabernacle;

¹⁶the altar of burnt-offering, and the copper grating for it, its staves, and all its utensils; the laver and its stand;

¹⁷the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its bases, and the curtains of the gate of the court;

¹⁸the pegs of the tabernacle, and the pegs of the court, and their cords;

¹⁹the garments of service, to do service in the sanctuary, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to serve as priests.

²⁰And all the assembly of the children of Israel departed from before Moses.

²¹And they came, every one whose heart moved him, and every one whose spirit prompted him; they brought Jehovah's heave-offering for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments.

²²And they came, both men and women; every one who was of willing heart brought nose-rings, and earrings, and rings, and bracelets, all kinds of utensils of gold: every man that waved a wave-offering of gold to Jehovah.

²³And every man with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and byssus, and goats' hair, and rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, brought them.

²⁴All they that offered a heave-offering of silver and copper brought Jehovah's heave-offering. And every one with whom was found acacia-wood for all manner of work of the service, brought it.

²⁵And every woman that was wise-hearted spun with her hands, and brought what she had spun: the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the byssus.

²⁶And all the women whose heart moved them in wisdom spun goats' hair.

²⁷And the principal men brought the onyx stones, and the stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;

²⁸and the spice, and the oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the incense of fragrant drugs.

²⁹The children of Israel brought a voluntary offering to Jehovah, every man and woman whose heart prompted them to bring for all manner of work, which Jehovah, by the hand of Moses, had commanded to be done.

³⁰And Moses said to the children of Israel, See, Jehovah has called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,

³¹and he has filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,

³²and to devise artistic things: to work in gold, and in silver, and in copper,

³³and in cutting of stones, for setting, and in carving of wood, to execute all artistic work;

³⁴and he has put in his heart to teach, he and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan:

³⁵he has filled them with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work of the engraver, and of the artificer, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in byssus, and of the weaver, even of them that do every kind of work, and of those that devise artistic work

Exodus 36

¹Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every man that was wise-hearted, in whom Jehovah had put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work of the service of the sanctuary -- according to all that Jehovah had commanded.

²And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every man that was wise-hearted, in whose heart God had put wisdom, every one whose heart moved him to come to the work to do it.

³And they took from Moses every heave-offering that the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it. And they still brought him voluntary offerings morning by morning.

⁴And all the wise men that wrought all the work of the sanctuary came, every man from his work which they wrought,

⁵and spoke to Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work that Jehovah commanded to be done.

⁶Then Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed through the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the heave-offering of the sanctuary! So the people were restrained from bringing;

⁷for the work they had was sufficient for all the work to do it, and it was too much.

⁸And every wise-hearted man among those that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of twined byssus, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubim of artistic work did he make them.

⁹The length of one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits -- one measure for all the curtains.

¹⁰And he coupled five of the curtains one to another, and the other five curtains coupled he one to another.

¹¹And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain at the edge of the coupling; he did likewise in the edge of the outermost curtain in the other coupling.

¹²He made fifty loops in one curtain, and he made fifty loops at the end of the curtain that was in the other coupling: the loops were opposite to one another.

¹³And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle became one.

¹⁴And he made curtains of goats' hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains did he make them.

¹⁵The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of one curtain -- one measure for the eleven curtains.

¹⁶And he coupled five of the curtains by themselves, and six of the curtains by themselves.

¹⁷And he made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he on the edge of the curtain in the other coupling.

¹⁸And he made fifty clasps of copper to couple the tent, that it might be one.

¹⁹And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins above that.

²⁰And he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia-wood, standing up;

²¹ten cubits the length of the boards, and one cubit and a half the breadth of one board;

²²two tenons in one board, connected one with the other: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

²³And he made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side southward;

²⁴and he made forty bases of silver under the twenty boards, two bases under one board, for its two tenons, and two bases under another board for its two tenons.

²⁵And for the other side of the tabernacle, on the side toward the north, he made twenty boards,

²⁶and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one board, and two bases under another board.

²⁷And at the rear of the tabernacle, westward, he made six boards;

²⁸and he made two boards for the corners of the tabernacle at the rear;

²⁹and they were joined beneath, and were coupled together at the top thereof into one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners;

³⁰and there were eight boards, and their silver bases: sixteen bases, under every board two bases.

³¹-- And he made bars of acacia-wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

³²and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle at the rear, westward.

³³And he made the middle bar in the midst of the boards reach from one end to the other.

³⁴And he overlaid the boards with gold; and made their rings of gold as receptacles for the bars; and overlaid the bars with gold.

³⁵And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus: of artistic work he made it with cherubim.

³⁶And he made four pillars of acacia-wood for it, and overlaid them with gold; their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four bases of silver.

³⁷And he made a curtain for the entrance of the tent of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus, of embroidery;

³⁸and its five pillars with their hooks; and he overlaid their capitals and their connecting-rods with gold; and their five bases were of copper.