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BOOK02

The Second Book of Moses called EXODUS


CHAPTER 1
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
mortar,  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 spake  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 ye do the office of
a midwife to the
Hebrew  women,  and  see them  upon  the
stools; if it be a son, then ye
shall kill him: but if it be a daughter,
then she shall live.
17 But the midwives feared God,  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 ye 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  God dealt well  with  the
midwives: and the people
multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
21  And  it came to  pass,  because  the
midwives feared God, that
he made them houses.
22  And Pharaoh charged all his  people,
saying, Every son that
is  born ye shall cast into  the  river,
and every daughter ye shall
save alive.

CHAPTER 2
1 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, Shall I go and
call  to  thee  a nurse  of  the  Hebrew
women, that she may nurse the
child for thee?
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
thee thy 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 thou thy fellow?
14 And he said,  Who made thee a  prince
and a judge over us?
intendest  thou  to  kill  me,  as  thou
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 ye are come so soon today?
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  ye 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 God by reason
of the bondage.
24 And God heard their groaning, and God
remembered his
covenant with Abraham,  with Isaac,  and
with Jacob.
25  And God looked upon the children  of
Israel, and God had
respect unto them.

CHAPTER 3
1  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 God,
even to Horeb.
2  And  the angel of the  Lord  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 the Lord saw that he  turned
aside to see, God
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 thy shoes from
off thy feet, for the place whereon thou
standest is holy ground.
6 Moreover he said,  I am the God of thy
father, the God of
Abraham,  the God of Isaac,  and the God
of Jacob. And Moses hid his
face;  for  he  was afraid to look  upon
God.
7 And the Lord 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
thee unto Pharaoh, that
thou  mayest  bring forth my people  the
children of Israel out of
Egypt.
11  And Moses said unto God,  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
thee; and this shall
be  a token unto thee,  that I have sent
thee: When thou hast brought
forth the people out of Egypt,  ye shall
serve God upon this
mountain.
13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when
I come unto the
children of Israel,  and shall say  unto
them, The God of your
fathers hath sent me unto you;  and they
shall say to me, What is
his name? what shall I say unto them?
14 And God said unto Moses,  I AM THAT I
AM: and he said, Thus
shalt  thou  say  unto the  children  of
Israel, I AM hath sent me unto
you.
15  And  God said moreover  unto  Moses,
Thus shalt thou say unto
the children of Israel,  The Lord God of
your fathers, the God of
Abraham,  the God of Isaac,  and the God
of Jacob, hath 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,  The Lord God of your fathers, the
God 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 shall hearken to thy  voice:
and thou shalt come,
thou and the elders of Israel,  unto the
king of Egypt, and ye shall
say  unto  him,  The  Lord  God  of  the
Hebrews hath met with us: and now
let  us  go,   we  beseech  thee,  three
days'journey into the wilderness,
that  we  may sacrifice to the Lord  our
God.
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 shall come to  pass,
that, when ye go, ye shall
not go empty:
22  But every woman shall borrow of  her
neighbour, and of her
that sojourneth in her house,  jewels of
silver, and jewels of gold,
and raiment:  and ye shall put them upon
your sons, and upon your
daughters;   and  ye  shall  spoil   the
Egyptians.

CHAPTER 4
1  And Moses answered and  said,  But,
behold, they will not
believe  me,  nor hearken unto my voice:
for they will say, The Lord
hath not appeared unto thee.
2  And the Lord said unto him,  What  is
that in thine 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  the Lord said  unto  Moses,  Put
forth thine 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 the  Lord
God of their fathers,
the  God of Abraham,  the God of  Isaac,
and the God of Jacob, hath
appeared unto thee.
6  And  the Lord said  furthermore  unto
him, Put now thine hand
into thy 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 thine hand into  thy
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 shall come to pass,  if  they
will not believe thee,
neither  hearken  to the  voice  of  the
first sign, that they will
believe the voice of the latter sign.
9  And  it shall come to pass,  if  they
will not believe also
these  two signs,  neither hearken  unto
thy voice, that thou shalt
take of the water of the river, and pour
it upon the dry land: and
the  water which thou takest out of  the
river shall become blood
upon the dry land.
10  And Moses said unto the Lord,  O  my
Lord, I am not eloquent,
neither heretofore,  nor since thou hast
spoken unto thy servant:
but I am slow of speech,  and of a  slow
tongue.
11 And the Lord said unto him,  Who hath
made man's mouth? or
who  maketh the dumb,  or deaf,  or  the
seeing, or the blind? have not
I the Lord?
12 Now therefore go,  and I will be with
thy mouth, and teach
thee what thou shalt say.
13 And he said,  O my Lord, send, I pray
thee, by the hand of
him whom thou wilt send.
14 And the anger of the Lord was kindled
against Moses, and he
said,   Is  not  Aaron  the  Levite  thy
brother? I know that he can speak
well.  And also, behold, he cometh forth
to meet thee: and when he
seeth  thee,  he  will  be glad  in  his
heart.
15  And thou shalt speak unto  him,  and
put words in his mouth:
and I will be with thy mouth,  and  with
his mouth, and will teach
you what ye shall do.
16  And  he shall be thy spokesman  unto
the people: and he shall
be,  even he shall be to thee instead of
a mouth, and thou shalt be
to him instead of God.
17 And thou shalt take this rod in thine
hand, wherewith thou
shalt do signs.
18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro
his father in law,
and  said unto him,  Let me go,  I  pray
thee, 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  the  Lord said  unto  Moses  in
Midian, Go, return into
Egypt:  for  all the men are dead  which
sought thy 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 God in his hand.
21  And the Lord said unto  Moses,  When
thou goest to return
into  Egypt,  see that thou do all those
wonders before Pharaoh,
which  I have put in thine hand:  but  I
will harden his heart, that
he shall not let the people go.
22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus
saith the Lord,
Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
23 And I say unto thee,  Let my son  go,
that he may serve me:
and  if  thou  refuse  to  let  him  go,
behold, I will slay thy son, even
thy firstborn.
24 And it came to pass by the way in the
inn, that the Lord
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 art thou to me.
26  So he let him go:  then she said,  A
bloody husband thou art,
because of the circumcision.
27 And the Lord said to Aaron,  Go  into
the wilderness to meet
Moses.  And he went,  and met him in the
mount of God, and kissed
him.
28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of
the Lord 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 spake all the words  which
the Lord had spoken
unto  Moses,  and  did the signs in  the
sight of the people.
31  And the people  believed:  and  when
they heard that the Lord
had visited the children of Israel,  and
that he had looked upon
their affliction,  then they bowed their
heads and worshipped.

CHAPTER 5
1  And afterward Moses and Aaron  went
in, and told Pharaoh,
Thus  saith the Lord God of Israel,  Let
my people go, that they may
hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
2  And Pharaoh said,  Who is  the  Lord,
that I should obey his
voice  to let Israel go?  I know not the
Lord, neither will I let
Israel go.
3 And they said,  The God of the Hebrews
hath met with us: let
us go,  we pray thee, three days'journey
into the desert, and
sacrifice unto the Lord our God; lest he
fall upon us with
pestilence, or with the sword.
4 And the king of Egypt said unto  them,
Wherefore do ye, 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 ye make them rest from  their
burdens.
6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the
taskmasters of the
people, and their officers, saying,
7 Ye shall 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,
ye  shall  lay upon them;  ye shall  not
diminish aught thereof: for
they  be  idle;   therefore  they   cry,
saying, Let us go and sacrifice
to our God.
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 spake to the people,
saying, Thus saith Pharaoh,
I will not give you straw.
11  Go  ye,  get you straw where ye  can
find it: yet not aught of
your work shall 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  ye  not  fulfilled  your  task  in
making brick both yesterday and
today, as heretofore?
15  Then the officers of the children of
Israel came and cried
unto Pharaoh,  saying, Wherefore dealest
thou thus with thy
servants?
16  There  is no straw  given  unto  thy
servants, and they say to
us,   Make  brick:   and,   behold,  thy
servants are beaten; but the fault
is in thine own people.
17  But  he said,  Ye are idle,  ye  are
idle: therefore ye say,
Let us go and do sacrifice to the Lord.
18 Go therefore now, and work; for there
shall no straw be
given you, yet shall ye 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, Ye shall not minish
aught  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,  The  Lord
look upon you, and judge;
because  ye  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 the Lord, and
said, Lord, wherefore
hast thou so evil entreated this people?
why is it that thou hast
sent me?
23 For since I came to Pharaoh to  speak
in thy name, he hath
done  evil to this people;  neither hast
thou delivered thy people at
all.

CHAPTER 6
1 Then the Lord said unto  Moses,  Now
shalt thou see what I
will  do to Pharaoh:  for with a  strong
hand shall he let them go,
and  with  a strong hand shall he  drive
them out of his land.
2  And God spake unto  Moses,  and  said
unto him, I am the Lord:
3  And  I appeared  unto  Abraham,  unto
Isaac, and unto Jacob, by
the name of God Almighty, but by my name
JEHOVAH 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 the Lord,
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  God:  and ye shall know that I am the
Lord your God, 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
the Lord.
9  And Moses spake so unto the  children
of Israel: but they
hearkened not unto Moses for anguish  of
spirit, and for cruel
bondage.
10   And  the  Lord  spake  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  spake before  the  Lord,
saying, Behold, the
children  of Israel have  not  hearkened
unto me; how then shall
Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised
lips?
13  And  the Lord spake 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 the Lord said,
Bring  out the children of  Israel  from
the land of Egypt according
to their armies.
27 These are they which spake 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
the Lord spake unto
Moses in the land of Egypt,
29  That  the  Lord  spake  unto  Moses,
saying, I am the Lord:
speak  thou unto Pharaoh king  of  Egypt
all that I say unto thee.
30  And  Moses  said  before  the  Lord,
Behold, I am of
uncircumcised   lips,   and  how   shall
Pharaoh hearken unto me?

CHAPTER 7
1 And the Lord said unto Moses, See, I
have made thee a god to
Pharaoh:  and Aaron thy brother shall be
thy prophet.
2  Thou  shalt speak all that I  command
thee: and Aaron thy
brother shall 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 shall 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 shall know that I am
the Lord, 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  the  Lord
commanded them, so did
they.
7 And Moses was fourscore years old, and
Aaron fourscore and
three  years old,  when they spake  unto
Pharaoh.
8 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto
Aaron, saying,
9  When  Pharaoh shall speak  unto  you,
saying, Shew a miracle
for you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron,
Take thy rod, and cast it
before  Pharaoh,  and it shall become  a
serpent.
10  And  Moses  and Aaron went  in  unto
Pharaoh, and they did so
as  the Lord 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 the Lord had said.
14   And  the  Lord  said  unto   Moses,
Pharaoh's heart is hardened,
he refuseth to let the people go.
15 Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning;
lo, he goeth out unto
the water;  and thou shalt stand by  the
river's brink against he
come;  and the rod which was turned to a
serpent shalt thou take in
thine hand.
16 And thou shalt say unto him, The Lord
God of the Hebrews
hath sent me unto thee,  saying,  Let my
people go, that they may
serve me in the wilderness: and, behold,
hitherto thou wouldest not
hear.
17  Thus  saith the Lord,  In this  thou
shalt know that I am the
Lord:  behold, I will smite with the rod
that is in mine hand upon
the waters which are in the  river,  and
they shall be turned to
blood.
18  And  the fish that is in  the  river
shall die, and the river
shall  stink;  and  the Egyptians  shall
loathe to drink of the water
of the river.
19  And the Lord spake unto  Moses,  Say
unto Aaron, Take thy
rod, and stretch out thine 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  the
Lord 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 the Lord 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 the Lord had
smitten the river.

CHAPTER 8
1  And the Lord spake unto  Moses,  Go
unto Pharaoh, and say unto
him,  Thus saith the Lord, Let my people
go, that they may serve me.
2  And  if thou refuse to let  them  go,
behold, I will smite all
thy borders with frogs:
3  And the river shall bring forth frogs
abundantly, which
shall  go up and come into thine  house,
and into thy bedchamber, and
upon thy bed,  and into the house of thy
servants, and upon thy
people,  and into thine ovens,  and into
thy kneadingtroughs:
4  And the frogs shall come up  both  on
thee, and upon thy
people, and upon all thy servants.
5  And  the Lord spake unto  Moses,  Say
unto Aaron, Stretch forth
thine   hand  with  thy  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, Entreat
the  Lord,  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 the Lord.
9  And Moses said  unto  Pharaoh,  Glory
over me: when shall I
entreat for thee,  and for thy servants,
and for thy people, to
destroy  the  frogs  from thee  and  thy
houses, that they may remain in
the river only?
10 And he said,  Tomorrow.  And he said,
Be it according to thy
word:  that thou mayest know that  there
is none like unto the Lord
our God.
11 And the frogs shall depart from thee,
and from thy houses,
and  from  thy servants,  and  from  thy
people; they shall remain in
the river only.
12  And  Moses and Aaron went  out  from
Pharaoh: and Moses cried
unto the Lord because of the frogs which
he had brought against
Pharaoh.
13  And  the Lord 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 the Lord had said.
16  And the Lord said  unto  Moses,  Say
unto Aaron, Stretch out
thy 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
God:  and Pharaoh's heart was  hardened,
and he hearkened not unto
them; as the Lord had said.
20 And the Lord 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 saith the Lord,  Let my
people go, that they may
serve me.
21 Else,  if thou wilt not let my people
go, behold, I will
send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon
thy servants, and upon thy
people,  and  into thy houses:  and  the
houses of the Egyptians shall
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
shall be there; to the end
thou  mayest know that I am the Lord  in
the midst of the earth.
23 And I will put a division between  my
people and thy people:
tomorrow shall this sign be.
24 And the Lord 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
ye, sacrifice to your God in the land.
26 And Moses said,  It is not meet so to
do; for we shall
sacrifice   the   abomination   of   the
Egyptians to the Lord our God: lo,
shall  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  the Lord our God,  as  he
shall command us.
28 And Pharaoh said,  I will let you go,
that ye may sacrifice
to the Lord your God in the  wilderness;
only ye shall not go very
far away: entreat for me.
29 And Moses said, Behold, I go out from
thee, and I will
entreat  the  Lord  that the  swarms  of
flies may depart from Pharaoh,
from his servants,  and from his people,
tomorrow: but let not
Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not
letting the people go to
sacrifice to the Lord.
30 And Moses went out from Pharaoh,  and
entreated the Lord.
31  And  the Lord 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
1 Then the Lord said unto Moses, Go in
unto Pharaoh, and tell
him,  Thus  saith  the Lord God  of  the
Hebrews, Let my people go, that
they may serve me.
2 For if thou refuse to let them go, and
wilt hold them still,
3  Behold,  the hand of the Lord is upon
thy cattle which is in
the  field,  upon the horses,  upon  the
asses, upon the camels, upon
the  oxen,  and upon  the  sheep:  there
shall be a very grievous
murrain.
4  And the Lord shall sever between  the
cattle of Israel and
the  cattle  of Egypt:  and there  shall
nothing die of all that is the
children's of Israel.
5  And  the Lord appointed a  set  time,
saying, Tomorrow the Lord
shall do this thing in the land.
6  And  the Lord 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 the Lord 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 shall become small dust in  all
the land of Egypt, and
shall  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  the Lord hardened the heart  of
Pharaoh, and he
hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had
spoken unto Moses.
13 And the Lord said unto Moses, Rise up
early in the morning,
and stand before Pharaoh,  and say  unto
him, Thus saith the Lord God
of the Hebrews,  Let my people go,  that
they may serve me.
14  For I will at this time send all  my
plagues upon thine
heart,  and upon thy servants,  and upon
thy people; that thou mayest
know  that there is none like me in  all
the earth.
15  For now I will stretch out my  hand,
that I may smite thee
and thy people with pestilence; and thou
shalt be cut off from the
earth.
16  And in very deed for this cause have
I raised thee up, for
to  shew in thee my power;  and that  my
name may be declared
throughout all the earth.
17 As yet exaltest thou thyself  against
my people, that thou
wilt not let them go?
18  Behold,  tomorrow about this time  I
will cause it to rain a
very  grievous  hail,  such as hath  not
been in Egypt since the
foundation thereof even until now.
19  Send therefore now,  and gather  thy
cattle, and all that
thou hast in the field;  for upon  every
man and beast which shall be
found  in  the field,  and shall not  be
brought home, the hail shall
come down upon them, and they shall die.
20  He that feared the word of the  Lord
among the servants of
Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle
flee into the houses:
21 And he that regarded not the word  of
the Lord left his
servants and his cattle in the field.
22 And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch
forth thine 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 the
Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire
ran along upon the ground;
and  the Lord 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: the
Lord is righteous, and I
and my people are wicked.
28  Entreat the Lord (for it is  enough)
that there be no more
mighty thunderings and hail;  and I will
let you go, and ye shall
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
the Lord; and the thunder
shall cease,  neither shall there be any
more hail; that thou mayest
know how that the earth is the Lord's.
30 But as for thee and thy  servants,  I
know that ye will not
yet fear the Lord God.
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 the Lord:  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 the  Lord
had spoken by Moses.

CHAPTER 10
1 And the Lord 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 thou mayest tell in the ears
of thy son, and of thy
son's son, what things I have wrought in
Egypt, and my signs which
I have done among them; that ye may know
how that I am the Lord.
3  And  Moses  and Aaron  came  in  unto
Pharaoh, and said unto him,
Thus saith the Lord God of the  Hebrews,
How long wilt thou refuse
to  humble  thyself before  me?  let  my
people go, that they may serve
me.
4 Else,  if thou refuse to let my people
go, behold, tomorrow
will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
5  And they shall cover the face of  the
earth, that one cannot
be able to see the earth: and they shall
eat the residue of that
which  is escaped,  which remaineth unto
you from the hail, and shall
eat every tree which groweth for you out
of the field:
6  And they shall fill thy  houses,  and
the houses of all thy
servants,  and  the  houses of  all  the
Egyptians; which neither thy
fathers,  nor  thy 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 shall this
man be a snare unto us?  let the men go,
that they may serve the
Lord  their God:  knowest thou  not  yet
that Egypt is destroyed?
8 And Moses and Aaron were brought again
unto Pharaoh: and he
said unto them,  Go, serve the Lord your
God: but who are they that
shall 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 the Lord.
10  And he said unto them,  Let the Lord
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 ye that are men,  and
serve the Lord; for
that ye did desire. And they were driven
out from Pharaoh's
presence.
12 And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch
out thine 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 hath left.
13  And  Moses stretched forth  his  rod
over the land of Egypt,
and  the Lord 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 shall
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  the  Lord
your God, and against you.
17  Now therefore forgive,  I pray thee,
my sin only this once,
and entreat the Lord your God,  that  he
may take away from me this
death only.
18  And  he went out from  Pharaoh,  and
entreated the Lord.
19  And the Lord 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  the  Lord  hardened  Pharaoh's
heart, so that he would not
let the children of Israel go.
21 And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch
out thine 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 ye, serve the
Lord;  only  let  your flocks  and  your
herds be stayed: let your
little ones also go with you.
25  And  Moses said,  Thou must give  us
also sacrifices and burnt
offerings,  that  we may sacrifice  unto
the Lord our God.
26  Our  cattle also shall go  with  us;
there shall not an hoof
be left behind; for thereof must we take
to serve the Lord our God;
and we know not with what we must  serve
the Lord, until we come
thither.
27   But  the  Lord  hardened  Pharaoh's
heart, and he would not let
them go.
28 And Pharaoh said unto him,  Get  thee
from me, take heed to
thyself,  see  my face no more;  for  in
that day thou seest my face
thou shalt die.
29  And  Moses said,  Thou  hast  spoken
well, I will see thy face
again no more.

CHAPTER 11
1  And the Lord said unto Moses,  Yet
will I bring one plague
more  upon  Pharaoh,   and  upon  Egypt;
afterwards he will let you go
hence:  when  he shall let  you  go,  he
shall 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 the Lord 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 saith the Lord,
About midnight will I
go out into the midst of Egypt:
5  And all the firstborn in the land  of
Egypt shall 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  shall  be  a  great  cry
throughout all the land of
Egypt,  such as there was none like  it,
nor shall be like it any
more.
7  But  against any of the  children  of
Israel shall not a dog
move  his tongue,  against man or beast:
that ye may know how that
the  Lord doth put a difference  between
the Egyptians and Israel.
8 And all these thy servants shall  come
down unto me, and bow
down  themselves unto  me,  saying,  Get
thee out, and all the people
that follow thee:  and after that I will
go out. And he went out
from Pharaoh in a great anger.
9 And the Lord said unto Moses,  Pharaoh
shall 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  the Lord hardened Pharaoh's  heart,
so that he would not let the
childre n of Israel go out of his land.

CHAPTER 12
1  And the Lord spake unto Moses  and
Aaron in the land of
Egypt, saying,
2  This  month  shall be  unto  you  the
beginning of months: it
shall be the first month of the year  to
you.
3  Speak ye unto all the congregation of
Israel, saying, In the
tenth day of this month they shall  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 shall make your
count for the lamb.
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish,  a
male of the first
year:  ye  shall  take it out  from  the
sheep, or from the goats:
6  And  ye  shall keep it up  until  the
fourteenth day of the same
month:  and  the whole assembly  of  the
congregation of Israel shall
kill it in the evening.
7 And they shall take of the blood,  and
strike it on the two
side posts and on the upper door post of
the houses, wherein they
shall eat it.
8  And they shall eat the flesh in  that
night, roast with fire,
and  unleavened bread;  and with  bitter
herbs they shall 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 ye shall let nothing of it remain
until the morning;
and that which remaineth of it until the
morning ye shall burn with
fire.
11 And thus shall ye eat it;  with  your
loins girded, your
shoes  on your feet,  and your staff  in
your hand; and ye shall eat
it in haste: it is the Lord'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 the Lord.
13  And the blood shall be to you for  a
token upon the houses
where ye are:  and when I see the blood,
I will pass over you, and
the  plague  shall  not be upon  you  to
destroy you, when I smite the
land of Egypt.
14 And this day shall be unto you for  a
memorial; and ye shall
keep  it a feast to the Lord  throughout
your generations; ye shall
keep  it  a  feast by an  ordinance  for
ever.
15  Seven days shall ye  eat  unleavened
bread; even the first
day ye shall put away leaven out of your
houses: for whosoever
eateth leavened bread from the first day
until the seventh day,
that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
16  And in the first day there shall  be
an holy convocation,
and in the seventh day there shall be an
holy convocation to you;
no manner of work shall be done in them,
save that which every man
must eat, that only may be done of you.
17  And  ye shall observe the  feast  of
unleavened bread; for in
this  selfsame  day have I brought  your
armies out of the land of
Egypt:  therefore shall ye 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,  ye  shall  eat unleavened  bread,
until the one and twentieth
day of the month at even.
19  Seven days shall there be no  leaven
found in your houses:
for  whosoever  eateth  that  which   is
leavened, even that soul shall
be  cut  off  from the  congregation  of
Israel, whether he be a
stranger, or born in the land.
20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all
your habitations
shall ye 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 ye shall take a bunch of hyssop,
and dip it in the
blood that is in the basin,  and  strike
the lintel and the two side
posts  with  the  blood that is  in  the
basin; and none of you shall go
out  at the door of his house until  the
morning.
23  For  the Lord will pass  through  to
smite the Egyptians; and
when he seeth the blood upon the lintel,
and on the two side posts,
the  Lord will pass over the  door,  and
will not suffer the destroyer
to  come  in unto your houses  to  smite
you.
24  And ye shall observe this thing  for
an ordinance to thee
and to thy sons for ever.
25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be
come to the land
which the Lord will give you,  according
as he hath promised, that
ye shall keep this service.
26 And it shall come to pass,  when your
children shall say
unto you, What mean ye by this service?
27  That  ye  shall  say,   It  is   the
sacrifice of the Lord'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 the Lord
had  commanded Moses and Aaron,  so  did
they.
29 And it came to pass, that at midnight
the Lord 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 ye and the
children of Israel;  and go,  serve  the
Lord, as ye have said.
32 Also take your flocks and your herds,
as ye 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 the Lord 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 the Lord went out from the land
of Egypt.
42  It  is a night to be  much  observed
unto the Lord for
bringing  them  out  from  the  land  of
Egypt: this is that night of the
Lord  to be observed of all the children
of Israel in their
generations.
43  And  the Lord said  unto  Moses  and
Aaron, This is the
ordinance  of the passover:  There shall
no stranger eat thereof:
44  But  every  man's  servant  that  is
bought for money, when thou
hast circumcised him,  then shall he eat
thereof.
45  A  foreigner and  an  hired  servant
shall not eat thereof.
46 In one house shall it be eaten;  thou
shalt not carry forth
aught  of  the flesh abroad out  of  the
house; neither shall ye break
a bone thereof.
47  All the congregation of Israel shall
keep it.
48  And  when a stranger  shall  sojourn
with thee, and will keep
the  passover to the Lord,  let all  his
males be circumcised, and
then let him come near and keep it;  and
he shall be as one that is
born in the land:  for no  uncircumcised
person shall eat thereof.
49  One  law  shall be to  him  that  is
homeborn, and unto the
stranger that sojourneth among you.
50  Thus did all the children of Israel;
as the Lord commanded
Moses and Aaron, so did they.
51 And it came to pass the selfsame day,
that the Lord did
bring the children of Israel out of  the
land of Egypt by their
armies.

CHAPTER 13
1  And  the  Lord spake  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
ye came out from Egypt, out of the house
of bondage; for by
strength  of hand the Lord  brought  you
out from this place: there
shall no leavened bread be eaten.
4  This  day  came ye out in  the  month
Abib.
5  And it shall be when the  Lord  shall
bring thee into the land
of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and
the Amorites, and the
Hivites,  and  the Jebusites,  which  he
sware unto thy fathers to give
thee,  a  land  flowing  with  milk  and
honey, that thou shalt keep this
service in this month.
6  Seven days thou shalt eat  unleavened
bread, and in the
seventh  day  shall  be a feast  to  the
Lord.
7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten  seven
days; and there shall
no  leavened  bread be seen  with  thee,
neither shall there be leaven
seen with thee in all thy quarters.
8  And  thou shalt shew thy son in  that
day, saying, This is
done because of that which the Lord  did
unto me when I came forth
out of Egypt.
9  And it shall be for a sign unto  thee
upon thine hand, and
for a memorial between thine eyes,  that
the Lord's law may be in
thy  mouth:  for with a strong hand hath
the Lord brought thee out of
Egypt.
10   Thou  shalt  therefore  keep   this
ordinance in his season from
year to year.
11  And it shall be when the Lord  shall
bring thee into the
land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto
thee and to thy fathers,
and shall give it thee,
12  That thou shalt set apart  unto  the
Lord all that openeth
the  matrix,  and  every firstling  that
cometh of a beast which thou
hast; the males shall be the Lord's.
13  And every firstling of an  ass  thou
shalt redeem with a
lamb;  and  if thou wilt not redeem  it,
then thou shalt break his
neck: and all the firstborn of man among
thy children shalt thou
redeem.
14  And it shall be when thy son  asketh
thee in time to come,
saying,  What  is this?  that thou shalt
say unto him, By strength of
hand the Lord brought us out from Egypt,
from the house of bondage:
15  And it came to  pass,  when  Pharaoh
would hardly let us go,
that  the Lord slew all the firstborn in
the land of Egypt, both the
firstborn of man,  and the firstborn  of
beast: therefore I sacrifice
to the Lord all that openeth the matrix,
being males; but all the
firstborn of my children I redeem.
16  And  it  shall be for a  token  upon
thine hand, and for
frontlets  between thine  eyes:  for  by
strength of hand the Lord
brought us forth out of Egypt.
17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had
let the people go,
that God led them not through the way of
the land of the
Philistines, although that was near; for
God said, Lest
peradventure the people repent when they
see war, and they return
to Egypt:
18 But God 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, God will surely
visit  you;  and  ye shall 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 the Lord 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
1  And  the Lord  spake  unto  Moses,
saying,
2  Speak  unto the children  of  Israel,
that they turn and encamp
before  Pihahiroth,  between Migdol  and
the sea, over against
Baalzephon: before it shall ye encamp by
the sea.
3  For Pharaoh will say of the  children
of Israel, They are
entangled  in the land,  the  wilderness
hath shut them in.
4  And  I will harden  Pharaoh's  heart,
that he shall follow
after them;  and I will be honoured upon
Pharaoh, and upon all his
host; that the Egyptians may know that I
am the Lord. 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  the Lord 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
Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon.
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
the Lord.
11  And  they said unto  Moses,  Because
there were no graves in
Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in
the wilderness? wherefore
hast thou dealt thus with us,  to  carry
us forth out of Egypt?
12 Is not this the word that we did tell
thee 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
ye not, stand still,
and see the salvation of the Lord, which
he will shew to you today:
for  the  Egyptians whom  ye  have  seen
today, ye shall see them again
no more for ever.
14 The Lord shall fight for you,  and ye
shall hold your peace.
15   And  the  Lord  said  unto   Moses,
Wherefore criest thou unto
me?  speak  unto the children of Israel,
that they go forward:
16 But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch
out thine hand over
the sea, and divide it: and the children
of Israel shall go on dry
ground through the midst of the sea.
17  And I,  behold,  I will  harden  the
hearts of the Egyptians,
and  they shall 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 shall know that  I
am the Lord, when I
have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon
his chariots, and upon his
horsemen.
19  And  the angel of  God,  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 the Lord
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 the Lord
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 the Lord fighteth for  them
against the Egyptians.
26 And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch
out thine 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 the Lord
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 the Lord 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
the Lord did upon the
Egyptians:  and  the people  feared  the
Lord, and believed the Lord,
and his servant Moses.

CHAPTER 15
1 Then sang Moses and the children of
Israel this song unto
the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing
unto the Lord, for he hath
triumphed gloriously:  the horse and his
rider hath he thrown into
the sea.
2 The Lord is my strength and song,  and
he is become my
salvation:  he  is  my God,  and I  will
prepare him an habitation; my
father's God, and I will exalt him.
3 The Lord is a man of war:  the Lord is
his name.
4  Pharaoh's chariots and his host  hath
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  Lord,  is  become
glorious in power: thy
right  hand,  O  Lord,  hath  dashed  in
pieces the enemy.
7   And   in  the  greatness  of   thine
excellency thou hast
overthrown  them  that rose  up  against
thee: thou sentest forth thy
wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
8 And with the blast of thy 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  shall  be
satisfied upon them; I will draw
my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
10  Thou didst blow with thy  wind,  the
sea covered them: they
sank as lead in the mighty waters.
11 Who is like unto thee,  O Lord, among
the gods? who is like
thee,  glorious in holiness,  fearful in
praises, doing wonders?
12 Thou stretchedst out thy right  hand,
the earth swallowed
them.
13  Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the
people which thou hast
redeemed:  thou hast guided them in  thy
strength unto thy holy
habitation.
14 The people shall hear, and be afraid:
sorrow shall take
hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.
15  Then  the  dukes of  Edom  shall  be
amazed; the mighty men of
Moab,  trembling  shall  take hold  upon
them; all the inhabitants of
Canaan shall melt away.
16 Fear and dread shall fall upon  them;
by the greatness of
thine  arm  they shall be as still as  a
stone; till thy people pass
over, O Lord, till the people pass over,
which thou hast purchased.
17 Thou shalt bring them in,  and  plant
them in the mountain of
thine inheritance, in the place, O Lord,
which thou hast made for
thee  to dwell in,  in the Sanctuary,  O
Lord, which thy hands have
established.
18  The  Lord shall reign for  ever  and
ever.
19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with
his chariots and with
his horsemen into the sea,  and the Lord
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 ye to
the Lord, for he hath
triumphed gloriously;  the horse and his
rider hath 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 shall
we drink?
25 And he cried unto the Lord;  and  the
Lord shewed 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 thou wilt  diligently
hearken to the voice of
the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which
is right in his sight, and
wilt give ear to his  commandments,  and
keep all his statutes, I
will  put  none of these  diseases  upon
thee, which I have brought
upon  the Egyptians:  for I am the  Lord
that healeth thee.
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
1  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 God we
had died by the hand of the Lord in  the
land of Egypt, when we sat
by  the flesh pots,  and when we did eat
bread to the full; for ye
have   brought   us  forth   into   this
wilderness, to kill this whole
assembly with hunger.
4 Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold,
I will rain bread
from  heaven  for you;  and  the  people
shall 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 shall come to pass, that on the
sixth day they shall
prepare that which they bring in; and it
shall be twice as much as
they gather daily.
6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all  the
children of Israel, At
even,  then  ye shall know that the Lord
hath brought you out from
the land of Egypt:
7 And in the morning,  then ye shall see
the glory of the Lord;
for  that  he  heareth  your  murmurings
against the Lord: and what are
we, that ye murmur against us?
8 And Moses said,  This shall  be,  when
the Lord shall give you
in the evening flesh to eat,  and in the
morning bread to the full;
for   that   the   Lord   heareth   your
murmurings which ye murmur against
him:  and  what are we?  your murmurings
are not against us, but
against the Lord.
9 And Moses spake unto Aaron,  Say  unto
all the congregation of
the children of Israel, Come near before
the Lord: for he hath
heard your murmurings.
10  And it came to pass,  as Aaron spake
unto the whole
congregation of the children of  Israel,
that they looked toward the
wilderness,  and,  behold,  the glory of
the Lord appeared in the
cloud.
11   And  the  Lord  spake  unto  Moses,
saying,
12  I have heard the murmurings  of  the
children of Israel:
speak  unto  them,  saying,  At even  ye
shall eat flesh, and in the
morning  ye shall be filled with  bread;
and ye shall know that I am
the Lord your God.
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 the
Lord hath given you to eat.
16 This is the thing which the Lord hath
commanded, Gather of
it every man according to his eating, an
omer for every man,
according to the number of your persons;
take ye 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 wroth 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 the Lord hath
said,  Tomorrow is the rest of the  holy
sabbath unto the Lord: bake
that  which  ye  will  bake  today,  and
seethe that ye 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 today;  for
today is a sabbath unto
the Lord:  today ye shall not find it in
the field.
26 Six days ye shall gather it;  but  on
the seventh day, which
is  the  sabbath,  in it there shall  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 the Lord said  unto  Moses,  How
long refuse ye to keep my
commandments and my laws?
29 See, for that the Lord hath given you
the sabbath,
therefore he giveth you on the sixth day
the bread of two days;
abide ye 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 the Lord
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
the Lord, to be kept for
your generations.
34 As the Lord 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
1  And  all the congregation  of  the
children of Israel journeyed
from the wilderness of Sin,  after their
journeys, according to the
commandment of the Lord,  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 ye
with me? wherefore do ye tempt the Lord?
3  And  the people  thirsted  there  for
water; and the people
murmured   against  Moses,   and   said,
Wherefore is this that thou hast
brought  us up out of Egypt,  to kill us
and our children and our
cattle with thirst?
4 And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying,
What shall I do unto
this  people?  they be almost  ready  to
stone me.
5  And the Lord said unto Moses,  Go  on
before the people, and
take  with thee of the elders of Israel;
and thy rod, wherewith thou
smotest the river,  take in thine  hand,
and go.
6 Behold, I will stand before thee there
upon the rock in
Horeb;  and  thou shalt smite the  rock,
and there shall 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 the Lord,  saying,  Is the  Lord
among us, or not?
8  Then  came Amalek,  and  fought  with
Israel in Rephidim.
9 And Moses said unto Joshua,  Choose us
out men, and go out,
fight with Amalek: tomorrow I will stand
on the top of the hill
with the rod of God in mine hand.
10  So  Joshua 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 Joshua discomfited Amalek and his
people with the edge
of the sword.
14  And the Lord said unto Moses,  Write
this for a memorial in
a book,  and rehearse it in the ears  of
Joshua: 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
Jehovahnissi:
16  For he said,  Because the Lord  hath
sworn that the Lord will
have  war with Amalek from generation to
generation.

CHAPTER 18
1 When Jethro,  the priest of Midian,
Moses'father in law,
heard  of  all  that God  had  done  for
Moses, and for Israel his
people,  and  that the Lord 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 God 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 God:
6  And he said unto Moses,  I thy father
in law Jethro am come
unto  thee,  and thy 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 the Lord 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 the Lord
delivered them.
9  And  Jethro  rejoiced  for  all   the
goodness which the Lord had
done  to Israel,  whom he had  delivered
out of the hand of the
Egyptians.
10 And Jethro said, Blessed be the Lord,
who hath delivered
you  out  of the hand of the  Egyptians,
and out of the hand of
Pharaoh,  who hath delivered the  people
from under the hand of the
Egyptians.
11  Now I know that the Lord 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 God:  and Aaron came, and
all the elders of Israel,
to  eat bread with Moses'father  in  law
before God.
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
thou doest to the people?
why sittest thou thyself alone,  and all
the people stand by thee
from morning unto even?
15  And  Moses said unto his  father  in
law, Because the people
come unto me to inquire of God:
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
God, and his laws.
17  And  Moses'father in law  said  unto
him, The thing that thou
doest is not good.
18  Thou  wilt surely  wear  away,  both
thou, and this people that
is  with  thee:  for this thing  is  too
heavy for thee; thou art not
able to perform it thyself alone.
19  Hearken now unto my  voice,  I  will
give thee counsel, and
God shall be with thee:  Be thou for the
people to Godward, that
thou mayest bring the causes unto God:
20  And thou shalt teach them ordinances
and laws, and shalt
shew  them  the way  wherein  they  must
walk, and the work that they
must do.
21  Moreover  thou shalt provide out  of
all the people able men,
such as fear God,  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 shall
be,  that  every great matter they shall
bring unto thee, but every
small matter they shall judge:  so shall
it be easier for thyself,
and  they  shall bear  the  burden  with
thee.
23 If thou shalt do this thing,  and God
command thee so, then
thou  shalt be able to endure,  and  all
this people shall 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
1  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 God,  and  the
Lord called unto him out
of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou
say to the house of Jacob,
and tell the children of Israel;
4  Ye  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 ye will  obey  my
voice indeed, and keep my
covenant,  then  ye shall be a  peculiar
treasure unto me above all
people: for all the earth is mine:
6  And ye shall be unto me a kingdom  of
priests, and an holy
nation.  These are the words which  thou
shalt 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 the Lord commanded
him.
8  And all the people answered together,
and said, All that the
Lord hath spoken we will do.  And  Moses
returned the words of the
people unto the Lord.
9  And the Lord said unto Moses,  Lo,  I
come unto thee in a
thick  cloud,  that the people may  hear
when I speak with thee, and
believe  thee for ever.  And Moses  told
the words of the people unto
the Lord.
10 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto
the people, and
sanctify  them today and  tomorrow,  and
let them wash their clothes,
11  And be ready against the third  day:
for the third day the
Lord will come down in the sight of  all
the people upon mount
Sinai.
12  And  thou shalt set bounds unto  the
people round about,
saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye
go not up into the mount,
or  touch the border  of  it:  whosoever
toucheth the mount shall be
surely put to death:
13 There shall not an hand touch it, but
he shall surely be
stoned,  or shot through;  whether it be
beast or man, it shall not
live:  when  the trumpet soundeth  long,
they shall 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  God;  and they stood at the nether
part of the mount.
18  And mount Sinai was altogether on  a
smoke, because the Lord
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 spake, and God
answered him by a voice.
20  And  the Lord came down  upon  mount
Sinai, on the top of the
mount:  and the Lord called Moses up  to
the top of the mount; and
Moses went up.
21  And  the Lord said  unto  Moses,  Go
down, charge the people,
lest they break through unto the Lord to
gaze, and many of them
perish.
22 And let the priests also,  which come
near to the Lord,
sanctify themselves, lest the Lord break
forth upon them.
23  And  Moses said unto the  Lord,  The
people cannot come up to
mount  Sinai:  for  thou  chargedst  us,
saying, Set bounds about the
mount, and sanctify it.
24 And the Lord said unto him, Away, get
thee down, and thou
shalt  come up,  thou,  and  Aaron  with
thee: but let not the priests
and  the people break through to come up
unto the Lord, lest he
break forth upon them.
25  So Moses went down unto the  people,
and spake unto them.

CHAPTER 20
1  And  God spake  all  these  words,
saying,
2  I  am the Lord thy  God,  which  have
brought thee out of the
land  of  Egypt,  out  of the  house  of
bondage.
3  Thou shalt have no other gods  before
me.
4  Thou  shalt not make  unto  thee  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  Thou  shalt not bow down  thyself  to
them, nor serve them: for
I  the  Lord thy God am a  jealous  God,
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  Thou shalt not take the name  of  the
Lord thy God in vain;
for the Lord will not hold him guiltless
that taketh his name in
vain.
8  Remember the sabbath day,  to keep it
holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all
thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of
the Lord thy God: in
it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor
thy son, nor thy daughter,
thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor
thy cattle, nor thy
stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the Lord made  heaven
and earth, the sea,
and all that in them is,  and rested the
seventh day: wherefore the
Lord   blessed  the  sabbath  day,   and
hallowed it.
12  Honour  thy father and  thy  mother:
that thy days may be long
upon  the  land which the Lord  thy  God
giveth thee.
13 Thou shalt not kill.
14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15 Thou shalt not steal.
16  Thou  shalt not bear  false  witness
against thy neighbour.
17 Thou shalt not covet thy  neighbour's
house, thou shalt not
covet  thy  neighbour's  wife,  nor  his
manservant, nor his
maidservant,  nor  his ox,  nor his ass,
nor any thing that is thy
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 thou
with us, and we will
hear:  but  let  not God speak with  us,
lest we die.
20 And Moses said unto the people,  Fear
not: for God is come
to prove you,  and that his fear may  be
before your faces, that ye
sin not.
21  And the people stood afar  off,  and
Moses drew near unto the
thick darkness where God was.
22  And the Lord said unto  Moses,  Thus
thou shalt say unto the
children of Israel,  Ye have seen that I
have talked with you from
heaven.
23  Ye  shall not make with me  gods  of
silver, neither shall ye
make unto you gods of gold.
24  An  altar of earth thou  shalt  make
unto me, and shalt
sacrifice  thereon thy burnt  offerings,
and thy peace offerings, thy
sheep,  and  thine oxen:  in all  places
where I record my name I will
come unto thee, and I will bless thee.
25  And if thou wilt make me an altar of
stone, thou shalt not
build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift
up thy tool upon it, thou
hast polluted it.
26  Neither  shalt thou go up  by  steps
unto mine altar, that thy
nakedness be not discovered thereon.

CHAPTER 21
1  Now these are the judgments  which
thou shalt set before
them.
2  If thou buy an  Hebrew  servant,  six
years he shall serve: and
in  the seventh he shall go out free for
nothing.
3 If he came in by himself,  he shall go
out by himself: if he
were married, then his wife shall go out
with him.
4  If his master have given him a  wife,
and she have borne him
sons  or  daughters;  the wife  and  her
children shall be her master's,
and he shall go out by himself.
5 And if the servant shall plainly  say,
I love my master, my
wife, and my children; I will not go out
free:
6  Then his master shall bring him  unto
the judges; he shall
also bring him to the door,  or unto the
door post; and his master
shall  bore his ear through with an awl;
and he shall serve him for
ever.
7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a
maidservant, she
shall not go out as the menservants do.
8 If she please not her master, who hath
betrothed her to
himself,   then  shall  he  let  her  be
redeemed: to sell her unto a
strange  nation he shall have no  power,
seeing he hath dealt
deceitfully with her.
9 And if he have betrothed her unto  his
son, he shall deal
with her after the manner of daughters.
10  If  he take him  another  wife;  her
food, her raiment, and her
duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
11  And  if he do not these  three  unto
her, then shall she go
out free without money.
12  He  that smiteth a man,  so that  he
die, shall be surely put
to death.
13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God
deliver him into his
hand;  then I will appoint thee a  place
whither he shall flee.
14 But if a man come presumptuously upon
his neighbour, to
slay him with guile; thou shalt take him
from mine altar, that he
may die.
15  And he that smiteth his  father,  or
his mother, shall be
surely put to death.
16  And  he  that stealeth  a  man,  and
selleth him, or if he be
found  in his hand,  he shall surely  be
put to death.
17  And he that curseth his  father,  or
his mother, shall 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
shall he that smote him be quit: only he
shall pay for the loss of
his  time,  and  shall 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 shall  be
surely punished.
21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day
or two, he shall 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 shall be
surely   punished,   according  as   the
woman's husband will lay upon
him;  and  he  shall pay as  the  judges
determine.
23 And if any mischief follow, then thou
shalt 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 shall 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 shall 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
shall  be surely stoned,  and his  flesh
shall not be eaten; but the
owner of the ox shall be quit.
29  But if the ox were wont to push with
his horn in time past,
and it hath been testified to his owner,
and he hath not kept him
in,  but that he hath killed a man or  a
woman; the ox shall be
stoned,  and his owner also shall be put
to death.
30  If  there  be laid on him a  sum  of
money, then he shall 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 shall it  be
done unto him.
32 If the ox shall push a manservant  or
a maidservant; he
shall  give  unto  their  master  thirty
shekels of silver, and the ox
shall be stoned.
33 And if a man shall open a pit,  or if
a man shall dig a pit,
and  not cover it,  and an ox or an  ass
fall therein;
34  The  owner of the pit shall make  it
good, and give money
unto  the owner of them;  and  the  dead
beast shall be his.
35  And if one man's ox hurt  another's,
that he die; then they
shall  sell the live ox,  and divide the
money of it; and the dead ox
also they shall divide.
36  Or if it be known that the  ox  hath
used to push in time
past,  and  his owner hath not kept  him
in; he shall surely pay ox
for ox; and the dead shall be his own.

CHAPTER 22
1  If a man shall steal an ox,  or  a
sheep, and kill it, or sell
it;  he  shall 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 shall no blood be shed for him.
3  If the sun be risen upon  him,  there
shall be blood shed for
him;    for   he   should   make    full
restitution; if he have nothing, then
he shall 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 shall
restore double.
5  If  a  man shall  cause  a  field  or
vineyard to be eaten, and
shall  put in his beast,  and shall feed
in another man's field; of
the  best of his own field,  and of  the
best of his own vineyard,
shall 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 shall  surely
make restitution.
7  If  a  man  shall  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
shall 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 shall come
before the judges;  and whom the  judges
shall condemn, he shall 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  shall an oath of the  Lord  be
between them both, that
he  hath  not  put  his  hand  unto  his
neighbour's goods; and the owner
of it shall accept thereof, and he shall
not make it good.
12  And  if it be stolen  from  him,  he
shall make restitution
unto the owner thereof.
13 If it be torn in pieces, then let him
bring it for witness,
and  he shall not make good  that  which
was torn.
14  And  if  a man borrow aught  of  his
neighbour, and it be hurt,
or die, the owner thereof being not with
it, he shall surely make
it good.
15 But if the owner thereof be with  it,
he shall 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 shall surely endow her  to
be his wife.
17  If her father utterly refuse to give
her unto him, he shall
pay  money  according to  the  dowry  of
virgins.
18  Thou  shalt  not suffer a  witch  to
live.
19  Whosoever lieth with a  beast  shall
surely be put to death.
20  He  that sacrificeth unto  any  god,
save unto the Lord only,
he shall be utterly destroyed.
21  Thou  shalt neither vex a  stranger,
nor oppress him: for ye
were strangers in the land of Egypt.
22  Ye shall not afflict any  widow,  or
fatherless child.
23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and
they cry at all unto
me, I will surely hear their cry;
24  And my wrath shall wax  hot,  and  I
will kill you with the
sword;  and  your wives shall be widows,
and your children
fatherless.
25  If  thou  lend money to  any  of  my
people that is poor by
thee,  thou  shalt not be to him  as  an
usurer, neither shalt thou lay
upon him usury.
26  If thou at all take thy  neighbour's
raiment to pledge, thou
shalt  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  shall he sleep?  and  it
shall come to pass, when he
crieth unto me,  that I will hear; for I
am gracious.
28 Thou shalt not revile the  gods,  nor
curse the ruler of thy
people.
29  Thou  shalt not delay to  offer  the
first of thy ripe fruits,
and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy
sons shalt thou give unto
me.
30  Likewise  shalt thou do  with  thine
oxen, and with thy sheep:
seven days it shall be with his dam;  on
the eighth day thou shalt
give it me.
31  And  ye shall be holy men  unto  me:
neither shall ye eat any
flesh  that  is  torn of beasts  in  the
field; ye shall cast it to the
dogs.

CHAPTER 23
1  Thou  shalt  not  raise  a   false
report: put not thine hand with
the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
2  Thou shalt not follow a multitude  to
do evil; neither shalt
thou  speak in a cause to decline  after
many to wrest judgment:
3  Neither shalt thou countenance a poor
man in his cause.
4  If thou meet thine enemy's ox or  his
ass going astray, thou
shalt surely bring it back to him again.
5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth
thee lying under his
burden,  and  wouldest forbear  to  help
him, thou shalt surely help
with him.
6  Thou shalt not wrest the judgment  of
thy poor in his cause.
7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and
the innocent and
righteous slay thou not:  for I will not
justify the wicked.
8  And thou shalt take no gift:  for the
gift blindeth the wise,
and   perverteth   the  words   of   the
righteous.
9   Also  thou  shalt  not   oppress   a
stranger: for ye know the
heart  of  a stranger,  seeing  ye  were
strangers in the land of Egypt.
10  And  six  years thou shalt  sow  thy
land, and shalt gather in
the fruits thereof:
11  But the seventh year thou shalt  let
it rest and lie still;
that the poor of thy people may eat: and
what they leave the beasts
of the field shall eat.  In like  manner
thou shalt deal with thy
vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.
12 Six days thou shalt do thy work,  and
on the seventh day
thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine
ass may rest, and the son
of thy 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 thy mouth.
14  Three times thou shalt keep a  feast
unto me in the year.
15   Thou  shalt  keep  the   feast   of
unleavened bread: (thou shalt
eat  unleavened bread seven days,  as  I
commanded thee, in the time
appointed  of the month Abib;  for in it
thou camest out from Egypt:
and none shall appear before me empty:)
16  And  the  feast  of   harvest,   the
firstfruits of thy labours,
which  thou hast sown in the field:  and
the feast of ingathering,
which  is in the end of the  year,  when
thou hast gathered in thy
labours out of the field.
17 Three times in the year all thy males
shall appear before
the Lord God.
18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of  my
sacrifice with
leavened bread; neither shall the fat of
my sacrifice remain until
the morning.
19  The first of the firstfruits of  thy
land thou shalt bring
into the house of the Lord thy God. Thou
shalt not seethe a kid in
his mother's milk.
20 Behold,  I send an Angel before thee,
to keep thee in the
way,  and  to bring thee 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 thou shalt indeed  obey  his
voice, and do all that I
speak;  then  I  will be an  enemy  unto
thine enemies, and an adversary
unto thine adversaries.
23  For mine Angel shall go before thee,
and bring thee in unto
the Amorites,  and the Hittites, and the
Perizzites, and the
Canaanites,   the   Hivites,   and   the
Jebusites: and I will cut them
off.
24  Thou  shalt not bow  down  to  their
gods, nor serve them, nor
do  after  their works:  but thou  shalt
utterly overthrow them, and
quite break down their images.
25 And ye shall serve the Lord your God,
and he shall bless
thy  bread,  and thy water;  and I  will
take sickness away from the
midst of thee.
26 There shall nothing cast their young,
nor be barren, in thy
land:  the  number  of thy days  I  will
fulfil.
27 I will send my fear before thee,  and
will destroy all the
people  to whom thou shalt come,  and  I
will make all thine enemies
turn their backs unto thee.
28 And I will send hornets before  thee,
which shall drive out
the  Hivite,   the  Canaanite,  and  the
Hittite, from before thee.
29 I will not drive them out from before
thee in one year;
lest  the land become desolate,  and the
beast of the field multiply
against thee.
30  By  little and little I  will  drive
them out from before
thee,   until  thou  be  increased,  and
inherit the land.
31  And I will set thy 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 thou
shalt drive them out before thee.
32  Thou  shalt make  no  covenant  with
them, nor with their gods.
33  They  shall not dwell in  thy  land,
lest they make thee sin
against  me:  for  if thou  serve  their
gods, it will surely be a snare
unto thee.

CHAPTER 24
1  And  he said unto Moses,  Come  up
unto the Lord, thou, and
Aaron,  Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of
the elders of Israel; and
worship ye afar off.
2  And Moses alone shall come  near  the
Lord: but they shall not
come  nigh;  neither shall the people go
up with him.
3 And Moses came and told the people all
the words of the
Lord, and all the judgments: and all the
people answered with one
voice, and said, All the words which the
Lord hath said will we do.
4  And Moses wrote all the words of  the
Lord, 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 the Lord.
6 And Moses took half of the blood,  and
put it in basins; 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 the Lord hath 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 the Lord hath 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 God 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 God, and did eat
and drink.
12 And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up
to me into the mount,
and  be  there:  and  I will  give  thee
tables of stone, and a law, and
commandments which I have written;  that
thou mayest teach them.
13 And Moses rose up,  and his  minister
Joshua: and Moses went
up into the mount of God.
14 And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye
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 the Lord 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  the
Lord 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
1  And  the Lord  spake  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 ye
shall take my offering.
3  And  this  is the offering  which  ye
shall 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  thee,
after the pattern of the
tabernacle,  and  the pattern of all the
instruments thereof, even so
shall ye make it.
10 And they shall make an ark of shittim
wood: two cubits and
a half shall be the length thereof,  and
a cubit and a half the
breadth thereof,  and a cubit and a half
the height thereof.
11  And thou shalt overlay it with  pure
gold, within and
without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt
make upon it a crown of
gold round about.
12  And  thou shalt cast four  rings  of
gold for it, and put them
in  the four corners  thereof;  and  two
rings shall be in the one side
of  it,  and two rings in the other side
of it.
13 And thou shalt make staves of shittim
wood, and overlay
them with gold.
14  And thou shalt put the  staves  into
the rings by the sides
of  the ark,  that the ark may be  borne
with them.
15  The staves shall be in the rings  of
the ark: they shall not
be taken from it.
16  And thou shalt put into the ark  the
testimony which I shall
give thee.
17  And thou shalt make a mercy seat  of
pure gold: two cubits
and  a half shall be the length thereof,
and a cubit and a half the
breadth thereof.
18 And thou shalt make two cherubims  of
gold, of beaten work
shalt thou 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
shall ye make the cherubims
on the two ends thereof.
20 And the cherubims shall stretch forth
their wings on high,
covering   the  mercy  seat  with  their
wings, and their faces shall
look  one to another;  toward the  mercy
seat shall the faces of the
cherubims be.
21  And  thou shalt put the  mercy  seat
above upon the ark; and
in the ark thou shalt put the  testimony
that I shall give thee.
22 And there I will meet with thee,  and
I will commune with
thee  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   thee  in  commandment  unto   the
children of Israel.
23  Thou  shalt  also make  a  table  of
shittim wood: two cubits
shall be the length thereof, and a cubit
the breadth thereof, and a
cubit and a half the height thereof.
24  And thou shalt overlay it with  pure
gold, and make thereto
a crown of gold round about.
25 And thou shalt make unto it a  border
of an hand breadth
round  about,  and  thou  shalt  make  a
golden crown to the border
thereof round about.
26 And thou shalt 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  shall  the
rings be for places of
the staves to bear the table.
28  And  thou shalt make the  staves  of
shittim wood, and overlay
them  with gold,  that the table may  be
borne with them.
29  And  thou  shalt  make  the   dishes
thereof, and spoons thereof,
and  covers thereof,  and bowls thereof,
to cover withal: of pure
gold shalt thou make them.
30  And  thou shalt set upon  the  table
shewbread before me
alway.
31 And thou shalt make a candlestick  of
pure gold: of beaten
work shall the candlestick be made:  his
shaft, and his branches,
his bowls,  his knops,  and his flowers,
shall be of the same.
32  And  six branches shall 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 shall be four
bowls made like unto
almonds,  with  their  knops  and  their
flowers.
35  And there shall 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 shall
be of the same: all it
shall be one beaten work of pure gold.
37  And thou shalt make the seven  lamps
thereof: and they shall
light the lamps thereof,  that they  may
give light over against it.
38  And  the  tongs  thereof,   and  the
snuffdishes thereof, shall
be of pure gold.
39  Of  a talent of pure gold  shall  he
make it, with all these
vessels.
40  And  look that thou make them  after
their pattern, which was
shewed thee in the mount.

CHAPTER 26
1   Moreover  thou  shalt  make   the
tabernacle with ten curtains of
fine twined linen, and blue, and purple,
and scarlet: with
cherubims  of  cunning work  shalt  thou
make them.
2  The  length of one curtain  shall  be
eight and twenty cubits,
and  the  breadth of  one  curtain  four
cubits: and every one of the
curtains shall have one measure.
3  The  five curtains shall  be  coupled
together one to another;
and other five curtains shall be coupled
one to another.
4 And thou shalt make loops of blue upon
the edge of the one
curtain   from   the  selvedge  in   the
coupling; and likewise shalt thou
make  in the uttermost edge  of  another
curtain, in the coupling of
the second.
5 Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one
curtain, and fifty
loops shalt thou 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 thou shalt make fifty  taches  of
gold, and couple the
curtains  together with the taches:  and
it shall be one tabernacle.
7  And  thou  shalt  make  curtains   of
goats'hair to be a covering
upon  the  tabernacle:  eleven  curtains
shalt thou make.
8  The  length of one curtain  shall  be
thirty cubits, and the
breadth of one curtain four cubits:  and
the eleven curtains shall
be all of one measure.
9 And thou shalt couple five curtains by
themselves, and six
curtains by themselves, and shalt double
the sixth curtain in the
forefront of the tabernacle.
10  And  thou shalt 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 thou shalt 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,  shall
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  shall  hang  over the sides  of  the
tabernacle on this side and on
that side, to cover it.
14  And thou shalt make a  covering  for
the tent of rams'skins
dyed  red,   and  a  covering  above  of
badgers'skins.
15  And  thou shalt make boards for  the
tabernacle of shittim
wood standing up.
16  Ten cubits shall be the length of  a
board, and a cubit and
a  half  shall  be the  breadth  of  one
board.
17  Two  tenons shall there  be  in  one
board, set in order one
against  another:  thus shalt thou  make
for all the boards of the
tabernacle.
18  And  thou shalt make the boards  for
the tabernacle, twenty
boards on the south side southward.
19 And thou shalt 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 shall 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 thou shalt
make six boards.
23  And  two boards shalt thou make  for
the corners of the
tabernacle in the two sides.
24  And they shall be  coupled  together
beneath, and they shall
be coupled together above the head of it
unto one ring: thus shall
it  be for them both;  they shall be for
the two corners.
25 And they shall be eight  boards,  and
their sockets of
silver,  sixteen  sockets;  two  sockets
under one board, and two
sockets under another board.
26  And thou shalt 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 shall reach
from end to end.
29  And  thou shalt overlay  the  boards
with gold, and make their
rings  of gold for places for the  bars:
and thou shalt overlay the
bars with gold.
30 And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle
according to the
fashion thereof which was shewed thee in
the mount.
31  And thou shalt make a veil of  blue,
and purple, and
scarlet,   and   fine  twined  linen  of
cunning work: with cherubims
shall it be made:
32  And  thou shalt hang  it  upon  four
pillars of shittim wood
overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be
of gold, upon the four
sockets of silver.
33 And thou shalt hang up the veil under
the taches, that thou
mayest  bring in thither within the veil
the ark of the testimony:
and  the  veil  shall  divide  unto  you
between the holy place and the
most holy.
34  And  thou shalt put the  mercy  seat
upon the ark of the
testimony in the most holy place.
35 And thou shalt set the table  without
the veil, and the
candlestick  over  against the table  on
the side of the tabernacle
toward the south: and thou shalt put the
table on the north side.
36  And thou shalt make an  hanging  for
the door of the tent, of
blue,  and purple, and scarlet, and fine
twined linen, wrought with
needlework.
37  And thou shalt make for the  hanging
five pillars of shittim
wood,  and  overlay them with gold,  and
their hooks shall be of gold:
and  thou  shalt cast  five  sockets  of
brass for them.

CHAPTER 27
1  And  thou shalt make an  altar  of
shittim wood, five cubits
long,  and five cubits broad;  the altar
shall be foursquare: and the
height thereof shall be three cubits.
2  And  thou shalt make the horns of  it
upon the four corners
thereof: his horns shall be of the same:
and thou shalt overlay it
with brass.
3  And  thou  shalt  make  his  pans  to
receive his ashes, and his
shovels,   and  his  basins,   and   his
fleshhooks, and his firepans: all
the  vessels thereof thou shalt make  of
brass.
4  And thou shalt make for it a grate of
network of brass; and
upon the net shalt thou make four brasen
rings in the four corners
thereof.
5  And  thou  shalt  put  it  under  the
compass of the altar
beneath, that the net may be even to the
midst of the altar.
6  And  thou shalt make staves  for  the
altar, staves of shittim
wood, and overlay them with brass.
7  And the staves shall be put into  the
rings, and the staves
shall  be  upon  the two  sides  of  the
altar, to bear it.
8 Hollow with boards shalt thou make it:
as it was shewed thee
in the mount, so shall they make it.
9  And thou shalt make the court of  the
tabernacle: for the
south  side  southward  there  shall  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
shall  be  of brass;  the hooks  of  the
pillars and their fillets shall
be of silver.
11  And  likewise for the north side  in
length there shall 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 shall be
hangings of fifty cubits:  their pillars
ten, and their sockets ten.
13  And the breadth of the court on  the
east side eastward
shall be fifty cubits.
14 The hangings of one side of the  gate
shall be fifteen
cubits:  their pillars three,  and their
sockets three.
15  And  on  the  other  side  shall  be
hangings fifteen cubits:
their  pillars three,  and their sockets
three.
16  And for the gate of the court  shall
be an hanging of twenty
cubits,   of  blue,   and  purple,   and
scarlet, and fine twined linen,
wrought  with  needlework:   and   their
pillars shall be four, and their
sockets four.
17 All the pillars round about the court
shall be filleted
with  silver;  their  hooks shall be  of
silver, and their sockets of
brass.
18  The length of the court shall 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,
shall be of brass.
20  And thou shalt command the  children
of Israel, that they
bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the
light, to cause the lamp
to burn always.
21 In the tabernacle of the congregation
without the veil,
which is before the testimony, Aaron and
his sons shall order it
from evening to morning before the Lord:
it shall be a statute for
ever   unto  their  generations  on  the
behalf of the children of
Israel.

CHAPTER 28
1  And take thou unto thee Aaron  thy
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 thou shalt make holy garments for
Aaron thy brother for
glory and for beauty.
3 And thou shalt 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
shall make; a
breastplate,  and an ephod,  and a robe,
and a broidered coat, a
mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make
holy garments for Aaron
thy brother,  and his sons,  that he may
minister unto me in the
priest's office.
5  And they shall take gold,  and  blue,
and purple, and scarlet,
and fine linen.
6 And they shall make the ephod of gold,
of blue, and of
purple,  of  scarlet,  and  fine  twined
linen, with cunning work.
7  It shall have the two  shoulderpieces
thereof joined at the
two  edges thereof;  and so it shall  be
joined together.
8  And the curious girdle of the  ephod,
which is upon it, shall
be  of the same,  according to the  work
thereof; even of gold, of
blue,  and purple, and scarlet, and fine
twined linen.
9  And thou shalt 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,  shalt thou engrave the two
stones with the names of
the children of Israel:  thou shalt make
them to be set in ouches of
gold.
12  And  thou shalt put the  two  stones
upon the shoulders of the
ephod  for stones of memorial  unto  the
children of Israel: and Aaron
shall  bear their names before the  Lord
upon his two shoulders for a
memorial.
13 And thou shalt make ouches of gold;
14  And  two chains of pure gold at  the
ends; of wreathen work
shalt  thou make them,  and  fasten  the
wreathen chains to the ouches.
15  And thou shalt make the  breastplate
of judgment with
cunning  work;  after  the work  of  the
ephod thou shalt make it; of
gold,  of  blue,  and of purple,  and of
scarlet, and of fine twined
linen, shalt thou make it.
16 Foursquare it shall be being doubled;
a span shall be the
length thereof,  and a span shall be the
breadth thereof.
17 And thou shalt set in it settings  of
stones, even four rows
of  stones:  the  first row shall  be  a
sardius, a topaz, and a
carbuncle: this shall be the first row.
18  And  the  second  row  shall  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
shall   be   set   in  gold   in   their
enclosings.
21  And  the stones shall  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  shall
they be according to the
twelve tribes.
22   And   thou  shalt  make  upon   the
breastplate chains at the ends
of wreathen work of pure gold.
23   And  thou  shalt  make   upon   the
breastplate two rings of gold,
and  shalt put the two rings on the  two
ends of the breastplate.
24  And thou shalt 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 thou
shalt fasten in the two ouches,  and put
them on the shoulder pieces
of the ephod before it.
26  And  thou  shalt make two  rings  of
gold, and thou shalt 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  thou
shalt make, and shalt 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 shall 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 shall 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
the Lord continually.
30 And thou shalt put in the breastplate
of judgment the Urim
and the Thummim;  and they shall be upon
Aaron's heart, when he
goeth  in  before the  Lord:  and  Aaron
shall bear the judgment of the
children of Israel upon his heart before
the Lord continually.
31  And thou shalt make the robe of  the
ephod all of blue.
32 And there shall be an hole in the top
of it, in the midst
thereof:  it  shall  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  thou
shalt 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  shall  be  upon  Aaron  to
minister: and his sound shall
be heard when he goeth in unto the  holy
place before the Lord, and
when he cometh out, that he die not.
36  And thou shalt make a plate of  pure
gold, and grave upon
it,  like  the  engravings of a  signet,
HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
37 And thou shalt put it on a blue lace,
that it may be upon
the  mitre;  upon the forefront  of  the
mitre it shall be.
38   And   it  shall  be  upon   Aaron's
forehead, that Aaron may bear
the iniquity of the holy  things,  which
the children of Israel shall
hallow  in all their holy gifts;  and it
shall be always upon his
forehead,  that  they  may  be  accepted
before the Lord.
39 And thou shalt embroider the coat  of
fine linen, and thou
shalt make the mitre of fine linen,  and
thou shalt make the girdle
of needlework.
40  And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make
coats, and thou shalt
make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt
thou make for them, for
glory and for beauty.
41  And thou shalt put them  upon  Aaron
thy brother, and his
sons  with him;  and shalt anoint  them,
and consecrate them, and
sanctify  them,  that they may  minister
unto me in the priest's
office.
42   And  thou  shalt  make  them  linen
breeches to cover their
nakedness;  from the loins even unto the
thighs they shall reach:
43  And they shall 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 shall be  a
statute for ever unto him and
his seed after him.

CHAPTER 29
1  And  this is the thing  that  thou
shalt 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
shalt thou make them.
3  And  thou  shalt put  them  into  one
basket, and bring them in
the basket, with the bullock and the two
rams.
4  And  Aaron  and his sons  thou  shalt
bring unto the door of the
tabernacle  of  the  congregation,   and
shalt wash them with water.
5 And thou shalt 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 thou shalt put the mitre upon  his
head, and put the holy
crown upon the mitre.
7  Then  shalt thou take  the  anointing
oil, and pour it upon his
head, and anoint him.
8 And thou shalt bring his sons, and put
coats upon them.
9 And thou shalt gird them with girdles,
Aaron and his sons,
and  put  the bonnets on them:  and  the
priest's office shall be
theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou
shalt consecrate Aaron and
his sons.
10 And thou shalt cause a bullock to  be
brought before the
tabernacle  of  the  congregation:   and
Aaron and his sons shall put
their   hands  upon  the  head  of   the
bullock.
11  And  thou  shalt  kill  the  bullock
before the Lord, by the
door    of   the   tabernacle   of   the
congregation.
12  And thou shalt take of the blood  of
the bullock, and put it
upon  the  horns of the altar  with  thy
finger, and pour all the blood
beside the bottom of the altar.
13 And thou shalt 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,
shalt  thou  burn with fire without  the
camp: it is a sin offering.
15  Thou shalt also take  one  ram;  and
Aaron and his sons shall
put  their  hands upon the head  of  the
ram.
16 And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou
shalt take his blood,
and  sprinkle  it round about  upon  the
altar.
17 And thou shalt 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  thou shalt burn the  whole  ram
upon the altar: it is a
burnt  offering unto the Lord:  it is  a
sweet savour, an offering
made by fire unto the Lord.
19  And  thou shalt take the other  ram;
and Aaron and his sons
shall  put their hands upon the head  of
the ram.
20  Then shalt thou 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 thou shalt 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 shall be hallowed,  and his
garments, and his sons, and
his sons'garments with him.
22  Also thou shalt 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 the
Lord:
24  And thou shalt put all in the  hands
of Aaron, and in the
hands  of his sons;  and shalt wave them
for a wave offering before
the Lord.
25 And thou shalt receive them of  their
hands, and burn them
upon the altar for a burnt offering, for
a sweet savour before the
Lord:  it  is  an offering made by  fire
unto the Lord.
26 And thou shalt take the breast of the
ram of Aaron's
consecration,  and  wave it for  a  wave
offering before the Lord: and
it shall be thy part.
27 And thou shalt 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  shall be  Aaron's  and  his
sons'by a statute for ever
from  the children of Israel:  for it is
an heave offering: and it
shall  be  an heave  offering  from  the
children of Israel of the
sacrifice of their peace offerings, even
their heave offering unto
the Lord.
29  And the holy garments of Aaron shall
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 shall put them on
seven  days,  when  he cometh  into  the
tabernacle of the congregation
to minister in the holy place.
31  And  thou shalt take the ram of  the
consecration, and seethe
his flesh in the holy place.
32 And Aaron and his sons shall 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  shall  eat  those  things
wherewith the atonement was
made,  to  consecrate  and  to  sanctify
them: but a stranger shall not
eat thereof, because they are holy.
34  And  if  aught of the flesh  of  the
consecrations, or of the
bread,  remain  unto the  morning,  then
thou shalt burn the remainder
with  fire:   it  shall  not  be  eaten,
because it is holy.
35  And thus shalt thou do  unto  Aaron,
and to his sons,
according  to  all things which  I  have
commanded thee: seven days
shalt thou consecrate them.
36  And  thou  shalt offer every  day  a
bullock for a sin offering
for  atonement:  and thou shalt  cleanse
the altar, when thou hast
made an atonement for it, and thou shalt
anoint it, to sanctify it.
37   Seven  days  thou  shalt  make   an
atonement for the altar, and
sanctify  it;  and it shall be an  altar
most holy: whatsoever
toucheth the altar shall be holy.
38  Now  this is that which  thou  shalt
offer upon the altar; two
lambs  of  the  first year  day  by  day
continually.
39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in  the
morning; and the other
lamb thou shalt 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 thou shalt  offer
at even, and shalt 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 the Lord.
42  This  shall  be  a  continual  burnt
offering throughout your
generations   at   the   door   of   the
tabernacle of the congregation
before the Lord:  where I will meet you,
to speak there unto thee.
43  And  there  I  will  meet  with  the
children of Israel, and the
tabernacle  shall  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 God.
46  And  they shall know that I  am  the
Lord their God, that
brought  them forth out of the  land  of
Egypt, that I may dwell among
them: I am the Lord their God.

CHAPTER 30
1  And  thou shalt make an  altar  to
burn incense upon: of
shittim wood shalt thou make it.
2  A cubit shall be the length  thereof,
and a cubit the breadth
thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two
cubits shall be the height
thereof:  the  horns thereof shall be of
the same.
3  And thou shalt overlay it  with  pure
gold, the top thereof,
and  the sides thereof round about,  and
the horns thereof; and thou
shalt make unto it a crown of gold round
about.
4  And two golden rings shalt thou  make
to it under the crown
of it,  by the two corners thereof, upon
the two sides of it shalt
thou  make  it;  and they shall  be  for
places for the staves to bear
it withal.
5  And  thou shalt make  the  staves  of
shittim wood, and overlay
them with gold.
6  And thou shalt put it before the veil
that is by the ark of
the  testimony,  before the  mercy  seat
that is over the testimony,
where I will meet with thee.
7  And  Aaron shall burn  thereon  sweet
incense every morning:
when  he  dresseth the lamps,  he  shall
burn incense upon it.
8  And when Aaron lighteth the lamps  at
even, he shall burn
incense  upon it,  a  perpetual  incense
before the Lord throughout
your generations.
9  Ye  shall  offer no  strange  incense
thereon, nor burnt
sacrifice,  nor meat  offering;  neither
shall ye pour drink offering
thereon.
10  And  Aaron shall 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 shall he make atonement upon it
throughout your
generations:  it  is most holy unto  the
Lord.
11  And  the  Lord  spake  unto   Moses,
saying,
12  When  thou  takest the  sum  of  the
children of Israel after
their number, then shall they give every
man a ransom for his soul
unto the Lord, when thou numberest them;
that there be no plague
among them, when thou numberest them.
13 This they shall 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 shall be the offering
of the Lord.
14  Every  one that passeth  among  them
that are numbered, from
twenty years old and above,  shall  give
an offering unto the Lord.
15 The rich shall not give more, and the
poor shall not give
less than half a shekel,  when they give
an offering unto the Lord,
to make an atonement for your souls.
16  And  thou shalt take  the  atonement
money of the children of
Israel,  and  shalt  appoint it for  the
service of the tabernacle of
the  congregation;  that  it  may  be  a
memorial unto the children of
Israel  before  the  Lord,  to  make  an
atonement for your souls.
17  And  the  Lord  spake  unto   Moses,
saying,
18  Thou  shalt  also make  a  laver  of
brass, and his foot also of
brass,  to  wash withal:  and thou shalt
put it between the tabernacle
of the congregation and the  altar,  and
thou shalt put water
therein.
19  For  Aaron and his sons  shall  wash
their hands and their
feet thereat:
20  When they go into the tabernacle  of
the congregation, they
shall  wash  with water,  that they  die
not; or when they come near to
the altar to minister,  to burn offering
made by fire unto the Lord:
21  So they shall wash their  hands  and
their feet, that they
die  not:  and it shall be a statute for
ever to them, even to him
and   to  his  seed   throughout   their
generations.
22  Moreover the Lord spake unto  Moses,
saying,
23  Take  thou also unto thee  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 thou shalt make it an oil of holy
ointment, an ointment
compound   after   the   art   of    the
apothecary: it shall be an holy
anointing oil.
26  And thou shalt 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 thou shalt sanctify  them,  that
they may be most holy:
whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
30  And thou shalt anoint Aaron and  his
sons, and consecrate
them,  that they may minister unto me in
the priest's office.
31   And  thou  shalt  speak  unto   the
children of Israel, saying,
This shall be an holy anointing oil unto
me throughout your
generations.
32  Upon  man's flesh shall  it  not  be
poured, neither shall ye
make  any  other  like  it,   after  the
composition of it: it is holy,
and it shall be holy unto you.
33 Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or
whosoever putteth any
of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut
off from his people.
34  And the Lord said unto  Moses,  Take
unto thee sweet spices,
stacte,  and onycha, and galbanum; these
sweet spices with pure
frankincense:  of  each shall there be a
like weight:
35 And thou shalt make it a  perfume,  a
confection after the
art   of   the   apothecary,    tempered
together, pure and holy:
36  And thou shalt beat some of it  very
small, and put of it
before  the testimony in the  tabernacle
of the congregation, where I
will  meet with thee:  it shall be  unto
you most holy.
37  And  as for the perfume  which  thou
shalt make, ye shall not
make  to  yourselves  according  to  the
composition thereof: it shall
be unto thee holy for the Lord.
38  Whosoever shall make like unto that,
to smell thereto,
shall even be cut off from his people.

CHAPTER 31
1  And  the Lord  spake  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 God, 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 thee;
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 thee shall they do.
12  And  the  Lord  spake  unto   Moses,
saying,
13  Speak thou also unto the children of
Israel, saying, Verily
my sabbaths ye shall keep:  for it is  a
sign between me and you
throughout your generations; that ye may
know that I am the Lord
that doth sanctify you.
14  Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore;
for it is holy unto
you:  every  one that defileth it  shall
surely be put to death: for
whosoever doeth any work  therein,  that
soul shall 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  the  Lord:
whosoever doeth any work in the
sabbath  day,  he shall surely be put to
death.
16  Wherefore  the  children  of  Israel
shall 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 the  Lord  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 God.

CHAPTER 32
1  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 shall 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  thy  gods,  O  Israel,  which
brought thee 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,
Tomorrow is a feast to the Lord.
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 the Lord said unto Moses,  Go, get
thee down; for thy
people, which thou broughtest 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
thy gods,  O Israel,  which have brought
thee up out of the land of
Egypt.
9  And the Lord 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 thee
a great nation.
11 And Moses besought the Lord his  God,
and said, Lord, why
doth  thy  wrath  wax  hot  against  thy
people, which thou hast brought
forth  out  of  the land of  Egypt  with
great power, and with a mighty
hand?
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 thy fierce
wrath,  and  repent of this evil against
thy people.
13 Remember Abraham,  Isaac, and Israel,
thy servants, to whom
thou  swarest  by thine  own  self,  and
saidst unto them, I will
multiply  your  seed  as  the  stars  of
heaven, and all this land that I
have  spoken  of will I give  unto  your
seed, and they shall inherit
it for ever.
14  And  the Lord 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 God,
and the writing was
the  writing  of God,  graven  upon  the
tables.
17  And when Joshua 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 thee,
that  thou  hast brought so great a  sin
upon them?
22 And Aaron said,  Let not the anger of
my lord wax hot: thou
knowest the people, that they are set on
mischief.
23 For they said unto me,  Make us gods,
which shall 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 hath
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  the Lord'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 saith the
Lord God 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 today to the
Lord,  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,  Ye have sinned a great sin: and
now I will go up unto the
Lord;   peradventure  I  shall  make  an
atonement for your sin.
31 And Moses returned unto the Lord, and
said, Oh, this people
have  sinned a great sin,  and have made
them gods of gold.
32 Yet now,  if thou wilt forgive  their
sin-; and if not, blot
me,  I pray thee,  out of thy book which
thou hast written.
33   And  the  Lord  said  unto   Moses,
Whosoever hath 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  thee:  behold,  mine
Angel shall go before thee:
nevertheless  in the day when I visit  I
will visit their sin upon
them.
35  And  the Lord  plagued  the  people,
because they made the
calf, which Aaron made.

CHAPTER 33
1  And  the  Lord  said  unto  Moses,
Depart, and go up hence, thou
and  the people which thou hast  brought
up out of the land of Egypt,
unto   the  land  which  I  sware   unto
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob,
saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:
2  And I will send an angel before thee;
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 thee;  for thou art a
stiffnecked people: lest I
consume thee 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 the Lord had said unto Moses,  Say
unto the children of
Israel,  Ye are a stiffnecked people:  I
will come up into the midst
of  thee in a moment,  and consume thee:
therefore now put off thy
ornaments  from thee,  that I  may  know
what to do unto thee.
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 the
Lord 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  the  Lord 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 the Lord spake unto Moses face to
face, as a man
speaketh unto his friend.  And he turned
again into the camp: but
his servant Joshua,  the son of  Nun,  a
young man, departed not out
of the tabernacle.
12  And Moses said unto the  Lord,  See,
thou sayest unto me,
Bring up this people:  and thou hast not
let me know whom thou wilt
send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know
thee by name, and thou
hast also found grace in my sight.
13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have
found grace in thy
sight,  shew me now thy way,  that I may
know thee, that I may find
grace  in thy sight:  and consider  that
this nation is thy people.
14  And  he said,  My presence shall  go
with thee, and I will
give thee rest.
15 And he said unto him, If thy presence
go not with me, carry
us not up hence.
16  For wherein shall it be  known  here
that I and thy people
have found grace in thy sight? is it not
in that thou goest with
us?  so shall we be separated, I and thy
people, from all the people
that are upon the face of the earth.
17 And the Lord said unto Moses,  I will
do this thing also
that  thou  hast spoken:  for thou  hast
found grace in my sight, and I
know thee by name.
18 And he said,  I beseech thee, shew me
thy glory.
19  And  he said,  I will  make  all  my
goodness pass before thee,
and I will proclaim the name of the Lord
before thee; and will be
gracious to whom I will be gracious, and
will shew mercy on whom I
will shew mercy.
20  And he said,  Thou canst not see  my
face: for there shall no
man see me, and live.
21 And the Lord said, Behold, there is a
place by me, and thou
shalt stand upon a rock:
22  And it shall come to pass,  while my
glory passeth by, that
I will put thee in a clift of the  rock,
and will cover thee with my
hand while I pass by:
23  And I will take away mine hand,  and
thou shalt see my back
parts: but my face shall not be seen.

CHAPTER 34
1 And the Lord said unto  Moses,  Hew
thee two tables of stone
like  unto the first:  and I will  write
upon these tables the words
that  were  in the first  tables,  which
thou 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 shall come up with  thee,
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 the Lord had commanded him,  and took
in his hand the two tables
of stone.
5  And the Lord descended in the  cloud,
and stood with him
there,  and  proclaimed the name of  the
Lord.
6 And the Lord passed by before him, and
proclaimed, The Lord,
The  Lord God,  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 thy sight, O Lord,
let my Lord,  I pray thee,  go among us;
for it is a stiffnecked
people;  and pardon our iniquity and our
sin, and take us for thine
inheritance.
10  And  he  said,   Behold,  I  make  a
covenant: before all thy
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 thou art
shall  see the work of the Lord:  for it
is a terrible thing that I
will do with thee.
11  Observe  thou that which  I  command
thee this day: behold, I
drive out before thee the  Amorite,  and
the Canaanite, and the
Hittite,  and  the  Perizzite,  and  the
Hivite, and the Jebusite.
12 Take heed to thyself,  lest thou make
a covenant with the
inhabitants  of  the land  whither  thou
goest, lest it be for a snare
in the midst of thee:
13  But  ye shall destroy their  altars,
break their images, and
cut down their groves:
14 For thou shalt worship no other  god:
for the Lord, whose
name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
15  Lest  thou 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 thee, and thou eat of
his sacrifice;
16 And thou take of their daughters unto
thy sons, and their
daughters go a-whoring after their gods,
and make thy sons go
a-whoring after their gods.
17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
18  The feast of unleavened bread  shalt
thou keep. Seven days
thou  shalt eat unleavened bread,  as  I
commanded thee, in the time
of the month Abib: for in the month Abib
thou camest out from
Egypt.
19  All that openeth the matrix is mine;
and every firstling
among thy cattle,  whether ox or  sheep,
that is male.
20  But  the  firstling of an  ass  thou
shalt redeem with a lamb:
and if thou redeem him not,  then  shalt
thou break his neck. All the
firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem.
And none shall appear
before me empty.
21 Six days thou shalt work,  but on the
seventh day thou shalt
rest: in earing time and in harvest thou
shalt rest.
22  And thou shalt 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 shall  all  your
menchildren appear before
the Lord God, the God of Israel.
24  For  I  will cast  out  the  nations
before thee, and enlarge
thy  borders:   neither  shall  any  man
desire thy land, when thou shalt
go  up to appear before the Lord thy God
thrice in the year.
25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of  my
sacrifice with leaven;
neither shall the sacrifice of the feast
of the passover be left
unto the morning.
26  The first of the firstfruits of  thy
land thou shalt bring
unto the house of the Lord thy God. Thou
shalt not seethe a kid in
his mother's milk.
27  And the Lord said unto Moses,  Write
thou these words: for
after  the tenor of these words  I  have
made a covenant with thee and
with Israel.
28  And he was there with the Lord 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  the
Lord had spoken with him in
mount Sinai.
33 And till Moses had done speaking with
them, he put a veil
on his face.
34  But  when Moses went in  before  the
Lord to speak with him,
he took the veil off, until he came out.
And he came out, and spake
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 veil upon his face
again,  until  he went in to speak  with
him.

CHAPTER 35
1   And   Moses  gathered   all   the
congregation of the children of
Israel  together,  and  said unto  them,
These are the words which the
Lord hath commanded,  that ye should  do
them.
2  Six days shall work be done,  but  on
the seventh day there
shall  be to you an holy day,  a sabbath
of rest to the Lord:
whosoever  doeth work therein  shall  be
put to death.
3  Ye  shall kindle no  fire  throughout
your habitations upon the
sabbath day.
4   And   Moses  spake  unto   all   the
congregation of the children of
Israel,  saying, This is the thing which
the Lord commanded, saying,
5  Take  ye from among you  an  offering
unto the Lord: whosoever
is of a willing heart, let him bring it,
an offering of the Lord;
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
shall come, and make all
that the Lord hath 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 veil 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 the Lord'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 the Lord.
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  the Lord'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 the
Lord,  every man and woman,  whose heart
made them willing to bring
for all manner of work,  which the  Lord
had commanded to be made by
the hand of Moses.
30  And Moses said unto the children  of
Israel, See, the Lord
hath  called by name Bezaleel the son of
Uri, the son of Hur, of the
tribe of Judah;
31  And  he  hath filled  him  with  the
spirit of God, 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 hath put in his heart that he
may teach, both he,
and Aholiab,  the son of  Ahisamach,  of
the tribe of Dan.
35  Them  hath 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
1 Then wrought Bezaleel and  Aholiab,
and every wise-hearted
man,  in  whom  the Lord put wisdom  and
understanding to know how to
work all manner of work for the  service
of the sanctuary, according
to all that the Lord had commanded.
2 And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab,
and every
wise-hearted  man,  in  whose heart  the
Lord 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 spake unto Moses, saying, The
people bring much
more  than enough for the service of the
work, which the Lord
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  veil  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
1   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
leng th 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.

CHAPTER 38
1  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  basins,   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  looking  glasses 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  the  Lord
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
veil; 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
1  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   the   Lord
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 the Lord commanded
Moses.
6  And they wrought onyx stones enclosed
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 the
Lord 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 enclosed in ouches of gold in their
enclosings.
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  the  Lord
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 the Lord 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 the Lord
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 LORD.
31 And they tied unto it a lace of blue,
to fasten it on high
upon  the mitre;  as the Lord  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 the Lord 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 veil 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  the  Lord
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 the Lord had commanded,  even
so had they done it: and
Moses blessed them.

CHAPTER 40
1  And  the Lord  spake  unto  Moses,
saying,
2  On  the first day of the first  month
shalt thou set up the
tabernacle   of   the   tent   of    the
congregation.
3  And thou shalt put therein the ark of
the testimony, and
cover the ark with the veil.
4 And thou shalt bring in the table, and
set in order the
things that are to be set in order  upon
it; and thou shalt bring in
the  candlestick,  and  light the  lamps
thereof.
5  And thou shalt 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 thou shalt set the altar  of  the
burnt offering before
the  door of the tabernacle of the  tent
of the congregation.
7  And thou shalt set the laver  between
the tent of the
congregation  and the altar,  and  shalt
put water therein.
8  And thou shalt set up the court round
about, and hang up the
hanging at the court gate.
9 And thou shalt take the anointing oil,
and anoint the
tabernacle, and all that is therein, and
shalt hallow it, and all
the  vessels thereof:  and it  shall  be
holy.
10  And  thou shalt anoint the altar  of
the burnt offering, and
all his vessels, and sanctify the altar:
and it shall be an altar
most holy.
11  And thou shalt anoint the laver  and
his foot, and sanctify
it.
12  And thou shalt bring Aaron  and  his
sons unto the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation,  and
wash them with water.
13  And  thou shalt 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 thou shalt bring his  sons,  and
clothe them with coats:
15  And thou shalt anoint them,  as thou
didst anoint their
father,  that they may minister unto  me
in the priest's office: for
their   anointing  shall  surely  be  an
everlasting priesthood
throughout their generations.
16 Thus did Moses: according to all that
the Lord 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 the Lord 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
veil  of the covering,  and covered  the
ark of the testimony; as the
Lord commanded Moses.
22  And he put the table in the tent  of
the congregation, upon
the  side of the  tabernacle  northward,
without the veil.
23 And he set the bread in order upon it
before the Lord; as
the Lord 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  the
Lord; as the Lord
commanded Moses.
26  And he put the golden altar  in  the
tent of the congregation
before the veil:
27  And he burnt sweet incense  thereon;
as the Lord 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
the Lord 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 the Lord 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 the Lord 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 the
Lord 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 the Lord 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.