The book of exodus
Chapter 1
NOW these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.
2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:
10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
15 And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
16 And he said, When You do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then You will kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she will live.
17 But the midwives feared Elohim, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have You done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?
19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
20 Therefore Elohim dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared Elohim, that he made them houses.
22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born You will cast into the river, and every daughter You will save alive.
CHAPTER 2
AND there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children.
7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Will I go and call to you a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?
8 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child’s mother.
9 And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give you Your wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.
10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
13 And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest you Your fellow?
14 And he said, Who made you a prince and a judge over us? intendest you to kill me, as you killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.
16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that You are come so soon to day?
19 And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.
20 And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that You have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
22 And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
23 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto Elohim by reason of the bondage.
24 And Elohim heard their groaning, and Elohim remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
25 And Elohim looked upon the children of Israel, and Elohim had respect unto them.
CHAPTER 3
NOW Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of Elohim, even to Horeb.
2 And the angel of Yahowah appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
4 And when Yahowah saw that he turned aside to see, Elohim called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off Your shoes from off Your feet, for the place whereon you stand is holy ground.
6 Moreover he said, I am the Elohim of Your father, the Elohim of Abraham, the Elohim of Isaac, and the Elohim of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon Elohim.
7 And Yahowah said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
10 Come now therefore, and I will send you unto Pharaoh, that you may bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
11 And Moses said unto Elohim, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
12 And he said, Certainly I will be with you; and this will be a token unto you, that I have sent you: When you have brought forth the people out of Egypt, You will serve Elohim upon this mountain.
13 And Moses said unto Elohim, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and will say unto them, The Elohim of your fathers has sent me unto you; and they will say to me, What is his name? what will I say unto them?
14 And Elohim said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus will you say unto the children of Israel, I AM has sent me unto you.
15 And Elohim said moreover unto Moses, Thus will you say unto the children of Israel, Yahowah Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Abraham, the Elohim of Isaac, and the Elohim of Jacob, has sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, Yahowah Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:
17 And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
18 And they will hearken to Your voice: and you will come, you and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and You will say unto him, Yahowah Elohim of the Hebrews has met with us: and now let us go, we beseech you, three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahowah our Elohim.
19 And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand.
20 And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.
21 And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it will come to pass, that, when You go, You will not go empty:
22 But every woman will borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and You will put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and You will spoil the Egyptians.
CHAPTER 4
AND Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, Yahowah has not appeared unto you.
2 And Yahowah said unto him, What is that in yours hand? And he said, A rod.
3 And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
4 And Yahowah said unto Moses, Put forth yours hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:
5 That they may believe that Yahowah Elohim of their fathers, the Elohim of Abraham, the Elohim of Isaac, and the Elohim of Jacob, has appeared unto you.
6 And Yahowah said furthermore unto him, Put now yours hand into Your bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.
7 And he said, Put yours hand into Your bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.
8 And it will come to pass, if they will not believe you, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
9 And it will come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto Your voice, that you will take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which you takest out of the river will become blood upon the dry land.
10 And Moses said unto Yahowah, O my Yahowah, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since you have spoken unto Your servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
11 And Yahowah said unto him, Who has made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I Yahowah?
12 Now therefore go, and I will be with Your mouth, and teach you what you will say.
13 And he said, O my Yahowah, send, I pray you, by the hand of him whom you will send.
14 And the anger of Yahowah was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite Your brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet you: and when he seeth you, he will be glad in his heart.
15 And you will speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with Your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what You will do.
16 And he will be Your spokesman unto the people: and he will be, even he will be to you instead of a mouth, and you will be to him instead of Elohim.
17 And you will take this rod in yours hand, wherewith you will do signs.
18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray you, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
19 And Yahowah said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought Your life.
20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of Elohim in his hand.
21 And Yahowah said unto Moses, When you goest to return into Egypt, see that you do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in yours hand: but I will harden his heart, that he will not let the people go.
22 And you will say unto Pharaoh, Thus says Yahowah, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
23 And I say unto you, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if you refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay Your son, even Your firstborn.
24 And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that Yahowah met him, and sought to kill him.
25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband are you to me.
26 So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband you are, because of the circumcision.
27 And Yahowah said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of Elohim, and kissed him.
28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahowah who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him.
29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel:
30 And Aaron spoke all the words which Yahowah had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
31 And the people believed: and when they heard that Yahowah had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
CHAPTER 5
AND afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus says Yahowah Elohim of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
2 And Pharaoh said, Who is Yahowah, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not Yahowah, neither will I let Israel go.
3 And they said, The Elohim of the Hebrews has met with us: let us go, we pray you, three days’ journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto Yahowah our Elohim; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.
4 And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do You, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.
5 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and You make them rest from their burdens.
6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,
7 You will no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
8 And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, You will lay upon them; You will not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our Elohim.
9 Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.
10 And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, Thus says Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
11 Go You, get you straw where You can find it: yet not ought of your work will be diminished.
12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
13 And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
14 And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have You not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest you thus with Your servants?
16 There is no straw given unto Your servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, Your servants are beaten; but the fault is in yours own people.
17 But he said, You are idle, You are idle: therefore You say, Let us go and do sacrifice to Yahowah.
18 Go therefore now, and work; for there will no straw be given you, yet will You deliver the tale of bricks.
19 And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, You will not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.
20 And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:
21 And they said unto them, Yahowah look upon you, and judge; because You have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
22 And Moses returned unto Yahowah, and said, Yahowah, wherefore have you so evil entreated this people? why is it that you have sent me?
23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has done evil to this people; neither have you delivered Your people at all.
CHAPTER 6
THEN Yahowah said unto Moses, Now will you see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand will he let them go, and with a strong hand will he drive them out of his land.
2 And Elohim spoke unto Moses, and said unto him, I am Yahowah:
3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of Elohim Almighty, but by my name Yahowah was I not known to them.
4 And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
5 And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am Yahowah, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
7 And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a Elohim: and You will know that I am Yahowah your Elohim, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am Yahowah.
9 And Moses spoke so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
10 And Yahowah spoke unto Moses, saying,
11 Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.
12 And Moses spoke before Yahowah, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then will Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?
13 And Yahowah spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
14 These be the heads of their fathers’ houses: The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these be the families of Reuben.
15 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of Simeon.
16 And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.
17 The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families.
18 And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years.
19 And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these are the families of Levi according to their generations.
20 And Amram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.
21 And the sons of Izhar; Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.
22 And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri.
23 And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to wife; and she bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
24 And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these are the families of the Korhites.
25 And Eleazar Aaron’s son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.
26 These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom Yahowah said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies.
27 These are they which spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and Aaron.
28 And it came to pass on the day when Yahowah spoke unto Moses in the land of Egypt,
29 That Yahowah spoke unto Moses, saying, I am Yahowah: speak you unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto you.
30 And Moses said before Yahowah, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how will Pharaoh hearken unto me?
CHAPTER 7
AND Yahowah said unto Moses, See, I have made you a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron Your brother will be Your prophet.
2 You will speak all that I command you: and Aaron Your brother will speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his land.
3 And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
4 But Pharaoh will not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.
5 And the Egyptians will know that I am Yahowah, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.
6 And Moses and Aaron did as Yahowah commanded them, so did they.
7 And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spoke unto Pharaoh.
8 And Yahowah spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
9 When Pharaoh will speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for you: then you will say unto Aaron, Take Your rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it will become a serpent.
10 And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as Yahowah had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
11 Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.
12 For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.
13 And he hardened Pharaoh’s heart, that he hearkened not unto them; as Yahowah had said.
14 And Yahowah said unto Moses, Pharaoh’s heart is hardened, he refuseth to let the people go.
15 Get you unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and you will stand by the river’s brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent will you take in yours hand.
16 And you will say unto him, Yahowah Elohim of the Hebrews has sent me unto you, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto you would not hear.
17 Thus says Yahowah, In this you will know that I am Yahowah: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they will be turned to blood.
18 And the fish that is in the river will die, and the river will stink; and the Egyptians will lothe to drink of the water of the river.
19 And Yahowah spoke unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take Your rod, and stretch out yours hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.
20 And Moses and Aaron did so, as Yahowah commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
21 And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
22 And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments: and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, neither did he hearken unto them; as Yahowah had said.
23 And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he set his heart to this also.
24 And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.
25 And seven days were fulfilled, after that Yahowah had smitten the river.
CHAPTER 8
AND Yahowah spoke unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus says Yahowah, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
2 And if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all Your borders with frogs:
3 And the river will bring forth frogs abundantly, which will go up and come into yours house, and into Your bedchamber, and upon Your bed, and into the house of Your servants, and upon Your people, and into yours ovens, and into Your kneadingtroughs:
4 And the frogs will come up both on you, and upon Your people, and upon all Your servants.
5 And Yahowah spoke unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth yours hand with Your rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.
6 And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.
7 And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.
8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Intreat Yahowah, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto Yahowah.
9 And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me: when will I intreat for you, and for Your servants, and for Your people, to destroy the frogs from you and Your houses, that they may remain in the river only?
10 And he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it according to Your word: that you may know that there is none like unto Yahowah our Elohim.
11 And the frogs will depart from you, and from Your houses, and from Your servants, and from Your people; they will remain in the river only.
12 And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto Yahowah because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh.
13 And Yahowah did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields.
14 And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.
15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as Yahowah had said.
16 And Yahowah said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out Your rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
17 And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
18 And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast.
19 Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of Elohim: and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as Yahowah had said.
20 And Yahowah said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto him, Thus says Yahowah, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
21 Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon you, and upon Your servants, and upon Your people, and into Your houses: and the houses of the Egyptians will be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.
22 And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies will be there; to the end you may know that I am Yahowah in the midst of the earth.
23 And I will put a division between my people and Your people: to morrow will this sign be.
24 And Yahowah did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies.
25 And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go You, sacrifice to your Elohim in the land.
26 And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we will sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to Yahowah our Elohim: lo, will we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?
27 We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahowah our Elohim, as he will command us.
28 And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that You may sacrifice to Yahowah your Elohim in the wilderness; only You will not go very far away: intreat for me.
29 And Moses said, Behold, I go out from you, and I will intreat Yahowah that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to Yahowah.
30 And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated Yahowah.
31 And Yahowah did according to the word of Moses; and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; there remained not one.
32 And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go.
CHAPTER 9
THEN Yahowah said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus says Yahowah Elohim of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
2 For if you refuse to let them go, and will hold them still,
3 Behold, the hand of Yahowah is upon Your cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there will be a very grievous murrain.
4 And Yahowah will sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there will nothing die of all that is the children’s of Israel.
5 And Yahowah appointed a set time, saying, To morrow Yahowah will do this thing in the land.
6 And Yahowah did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.
7 And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.
8 And Yahowah said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.
9 And it will become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and will be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.
10 And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.
11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians.
12 And Yahowah hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as Yahowah had spoken unto Moses.
13 And Yahowah said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus says Yahowah Elohim of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
14 For I will at this time send all my plagues upon yours heart, and upon Your servants, and upon Your people; that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.
15 For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite you and Your people with pestilence; and you will be cut off from the earth.
16 And in very deed for this cause have I raised you up, for to shew in you my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.
17 As yet exaltest you thyself against my people, that you will not let them go?
18 Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now.
19 Send therefore now, and gather Your cattle, and all that you have in the field; for upon every man and beast which will be found in the field, and will not be brought home, the hail will come down upon them, and they will die.
20 He that feared the word of Yahowah among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:
21 And he that regarded not the word of Yahowah left his servants and his cattle in the field.
22 And Yahowah said unto Moses, Stretch forth yours hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.
23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and Yahowah sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and Yahowah rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
25 And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.
26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.
27 And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: Yahowah is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
28 Intreat Yahowah (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and You will stay no longer.
29 And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto Yahowah; and the thunder will cease, neither will there be any more hail; that you may know how that the earth is Yahowah’s.
30 But as for you and Your servants, I know that You will not yet fear Yahowah Elohim.
31 And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.
32 But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.
33 And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto Yahowah: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.
34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the children of Israel go; as Yahowah had spoken by Moses.
CHAPTER 10
AND Yahowah said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him:
2 And that you may tell in the ears of Your son, and of Your son’s son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that You may know how that I am Yahowah.
3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus says Yahowah Elohim of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.
4 Else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into Your coast:
5 And they will cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they will eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and will eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:
6 And they will fill Your houses, and the houses of all Your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither Your fathers, nor Your fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.
7 And Pharaoh’s servants said unto him, How long will this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve Yahowah their Elohim: know you not yet that Egypt is destroyed?
8 And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them, Go, serve Yahowah your Elohim: but who are they that will go?
9 And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto Yahowah.
10 And he said unto them, Let Yahowah be so with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is before you.
11 Not so: go now You that are men, and serve Yahowah; for that You did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
12 And Yahowah said unto Moses, Stretch out yours hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left.
13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahowah brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them will be such.
15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against Yahowah your Elohim, and against you.
17 Now therefore forgive, I pray you, my sin only this once, and intreat Yahowah your Elohim, that he may take away from me this death only.
18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated Yahowah.
19 And Yahowah turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
20 But Yahowah hardened Pharaoh’s heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go.
21 And Yahowah said unto Moses, Stretch out yours hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:
23 They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
24 And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go You, serve Yahowah; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed: let your little ones also go with you.
25 And Moses said, You must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto Yahowah our Elohim.
26 Our cattle also will go with us; there will not an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve Yahowah our Elohim; and we know not with what we must serve Yahowah, until we come thither.
27 But Yahowah hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let them go.
28 And Pharaoh said unto him, Get you from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in that day you see my face you will die.
29 And Moses said, You have spoken well, I will see Your face again no more.
CHAPTER 11
AND Yahowah said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he will let you go, he will surely thrust you out hence altogether.
2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.
3 And Yahowah gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants, and in the sight of the people.
4 And Moses said, Thus says Yahowah, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt:
5 And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.
6 And there will be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor will be like it any more.
7 But against any of the children of Israel will not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that You may know how that Yahowah does put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.
8 And all these Your servants will come down unto me, and bow down themselves unto me, saying, Get you out, and all the people that follow you: and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger.
9 And Yahowah said unto Moses, Pharaoh will not hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.
10 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and Yahowah hardened Pharaoh’s heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land.
CHAPTER 12
AND Yahowah spoke unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
2 This month will be unto you the beginning of months: it will be the first month of the year to you.
3 Speak You unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they will take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating will make your count for the lamb.
5 Your lamb will be without blemish, a male of the first year: You will take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
6 And You will keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will kill it in the evening.
7 And they will take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they will eat it.
8 And they will eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they will eat it.
9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
10 And You will let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning You will burn with fire.
11 And thus will You eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and You will eat it in haste: it is Yahowah’s passover.
12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am Yahowah.
13 And the blood will be to you for a token upon the houses where You are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague will not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
14 And this day will be unto you for a memorial; and You will keep it a feast to Yahowah throughout your generations; You will keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
15 Seven days will You eat unleavened bread; even the first day You will put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul will be cut off from Israel.
16 And in the first day there will be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there will be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work will be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
17 And You will observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore will You observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, You will eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
19 Seven days will there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
20 You will eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations will You eat unleavened bread.
21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.
22 And You will take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you will go out at the door of his house until the morning.
23 For Yahowah will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, Yahowah will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
24 And You will observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to Your sons for ever.
25 And it will come to pass, when You be come to the land which Yahowah will give you, according as he has promised, that You will keep this service.
26 And it will come to pass, when your children will say unto you, What mean You by this service?
27 That You will say, It is the sacrifice of Yahowah’s passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
28 And the children of Israel went away, and did as Yahowah had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
29 And it came to pass, that at midnight Yahowah smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both You and the children of Israel; and go, serve Yahowah, as You have said.
32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as You have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:
36 And Yahowah gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of Yahowah went out from the land of Egypt.
42 It is a night to be much observed unto Yahowah for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of Yahowah to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.
43 And Yahowah said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There will no stranger eat thereof:
44 But every man’s servant that is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then will he eat thereof.
45 A foreigner and an hired servant will not eat thereof.
46 In one house will it be eaten; you will not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither will You break a bone thereof.
47 All the congregation of Israel will keep it.
48 And when a stranger will sojourn with you, and will keep the passover to Yahowah, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he will be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person will eat thereof.
49 One law will be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as Yahowah commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, that Yahowah did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
CHAPTER 13
AND Yahowah spoke unto Moses, saying,
2 Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.
3 And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which You came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand Yahowah brought you out from this place: there will no leavened bread be eaten.
4 This day came You out in the month Abib.
5 And it will be when Yahowah will bring you into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto Your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you will keep this service in this month.
6 Seven days you will eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day will be a feast to Yahowah.
7 Unleavened bread will be eaten seven days; and there will no leavened bread be seen with you, neither will there be leaven seen with you in all Your quarters.
8 And you will shew Your son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which Yahowah did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.
9 And it will be for a sign unto you upon yours hand, and for a memorial between yours eyes, that Yahowah’s law may be in Your mouth: for with a strong hand has Yahowah brought you out of Egypt.
10 You will therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.
11 And it will be when Yahowah will bring you into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto you and to Your fathers, and will give it you,
12 That you will set apart unto Yahowah all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which you have; the males will be Yahowah’s.
13 And every firstling of an ass you will redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you will break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among Your children will you redeem.
14 And it will be when Your son asketh you in time to come, saying, What is this? that you will say unto him, By strength of hand Yahowah brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:
15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that Yahowah slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to Yahowah all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.
16 And it will be for a token upon yours hand, and for frontlets between yours eyes: for by strength of hand Yahowah brought us forth out of Egypt.
17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that Elohim led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for Elohim said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:
18 But Elohim led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.
19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, Elohim will surely visit you; and You will carry up my bones away hence with you.
20 And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
21 And Yahowah went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:
22 He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
CHAPTER 14
AND Yahowah spoke unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baal-zephon: before it will You encamp by the sea.
3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness has shut them in.
4 And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, that he will follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am Yahowah. And they did so.
5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?
6 And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:
7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.
8 And Yahowah hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand.
9 But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.
10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto Yahowah.
11 And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore have you dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
12 Is not this the word that we did tell you in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.
13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear You not, stand still, and see the salvation of Yahowah, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom You have seen to day, You will see them again no more for ever.
14 Yahowah will fight for you, and You will hold your peace.
15 And Yahowah said unto Moses, Wherefore criest you unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:
16 But lift you up Your rod, and stretch out yours hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel will go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
17 And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they will follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
18 And the Egyptians will know that I am Yahowah, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
19 And the angel of Elohim, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:
20 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and Yahowah caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
24 And it came to pass, that in the morning watch Yahowah looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
25 And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for Yahowah fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
26 And Yahowah said unto Moses, Stretch out yours hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.
27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and Yahowah overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
29 But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
30 Thus Yahowah saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.
31 And Israel saw that great work which Yahowah did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared Yahowah, and believed Yahowah, and his servant Moses.
CHAPTER 15
THEN sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto Yahowah, and spoke, saying, I will sing unto Yahowah, for he has triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider has he thrown into the sea.
2 Yah is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my El, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s Elohe, and I will exalt him.
3 Yahowah is a man of war: Yahowah is his name.
4 Pharaoh’s chariots and his host has he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
6 Thy right hand, O Yahowah, is become glorious in power: Your right hand, O Yahowah, has dashed in pieces the enemy.
7 And in the greatness of yours excellency you have overthrown them that rose up against you: you sent forth Your wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
8 And with the blast of Your nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust will be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand will destroy them.
10 You did blow with Your wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
11 Who is like unto you, O Yahowah, among the gods? who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
12 You stretchedst out Your right hand, the earth swallowed them.
13 You in Your mercy have led forth the people which you have redeemed: you have guided them in Your strength unto Your holy habitation.
14 The people will hear, and be afraid: sorrow will take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.
15 Then the dukes of Edom will be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling will take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan will melt away.
16 Fear and dread will fall upon them; by the greatness of yours arm they will be as still as a stone; till Your people pass over, O Yahowah, till the people pass over, which you have purchased.
17 You will bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of yours inheritance, in the place, O Yahowah, which you have made for you to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Yahowah, which Your hands have established.
18 Yahowah will reign for ever and ever.
19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Yahowah brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.
20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
21 And Miriam answered them, Sing You to Yahowah, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider has he thrown into the sea.
22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.
24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What will we drink?
25 And he cried unto Yahowah; and Yahowah showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,
26 And said, If you will diligently hearken to the voice of Yahowah Your Elohim, and will do that which is right in his sight, and will give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon you, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am Yahowah that healeth you.
27 And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
CHAPTER 16
AND they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
3 And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to Elohim we had died by the hand of Yahowah in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for You have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
4 Then said Yahowah unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people will go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
5 And it will come to pass, that on the sixth day they will prepare that which they bring in; and it will be twice as much as they gather daily.
6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then You will know that Yahowah has brought you out from the land of Egypt:
7 And in the morning, then You will see the glory of Yahowah; for that he heareth your murmurings against Yahowah: and what are we, that You murmur against us?
8 And Moses said, This will be, when Yahowah will give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that Yahowah heareth your murmurings which You murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahowah.
9 And Moses spoke unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before Yahowah: for he has heard your murmurings.
10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spoke unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of Yahowah appeared in the cloud.
11 And Yahowah spoke unto Moses, saying,
12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even You will eat flesh, and in the morning You will be filled with bread; and You will know that I am Yahowah your Elohim.
13 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.
14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.
15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which Yahowah has given you to eat.
16 This is the thing which Yahowah has commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take You every man for them which are in his tents.
17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.
18 And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.
20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was angry with them.
21 And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
22 And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
23 And he said unto them, This is that which Yahowah has said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto Yahowah: bake that which You will bake to day, and seethe that You will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
25 And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto Yahowah: to day You will not find it in the field.
26 Six days You will gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there will be none.
27 And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.
28 And Yahowah said unto Moses, How long refuse You to keep my commandments and my laws?
29 See, for that Yahowah has given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide You every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
32 And Moses said, This is the thing which Yahowah commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before Yahowah, to be kept for your generations.
34 As Yahowah commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
35 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
CHAPTER 17
AND all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of Yahowah, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.
2 Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide You with me? wherefore do You tempt Yahowah?
3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that you have brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
4 And Moses cried unto Yahowah, saying, What will I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
5 And Yahowah said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with you of the elders of Israel; and Your rod, wherewith you smotest the river, take in yours hand, and go.
6 Behold, I will stand before you there upon the rock in Horeb; and you will smite the rock, and there will come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
7 And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted Yahowah, saying, Is Yahowah among us, or not?
8 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
9 And Moses said unto Yahoshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of Elohim in mine hand.
10 So Yahoshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
12 But Moses’ hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
13 And Yahoshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
14 And Yahowah said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Yahoshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi:
16 For he said, Because Yah has sworn that Yahowah will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
CHAPTER 18
WHEN Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father in law, heard of all that Elohim had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that Yahowah had brought Israel out of Egypt;
2 Then Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back,
3 And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:
4 And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the Elohim of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:
5 And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of Elohim:
6 And he said unto Moses, I Your father in law Jethro am come unto you, and Your wife, and her two sons with her.
7 And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent.
8 And Moses told his father in law all that Yahowah had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how Yahowah delivered them.
9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Yahowah had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.
10 And Jethro said, Blessed be Yahowah, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
11 Now I know that Yahowah is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.
12 And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for Elohim: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father in law before Elohim.
13 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.
14 And when Moses’ father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that you do to the people? why sittest you thyself alone, and all the people stand by you from morning unto even?
15 And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to inquire of Elohim:
16 When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of Elohim, and his laws.
17 And Moses’ father in law said unto him, The thing that you do is not good.
18 You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you: for this thing is too heavy for you; you are not able to perform it thyself alone.
19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give you counsel, and Elohim will be with you: Be you for the people to Elohim-ward, that you may bring the causes unto Elohim:
20 And you will teach them ordinances and laws, and will shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.
21 Moreover you will provide out of all the people able men, such as fear Elohim, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
22 And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it will be, that every great matter they will bring unto you, but every small matter they will judge: so will it be easier for thyself, and they will bear the burden with you.
23 If you will do this thing, and Elohim command you so, then you will be able to endure, and all this people will also go to their place in peace.
24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said.
25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
26 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
27 And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into his own land.
CHAPTER 19
IN the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.
3 And Moses went up unto Elohim, and Yahowah called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus will you say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
4 You have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.
5 Now therefore, if You will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then You will be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
6 And You will be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which you will speak unto the children of Israel.
7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which Yahowah commanded him.
8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that Yahowah has spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto Yahowah.
9 And Yahowah said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and believe you for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto Yahowah.
10 And Yahowah said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
11 And be ready against the third day: for the third day Yahowah will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
12 And you will set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that You go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever touches the mount will be surely put to death:
13 There will not an hand touch it, but he will surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it will not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they will come up to the mount.
14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
15 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.
16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with Elohim; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because Yahowah descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spoke, and Elohim answered him by a voice.
20 And Yahowah came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and Yahowah called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
21 And Yahowah said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto Yahowah to gaze, and many of them perish.
22 And let the priests also, which come near to Yahowah, sanctify themselves, lest Yahowah break forth upon them.
23 And Moses said unto Yahowah, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for you chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.
24 And Yahowah said unto him, Away, get you down, and you will come up, you, and Aaron with you: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto Yahowah, lest he break forth upon them.
25 So Moses went down unto the people, and spoke unto them.
CHAPTER 20
AND Elohim spoke all these words, saying,
2 I am Yahowah Your Elohim, which have brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 You will have no other gods before me.
4 You will not make unto you any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
5 You will not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I Yahowah Your Elohim am a jealous Elohim, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
7 You will not take the name of Yahowah Your Elohim in vain; for Yahowah will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days will you labour, and do all Your work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of Yahowah Your Elohim: in it you will not do any work, you, nor Your son, nor Your daughter, Your manservant, nor Your maidservant, nor Your cattle, nor Your stranger that is within Your gates:
11 For in six days Yahowah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore Yahowah blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
12 Honour Your father and Your mother: that Your days may be long upon the land which Yahowah Your Elohim giveth you.
13 You will not kill.
14 You will not commit adultery.
15 You will not steal.
16 You will not bear false witness against Your neighbour.
17 You will not covet Your neighbour’s house, you will not covet Your neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is Your neighbour’s.
18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
19 And they said unto Moses, Speak you with us, and we will hear: but let not Elohim speak with us, lest we die.
20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for Elohim is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that You sin not.
21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where Elohim was.
22 And Yahowah said unto Moses, Thus you will say unto the children of Israel, You have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
23 You will not make with me gods of silver, neither will You make unto you gods of gold.
24 An altar of earth you will make unto me, and will sacrifice thereon Your burnt offerings, and Your peace offerings, Your sheep, and yours oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto you, and I will bless you.
25 And if you will make me an altar of stone, you will not build it of hewn stone: for if you lift up Your tool upon it, you have polluted it.
26 Neither will you go up by steps unto mine altar, that Your nakedness be not discovered thereon.
CHAPTER 21
NOW these are the judgments which you will set before them.
2 If you buy an Hebrew servant, six years he will serve: and in the seventh he will go out free for nothing.
3 If he came in by himself, he will go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife will go out with him.
4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children will be her master’s, and he will go out by himself.
5 And if the servant will plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
6 Then his master will bring him unto the judges; he will also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master will bore his ear through with an aul; and he will serve him for ever.
7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she will not go out as the menservants do.
8 If she please not her master, who has betrothed her to himself, then will he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he will have no power, seeing he has dealt deceitfully with her.
9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he will deal with her after the manner of daughters.
10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, will he not diminish.
11 And if he do not these three unto her, then will she go out free without money.
12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, will be surely put to death.
13 And if a man lie not in wait, but Elohim deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint you a place where he will flee.
14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; you will take him from mine altar, that he may die.
15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, will be surely put to death.
16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he will surely be put to death.
17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, will surely be put to death.
18 And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
19 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then will he that smote him be quit: only he will pay for the loss of his time, and will cause him to be thoroughly healed.
20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he will be surely punished.
21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he will not be punished: for he is his money.
22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he will be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he will pay as the judges determine.
23 And if any mischief follow, then you will give life for life,
24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he will let him go free for his eye’s sake.
27 And if he smite out his manservant’s tooth, or his maidservant’s tooth; he will let him go free for his tooth’s sake.
28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox will be surely stoned, and his flesh will not be eaten; but the owner of the ox will be quit.
29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it has been testified to his owner, and he has not kept him in, but that he has killed a man or a woman; the ox will be stoned, and his owner also will be put to death.
30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he will give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
31 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment will it be done unto him.
32 If the ox will push a manservant or a maidservant; he will give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox will be stoned.
33 And if a man will open a pit, or if a man will dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
34 The owner of the pit will make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast will be his.
35 And if one man’s ox hurt another’s, that he die; then they will sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they will divide.
36 Or if it be known that the ox has used to push in time past, and his owner has not kept him in; he will surely pay ox for ox; and the dead will be his own.
CHAPTER 22
IF a man will steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he will restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there will no blood be shed for him.
3 If the sun be risen upon him, there will be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he will be sold for his theft.
4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he will restore double.
5 If a man will cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and will put in his beast, and will feed in another man’s field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, will he make restitution.
6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire will surely make restitution.
7 If a man will deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man’s house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.
8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house will be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour’s goods.
9 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties will come before the judges; and whom the judges will condemn, he will pay double unto his neighbour.
10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:
11 Then will an oath of Yahowah be between them both, that he has not put his hand unto his neighbour’s goods; and the owner of it will accept thereof, and he will not make it good.
12 And if it be stolen from him, he will make restitution unto the owner thereof.
13 If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he will not make good that which was torn.
14 And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he will surely make it good.
15 But if the owner thereof be with it, he will not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.
16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he will surely endow her to be his wife.
17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he will pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
18 You will not suffer a witch to live.
19 Whosoever lieth with a beast will surely be put to death.
20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto Yahowah only, he will be utterly destroyed.
21 You will neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for You were strangers in the land of Egypt.
22 You will not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
23 If you afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
24 And my wrath will wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives will be widows, and your children fatherless.
25 If you lend money to any of my people that is poor by you, you will not be to him as an usurer, neither will you lay upon him usury.
26 If you at all take Your neighbour’s raiment to pledge, you will deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
27 For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein will he sleep? and it will come to pass, when he cries unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
28 You will not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of Your people.
29 You will not delay to offer the first of Your ripe fruits, and of Your liquors: the firstborn of Your sons will you give unto me.
30 Likewise will you do with yours oxen, and with Your sheep: seven days it will be with his dam; on the eighth day you will give it me.
31 And You will be holy men unto me: neither will You eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; You will cast it to the dogs.
CHAPTER 23
THOU will not raise a false report: put not yours hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
2 You will not follow a multitude to do evil; neither will you speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
3 Neither will you countenance a poor man in his cause.
4 If you meet yours enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, you will surely bring it back to him again.
5 If you see the ass of him that hateth you lying under his burden, and would forbear to help him, you will surely help with him.
6 You will not wrest the judgment of Your poor in his cause.
7 Keep you far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay you not: for I will not justify the wicked.
8 And you will take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
9 Also you will not oppress a stranger: for You know the heart of a stranger, seeing You were strangers in the land of Egypt.
10 And six years you will sow Your land, and will gather in the fruits thereof:
11 But the seventh year you will let it rest and lie still; that the poor of Your people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field will eat. In like manner you will deal with Your vineyard, and with Your oliveyard.
12 Six days you will do Your work, and on the seventh day you will rest: that yours ox and yours ass may rest, and the son of Your handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
13 And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of Your mouth.
14 Three times you will keep a feast unto me in the year.
15 You will keep the feast of unleavened bread: (you will eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it you came out from Egypt: and none will appear before me empty:)
16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of Your labours, which you have sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when you have gathered in Your labours out of the field.
17 Three times in the year all Your males will appear before Yahowah Elohim.
18 You will not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither will the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.
19 The first of the firstfruits of Your land you will bring into the house of Yahowah Your Elohim. You will not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
20 Behold, I send an Angel before you, to keep you in the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
22 But if you will indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto yours enemies, and an adversary unto yours adversaries.
23 For mine Angel will go before you, and bring you in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
24 You will not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but you will utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
25 And You will serve Yahowah your Elohim, and he will bless Your bread, and Your water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of you.
26 There will nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in Your land: the number of Your days I will fulfil.
27 I will send my fear before you, and will destroy all the people to whom you will come, and I will make all yours enemies turn their backs unto you.
28 And I will send hornets before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.
29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against you.
30 By little and little I will drive them out from before you, until you be increased, and inherit the land.
31 And I will set Your bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and you will drive them out before you.
32 You will make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
33 They will not dwell in Your land, lest they make you sin against me: for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto you.
CHAPTER 24
AND he said unto Moses, Come up unto Yahowah, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship You afar off.
2 And Moses alone will come near Yahowah: but they will not come nigh; neither will the people go up with him.
3 And Moses came and told the people all the words of Yahowah, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which Yahowah has said will we do.
4 And Moses wrote all the words of Yahowah, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto Yahowah.
6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that Yahowah has said will we do, and be obedient.
8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which Yahowah has made with you concerning all these words.
9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:
10 And they saw the Elohim of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw Elohim, and did eat and drink.
12 And Yahowah said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give you tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that you may teach them.
13 And Moses rose up, and his minister Yahoshua: and Moses went up into the mount of Elohim.
14 And he said unto the elders, Tarry You here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them.
15 And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.
16 And the glory of Yahowah abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
17 And the sight of the glory of Yahowah was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
CHAPTER 25
AND Yahowah spoke unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart You will take my offering.
3 And this is the offering which You will take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,
4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,
5 And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,
6 Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
7 Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.
8 And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
9 According to all that I shew you, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so will You make it.
10 And they will make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half will be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
11 And you will overlay it with pure gold, within and without will you overlay it, and will make upon it a crown of gold round about.
12 And you will cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings will be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.
13 And you will make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
14 And you will put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.
15 The staves will be in the rings of the ark: they will not be taken from it.
16 And you will put into the ark the testimony which I will give you.
17 And you will make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half will be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
18 And you will make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work will you make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.
19 And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat will You make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
20 And the cherubims will stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces will look one to another; toward the mercy seat will the faces of the cherubims be.
21 And you will put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark you will put the testimony that I will give you.
22 And there I will meet with you, and I will commune with you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give you in commandment unto the children of Israel.
23 You will also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits will be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
24 And you will overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.
25 And you will make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and you will make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
26 And you will make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.
27 Over against the border will the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table.
28 And you will make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.
29 And you will make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold will you make them.
30 And you will set upon the table shewbread before me alway.
31 And you will make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work will the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, will be of the same.
32 And six branches will come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side:
33 Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.
34 And in the candlestick will be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.
35 And there will be a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick.
36 Their knops and their branches will be of the same: all it will be one beaten work of pure gold.
37 And you will make the seven lamps thereof: and they will light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.
38 And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, will be of pure gold.
39 Of a talent of pure gold will he make it, with all these vessels.
40 And look that you make them after their pattern, which was showed you in the mount.
CHAPTER 26
MOREOVER you will make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work will you make them.
2 The length of one curtain will be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains will have one measure.
3 The five curtains will be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains will be coupled one to another.
4 And you will make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise will you make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.
5 Fifty loops will you make in the one curtain, and fifty loops will you make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another.
6 And you will make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it will be one tabernacle.
7 And you will make curtains of goats’ hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains will you make.
8 The length of one curtain will be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains will be all of one measure.
9 And you will couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and will double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.
10 And you will make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.
11 And you will make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
12 And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, will hang over the backside of the tabernacle.
13 And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it will hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.
14 And you will make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers’ skins.
15 And you will make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.
16 Ten cubits will be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half will be the breadth of one board.
17 Two tenons will there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus will you make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
18 And you will make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.
19 And you will make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
20 And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there will be twenty boards:
21 And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
22 And for the sides of the tabernacle westward you will make six boards.
23 And two boards will you make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.
24 And they will be coupled together beneath, and they will be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus will it be for them both; they will be for the two corners.
25 And they will be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
26 And you will make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
27 And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward.
28 And the middle bar in the midst of the boards will reach from end to end.
29 And you will overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and you will overlay the bars with gold.
30 And you will rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was showed you in the mount.
31 And you will make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims will it be made:
32 And you will hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks will be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.
33 And you will hang up the vail under the taches, that you may bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail will divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
34 And you will put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.
35 And you will set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and you will put the table on the north side.
36 And you will make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.
37 And you will make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks will be of gold: and you will cast five sockets of brass for them.
CHAPTER 27
AND you will make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar will be foursquare: and the height thereof will be three cubits.
2 And you will make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns will be of the same: and you will overlay it with brass.
3 And you will make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof you will make of brass.
4 And you will make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon the net will you make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof.
5 And you will put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.
6 And you will make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.
7 And the staves will be put into the rings, and the staves will be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.
8 Hollow with boards will you make it: as it was showed you in the mount, so will they make it.
9 And you will make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there will be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:
10 And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets will be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets will be of silver.
11 And likewise for the north side in length there will be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side will be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
13 And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward will be fifty cubits.
14 The hangings of one side of the gate will be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
15 And on the other side will be hangings fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
16 And for the gate of the court will be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars will be four, and their sockets four.
17 All the pillars round about the court will be filleted with silver; their hooks will be of silver, and their sockets of brass.
18 The length of the court will be an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.
19 All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, will be of brass.
20 And you will command the children of Israel, that they bring you pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.
21 In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons will order it from evening to morning before Yahowah: it will be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
CHAPTER 28
AND take you unto you Aaron Your brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.
2 And you will make holy garments for Aaron Your brother for glory and for beauty.
3 And you will speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron’s garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.
4 And these are the garments which they will make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they will make holy garments for Aaron Your brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.
5 And they will take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.
6 And they will make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.
7 It will have the two shoulderpieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and so it will be joined together.
8 And the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, will be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
9 And you will take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:
10 Six of their names on one stone, and the other six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.
11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, will you engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: you will make them to be set in ouches of gold.
12 And you will put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron will bear their names before Yahowah upon his two shoulders for a memorial.
13 And you will make ouches of gold;
14 And two chains of pure gold at the ends; of wreathen work will you make them, and fasten the wreathen chains to the ouches.
15 And you will make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod you will make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, will you make it.
16 Foursquare it will be being doubled; a span will be the length thereof, and a span will be the breadth thereof.
17 And you will set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row will be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this will be the first row.
18 And the second row will be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
19 And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they will be set in gold in their inclosings.
21 And the stones will be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name will they be according to the twelve tribes.
22 And you will make upon the breastplate chains at the ends of wreathen work of pure gold.
23 And you will make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and will put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
24 And you will put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate.
25 And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains you will fasten in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod before it.
26 And you will make two rings of gold, and you will put them upon the two ends of the breastplate in the border thereof, which is in the side of the ephod inward.
27 And two other rings of gold you will make, and will put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.
28 And they will bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.
29 And Aaron will bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before Yahowah continually.
30 And you will put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they will be upon Aaron’s heart, when he goeth in before Yahowah: and Aaron will bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before Yahowah continually.
31 And you will make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
32 And there will be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it will have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.
33 And beneath upon the hem of it you will make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:
34 A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about.
35 And it will be upon Aaron to minister: and his sound will be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before Yahowah, and when he cometh out, that he die not.
36 And you will make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE Yahowah.
37 And you will put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it will be.
38 And it will be upon Aaron’s forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel will hallow in all their holy gifts; and it will be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahowah.
39 And you will embroider the coat of fine linen, and you will make the mitre of fine linen, and you will make the girdle of needlework.
40 And for Aaron’s sons you will make coats, and you will make for them girdles, and bonnets will you make for them, for glory and for beauty.
41 And you will put them upon Aaron Your brother, and his sons with him; and will anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office.
42 And you will make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they will reach:
43 And they will be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and die: it will be a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him.
CHAPTER 29
AND this is the thing that you will do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest’s office: Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish,
2 And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour will you make them.
3 And you will put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.
4 And Aaron and his sons you will bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and will wash them with water.
5 And you will take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:
6 And you will put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre.
7 Then will you take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.
8 And you will bring his sons, and put coats upon them.
9 And you will gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest’s office will be theirs for a perpetual statute: and you will consecrate Aaron and his sons.
10 And you will cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons will put their hands upon the head of the bullock.
11 And you will kill the bullock before Yahowah, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
12 And you will take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with Your finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.
13 And you will take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.
14 But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, will you burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.
15 You will also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons will put their hands upon the head of the ram.
16 And you will slay the ram, and you will take his blood, and sprinkle it round about upon the altar.
17 And you will cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces, and unto his head.
18 And you will burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt offering unto Yahowah: it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto Yahowah.
19 And you will take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons will put their hands upon the head of the ram.
20 Then will you kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.
21 And you will take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he will be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.
22 Also you will take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder; for it is a ram of consecration:
23 And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before Yahowah:
24 And you will put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons; and will wave them for a wave offering before Yahowah.
25 And you will receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before Yahowah: it is an offering made by fire unto Yahowah.
26 And you will take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before Yahowah: and it will be Your part.
27 And you will sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:
28 And it will be Aaron’s and his sons’ by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and it will be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto Yahowah.
29 And the holy garments of Aaron will be his sons’ after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them.
30 And that son that is priest in his stead will put them on seven days, when he cometh into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy place.
31 And you will take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his flesh in the holy place.
32 And Aaron and his sons will eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
33 And they will eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger will not eat thereof, because they are holy.
34 And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the bread, remain unto the morning, then you will burn the remainder with fire: it will not be eaten, because it is holy.
35 And thus will you do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to all things which I have commanded you: seven days will you consecrate them.
36 And you will offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and you will cleanse the altar, when you have made an atonement for it, and you will anoint it, to sanctify it.
37 Seven days you will make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it will be an altar most holy: whatsoever touches the altar will be holy.
38 Now this is that which you will offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually.
39 The one lamb you will offer in the morning; and the other lamb you will offer at even:
40 And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering.
41 And the other lamb you will offer at even, and will do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto Yahowah.
42 This will be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before Yahowah: where I will meet you, to speak there unto you.
43 And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle will be sanctified by my glory.
44 And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the priest’s office.
45 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their Elohim.
46 And they will know that I am Yahowah their Elohim, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am Yahowah their Elohim.
CHAPTER 30
AND you will make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim wood will you make it.
2 A cubit will be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare will it be: and two cubits will be the height thereof: the horns thereof will be of the same.
3 And you will overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and you will make unto it a crown of gold round about.
4 And two golden rings will you make to it under the crown of it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it will you make it; and they will be for places for the staves to bear it withal.
5 And you will make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
6 And you will put it before the vail that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.
7 And Aaron will burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he will burn incense upon it.
8 And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he will burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before Yahowah throughout your generations.
9 You will offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither will You pour drink offering thereon.
10 And Aaron will make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year will he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto Yahowah.
11 And Yahowah spoke unto Moses, saying,
12 When you takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then will they give every man a ransom for his soul unto Yahowah, when you numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when you numberest them.
13 This they will give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel will be the offering of Yahowah.
14 Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, will give an offering unto Yahowah.
15 The rich will not give more, and the poor will not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto Yahowah, to make an atonement for your souls.
16 And you will take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and will appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before Yahowah, to make an atonement for your souls.
17 And Yahowah spoke unto Moses, saying,
18 You will also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and you will put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and you will put water therein.
19 For Aaron and his sons will wash their hands and their feet thereat:
20 When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they will wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto Yahowah:
21 So they will wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it will be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations.
22 Moreover Yahowah spoke unto Moses, saying,
23 Take you also unto you principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,
24 And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:
25 And you will make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the are of the apothecary: it will be an holy anointing oil.
26 And you will anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony,
27 And the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense,
28 And the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his foot.
29 And you will sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever touches them will be holy.
30 And you will anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office.
31 And you will speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This will be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations.
32 Upon man’s flesh will it not be poured, neither will You make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it will be holy unto you.
33 Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, will even be cut off from his people.
34 And Yahowah said unto Moses, Take unto you sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each will there be a like weight:
35 And you will make it a perfume, a confection after the are of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:
36 And you will beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with you: it will be unto you most holy.
37 And as for the perfume which you will make, You will not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it will be unto you holy for Yahowah.
38 Whosoever will make like unto that, to smell thereto, will even be cut off from his people.
CHAPTER 31
AND Yahowah spoke unto Moses, saying,
2 See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:
3 And I have filled him with the spirit of Elohim, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,
4 To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
5 And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.
6 And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you;
7 The tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that is thereupon, and all the furniture of the tabernacle,
8 And the table and his furniture, and the pure candlestick with all his furniture, and the altar of incense,
9 And the altar of burnt offering with all his furniture, and the laver and his foot,
10 And the cloths of service, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s office,
11 And the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded you will they do.
12 And Yahowah spoke unto Moses, saying,
13 Speak you also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths You will keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that You may know that I am Yahowah that does sanctify you.
14 You will keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it will surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul will be cut off from among his people.
15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to Yahowah: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he will surely be put to death.
16 Wherefore the children of Israel will keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days Yahowah made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of Elohim.
CHAPTER 32
AND when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which will go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
3 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be Your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to Yahowah.
6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
7 And Yahowah said unto Moses, Go, get you down; for Your people, which you brought out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:
8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be Your gods, O Israel, which have brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
9 And Yahowah said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of you a great nation.
11 And Moses besought Yahowah his Elohim, and said, Yahowah, why does Your wrath wax hot against Your people, which you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
12 Wherefore 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 Your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against Your people.
13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom you swarest by yours 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 will inherit it for ever.
14 And Yahowah repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
15 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
16 And the tables were the work of Elohim, and the writing was the writing of Elohim, graven upon the tables.
17 And when Yahoshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.
18 And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.
19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
20 And 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 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto you, that you have brought so great a sin upon them?
22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: you know the people, that they are set on mischief.
23 For they said unto me, Make us gods, which will go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
24 And I said unto them, Whosoever has any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.
25 And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)
26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on Yahowah’s side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.
27 And he said unto them, Thus says Yahowah Elohim of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.
28 And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
29 For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to day to Yahowah, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.
30 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, You have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto Yahowah; peradventure I will make an atonement for your sin.
31 And Moses returned unto Yahowah, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.
32 Yet now, if you will forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray you, out of Your book which you have written.
33 And Yahowah said unto Moses, Whosoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
34 Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto you: behold, mine Angel will go before you: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.
35 And Yahowah plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
CHAPTER 33
AND Yahowah said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, you and the people which you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto Your seed will I give it:
2 And I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
3 Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you; for you are a stiffnecked people: lest I consume you in the way.
4 And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.
5 For Yahowah had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, You are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of you in a moment, and consume you: therefore now put off Your ornaments from you, that I may know what to do unto you.
6 And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.
7 And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, that every one which sought Yahowah went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp.
8 And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, that all the people rose up, and stood every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle.
9 And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and Yahowah talked with Moses.
10 And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent door.
11 And Yahowah spoke unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Yahoshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.
12 And Moses said unto Yahowah, See, you sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and you have not let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, I know you by name, and you have also found grace in my sight.
13 Now therefore, I pray you, if I have found grace in Your sight, shew me now Your way, that I may know you, that I may find grace in Your sight: and consider that this nation is Your people.
14 And he said, My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.
15 And he said unto him, If Your presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.
16 For wherein will it be known here that I and Your people have found grace in Your sight? is it not in that you goest with us? so will we be separated, I and Your people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.
17 And Yahowah said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that you have spoken: for you have found grace in my sight, and I know you by name.
18 And he said, I beseech you, shew me Your glory.
19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of Yahowah before you; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
20 And he said, You canst not see my face: for there will no man see me, and live.
21 And Yahowah said, Behold, there is a place by me, and you will stand upon a rock:
22 And it will come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put you in a clift of the rock, and will cover you with my hand while I pass by:
23 And I will take away mine hand, and you will see my back parts: but my face will not be seen.
CHAPTER 34
AND Yahowah said unto Moses, Hew you two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which you brakest.
2 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.
3 And no man will come up with you, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.
4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as Yahowah had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.
5 And Yahowah descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Yahowah.
6 And Yahowah passed by before him, and proclaimed, Yahowah, Yahowah Elohim, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.
9 And he said, If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Yahowah, let my Yahowah, I pray you, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for yours inheritance.
10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all Your people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which you are will see the work of Yahowah: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with you.
11 Observe you that which I command you this day: behold, I drive out before you the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
12 Take heed to thyself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you:
13 But You will destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
14 For you will worship no other god: for Yahowah, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous Elohim:
15 Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call you, and you eat of his sacrifice;
16 And you take of their daughters unto Your sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make Your sons go a whoring after their gods.
17 You will make you no molten gods.
18 The feast of unleavened bread will you keep. Seven days you will eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt.
19 All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among Your cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.
20 But the firstling of an ass you will redeem with a lamb: and if you redeem him not, then will you break his neck. All the firstborn of Your sons you will redeem. And none will appear before me empty.
21 Six days you will work, but on the seventh day you will rest: in earing time and in harvest you will rest.
22 And you will observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.
23 Thrice in the year will all your men children appear before Yahowah Elohim, the Elohim of Israel.
24 For I will cast out the nations before you, and enlarge Your borders: neither will any man desire Your land, when you will go up to appear before Yahowah Your Elohim thrice in the year.
25 You will not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither will the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.
26 The first of the firstfruits of Your land you will bring unto the house of Yahowah Your Elohim. You will not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
27 And Yahowah said unto Moses, Write you these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.
28 And he was there with Yahowah forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.
30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.
31 And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them.
32 And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that Yahowah had spoken with him in mount Sinai.
33 And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.
34 But when Moses went in before Yahowah to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spoke unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded.
35 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
CHAPTER 35
AND Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said unto them, These are the words which Yahowah has commanded, that You should do them.
2 Six days will work be done, but on the seventh day there will be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to Yahowah: whosoever doeth work therein will be put to death.
3 You will kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
4 And Moses spoke unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which Yahowah commanded, saying,
5 Take You from among you an offering unto Yahowah: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of Yahowah; gold, and silver, and brass,
6 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,
7 And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,
8 And oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for the sweet incense,
9 And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.
10 And every wise hearted among you will come, and make all that Yahowah has commanded;
11 The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,
12 The ark, and the staves thereof, with the mercy seat, and the vail of the covering,
13 The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the shewbread,
14 The candlestick also for the light, and his furniture, and his lamps, with the oil for the light,
15 And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle,
16 The altar of burnt offering, with his brasen grate, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
17 The hangings of the court, his pillars, and their sockets, and the hanging for the door of the court,
18 The pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords,
19 The cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s office.
20 And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.
21 And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought Yahowah’s offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments.
22 And 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 Yahowah.
23 And 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.
24 Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought Yahowah’s offering: and every man, with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the service, brought it.
25 And 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.
26 And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats’ hair.
27 And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;
28 And spice, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.
29 The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto Yahowah, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which Yahowah had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.
30 And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, Yahowah has called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;
31 And he has filled him with the spirit of Elohim, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;
32 And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
33 And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.
34 And he has put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.
35 Them has he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.
CHAPTER 36
THEN wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom Yahowah put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that Yahowah had commanded.
2 And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whose heart Yahowah had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it:
3 And they received of Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it withal. And they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning.
4 And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every man from his work which they made;
5 And they spoke unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which Yahowah commanded to make.
6 And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.
7 For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.
8 And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them.
9 The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size.
10 And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and the other five curtains he coupled one unto another.
11 And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost side of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.
12 Fifty loops made he in one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain which was in the coupling of the second: the loops held one curtain to another.
13 And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.
14 And he made curtains of goats’ hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.
15 The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains were of one size.
16 And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
17 And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.
18 And he made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.
19 And he made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers’ skins above that.
20 And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.
21 The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.
22 One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
23 And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:
24 And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
25 And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the north corner, he made twenty boards,
26 And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
27 And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
28 And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.
29 And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners.
30 And there were eight boards; and their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets.
31 And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
32 And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the sides westward.
33 And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other.
34 And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
35 And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.
36 And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver.
37 And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;
38 And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.
CHAPTER 37
AND Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it:
2 And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.
3 And he cast for it four rings of gold, to be set by the four corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other side of it.
4 And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.
5 And he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.
6 And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
7 And he made two cherubims of gold, beaten out of one piece made he them, on the two ends of the mercy seat;
8 One cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on the other end on that side: out of the mercy seat made he the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
9 And the cherubims spread out their wings on high, and covered with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to another; even to the mercy seatward were the faces of the cherubims.
10 And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof:
11 And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a crown of gold round about.
12 Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.
13 And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings upon the four corners that were in the four feet thereof.
14 Over against the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table.
15 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.
16 And he made the vessels which were upon the table, his dishes, and his spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to cover withal, of pure gold.
17 And he made the candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work made he the candlestick; his shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, were of the same:
18 And six branches going out of the sides thereof; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side thereof:
19 Three bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one branch, a knop and a flower; and three bowls made like almonds in another branch, a knop and a flower: so throughout the six branches going out of the candlestick.
20 And in the candlestick were four bowls made like almonds, his knops, and his flowers:
21 And a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches going out of it.
22 Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was one beaten work of pure gold.
23 And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his snuffdishes, of pure gold.
24 Of a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels thereof.
25 And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.
26 And he overlaid it with pure gold, both the top of it, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made unto it a crown of gold round about.
27 And he made two rings of gold for it under the crown thereof, by the two corners of it, upon the two sides thereof, to be places for the staves to bear it withal.
28 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.
29 And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.
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AND he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.
2 And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.
3 And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he of brass.
4 And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.
5 And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves.
6 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass.
7 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards.
8 And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
9 And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:
10 Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
11 And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
12 And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
13 And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
14 The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
15 And for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and that hand, were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
16 All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.
17 And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.
18 And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.
19 And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver.
20 And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.
21 This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.
22 And Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Yahowah commanded Moses.
23 And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.
24 All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy place, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
25 And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
26 A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
27 And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
28 And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.
29 And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels.
30 And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the brasen altar, and the brasen grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar,
31 And the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.
CHAPTER 39
AND of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as Yahowah commanded Moses.
2 And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
3 And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.
4 They made shoulderpieces for it, to couple it together: by the two edges was it coupled together.
5 And the curious girdle of his ephod, that was upon it, was of the same, according to the work thereof; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as Yahowah commanded Moses.
6 And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.
7 And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they should be stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as Yahowah commanded Moses.
8 And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
9 It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.
10 And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row.
11 And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
12 And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
13 And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.
14 And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes.
15 And they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends, of wreathen work of pure gold.
16 And they made two ouches of gold, and two gold rings; and put the two rings in the two ends of the breastplate.
17 And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate.
18 And the two ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod, before it.
19 And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, upon the border of it, which was on the side of the ephod inward.
20 And they made two other golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.
21 And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as Yahowah commanded Moses.
22 And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
23 And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.
24 And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.
25 And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the pomegranates;
26 A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister in; as Yahowah commanded Moses.
27 And they made coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons,
28 And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and linen breeches of fine twined linen,
29 And a girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, of needlework; as Yahowah commanded Moses.
30 And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like to the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE Yahowah.
31 And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten it on high upon the mitre; as Yahowah commanded Moses.
32 Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that Yahowah commanded Moses, so did they.
33 And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent, and all his furniture, his taches, his boards, his bars, and his pillars, and his sockets,
34 And the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers’ skins, and the vail of the covering,
35 The ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat,
36 The table, and all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread,
37 The pure candlestick, with the lamps thereof, even with the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for light,
38 And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door,
39 The brasen altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
40 The hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation,
41 The cloths of service to do service in the holy place, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons’ garments, to minister in the priest’s office.
42 According to all that Yahowah commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work.
43 And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as Yahowah had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.
CHAPTER 40
AND Yahowah spoke unto Moses, saying,
2 On the first day of the first month will you set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
3 And you will put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the vail.
4 And you will bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it; and you will bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps thereof.
5 And you will set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle.
6 And you will set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
7 And you will set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and will put water therein.
8 And you will set up the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court gate.
9 And you will take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is therein, and will hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it will be holy.
10 And you will anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it will be an altar most holy.
11 And you will anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify it.
12 And you will bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water.
13 And you will put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.
14 And you will bring his sons, and clothe them with coats:
15 And you will anoint them, as you did anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office: for their anointing will surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.
16 Thus did Moses: according to all that Yahowah commanded him, so did he.
17 And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.
18 And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars.
19 And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as Yahowah commanded Moses.
20 And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:
21 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the vail of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as Yahowah commanded Moses.
22 And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the vail.
23 And he set the bread in order upon it before Yahowah; as Yahowah had commanded Moses.
24 And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.
25 And he lighted the lamps before Yahowah; as Yahowah commanded Moses.
26 And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail:
27 And he burnt sweet incense thereon; as Yahowah commanded Moses.
28 And he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle.
29 And he put the altar of burnt offering by the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meat offering; as Yahowah commanded Moses.
30 And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and put water there, to wash withal.
31 And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat:
32 When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near unto the altar, they washed; as Yahowah commanded Moses.
33 And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.
34 Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of Yahowah filled the tabernacle.
35 And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of Yahowah filled the tabernacle.
36 And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:
37 But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up.
38 For the cloud of Yahowah was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.