^15:1Then Moses and the children of Israel made this song to the Lord, and said, I will make a song to the Lord, for he is lifted up in glory: the horse and the horseman he has sent down into the sea. ^15:2The Lord is my strength and my strong helper, he has become my salvation: he is my God and I will give him praise; my father's God and I will give him glory. ^15:3The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name. ^15:4Pharaoh's war-carriages and his army he has sent down into the sea: the best of his captains have gone down into the Red Sea. ^15:5They were covered by the deep waters: like a stone they went down under the waves. ^15:6Full of glory, O Lord, is the power of your right hand; by your right hand those who came against you are broken. ^15:7When you are lifted up in power, all those who come against you are crushed: when you send out your wrath, they are burned up like dry grass. ^15:8By your breath the waves were massed together, the flowing waters were lifted up like a pillar; the deep waters became solid in the heart of the sea. ^15:9Egypt said, I will go after them, I will overtake, I will make division of their goods: my desire will have its way with them; my sword will be uncovered, my hand will send destruction on them. ^15:10You sent your wind and the sea came over them: they went down like lead into the great waters. ^15:11Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? who is like you, in holy glory, to be praised with fear, doing wonders? ^15:12When your right hand was stretched out, the mouth of the earth was open for them. ^15:13In your mercy you went before the people whom you have made yours; guiding them in your strength to your holy place. ^15:14Hearing of you the peoples were shaking in fear: the people of Philistia were gripped with pain. ^15:15The chiefs of Edom were troubled in heart; the strong men of Moab were in the grip of fear: all the people of Canaan became like water. ^15:16Fear and grief came on them; by the strength of your arm they were turned to stone; till your people went over, O Lord, till the people went over whom you have made yours. ^15:17You will take them in, planting them in the mountain of your heritage, the place, O Lord, where you have made your house, the holy place, O Lord, the building of your hands. ^15:18The Lord is King for ever and ever. ^15:19For the horses of Pharaoh, with his war-carriages and his horsemen, went into the sea, and the Lord sent the waters of the sea back over them; but the children of Israel went through the sea on dry land. ^15:20And Miriam, the woman prophet, the sister of Aaron, took an instrument of music in her hand; and all the women went after her with music and dances. ^15:21And Miriam, answering, said, Make a song to the Lord, for he is lifted up in glory; the horse and the horseman he has sent into the sea. ^15:22Then Moses took Israel forward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the waste land of Shur; and for three days they were in the waste land where there was no water. ^15:23And when they came to Marah, the water was no good for drinking, for the waters of Marah were bitter, which is why it was named Marah. ^15:24And the people, crying out against Moses, said, What are we to have for drink? ^15:25And in answer to his prayer, the Lord made him see a tree, and when he put it into the water, the water was made sweet. There he gave them a law and an order, testing them; ^15:26And he said, If with all your heart you will give attention to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his eyes, giving ear to his orders and keeping his laws, I will not put on you any of the diseases which I put on the Egyptians: for I am the Lord your life-giver. ^15:27And they came to Elim where there were twelve water-springs and seventy palm-trees: and they put up their tents there by the waters.

^16:1And they went on their way from Elim, and all the children of Israel came into the waste land of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they went out of the land of Egypt. ^16:2And all the children of Israel were crying out against Moses and Aaron in the waste land: ^16:3And the children of Israel said to them, It would have been better for the Lord to have put us to death in the land of Egypt, where we were seated by the flesh-pots and had bread enough for our needs; for you have taken us out to this waste of sand, to put all this people to death through need of food. ^16:4Then the Lord said to Moses, See, I will send down bread from heaven for you; and the people will go out every day and get enough for the day's needs; so that I may put them to the test to see if they will keep my laws or not. ^16:5And on the sixth day they are to make ready what they get in, and it will be twice as much as they get on the other days. ^16:6And Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, This evening it will be clear to you that it is the Lord who has taken you out of the land of Egypt: ^16:7And in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord; for your angry words against the Lord have come to his ears: and what are we that you are crying out against us? ^16:8And Moses said, The Lord will give you meat for your food at evening, and in the morning bread in full measure; for your outcry against the Lord has come to his ears: for what are we? your outcry is not against us but against the Lord. ^16:9And Moses said to Aaron, Say to all the people of Israel, Come near before the Lord for he has given ear to your outcry. ^16:10And while Aaron was talking to the children of Israel, their eyes were turned in the direction of the waste land, and they saw the glory of the Lord shining in the cloud. ^16:11And the Lord said to Moses, ^16:12The outcry of the children of Israel has come to my ears: say to them now, At nightfall you will have meat for your food, and in the morning bread in full measure; and you will see that I am the Lord your God. ^16:13And it came about that in the evening little birds came up and the place was covered with them: and in the morning there was dew all round about the tents. ^16:14And when the dew was gone, on the face of the earth was a small round thing, like small drops of ice on the earth. ^16:15And when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, What is it? for they had no idea what it was. And Moses said to them, It is the bread which the Lord has given you for your food. ^16:16This is what the Lord has said, Let every man take up as much as he has need of; at the rate of one omer for every person, let every man take as much as is needed for his family. ^16:17And the children of Israel did so, and some took more and some less. ^16:18And when it was measured, he who had taken up much had nothing over, and he who had little had enough; every man had taken what he was able to make use of. ^16:19And Moses said to them, Let nothing be kept till the morning. ^16:20But they gave no attention to Moses, and some of them kept it till the morning and there were worms in it and it had an evil smell: and Moses was angry with them. ^16:21And they took it up morning by morning, every man as he had need: and when the sun was high it was gone. ^16:22And on the sixth day they took up twice as much of the bread, two omers for every person: and all the rulers of the people gave Moses word of it. ^16:23And he said, This is what the Lord has said, Tomorrow is a day of rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord: what has to be cooked may be cooked; and what is over, put on one side to be kept till the morning. ^16:24And they kept it till the morning as Moses had said: and no smell came from it, and it had no worms. ^16:25And Moses said, Make your meal today of what you have, for this day is a Sabbath to the Lord: today you will not get any in the fields. ^16:26For six days you will get it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any. ^16:27But still on the seventh day some of the people went out to get it, and there was not any. ^16:28And the Lord said to Moses, How long will you go against my orders and my laws? ^16:29See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, he gives you on the sixth day bread enough for two days; let every man keep where he is; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. ^16:30So the people took their rest on the seventh day. ^16:31And this bread was named manna by Israel: it was white, like a grain seed, and its taste was like cakes made with honey. ^16:32And Moses said, This is the order which the Lord has given: Let one omer of it be kept for future generations, so that they may see the bread which I gave you for your food in the waste land, when I took you out from the land of Egypt. ^16:33And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot and put one omer of manna in it, and put it away before the Lord, to be kept for future generations. ^16:34So Aaron put it away in front of the holy chest to be kept, as the Lord gave orders to Moses. ^16:35And the children of Israel had manna for their food for forty years, till they came to a land with people in it, till they came to the edge of the land of Canaan. ^16:36Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.

^17:1And the children of Israel went on from the waste land of Sin, by stages as the Lord gave them orders, and put up their tents in Rephidim: and there was no drinking-water for the people. ^17:2So the people were angry with Moses, and said, Give us water for drinking. And Moses said, Why are you angry with me? and why do you put God to the test? ^17:3And the people were in great need of water; and they made an outcry against Moses, and said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to send death on us and our children and our cattle through need of water? ^17:4And Moses, crying out to the Lord, said, What am I to do to this people? they are almost ready to put me to death by stoning. ^17:5And the Lord said to Moses, Go on before the people, and take some of the chiefs of Israel with you, and take in your hand the rod which was stretched out over the Nile, and go. ^17:6See, I will take my place before you on the rock in Horeb; and when you give the rock a blow, water will come out of it, and the people will have drink. And Moses did so before the eyes of the chiefs of Israel. ^17:7And he gave that place the name Massah and Meribah, because the children of Israel were angry, and because they put the Lord to the test, saying, Is the Lord with us or not? ^17:8Then Amalek came and made war on Israel in Rephidim. ^17:9And Moses said to Joshua, Get together a band of men for us and go out, make war on Amalek: tomorrow I will take my place on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand. ^17:10So Joshua did as Moses said to him, and went to war with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. ^17:11Now while Moses' hand was lifted up, Israel was the stronger: but when he let his hand go down, Amalek became the stronger. ^17:12But Moses' hands became tired; so they put a stone under him and he took his seat on it, Aaron and Hur supporting his hands, one on one side and one on the other; so his hands were kept up without falling till the sun went down. ^17:13And Joshua overcame Amalek and his people with the sword. ^17:14And the Lord said to Moses, Make a record of this in a book, so that it may be kept in memory, and say it again in the ears of Joshua: that all memory of Amalek is to be completely uprooted from the earth. ^17:15Then Moses put up an altar and gave it the name of Yahweh-nissi: ^17:16For he said, The Lord has taken his oath that there will be war with Amalek from generation to generation.

^18:1Now news came to Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, of all God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, and how the Lord had taken Israel out of Egypt. ^18:2And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away, ^18:3And her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom, for he said, I have been living in a strange land: ^18:4And the name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, The God of my father was my help, and kept me safe from the sword of Pharaoh: ^18:5And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to where Moses had put up his tent in the waste land, by the mountain of God. ^18:6And he said to Moses, I, your father-in-law, have come to you, with your wife and your two sons. ^18:7And Moses went out to his father-in-law, and went down on his face before him and gave him a kiss; and they said to one another, Are you well? and they came into the tent. ^18:8And Moses gave his father-in-law an account of all the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians because of Israel, and of all the troubles which had come on them by the way, and how the Lord had given them salvation. ^18:9And Jethro was glad because the Lord had been good to Israel, freeing them from the power of the Egyptians. ^18:10And Jethro said, Praise be to the Lord, who has taken you out of the hand of Pharaoh and out of the hand of the Egyptians; freeing the people from the yoke of the Egyptians. ^18:11Now I am certain that the Lord is greater than all gods, for he has overcome them in their pride. ^18:12Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, made a burned offering to God: and Aaron came, with the chiefs of Israel, and had a meal with Moses' father-in-law, before God. ^18:13Now on the day after, Moses took his seat to give decisions for the people: and the people were waiting before Moses from morning till evening. ^18:14And when Moses' father-in-law saw all he was doing, he said, What is this you are doing for the people? why are you seated here by yourself, with all the people waiting before you from morning till evening? ^18:15And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to get directions from God: ^18:16And if they have any question between themselves, they come to me, and I am judge between a man and his neighbour, and I give them the orders and laws of God. ^18:17And Moses' father-in-law said to him, What you are doing is not good. ^18:18Your strength and that of the people will be completely used up: this work is more than you are able to do by yourself. ^18:19Give ear now to my suggestion, and may God be with you: you are to be the people's representative before God, taking their causes to him: ^18:20Teaching them his rules and his laws, guiding them in the way they have to go, and making clear to them the work they have to do. ^18:21But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens; ^18:22And let them be judges in the causes of the people at all times: and let them put before you all important questions, but in small things let them give decisions themselves: in this way, it will be less hard for you, and they will take the weight off you. ^18:23If you do this, and God gives approval, then you will be able to go on without weariness, and all this people will go to their tents in peace. ^18:24So Moses took note of the words of his father-in-law, and did as he had said. ^18:25And he made selection of able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens. ^18:26And they were judges in the causes of the people at all times: the hard questions they put before Moses; but on every small point they gave decisions themselves. ^18:27And Moses let his father-in-law go away, and he went back to his land.

^19:1In the third month after the children of Israel went out from Egypt, on the same day, they came into the waste land of Sinai. ^19:2And when they had gone away from Rephidim and had come into the waste land of Sinai, they put up their tents in the waste land before the mountain: there Israel put up its tents. ^19:3And Moses went up to God, and the voice of the Lord came to him from the mountain, saying, Say to the family of Jacob, and give word to the children of Israel: ^19:4You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I took you, as on eagles' wings, guiding you to myself. ^19:5If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine: ^19:6And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel. ^19:7And Moses came and sent for the chiefs of the people and put before them all these words which the Lord had given him orders to say. ^19:8And all the people, answering together, said, Whatever the Lord has said we will do. And Moses took back to the Lord the words of the people. ^19:9And the Lord said to Moses, See, I will come to you in a thick cloud, so that what I say to you may come to the ears of the people and they may have belief in you for ever. And Moses gave the Lord word of what the people had said. ^19:10And the Lord said to Moses, Go to the people and make them holy today and tomorrow, and let their clothing be washed. ^19:11And by the third day let them be ready: for on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai, before the eyes of all the people. ^19:12And let limits be marked out for the people round the mountain, and say to them, Take care not to go up the mountain or near the sides of it: whoever puts his foot on the mountain will certainly come to his death: ^19:13He is not to be touched by a hand, but is to be stoned or have an arrow put through him; man or beast, he is to be put to death: at the long sounding of a horn they may come up to the mountain. ^19:14Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and made the people holy; and their clothing was washed. ^19:15And he said to the people, Be ready by the third day: do not come near a woman. ^19:16And when morning came on the third day, there were thunders and flames and a thick cloud on the mountain, and a horn sounding very loud; and all the people in the tents were shaking with fear. ^19:17And Moses made the people come out of their tents and take their places before God; and they came to the foot of the mountain, ^19:18And all the mountain of Sinai was smoking, for the Lord had come down on it in fire: and the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a great burning; and all the mountain was shaking. ^19:19And when the sound of the horn became louder and louder, Moses' words were answered by the voice of God. ^19:20Then the Lord came down on to Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, and the Lord sent for Moses to come up to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. ^19:21And the Lord said to Moses, Go down and give the people orders to keep back, for fear that a great number of them, forcing their way through to see the Lord, may come to destruction. ^19:22And let the priests who come near to the Lord make themselves holy, for fear that the Lord may come on them suddenly. ^19:23And Moses said to the Lord, The people will not be able to come up the mountain, for you gave us orders to put limits round the mountain, marking it out and making it holy. ^19:24And the Lord said to him, Go down, and you and Aaron may come up; but let not the priests and the people make their way through to the Lord, or he will come on them suddenly. ^19:25So Moses went down to the people and said this to them.

^20:1And God said all these words: ^20:2I am the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house. ^20:3You are to have no other gods but me. ^20:4You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth: ^20:5You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters; ^20:6And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws. ^20:7You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged a sinner by the Lord ^20:8Keep in memory the Sabbath and let it be a holy day. ^20:9On six days do all your work: ^20:10But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day you are to do no work, you or your son or your daughter, your man-servant or your woman-servant, your cattle or the man from a strange country who is living among you: ^20:11For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and everything in them, and he took his rest on the seventh day: for this reason the Lord has given his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy. ^20:12Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. ^20:13Do not put anyone to death without cause. ^20:14Do not be false to the married relation. ^20:15Do not take the property of another. ^20:16Do not give false witness against your neighbour. ^20:17Let not your desire be turned to your neighbour's house, or his wife or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is his. ^20:18And all the people were watching the thunderings and the flames and the sound of the horn and the mountain smoking; and when they saw it, they kept far off, shaking with fear. ^20:19And they said to Moses, To your words we will give ear, but let not the voice of God come to our ears, for fear death may come on us. ^20:20And Moses said to the people, Have no fear: for God has come to put you to the test, so that fearing him you may be kept from sin. ^20:21And the people kept their places far off, but Moses went near to the dark cloud where God was. ^20:22And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You yourselves have seen that my voice has come to you from heaven ^20:23Gods of silver and gods of gold you are not to make for yourselves. ^20:24Make for me an altar of earth, offering on it your burned offerings and your peace-offerings, your sheep and your oxen: in every place where I have put the memory of my name, I will come to you and give you my blessing. ^20:25And if you make me an altar of stone do not make it of cut stones: for the touch of an instrument will make it unclean. ^20:26And do not go up by steps to my altar, for fear that your bodies may be seen uncovered.

^21:1Now these are the laws which you are to put before them. ^21:2If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment. ^21:3If he comes to you by himself, let him go away by himself: if he is married, let his wife go away with him. ^21:4If his master gives him a wife, and he gets sons or daughters by her, the wife and her children will be the property of the master, and the servant is to go away by himself. ^21:5But if the servant says clearly, My master and my wife and children are dear to me; I have no desire to be free: ^21:6Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house, and at the door, or at its framework, he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his servant for ever. ^21:7And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do. ^21:8If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for himself, let a payment be made for her so that she may go free; her master has no power to get a price for her and send her to a strange land, because he has been false to her. ^21:9And if he gives her to his son, he is to do everything for her as if she was his daughter. ^21:10And if he takes another woman, her food and clothing and her married rights are not to be less. ^21:11And if he does not do these three things for her, she has the right to go free without payment. ^21:12He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death. ^21:13But if he had no evil purpose against him, and God gave him into his hand, I will give you a place to which he may go in flight. ^21:14But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death. ^21:15Any man who gives a blow to his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death. ^21:16Any man who gets another into his power in order to get a price for him is to be put to death, if you take him in the act. ^21:17Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death. ^21:18If, in a fight, one man gives another a blow with a stone, or with the shut hand, not causing his death, but making him keep in bed; ^21:19If he is able to get up again and go about with a stick, the other will be let off; only he will have to give him payment for the loss of his time, and see that he is cared for till he is well. ^21:20If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo punishment. ^21:21But, at the same time, if the servant goes on living for a day or two, the master is not to get punishment, for the servant is his property. ^21:22If men, while fighting, do damage to a woman with child, causing the loss of the child, but no other evil comes to her, the man will have to make payment up to the amount fixed by her husband, in agreement with the decision of the judges. ^21:23But if damage comes to her, let life be given in payment for life, ^21:24Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, ^21:25Burning for burning, wound for wound, blow for blow. ^21:26If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye. ^21:27Or if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow, he will let him go free on account of his tooth. ^21:28If an ox comes to be the cause of death to a man or a woman, the ox is to be stoned, and its flesh may not be used for food; but the owner will not be judged responsible. ^21:29But if the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and the owner has had word of it and has not kept it under control, so that it has been the cause of the death of a man or woman, not only is the ox to be stoned, but its owner is to be put to death. ^21:30If a price is put on his life, let him make payment of whatever price is fixed. ^21:31If the death of a son or of a daughter has been caused, the punishment is to be in agreement with this rule. ^21:32If the death of a man-servant or of a woman-servant is caused by the ox, the owner is to give their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox is to be stoned. ^21:33If a man makes a hole in the earth without covering it up, and an ox or an ass dropping into it comes to its death; ^21:34The owner of the hole is responsible; he will have to make payment to their owner, but the dead beast will be his. ^21:35And if one man's ox does damage to another man's ox, causing its death, then the living ox is to be exchanged for money, and division made of the price of it, and of the price of the dead one. ^21:36But if it is common knowledge that the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and its owner has not kept it under control, he will have to give ox for ox; and the dead beast will be his.

^22:1If a man takes without right another man's ox or his sheep, and puts it to death or gets a price for it, he is to give five oxen for an ox, or four sheep for a sheep, in payment: the thief will have to make payment for what he has taken; if he has no money, he himself will have to be exchanged for money, so that payment may be made. ^22:2If a thief is taken in the act of forcing his way into a house, and his death is caused by a blow, the owner of the house is not responsible for his blood. ^22:3But if it is after dawn, he will be responsible. ^22:4If he still has what he had taken, whatever it is, ox or ass or sheep, he is to give twice its value. ^22:5If a man makes a fire in a field or a vine-garden, and lets the fire do damage to another man's field, he is to give of the best produce of his field or his vine-garden to make up for it. ^22:6If there is a fire and the flames get to the thorns at the edge of the field, causing destruction of the cut grain or of the living grain, or of the field, he who made the fire will have to make up for the damage. ^22:7If a man puts money or goods in the care of his neighbour to keep for him, and it is taken from the man's house, if they get the thief, he will have to make payment of twice the value. ^22:8If they do not get the thief, let the master of the house come before the judges and take an oath that he has not put his hand on his neighbour's goods. ^22:9In any question about an ox or an ass or a sheep or clothing, or about the loss of any property which anyone says is his, let the two sides put their cause before God; and he who is judged to be in the wrong is to make payment to his neighbour of twice the value. ^22:10If a man puts an ass or an ox or a sheep or any beast into the keeping of his neighbour, and it comes to death or is damaged or is taken away, without any person seeing it: ^22:11If he takes his oath before the Lord that he has not put his hand to his neighbour's goods, the owner is to take his word for it and he will not have to make payment for it. ^22:12But if it is taken from him by a thief, he is to make up for the loss of it to its owner. ^22:13But if it has been damaged by a beast, and he is able to make this clear, he will not have to make payment for what was damaged. ^22:14If a man gets from his neighbour the use of one of his beasts, and it is damaged or put to death when the owner is not with it, he will certainly have to make payment for the loss. ^22:15If the owner is with it, he will not have to make payment: if he gave money for the use of it, the loss is covered by the payment. ^22:16If a man takes a virgin, who has not given her word to another man, and has connection with her, he will have to give a bride-price for her to be his wife. ^22:17If her father will not give her to him on any account, he will have to give the regular payment for virgins. ^22:18Any woman using unnatural powers or secret arts is to be put to death. ^22:19Any man who has sex connection with a beast is to be put to death. ^22:20Complete destruction will come on any man who makes offerings to any other god but the Lord. ^22:21Do no wrong to a man from a strange country, and do not be hard on him; for you yourselves were living in a strange country, in the land of Egypt. ^22:22Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead. ^22:23If you are cruel to them in any way, and their cry comes up to me, I will certainly give ear; ^22:24And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers. ^22:25If you let any of the poor among my people have the use of your money, do not be a hard creditor to him, and do not take interest. ^22:26If ever you take your neighbour's clothing in exchange for the use of your money, let him have it back before the sun goes down: ^22:27For it is the only thing he has for covering his skin; what is he to go to sleep in? and when his cry comes up to me, I will give ear, for my mercy is great. ^22:28You may not say evil of the judges, or put a curse on the ruler of your people. ^22:29Do not keep back your offerings from the wealth of your grain and your vines. The first of your sons you are to give to me. ^22:30In the same way with your oxen and your sheep: for seven days let the young one be with its mother; on the eighth day give it to me. ^22:31You are to be holy men to me: the flesh of no animal whose death has been caused by the beasts of the field may be used for your food; it is to be given to the dogs.

^23:1Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness. ^23:2Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision: ^23:3But, on the other hand, do not be turned from what is right in order to give support to a poor man's cause. ^23:4If you come across the ox or the ass of one who is no friend to you wandering from its way, you are to take it back to him. ^23:5If you see the ass of one who has no love for you bent down to the earth under the weight which is put on it, you are to come to its help, even against your desire. ^23:6Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause. ^23:7Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let the upright or him who has done no wrong be put to death: for I will make the evil-doer responsible for his sin. ^23:8Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright false. ^23:9Do not be hard on the man from a strange country who is living among you; for you have had experience of the feelings of one who is far from the land of his birth, because you yourselves were living in Egypt, in a strange land. ^23:10For six years put seed into your fields and get in the increase; ^23:11But in the seventh year let the land have a rest and be unplanted; so that the poor may have food from it: and let the beasts of the field take the rest. Do the same with your vine-gardens and your olive-trees. ^23:12For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land living among you. ^23:13Take note of all these things which I have said to you, and let not the names of other gods come into your minds or from your lips. ^23:14Three times in the year you are to keep a feast to me. ^23:15You are to keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your bread be without leaven, as I gave you orders, at the regular time in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt); and let no one come before me without an offering: ^23:16And the feast of the grain-cutting, the first-fruits of your planted fields: and the feast at the start of the year, when you have got in all the fruit from your fields. ^23:17Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord God. ^23:18Do not give the blood of my offering with leavened bread; and do not let the fat of my feast be kept all night till the morning. ^23:19The best of the first-fruits of your land are to be taken into the house of the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk. ^23:20See, I am sending an angel before you, to keep you on your way and to be your guide into the place which I have made ready for you. ^23:21Give attention to him and give ear to his voice; do not go against him; for your wrongdoing will not be overlooked by him, because my name is in him. ^23:22But if you truly give ear to his voice, and do whatever I say, then I will be against those who are against you, fighting those who are fighting you. ^23:23And my angel will go before you, guiding you into the land of the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, and they will be cut off by my hand. ^23:24Do not go down on your faces and give worship to their gods, or do as they do; but overcome them completely, and let their pillars be broken down. ^23:25And give worship to the Lord your God, who will send his blessing on your bread and on your water; and I will take all disease away from among you. ^23:26All your animals will give birth without loss, not one will be without young in all your land; I will give you a full measure of life. ^23:27I will send my fear before you, putting to flight all the people to whom you come; all those who are against you will go in flight, turning their backs before you. ^23:28I will send hornets before you, driving out the Hivite and the Canaanite and the Hittite before your face. ^23:29I will not send them all out in one year, for fear that their land may become waste, and the beasts of the field be increased overmuch against you. ^23:30Little by little I will send them away before you, till your numbers are increased and you take up your heritage in the land. ^23:31I will let the limits of your land be from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the waste land to the river Euphrates: for I will give the people of those lands into your power; and you will send them out before you. ^23:32Make no agreement with them or with their gods. ^23:33Let them not go on living in your land, or they will make you do evil against me: for if you give worship to their gods, it will certainly be a cause of sin to you.

^24:1And he said to Moses, Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, and Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the chiefs of Israel; and give me worship from a distance. ^24:2And Moses only may come near to the Lord; but the others are not to come near, and the people may not come up with them. ^24:3Then Moses came and put before the people all the words of the Lord and his laws: and all the people, answering with one voice, said, Whatever the Lord has said we will do. ^24:4Then Moses put down in writing all the words of the Lord, and he got up early in the morning and made an altar at the foot of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel. ^24:5And he sent some of the young men of the children of Israel to make burned offerings and peace-offerings of oxen to the Lord. ^24:6And Moses took half the blood and put it in basins; draining out half of the blood over the altar. ^24:7And he took the book of the agreement, reading it in the hearing of the people: and they said, Everything which the Lord has said we will do, and we will keep his laws. ^24:8Then Moses took the blood and let it come on the people, and said, This blood is the sign of the agreement which the Lord has made with you in these words. ^24:9Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the chiefs of Israel went up: ^24:10And they saw the God of Israel; and under his feet there was, as it seemed, a jewelled floor, clear as the heavens. ^24:11And he put not his hand on the chiefs of the children of Israel: they saw God, and took food and drink. ^24:12And the Lord said to Moses, Come up to me on the mountain, and take your place there: and I will give you the stones on which I have put in writing the law and the orders, so that you may give the people knowledge of them. ^24:13Then Moses and Joshua his servant got up; and Moses went up into the mountain of God. ^24:14And he said to the chiefs, Keep your places here till we come back to you: Aaron and Hur are with you; if anyone has any cause let him go to them. ^24:15And Moses went up into the mountain, and it was covered by the cloud. ^24:16And the glory of the Lord was resting on Mount Sinai, and the cloud was over it for six days; and on the seventh day he said Moses' name out of the cloud. ^24:17And the glory of the Lord was like a flame on the top of the mountain before the eyes of the children of Israel. ^24:18And Moses went up the mountain, into the cloud, and was there for forty days and forty nights.

^25:1And the Lord said to Moses, ^25:2Say to the children of Israel that they are to make me an offering; from every man who has the impulse in his heart take an offering for me. ^25:3And this is the offering you are to take from them: gold and silver and brass; ^25:4And blue and purple and red, and the best linen, and goats' hair; ^25:5And sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard wood; ^25:6Oil for the light, spices for the sweet-smelling oil, sweet perfumes for burning; ^25:7Beryls and stones of value to be put on the ephod and on the priest's bag. ^25:8And let them make me a holy place, so that I may be ever present among them. ^25:9Make the House and everything in it from the designs which I will give you. ^25:10And they are to make an ark of hard wood; two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half wide and high. ^25:11It is to be plated inside and out with the best gold, with an edge of gold all round it ^25:12And make four rings of gold for it, to be fixed on its four feet, two rings on one side of it and two on the other. ^25:13And make rods of the same wood, plating them with gold. ^25:14And put the rods through the rings at the sides of the ark, for lifting it. ^25:15The rods are to be kept in the rings, and never taken out. ^25:16Inside the ark you are to put the record which I will give you. ^25:17And you are to make a cover of the best gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. ^25:18And at the two ends of the cover you are to make two winged ones of hammered gold, ^25:19One at one end and one at the other; the winged ones are to be part of the cover. ^25:20And their wings are to be outstretched over the cover, and the winged ones are to be opposite one another, facing the cover. ^25:21And put the cover over the ark, and in the ark the record which I will give you. ^25:22And there, between the two winged ones on the cover of the ark, I will come to you, face to face, and make clear to you all the orders I have to give you for the children of Israel. ^25:23And you are to make a table of the same wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high, ^25:24Plated with the best gold, with a gold edge all round it; ^25:25And make a frame all round it, as wide as a man's hand, with a gold edge to the frame. ^25:26And make four gold rings and put them at the four angles, on the four feet of the table; ^25:27The rings are to be fixed under the frame to take the rods with which the table is to be lifted. ^25:28Make rods of the same wood, plated with gold, for lifting the table. ^25:29And make the table-vessels, the spoons and the cups and the basins for liquids, all of the best gold. ^25:30And on the table at all times you are to keep my holy bread. ^25:31And you are to make a support for lights, of the best gold; its base and its pillar are to be of hammered gold; its cups, its buds, and its flowers are to be made of the same metal. ^25:32It is to have six branches coming out from its sides; three branches from one side and three from the other. ^25:33Every branch having three cups made like almond flowers, every cup with a bud and a flower, on all the branches. ^25:34And on the pillar, four cups like almond flowers, every one with its bud and its flower: ^25:35And under every two branches a bud, made with the branch, for all the six branches of it. ^25:36The buds and the branches are to be made of the same metal; all together one complete work of hammered gold. ^25:37Then you are to make its seven vessels for the lights, putting them in their place so that they give light in front of it. ^25:38And the instruments and trays for use with it are all to be of the best gold. ^25:39A talent of gold will be needed for it, with all these vessels. ^25:40And see that you make them from the design which you saw on the mountain.

^26:1And you are to make a House for me, with ten curtains of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman. ^26:2Every curtain is to be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure. ^26:3Five curtains are to be joined together, and the other five are to be joined together. ^26:4And you are to put twists of blue cord on the edge of the outside curtain of the first group of five, and on the edge of the outside curtain of the second group of five; ^26:5Fifty twists on one curtain and fifty on the other, the twists to be opposite one another. ^26:6Then make fifty gold hooks, joining the curtains together by the hooks, and in this way the House will be made. ^26:7And you are to make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the House, eleven curtains. ^26:8Every curtain is to be thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure. ^26:9Five of these curtains are to be joined together, and the other six are to be joined together, the sixth being folded over to make a hanging in front of the tent. ^26:10And you are to put fifty twists of cord on the edge of the outside curtain of one group, and fifty twists on the edge of the outside curtain of the other group. ^26:11Then make fifty brass hooks and put the hooks into the twists, joining the tent together to make it one. ^26:12And the folded part which is over of the curtains of the tent, the half-curtain which is folded back, will be hanging down over the back of the House. ^26:13And the cubit which is over of the ten curtains at the sides will be hanging over the two sides of the House as a cover. ^26:14And then you are to make a cover for the tent, of sheepskins coloured red, and a cover of leather over that. ^26:15And you are to make upright boards of hard wood for the House. ^26:16Every board is to be ten cubits high and a cubit and a half wide. ^26:17Every board is to be joined to the one nearest to it by two tongues, and so for every board in the House. ^26:18These are the boards needed for the house; twenty boards for the south side, ^26:19With forty silver bases under the twenty boards, two bases under every board to take its tongues. ^26:20And twenty boards for the second side of the house on the north, ^26:21With their forty silver bases, two under every board. ^26:22And six boards for the back of the House on the west, ^26:23With two boards for the angles of the House at the back. ^26:24The two are to be joined together at the base and at the top to one ring, forming the two angles. ^26:25So there are to be eight boards, with their sixteen silver bases, two bases under every board. ^26:26And make rods of the same wood, five for the boards on the one side, ^26:27And five for the boards on the other side of the House, and five for the west side of the House at the back. ^26:28And the middle rod is to go through the rings of all the boards from end to end. ^26:29And the boards are to be plated with gold, having gold rings for the rods to go through: and the rods are to be plated with gold. ^26:30And you are to make the House from the design which you saw on the mountain. ^26:31And you are to make a veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman: ^26:32Hanging it by gold hooks from four pillars of wood, plated with gold and fixed in silver bases. ^26:33And you are to put up the veil under the hooks, and put inside it the ark of the law: the veil is to be a division between the holy place and the most holy. ^26:34You are to put the cover on the ark of the law, inside the most holy place. ^26:35And outside the veil you are to put the table, and the support for the lights opposite the table on the south side of the House; and the table is to be on the north side. ^26:36And you are to make a curtain for the doorway of the Tent, of the best linen with needlework of blue and purple and red. ^26:37And make five pillars for the curtain, of hard wood plated with gold; their hooks are to be of gold and their bases of brass

^27:1And make an altar of hard wood, a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high. ^27:2Put horns at the four angles of it, made of the same, plating it all with brass. ^27:3And make all its vessels, the baskets for taking away the dust of the fire, the spades and basins and meat-hooks and fire-trays, of brass. ^27:4And make a network of brass, with four brass rings at its four angles. ^27:5And put the network under the shelf round the altar so that the net comes half-way up the altar. ^27:6And make rods for the altar, of hard wood, plated with brass. ^27:7And put the rods through the rings at the two opposite sides of the altar, for lifting it. ^27:8The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which you saw on the mountain. ^27:9And let there be an open space round the House, with hangings for its south side of the best linen, a hundred cubits long. ^27:10Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases are to be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their bands are to be of silver. ^27:11And on the north side in the same way, hangings a hundred cubits long, with twenty pillars of brass on bases of brass; their hooks and their bands are to be of silver. ^27:12And for the open space on the west side, the hangings are to be fifty cubits wide, with ten pillars and ten bases; ^27:13And on the east side the space is to be fifty cubits wide. ^27:14On the one side of the doorway will be hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases; ^27:15And on the other side, hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases. ^27:16And across the doorway, a veil of twenty cubits of the best linen, made of needlework of blue and purple and red, with four pillars and four bases. ^27:17All the pillars round the open space are to have silver bands, with hooks of silver and bases of brass. ^27:18The open space is to be a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, with sides five cubits high, curtained with the best linen, with bases of brass. ^27:19All the instruments for the work of the House, and all its nails, and the nails of the open space are to be of brass. ^27:20Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clear olive oil for the lights, so that a light may be burning there at all times. ^27:21Let Aaron and his sons put this in order, evening and morning, before the Lord, inside the Tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the ark; this is to be an order for ever, from generation to generation, to be kept by the children of Israel.

^28:1Now let Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, come near from among the children of Israel, so that they may be my priests, even Aaron, and Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, his sons. ^28:2And make holy robes for Aaron your brother, so that he may be clothed with glory and honour. ^28:3Give orders to all the wise-hearted workmen, whom I have made full of the spirit of wisdom, to make robes for Aaron, so that he may be made holy as my priest. ^28:4This is what they are to make: a priest's bag, an ephod, and a robe, and a coat of coloured needlework, a head-dress, and a linen band; they are to make holy robes for Aaron your brother and for his sons, so that they may do the work of priests for me. ^28:5They are to take the gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen, ^28:6And make the ephod of gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen, the work of a designer. ^28:7It is to have two bands stitched to it at the top of the arms, joining it together. ^28:8And the beautifully worked band, which goes on it, is to be of the same work and the same material, of gold and blue and purple and red and twisted linen-work. ^28:9You are to take two beryl stones, on which the names of the children of Israel are to be cut: ^28:10Six names on the one stone and six on the other, in the order of their birth. ^28:11With the work of a jeweller, like the cutting of a stamp, the names of the children of Israel are to be cut on them, and they are to be fixed in twisted frames of gold. ^28:12And the two stones are to be placed on the ephod, over the arm-holes, to be stones of memory for the children of Israel: Aaron will have their names on his arms when he goes in before the Lord, to keep the Lord in mind of them. ^28:13And you are to make twisted frames of gold; ^28:14And two chains of the best gold, twisted like cords; and have the chains fixed on to the frames. ^28:15And make a priest's bag for giving decisions, designed like the ephod, made of gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen. ^28:16It is to be square, folded in two, a hand-stretch long and a hand-stretch wide. ^28:17And on it you are to put four lines of jewels; the first line is to be a cornelian, a chrysolite, and an emerald; ^28:18The second, a ruby, a sapphire, and an onyx; ^28:19The third, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; ^28:20The fourth, a topaz, a beryl, and a jasper; they are to be fixed in twisted frames of gold. ^28:21The jewels are to be twelve in number, for the names of the children of Israel; every jewel having the name of one of the twelve tribes cut on it as on a stamp. ^28:22And you are to make two chains of gold, twisted like cords, to be fixed to the priest's bag. ^28:23And put two gold rings on the two ends of the bag. ^28:24Put the two gold chains on the two rings at the ends of the bag; ^28:25Joining the other ends of the chains to the gold frames and putting them on the front of the ephod, at the top of the arms. ^28:26Then make two gold rings and put them on the lower ends of the bag, at the edge of it on the inner side nearest to the ephod. ^28:27And make two more gold rings and put them on the front of the ephod at the top of the arms, at the join, over the worked band: ^28:28So that the rings on the bag may be fixed to the rings of the ephod by a blue cord and on to the band of the ephod, so that the bag may not come loose from the ephod. ^28:29And so Aaron will have the names of the children of Israel on the priest's bag over his heart whenever he goes into the holy place, to keep the memory of them before the Lord. ^28:30And in the bag you are to put the Urim and Thummim, so that they may be on Aaron's heart whenever he goes in before the Lord; and Aaron may have the power of making decisions for the children of Israel before the Lord at all times. ^28:31The robe which goes with the ephod is to be made all of blue; ^28:32With a hole at the top, in the middle of it; the hole is to be edged with a band to make it strong like the hole in the coat of a fighting-man, so that it may not be broken open. ^28:33And round the skirts of it put fruits in blue and purple and red, with bells of gold between; ^28:34A gold bell and a fruit in turn all round the skirts of the robe. ^28:35Aaron is to put it on for his holy work; and the sound of it will be clear, when he goes into the holy place before the Lord, and when he comes out, keeping him safe from death. ^28:36You are to make a plate of the best gold, cutting on it, as on a stamp, these words: HOLY TO THE LORD. ^28:37Put a blue cord on it and put it on the front of the twisted head-dress: ^28:38And it will be over Aaron's brow, so that Aaron will be responsible for any error in all the holy offerings made by the children of Israel; it will be on his brow at all times, so that their offerings may be pleasing to the Lord. ^28:39The coat is to be made of the best linen, worked in squares; and you are to make a head-dress of linen, and a linen band worked in needlework. ^28:40And for Aaron's sons you are to make coats, and bands, and head-dresses, so that they may be clothed with glory and honour. ^28:41These you are to put on Aaron, your brother, and on his sons, putting oil on them, separating them and making them holy, to do the work of priests to me. ^28:42And you are to make them linen trousers, covering their bodies from the middle to the knee; ^28:43Aaron and his sons are to put these on whenever they go into the Tent of meeting or come near the altar, when they are doing the work of the holy place, so that they may be free from any sin causing death: this is to be an order for him and his seed after him for ever.

^29:1This is what you are to do to make them holy, to do the work of priests to me: Take one young ox and two male sheep, without any mark on them, ^29:2And unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes on which oil has been put, made of the best bread-meal; ^29:3Put these in a basket and take them, with the ox and the two sheep. ^29:4And let Aaron and his sons come to the door of the Tent of meeting, and there let them be washed with water. ^29:5Take the robes, and put the coat and the dress and the ephod and the priest's bag on Aaron; put the band of needlework round him, ^29:6And let the head-dress be placed on his head and the holy crown on the head-dress. ^29:7Then take the oil and put it on his head. ^29:8And take his sons and put their robes on them; ^29:9And put the linen bands round Aaron and his sons, and the head-dresses on them, to make them priests by my order for ever: so you are to make Aaron and his sons holy to me. ^29:10Then let the ox be taken in front of the Tent of meeting: and let Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head. ^29:11And you are to put the ox to death before the Lord at the door of the Tent of meeting. ^29:12Then take some of the blood of the ox, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, draining out all the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. ^29:13And take all the fat covering the inside of the ox, and the fat joining the liver and the two kidneys with the fat round them, and let them be burned on the altar; ^29:14But the flesh of the ox and its skin and its waste parts are to be burned outside the circle of the tents, for it is a sin-offering. ^29:15Then take one of the sheep, and let Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head. ^29:16Then let it be put to death, so that the sides of the altar are marked with its blood. ^29:17Then the sheep is to be cut up into its parts, and after washing its legs and its inside parts, you are to put them with the parts and the head, ^29:18And let them all be burned on the altar as a burned offering to the Lord: a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord. ^29:19Then take the other sheep; and after Aaron and his sons have put their hands on its head, ^29:20You are to put the sheep to death, and take some of its blood and put it on the point of Aaron's right ear, and of the right ears of his sons, and on the thumbs of their right hands and the great toes of their right feet, dropping the rest of the blood on the sides of the altar. ^29:21Then take some of the blood on the altar, and the oil, and put it on Aaron and his robes and on his sons and on their robes, so that he and his robes and his sons and their robes may be made holy. ^29:22Then take the fat of the sheep, the fat tail, the fat covering the insides, and the fat joining the liver and the two kidneys with the fat round them, and the right leg; for by the offering of this sheep they are to be marked out as priests: ^29:23And take one bit of bread and one cake of oiled bread and one thin cake out of the basket of unleavened bread which is before the Lord: ^29:24And put them all on the hands of Aaron and of his sons, to be waved for a wave offering before the Lord. ^29:25Then take them from their hands, and let them be burned on the burned offering on the altar, a sweet smell before the Lord, an offering made by fire to the Lord. ^29:26Then take the breast of Aaron's sheep, waving it before the Lord; and it is to be your part of the offering. ^29:27So you are to make holy the breast of the sheep which is waved and the leg which is lifted up on high, that is, of the sheep which is offered for Aaron and his sons; ^29:28And it will be their part as a right for ever from the children of Israel, it is a special offering from the children of Israel, made from their peace-offerings, a special offering lifted up to the Lord. ^29:29And Aaron's holy robes will be used by his sons after him; they will put them on when they are made priests. ^29:30For seven days the son who becomes priest in his place will put them on when he comes into the Tent of meeting to do the work of the holy place. ^29:31Then take the sheep of the wave offering and let its flesh be cooked in water in a holy place. ^29:32And let Aaron and his sons make a meal of it, with the bread in the basket, at the door of the Tent of meeting. ^29:33All those things which were used as offerings to take away sin, and to make them holy to be priests, they may have for food: but no one who is not a priest may have them, for they are holy food. ^29:34And if any of the flesh of the offering or of the bread is over till the morning, let it be burned with fire; it is not to be used for food, for it is holy. ^29:35All these things you are to do to Aaron and his sons as I have given you orders: for seven days the work of making them priests is to go on. ^29:36Every day an ox is to be offered as a sin-offering, to take away sins: and by this offering on it, you will make the altar clean from sin; and you are to put oil on it and make it holy. ^29:37For seven days you are to make offerings for the altar and make it holy, so that it may become completely holy, and anything touching it will become holy. ^29:38Now this is the offering which you are to make on the altar: two lambs in their first year, every day regularly. ^29:39One lamb is to be offered in the morning and the other in the evening: ^29:40And with the one lamb, a tenth part of an ephah of the best meal, mixed with a fourth part of a hin of clear oil; and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering. ^29:41And the other lamb is to be offered in the evening, and with it the same meal offering and drink offering, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord. ^29:42This is to be a regular burned offering made from generation to generation, at the door of the Tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will come face to face with you and have talk with you. ^29:43There I will come face to face with the children of Israel, and the Tent will be made holy by my glory ^29:44I will make holy the Tent of meeting and the altar: and Aaron and his sons I will make holy, to be my priests ^29:45Among the children of Israel I will make my living-place, and I will be their God. ^29:46And they will see that I am the Lord their God, who took them out of the land of Egypt, so that I might be ever with them: I am the Lord their God.

^30:1And you are to make an altar for the burning of perfume; of hard wood let it be made. ^30:2The altar is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high, and its horns are to be made of the same. ^30:3It is to be plated with the best gold, the top of it and the sides and the horns, with an edging of gold all round it. ^30:4Under the edge on the two opposite sides, you are to make two gold rings, to take the rods for lifting it. ^30:5And make these rods of the same wood, plating them with gold. ^30:6And let it be placed in front of the veil before the ark of the law, before the cover which is over the law, where I will come face to face with you. ^30:7And on this altar sweet spices are to be burned by Aaron every morning when he sees to the lights. ^30:8And every evening, when he puts the lights up in their places, the spices are to be burned, a sweet-smelling smoke going up before the Lord from generation to generation for ever. ^30:9No strange perfume, no burned offering or meal offering, and no drink offering is to be offered on it. ^30:10And once every year Aaron is to make its horns clean: with the blood of the sin-offering he is to make it clean once every year from generation to generation: it is most holy to the Lord. ^30:11And the Lord said to Moses, ^30:12When you are taking the number of the children of Israel, let every man who is numbered give to the Lord a price for his life, so that no disease may come on them when they are numbered. ^30:13And this is what they are to give; let every man who is numbered give half a shekel, by the scale of the holy place: (the shekel being valued at twenty gerahs:) this money is an offering to the Lord. ^30:14Everyone who is numbered, from twenty years old and over, is to give an offering to the Lord. ^30:15The man of wealth is to give no more and the poor man no less than the half-shekel of silver, when the offering is made to the Lord as the price for your lives. ^30:16And you are to take this money from the children of Israel to be used for the work of the Tent of meeting, to keep the memory of the children of Israel before the Lord and to be the price of your lives. ^30:17And the Lord said to Moses, ^30:18You are to make a brass washing-vessel, with a brass base; and put it between the Tent of meeting and the altar, with water in it; ^30:19That it may be used by Aaron and his sons for washing their hands and feet; ^30:20Whenever they go into the Tent of meeting they are to be washed with water, to keep them from death; and whenever they come near to do the work of the altar, or to make an offering by fire to the Lord, ^30:21Their hands and feet are to be washed. so that they may be safe from death: this is an order to them for ever; to him and his seed from generation to generation. ^30:22And the Lord said to Moses, ^30:23Take the best spices, five hundred shekels' weight of liquid myrrh, and of sweet cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet calamus, ^30:24And of cassia, five hundred shekels' weight measured by the scale of the holy place, and of olive oil a hin: ^30:25And make these into a holy oil, a perfume made by the art of the perfume-maker; it is to be a holy oil. ^30:26This oil is to be put on the Tent of meeting, and on the ark of the law, ^30:27And on the table and all its vessels, and on the support for the lights, with its vessels, and on the altar for burning spices, ^30:28And on the altar of burned offerings with its vessels, and on the washing-vessel and its base. ^30:29And you are to make them most holy; anything touching them will become holy. ^30:30And put the oil on Aaron and his sons, making them holy to do the work of priests to me. ^30:31And say to the children of Israel, This is to be the Lord's holy oil, from generation to generation. ^30:32It is not to be used for man's flesh, and no other is to be made like it: holy it is, and you are to keep it holy. ^30:33Whoever makes any like it, or puts it on one who is not a priest, will be cut off from his people. ^30:34And the Lord said to Moses, Take sweet spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, with the best frankincense, in equal weights; ^30:35And make from them a perfume, such as is made by the art of the perfume-maker, mixed with salt, and clean and holy. ^30:36And put some of it, crushed very small, in front of the ark in the Tent of meeting, where I will come face to face with you; it is to be most holy. ^30:37You are not to make any perfume like it for yourselves: it is to be kept holy to the Lord. ^30:38Whoever makes any like it, for its sweet smell, will be cut off from his people.

^31:1And the Lord said to Moses, ^31:2I have made selection of Bezalel, the son of Uri, by name, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah: ^31:3And I have given him the spirit of God and made him wise and full of knowledge and expert in every sort of handwork, ^31:4To do all sorts of delicate work in gold and silver and brass; ^31:5In cutting stones for framing, and to do every form of woodwork. ^31:6And I have made selection of Oholiab with him, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all who are wise I have put the knowledge to make whatever I have given you orders to have made; ^31:7The Tent of meeting, and the ark of the law, and the cover which is on it, and all the things for the tent, ^31:8And the table with its vessels, and the holy light-support with all its vessels, and the altar for the burning of spices, ^31:9And the altar of burned offerings with all its vessels, and the washing-vessel with its base, ^31:10And the robes of needlework, the holy robes for Aaron and for his sons, for their use when acting as priests, ^31:11And the holy oil, and the perfume of sweet spices for the holy place; they will do whatever I have given you orders to have done. ^31:12And the Lord said to Moses, ^31:13Say to the children of Israel that they are to keep my Sabbaths; for the Sabbath day is a sign between me and you through all your generations; so that you may see that I am the Lord who makes you holy. ^31:14So you are to keep the Sabbath as a holy day; and anyone not honouring it will certainly be put to death: whoever does any work on that day will be cut off from his people. ^31:15Six days may work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death. ^31:16And the children of Israel are to keep the Sabbath holy, from generation to generation, by an eternal agreement. ^31:17It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever; because in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he took his rest and had pleasure in it. ^31:18And when his talk with Moses on Mount Sinai was ended, he gave him the two stones of the law, two stones on which was the writing made by the finger of God.

^32:1And when the people saw that Moses was a long time coming down from the mountain, they all came to Aaron and said to him, Come, make us a god to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us up out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has become of him. ^32:2Then Aaron said to them, Take off the gold rings which are in the ears of your wives and your sons and your daughters, and give them to me. ^32:3And all the people took the gold rings from their ears and gave them to Aaron. ^32:4And he took the gold from them and, hammering it with an instrument, he made it into the metal image of a young ox: and they said, This is your god, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt. ^32:5And when Aaron saw this, he made an altar before it, and made a public statement, saying, Tomorrow there will be a feast to the Lord. ^32:6So early on the day after they got up and made burned offerings and peace-offerings; and took their seats at the feast, and then gave themselves to pleasure. ^32:7And the Lord said to Moses, Go down quickly; for your people, whom you took out of the land of Egypt, are turned to evil ways; ^32:8Even now they are turned away from the rule I gave them, and have made themselves a metal ox and given worship to it and offerings, saying, This is your god, O Israel, who took you up out of the land of Egypt. ^32:9And the Lord said to Moses, I have been watching this people, and I see that they are a stiff-necked people. ^32:10Now do not get in my way, for my wrath is burning against them; I will send destruction on them, but of you I will make a great nation. ^32:11But Moses made prayer to God, saying, Lord, why is your wrath burning against your people whom you took out of the land of Egypt, with great power and with the strength of your hand? ^32:12Why let the Egyptians say, He took them out to an evil fate, to put them to death on the mountains, cutting them off from the earth? Let your wrath be turned away from them, and send not this evil on your people. ^32:13Have in mind Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you gave your oath, saying, I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and all this land will I give to your seed, as I said, to be their heritage for ever. ^32:14So the Lord let himself be turned from his purpose of sending punishment on his people. ^32:15Then Moses came down the mountain with the two stones of the law in his hand; the stones had writing on their two sides, on the front and on the back. ^32:16The stones were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, cut on the stones. ^32:17Now when the noise and the voices of the people came to the ears of Joshua, he said to Moses, There is a noise of war in the tents. ^32:18And Moses said, It is not the voice of men who are overcoming in the fight, or the cry of those who have been overcome; it is the sound of songs which comes to my ear. ^32:19And when he came near the tents he saw the image of the ox, and the people dancing; and in his wrath Moses let the stones go from his hands, and they were broken at the foot of the mountain. ^32:20And he took the ox which they had made, burning it in the fire and crushing it to powder, and he put it in the water and made the children of Israel take a drink of it. ^32:21And Moses said to Aaron, What did the people do to you that you let this great sin come on them? ^32:22And Aaron said, Let not my lord be angry; you have seen how the purposes of this people are evil. ^32:23For they said to me, Make us a god to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us up out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has come to him. ^32:24Then I said to them, Whoever has any gold, let him take it off; so they gave it to me, and I put it in the fire, and this image of an ox came out. ^32:25And Moses saw that the people were out of control, for Aaron had let them loose to their shame before their haters: ^32:26Then Moses took his place at the way into the tents, and said, Whoever is on the Lord's side, let him come to me. And all the sons of Levi came together to him. ^32:27And he said to them, This is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: Let every man take his sword at his side, and go from one end of the tents to the other, putting to death his brother and his friend and his neighbour. ^32:28And the sons of Levi did as Moses said; and about three thousand of the people were put to death that day. ^32:29And Moses said, You have made yourselves priests to the Lord this day; for every one of you has made the offering of his son and his brother; the blessing of the Lord is on you this day. ^32:30And on the day after, Moses said to the people, Great has been your sin: but I will go up to the Lord, and see if I may get forgiveness for your sin. ^32:31Then Moses went back to the Lord and said, This people has done a great sin, making themselves a god of gold; ^32:32But now, if you will give them forgiveness--but if not, let my name be taken out of your book. ^32:33And the Lord said to Moses, Whoever has done evil against me will be taken out of my book. ^32:34But now, go, take the people into that place of which I have given you word; see, my angel will go before you: but when the time of my judging has come, I will send punishment on them for their sin. ^32:35And the Lord sent punishment on the people because they gave worship to the ox which Aaron made.

^33:1And the Lord said to Moses, Go forward from this place, you and the people whom you have taken up out of the land of Egypt, to that land about which I made an oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, To your seed will I give it. ^33:2And I will send an angel before you, driving out the Canaanite and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite: ^33:3Go up to that land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, for fear that I send destruction on you while you are on the way. ^33:4Hearing this bad news the people were full of grief, and no one put on his ornaments. ^33:5And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You are a stiff-necked people: if I come among you, even for a minute, I will send destruction on you; so take off all your ornaments, so that I may see what to do with you. ^33:6So the children of Israel took off their ornaments at Mount Horeb, and did not put them on again. ^33:7Now it was Moses' way to put up the Tent of meeting outside the tent-circle, at some distance away; giving it the name of The Tent of meeting. And everyone desiring to make his prayer to the Lord went to the Tent of meeting outside the tent-circle. ^33:8And whenever Moses went out to the Tent of meeting, all the people got up and everyone went to the door of his tent, looking after Moses till he went inside the Tent. ^33:9And whenever Moses went into the Tent, the pillar of cloud came down, and took its place by the door of the Tent, as long as the Lord was talking with Moses. ^33:10And all the people saw the cloud at the door of the Tent, and they went down on their faces, everyone at the door of his tent. ^33:11And the Lord had talk with Moses face to face, as a man may have talk with his friend. And when Moses came back to the tents, his servant, the young man Joshua, the son of Nun, did not come away from the Tent. ^33:12And Moses said to the Lord, See, you say to me, Be this people's guide on their journey, but you have not made clear to me whom you will send with me. But you have said, I have knowledge of you by name, and you have grace in my eyes. ^33:13If then I have grace in your eyes, let me see your ways, so that I may have knowledge of you and be certain of your grace; and my prayer is that you will keep in mind that this nation is your people. ^33:14And he said, I myself will go with you and give you rest. ^33:15And Moses said, If you yourself are not going with us, do not send us on from here. ^33:16For is not the fact of your going with us the sign that I and this people have grace in your eyes, so that we, that is, I and your people, are separate from all other people on the face of the earth? ^33:17And the Lord said to Moses, I will do as you say: for you have grace in my eyes, and I have knowledge of you by your name. ^33:18And Moses said, O Lord, let me see your glory. ^33:19And he said, I will make all the light of my being come before you, and will make clear to you what I am; I will be kind to those to whom I will be kind, and have mercy on those on whom I will have mercy. ^33:20But it is not possible for you to see my face, for no man may see me and still go on living. ^33:21And the Lord said, See, there is a place near me, and you may take your place on the rock: ^33:22And when my glory goes by, I will put you in a hole in the rock, covering you with my hand till I have gone past: ^33:23Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back: but my face is not to be seen.

^34:1And the Lord said to Moses, Make two other stones like the first two; and I will put on them the words which were on the first stones, which were broken by you. ^34:2And be ready by the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai, and come before me there in the morning, on the top of the mountain. ^34:3No one is to come up with you, and let no man be seen anywhere on the mountain; let no flocks or herds come near to get their food at its foot. ^34:4So Moses got two stones cut like the first; and early in the morning he went up Mount Sinai, as the Lord had said, with the two stones in his hand. ^34:5And the Lord came down in the cloud and took his place by the side of Moses, and Moses gave worship to the name of the Lord. ^34:6And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith; ^34:7Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation. ^34:8Then Moses quickly went down on his face in worship. ^34:9And he said, If now I have grace in your eyes, let the Lord go among us, for this is a stiff-necked people, and give us forgiveness for our wrongdoing and our sin, and take us for your heritage. ^34:10And the Lord said, See, this is what I will undertake: before the eyes of your people I will do wonders, such as have not been done in all the earth or in any nation: and all your people will see the work of the Lord, for what I am about to do for you is greatly to be feared. ^34:11Take care to do the orders which I give you today; I will send out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. ^34:12But take care, and do not make any agreement with the people of the land where you are going, for it will be a cause of sin to you. ^34:13But their altars are to be overturned and their pillars broken and their images cut down: ^34:14For you are to be worshippers of no other god: for the Lord is a God who will not give his honour to another. ^34:15So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts, ^34:16Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them. ^34:17Make for yourselves no gods of metal. ^34:18Keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days your food is to be bread without leaven, as I gave you orders, at the regular time in the month Abib; for in that month you came out of Egypt. ^34:19Every first male child is mine; the first male birth of your cattle, the first male of every ox and sheep. ^34:20A lamb may be given in payment for the young of an ass, but if you will not make payment for it, its neck will have to be broken. For all the first of your sons you are to make payment. No one is to come before me without an offering. ^34:21Six days let work be done, but on the seventh day take your rest: at ploughing time and at the grain-cutting you are to have a day for rest. ^34:22And you are to keep the feast of weeks when you get in the first-fruits of the grain, and the feast at the turn of the year when you take in the produce of your fields. ^34:23Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord, the God of Israel. ^34:24For I will send out the nations before you and make wide the limits of your land; and no man will make an attempt to take your land while you go up to give worship to the Lord, three times in the year. ^34:25No leaven is to be offered with the blood of my offering, and the offering of the Passover feast may not be kept till the morning. ^34:26Take the first-fruits of your land as an offering to the house of the Lord your God. Let not the young goat be cooked in its mother's milk ^34:27And the Lord said to Moses, Put all these words in writing; for on them is based the agreement which I will make with you. ^34:28And for forty days and forty nights Moses was there with the Lord, and in that time he had no food or drink. And he put in writing on the stones the words of the agreement, the ten rules of the law. ^34:29Now when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two stones in his hand, he was not conscious that his face was shining because of his talk with God. ^34:30But when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, and the shining of his face, they would not come near him for fear. ^34:31Then Moses sent for them; and Aaron, with the chiefs of the people, came to him; and Moses had talk with them. ^34:32And later, all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them all the orders which the Lord had given him on Mount Sinai. ^34:33And at the end of his talk with them, Moses put a veil over his face. ^34:34But whenever Moses went in before the Lord to have talk with him, he took off the veil till he came out. And whenever he came out he said to the children of Israel what he had been ordered to say; ^34:35And the children of Israel saw that the face of Moses was shining: so Moses put the veil over his face again till he went to the Lord.