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Exodus

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Introduction to Exodus:
Author: Moses (Mark 12:26 and Luke 20:37, quoting Exo. 3:6; Mark 7:10, quoting Exo. 20:12), the author of the five books of the Law (Deut. 31:9, 24; Luke 24:27, 44; John 1:45; 5:46; Acts 28:23; 2 Cor. 3:15).Time of Writing: Approximately 1490 B.C. (cf. 1 Kings 6:1) in the second year after the exodus, after the tabernacle was erected (40:17).Place of Writing: In the wilderness and at Mount Sinai (19:1-2; 34:27-29).Time Period Covered: From approximately 1706 B.C., when Jacob came to Egypt (1:1), until one year after the exodus from Egypt (40:17) in 1490 B.C. Most of the book covers a period of about one year (12:2; 19:1; 40:17).

Subject of Exodus:
Christ is the Redemption, Salvation, and Supply of God's People
and the Means for Them to Worship and Serve God
So That in Him They May Be Built Up with God Together
for Them and God to Meet, Communicate, and Dwell Mutually

Exodus

Chapter 1 of 40

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I.  Enslaved — 1:1-22

Exo 1:1 - 1Now these are the anames of the sons of Israel who came to 2Egypt with Jacob; each man came with his household:
Exo 1:2 - Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
Exo 1:3 - Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
Exo 1:4 - Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
Exo 1:5 - And all the 1persons who came forth from the loins of Jacob were aseventy 1persons, but Joseph was already in Egypt.
Exo 1:6 - And Joseph 1adied, and all his brothers, and all that generation.
Exo 1:7 - But the children of Israel were afruitful and increased abundantly and multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, and the land was filled with them.
Exo 1:8 - And a anew king rose up over Egypt, who did not know of Joseph.
Exo 1:9 - And he said to his people, The people of the children of Israel are now more numerous and astronger than we.
Exo 1:10 - Come, let us deal awisely with them, lest they multiply and, when some war occurs, they also join themselves to those who hate us and fight against us and go up from the land.
Exo 1:11 - So they set taskmasters over them to aafflict them with their bburdens. And they built storage cities for Pharaoh, 1Pithom and 1cRaamses.
Exo 1:12 - But the more they afflicted them, the more they amultiplied and the more they spread out so that they came to dread the children of Israel.
Exo 1:13 - And the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with harshness,
Exo 1:14 - And they made their lives bitter with ahard labor in 1mortar and in 1brick and in all kinds of labor in the field; all their labor with which they made them serve was with harshness.
Exo 1:15 - And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one whose name was Shiphrah and the other whose name was Puah;
Exo 1:16 - And he said, aWhen you act as midwives for the Hebrew women and see them on the 1birthstool, if it is a 2son, then you shall put him to death; but if it is a 2daughter, then she shall live.
Exo 1:17 - But the midwives 1feared God and adid not do as the king of Egypt had commanded them but let the male children live.
Exo 1:18 - So the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, Why have you done this thing and let the male children live?
Exo 1:19 - And the midwives said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous: before the midwife comes to them, they give birth.
Exo 1:20 - And God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew very strong.
Exo 1:21 - And because the midwives feared God, He established households for them.
Exo 1:22 - And Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, Every ason who is born1 you shall cast into the 2River, but every daughter you shall let live.

Exodus

Chapter 2 of 40

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II.  Redeemed and saved — 2:1-15:21

A.  Preparation of the savior — 2:1-25
Exo 2:1 - And a man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as awife.
Exo 2:2 - And the woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was a fine child, she 1hid him athree months.
Exo 2:3 - And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him a papyrus basket and plastered it with tar and pitch; and she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the River.
Exo 2:4 - And his asister stood at a distance to find out what would happen to him.
Exo 2:5 - And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the River while her maidens walked alongside the River. And she saw the basket in the midst of the reeds and sent her female servant, and she brought it to her.
Exo 2:6 - And she opened it and saw the child, and there was the boy, crying. And she had compassion on him and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children.
Exo 2:7 - Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call a nurse from the Hebrew women for you that she may nurse the child for you?
Exo 2:8 - And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the girl went and called the child’s mother.
Exo 2:9 - And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages. So the woman took the child and anursed him.
Exo 2:10 - And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her ason. And she called his name 1Moses and said, Because I drew him out of the water.
Exo 2:11 - aAnd in those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and looked on their bburdens; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
Exo 2:12 - And he looked this way and that, and when he saw that there was no one there, he struck the Egyptian down and hid him in the sand.
Exo 2:13 - And he went out the next day, and there were two Hebrew men struggling together; and he said to the one who was in the wrong, Why are you beating your companion?
Exo 2:14 - And he said, Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us? Are you thinking to kill me as you killed the Egyptian? And Moses became 1frightened and said, Surely the matter is known.
Exo 2:15 - Now when Pharaoh heard of this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses afled from Pharaoh to dwell in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.
Exo 2:16 - Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
Exo 2:17 - And the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses rose up and helped them and watered their flock.
Exo 2:18 - And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, Why have you come back so quickly today?
Exo 2:19 - And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and he even drew water for us as well and watered the flock.
Exo 2:20 - And he said to his daughters, And where is he? Why did you leave the man? Invite him to eat a meal.
Exo 2:21 - And Moses agreed to 1stay with the man, and he gave Moses aZipporah his daughter.
Exo 2:22 - And she bore a son, and he called his name 1aGershom, for he said, I have been a bsojourner in a foreign land.
Exo 2:23 - And in the course of those many days the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel groaned because of the abondage. And they cried out, and their bcry went up to God because of their bondage.
Exo 2:24 - And God aheard their groaning, and God bremembered His ccovenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Exo 2:25 - And God alooked upon the children of Israel, and God took notice of them.

Exodus

Chapter 3 of 40

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B.  God's calling of the prepared one — 3:1-22
Exo 3:1 - Now 1Moses was shepherding the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness and came to the amountain of God, to Horeb.
Exo 3:2 - aAnd the 1bAngel of Jehovah appeared to him in a 2flame of fire out of the midst of a 2cthornbush. And when he looked, there was the thornbush, burning with fire; but the thornbush was not consumed.
Exo 3:3 - And Moses said, I must turn aside now and see this great sight, why the thornbush does not burn up.
Exo 3:4 - And when Jehovah saw that he had turned aside to look, God acalled to him out of the midst of the bthornbush and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here I am.
Exo 3:5 - And He said, Do not come near here. Remove your asandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is bholy ground.
Exo 3:6 - And He said, I am the God of your father, the 1aGod of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
Exo 3:7 - And Jehovah said, I have surely seen the aaffliction of My people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their btaskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
Exo 3:8 - And I have acome down to 1bdeliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to 1cbring them up out of that land to a dgood and spacious land, to a land flowing with 2emilk and honey, to the place of the fCanaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.
Exo 3:9 - And now the acry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the boppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
Exo 3:10 - So come now, and I will asend you to Pharaoh, that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.
Exo 3:11 - But Moses said to God, 1aWho am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?
Exo 3:12 - And He said, Surely I will be awith you, and this shall be the sign for you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will serve God upon this 1mountain.
Exo 3:13 - Then Moses said to God, If I come to the children of Israel and say to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they say to me, What is His name? what shall I say to them?
Exo 3:14 - And God said to Moses, 1aI AM WHO I AM. And He said, Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, bI AM has sent me to you.
Exo 3:15 - And God also said to Moses, Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, 1Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of aAbraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My bname forever, and this is My cmemorial from generation to generation.
Exo 3:16 - Go, and gather the aelders of Israel together, and say to them, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the bGod of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, I have surely cvisited you and seen what is being done to you in Egypt.
Exo 3:17 - And I say, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the aCanaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with bmilk and honey.
Exo 3:18 - And they will listen to your voice. And you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall say to him, aJehovah, the God of the 1Hebrews, has met with us; and now let us go a 2three days’ journey into the wilderness that we may bsacrifice to Jehovah our God.
Exo 3:19 - But I know that the king of Egypt will anot let you go unless compelled by a bmighty hand.
Exo 3:20 - So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My awonders which I will perform in the midst of it, and after that he will blet you go.
Exo 3:21 - And I will give this people afavor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that when you go, you will not go empty-handed.
Exo 3:22 - But every woman will ask of her neighbor and of any woman living in her house for articles of silver and aarticles of gold and clothing, and you will put them on your sons and on your daughters, and thus 1bplunder the Egyptians.

Exodus

Chapter 4 of 40

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C.  Three subjective signs of being called and sent by God — 4:1-9
Exo 4:1 - Then Moses answered and said, What if they do not believe me or listen to my voice, but say, Jehovah has not appeared to you?
Exo 4:2 - And Jehovah said to him, What is this in your hand? And he said, A astaff.
Exo 4:3 - And He said, Throw it on the ground. And he threw it on the ground, and it became a 1serpent; and Moses recoiled from it.
Exo 4:4 - And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand, and take it by its tail—so he stretched out his hand and seized it, and it became a staff in his hand—
Exo 4:5 - That they may abelieve that Jehovah, the God of their fathers, the bGod of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has cappeared to you.
Exo 4:6 - And Jehovah further said to him, Now put your hand into your bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom, and when he took it out, there his hand was, aleprous, as white as snow.
Exo 4:7 - And He said, Put your hand into your bosom again—so he put his hand into his bosom again, and when he took it out of his bosom, there it was, restored like the rest of his aflesh—
Exo 4:8 - And if they do not believe you or 1heed the first sign, then they may 2believe the next sign.
Exo 4:9 - And if they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, then you shall take some of the water of the River and pour it on the dry ground, and the water that you take out of the River will become ablood upon the dry ground.
D.  The male help and the female help to the called one — 4:10-31
Exo 4:10 - And Moses said to Jehovah, Please, Lord, I am not a man of words, neither in the past, nor since You have spoken to Your servant, for I am 1aslow of speech and slow of tongue.
Exo 4:11 - And Jehovah said to him, Who gave man a amouth? Or who makes him adumb or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, Jehovah?
Exo 4:12 - Now go therefore, and I will be with your amouth and will bteach you what you shall speak.
Exo 4:13 - And he said, Please, Lord, send word by sending someone else.
Exo 4:14 - And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Moses, and He said, Is there not 1Aaron your brother the Levite? I know that he can certainly speak. And even now he is coming out to ameet you; and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
Exo 4:15 - And you shall aspeak to him and bput the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.
Exo 4:16 - And he shall speak for you to the people, and he shall be as a mouth for you, and you shall be as aGod to him.
Exo 4:17 - And you shall take in your hand this astaff, with which you shall perform the signs.
Exo 4:18 - And Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law. And he said to him, Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt and see whether they are still alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
Exo 4:19 - And Jehovah said to Moses in Midian, Go, return to Egypt; for all the men who were aseeking your life have died.
Exo 4:20 - So Moses took his wife and his asons, and mounted them upon a donkey, and returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the bstaff of God in his hand.
Exo 4:21 - And Jehovah said to Moses, When you go to return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the awonders which I have put in your power; but I will bharden his heart, and he will cnot let the people go.
Exo 4:22 - Then you shall say to Pharaoh, Thus says Jehovah, Israel is My ason, My 1bfirstborn.
Exo 4:23 - And I said to you, Let My son go that he may aserve Me; but you have refused to let him go. I will now bslay your son, your cfirstborn.
Exo 4:24 - And at the lodging place on the way, Jehovah came upon him and sought to put him to death.
Exo 4:25 - Then aZipporah took a flint and 1cut off her son’s foreskin and cast it at Moses’ feet, and she said, You are indeed a 2bridegroom of blood to me!
Exo 4:26 - So He let him alone. It was then that she said, A bridegroom of blood, because of the circumcision.
Exo 4:27 - And Jehovah said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to ameet Moses. And he went and came upon him at the bmountain of God, and he kissed him.
Exo 4:28 - And Moses told Aaron all the awords of Jehovah with which He had sent him and all the signs with which He had charged him.
Exo 4:29 - And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the aelders of the children of Israel.
Exo 4:30 - And Aaron spoke all the words which Jehovah had spoken to Moses, and he performed the signs in the sight of the people.
Exo 4:31 - And the people abelieved; and when they heard that Jehovah had bvisited the children of Israel and that He had seen their affliction, they cbowed and worshipped.

Exodus

Chapter 5 of 40

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E.  God's demand and Pharaoh's resistance — 5:1-13:22
1.  The first conflict between Jehovah and Pharaoh for the release of Israel — 5:1-23
Exo 5:1 - And afterward Moses and Aaron came and said to 1Pharaoh, Thus says 2Jehovah the God of Israel, aLet My people go that they may hold a 3bfeast to Me in the wilderness.
Exo 5:2 - But Pharaoh said, 1Who is Jehovah that I should listen to His voice to let Israel go? I do not know Jehovah, and I also will anot let Israel go.
Exo 5:3 - And they said, The aGod of the Hebrews has met with us. Let us go a 1three days’ journey into the wilderness that we may bsacrifice to Jehovah our God; otherwise He will fall upon us with pestilence or sword.
Exo 5:4 - Then the king of Egypt said to them, Moses and Aaron, why are you trying to release the people from their work? Get back to your aburdens.
Exo 5:5 - And Pharaoh said, Look, the people of the land are now amany, yet you want them to cease from their burdens.
Exo 5:6 - And the same day Pharaoh commanded the ataskmasters of the people and their 1bofficers, saying,
Exo 5:7 - You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks as previously; let them go and gather straw for themselves.
Exo 5:8 - And the quota of the bricks which they made previously, you shall still place upon them; you shall not diminish any of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry out, saying, Let us go and asacrifice to our God.
Exo 5:9 - Let the work be laid more heavily upon such men, so that they do it and not pay attention to false words.
Exo 5:10 - And the taskmasters of the people and their officers went out and spoke to the people, saying, Thus says Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
Exo 5:11 - You go and get your own straw wherever you can find it, for none of your work will be reduced.
Exo 5:12 - So the people scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
Exo 5:13 - And the ataskmasters pressed them saying, Finish your work, the same daily assignment as when there was straw.
Exo 5:14 - And the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and told, Why have you not finished, both yesterday and today, the amount of bricks required of you previously?
Exo 5:15 - Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, Why do you treat your servants this way?
Exo 5:16 - No straw is given to your servants, and they say to us, Make bricks. And now your servants are being beaten, but it is the fault of your own people.
Exo 5:17 - But he said, Idle is what you are, idle; therefore you say, Let us go and asacrifice to Jehovah.
Exo 5:18 - So go now and work; and no straw shall be given you, but you shall deliver the quota of bricks.
Exo 5:19 - And the officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble, when it was said, You shall not diminish any of the daily assignment of your bricks.
Exo 5:20 - And they came upon Moses and Aaron, who were standing there to meet them when they came forth from Pharaoh.
Exo 5:21 - And they said to them, Jehovah look upon you and judge, because you have made us odious in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants so as to put a sword in their hand to kill us.
Exo 5:22 - Then Moses went back to Jehovah and said, Lord, why have You mistreated this people? Why is it that You have sent me?
Exo 5:23 - Ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has mistreated this people, and You have not delivered Your people at all.

Exodus

Chapter 6 of 40

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2.  God's further training of Moses — 6:1-7:7
Exo 6:1 - And 1Jehovah said to Moses, Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh; for because of a amighty hand he will let them go, and because of a mighty hand he will bdrive them out of his land.
Exo 6:2 - And God spoke to Moses and said to him, I am aJehovah.
Exo 6:3 - And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as the 1aAll-sufficient God; but by My bname 2Jehovah I did not make Myself known to them.
Exo 6:4 - And I also established My acovenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their bsojournings, in which they sojourned.
Exo 6:5 - And I have also aheard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians have enslaved; and I have bremembered My covenant.
Exo 6:6 - Therefore say to the children of Israel, I am Jehovah, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage, and I will aredeem you with an boutstretched arm and with great acts of judgment.
Exo 6:7 - And I will take you to Myself as My apeople, and I will be your bGod; and you shall cknow that I am Jehovah your God, the One who brought you out from under the dburdens of the Egyptians.
Exo 6:8 - And I will bring you to the land which I 1aswore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you as a possession. I am Jehovah.
Exo 6:9 - And Moses spoke this to the children of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses on account of anguish of spirit and aharsh bondage.
Exo 6:10 - And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo 6:11 - Go, speak to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.
Exo 6:12 - And Moses spoke before Jehovah, saying, The children of Israel do not now listen to me. How then will Pharaoh listen to me, since I am of auncircumcised lips?
Exo 6:13 - And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron and gave them a charge for the children of Israel and for Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
Exo 6:14 - 1These are the heads of their fathers’ houses. The sons of aReuben, the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben.
Exo 6:15 - And the sons of aSimeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the families of Simeon.
Exo 6:16 - And these are the names of the sons of aLevi according to their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari; and the years of Levi’s life were one hundred thirty-seven years.
Exo 6:17 - The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families.
Exo 6:18 - And the sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel; and the years of Kohath’s life were one hundred thirty-three years.
Exo 6:19 - And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.
Exo 6:20 - And Amram took Jochebed his father’s sister for himself as awife, and she bore him Aaron and Moses; and the years of Amram’s life were one hundred thirty-seven years.
Exo 6:21 - And the sons of Izhar: aKorah and Nepheg and Zichri.
Exo 6:22 - And the sons of aUzziel: Mishael and Elzaphan and Sithri.
Exo 6:23 - And Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of aAmminadab, the sister of bNahshon, for himself as wife; and she bore him cNadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
Exo 6:24 - And the sons of Korah: aAssir and Elkanah and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites.
Exo 6:25 - And Eleazar, Aaron’s son, took for himself one of the daughters of Putiel as wife, and she bore him aPhinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites according to their families.
Exo 6:26 - It was this same Aaron and Moses to whom Jehovah said, aBring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their barmies.
Exo 6:27 - It was they who spoke to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt; it is the same Moses and Aaron.
Exo 6:28 - And on the day when Jehovah spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,
Exo 6:29 - Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, I am aJehovah; speak to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, all that I speak to you.
Exo 6:30 - But Moses said before Jehovah, Behold, I am of auncircumcised lips. How then will Pharaoh listen to me?

Exodus

Chapter 7 of 40

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Exo 7:1 - And Jehovah said to Moses, See, I have made you God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother will be your 1aprophet.
Exo 7:2 - You shall speak all that I command you, and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.
Exo 7:3 - And I will aharden Pharaoh’s heart and will multiply My signs and My bwonders in the land of Egypt.
Exo 7:4 - But Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will lay My hand upon Egypt and abring forth My barmies, My people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.
Exo 7:5 - And the Egyptians will aknow that I am Jehovah, when I stretch forth My hand upon Egypt and bring out the children of Israel from among them.
Exo 7:6 - And Moses and Aaron did so; as Jehovah commanded them, so did they do.
Exo 7:7 - And Moses was aeighty years old and Aaron eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.
3.  The second conflict, exposing the true nature of Egyptian living — 7:8-14
Exo 7:8 - And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
Exo 7:9 - When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, Perform a awonder; then you shall say to Aaron, Take your bstaff, and throw it down before Pharaoh, so that it becomes a 1serpent.
Exo 7:10 - And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and they did just as Jehovah had commanded; and Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
Exo 7:11 - Then Pharaoh also called for the awise men and the sorcerers. And they also, the 1magicians of Egypt, bdid the same with their secret spells;
Exo 7:12 - That is, each one threw down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.
Exo 7:13 - And Pharaoh’s heart ahardened, and he did not listen to them, just as Jehovah had said.
Exo 7:14 - Then Jehovah said to Moses, Pharaoh’s heart is astubborn; he brefuses to let the people go.
4.  The third conflict: The first plague—blood — 7:15-25
Exo 7:15 - Go to 1Pharaoh in the amorning as he is going out to the water, and stand on the bank of the River to meet him. And you shall take in your hand the bstaff which was turned into a serpent.
Exo 7:16 - And you shall say to him, aJehovah, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, bLet My people go that they may cserve Me in the wilderness. But until this very moment you have not listened.
Exo 7:17 - Thus says Jehovah, By this you will aknow that I am Jehovah. I am now going to strike the water which is in the River with the staff that is in my hand, and it will be turned to 1bblood.
Exo 7:18 - And the fish that are in the River will die, and the River will become foul, and the Egyptians will loathe drinking water from the River.
Exo 7:19 - And Jehovah said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Take your astaff, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their watercourses, and over their pools, and over all their reservoirs of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.
Exo 7:20 - And Moses and Aaron did just as Jehovah commanded; and he lifted up the staff and struck the water that was in the River in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, and all the water that was in the River was turned to ablood.
Exo 7:21 - And the fish that were in the River died, and the River became foul, and the Egyptians could not drink water from the River; and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.
Exo 7:22 - And the amagicians of Egypt bdid the same with their secret spells; and Pharaoh’s heart chardened, and he did not listen to them, just as Jehovah had said.
Exo 7:23 - And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take even this to heart.
Exo 7:24 - And all the Egyptians dug around the River for water to drink, for they could not drink of the water of the River.
Exo 7:25 - And seven days passed after Jehovah had struck the River.

Exodus

Chapter 8 of 40

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5.  The fourth conflict: The second plague—frogs — 8:1-15
Exo 8:1 - Then Jehovah said to Moses, Go to Pharaoh, and say to him, Thus says Jehovah, aLet My people go that they may bserve Me.
Exo 8:2 - But if you arefuse to let them go, I will now smite all your territory with 1frogs.
Exo 8:3 - And the River shall swarm with frogs, and they will go up from the River and come into your house and into your bedchamber and upon your bed, and into the houses of your servants and upon your people, and into your ovens and into your kneading bowls.
Exo 8:4 - And the frogs shall come up upon you and upon your people and upon all your servants.
Exo 8:5 - And Jehovah said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Stretch out your hand with your astaff over the rivers, over the watercourses, and over the pools, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.
Exo 8:6 - So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the afrogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.
Exo 8:7 - And the amagicians bdid the same with their secret spells and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.
Exo 8:8 - Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said, aEntreat Jehovah to take away the frogs from me and from my people, and I will blet the people go to csacrifice to Jehovah.
Exo 8:9 - And Moses said to Pharaoh, May it please you, and not me, as to the time. When shall I make entreaty for you and for your servants and for your people, to cut off the frogs from you and from your houses so that they remain in the River only?
Exo 8:10 - And he said, Tomorrow. And he said, It will be according to your word, that you may aknow that there is no one blike Jehovah our God.
Exo 8:11 - And the frogs shall depart from you and from your houses and from your servants and from your people; they shall remain in the River only.
Exo 8:12 - Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh. And Moses cried out to Jehovah concerning the frogs which He had brought upon Pharaoh.
Exo 8:13 - And Jehovah did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died in the houses, in the courts, and in the fields.
Exo 8:14 - And they gathered them together, heap after heap, and the land stank.
Exo 8:15 - But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he 1ahardened his heart and did not listen to them, just as Jehovah had said.
6.  The fifth conflict: The third plague—lice — 8:16-19
Exo 8:16 - And Jehovah said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Stretch out your astaff, and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become 1blice throughout all the land of Egypt.
Exo 8:17 - And they did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, and there were lice on man and on beast; all the dust of the earth became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
Exo 8:18 - And the amagicians bdid the same with their secret spells, to try to bring forth lice, but cthey could not; so there were lice on man and on beast.
Exo 8:19 - Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, This is the 1afinger of God. But Pharaoh’s heart bhardened, and he did not listen to them, just as Jehovah had said.
7.  The sixth conflict: The fourth plague—flies — 8:20-32
Exo 8:20 - Then Jehovah said to Moses, Rise up early in the amorning, and present yourself before Pharaoh as he is going out to the water, and say to him, Thus says Jehovah, bLet My people go that they may serve Me.
Exo 8:21 - For if you will not let My people go, then I will at once send swarms of 1flies against you and against your servants and against your people and against your houses; and the houses of the Egyptians will be full of swarms of flies, as well as the ground on which they are.
Exo 8:22 - But on that day I will aset apart the land of Goshen, where My people are staying, so that no swarms of flies will be there, so that you may bknow that I am Jehovah in the midst of the land.
Exo 8:23 - And I will put a 1aredemption between My people and your people. Tomorrow this sign shall occur.
Exo 8:24 - And Jehovah did so; and heavy swarms of aflies came into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants’ houses, and throughout the land of Egypt the land was ruined because of the swarms of flies.
Exo 8:25 - And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron and said, Go, asacrifice to your God in the 1land.
Exo 8:26 - And Moses said, It would not be right to do so, for we will sacrifice to Jehovah our God what is an aabomination to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice what is an abomination to the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us?
Exo 8:27 - We must go a athree days’ journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to Jehovah our God just as He commands us.
Exo 8:28 - And Pharaoh said, I will let you go that you may sacrifice to Jehovah your God in the wilderness; only you shall not go very far away. Make aentreaty for me.
Exo 8:29 - And Moses said, I am now going out from you, and I will entreat Jehovah that the swarms of flies would depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow; only do not let Pharaoh deal deceitfully anymore by not letting the people go to sacrifice to Jehovah.
Exo 8:30 - So Moses went out from Pharaoh and entreated Jehovah.
Exo 8:31 - And Jehovah did according to the word of Moses, and He removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; not one remained.
Exo 8:32 - However Pharaoh ahardened his heart at this time also, and he did bnot let the people go.

Exodus

Chapter 9 of 40

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8.  The seventh conflict: The fifth plague—pestilence — 9:1-7
Exo 9:1 - Then Jehovah said to Moses, Go to Pharaoh, and speak to him, Thus says aJehovah, the God of the Hebrews, bLet My people go that they may serve Me.
Exo 9:2 - For if you refuse to let them go and still retain them,
Exo 9:3 - Then the ahand of Jehovah is going to be on your livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks with a very severe 1bpestilence.
Exo 9:4 - And Jehovah will make a 1adistinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing will die of all that belongs to the children of Israel.
Exo 9:5 - And Jehovah set an appointed time, saying, Tomorrow Jehovah will do this thing in the land.
Exo 9:6 - And Jehovah did this thing on the next day; and all the livestock of Egypt died, but of the livestock of the children of Israel not one died.
Exo 9:7 - And Pharaoh sent to inquire, and indeed there was not so much as one of the livestock of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was astubborn, and he did bnot let the people go.
9.  The eighth conflict: The sixth plague—boils — 9:8-12
Exo 9:8 - Then Jehovah said to Moses and to Aaron, Take handfuls of 1ashes from a furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.
Exo 9:9 - And it will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and will become boils breaking out with sores on man and on beast throughout all the land of Egypt.
Exo 9:10 - So they took ashes from the furnace and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it toward heaven, and it became aboils breaking forth with sores on man and on beast.
Exo 9:11 - And the magicians could not astand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were on the magicians as well as on all the Egyptians.
Exo 9:12 - And Jehovah 1ahardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not listen to them, just as Jehovah had spoken to Moses.
10.  The ninth conflict: The seventh plague—hail — 9:13-35
Exo 9:13 - Then Jehovah said to Moses, Rise up early in the amorning, and present yourself before Pharaoh, and say to him, Thus says bJehovah, the God of the Hebrews, cLet My people go that they may serve Me.
Exo 9:14 - For this time I am going to send all My aplagues against 1you and on your servants and on your people, so that you may bknow that there is no one clike Me in all the earth.
Exo 9:15 - For if by now I had stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, you would have been cut off from the earth.
Exo 9:16 - But indeed afor this cause I have 1made you stand, to bshow you My power and to have My cname proclaimed throughout all the earth.
Exo 9:17 - You are still exalting yourself against My people by anot letting them go.
Exo 9:18 - Tomorrow about this time I am going to cause very heavy 1ahail to fall, such as has never occurred in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now.
Exo 9:19 - Now therefore send men and secure your livestock and all that you have in the field; every man and beast that is found in the field and is not brought home when the hail comes down shall die.
Exo 9:20 - He who feared the word of Jehovah among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his livestock flee into the houses.
Exo 9:21 - But he who did not pay attention to the word of Jehovah left his servants and his livestock in the field.
Exo 9:22 - And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward heaven that there may be hail throughout all the land of Egypt, upon man and upon beast and upon all the vegetation of the field in the land of Egypt.
Exo 9:23 - And Moses stretched out his astaff toward heaven; and Jehovah sent thunder and hail, and fire came down on the earth, and Jehovah rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
Exo 9:24 - So there was very heavy hail with fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, such as had not occurred in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
Exo 9:25 - And the hail struck everything that was in the field, both man and beast, throughout all the land of Egypt; and the ahail struck all the vegetation of the field and shattered every tree of the field.
Exo 9:26 - Only in the land of Goshen, where the achildren of Israel were, was there no hail.
Exo 9:27 - And Pharaoh sent a messenger and called for Moses and Aaron; and he said to them, I have asinned this time; Jehovah is the brighteous One, and I and my people are in the wrong.
Exo 9:28 - aEntreat Jehovah, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail; and 1I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.
Exo 9:29 - And Moses said to him, As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my ahands to Jehovah: The thunder will cease, and there will not be any more hail, that you may bknow that the cearth is Jehovah’s.
Exo 9:30 - But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear Jehovah God.
Exo 9:31 - (Now the flax and the barley were ruined, for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bud.
Exo 9:32 - But the wheat and the spelt were not ruined, for they had not come up.)
Exo 9:33 - And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and spread out his hands to Jehovah; and the thunder and hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured down on the earth.
Exo 9:34 - But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned again and ahardened his heart, he and his servants.
Exo 9:35 - So Pharaoh’s heart ahardened, and he did bnot let the children of Israel go, just as Jehovah had spoken through Moses.

Exodus

Chapter 10 of 40

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11.  The tenth conflict: The eighth plague—locusts — 10:1-20
Exo 10:1 - Then Jehovah said to Moses, Go to Pharaoh, for I have ahardened his heart and the heart of his servants that I may show these signs of Mine in the midst of them,
Exo 10:2 - And that you may arecount in the hearing of your son and your grandson how I made a mockery of Egypt and recount My signs which I have done among them, that you may bknow that I am Jehovah.
Exo 10:3 - And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and said to him, Thus says aJehovah, the God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to bhumble yourself before Me? cLet My people go that they may serve Me.
Exo 10:4 - For if you refuse to let My people go, then tomorrow I am going to bring swarming alocusts into your territory,
Exo 10:5 - And they will cover the surface of the land, so that no one will be able to see the land; and they will eat the rest of what has escaped—what is left to you from the hail—and will eat up every tree of yours that is sprouting in the field.
Exo 10:6 - And your houses will be filled with them, as well as the houses of all your servants and the houses of all the Egyptians; something that neither your fathers nor your fathers’ fathers have seen since the day that they came upon the earth until this day. Then he turned and went out from Pharaoh.
Exo 10:7 - And Pharaoh’s servants said to him, How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go that they may serve Jehovah their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is destroyed?
Exo 10:8 - So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, 1Go, serve Jehovah your God. But who exactly are going?
Exo 10:9 - And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old; we will go with our sons and with our daughters, with our aflocks and with our herds, for we must hold Jehovah’s bfeast.
Exo 10:10 - And he said to them, Let Jehovah indeed be with you if I ever let you go with your little ones as well. See here, 1you are up to some evil.
Exo 10:11 - No! Go now, but the men only, and serve Jehovah, since that is what you are requesting. And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
Exo 10:12 - Then Jehovah said to Moses, aStretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the swarming locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt and eat all the vegetation of the land, all that the hail has left.
Exo 10:13 - So Moses stretched forth his astaff over the land of Egypt, and Jehovah drove an east 1wind upon the land all that day and all night; when it was morning, the east wind had brought the swarming blocusts.
Exo 10:14 - And the swarming locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and settled in all the territory of Egypt in great mass. Before them there had anever been so many swarming locusts as they, nor after them will there ever be so many.
Exo 10:15 - And they covered the surface of the whole land, so that the land was darkened. And they ate all the avegetation of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left, and nothing green remained on the trees or among the vegetation of the field throughout all the land of Egypt.
Exo 10:16 - Then Pharaoh hurriedly called for Moses and Aaron and said, I have asinned against Jehovah your God and against you.
Exo 10:17 - Now therefore, please forgive my sin just this once, and aentreat Jehovah your God that He would only remove this death from me.
Exo 10:18 - And he went out from Pharaoh and entreated Jehovah.
Exo 10:19 - And Jehovah changed the wind into a very strong west wind, and it took up the swarming locusts and drove them into the Red Sea; not one locust was left in all the territory of Egypt.
Exo 10:20 - But Jehovah ahardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did bnot let the children of Israel go.
12.  The eleventh conflict: The ninth plague—darkness — 10:21-29
Exo 10:21 - Then Jehovah said to Moses, aStretch out your hand toward heaven that there may be 1bdarkness over the land of Egypt, even a darkness that can be felt.
Exo 10:22 - So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness throughout all the land of Egypt for three days.
Exo 10:23 - They could not see one another, nor did anyone rise up from his place for three days, but all the children of aIsrael had light in their dwellings.
Exo 10:24 - And Pharaoh called Moses and said, 1Go, serve Jehovah; only let your aflocks and your herds be detained. Your little ones may also go with you.
Exo 10:25 - And Moses said, You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings so that we may asacrifice to Jehovah our God.
Exo 10:26 - So our cattle also must go with us; not a hoof must be left behind, for we must take some of them to serve Jehovah our God, and we do not know with what we must serve Jehovah until we go there.
Exo 10:27 - But Jehovah ahardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was bnot willing to let them go.
Exo 10:28 - And Pharaoh said to him, Get away from me. Be sure that you do not see my face again, for on the day you see my face you shall die.
Exo 10:29 - And Moses said, You have spoken correctly. I will never again see your face.

Exodus

Chapter 11 of 40

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13.  The twelfth and final conflict: The tenth plague—the slaughter of the firstborn — 11:1-13:22
a.  Jehovah's sovereignty — 11:1-10
Exo 11:1 - Then Jehovah said to Moses, One more aplague will I bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt; after that he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will surely bdrive you out from here completely.
Exo 11:2 - Speak now in the hearing of the people that each man is to ask of his neighbor and each woman of her neighbor for aarticles of silver and articles of gold.
Exo 11:3 - And Jehovah gave the people afavor 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.
Exo 11:4 - And Moses said, Thus says Jehovah, About amidnight I will go out into the midst of Egypt,
Exo 11:5 - And all the afirstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits upon his throne to the firstborn of the female slave who is behind the bmillstones, and all the firstborn of cattle.
Exo 11:6 - And there shall be a great acry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as has not been or ever will be again.
Exo 11:7 - But a dog shall not bark at any of the children of Israel, at man or beast, that you may aknow that Jehovah makes a bdistinction between the Egyptians and Israel.
Exo 11:8 - And all these servants of yours shall come down to me and bow down to me, saying, aGet out, you and all the people who follow you; and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.
Exo 11:9 - Then Jehovah said to Moses, Pharaoh will not listen to you, in order that My awonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.
Exo 11:10 - Thus Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but Jehovah ahardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did bnot let the children of Israel go out of his land.

Exodus

Chapter 12 of 40

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b.  The Passover — 12:1-36, 43-51
Exo 12:1 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
Exo 12:2 - This month will be the 1abeginning of months for you; it shall be the first of the months of the year to you.
Exo 12:3 - Speak to all the assembly of Israel, saying, On the tenth of this month each man shall take a 1alamb according to his fathers’ house, a lamb for a 2household.
Exo 12:4 - And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his 1neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the 2persons in the houses; according to each man’s eating you shall make your count for the lamb.
Exo 12:5 - Your lamb shall be without ablemish, a 1year-old male; you may take it from the 2sheep or from the 2goats.
Exo 12:6 - And you shall keep it until the 1afourteenth day of this month; then the 2whole congregation of the assembly of Israel shall kill it 3at btwilight.
Exo 12:7 - And they shall take some of the 1ablood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the 2houses in which they eat it.
Exo 12:8 - And they shall eat the 1flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with 2aunleavened bread with bitter herbs.
Exo 12:9 - Do not eat any of it 1raw or 1boiled at all with water, but 1aroasted with fire—its 2head with its 2legs and with its 2inward parts.
Exo 12:10 - And you shall not let any of it 1remain until the amorning, but any of it that remains until the morning you shall burn with fire.
Exo 12:11 - And this is how you shall eat it: 1with your loins agirded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste. It is Jehovah’s 2bpassover.
Exo 12:12 - For I will apass through the land of Egypt on that night and will strike all the 1bfirstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. Also against all the 2gods of Egypt I will execute judgments. I am cJehovah.
Exo 12:13 - And the ablood shall be a bsign for you upon the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there will be no plague upon you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
Exo 12:14 - And this day will be a 1memorial to you, and you shall akeep it as a 2feast to Jehovah; throughout your generations as a perpetual statute you shall keep it as a feast.
Exo 12:15 - 1Seven days you shall eat 2aunleavened bread; on the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, that 3person shall be bcut off from Israel.
Exo 12:16 - And on the first day you shall have a aholy convocation, and on the seventh day a holy convocation. 1No work at all shall be done on them, except to prepare what every person will eat; that alone may be done by you.
Exo 12:17 - And you shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I have abrought your barmies out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall keep this day throughout your generations as a perpetual statute.
Exo 12:18 - In the first month, on the afourteenth day of the month in the evening, you shall eat bunleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month in the evening.
Exo 12:19 - For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses. For whoever eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the assembly of Israel, whether a sojourner or a native of the land.
Exo 12:20 - You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread.
Exo 12:21 - Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, Draw out and take alambs according to your families, and slaughter the passover.
Exo 12:22 - And you shall take a bunch of 1ahyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and you shall apply some of the bblood that is in the basin to the lintel and to the two doorposts; and none of you shall go 2outside the centrance of his house until the morning.
Exo 12:23 - For Jehovah will apass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood upon the lintel and on the two doorposts, Jehovah will pass over the entrance and will not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to smite you.
Exo 12:24 - And you shall observe this matter as a statute for you and for your sons in perpetuity.
Exo 12:25 - And when you come to the land which Jehovah will give you, as He has apromised, you shall observe this service.
Exo 12:26 - And when your achildren say to you, What do you mean by this service?
Exo 12:27 - You shall say, It is the apassover sacrifice to Jehovah, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians and delivered our houses. And the people bbowed and worshipped.
Exo 12:28 - And the children of Israel went and did so; just as Jehovah had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
Exo 12:29 - And at amidnight Jehovah 1bstruck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle.
Exo 12:30 - And Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and there was a great acry in Egypt, for there was no house where there was not someone dead.
Exo 12:31 - And he called for Moses and Aaron in the night and said, Rise up, go out from the midst of my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Jehovah, as you have said.
Exo 12:32 - Take both your aflocks and your herds, as you have said; and go and bless me also.
Exo 12:33 - And the Egyptians 1aurged the people on, so as to hasten their departure out of the land, for they said, All of us will be dead.
Exo 12:34 - And the people took their dough before it was 1leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
Exo 12:35 - And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses, and they asked the Egyptians for aarticles of silver and gold and for clothing.
Exo 12:36 - And Jehovah gave the people afavor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they 1bplundered the Egyptians.
c.  Israel's exodus from Egypt — 12:37-42; 13:1-22
Exo 12:37 - And the children of Israel journeyed from aRameses to Succoth, about bsix hundred thousand men on foot, besides children.
Exo 12:38 - And a 1amixed multitude went up also with them, as well as flocks and herds, a very large number of livestock.
Exo 12:39 - And they baked the dough which they brought out of Egypt into unleavened cakes, for it had not been leavened because they were adriven out of Egypt and could not delay; nor had they prepared for themselves any provisions.
Exo 12:40 - Now the time of the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in 1Egypt, was 2afour hundred thirty years.
Exo 12:41 - And at the end of four hundred thirty years, on that very day, all the aarmies of Jehovah bwent out from the land of Egypt.
Exo 12:42 - It was for Jehovah a night of 1watching, to bring them out from the land of Egypt. That same night is a night of 1watching to Jehovah for all the children of Israel throughout their generations.
b.  The Passover (cont'd) — vv. 43-51
Exo 12:43 - And Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron, This is the statute of the passover: No 1foreigner shall eat of it.
Exo 12:44 - However, any man’s servant who is bought for silver, when you have acircumcised him, then he shall eat of it.
Exo 12:45 - A asojourner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.
Exo 12:46 - It shall be eaten in one house. You shall not take any of the flesh outside the house, nor shall you break any of its 1abones.
Exo 12:47 - All the assembly of Israel shall keep it.
Exo 12:48 - But if a astranger sojourns with you and will observe the Passover to Jehovah, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near to observe it; and he will be like one who is a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
Exo 12:49 - One alaw shall be for the native and for the stranger who sojourns among you.
Exo 12:50 - And all the children of Israel did so; just as Jehovah commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
Exo 12:51 - And on that very day Jehovah abrought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their 1barmies.

Exodus

Chapter 13 of 40

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c.  Israel's exodus from Egypt (cont'd) — 13:1-22
Exo 13:1 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo 13:2 - 1Sanctify to Me all the afirstborn: Whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast, it is Mine.
Exo 13:3 - And Moses said to the people, aRemember this day on which you came out from Egypt, from the bslave house, for by 1cstrength of hand Jehovah dbrought you out from this place; and nothing eleavened shall be eaten.
Exo 13:4 - On this day in the month of 1aAbib you are going out.
Exo 13:5 - And when Jehovah brings you into the land of the aCanaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, which He bswore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with cmilk and honey, you shall observe this dservice in this month:
Exo 13:6 - Seven days you shall eat aunleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to Jehovah.
Exo 13:7 - Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days, and nothing leavened shall be seen with you, nor shall any leaven be seen with you in all your territory.
Exo 13:8 - And you shall tell your ason in that day, saying, It is because of what Jehovah did for me when I came out of Egypt.
Exo 13:9 - And it shall be for a asign to you upon your hand and for a 1memorial between your eyes, that the 2law of Jehovah may be in your mouth; for with a mighty hand Jehovah brought you out of Egypt.
Exo 13:10 - You shall therefore akeep this statute at its appointed time from year to year.
Exo 13:11 - And when Jehovah brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as He swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,
Exo 13:12 - You shall set apart to Jehovah everything that aopens the womb and the first offspring of every beast which is yours; the males shall be Jehovah’s.
Exo 13:13 - And every 1first offspring of a donkey you shall redeem with a alamb; and if you do not redeem it, you shall break its neck. And every 1firstborn male among your sons you shall bredeem.
Exo 13:14 - And when your ason asks you in time to come, saying, What is this? you shall say to him, By strength of hand Jehovah bbrought us out from Egypt, from the cslave house.
Exo 13:15 - And when Pharaoh ahardened himself bagainst letting us go, Jehovah cslew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of beast. Therefore I am one who sacrifices to Jehovah every male that opens the womb; and all the dfirstborn of my sons I redeem.
Exo 13:16 - So it will be as a asign upon your hand and as frontlets between your eyes, for by strength of hand Jehovah bbrought us out of Egypt.
Exo 13:17 - Now when Pharaoh let the people go, God did not 1lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Perhaps the people will change their minds when they see war and will areturn to Egypt.
Exo 13:18 - Thus God led the people 1aaround by the way of the wilderness to the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up arrayed for battle out of the land of Egypt.
Exo 13:19 - And Moses took the 1bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the children of Israel solemnly swear, saying, aGod will surely visit you, and you shall bring my bbones up from here with you.
Exo 13:20 - And they journeyed from aSuccoth and encamped in Etham on the edge of the wilderness.
Exo 13:21 - And Jehovah went before them by day in a pillar of 1acloud to lead them on the way and by night in a pillar of 1fire to give them light, that they might go by day and by night.
Exo 13:22 - Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night departed from before the people.

Exodus

Chapter 14 of 40

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F.  Pharaoh's last struggle and Israel's crossing of the Red Sea — 14:1-31
Exo 14:1 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo 14:2 - Tell the children of Israel to turn back and camp before aPi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. You shall camp before Baal-zephon, opposite it, by the sea.
Exo 14:3 - And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are awandering aimlessly in the land; the wilderness has hemmed them in.
Exo 14:4 - And I will 1aharden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue after them; and I will bglorify Myself through Pharaoh and through all his army, and the Egyptians will cknow that I am Jehovah. And they did so.
Exo 14:5 - And when it was told to the king of Egypt that the people had fled, the aheart of Pharaoh and his servants changed toward the people; and they said, What is this we have done, letting Israel go from serving us?
Exo 14:6 - So he yoked his chariot and took his people with him.
Exo 14:7 - And he took six hundred chosen chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them.
Exo 14:8 - And Jehovah ahardened the heart of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, so that he pursued after the children of Israel as the children of Israel were bgoing out 1boldly.
Exo 14:9 - And the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh and his horsemen and his army; and they aovertook them as they encamped by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.
Exo 14:10 - And when Pharaoh approached, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and there the Egyptians were, marching after them; and they became very afraid, and the children of Israel acried out to Jehovah.
Exo 14:11 - And they said to Moses, Is it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to adie in the wilderness? Why have you done this to us, bringing us out of Egypt?
Exo 14:12 - Is this not the very thing that we spoke to you about in Egypt, saying, Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians? For it would have been abetter for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.
Exo 14:13 - But Moses said to the people, Do not be afraid; stand firm, and see the asalvation of Jehovah, which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will see no more again forever.
Exo 14:14 - Jehovah will afight for you, and you will be 1still.
Exo 14:15 - And Jehovah said to Moses, Why do you cry out to Me? Tell the children of Israel to move forward.
Exo 14:16 - And you, lift up your astaff, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it; and the children of Israel shall go into the midst of the sea on dry ground.
Exo 14:17 - And I will now aharden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they will go in after them; and I will bglorify Myself through Pharaoh and through all his army, through his chariots and through his horsemen.
Exo 14:18 - Then the Egyptians will aknow that I am Jehovah when I glorify Myself through Pharaoh, through his chariots and through his horsemen.
Exo 14:19 - And the 1aAngel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them.
Exo 14:20 - And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. And the cloud was there with the 1darkness, yet it gave 1light by night to them. Thus one did not come near the other all night.
Exo 14:21 - And when Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, Jehovah caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night and made the sea adry land; and the waters were bdivided.
Exo 14:22 - And the children of Israel 1went into the midst of the sea upon the adry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
Exo 14:23 - Then the Egyptians pursued; and all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen went in after them into the midst of the sea.
Exo 14:24 - And at the morning watch Jehovah looked down upon the camp of the Egyptians from within the pillar of afire and of cloud and threw the camp of the Egyptians into confusion.
Exo 14:25 - And 1He caused their chariot wheels to swerve and made them drive with difficulty, so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from Israel, for Jehovah is fighting for them against the Egyptians.
Exo 14:26 - And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters come back over the Egyptians, over their chariots and over their horsemen.
Exo 14:27 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea areturned to its level when the morning appeared. And the Egyptians fled against it, and Jehovah cast the Egyptians off into the midst of the sea.
Exo 14:28 - And as the waters returned, they 1acovered the chariots and the horsemen, even all the army of Pharaoh that went in after them into the sea; not even one of them was left.
Exo 14:29 - But the children of Israel awalked on dry land through the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
Exo 14:30 - Thus Jehovah 1asaved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore.
Exo 14:31 - And when Israel saw the great power which Jehovah exercised against the Egyptians, the people feared Jehovah; and they abelieved in Jehovah and in His servant 1Moses.

Exodus

Chapter 15 of 40

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G.  The praising of the saved ones — 15:1-21
1.  The song of Moses — vv. 1-19
Exo 15:1 - Then Moses and the children of Israel asang this 1song to Jehovah and spoke, saying,bI will sing to Jehovah, for 2He has triumphed gloriously;The horse and its rider He has cast into the sea.
Exo 15:2 - 1Jah is my astrength and song,And He has become my 2bsalvation;This is my God, and I will cpraise Him;My father’s God, and I will dexalt Him.Exo 15:3 - Jehovah is a man of awar;Jehovah is His bname.Exo 15:4 - Pharaoh’s achariots and his army He has thrown into the bsea;And his choice officers have drowned in the Red Sea.Exo 15:5 - The deep waters acover them;They went down into the depths like a stone.Exo 15:6 - Your aright hand, O Jehovah, is glorious in power;Your right hand, O Jehovah, dashed the enemy in pieces.Exo 15:7 - And in the greatness of Your excellenceYou overthrew those who rose up against You.You sent forth Your burning wrath;It consumed them like astubble.Exo 15:8 - And with the ablast of Your nostrils the waters were heaped up;The flowing currents stood up like a bheap;The deep waters congealed in the heart of the sea.
Exo 15:9 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil;My desire will be satisfied upon them;I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.
Exo 15:10 - You blew with Your wind; the sea acovered them;They sank like lead in the mighty waters.Exo 15:11 - Who is alike You, O Jehovah, among the gods?Who is like You, splendid in bholiness,Awesome in cpraises, doing dwonders?
Exo 15:12 - You stretched out Your right hand;The earth swallowed them.Exo 15:13 - In Your lovingkindness You have led the people whom You have aredeemed;You have bguided them in Your strength to Your 1holy habitation.Exo 15:14 - The 1peoples heard; they trembled;Pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia.Exo 15:15 - Then the chiefs of aEdom are dismayed;The mighty men of bMoab—trembling has seized them;All the inhabitants of Canaan have cmelted away.
Exo 15:16 - aTerror and dread have fallen upon them;By the greatness of Your arm they have become as still as bstone,Until Your people passed over, O Jehovah,Until the people whom You cpurchased passed over.Exo 15:17 - You will bring them in and aplant them in the bmountain of Your inheritance,The place, O Jehovah, which You have made for Your dwelling,The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established.
Exo 15:18 - Jehovah shall 1areign forever and ever.
Exo 15:19 - For the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and with his horsemen went into the asea, and Jehovah brought back the waters of the sea bupon them while the children of Israel walked on dry land through the midst of the sea.
2.  The song of Miriam — vv. 20-21
Exo 15:20 - And aMiriam the bprophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dancing.
Exo 15:21 - And Miriam 1responded to them,aSing to Jehovah, for He has triumphed gloriously;The horse and its rider He has cast into the sea.

III.  Led — 15:22-18:27

A.  Israel's experience at Marah and Elim — 15:22-27
Exo 15:22 - Then Moses moved Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur. And they went 1three days in the wilderness and found 2no water.
Exo 15:23 - And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter; therefore its name was called 1aMarah.
Exo 15:24 - And the people amurmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
Exo 15:25 - And he cried out to Jehovah, and Jehovah showed him a 1tree; and he cast it into the waters, and the awaters became sweet. There He made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He 2btested them.
Exo 15:26 - And He said, If you will listen carefully to the voice of Jehovah your God and do what is right in His eyes and give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the adiseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am 1Jehovah who bheals you.
Exo 15:27 - And they came to 1aElim, where there were 2twelve springs of water and 2seventy palm trees; and they encamped there by the waters.

Exodus

Chapter 16 of 40

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B.  The experience of manna—the heavenly diet — 16:1-36
Exo 16:1 - aAnd they journeyed from Elim, and all the assembly of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departure out of the land of Egypt.
Exo 16:2 - And the whole assembly of the children of Israel 1amurmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness.
Exo 16:3 - And the children of Israel said to them, If only we had adied by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the 1bfleshpots, when we ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to ckill this whole congregation with hunger.
Exo 16:4 - Then Jehovah said to Moses, I will now rain 1bread from aheaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may btest them, whether or not they will walk 2in My law.
Exo 16:5 - And on the sixth day when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily.
Exo 16:6 - So Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, In the evening you will aknow that Jehovah has brought you out from the land of Egypt;
Exo 16:7 - And in the morning you will see the aglory of Jehovah, for He bhears your murmurings against Jehovah. And what are we, that you cmurmur against us?
Exo 16:8 - And Moses said, This you will see when Jehovah gives you flesh to eat in the evening, and bread to the full in the morning; for Jehovah hears your murmurings which you murmur against Him. And what are we? Your murmurings are not against us but aagainst Jehovah.
Exo 16:9 - And Moses said to aAaron, Say to all the assembly of the children of Israel, Come near bbefore Jehovah, for He has heard your murmurings.
Exo 16:10 - And as Aaron spoke to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and there the 1aglory of Jehovah appeared in the cloud.
Exo 16:11 - And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo 16:12 - I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, At atwilight you will eat flesh, and in the morning you will be filled with bread; and you shall bknow that I am Jehovah your God.
Exo 16:13 - And at evening 1aquails came up and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of 2bdew around the camp.
Exo 16:14 - And when the layer of dew lifted, there upon the surface of the wilderness were fine round flakes, fine as the frost on the earth.
Exo 16:15 - And when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, 1What is it? For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, It is the abread which Jehovah has given you to eat.
Exo 16:16 - This is what Jehovah has commanded, Gather of it, each one according to his eating; you shall take an aomer a head, according to the number of your persons, each one for those who are in his tent.
Exo 16:17 - And the children of Israel did so; and some gathered much, and some little.
Exo 16:18 - And when they measured it with an omer, ahe who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no lack; each of them gathered according to his eating.
Exo 16:19 - And Moses said to them, Let no man 1leave any of it until the morning.
Exo 16:20 - But they did not listen to Moses, and some men left part of it until the morning; and it bred 1aworms and stank. And Moses was indignant with them.
Exo 16:21 - And they gathered it morning by morning, each one according to his eating; and when the sun became hot, it melted.
Exo 16:22 - And on the sixth day they gathered atwice as much bread, two omers for each one; and all the leaders of the assembly came and told Moses.
Exo 16:23 - And he said to them, This is what Jehovah has spoken, Tomorrow is a 1aSabbath of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to Jehovah. Bake what you will bake, and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over put aside for yourselves to be kept until the morning.
Exo 16:24 - And they put it aside until the morning, as Moses commanded; and it did not stink, nor was there any aworm in it.
Exo 16:25 - And Moses said, Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to Jehovah; today you will not find it in the field.
Exo 16:26 - Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath; on it there will be none.
Exo 16:27 - And on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.
Exo 16:28 - And Jehovah said to Moses, How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My 1laws?
Exo 16:29 - See, Jehovah has given you the Sabbath, therefore He gives you bread for two days on the sixth day. Let each of you stay in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
Exo 16:30 - So the people rested on the seventh day.
Exo 16:31 - And the house of Israel called its name amanna, and it was like 1coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers made with honey.
Exo 16:32 - And Moses said, This is what Jehovah has commanded, Let an 1omerful of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out from the land of Egypt.
Exo 16:33 - And Moses said to Aaron, Take a 1apot, and put an omerful of manna in it, and place it before Jehovah, to be kept throughout your generations.
Exo 16:34 - As Jehovah commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the 1atestimony to be kept.
Exo 16:35 - And the children of Israel ate the manna aforty years, until they came to inhabitable land; they 1ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of bCanaan.
Exo 16:36 - Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.

Exodus

Chapter 17 of 40

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C.  The living water out of the smitten rock — 17:1-7
Exo 17:1 - And all the assembly of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin by their 1stages according to the command of Jehovah and encamped in aRephidim, and there was 2no water for the people to drink.
Exo 17:2 - Therefore the people 1acontended with Moses and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said to them, Why are you contending with me? Why do you btest Jehovah?
Exo 17:3 - So the people thirsted there for water, and the people amurmured against Moses and said, For what reason did you bring us up out of Egypt; to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?
Exo 17:4 - So Moses cried out to Jehovah, saying, What shall I do with this people? 1A little more, and they will stone me.
Exo 17:5 - And Jehovah said to Moses, Pass on before the people, and take with you some of the elders of Israel; and take in your hand your astaff with which you struck the River, and go.
Exo 17:6 - I will be standing before you there upon the 1rock in Horeb; and you shall 2strike the arock, and 3water will come out of it so that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Exo 17:7 - And he called the name of the place 1aMassah and 2bMeribah, because of the contention of the children of Israel and because they tested Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah among us or not?
D.  The defeat of Amalek — 17:8-16
Exo 17:8 - Then 1aAmalek came and 2fought with Israel in Rephidim.
Exo 17:9 - And Moses said to 1aJoshua, Choose men for us, and go out; fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the bstaff of God in my hand.
Exo 17:10 - So Joshua did as Moses had said to him and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and aHur went up to the top of the hill.
Exo 17:11 - And when Moses 1lifted his hand up, Israel prevailed; and when he let his hand down, Amalek prevailed.
Exo 17:12 - But Moses’ hands were 1heavy, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it; and Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
Exo 17:13 - And Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Exo 17:14 - And Jehovah said to Moses, Write this as a memorial in a book and 1recite it to Joshua, that I will utterly 2blot out the memory of aAmalek from under heaven.
Exo 17:15 - And Moses built an aaltar and called the name of it 1Jehovah-nissi;
Exo 17:16 - For he said, For there is a 1hand against the throne of 2Jah! Jehovah will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

Exodus

Chapter 18 of 40

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E.  A portrait of the kingdom — 18:1-27
Exo 18:1 - 1Now 2aJethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel His people, how Jehovah had brought Israel out of Egypt.
Exo 18:2 - And Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, had taken Moses’ wife 1Zipporah, after he had sent her away,
Exo 18:3 - And her two asons, of whom the name of one was 1Gershom, for 2Moses said, I have been a bsojourner in a foreign land;
Exo 18:4 - And the name of the other was 1Eliezer, for he said, The God of my father was my help and adelivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.
Exo 18:5 - So Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness where he was encamped, at the amount of God.
Exo 18:6 - And he sent word to Moses: I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons with her.
Exo 18:7 - So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him; and each asked the other’s welfare, and they came into the tent.
Exo 18:8 - And Moses told his father-in-law all that Jehovah had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardship that had come upon them on the way, and how Jehovah delivered them.
Exo 18:9 - And Jethro rejoiced for all the good which Jehovah had done to Israel, in that He had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.
Exo 18:10 - And Jethro said, aBlessed be Jehovah, who has delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of Pharaoh, who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
Exo 18:11 - Now I know that Jehovah is agreater than all gods, for it was demonstrated in this matter, when they dealt bproudly against the 1people.
Exo 18:12 - Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a aburnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to beat food with Moses’ father-in-law before God.
Exo 18:13 - And on the following day 1Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.
Exo 18:14 - And when Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit by yourself, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?
Exo 18:15 - Then Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
Exo 18:16 - When they have a dispute, the matter comes to me; and I ajudge between a man and his neighbor, and I make known the bstatutes of God and His laws.
Exo 18:17 - And Moses’ father-in-law said to him, The thing that you are doing is not good.
Exo 18:18 - You will surely wear yourself out, both you and this people who are with you, for the thing is too heavy for you; you cannot do it aby yourself.
Exo 18:19 - Listen now to my voice: I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You stand for the people before God, and you bring the amatters to God.
Exo 18:20 - And you shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and make known to them the way in which they should awalk and the work that they should do.
Exo 18:21 - You also should look for aable men among all the people who fear God, men of truth, who hate unjust gain; and place them over them, as 1leaders of thousands, leaders of hundreds, leaders of fifties, and leaders of tens.
Exo 18:22 - And let them ajudge the people at all times; and let them bbring every great matter to you, but every small matter let them judge themselves. So it will be easier for you, and they will cbear the burden with you.
Exo 18:23 - If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace.
Exo 18:24 - So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he had said.
Exo 18:25 - And Moses chose able men out of all Israel and made them heads over the people: leaders of thousands, leaders of hundreds, leaders of fifties, and leaders of tens.
Exo 18:26 - And they judged the people at all times; the hard cases they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
Exo 18:27 - And Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way to his aown land.

Exodus

Chapter 19 of 40

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IV.  Receiving revelation — 19:1-34:35

A.  Brought into the presence of God and into the knowledge of Him — 19:1-25
Exo 19:1 - In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that very day they came into the wilderness of aSinai.
Exo 19:2 - And when they had journeyed from Rephidim and had come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped in front of the mountain.
Exo 19:3 - And Moses 1went up to God, and Jehovah acalled to him out of the mountain, saying, Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob and tell the children of Israel:
Exo 19:4 - You have aseen what I did to the Egyptians and how I bore you on 1beagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.
Exo 19:5 - Now therefore if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My acovenant, then you shall be My 1bpersonal treasure from among all peoples, for call the earth is Mine.
Exo 19:6 - And you shall be to Me a 1kingdom of apriests and a 1bholy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the children of Israel.
Exo 19:7 - So Moses came and called for the elders of the people and set before them all these words which Jehovah had commanded him.
Exo 19:8 - And all the people answered together and said, 1All that Jehovah has spoken awe will do. And Moses brought back the words of the people to Jehovah.
Exo 19:9 - And Jehovah said to Moses, I am coming to you in a thick acloud, that the people may bhear when I speak with you and may also cbelieve you forever. Then Moses told the words of the people to Jehovah,
Exo 19:10 - And Jehovah said to Moses, Go to the people, and 1asanctify them today and tomorrow; and have them wash their garments,
Exo 19:11 - And be ready for the 1third day; for on the third day Jehovah will acome down on 2Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
Exo 19:12 - And you shall set 1limits for the people all around, saying, Be careful that you do not go up on the mountain or touch the border of it. Whoever touches the amountain shall surely be put to death.
Exo 19:13 - No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be astoned or shot through; whether beast or man, he shall not live. When the btrumpet sounds a long blast, they may come up on the mountain.
Exo 19:14 - And Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their garments.
Exo 19:15 - And he said to the people, Be ready for the third day. Do not go anear a woman.
Exo 19:16 - And on the third day, when it was morning, there was athunder and lightning, and a thick bcloud upon the mountain, and a very loud ctrumpet sound; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
Exo 19:17 - And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the base of the mountain.
Exo 19:18 - Now the whole of Mount Sinai smoked because Jehovah descended upon it in afire, and its bsmoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace; and the whole mountain cshook greatly.
Exo 19:19 - And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God aanswered him 1in thunder.
Exo 19:20 - And Jehovah came down upon aMount Sinai at the top of the mountain, and Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mountain; and Moses went up.
Exo 19:21 - Then Jehovah said to Moses, Go down; charge the people not to break through to Jehovah to alook, lest many of them perish.
Exo 19:22 - And let the priests who come anear to Jehovah also sanctify themselves, so that Jehovah does not bbreak forth upon them.
Exo 19:23 - And Moses said to Jehovah, The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, for You charged us, saying, Set limits around the mountain, and sanctify it.
Exo 19:24 - And Jehovah said to him, Go, get down; then you shall come up again, you and Aaron with you; but do not let the priests and the people force a way through to come up to Jehovah, so that He does not break forth upon them.
Exo 19:25 - So Moses went down to the people and told them.

Exodus

Chapter 20 of 40

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B.  The testimony of God (the law) revealing God to His people — 20:1-17
Exo 20:1 - aAnd God spoke all these 1words, saying,
Exo 20:2 - I am 1aJehovah your God, who bbrought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the slave house;
Exo 20:3 - You shall have no aother gods 1before Me.
Exo 20:4 - You shall not amake for yourself an 1idol, nor the 2form of anything that is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water beneath the earth.
Exo 20:5 - You shall not bow down to them, and you shall not aserve them; for I, Jehovah your God, am a bjealous God, cvisiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
Exo 20:6 - Yet showing alovingkindness to 1thousands of generations of those who 2love Me and keep My commandments.
Exo 20:7 - You shall not take the aname of Jehovah your God in vain, for Jehovah will not hold guiltless him who takes His name in vain.
Exo 20:8 - Remember the 1aSabbath day so as to sanctify it.
Exo 20:9 - aSix days you shall labor and do all your work,
Exo 20:10 - But the aseventh day is a Sabbath 1to Jehovah your God; you shall not do any work, you nor your son nor your daughter, your male servant nor your female servant, nor your cattle nor the sojourner with you, who is within your gates.
Exo 20:11 - For in asix days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore Jehovah blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it.
Exo 20:12 - aHonor your father and your mother, that your days may be extended upon the land which 1Jehovah your God is giving you.
Exo 20:13 - 1aYou shall not bkill.
Exo 20:14 - aYou shall not commit adultery.
Exo 20:15 - aYou shall not steal.
Exo 20:16 - aYou shall not testify with false testimony against your neighbor.
Exo 20:17 - You shall not 1acovet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.
C.  The negative aspect of the law — 20:18-21
Exo 20:18 - And all the people witnessed the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the atrumpet and the mountain smoking; and when the people witnessed it, they 1trembled and stood at a distance.
Exo 20:19 - And they said to Moses, aYou speak with us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak with us, so we do not bdie.
Exo 20:20 - And Moses said to the people, Do not be afraid; for God has come in order to atest you and in order that the bfear of Him may be before you, so that you do not sin.
Exo 20:21 - And the people stood at a distance, and Moses drew near to the deep adarkness where God was.
D.  The statutes of the law concerning the worship of God — 20:22-26
Exo 20:22 - And Jehovah said to Moses, 1Thus shall you say to the children of Israel, You yourselves have seen that I have 2aspoken to you from heaven.
Exo 20:23 - You shall not make other gods besides Me; gods of 1silver or agods of 1gold, you shall not make for yourselves.
Exo 20:24 - An 1altar of 2earth you shall make for Me, and you shall 1sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen; in every place where I cause My 3aname to be remembered, I will 4come to you and 4bbless you.
Exo 20:25 - And if you make Me an altar of astone, you shall not build it of hewn stones; for if you lift up your tool upon it, you have 1polluted it.
Exo 20:26 - Neither shall you go up by 1steps to My altar, so that your 2nakedness may not be uncovered on it.

Exodus

Chapter 21 of 40

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E.  The first ordinance of the law concerning man's relationship with others — 21:1-6
Exo 21:1 - Now these are the 1ordinances which you shall set before them.
Exo 21:2 - If you buy a aHebrew 1servant, he shall serve six years; but in the seventh he shall go out 2bfree without payment to you.
Exo 21:3 - If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall go out with him.
Exo 21:4 - If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.
Exo 21:5 - But if the servant plainly says, I 1alove my master, my wife, and my children; bI will not go out free;
Exo 21:6 - Then his master shall bring him to 1aGod and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his 2bear through with an awl; and he shall serve him forever.
F.  Sundry ordinances of the law — 21:7-23:19
Exo 21:7 - 1And if a man asells his daughter as a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.
Exo 21:8 - If she displeases her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed; he has no right to sell her to a foreign people, because he has dealt with her unfaithfully.
Exo 21:9 - And if he designated her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters.
Exo 21:10 - If he take another woman for himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
Exo 21:11 - And if he does not do these three things for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without payment of silver.
Exo 21:12 - He who 1strikes a man so that he adies shall surely be put to death.
Exo 21:13 - But if he did not alie in wait for him, but God allowed him to fall by his hand, then I will appoint you a 1bplace where he may flee to.
Exo 21:14 - And if a man acts presumptuously toward his neighbor, so as to 1slay him with guile, you shall take him even from My aaltar so that he may die.
Exo 21:15 - And he who astrikes his 1father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
Exo 21:16 - And he who akidnaps a man, whether he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall surely be put to death.
Exo 21:17 - And he who acurses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
Exo 21:18 - And if men contend and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist so that he does not die but 1remains in bed;
Exo 21:19 - If he can rise up and walk around outside on his staff, then he who struck him shall be guiltless; he shall only pay for the loss of his time, until he has made sure he is completely healed.
Exo 21:20 - And if a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a rod, and the 1servant dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.
Exo 21:21 - But if he survives a day or two, he shall not be punished; for he is his 1property.
Exo 21:22 - And if men struggle together, and they hit a pregnant woman, so that she has a miscarriage, but there is no further mishap, he shall surely be fined what the woman’s husband shall impose upon him, and he shall pay as the judges determine.
Exo 21:23 - But if there is further mishap, then you shall give a alife for a life,
Exo 21:24 - An aeye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot,
Exo 21:25 - A burning for a burning, a wound for a wound, a stripe for a stripe.
Exo 21:26 - And if a man strikes the eye of his male servant or the eye of his female servant and destroys it, he shall let that one go free on account of that one’s eye.
Exo 21:27 - And if he knocks out his male servant’s tooth or his female servant’s tooth, he shall let that one go free on account of that one’s tooth.
Exo 21:28 - And if an ox agores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be guiltless.
Exo 21:29 - But if the ox was accustomed to goring previously, and its owner had been warned, but he would not keep it in, and it killed a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.
Exo 21:30 - If a ransom is imposed on the 1owner, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed upon him.
Exo 21:31 - If either it gores a son or it gores a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.
Exo 21:32 - If the ox gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.
Exo 21:33 - And if a man opens a pit or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
Exo 21:34 - The owner of the pit shall make restitution; he shall give silver to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.
Exo 21:35 - And if one man’s ox injures another’s so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal.
Exo 21:36 - Or if it is known that the ox was accustomed to goring previously and its owner would not keep it in, he shall surely give restitution, an ox for an ox, and the dead animal shall become his.

Exodus

Chapter 22 of 40

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Exo 22:1 - If a man 1steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it, he shall restore five oxen for an ox and afour sheep for a sheep.
Exo 22:2 - If the thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him—
Exo 22:3 - If the sun has risen upon him, there shall be bloodguiltiness for him—the thief shall indeed make restitution; if he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
Exo 22:4 - If what he has stolen is actually found alive in his possession, whether an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he shall restore double.
Exo 22:5 - If a man lets a field or vineyard be grazed, that is, he lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another man’s field; from the best of his own field and from the best of his own vineyard he shall make restitution.
Exo 22:6 - If fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or what is growing in the field is consumed, he who started the fire shall surely make restitution.
Exo 22:7 - If a man gives to his neighbor silver or goods to keep, and it is stolen out of the man’s house, if the thief is found, he shall restore double.
Exo 22:8 - If the thief is not found, then the owner of the house shall come near to 1aGod to determine whether or not he laid his hand on his 2neighbor’s goods.
Exo 22:9 - For every case of transgression, whether concerning an ox, concerning a donkey, concerning a sheep, concerning clothing, or concerning any lost item about which one says, This is it, the case of both parties shall come before God; he whom God declares guilty shall restore double to his neighbor.
Exo 22:10 - If a man gives to his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured or driven away, with no man seeing it;
Exo 22:11 - The aoath of Jehovah shall be between them both, that he has not laid his hand on his neighbor’s goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.
Exo 22:12 - But if it was certainly stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner.
Exo 22:13 - If it was torn in pieces, let him bring it as evidence; he shall not make restitution for that which was torn.
Exo 22:14 - And if a man borrows anything from his neighbor, and it is injured or dies while its owner is not with it, he shall make full restitution.
Exo 22:15 - If its owner was with it, he shall not make restitution; if it was hired, 1only the hiring fee is due.
Exo 22:16 - And if a man 1seduces a avirgin who is not engaged and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to become his wife.
Exo 22:17 - If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay silver according to the dowry of virgins.
Exo 22:18 - 1You shall not allow a 2asorceress to live.
Exo 22:19 - Whoever lies with an aanimal shall surely be put to death.
Exo 22:20 - He who sacrifices to any agod, except to Jehovah only, shall be devoted to destruction.
Exo 22:21 - And you shall not wrong a 1asojourner, nor shall you oppress him; for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Exo 22:22 - You shall not afflict any awidow or orphan.
Exo 22:23 - If you afflict them at all and if they cry at all to Me, I will surely ahear their cry;
Exo 22:24 - And My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children orphans.
Exo 22:25 - If you lend silver to My people, to the poor among you, you shall not be to him as a creditor; you shall not charge him ainterest.
Exo 22:26 - If you ever take your neighbor’s garment as a apledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down.
Exo 22:27 - For that is his only covering; it is his garment for his skin. On what shall he lie down? And when he cries to Me I will hear, for I am agracious.
Exo 22:28 - You shall not revile 1God, nor acurse a ruler of your people.
Exo 22:29 - You shall not delay to offer the fullness of your harvest and of the 1outflow of your presses. The 2afirstborn of your sons you shall give to Me.
Exo 22:30 - You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep. Seven days it shall be with its mother; on the 1aeighth day you shall give it to Me.
Exo 22:31 - And you shall be 1aholy men to Me. And you shall not 2eat any flesh that is btorn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.

Exodus

Chapter 23 of 40

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Exo 23:1 - You shall not bear a 1false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a amalicious witness.
Exo 23:2 - You shall not follow a amultitude to do evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after a multitude to pervert justice,
Exo 23:3 - Nor shall you be apartial to a poor man in his dispute.
Exo 23:4 - If you come upon your 1aenemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bbring it back to him.
Exo 23:5 - If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving it to him; you shall surely release it with him.
Exo 23:6 - You shall not apervert the justice due to your needy neighbor in his dispute.
Exo 23:7 - Keep far away from a false charge, and do not kill the ainnocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked man.
Exo 23:8 - And you shall not take a abribe, for a bribe blinds those whose eyes are open and perverts the words of the righteous.
Exo 23:9 - And you shall not oppress a asojourner; for you know the feelings of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Exo 23:10 - And six years you shall asow your land and gather its produce;
Exo 23:11 - But the 1seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat, and what they leave, the animals of the field may eat. You are to do the same with your vineyard and with your olivegrove.
Exo 23:12 - aSix days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall cease from work so that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your female servant and the sojourner may be refreshed.
Exo 23:13 - Now concerning everything which I have said to you, take heed to yourselves; and do not mention the aname of other gods, nor let their name be heard out of your mouth.
Exo 23:14 - 1aThree times a year you shall hold a feast to Me.
Exo 23:15 - You shall keep the 1aFeast of Unleavened Bread; as I commanded you, seven days you shall eat bunleavened bread at the appointed time in the month of cAbib, for in it you came out from Egypt. And no one shall appear before Me dempty.
Exo 23:16 - And you shall keep the 1aFeast of the Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labors from what you sow in the field, and the 2bFeast of Ingathering, at the end of the year when you gather in the fruit of your labors out of the field.
Exo 23:17 - Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord Jehovah.
Exo 23:18 - You shall not offer the 1blood of My sacrifice with anything aleavened, nor shall the 2fat of My feast remain all night until the morning.
Exo 23:19 - The 1first of the afirstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of Jehovah your God. You shall not 2bboil a kid in its mother’s milk.
G.  The Angel of Jehovah for His people to take possession of the promised land — 23:20-33
Exo 23:20 - I am now sending an 1aAngel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
Exo 23:21 - Be careful before Him, and 1listen to His voice; do not rebel against Him, for He will not pardon your transgression; for My 2name is in Him.
Exo 23:22 - But if you will indeed listen to 1His voice and do all that 1I speak, then I will be an aenemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
Exo 23:23 - For My Angel will go before you and bring you to the 1aAmorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off.
Exo 23:24 - You shall not bow down to their gods, nor aserve them, nor bdo according to their works; but you shall utterly coverthrow them and break their pillars into pieces.
Exo 23:25 - And you shall aserve Jehovah your God, and He will 1bbless your bread and your water; and I will take csickness away from your midst.
Exo 23:26 - No one shall miscarry or be abarren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.
Exo 23:27 - I will send My aterror before you and will throw into confusion all the people to whom you will come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
Exo 23:28 - And I will send ahornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.
Exo 23:29 - I will not adrive them out from before you in 1one year, lest the land become desolate and the banimals of the field multiply against you.
Exo 23:30 - Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have become fruitful and inherit the land.
Exo 23:31 - And I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the 1sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the 2aRiver; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your bhand, and 3you shall drive them out from before you.
Exo 23:32 - You shall make no 1acovenant with them or with their gods.
Exo 23:33 - They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a asnare to you.

Exodus

Chapter 24 of 40

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H.  The enactment of the covenant — 24:1-8
Exo 24:1 - Then He said to Moses, 1Come up to Jehovah, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and aseventy of the elders of Israel; and worship at a distance.
Exo 24:2 - And Moses alone shall come near to Jehovah, but they shall not come near, nor shall the people come up with him.
Exo 24:3 - And Moses came and told the people all the words of Jehovah and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice and said, 1All the words which Jehovah has spoken we will ado.
Exo 24:4 - And Moses awrote down all the words of Jehovah. And he rose up early in the morning and built an 1altar at the base of the mountain and twelve 2bpillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
Exo 24:5 - And he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered 1burnt offerings and sacrificed 1peace offerings of bulls to Jehovah.
Exo 24:6 - And Moses took half of the ablood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
Exo 24:7 - And he took the book of the acovenant and read it in the hearing of the people; and they said, 1All that Jehovah has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.
Exo 24:8 - So Moses took the blood and asprinkled it on the 1people and said, Here is the 2bblood of the ccovenant, which Jehovah has made with you in accordance with all these words.
I.  The vision of God — 24:9-11
Exo 24:9 - Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.
Exo 24:10 - And they 1asaw the God of Israel, and under His feet there was something like a 2paved work of bsapphire, even like heaven itself for clearness.
Exo 24:11 - And He did not stretch out His hand upon the nobles of the children of Israel. And they 1beheld God and ate and drank.
J.  Moses' stay with God under His glory — 24:12-18
Exo 24:12 - And Jehovah said to Moses, Come up to Me at the top of the mountain, and be there; and I will give you the atablets of stone with the law and the commandment, which I have inscribed for their instruction.
Exo 24:13 - And 1Moses rose up with aJoshua his attendant, and Moses went up to the top of the bmountain of God.
Exo 24:14 - And he had said to the elders, Wait here for us until we return to you. Both Aaron and aHur are here with you; whoever has a cause, let him come near to them.
Exo 24:15 - And Moses went up to the top of the mountain, and the acloud covered the mountain.
Exo 24:16 - And the aglory of Jehovah settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and on the seventh day He called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
Exo 24:17 - And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like consuming afire on the top of the mountain to the eyes of the children of Israel.
Exo 24:18 - And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain 1aforty days and forty nights.

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Chapter 25 of 40

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K.  The vision of the tabernacle and its furniture — 25:1-30:38
1.  Concerning the materials and the pattern — 25:1-9
Exo 25:1 - 1Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo 25:2 - aTell the children of Israel to take for Me a 1heave offering. From every man whose bheart makes him willing you shall take My heave offering.
Exo 25:3 - And this is the heave offering which you shall take from them: 1gold and silver and bronze,
Exo 25:4 - And 1ablue and purple and scarlet strands, and 2fine linen, and 3goats’ hair,
Exo 25:5 - And 1arams’ skins dyed red, and 2porpoise skins, and 3acacia wood,
Exo 25:6 - 1aOil for the light, 2bspices for the anointing oil and for the cfragrant incense,
Exo 25:7 - aOnyx stones and bstones to be set for the cephod and for the breastplate.
Exo 25:8 - And let them make a asanctuary for Me that I may dwell in their bmidst;
Exo 25:9 - According to all that I show you, the 1apattern of the 2btabernacle and the 1pattern of all its furnishings, even so shall you make it.
2.  The Ark of Testimony with the expiatory cover — 25:10-22
Exo 25:10 - aAnd they shall make an 1bark of 2acacia wood: 3two and a half cubits shall be its length; and 3one and a half cubits, its width; and 3one and a half cubits, its height.
Exo 25:11 - And you shall overlay it with pure 1gold; inside and outside you shall overlay it; and you shall make a 2rim of gold upon it all around.
Exo 25:12 - And you shall cast four 1rings of gold for it, and put them on its four feet; and two 2rings shall be on one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.
Exo 25:13 - And you shall make 1poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
Exo 25:14 - And you shall 1put the poles into the rings on the sides of the Ark to carry the Ark with them.
Exo 25:15 - The poles shall be in the rings of the Ark; they shall not be taken from it.
Exo 25:16 - And you shall 1put into the aArk the Testimony which I shall give you.
Exo 25:17 - aAnd you shall make an 1bexpiation cover of pure gold: 2two and a half cubits shall be its length, and 2one and a half cubits, its width.
Exo 25:18 - And you shall make two 1cherubim of gold; of beaten work you shall make them, at the two ends of the expiation cover.
Exo 25:19 - And make one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end; of 1one piece with the expiation cover you shall make the cherubim on its two ends.
Exo 25:20 - And the cherubim shall spread out their 1awings above the cover, covering the expiation cover with their wings, with their 1faces toward one another; the faces of the cherubim shall be toward the expiation cover.
Exo 25:21 - And you shall 1put the aexpiation cover on top of the Ark, and into the Ark you shall 2put the Testimony that I shall give you.
Exo 25:22 - And there I will 1ameet with you, and I will speak with you from above the expiation cover, from bbetween the two cherubim which are upon the Ark of the Testimony, of everything which I will give you in commandment to the children of Israel.
3.  The table of the bread of the Presence — 25:23-30
Exo 25:23 - aAnd you shall make a 1btable of 2acacia wood: 3two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its width, and 4one and a half cubits its height.
Exo 25:24 - And you shall overlay it with pure gold and make a 1rim of gold around it.
Exo 25:25 - And you shall make a 1frame of a handbreadth around it; and you shall make a 1rim of gold for its frame around it.
Exo 25:26 - And you shall make for it four 1rings of gold and put the rings on the four corners that are on its four feet.
Exo 25:27 - The rings shall be close to the frame as holders for the poles to carry the table.
Exo 25:28 - And you shall make the 1poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be carried with them.
Exo 25:29 - And you shall make its 1aplates and its 1cups and its 1pitchers and its 1bowls with which to pour out drink offerings; of pure gold you shall make them.
Exo 25:30 - And you shall set the 1abread of the 2Presence upon the table before Me always.
4.  The lampstand — 25:31-40
Exo 25:31 - aAnd you shall make a 1blampstand of 2pure gold. The lampstand with its 3base and its 3shaft shall be made of 4beaten work; its 5cups, its 5calyxes, and its 5blossom buds shall be of one piece with it.
Exo 25:32 - And there shall be 1six branches going out of its sides; 1three branches of the lampstand out of one of its sides, and 1three branches of the lampstand out of its other side;
Exo 25:33 - 1Three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a calyx and a blossom bud; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a calyx and a blossom bud—so for the six branches going out of the lampstand.
Exo 25:34 - And there shall be on the lampstand 1four cups made like almond blossoms, its calyxes and its blossom buds;
Exo 25:35 - And a 1calyx under two branches of one piece with it, and a calyx under two branches of one piece with it, and a calyx under two branches of one piece with it, for the 2six branches going out of the lampstand.
Exo 25:36 - Their calyxes and their branches shall be of one piece with it; all of it one beaten work of pure gold.
Exo 25:37 - And you shall make its lamps, 1aseven; and set up its lamps to give 2light to the area in front of it.
Exo 25:38 - And its tongs and its firepans shall be of pure gold.
Exo 25:39 - It shall be made of a 1talent of pure gold, with all these utensils.
Exo 25:40 - And see that you make them according to their apattern, which was shown to you in the mountain.

Exodus

Chapter 26 of 40

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5.  The covering of the tabernacle — 26:1-14
Exo 26:1 - aNow the 1tabernacle you shall make with ten curtains of 2fine twined linen and 3bblue and purple and scarlet strands; you shall make them with 4cherubim, the work of a 5skillful workman.
Exo 26:2 - The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain, four cubits; all the curtains shall have the same measurement.
Exo 26:3 - 1Five curtains shall be joined to one another; and the other 1five curtains shall be joined to one another.
Exo 26:4 - And you shall make 1loops of blue strands on the edge of the one curtain at the end in the set; and likewise you shall make them in the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set.
Exo 26:5 - You shall make fifty loops on the one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is in the second set; the loops shall be opposite one another.
Exo 26:6 - And you shall make fifty 1clasps of gold, and join the curtains to one another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle may become one.
Exo 26:7 - And you shall make curtains of 1goats’ hair for a 2tent over the tabernacle; eleven curtains you shall make.
Exo 26:8 - The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain, four cubits; the eleven curtains shall have the same measurement.
Exo 26:9 - And you shall join five of the curtains by themselves and six of the curtains by themselves, and you shall double the sixth curtain over at the front of the tent.
Exo 26:10 - And you shall make fifty 1loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outermost in the set, and fifty 1loops upon the edge of the curtain which is outermost in the second set.
Exo 26:11 - And you shall make fifty 1clasps of bronze and put the clasps into the loops and join the tent together, so that it may become one.
Exo 26:12 - And the 1overlapping part that is left over of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that is left over, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.
Exo 26:13 - And the 1cubit on the one side and the cubit on the other side, of what is left over in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle, on this side and on that side, to cover it.
Exo 26:14 - And you shall make a covering for the tent, of 1arams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of 2porpoise skins above it.
6.  The boards of the tabernacle — 26:15-30
Exo 26:15 - aAnd you shall make the 1boards for the tabernacle of 2acacia wood, standing up.
Exo 26:16 - Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and 1one and a half cubits, the width of each board.
Exo 26:17 - Each board shall have two 1tenons, parallel to each other; thus you shall do for all the boards of the tabernacle.
Exo 26:18 - And you shall make the boards for the tabernacle, 1twenty boards for the south side southward.
Exo 26:19 - And you shall make forty 1sockets of silver under the twenty boards, two sockets under one board for its two tenons and two sockets under the 2next board for its two tenons.
Exo 26:20 - And for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards;
Exo 26:21 - And their forty sockets of silver, two sockets under one board and two sockets under the next board.
Exo 26:22 - And for the rear of the tabernacle westward you shall make six boards.
Exo 26:23 - And two boards you shall make for the corners of the tabernacle in the rear.
Exo 26:24 - And they shall be 1double below, and at its top they shall be completely joined to a single ring; thus it shall be for both of them; they shall be for the two corners.
Exo 26:25 - And there shall be 1eight boards with their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board and two sockets under the next board.
Exo 26:26 - And you shall make 1bars of acacia wood, five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
Exo 26:27 - 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 at the rear westward.
Exo 26:28 - And the middle bar shall 1pass through in the center of the boards from end to end.
Exo 26:29 - And you shall overlay the boards with 1gold, and make their 2rings of gold as holders for the bars; and you shall overlay the bars with gold.
Exo 26:30 - And you shall set up the tabernacle according to its aplan, which you were shown in the mountain.
7.  The veil within the tabernacle — 26:31-35
Exo 26:31 - aAnd you shall make a 1bveil of blue and purple and scarlet strands and fine twined linen; it shall be made with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman.
Exo 26:32 - And you shall 1hang it upon four 2pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their 3hooks shall be of gold, and they shall stand on four 4sockets of silver.
Exo 26:33 - And you shall hang up the veil under the 1clasps and bring in the Ark of the Testimony there within the veil; and the aveil shall make a separation for you between the Holy Place and the bHoly of Holies.
Exo 26:34 - And you shall put the aexpiation cover upon the Ark of the Testimony in the Holy of Holies.
Exo 26:35 - And you shall set the table aoutside the veil, and the blampstand opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south; and the table you shall put on the north side.
8.  The screen for the entrance of the tent — 26:36-37
Exo 26:36 - aAnd you shall make a 1bscreen for the 2entrance of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet strands and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer.
Exo 26:37 - And for the screen you shall make five 1pillars of acacia and overlay them with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, and you shall cast five sockets of 2bronze for them.

Exodus

Chapter 27 of 40

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9.  The altar of burnt offering — 27:1-8
Exo 27:1 - aAnd you shall make the 1baltar of 2acacia wood, a length of 3five cubits and a width of 3five cubits; the altar shall be 4square; and 5three cubits, its height.
Exo 27:2 - And you shall make its 1ahorns upon its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with 2bronze.
Exo 27:3 - And you shall make its pots to remove its ashes, and its shovels and its basins and its forks and its firepans; all its 1utensils you shall make of bronze.
Exo 27:4 - And you shall make a 1grating, a network of bronze for it; and on the net you shall make four bronze 2rings at its four ends.
Exo 27:5 - And you shall put it below, under the 1ledge of the altar so that the net may reach 2halfway up the altar.
Exo 27:6 - And you shall make 1poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.
Exo 27:7 - And its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar when it is carried.
Exo 27:8 - You shall make it hollow with boards; as it was ashown to you in the mountain, so shall they make it.
10.  The court of the tabernacle — 27:9-19
Exo 27:9 - aAnd you shall make the 1bcourt of the tabernacle: On the south side southward there shall be 2hangings for the court of fine twined 3linen, a length of one hundred cubits for one side;
Exo 27:10 - And its twenty 1pillars and their twenty sockets shall be of bronze; the 2hooks of the pillars and their 2connecting rods shall be of silver.
Exo 27:11 - And likewise on the north side, in length there shall be hangings a length of one hundred cubits, and its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their connecting rods shall be of silver.
Exo 27:12 - And for the width of the court on the west side there shall be hangings of fifty cubits, with their ten pillars and their ten sockets.
Exo 27:13 - And the width of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
Exo 27:14 - And there shall be fifteen cubits of hangings for the one side of the gate, with their three pillars and their three sockets.
Exo 27:15 - And there shall be fifteen cubits of hangings for the other side, with their three pillars and their three sockets.
Exo 27:16 - And for the 1gate of the court there shall be a ascreen of twenty cubits, of blue and purple and scarlet strands and fine twined linen, the work of an 2embroiderer; with their four pillars and their four sockets.
Exo 27:17 - All the pillars around the court shall be connected with silver, with their hooks of silver and their sockets of bronze.
Exo 27:18 - The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits; and the width, 1fifty at each end; and the height, 2five cubits; of fine twined linen, and their sockets of bronze.
Exo 27:19 - All the utensils of the tabernacle used in all its service and all its 1pegs and all the 1pegs of the court shall be of 2bronze.
11.  The lighting of the lamps — 27:20-21
Exo 27:20 - aAnd you shall command the children of Israel to bring to you pure 1oil of beaten olives for the light, to 2make the lamps shine continually.
Exo 27:21 - In the 1Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is 2before the Testimony, 3Aaron and his sons shall amaintain it in order from 4evening to morning before Jehovah; it shall be a perpetual statute to be observed throughout their generations by the children of Israel.

Exodus

Chapter 28 of 40

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12.  The garments for the priesthood — 28:1-43
Exo 28:1 - And bring near to yourself 1aAaron your brother and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may serve Me as a 2priest—Aaron, bNadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.
Exo 28:2 - And you shall make holy 1agarments for Aaron your brother, 2for glory and for beauty.
Exo 28:3 - And you shall speak to all who are awise in heart, whom I have filled with the bspirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron’s garments to sanctify him, that he may serve Me as a priest.
Exo 28:4 - And these are the 1garments which they shall make: a abreastplate and an 2ephod and a brobe and a ctunic of 3checkered work, a turban and a girding dsash. So they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and for his sons that he may serve Me as a priest.
Exo 28:5 - They therefore shall take the gold and the blue and the purple and the scarlet strands and the fine linen,
Exo 28:6 - aAnd they shall make the ephod of 1gold thread, of blue and purple and scarlet strands, and fine twined linen, the work of a skillful workman.
Exo 28:7 - It shall have two 1shoulder pieces joined to its two edges, so that it may be joined together.
Exo 28:8 - And the skillfully woven aband, which is on it 1for its fastening, shall be like it in workmanship, of one piece with it; of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet strands and fine twined linen.
Exo 28:9 - And you shall take two 1aonyx stones and engrave on them the bnames of the sons of Israel,
Exo 28:10 - Six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the remaining six on the other stone, according to their birth.
Exo 28:11 - With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones, according to the names of the sons of Israel; you shall make them enclosed in 1settings of gold.
Exo 28:12 - And you shall put the two stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as stones of 1remembrance for the sons of Israel. And Aaron shall bear their names before Jehovah on his two shoulders for a 1memorial.
Exo 28:13 - And you shall make settings of gold,
Exo 28:14 - And two 1chains of pure gold; you shall make them twisted, a corded work, and you shall put the chains of cords on the settings.
Exo 28:15 - And you shall make a 1abreastplate of 2judgment, the work of a skillful workman; 3like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet strands, and of fine twined linen you shall make it.
Exo 28:16 - It shall be 1square and 1doubled; a 2span its length and a 2span its width.
Exo 28:17 - And you shall enclose in it enclosures of 1astones, 2four rows of stones: the first row shall be a row of a 3sardius, a topaz, and an emerald;
Exo 28:18 - And the second row, a 1carbuncle, a sapphire, and a diamond;
Exo 28:19 - And the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
Exo 28:20 - And the fourth row, a 1chrysolite, and an onyx, and a jasper; they shall be set in gold in their enclosures.
Exo 28:21 - And the stones shall be according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names; they shall be like the 1engravings of a signet, each according to its name, for the twelve tribes.
Exo 28:22 - And you shall make on the breastplate twisted 1chains, a corded work of pure gold.
Exo 28:23 - And you shall make on the breastplate two 1rings of gold and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
Exo 28:24 - And you shall put the two cords of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.
Exo 28:25 - And you shall put the two other ends of the two cords on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it.
Exo 28:26 - And you shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them upon the two ends of the breastplate upon its edge, which is toward the ephod on the inside.
Exo 28:27 - And you shall make two rings of gold and shall put them on the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod on the front of it, close to the place where it is joined, above the skillfully woven aband of the ephod.
Exo 28:28 - And they shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a 1cord of blue strands, that it may be upon the skillfully woven band of the ephod and that the breastplate may not come loose from the ephod.
Exo 28:29 - So Aaron shall bear the names of the asons of Israel in the breastplate of judgment on his heart when he goes into the sanctuary, for a 1memorial before Jehovah continually.
Exo 28:30 - And you shall put in the breastplate of 1judgment the 2aUrim and the 3Thummim; and they shall be on Aaron’s heart when he goes in before Jehovah, and Aaron shall bear the 1judgment of the children of Israel on his heart before Jehovah continually.
Exo 28:31 - aAnd you shall make the 1robe of the ephod all of 2blue strands.
Exo 28:32 - And there shall be an opening for the head in its center; around its opening there shall be a binding edge of woven work, like the opening of a 1coat of mail, so that it will not be torn.
Exo 28:33 - And you shall make on its hem 1pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet strands, all around its hem, and 1bells of gold between them all around:
Exo 28:34 - A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, on the hem of the robe all around.
Exo 28:35 - And it shall be upon Aaron when he ministers, and its sound shall be heard when he goes into the sanctuary before Jehovah and when he comes out, so that he may not die.
Exo 28:36 - aAnd you shall make a 1plate of pure gold and engrave upon it, like the engravings of a signet: 2HOLINESS TO JEHOVAH.
Exo 28:37 - And you shall put it on a 1cord of blue strands, and it shall be on the turban; it shall be at the front of the turban.
Exo 28:38 - And it shall be upon Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall abear the iniquity of the 1holy things, which the children of Israel sanctify for all their 1holy gifts; and it shall always be on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Jehovah.
Exo 28:39 - aAnd you shall weave the 1tunic of fine linen, and you shall make a 1turban of fine linen, and you shall make a 1girding bsash, the work of an embroiderer.
Exo 28:40 - And for Aaron’s sons you shall make tunics, and you shall make for them girding sashes, and you shall make for them high hats, for glory and for beauty.
Exo 28:41 - And you shall put them upon Aaron your brother and upon his sons with him, and you shall aanoint them and 1bconsecrate them and sanctify them, that they may serve Me as priests.
Exo 28:42 - And you shall make them linen atrousers to cover their 1naked flesh; they shall reach from the loins even to the thighs;
Exo 28:43 - And they shall be upon Aaron and upon his sons when they go into the Tent of Meeting or when they come near to the altar to minister in the sanctuary, that they may not bear iniquity and die. It shall be a perpetual statute for him and for his seed after him.

Exodus

Chapter 29 of 40

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13.  The sanctification of Aaron and his sons to be the priests — 29:1-46
Exo 29:1 - And this is what you shall do to them to 1sanctify them to serve Me as priests: take one 2bull of the herd and two 2arams without blemish,
Exo 29:2 - And unleavened 1bread and unleavened cakes 2amingled with oil and unleavened wafers anointed with oil—you shall make them of fine wheat flour.
Exo 29:3 - And you shall put them into one basket and present them in the basket with the bull and the two rams.
Exo 29:4 - And you shall bring Aaron and his sons near to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and 1awash them with water.
Exo 29:5 - aAnd you shall take the bgarments and 1clothe Aaron with the tunic and the robe of the ephod and the ephod and the breastplate, and gird him with the skillfully woven cband of the ephod;
Exo 29:6 - And you shall place the aturban on his head and put the holy 1crown on the turban.
Exo 29:7 - Then you shall take the 1aanointing oil and pour it on his head and banoint him.
Exo 29:8 - And you shall bring his sons near and put tunics on them.
Exo 29:9 - And you shall gird them with girding asashes, Aaron and his sons, and bind high hats on them; and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute. So you shall bconsecrate Aaron and his sons.
Exo 29:10 - aAnd you shall present the bull before the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall 1blay their hands on the head of the bull.
Exo 29:11 - And you shall 1slaughter the bull before Jehovah at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
Exo 29:12 - And you shall take some of the 1blood of the bull and put some of it on the ahorns of the altar with your finger, and all the rest of the blood you shall pour out at the base of the altar.
Exo 29:13 - And you shall take all the 1afat that covers the inward parts and the appendage on the liver and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and 2burn them on the altar.
Exo 29:14 - But the flesh of the bull and its skin and its dung you shall aburn with fire outside the camp; it is a 1bsin offering.
Exo 29:15 - aAnd you shall also take the one bram, and Aaron and his sons shall clay their hands on the head of the ram.
Exo 29:16 - And you shall slaughter the ram, and you shall take its 1blood and sprinkle it on and around the altar.
Exo 29:17 - Then you shall cut the ram into its pieces and wash its inward parts and its legs, and put them with its pieces and its head.
Exo 29:18 - And you shall burn the whole ram on the altar; it is a 1aburnt offering to Jehovah; it is a 2bsatisfying fragrance, an offering by fire to Jehovah.
Exo 29:19 - aAnd you shall take the other bram, and Aaron and his sons shall clay their hands on the head of the ram.
Exo 29:20 - Then you shall slaughter the ram and take some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right 1aear and on the lobe of the right ear of his sons and on the thumb of their right 1hand and on the big toe of their right 1foot, and sprinkle the rest of the blood on and around the altar.
Exo 29:21 - And you shall take some of the 1blood that is on the altar and some of the 1aanointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and on his garments, and on his sons and on his sons’ garments with him; and he and his garments shall be sanctified, as well as his sons and his sons’ garments with him.
Exo 29:22 - You shall also take the fat from the ram, that is, the fat tail and the afat that covers the 1inward parts, and the appendage of the liver and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them and the right thigh (for it is a ram of bconsecration),
Exo 29:23 - And one loaf of 1abread and one cake of oiled bread and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Jehovah;
Exo 29:24 - And you shall put all these in the palms of Aaron and in the palms of his sons, and awave them as a 1wave offering before Jehovah.
Exo 29:25 - And you shall 1take them from their hands and burn them on the altar upon the burnt offering for a asatisfying fragrance before Jehovah; it is an offering by fire to Jehovah.
Exo 29:26 - And you shall take the 1breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration and wave it as a wave offering before Jehovah; and it shall be 2your portion.
Exo 29:27 - And you shall sanctify the abreast of the wave offering and the thigh of the 1heave offering which was waved and which was heaved up from the ram of consecration, from that which is for Aaron and from that which is for his sons.
Exo 29:28 - And it shall become a perpetual astatute for Aaron and his sons to be observed by the children of Israel, for it is a heave offering; and it shall be a heave offering from the children of Israel from the sacrifices of their 1peace offerings, their heave offering to Jehovah.
Exo 29:29 - (And the holy garments of Aaron shall belong to his sons after him, for them to be anointed in them and to be consecrated in them.
Exo 29:30 - One of his sons, who is the priest in his place, shall put them on for 1aseven days when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the sanctuary.)
Exo 29:31 - aAnd you shall take the ram of consecration and 1boil its flesh in a holy place.
Exo 29:32 - And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the abread that is in the basket at the entrance of the 1Tent of Meeting.
Exo 29:33 - So they shall aeat those things by which 1expiation was made, to consecrate them and to sanctify them; but a 2bstranger shall not eat them, because they are holy.
Exo 29:34 - And if any of the flesh of the ram of consecration or any of the bread 1remains until the 2morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire; it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.
Exo 29:35 - And thus you shall do to Aaron and to his sons according to all that I have commanded you; you shall consecrate them aseven days.
Exo 29:36 - And 1each day you shall 2offer a bull as a asin offering for expiation, and you shall 3cleanse the altar when you make expiation for it; and you shall anoint it to 3bsanctify it.
Exo 29:37 - Seven days you shall make expiation for the altar and sanctify it, and the altar shall become most holy; whatever touches the aaltar shall be holy.
Exo 29:38 - aNow this is what you shall 1offer on the altar: two lambs a year old, each day continually.
Exo 29:39 - The one lamb you shall offer in the amorning, and the other lamb you shall offer at 1twilight.
Exo 29:40 - And with the one lamb a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mingled with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a 1drink offering.
Exo 29:41 - And the other lamb you shall offer at twilight; you shall offer it with the ameal offering and its drink offering as in the morning, for a bsatisfying fragrance, an offering by fire to Jehovah.
Exo 29:42 - It shall be a acontinual burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting before Jehovah, where I will bmeet with you to speak to you there.
Exo 29:43 - And there I will meet with the children of Israel; and it shall be sanctified by My aglory.
Exo 29:44 - And I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar. Aaron also and his sons I will sanctify to serve Me as priests.
Exo 29:45 - And I will dwell in the amidst of the children of Israel, and I will be their God.
Exo 29:46 - And they shall aknow that I am Jehovah their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I might 1dwell in the midst of them; I am Jehovah their God.

Exodus

Chapter 30 of 40

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14.  The golden incense altar — 30:1-10
Exo 30:1 - aAnd you shall make an 1baltar on which to burn incense; you shall make it of 2acacia wood.
Exo 30:2 - Its 1length shall be a cubit, and its width, a cubit; it shall be square, and two cubits its height; its 2ahorns shall be of one piece with it.
Exo 30:3 - And you shall overlay it with pure 1agold, its top and its sides around it and its horns; and you shall make a 2rim of gold around it.
Exo 30:4 - And you shall make for it two 1rings of gold under its rim; on its two sides, on its opposite sides, you shall make them; and they shall be as holders for 1apoles with which to carry it.
Exo 30:5 - And you shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
Exo 30:6 - And you shall put it 1before the veil that is over the Ark of the Testimony, before the expiation cover that is over the testimony, where I will ameet with you.
Exo 30:7 - And Aaron shall aburn on it fragrant 1bincense; every morning when he 2dresses the lamps he shall burn it.
Exo 30:8 - And when Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he shall burn it, a perpetual aincense before Jehovah throughout your generations.
Exo 30:9 - You shall not offer any 1strange incense on it, or a 2burnt offering or a 2meal offering; and you shall not pour a 2drink offering on it.
Exo 30:10 - And Aaron shall make 1aexpiation on its horns once a year; with the 2blood of the bsin offering of expiation conce a year he shall make expiation for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Jehovah.
15.  The expiation silver — 30:11-16
Exo 30:11 - And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo 30:12 - When you take the 1asum of the children of Israel, according to their numbering, every man shall give a bransom for 2himself to Jehovah when you number them, that there may be no plague among them when you number them.
Exo 30:13 - This they shall give, each one who was enrolled among their numbering, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), ahalf a shekel as a 1heave offering to Jehovah.
Exo 30:14 - Each one who was enrolled among their numbering, from 1twenty years old and over, shall give the heave offering of Jehovah.
Exo 30:15 - The rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less than the half shekel when you give the heave offering of Jehovah to make expiation for your souls.
Exo 30:16 - And you shall take the expiation silver from the children of Israel and shall give it for the 1service of the Tent of Meeting, that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Jehovah to make expiation for your souls.
16.  The laver of bronze — 30:17-21
Exo 30:17 - And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo 30:18 - You shall also make a 1alaver of 2bronze, with its base of bronze, for washing. And you shall put it 3bbetween the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put 4water in it.
Exo 30:19 - And Aaron and his sons shall 1awash their hands and their feet with water from it;
Exo 30:20 - When they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they may not 1die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering by fire to Jehovah,
Exo 30:21 - They shall wash their hands and their feet, that they may not die. And it shall be a perpetual statute to them, for him and for his seed throughout their generations.
17.  The holy anointing oil — 30:22-33
Exo 30:22 - Moreover Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo 30:23 - You also take the finest aspices: of flowing myrrh five hundred shekels, and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, two hundred fifty shekels, and of fragrant calamus two hundred fifty shekels,
Exo 30:24 - And of cassia five hundred shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil.
Exo 30:25 - And you shall make it a 1holy aanointing oil, a 2fragrant ointment compounded according to the work of a compounder; it shall be a 1holy anointing oil.
Exo 30:26 - And with it you shall 1aanoint the Tent of Meeting and the Ark of the Testimony,
Exo 30:27 - And the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,
Exo 30:28 - And the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the laver and its base.
Exo 30:29 - Thus you shall sanctify them that they may be most holy; whatever touches them shall be holy.
Exo 30:30 - And you shall aanoint 1Aaron and his sons and sanctify them that they may serve Me as priests.
Exo 30:31 - And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, This shall be a holy anointing oil to Me throughout your generations.
Exo 30:32 - Upon the 1flesh of man it shall not be poured, nor shall you make any 2like it, according to its composition; it is holy, and it shall be holy to you.
Exo 30:33 - Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it upon a 1stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.
18.  The incense — 30:34-38
Exo 30:34 - And Jehovah said to Moses, Take fragrant 1aspices—stacte and onycha and galbanum—fragrant spices with pure 1frankincense; there shall be an 2equal part of each;
Exo 30:35 - And you shall make of it 1aincense, a 2fragrant compound according to the work of a compounder, seasoned with 3bsalt, pure and holy.
Exo 30:36 - And you shall 1beat some of it very fine, and put some of it 2before the testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will ameet with you; it shall be to you most holy.
Exo 30:37 - And the incense which you shall make, you shall not make for 1yourselves according to its composition; it shall be holy to you for Jehovah.
Exo 30:38 - Whoever shall make any like it, to smell it, shall be cut off from his people.

Exodus

Chapter 31 of 40

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L.  The workers of the tabernacle, the furniture, and the priestly garments — 31:1-11
Exo 31:1 - And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo 31:2 - aSee, I have called by name 1bBezalel the son of Uri, the son of cHur, of the tribe of Judah.
Exo 31:3 - And I have filled him with the 1aSpirit of God, with bwisdom and with understanding and with knowledge and with all kinds of workmanship,
Exo 31:4 - To fashion skillful designs, to work in 1gold and in silver and in bronze,
Exo 31:5 - And in the 1cutting of stones for setting and in the 1carving of wood, to 1work in all kinds of workmanship.
Exo 31:6 - And now, I Myself have appointed with him 1aOholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the 2tribe of Dan; band in the heart of all who are cwise in heart I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you:
Exo 31:7 - The aTent of Meeting, and the bArk of the Testimony and the cexpiation cover that is on it, and all the utensils of the tent,
Exo 31:8 - And the atable and its utensils, and the pure blampstand with all its utensils, and the caltar of incense,
Exo 31:9 - And the aaltar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the blaver and its base,
Exo 31:10 - And the finely worked agarments, both the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons for them to serve as priests,
Exo 31:11 - And the aanointing oil, and the bincense of fragrant spices for the sanctuary. According to all that I have commanded you, they shall do.
M.  The Sabbath in relation to the building work of the tabernacle — 31:12-17
Exo 31:12 - And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo 31:13 - aSpeak also to the children of Israel, saying, You shall surely keep My 1Sabbaths; for it is a 2bsign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may cknow that I am Jehovah who sanctifies you.
Exo 31:14 - Therefore you shall keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. aEveryone who profanes it shall surely be put to 1death; for whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be 1cut off from among his people.
Exo 31:15 - Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day there is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to Jehovah; whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.
Exo 31:16 - Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.
Exo 31:17 - It is a asign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, and on the bseventh day He rested and was refreshed.
N.  The breaking of the law — 31:18-32:6
Exo 31:18 - And when He had finished speaking with him upon Mount Sinai, He gave to Moses the two 1tablets of the testimony, atablets of stone, written with the finger of God.

Exodus

Chapter 32 of 40

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Exo 32:1 - And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered against Aaron and said to him, Come, make a 1agod for us who will go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.
Exo 32:2 - And Aaron said to them, Tear off the gold 1rings, which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.
Exo 32:3 - And all the people tore off the golden rings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.
Exo 32:4 - And 1he took the gold from their hand and fashioned it with an engraving tool and made it into a molten 2acalf; and they said, This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!
Exo 32:5 - And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; then Aaron made a proclamation and said, Tomorrow shall be a feast to Jehovah.
Exo 32:6 - And they rose up early on the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings; and athe people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.
O.  The dealing with the idol and the idolaters — 32:7-29
Exo 32:7 - aAnd Jehovah spoke to Moses, Go, get down; for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have 1corrupted themselves.
Exo 32:8 - They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. They have made for themselves a molten calf, and they have aworshipped it and have sacrificed to it and said, This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!
Exo 32:9 - And Jehovah said to Moses, I have seen this people, and indeed they are a astiff-necked people.
Exo 32:10 - Now therefore let Me be, that My anger may burn against them and I may consume them; and I will make you into a great anation.
Exo 32:11 - And Moses 1aentreated Jehovah his God and said, Jehovah, why does Your anger burn against Your people, whom You brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
Exo 32:12 - aWhy should the Egyptians speak, saying, With evil intent He brought them out, to slay them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from Your burning anger, and repent of this ill against Your people.
Exo 32:13 - Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Yourself and said to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your aseed, and they shall inherit it forever.
Exo 32:14 - Thus Jehovah repented of the evil which He said He would do to His people.
Exo 32:15 - aThen Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets that were written on both of their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
Exo 32:16 - And the atablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved upon the tablets.
Exo 32:17 - And when Joshua heard the sound of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, There is a sound of war in the camp.
Exo 32:18 - But 1Moses said,It is not the sound of the cry of triumph,Neither is it the sound of the cry of defeat;But it is the sound of singing that I hear.Exo 32:19 - And as soon as he drew near to the camp, he saw the acalf and the dancing; and Moses’ anger burned, and he threw the tablets out of his hands and 1shattered them at the foot of the mountain.
Exo 32:20 - aAnd he took the calf which they had made, and he burned it with fire and ground it to powder and scattered it upon the water and made the children of Israel 1drink it.
Exo 32:21 - And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people do to you that you brought so great a sin upon them?
Exo 32:22 - And Aaron said, Do not let the anger of my lord burn. You know the people, that they are set on evil;
Exo 32:23 - For they said to me, aMake a god for us who will go before us; for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.
Exo 32:24 - aSo I said to them, Whoever has any gold, let them tear it off; so they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out.
Exo 32:25 - And when Moses saw that the people were without restraint (for Aaron had let them be without restraint to be a derision among those who rise up against them),
Exo 32:26 - Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, 1Whoever is for Jehovah, come to me. And all the sons of aLevi gathered themselves to him.
Exo 32:27 - And he said to them, Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel, Let each man put his sword upon his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and each man kill his 1brother, and each man his 1companion, and each man his 1neighbor.
Exo 32:28 - And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses, and that day about three thousand men among the people fell.
Exo 32:29 - And Moses said, Consecrate yourselves today to Jehovah, for every man has been aagainst his son and against his brother, that He may bestow upon you a blessing today.
P.  A companion of God — 32:30-33:23
Exo 32:30 - And on the next day Moses said to the people, You have sinned a great sin; and now I will go up to Jehovah; perhaps I can make 1expiation for your sin.
Exo 32:31 - aAnd Moses returned to Jehovah and said, Oh, this people have committed a great sin and have made a god of gold for themselves.
Exo 32:32 - And now if only You will forgive their sin; and if not, please blot me out of Your abook, which You have written.
Exo 32:33 - And Jehovah said to Moses, Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book.
Exo 32:34 - And now go, lead the people to the place about which I have spoken to you. Now My aAngel will go before you; nevertheless in the day when I 1visit, I will visit their sin upon them.
Exo 32:35 - And Jehovah struck the people because of what they did with the calf which Aaron had made.

Exodus

Chapter 33 of 40

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Exo 33:1 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, Depart; go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the aland of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, To your bseed I will give it.
Exo 33:2 - And I will send an 1aAngel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Exo 33:3 - Go up to a land flowing with amilk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, lest I consume you in the way, for you are a bstiff-necked people.
Exo 33:4 - And when the people heard this evil word, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments.
Exo 33:5 - Now Jehovah had said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You are a stiff-necked people; if I were to go up in your midst for one moment, I would consume you. Now therefore put off your ornaments from you, and I will 1decide what to do to you.
Exo 33:6 - Thus the children of Israel were stripped of their 1ornaments from Mount Horeb onward.
Exo 33:7 - Now Moses would take the tent and pitch it 1aoutside the camp, some distance from the camp; and he called it the btent of meeting. And everyone who sought Jehovah went out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp.
Exo 33:8 - And whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people would rise up and stand, every man at the entrance of his tent, and gaze after Moses, until he entered the tent.
Exo 33:9 - And whenever Moses entered the tent, the apillar of cloud would descend and stay at the entrance of the tent, and Jehovah would speak with Moses.
Exo 33:10 - When all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people would rise up and worship, every man at the entrance of his tent.
Exo 33:11 - And Jehovah would speak to Moses aface to face, just as a man speaks to his 1companion. And 2Moses would return to the camp, but his attendant bJoshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart out of the tent.
Exo 33:12 - And Moses said to Jehovah, See, You say to me, aBring up this people; but You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, I know you by name, and you have also found favor in My sight.
Exo 33:13 - Now therefore if I have found favor in Your sight, please let me know now Your aways, that I may know You, so that I may continue to find favor in Your sight. Consider also that this nation is Your bpeople.
Exo 33:14 - And He said, My 1apresence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.
Exo 33:15 - And he said to Him, If Your presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here.
Exo 33:16 - For how then shall it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that we, I and Your people, are adistinct from all the other people who are on the face of the earth?
Exo 33:17 - And Jehovah said to Moses, I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name.
Exo 33:18 - And he said, Please show me Your 1aglory.
Exo 33:19 - And He said, I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the aname of Jehovah before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and bI will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
Exo 33:20 - But He said, You cannot see My face, for ano man shall see Me and live.
Exo 33:21 - Then Jehovah said, Here, there is a place by Me, and you shall stand upon the rock;
Exo 33:22 - And while My glory passes by, I will put you in a 1cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with My hand until I have passed by.
Exo 33:23 - And I will take away My hand, and you will see My back; but My face shall not be seen.

Exodus

Chapter 34 of 40

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Q.  Moses' stay with God — 34:1-35
Exo 34:1 - Then Jehovah said to Moses, Cut two 1atablets of stone like the first ones, and I will bwrite upon the tablets the words which were on the first tablets, which you cshattered.
Exo 34:2 - And be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to Me, on the top of the mountain.
Exo 34:3 - And no one shall come up with you, nor let anyone be seen anywhere on the amountain, nor let the flocks or herds graze in front of that mountain.
Exo 34:4 - So 1Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first ones. Then Moses 2rose up early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, just as Jehovah had commanded him; and he took two tablets of stone in his hand.
Exo 34:5 - And Jehovah adescended in the cloud and took His place there with him and 1proclaimed the bname of Jehovah.
Exo 34:6 - Then Jehovah passed by before him and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah, God acompassionate and gracious, blong-suffering, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth,
Exo 34:7 - aKeeping lovingkindness with thousands of generations, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin; but He will by no means clear the guilty, bbut visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and upon the grandchildren, to the third and fourth generations.
Exo 34:8 - And Moses made haste and bowed to the ground and worshipped.
Exo 34:9 - And he said, If now I have found favor in Your sight, O Lord, let the Lord please ago in our midst; although they are a bstiff-necked people, You pardon our iniquity and our sin and take us for Your cinheritance.
Exo 34:10 - And He said, Now I hereby make a acovenant: Before all your people I will perform 1wonders such as have not been produced in all the earth, nor among any of the nations; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of Jehovah, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.
Exo 34:11 - Observe what I am commanding you today. I will adrive out before you the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.
Exo 34:12 - Be careful that you do not make any acovenant with the inhabitants of the land against which you are going, lest they become a snare in your midst.
Exo 34:13 - But their aaltars you shall tear down, and their pillars you shall shatter, and their 1Asherahs you shall cut down
Exo 34:14 - (For you shall not worship any other 1god; for Jehovah, whose name is Jealous, is a ajealous God),
Exo 34:15 - Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go as harlots after their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you, and you eat of his sacrifice;
Exo 34:16 - And you take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters go as harlots after their gods, and make your sons go as harlots after their gods.
Exo 34:17 - You shall not make for yourself any molten gods.
Exo 34:18 - aYou shall 1keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out from Egypt.
Exo 34:19 - All that aopens the womb is Mine, even the first male produced by all your livestock, of cattle or sheep.
Exo 34:20 - And the first offspring of a 1donkey you shall redeem with a alamb; but if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem, and they shall not appear before Me bempty.
Exo 34:21 - aSix days you shall work, but on the 1seventh day you shall cease from labor. Even in plowing time and in harvest time you shall cease from labor.
Exo 34:22 - And you shall keep the aFeast of Weeks, that is, of the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the bFeast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
Exo 34:23 - 1aThree times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord Jehovah, the God of Israel.
Exo 34:24 - 1For I will 2adrive out nations before you and 2benlarge your borders, and no one shall 2covet your land when you go up to appear before Jehovah your God three times in the year.
Exo 34:25 - aYou shall not slaughter the blood of My sacrifice with anything 1leavened, nor shall the sacrifice of the bFeast of the Passover remain all night until the 2morning.
Exo 34:26 - The 1first of the afirstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of Jehovah your God. bYou shall not 2boil a kid in its mother’s milk.
Exo 34:27 - And Jehovah said to Moses, Write these words, for according to the 1speaking of these words I have made a acovenant with you and with Israel.
Exo 34:28 - And he was there with Jehovah aforty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. And He wrote upon the btablets the words of the covenant, the Ten 1Commandments.
Exo 34:29 - And when Moses came down from Mount Sinai—and the two atablets of the testimony were in Moses’ hand when he came down from the mountain—Moses did not know that the skin of his bface shone by reason of 1His speaking with him.
Exo 34:30 - And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, at that time the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.
Exo 34:31 - But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers in the assembly returned to him, and Moses spoke to them.
Exo 34:32 - And afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them in commandment all that Jehovah had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.
Exo 34:33 - And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a 1aveil over his face.
Exo 34:34 - But whenever Moses went in before Jehovah to speak with Him, he would remove the 1veil until he came out; and when he came out and spoke to the children of Israel what he had been commanded,
Exo 34:35 - The children of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone. Then Moses would put the veil back on his face until he went in to speak with Him.

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Chapter 35 of 40

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V.  Building the tabernacle — 35:1-40:38

A.  The making of the tabernacle with its furniture and the garments for the priests — 35:1-39:31
1.  A word concerning the Sabbath — 35:1-3
Exo 35:1 - And Moses gathered all the assembly of the children of Israel and said to them, These are the words which Jehovah has commanded you to do.
Exo 35:2 - aSix days shall work be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a 1Sabbath of complete rest, holy to Jehovah; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.
Exo 35:3 - You shall kindle no fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.
2.  The offering of the materials and the preparing of the workers — 35:4-36:7
Exo 35:4 - aAnd Moses spoke to all the assembly of the children of Israel, saying, This is what Jehovah has commanded, saying,
Exo 35:5 - 1Take from among yourselves a 2heave offering to Jehovah; whoever is of a willing aheart, let him bring it, the heave offering of Jehovah: gold and silver and bronze,
Exo 35:6 - And blue and purple and scarlet strands, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,
Exo 35:7 - And rams’ skins dyed red, and porpoise skins, and acacia wood,
Exo 35:8 - And oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,
Exo 35:9 - And onyx stones and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.
Exo 35:10 - And let every man who is 1awise in heart among you come and make all that Jehovah has commanded:
Exo 35:11 - aThe tabernacle, its btent, and its covering; its clasps and its boards; its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;
Exo 35:12 - The aArk and its poles, the expiation cover, and the bveil of the screen;
Exo 35:13 - The atable and its poles and all its utensils, and the bbread of the Presence;
Exo 35:14 - And the alampstand for the light and its utensils and its lamps, and the boil for the light;
Exo 35:15 - And the aaltar of incense and its poles; and the banointing oil and the fragrant cincense; and the dscreen for the entrance, at the entrance of the tabernacle;
Exo 35:16 - The aaltar of burnt offering, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils; the blaver and its base;
Exo 35:17 - The hangings of the acourt, its pillars, and its sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court;
Exo 35:18 - The pegs of the tabernacle and the pegs of the court, and their cords;
Exo 35:19 - The finely worked garments for ministering in the sanctuary, the holy agarments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons for them to serve as priests.
Exo 35:20 - And all the assembly of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.
Exo 35:21 - And they came, everyone whose heart 1lifted him up and everyone whose 1spirit made him awilling, and brought the bheave offering of Jehovah for the work of the Tent of Meeting and for all its service and for the holy garments.
Exo 35:22 - And they came, men together with women, as many as were of a willing aheart, and brought nose brings and earrings and signet rings and pendants, all kinds of articles of gold; even every man who waved a wave offering of gold to Jehovah.
Exo 35:23 - And every man with whom was found ablue and purple and scarlet strands and fine linen and goats’ hair and rams’ skins dyed red and porpoise skins brought them.
Exo 35:24 - Everyone who offered a heave offering of silver and bronze brought the heave offering of Jehovah, and every man with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service brought it.
Exo 35:25 - And all the women who were awise in heart spun with their hands and brought what they had spun, the blue and the purple and the scarlet strands and the fine linen.
Exo 35:26 - And all the women whose heart lifted them up in wisdom spun the goats’ hair.
Exo 35:27 - And the leaders brought the onyx stones and the stones for setting for the ephod and for the breastplate,
Exo 35:28 - And the spices and the oil for the light and for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense.
Exo 35:29 - The children of Israel brought a 1freewill offering to Jehovah, every man and woman whose aheart made them willing to bring for all the work, which Jehovah had commanded through Moses to be done.
Exo 35:30 - aAnd Moses said to the children of Israel, See, Jehovah has called by name bBezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.
Exo 35:31 - And He has filled him with the aSpirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, and with knowledge, and with all kinds of workmanship;
Exo 35:32 - Even to fashion skillful designs, to work in gold and in silver and in bronze,
Exo 35:33 - And in the cutting of stones for setting and in the carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship.
Exo 35:34 - And He has put in his heart to 1teach, both he and aOholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.
Exo 35:35 - He has filled them with awisdom of heart, to work all kinds of workmanship, of an 1engraver and of a skillful workman and of an embroiderer in blue and in purple and in scarlet strands and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do all kinds of workmanship and of those who fashion skillful designs.

Exodus

Chapter 36 of 40

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Exo 36:1 - And aBezalel and bOholiab and every man who is cwise in heart, in whom Jehovah has put wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work for the service of the sanctuary, shall work according to all that Jehovah has commanded.
Exo 36:2 - And Moses called aBezalel and Oholiab and every man who was bwise in heart, in whose heart Jehovah had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart 1lifted him up to come to the work to do it.
Exo 36:3 - And they received from Moses every aheave offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it. And they still kept bringing to him freewill offerings every morning.
Exo 36:4 - And all the wise men who did all the work of the sanctuary came, every man from his work which he was doing,
Exo 36:5 - And spoke to Moses, saying, The people are bringing much more than enough for the service of the work which Jehovah commanded us to do.
Exo 36:6 - And Moses gave commandment; and a proclamation was passed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman produce any more material for the heave offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.
Exo 36:7 - For the material they had was sufficient and more than enough for all the work, to do it.
3.  The curtains and coverings of the tabernacle — 36:8-19
Exo 36:8 - aAnd all the bwise in heart among those who did the work 1made the tabernacle with ten 2curtains, of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet strands, with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman. 3cBezalel made them.
Exo 36:9 - The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain, four cubits; all the curtains had the same measurement.
Exo 36:10 - And he joined five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he joined to one another.
Exo 36:11 - And he made loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain at the end in the set; likewise he made them in the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set.
Exo 36:12 - He made fifty loops on the one curtain, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was in the second set; the loops were opposite one another.
Exo 36:13 - And he made fifty clasps of gold and joined the curtains to one another with the clasps; so the tabernacle became one.
Exo 36:14 - And he made curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; eleven curtains he made in all.
Exo 36:15 - The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain, four cubits; the eleven curtains had the same measurement.
Exo 36:16 - And he joined five of the curtains by themselves, and six of the curtains by themselves.
Exo 36:17 - And he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the set, and fifty loops he made upon the edge of the curtain which was outermost in the second set.
Exo 36:18 - And he made fifty clasps of bronze to join the tent together, that it might become one.
Exo 36:19 - And he made a covering for the tent, of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of porpoise skins above it.
4.  The boards of the tabernacle — 36:20-34
Exo 36:20 - aAnd he made the 1boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up.
Exo 36:21 - Ten cubits was the length of a board, and one and a half cubits, the width of each board.
Exo 36:22 - Each board had two tenons fitted to one another; thus he did for all the boards of the tabernacle.
Exo 36:23 - And he made the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward.
Exo 36:24 - And he made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards, two sockets under one board for its two tenons and two sockets under the next board for its two tenons.
Exo 36:25 - And for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards
Exo 36:26 - And their forty sockets of silver, two sockets under one board and two sockets under the next board.
Exo 36:27 - And for the rear of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
Exo 36:28 - And two boards he made for the corners of the tabernacle in the rear.
Exo 36:29 - And they were double below, and at its top they were completely joined to a single ring; thus he did to both of them for the two corners.
Exo 36:30 - And there were eight boards with their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets, two sockets under every board.
Exo 36:31 - And he made bars of acacia wood, five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle
Exo 36:32 - And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle at the rear westward.
Exo 36:33 - And he made the middle bar to pass through in the center of the boards from end to end.
Exo 36:34 - And he overlaid the boards with gold and made their rings of gold as holders for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
5.  The veil within the tabernacle — 36:35-36
Exo 36:35 - aAnd he made the 1veil of blue and purple and scarlet strands and fine twined linen; he made it with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman.
Exo 36:36 - And he made for it four pillars of acacia and overlaid them with gold; their hooks were of gold. And he cast for them four sockets of silver.
6.  The screen for the entrance of the tent — 36:37-38
Exo 36:37 - aAnd he made a 1screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet strands and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer,
Exo 36:38 - And its five pillars with their hooks. And he overlaid their capitals and their connecting rods with gold, and their five sockets were of bronze.

Exodus

Chapter 37 of 40

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7.  The Ark of the Testimony — 37:1-9
Exo 37:1 - aAnd bBezalel made the 1Ark of acacia wood: two and a half cubits was its length; and one and a half cubits, its width; and one and a half cubits, its height.
Exo 37:2 - And he overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a rim of gold around it.
Exo 37:3 - And he cast four rings of gold for it, on its four feet; and two rings were on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.
Exo 37:4 - And he made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.
Exo 37:5 - And he put the poles into the rings on the sides of the Ark to carry the Ark.
Exo 37:6 - And he made an expiation cover of pure gold: two and a half cubits was its length, and one and a half cubits, its width.
Exo 37:7 - And he made two cherubim of gold; of beaten work he made them, at the two ends of the expiation cover,
Exo 37:8 - One cherub at the one end and one cherub at the other end; of one piece with the expiation cover he made the cherubim at its two ends.
Exo 37:9 - And the cherubim spread out their wings above the cover, covering the expiation cover with their wings, with their faces toward one another; the faces of the cherubim were toward the expiation cover.
8.  The table of the bread of the Presence — 37:10-16
Exo 37:10 - aAnd he made the 1table of acacia wood: two cubits was its length, and a cubit its width, and one and a half cubits its height.
Exo 37:11 - And he overlaid it with pure gold and made a rim of gold around it.
Exo 37:12 - And he made a frame of a handbreadth around it, and he made a rim of gold for its frame around it.
Exo 37:13 - And he cast for it four rings of gold and put the rings on the four corners that were on its four feet.
Exo 37:14 - The rings were close to the frame as holders for the poles to carry the table.
Exo 37:15 - And he made the poles of acacia wood to carry the table and overlaid them with gold.
Exo 37:16 - And he made the utensils which were to be upon the table: its plates and its cups and its bowls and its pitchers with which to pour out drink offerings, of pure gold.
9.  The golden lampstand — 37:17-24
Exo 37:17 - aAnd he made the 1lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand with its base and its shaft of beaten work; its cups, its calyxes, and its blossom buds were of one piece with it.
Exo 37:18 - And there were six branches going out of its sides; three branches of the lampstand out of one of its sides, and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side;
Exo 37:19 - Three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a calyx and a blossom bud; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a calyx and a blossom bud—so for the six branches going out of the lampstand.
Exo 37:20 - And on the lampstand were four cups made like almond blossoms, its calyxes and its blossom buds;
Exo 37:21 - And a calyx under two branches of one piece with it, and a calyx under two branches of one piece with it, and a calyx under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of it.
Exo 37:22 - Their calyxes and their branches were of one piece with it; all of it was one beaten work of pure gold.
Exo 37:23 - And he made its seven lamps and its tongs and its firepans, of pure gold.
Exo 37:24 - He made it of a talent of pure gold, and all its utensils.
10.  The altar of incense — 37:25-28
Exo 37:25 - aAnd he made the 1altar of incense of acacia wood; a cubit was its length, and a cubit, its width, square; and two cubits, its height; its horns were of one piece with it.
Exo 37:26 - And he overlaid it with pure gold, its top and its sides around it and its horns; and he made a rim of gold around it.
Exo 37:27 - And he made for it two golden rings under its rim, on its two sides, on its opposite sides, as holders for poles with which to carry it.
Exo 37:28 - And he made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.
11.  The holy anointing oil and the pure incense — 37:29
Exo 37:29 - And he made the holy 1aanointing oil and the pure 1bfragrant incense, the work of a compounder.

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Chapter 38 of 40

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12.  The altar of burnt offerings — 38:1-7
Exo 38:1 - aAnd he made the 1altar of burnt offering, of acacia wood; five cubits was its length, and five cubits, its width, square; and three cubits, its height.
Exo 38:2 - And he made its horns upon its four corners; its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.
Exo 38:3 - And he made all the utensils of the altar: the pots and the shovels and the basins, the forks and the firepans; all its utensils he made of bronze.
Exo 38:4 - And he made a grating of network of bronze for the altar, under its ledge beneath, reaching halfway up.
Exo 38:5 - And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grating of bronze, as holders for the poles.
Exo 38:6 - And he made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze.
Exo 38:7 - And he put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it; he made it hollow, with boards.
13.  The laver of bronze — 38:8
Exo 38:8 - aAnd he made the 1laver of bronze and its base of bronze from the mirrors of the serving women who served at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
14.  The court of the tabernacle — 38:9-20
Exo 38:9 - aAnd he made the 1court. On the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits;
Exo 38:10 - Their twenty pillars and their twenty sockets were of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their connecting rods were of silver.
Exo 38:11 - And on the north side, one hundred cubits; their twenty pillars and their twenty sockets were of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their connecting rods were of silver.
Exo 38:12 - And on the west side there were hangings of fifty cubits, with their ten pillars and their ten sockets; the hooks of the pillars and their connecting rods were of silver.
Exo 38:13 - And the width of the east side eastward was fifty cubits.
Exo 38:14 - The hangings for the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three sockets;
Exo 38:15 - And so for the other side; on both sides of the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three sockets.
Exo 38:16 - All the hangings around the court were of fine twined linen.
Exo 38:17 - And the sockets for the pillars were of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their connecting rods were of silver; and the overlaying of their capitals was of silver; and all the pillars of the court were connected with silver.
Exo 38:18 - And the screen for the gate of the court was the work of an embroiderer, of blue and purple and scarlet strands and fine twined linen; and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the width was five cubits, corresponding to the hangings of the court.
Exo 38:19 - And their four pillars and their four sockets were of bronze; their hooks were of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals and their connecting rods were of silver.
Exo 38:20 - And all the pegs of the tabernacle and of the court all around were of bronze.
15.  Counting the offered materials — 38:21-31
Exo 38:21 - This is the sum of the things for the tabernacle, the aTabernacle of the Testimony, as they were 1counted according to the commandment of Moses for the service of the Levites by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
Exo 38:22 - aAnd bBezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Jehovah commanded Moses.
Exo 38:23 - And with him was aOholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and a skillful workman and an embroiderer in blue and in purple and in scarlet strands and in fine linen.
Exo 38:24 - All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the wave offering, was twenty-nine talents and seven hundred thirty shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.
Exo 38:25 - And the silver of those who were numbered of the assembly was one hundred talents and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary;
Exo 38:26 - A beka a head, that is, half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for each one who was enrolled among their numbering, from twenty years old and upward, for asix hundred three thousand, five hundred fifty men.
Exo 38:27 - And the hundred talents of silver were for casting the asockets of the sanctuary and the sockets of the veil; one hundred sockets for the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
Exo 38:28 - And of the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars and overlaid their capitals and made connecting rods for them.
Exo 38:29 - And the bronze of the wave offering was seventy talents, and two thousand four hundred shekels.
Exo 38:30 - And with it he made the sockets for the entrance of the Tent of Meeting and the bronze altar and the bronze grating for it and all the utensils of the altar
Exo 38:31 - And the asockets around the court and the sockets of the gate of the court and all the bpegs of the tabernacle and all the pegs around the court.

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Chapter 39 of 40

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16.  Making the garments for the priests — 39:1-31
Exo 39:1 - aAnd from the blue and the purple and the scarlet strands, they made finely worked 1garments for ministering in the sanctuary, and made the holy bgarments for Aaron, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
Exo 39:2 - And 1aBezalel made the ephod of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet strands and fine twined linen.
Exo 39:3 - And they beat the gold into thin sheets and cut them into threads, to work into the blue and into the purple and into the scarlet strands and into the fine linen, the work of a skillful workman.
Exo 39:4 - They made shoulder pieces for it, joined to it; at the two edges it was joined.
Exo 39:5 - And the skillfully woven band, which was on it 1for its fastening, was of one piece with it and like it in workmanship, of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet strands and fine twined linen, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
Exo 39:6 - And they made the onyx stones enclosed in 1settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a signet according to the names of the sons of Israel.
Exo 39:7 - And he put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
Exo 39:8 - aAnd he made the breastplate, the work of a skillful workman, like the work of the ephod, of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet strands and of fine twined linen.
Exo 39:9 - It was square; they made the breastplate doubled; a span in its length and a span in its width when doubled.
Exo 39:10 - And they filled it with four rows of stones. The first row was a row of a sardius, a topaz, and an emerald;
Exo 39:11 - And the second row, a 1carbuncle, a sapphire, and a diamond;
Exo 39:12 - And the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
Exo 39:13 - And the fourth row, a 1chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in settings of gold in their enclosures.
Exo 39:14 - And the stones were according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, each according to his name, for the twelve tribes.
Exo 39:15 - And they made on the breastplate twisted chains, a corded work of pure gold.
Exo 39:16 - And they made two settings of gold and two rings of gold, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
Exo 39:17 - And they put the two cords of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.
Exo 39:18 - And the two other ends of the two cords they put on the two settings and put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it.
Exo 39:19 - And they made two rings of gold and put them on the two ends of the breastplate on its edge, which was toward the ephod on the inside.
Exo 39:20 - And they made two rings of gold and put them on the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod on the front of it, close to the place where it is joined, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.
Exo 39:21 - And they bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a cord of blue strands, that it might be upon the skillfully woven band of the ephod and that the breastplate might not come loose from the ephod, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
Exo 39:22 - aAnd he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue strands,
Exo 39:23 - And the opening of the robe in its center like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding edge around its opening so that it would not be torn.
Exo 39:24 - And they made on the hem of the robe pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet strands, twined.
Exo 39:25 - And they made bells of pure gold and put the bells between the pomegranates on the hem of the robe all around, between the pomegranates;
Exo 39:26 - A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, on the hem of the robe all around, to minister in; as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
Exo 39:27 - And they made the atunics of fine linen of woven work for Aaron and for his sons,
Exo 39:28 - And the turban of fine linen, and the headdresses of high hats of fine linen, and the linen trousers of fine twined linen,
Exo 39:29 - And the girding sash of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet strands, the work of an embroiderer, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
Exo 39:30 - aAnd they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold and wrote an inscription upon it, like the engravings of a signet: HOLINESS TO JEHOVAH.
Exo 39:31 - And they tied to it a cord of blue strands to fasten it on the turban above, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
B.  The work of the tabernacle presented to, examined by, and blessed by Moses — 39:32-43
Exo 39:32 - Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished, and the children of Israel did according to all that Jehovah had commanded Moses; so they did.
Exo 39:33 - aAnd they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent and all its furnishings, its clasps, its boards, its bars, and its pillars and its sockets;
Exo 39:34 - And the covering of rams’ skins dyed red and the covering of porpoise skins, and the veil of the screen;
Exo 39:35 - The Ark of the Testimony and its poles and the expiation cover;
Exo 39:36 - The table, all its utensils, and the bread of the Presence;
Exo 39:37 - The pure lampstand, its lamps, even the lamps set in order, and all its utensils, and the oil for the light;
Exo 39:38 - And the golden altar and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense and the screen for the entrance of the tent;
Exo 39:39 - The bronze altar, and its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils; the laver and its base;
Exo 39:40 - The hangings of the court, its pillars, and its sockets; and the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, and its pegs; and all the utensils for the service of the tabernacle, for the Tent of Meeting;
Exo 39:41 - The finely worked garments for ministering in the sanctuary, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons for them to serve as priests.
Exo 39:42 - According to all that Jehovah had commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work.
Exo 39:43 - And Moses saw all the work; and there it was—they had done it; just as Jehovah had commanded, so they had done. And Moses blessed them.

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Chapter 40 of 40

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C.  The erecting of the tabernacle — 40:1-38
1.  The commandments of the Lord to Moses concerning the raising up of the tabernacle — vv. 1-16
Exo 40:1 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo 40:2 - On the 1afirst day of the first month you shall raise up the btabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.
Exo 40:3 - And you shall put the 1aArk of the Testimony there, and you shall screen the Ark with the bveil.
Exo 40:4 - And you shall bring in the atable and arrange its setting, and you shall bring in the blampstand and set up its lamps.
Exo 40:5 - And you shall put the agolden altar for incense before the Ark of the Testimony and set up the screen of the entrance to the tabernacle.
Exo 40:6 - And you shall put the aaltar of burnt offering before the entrance of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.
Exo 40:7 - And you shall put the alaver between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water there.
Exo 40:8 - And you shall set up the acourt all around and put up the screen of the gate of the court.
Exo 40:9 - aAnd you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and sanctify it and all its utensils; and it shall be holy.
Exo 40:10 - And you shall anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and sanctify the altar; and the altar shall be most holy.
Exo 40:11 - And you shall anoint the laver and its base, and sanctify it.
Exo 40:12 - And you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and wash them with water.
Exo 40:13 - And you shall put the aholy garments upon Aaron, and you shall anoint him and sanctify him that he may serve Me as a priest.
Exo 40:14 - You shall also bring his sons and put tunics upon them,
Exo 40:15 - And you shall anoint them as you have anointed their father that they may serve Me as priests; and their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting apriesthood throughout their generations.
Exo 40:16 - Thus Moses did; according to all that Jehovah had commanded him, so he did.
2.  The erection of the tabernacle — vv. 17-33
Exo 40:17 - And in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the atabernacle was raised up.
Exo 40:18 - And Moses raised up the tabernacle and put down its sockets and set up its boards and put in its bars and raised up its pillars.
Exo 40:19 - And he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent over it from above, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
Exo 40:20 - Then he took the testimony and put it into the aArk, and he set the poles onto the Ark and put the expiation cover upon the Ark above it.
Exo 40:21 - And he brought the Ark into the tabernacle and set up the aveil for the screen and screened the Ark of the Testimony, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
Exo 40:22 - Then he put the atable in the Tent of Meeting on the north side of the tabernacle outside the veil.
Exo 40:23 - And he arranged the bread in order upon it before Jehovah, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
Exo 40:24 - Then he put the lampstand in the Tent of Meeting opposite the table, on the south side of the tabernacle.
Exo 40:25 - And he set up the alamps before Jehovah, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
Exo 40:26 - Then he put the golden altar in the Tent of Meeting before the veil,
Exo 40:27 - And he burnt fragrant aincense on it, as Jehovah commanded Moses.
Exo 40:28 - Then he set up the ascreen of the entrance to the tabernacle.
Exo 40:29 - He also set the altar of aburnt offering at the entrance of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meal offering, as Jehovah commanded Moses.
Exo 40:30 - And he set the laver between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water there for awashing.
Exo 40:31 - And Moses and Aaron and his sons would wash their hands and their feet with water from it;
Exo 40:32 - Whenever they went into the Tent of Meeting and whenever they came near the altar, they washed; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
Exo 40:33 - And he raised up the acourt all around the tabernacle and the altar, and put up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.
3.  The glory of the Lord filling the tabernacle — vv. 34-35
4.  Moving with God's dwelling place — vv. 36-38
Exo 40:34 - Then the acloud covered the 1Tent of Meeting, and the 2bglory of Jehovah filled the tabernacle.
Exo 40:35 - And Moses was anot able to enter the Tent of Meeting, because the cloud settled on it and the glory of Jehovah filled the tabernacle.
Exo 40:36 - And whenever the 1acloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel set out on all their journeys;
Exo 40:37 - But if the cloud was not taken up, they did not set out until the day that it was taken up.
Exo 40:38 - For the cloud of Jehovah was upon the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in 1it by night, in the sight of all the 2house of Israel on all their journeys.
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