Ex. 31:1‑35:29• 1{i}And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,{/i}
2{i}See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,{/i}
3{i}and have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in every work,{/i}
4{i}to devise artistic work—to work in gold, and in silver, and in copper,{/i}
5{i}and in cutting of stones, for setting, and for carving of timber—to work in all manner of work.{/i}
6{i}And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of every one that is wise-hearted have I given wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee—{/i}
7{i}the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy-seat that is thereupon, and all the utensils of the tent,{/i}
8{i}and the table and its utensils, and the pure lamp-stand and all its utensils, and the altar of incense;{/i}
9{i}and the altar of burnt-offering and all its utensils, and the laver and its stand;{/i}
10{i}and the garments of service, both the holy garments of Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to serve as priests;{/i}
11{i}and the anointing oil, and the incense of fragrant drugs for the sanctuary: according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do.{/i}
12{i}And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,{/i}
13{i}And thou, speak thou unto the children of Israel, saying, Surely my Sabbaths shall ye keep; for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that ye may know that it is I, Jehovah, who do hallow you.{/i}
14{i}Keep the Sabbath, therefore; for it is holy unto you; every one that profaneth it shall certainly be put to death: yea, whoever doeth work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his peoples.{/i}
15{i}Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, holy to Jehovah: whoever doeth work on the Sabbath day shall certainly be put to death.{/i}
16{i}And the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations— it is an everlasting covenant.{/i}
17{i}It shall be a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.{/i}
18{i}And he gave to Moses, when he had ended speaking with him on mount Sinai, the two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.{/i}
1{i}And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people collected together to Aaron, and said to him, Up, make us a god, who will go before us; for this Moses, the man that has brought us up out of the land of Egypt, —we do not know what is become of him!{/i}
2{i}And Aaron said to them, Break off the golden rings that are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me.{/i}
3{i}Then all the people broke off the golden rings that were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.{/i}
4{i}And he took them out of their hand, and fashioned it with a chisel and made of it a molten calf: and they said, This is thy god, Israel, who has brought thee up out of the land of Egypt!{/i}
5{i}And Aaron saw it , and built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, Tomorrow is a feast to Jehovah!{/i}
6{i}And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered up burnt-offerings, and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to sport.{/i}
7{i}Then Jehovah said to Moses, Away, go down! for thy people, which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, is acting corruptly.{/i}
8{i}They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them: they have made themselves a molten calf, and have bowed down to it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, This is thy god, Israel, who has brought thee up out of the land of Egypt!{/i}
9{i}And Jehovah said to Moses,{/i} I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
10Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of thee a great nation.
11And Moses besought Jehovah his God and said, Jehovah, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
12Wherefore should the Egyptians speak and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel , thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.
14{i}And Jehovah repented of the evil that he had said he would do to his people.{/i}
15{i}And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, with the two tables of the testimony in his hand—tables written on both their sides: on this side and on that were they written.{/i}
16{i}And the tables were God's work, and the writing was God's writing, engraven on the tables.{/i}
17{i}And Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, and said to Moses, There is a shout of war in the camp.{/i}
18{i}And he said, It is not the sound of a shout of victory, neither is it the sound of a shout of defeat: it is the noise of alternate singing I hear.{/i}
19{i}And it came to pass, when he came near the camp, and saw the calf and the dancing, that Moses'{/i} anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
20And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
21{i}And Moses said to Aaron, What has this people done to thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin on them?{/i}
22{i}And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord burn! thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.{/i}
23{i}And they said to me, Make us a god, who will go before us; for this Moses, the man that has brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what is become of him!{/i}
24{i}And I said to them, Who has gold? They broke it off, and gave it me, and I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.{/i}
25{i}And Moses saw the people how they were stripped; for Aaron had stripped them to their shame before their adversaries.{/i}
26{i}And Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, He that is for Jehovah, let him come to me. And all the sons of Levi gathered to him.{/i}
27{i}And he said to them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Put every man his sword upon his hip; go and return from gate to gate through the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his friend, and every man his neighbour.{/i}
28And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses; and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
29{i}And Moses said, Consecrate yourselves today to Jehovah, yea, every man with his son, and with his brother, and bring on yourselves a blessing today.{/i}
30{i}And it came to pass the next day, that Moses said to the people, Ye have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to Jehovah: perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin.{/i}
31{i}And Moses returned to Jehovah, and said, Alas, this people has sinned a great sin, and they have made themselves a god of gold!{/i}
32{i}And now, if thou wilt forgive their sin...but if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book that thou hast written{/i}.
33{i}And Jehovah said to Moses,{/i} Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
34Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.
35And Jehovah plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
1{i}And Jehovah said to Moses,{/i} Depart and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it.
2{i}(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,){/i}
3{i}into 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.{/i}
4{i}And when the people heard this evil word, they mourned; and no man put on his ornaments.{/i}
5{i}Now 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.{/i}
6{i}And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments at mount Horeb.{/i}
7{i}And Moses took the tent, and pitched it{/i} without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the Congregation. {i}And it came to pass that every one who sought Jehovah went out to the tent of meeting which was outside the camp.{/i}
8{i}And 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.{/i}
9{i}And 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.{/i}
10{i}And 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.{/i}
11{i}And 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.{/i}
12{i}And Moses said to Jehovah{/i}, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.
13Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, show me now thy way, that I may know Thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thine.
14And he said, my presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
15And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.
16{i}And 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.{/i}
17And Jehovah said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou has spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by thy name.
18{i}And he said, Let me, I pray thee, see thy glory.{/i}
19{i}And 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 show mercy on whom I will show mercy.{/i}
20{i}And he said, Thou canst not see my face; for Man shall not see me, and live.{/i}
21{i}And Jehovah said, Behold, there is a place by me: there shalt thou stand on the rock.{/i}
22{i}And 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.{/i}
23{i}And I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see me from behind; but my face shall not be seen.{/i}
1{i}And 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.{/i}
2{i}And 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.{/i}
3{i}And 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.{/i}
4{i}And 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.{/i}
5{i}And Jehovah came down in the cloud, and stood beside him there, and proclaimed the name of Jehovah.{/i}
6{i}And Jehovah passed by before his face, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth,{/i}
7{i}keeping 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.{/i}
8{i}And Moses made haste, and bowed his head to the earth and worshipped,{/i}
9{i}and 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!{/i}
10{i}And 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.{/i}
11{i}Observe 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.{/i}
12{i}Take 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;{/i}
13{i}but ye shall demolish their altars, shatter their statues, and hew down their Asherahs.{/i}
14{i}For thou shalt worship no other God; for Jehovah—Jealous is his name—is a jealous God;{/i}
15{i}lest 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,{/i}
16{i}and 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.{/i}
17{i}—Thou shalt make thyself no molten gods.{/i}
18{i}—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.{/i}
19{i}—All that openeth the womb is mine; and all the cattle that is born a male, the firstling of ox and sheep.{/i}
20{i}But 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.{/i}
21{i}—Six days shalt thou work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; in ploughing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.{/i}
22{i}—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.{/i}
23{i}Thrice in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord Jehovah, the God of Israel.{/i}
24{i}For 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.{/i}
25{i}—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.{/i}
26{i}—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.{/i}
27{i}And 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.{/i}
28{i}—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.{/i}
29{i}And 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.{/i}
30{i}And 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.{/i}
31{i}And Moses called to them; and they turned to him, —Aaron and all the principal men of the assembly; and Moses talked with them.{/i}
32{i}And afterwards, all the children of Israel came near; and he gave them in commandment all that Jehovah had spoken with him on mount Sinai.{/i}
33{i}And Moses ended speaking with them; and he had put on his face a veil.{/i}
34{i}And 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.{/i}
35{i}And 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.{/i}
1{i}And 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.{/i}
2{i}Six 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.{/i}
3{i}Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your dwellings upon the Sabbath day.{/i}
4{i}And Moses spoke to all the assembly of the children of Israel, saying, This is the word which Jehovah has commanded, saying,{/i}
5{i}Take 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,{/i}
6{i}and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and byssus, and goats' hair ,{/i}
7{i}and rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and acacia-wood,{/i}
8{i}and oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil, and for the incense of fragrant drugs;{/i}
9{i}and onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.{/i}
10{i}And all who are wise-hearted among you shall come and make all that Jehovah has commanded:{/i}
11{i}the tabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its clasps, and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its bases;{/i}
12{i}the ark, and its staves; the mercy-seat, and the veil of separation;{/i}
13{i}the table and its staves, and all its utensils, and the showbread;{/i}
14{i}and the lamp-stand for the light, and its utensils, and its lamps, and the oil for the light;{/i}
15{i}and 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;{/i}
16{i}the altar of burnt-offering, and the copper grating for it, its staves, and all its utensils; the laver and its stand;{/i}
17{i}the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its bases, and the curtains of the gate of the court;{/i}
18{i}the pegs of the tabernacle, and the pegs of the court, and their cords;{/i}
19{i}the 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.{/i}
20{i}And all the assembly of the children of Israel departed from before Moses.{/i}
21And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought Jehovah's offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments.
22And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto Jehovah.
23And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, and red skins of rams, and badgers' skins, brought them.
24Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought Jehovah's offering: and every man, with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the service, brought it.
25And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen.
26And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats' hair.
27And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod and for the breastplate:
28and spice, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.
29The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto Jehovah, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which Jehovah had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses. (Ex. 31:1‑35:29)