The Book of Exodus
1 And these are the names of Israel’s sons who came into Egypt—came with Jacob, each bringing his family: 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; 3 Issacar, Zebulun, and Benjamin; 4 Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher; 5 and the total of the persons that had come of Jacob’s body was seventy persons. And Joseph was already in Egypt. 6 And Joseph and all his brothers died, and all that generation; 7 and the sons of Israel bred and swarmed and multiplied, and grew very numerous indeed, and the country was full of them.
8 And there arose over Egypt a new king who had not known Joseph; 9 and he said to his people “Here is the people of the sons of Israel greater and more numerous than we: 10 come, let us use shrewd policy with them, for fear they should multiply and when we get into a war they should reinforce our ill-wishers and attack us and get up out of the country.” 11 And he set corvée captains over them to wear them down with the loads they carried; and they built storage cities, Pithom and Raʽamses, for the Pharaoh. 12 But the more they wore them down, the more they multiplied and the more they spread; 13 and the Egyptians conceived a horror of the sons of Israel, and exploited them ruthlessly, 14 and embittered their lives with overwork on brick and mortar and all field work, all their work that they exploited them on.
15 And the king of Egypt said to the midwives who attended the Hebrew women, of whom the name of the first was Shiphrah and the name of the second Puʽah, 16* “When you are attending the Hebrew women, see while they are on the birthstool: if it is a son have it die, but if it is a daughter let it live”; 17 but the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt told them, but spared the children’s lives. 18 And the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them “How came you to do such a thing and spare the children’s lives?” 19 and the midwives said to the Pharaoh “Because Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women, because they are so vigorous: before the midwife gets to them they have given birth.” 20 And God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew very numerous. 21 And because the midwives had feared God he made them heads of families.
22 And the Pharaoh gave all his people the order “Every son that is born, throw it in the Nile, but save the life of every daughter.”
2 And a man of the family of Levi went and married Levi’s daughter; 2 and the woman conceived and had a son, and saw it was a fine one, and kept him under cover three months, 3 but could not any longer. And she took a box made of papyrus stalks, and asphalted it with asphalt and pitch, and laid the child in it and laid it in the weeds along the Nile; 4 and his sister took her stand at a distance to find out what would be done with him. 5 And the Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe by the Nile, and her maids went along the Nile; and she saw the box among the weeds, and reached out her hand and took it, 6 and opened it and saw, and found it was a crying boy; and she did not want it hurt, and said “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.” 7 And his sister said to the Pharaoh’s daughter “Shall I go and call a nursing woman for you, one of the Hebrews, to nurse the child for you?” 8 And the Pharaoh’s daughter said “Go”; and the lass went and called the child’s mother, 9 and the Pharaoh’s daughter said to her “Take this child along and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” And the woman took the child and nursed him; 10 and the child grew big, and she brought him to the Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became son to her. And she named him Moses, and said “Because I drew him out of the water.”
11 And in those days Moses grew up and went out where his brothers were and saw the loads they carried; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brothers. 12 And he turned his head this way and that, and saw there was nobody, and he struck down the Egyptian and covered him up in the sand. 13 And he went out the next day and found two Hebrews tussling, and said to the aggressor “What are you striking your mate for?” 14 and he said “Who appointed you captain and judge over us? are you thinking of killing me as you did the Egyptian?” and Moses was afraid, and said “Why, the affair has become known.” 15 And the Pharaoh heard of this affair, and tried to kill Moses; and Moses left the country for fear of the Pharaoh, and settled in the country of Midian.
And he came into the country of Midian and sat down by the well. 16 And the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock, 17 and the men shepherds came and drove them away; and Moses stood up and gave them help and watered their flock. 18 And they came to their father Reghuel, and he said “How comes it you are in early today?” 19 and they said “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds, and drew water for us too, and watered the flock.” 20 And he said to his daughters “And where is he? what did you leave the man there for? invite him to come to me and have something to eat.” 21 And Moses consented to stay with the man; and he gave his daughter Sipporah to Moses, 22* and she had a son, whom he named Gershom, because he thought “I was an emigrant in a foreign country.”
23 And during that long time the king of Egypt died; and the sons of Israel moaned at their slavery; and they cried out, and their clamor at their slavery went up to God, 24 and God heard their groaning. And God remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; 25* and God saw the sons of Israel, and God took cognizance.
3 And Moses was tending the flock for his father-in-law Priest Ithro of Midian; and he drove the flock back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain Horeb, 2 and Jehovah’s Angel appeared to him in a blaze of fire out of the middle of a bush; and he saw, there was the bush burning with fire, and the bush was not consumed. 3 And Moses thought “I must step up and see this remarkable sight, how it is that the bush does not burn up.”
4 And Jehovah saw that he was stepping up to see, and God called out to him from the middle of the bush “Moses, Moses!” and he said “Here I am,” 5 and he said “Do not come near here; slip your shoes off your feet, because the place you are standing on is sacred soil.” 6 And he said “I am your father’s God, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob.” And Moses veiled his face, because he was afraid to look on God.
7 And Jehovah said “I have seen my people’s wretched state in Egypt, and have heard their outcry because of their overseers; for I know their pain; 8 and I have come down to deliver them out of the Egyptians’ hands and to bring them up out of that country to a broad and good country, a country that runs milk and honey, the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivvites and the Jebusites. 9 Now the outcry of the sons of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the oppression the Egyptians are inflicting on them. 10 Now come on, I will send you to the Pharaoh; and bring my people the sons of Israel out of Egypt.” 11 And Moses said to God “Who am I to go to the Pharaoh and bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?” 12* And he said “Because I am to be with you; and this is the token you are to have that it was I who sent you: when you bring the people out of Egypt you shall worship God on this mountain.”
13 And Moses said to God “Suppose I come to the sons of Israel and say to them ‘Your fathers’ God has sent me to you,’ and they say to me ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” 14 And God said to Moses “I will be what I will be”; and he said “You are to say to the sons of Israel ‘Will Be has sent me to you.’”
15 And God said to Moses again “You are to say to the sons of Israel ‘Jehovah, your fathers’ God, Abraham’s God, Isaac’s God, Jacob’s God, has sent me to you’; this is my name forever, and this my identification for generation after generation. 16 Go bring together the elders of Israel and say to them ‘Your fathers’ God Jehovah has appeared to me, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, with the message “I have taken up your case, and what is being done to you in Egypt; 17 and I have said I will bring you up out of Egyptian wretchedness to the country of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivvites and the Jebusites, to a country that runs milk and honey”’; 18 and they will listen to you. And you and the elders of Israel shall go in to the king of Egypt and say to him ‘Jehovah, the Hebrews’ God, has met us: now let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to our God Jehovah.’ 19 And I know the king of Egypt will not give you a chance to go without force; 20 but I will put out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders that I will do among them, and after that he will let you go. 21* And I will give the people favor in the Egyptians’ eyes, and when you go you shall not go empty-handed, 22* but each woman shall ask her neighbor and her lodger for articles of gold and silver and clothing, and you shall put them on your children and despoil the Egyptians.”
4 And Moses answered “And suppose they do not believe me nor obey me, because they say ‘Jehovah has not appeared to you’?” 2 And Jehovah said to him “What’s that in your hand?” and he said “A stick.” 3 And he said “Throw it on the ground!” and he did, and it turned to a snake, and Moses ran away from it. 4 And Jehovah said to Moses “Put out your hand and take it by the tail!” and he put out his hand and grasped it, and it turned to a stick in his hand. 5 “In order that they may believe that Jehovah, their fathers’ God, Abraham’s God, Isaac’s God, Jacob’s God, has appeared to you.” 6 And again Jehovah said to him “Put your hand into your bosom!” and he did, and drew it out and found his hand snowy with leprosy. 7* And he said “Put your hand back in your bosom!” and he did, and drew it out of his bosom and found it had turned back to be like the rest of his flesh. 8 “And if they do not believe you nor listen to the first token, they will believe the second; 9 and if they do not believe both the tokens nor listen to you, take Nile water and pour it out on the dry ground and the water you took from the Nile shall become blood on the dry ground.”
10 And Moses said to Jehovah “O Lord, I am no talker, I never was one and I am not since you have spoken to your servant, but I have a clumsy mouth and tongue.” 11* And Jehovah said to him “Who put a mouth in man? or who renders one dumb or deaf, or clear-sighted or blind? am I not Jehovah? 12 Now go, and I will be with your mouth and instruct you what to say.”
13 But Moses said “O Lord, send by somebody or other.” 14 And Jehovah was angry at Moses, and said “Aaron the Levite is your brother, is he not? I know he does talk; and he is coming right out to meet you, too, and will be joyful. 15 And you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth and with his, and instruct you both what to do; 16 and he shall speak to the people for you; and you shall have him for mouth and he shall have you for God. 17 And you are to take in your hand this stick, with which you are to do the tokens.”
18 And Moses went his way, and went back to his father-in-law Ithro and said to him “Let me go and revisit my brothers in Egypt and see if they are still alive”; and Ithro said to Moses “Go, and good betide you.”
19 And Jehovah said to Moses in Midian “Go, return to Egypt, because all the men who were looking for your life are dead”; 20* and Moses took his wife and sons on a donkey and went back to Egypt; and Moses took along God’s stick in his hand. 21 And Jehovah said to Moses as he took his way back to Egypt “See, all the miracles I have put into your power you shall do before the Pharaoh; but I will make him headstrong, and he will not let the people go. 22 And you shall say to the Pharaoh ‘See, Israel is my son, my eldest-born; 23 and I said to you “Let my son go to worship me,” and you refused to let him go: I am going to kill your son, your eldest-born.’”
24 And on the road, at a halting-place for the night, he met with Jehovah, who tried to kill him. 25 And Sipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched it to his legs and said “Because you are blood-bridegroom of mine”; 26 and he let him alone. She then said “blood-bridegroom” of circumcisions.
27 And Jehovah said to Aaron “Go to the wilderness to meet Moses”; and he went, and met with him at the Mount of God, and kissed him. 28 And Moses told Aaron all Jehovah’s message that he had sent him with, and all the tokens he had charged him with.
29 And Moses and Aaron went and brought together all the elders of the sons of Israel; 30 and Aaron recited all the words that Jehovah had spoken to Moses and did the tokens before the people; 31* and the people believed, and rejoiced that Jehovah had taken up the case of the sons of Israel and had seen their wretched condition. And they bowed down and did reverence.
5 And afterward Moses and Aaron went in and said to the Pharaoh “Says Israel’s God Jehovah, Let my people go and hold a feast to me in the wilderness.” 2 But the Pharaoh said “Who is Jehovah that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know Jehovah; and I am not going to let Israel go.”
3 And they said “The God of the Hebrews has met us: let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to our God Jehovah, for fear he should cut us down with pestilence or war.” 4 But the king of Egypt said to them “Why do you, Moses and Aaron, set the people to neglecting their work? Go carry your loads!”
5 And the Pharaoh said “Here there are too many of the populace already, and you are having them leave off carrying their loads.” 6 And the Pharaoh gave orders to the overseers of the people, and to their foremen, 7 “Do not give the people straw for making the bricks any longer as you have been doing: let them go and pick up straw for themselves. 8 And set them the same rate of bricks they have been making, do not reduce it, because they are having it too easy and that is why they cry out ‘let us go and sacrifice to our God.’ 9 Load the men heavily with work to do, and do not have them paying attention to fictions.” 10 And the people’s overseers and foremen went out and said to the people “Says the Pharaoh, I am not giving you straw; 11 go yourselves and get yourselves straw wherever you find it, because there is no reduction being made in your work.” 12 And the people scattered all through Egypt to pick up stubble and straw; 13 and the overseers hurried them, saying “Finish your work, a day’s stint in a day, as you did when there was straw”; 14 and the foremen of the sons of Israel, whom the Pharaoh’s overseers had set over them, were beaten and told “How comes it you have not finished your quota of brickmaking as you used to, neither yesterday nor today?” 15 And the foremen of the sons of Israel came and cried out to the Pharaoh “Why should you do like this to your servants? 16 Your servants are given no straw, and bricks they tell us to make; and here your servants are being beaten, and you are doing wrong.” 17 But he said “You are having it too easy, too easy; that is why you are saying ‘Let us go sacrifice to Jehovah.’ 18 Now go work; and you shall not be given straw, and you shall deliver the same quantity of bricks.”
19 And the foremen of the sons of Israel saw them in trouble at “You shall not reduce your bricks, a day’s stint in a day”; 20 and Moses and Aaron found them standing to meet them as they came out from the Pharaoh, 21* and they said to them “Jehovah look on you and give judgment for your having made the Pharaoh and his officers hate the sight of us, putting a sword into their hands to kill us.”
22 And Moses went back to Jehovah and said “Lord, why have you done mischief to this people? what did you send me for, 23 when from the time I went in to the Pharaoh to speak in your name he has done mischief to this people, and you have not been delivering your people?”
6 And Jehovah said to Moses “Now you shall see what I will do to the Pharaoh; for by force he shall let you go and by force he shall expel you from his country.”
2 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, and said to him “I am Jehovah; and 3 I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai, not being known to them by my name Jehovah, 4 and also established my covenant with them, to give them the country of Canaan, the country in which they lived their immigrant life. 5 And I have also heard the groaning of the sons of Israel whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and have remembered my covenant. 6 So say to the sons of Israel ‘I am Jehovah, and will bring you out from under the Egyptian loads and deliver you from slavery to them, and claim my rights in you with outstretched arm and with great judgments, 7 and take you to have you for my people and let you have me for your God; and you shall know that I am your God Jehovah who brings you out from under the Egyptian loads. 8 And I will bring you into the country I pledged myself to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and will give it to you in possession, I Jehovah.’” 9 And Moses spoke so to the sons of Israel; but they did not listen to Moses for desperation and for hard work.
10 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying 11 “Go in and speak to the Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to have him let the sons of Israel go out of his country.” 12 And Moses spoke before God, saying “Here the sons of Israel have not listened to me, and how is the Pharaoh to listen to me when I am uncircumcised in lips?”
13* And Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a commission to the Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt. 14 These are the heads of their families: the sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, were Hanoc and Pallu, Hesron and Carmi: these are the clans of the Reubenites. 15 And the sons of Simeon were Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jakin and Sohar and Shaul the Canaanite woman’s son: these are the clans of the Simeonites. 16 And these are the names of the sons of Levi by their line: Gershon and Kehath and Merari; and the length of Levi’s life was a hundred and thirty-seven years. 17 The sons of Gershon were Libni and Shimei by their clans; 18 and the sons of Kehath were ʽAmram and Ishar and Hebron and ʽUzziel, and the length of Kehath’s life was a hundred and thirty-three years; 19 and the sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites by their line. 20 And ʽAmram married his aunt Jokebed, and she had sons, Aaron and Moses; and the length of ʽAmram’s life was a hundred and thirty-seven years. 21 And the sons of Ishar were Korah and Nepheg and Zicri; 22 and the sons of ʽUzziel were Mishael and Elsaphan and Sithri. 23 And Aaron married Elishebaʽ the daughter of ʽAmminadab, Nahshon’s sister, and she bore sons to him, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 24 And the sons of Korah were Assir and Elkanah and Abiasaph: these are the clans of the Korahites. 25 And Aaron’s son Eleazar married one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him a son Pinehas. These are the heads of the families of the Levites by their clans. 26 This was the Aaron and Moses to whom Jehovah said “Bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt corps by corps.” 27 These it was who spoke to the Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt—this Moses and Aaron.
28 And on the day that Jehovah spoke to Moses in Egypt 29 Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying “I am Jehovah: tell the Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, everything that I am telling you.” 30 And Moses said before Jehovah “Here I am uncircumcised in lips, and how is the Pharaoh to listen to me?”
7 And Jehovah said to Moses “See, I make you a god to the Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet. 2 You shall speak everything that I commission you to, and your brother Aaron shall speak to the Pharaoh, and he shall let the sons of Israel go out of Egypt. 3 But I will make the Pharaoh obstinate, and will multiply my tokens and miracles in Egypt 4 and the Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will put my hand on Egypt and bring out of Egypt by great judgments my armies, my people, the sons of Israel; 5 and the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah when I stretch my hand out over Egypt and bring the sons of Israel out from among them.” 6 And Moses and Aaron did it: as Jehovah had commanded them, so they did. 7 And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to the Pharaoh.
8 And Jehovah said to Moses and to Aaron 9 “When the Pharaoh tells you ‘Present a miracle,’ say to Aaron ‘Take your stick and throw it down before the Pharaoh to become a dragon.’” 10 And Moses and Aaron went in to the Pharaoh and did so, as Jehovah had ordered, and Aaron threw down his stick before the Pharaoh and his officers, and it became a dragon. 11 And the Pharaoh summoned the sages and the wizards, and they too, the scholars of Egypt, did the like by their occult arts, 12 and each threw down his stick and they became dragons. And Aaron’s stick swallowed theirs; 13 but the Pharaoh was headstrong and would not listen to them, as Jehovah had predicted.
14 And Jehovah said to Moses “The Pharaoh is haughty, he refuses to let the people go. 15 Go to the Pharaoh in the morning; you will find him coming out to the water, and you shall take your stand on the bank of the Nile to meet him; and you shall take in your hand the stick that was turned to a snake. 16 And say to him ‘Jehovah, the Hebrews’ God, sent us to you with the message “Let my people go to worship me in the wilderness”; and here you have not listened till now. 17 Says Jehovah, By this you shall know that I am Jehovah. I am going to strike with the stick I have in my hand on the water in the Nile, and it shall turn to blood, 18 and the fish in the Nile shall die, and the Nile shall smell, and the Egyptians shall try in vain to drink Nile water.’”
19* And Jehovah said to Moses “Say to Aaron ‘Take your stick and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, its streams, its arms of the Nile, and its pools, and everything in it that holds water, and have it become blood; and it shall become blood throughout Egypt, both in its natural places and in wood and stone.” 20 And Moses and Aaron did so, as Jehovah had ordered; and he swung the stick high and struck the water in the Nile in sight of the Pharaoh and of his officers, and all the water in the Nile turned to blood. 21 And the fish in the Nile died, and the Nile smelled, and the Egyptians could not drink Nile water, and the blood was all through Egypt. 22 And the scholars of Egypt did the like by their occult arts, and the Pharaoh was headstrong and would not listen to them, as Jehovah had predicted; 23 and the Pharaoh turned round and went into his palace, and disregarded this too. 24 And all the Egyptians dug around the Nile for drinking-water, because they could not drink the Nile water. 25 And a week elapsed after Jehovah struck the Nile;
8 and Jehovah said to Moses “Go in to the Pharaoh and say to him ‘Says Jehovah, Let my people go to worship me; 2 and if you refuse to let them go I am going to plague all your territory with frogs, 3 and the Nile shall swarm with frogs and they shall come up and go into your house and into your sleeping-room and on your bed and into the houses of your officers and your people, and into your-baking-crocks and mixing-bowls: 4* on you and on all your people the frogs shall come up.’”
5 And Jehovah said to Moses “Say to Aaron ‘Stretch out your hand with the stick over the streams, the arms of the Nile, and the pools, and bring up the frogs over Egypt.’” 6 And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered Egypt. 7 And the scholars did the like by their occult arts and brought up the frogs over Egypt. 8 And the Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said “Intercede with Jehovah and have him take away the frogs from me and my people, and I will let the people go and sacrifice to Jehovah.” 9 And Moses said to the Pharaoh “Specify to me for what time I shall intercede with Jehovah for you and your officers and your people, to rid you and your houses of the frogs—they shall be left only in the Nile.” 10 And he said “For tomorrow.” And he said “As you say, in order that you may know that there is no one like our God Jehovah; 11 and the frogs shall pass away from you and your houses and your officers and your people, they shall be left only in the Nile.” 12 And Moses and Aaron went out from the Pharaoh’s presence, and Moses cried out to Jehovah regarding the frogs he had set on the Pharaoh, 13 and Jehovah did as Moses said, and the frogs died out of the houses and the yards and the fields, 14 and they piled them up in heaps, and the country smelled. 15 And the Pharaoh saw that relief had come, and acted haughtily and would not listen to them, as Jehovah had predicted.
16 And Jehovah said to Moses “Say to Aaron ‘Stretch out your stick and strike the dust on the ground and have it become mosquitoes throughout Egypt.’” 17* And Aaron stretched out his hand with his stick and struck the dust on the ground, and the mosquitoes came on man and beast: all the dust on the ground became mosquitoes throughout Egypt. 18* And the scholars did the like with their occult arts, bringing out mosquitoes, but could not; and the mosquitoes came on man and beast. 19 And the scholars said to the Pharaoh “It is the finger of God”; but the Pharaoh was headstrong and would not listen to them, as Jehovah had predicted.
20 And Jehovah said to Moses “The first thing in the morning take your stand before the Pharaoh—you will find him coming out to the water—and say to him ‘Says Jehovah, Let my people go to worship me: 21 for if you do not let my people go, here I am sending the ʽarob flies on you and your officers and your people and your families, and the houses of Egypt shall be full of the ʽarob flies, and so shall the ground they are on. 22 And on that day I will distinguish the country of Goshen, on which my people stands, by not letting there be ʽarob flies there, that you may know that I Jehovah am in the country. 23* And I will set a redemption between my people and yours. This token shall be for tomorrow.’”
24 And Jehovah did so, and an enormous number of ʽarob flies came into the Pharaoh’s palace and the houses of his officers and into all Egypt, and the country was ruined with the ʽarob flies. 25 And the Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said “Go sacrifice to your god in the country.” 26 But Moses said “It would not be the thing to do so, because we shall be sacrificing to our God Jehovah what the Egyptians abominate: suppose we sacrifice before the Egyptians’ eyes what they abominate, will they not stone us? 27 Three days’ journey into the wilderness we will go, and sacrifice to our God Jehovah as he will tell us to.” And the 28 Pharaoh said “I will let you go and you shall sacrifice to your god in the wilderness; only do not go far. Intercede for me!” 29 And Moses said “Here I am going out from your presence and will intercede with Jehovah, and the ʽarob flies shall pass away from the Pharaoh, his officers, and his people tomorrow; only let the Pharaoh no longer trifle with his word, not letting the children of Israel go to sacrifice to Jehovah.” 30 And Moses went out from the Pharaoh’s presence and interceded with Jehovah, 31 and Jehovah did as Moses said and the ʽarob flies passed away from the Pharaoh, his officers, and his people; there was not one left. 32 But the Pharaoh acted haughtily this time too, and would not let the people go.
9 And Jehovah said to Moses “Go in to the Pharaoh and tell him ‘Says the Hebrews’ God Jehovah, Let my people go to worship me. 2 For if you refuse to let them go, and still hold on to them, 3 here is Jehovah’s hand on your stock in the field, the ponies and the donkeys and the camels and the cows and the sheep and goats, a very severe outbreak of disease. 4 And Jehovah will distinguish between the Israelites’ stock and the Egyptians’ stock, and of all that belongs to the sons of Israel nothing shall die. 5 And Jehovah has set a date, “Tomorrow Jehovah will do this thing in the country.”’” 6 And Jehovah did this thing the next day, and all the Egyptians’ stock died, but of the stock that belonged to the sons of Israel not one died. 7 And the Pharaoh sent and found that of the Israelites’ stock not one had died; but the Pharaoh was haughty and would not let the people go.
8 And Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron “Take double handfuls of soot from a kiln, and let Moses toss it up into the air in the Pharaoh’s sight; 9 and it shall become a dust-cloud all over Egypt, and it shall become an eruption of pustules on man and beast throughout Egypt.” 10 And they took the kiln-soot and stood before the Pharaoh and Moses tossed it up into the air, and it became an eruption of pustules on man and beast; 11 and the scholars could not stand before Moses owing to the eruption, because the eruption was on the scholars and on all the Egyptians. 12 But Jehovah made the Pharaoh headstrong, and he would not listen to Moses, as Jehovah had predicted to Moses.
13 And Jehovah said to Moses “The first thing in the morning take your stand before the Pharaoh and say to him ‘Says the Hebrews’ God Jehovah, Let my people go to worship me. 14* For this time I am sending all these plagues of mine upon you and your officers and people for the sake of your knowing that there is no one like me in all the earth. 15 For I would now have put out my hand and struck you and your people with a pestilence, and you would have been extirpated from the earth, 16 but I let you stand for this sake, for the sake of showing you my power, and in order that my fame may be told of throughout the earth. 17* You are still thwarting my people, not letting them go: 18 here I am going to shower down a very heavy hailstorm at this time tomorrow, such as there has never been in Egypt from the day it was founded to now. 19 Now send and get your stock under cover, and everything you have in the field: whatever men and beasts are found in the field and not taken into the house the hail will come down on, and be their death.’”
20 Those of the Pharaoh’s officers who feared Jehovah’s word hustled their slaves and stock into the houses, 21 and those who did not pay attention to Jehovah’s word left their slaves and stock in the field. 22 And Jehovah said to Moses “Stretch your hand out to the sky and let there be hail throughout Egypt on man and beast and on the herbage of the field in Egypt.” 23* And Moses stretched his stick out toward the sky, and Jehovah gave thunder and hail, and fire ran on the ground; and Jehovah showered hailstones on Egypt, 24 and there was hail and dancing fire amid the hail, very heavy, such as there had never been in Egypt since it became a nation. 25 And throughout Egypt the hail struck down whatever was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail struck down all the herbage of the field and broke the branches of every tree in the field; 26 only in the country of Goshen, where the sons of Israel were, there was no hail.
27 And the Pharaoh sent and summoned Moses and Aaron and said to them “I did amiss this time; Jehovah is in the right and I and my people in the wrong. 28 Intercede with Jehovah and let us have no more sounds of God’s voice and hail, and I will let you go, you shall stay no longer.” 29* And Moses said to him “When I go out of the city I will spread out my hands to Jehovah: the sounds shall cease, and there shall no longer be the hail, in order that you may know that the earth belongs to Jehovah. 30 But you and your officers I know will not yet stand in fear of God Jehovah.”
31 And the flax and the barley had been struck down, because the barley was showing ears and the flax was in bud; 32 but the wheat and the spelt had not, because they are late. 33 And Moses went out of the city from the Pharaoh’s presence and spread out his hands to Jehovah, and the sounds and the hail ceased, and no rain poured down on the earth. 34 And the Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the sounds had ceased, and went on sinning, and acted haughtily, he and his officers. 35 And the Pharaoh was headstrong and would not let the sons of Israel go, as Jehovah had predicted through Moses.
10 And Jehovah said to Moses “Go in to the Pharaoh, because I have made the Pharaoh and his officers haughty in order that I may set these tokens of mine in among them, 2 and that you may tell in the hearing of child and grandchild the tale of how I did my will on the Egyptians, and the tokens I exhibited among them, and may know that I am Jehovah.”
3 And Moses and Aaron went in to the Pharaoh and said to him “Says the Hebrews’ God Jehovah, How long are you refusing to give in before me? let my people go, to worship me; 4 for if you refuse to let my people go, here I am going to bring grasshoppers into your territory tomorrow, 5 and they will cover the surface of the earth and it will not be possible to see the earth; and they will eat up whatever is left you of remnant that escaped the hail, and eat up out of the fields all the sprouting wood you have, 6 and fill your own houses and all your officers’ houses and the houses of all the Egyptians,—such as your fathers and forefathers had never seen from the day when they came into existence on earth to this day.” And he turned round and went out from the Pharaoh’s presence.
7 And the Pharaoh’s officers said to him “How long are we to have the fellow for a deathtrap? let the men go to worship their God Jehovah; do you not know yet that Egypt is ruined?” 8 And Moses and Aaron came back to the Pharaoh, and he said to them “Go worship your God Jehovah: just who is it that are to go?” 9 And Moses said “We shall go with our boys and our old men, we shall go with our sons and our daughters, with our sheep and our cattle, because we have Jehovah’s feast to keep.” 10 And he said to them “So be Jehovah with you as I will let you go women and children and all: look out, you are headed toward trouble. 11 No, go you men and worship Jehovah—that is what you have been asking for.” And they drove them out from the Pharaoh’s presence.
12 And Jehovah said to Moses “Stretch out your hand over Egypt for the grasshoppers, to have them come up over Egypt and eat all the herbage of the ground, everything the hail has left.” 13 And Moses stretched out his stick over Egypt, and Jehovah directed an east wind on the country all that day and all that night; as morning came the east wind was carrying the grasshoppers. 14 And the grasshoppers came up all over Egypt and lighted all through the territory of Egypt in a great mass; there had never before been such a flight of grasshoppers as that, and there never will be again. 15 And they covered the surface of the earth, and the earth grew dark; and they ate up all the herbage on the ground and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left, and there was no green left, on trees or in herbage on the ground, in all Egypt.
16 And the Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron in haste, and said “I have done amiss against your God and against you; 17 but now pardon my sin this once and intercede with your God Jehovah that he may rid me of just this death.” 18 And Moses went out from the Pharaoh’s presence and interceded with Jehovah, 19 and Jehovah brought round a very strong west wind which carried the grasshoppers off and plunged them in the Red Sea; there was not one grasshopper left in all the territory of Egypt. 20 But Jehovah made the Pharaoh headstrong, and he did not let the sons of Israel go.
21 And Jehovah said to Moses “Stretch out your hand toward the sky and have darkness come on Egypt and set them groping in darkness.” 22 And Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there came a murky darkness throughout Egypt for three days: 23 one man could not see another, and they did not stand up from the place where each was for three days; but all the sons of Israel had light in their places of residence. 24 And the Pharaoh summoned Moses and said “Go worship Jehovah, only let your sheep and cattle be kept in place; your women and children may go with you too.” 25 But Moses said “We must both have you hand over sacrifices and burnt-offerings to us for us to offer to our God Jehovah 26 and have our stock go out with us, not a hoof remaining behind, because we are to take some of it for worshiping our God Jehovah and we do not know with what we are to worship Jehovah till we get there.”
27 But Jehovah made the Pharaoh headstrong and he was not willing to let them go. 28 And the Pharaoh said to him “Take yourself off; see to it that you do not see my face again, because on the day that you see my face you shall die.” 29 And Moses said “As you say; I will never again see your face.”
11* (And Jehovah said to Moses “One more calamity I will bring on the Pharaoh and on Egypt; after that he will let you go from here. When he does let you go he will altogether expel you from here. 2 Give the people the word to ask their acquaintances for articles of silver and of gold.” 3 And Jehovah gave the people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians; Moses’s personal prestige in Egypt, too, was very great among the Pharaoh’s officers and all the people.) 4 And Moses said “Says Jehovah, At midnight I am going out among the Egyptians, 5 and every firstborn in Egypt shall die, from the Pharaoh’s firstborn who was to sit on his throne to the firstborn of the housemaid behind the mill, and all the firstborn of cattle, 6 and there shall be a great outcry throughout Egypt such as there never was nor will be again; 7* but against any of the sons of Israel not a dog shall put out his tongue, man or beast, that you may all know that Jehovah distinguishes between the Egyptians and the Israelites. 8 And all these officers of yours will come down to me and do me reverence and say ‘Go out, you and all the people you have at your back’; and after that I will go out.” And he went out from the Pharaoh’s presence in angry mood.
9 And Jehovah said to Moses “The Pharaoh will not listen to you, in order that there may be many of my miracles in Egypt”; 10 and Moses and Aaron did all these miracles before the Pharaoh, but Jehovah made the Pharaoh headstrong and he would not let the sons of Israel go out of his country.
12 And Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt 2 “This month is your New Year’s month: it is the first of the months of the year for you. 3 Tell all the congregation of Israel, on the tenth of this month they are to take themselves a sheep or goat apiece per family, an animal to a household. 4* And if the household is too small for an animal let him and his next-door neighbor take by rating of appetites: you shall rate each one for the animal in proportion to his eating. 5 You shall have it a faultless yearling male; you shall take from the sheep and from the goats. 6 And you shall have it in safekeeping till the fourteenth day of this month; and all the assembly of the congregation of Israel shall slaughter it in the evening hours 7 and take some of the blood and put it on both jambs of the door and on the lintel, on the houses they are eating it in. 8 And they shall eat the flesh that same night: they shall eat it as fire-roast, and matzoth with spring salad. 9 Eat none of it raw nor as boiled meat, cooked with water, but as fire-roast, head and legs and entrails and all. 10 And you are not to leave any of it till morning; what is left till morning of it you are to burn up. 11 And this is the way you are to eat it: your waists belted, your sandals on your feet, your staves in your hands; and you shall eat it hurriedly; it is a passover for Jehovah.
12 “And I will pass through Egypt this night and strike dead every firstborn in Egypt, both of man and of beast, and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments—I am Jehovah— 13 and you shall have the blood for a token on the houses where you are, and I will see the blood and pass over you, and there shall not be any ravaging calamity among you when I am smiting in Egypt.
14 “And this day shall be a commemoration of yours, and you shall keep it as a feast to Jehovah: generation after generation you shall keep it as a perpetual institution. 15 Seven days you shall eat matzoth; on the first day you must clean out yeast from your homes, because whoever eats anything raised, that person shall be cut off from Israel, 16 from the first day to the seventh. And on the first day you shall have a sacred meeting, and on the seventh day a sacred meeting: no work shall be done among you; only what is to be eaten by each person, that alone shall be prepared for you. 17* And you shall keep the matzoth, because it was on this very day that he brought your legions out of Egypt, and you shall keep this day generation after generation as a perpetual institution. 18** In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, you shall eat matzoth and keep it up till the twenty-first day of the month at evening. 19 For seven days no yeast shall be found in your homes, because whoever eats anything raised, that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, immigrant and native. 20 You shall not eat anything raised whatever: in all your abodes you shall eat matzoth.”
21 And Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them “March off and take yourselves sheep and goats clan by clan, and slaughter the passover; 22 and take a bunch of marjoram and dip it in the blood on the threshold, and touch blood off the threshold to the lintel and both the jambs; and you shall not go out of your doors till morning. 23 And Jehovah will pass along to smite the Egyptians, and will see the blood on the lintel and both the jambs, and Jehovah will pass over the door and not let the ravager go into your homes to smite. 24* And you shall keep this rite as an institution for yourself and your sons forever; 25 and when you go into the country that Jehovah will give you as he promised, you shall keep up this service. 26 And when your sons ask you ‘What do you mean by this service?’ 27 you shall say ‘It is a passover sacrifice to Jehovah, because he passed over the homes of the sons of Israel in Egypt when he smote the Egyptians, and brought our homes off safe.’” And the people bowed down and did reverence; 28 and the sons of Israel went and did it: as Jehovah had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
29 And at midnight Jehovah struck every firstborn in Egypt, from the Pharaoh’s firstborn who was to sit on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoners of war in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle. 30 And the Pharaoh rose in the night, he and all his officers and all the Egyptians; and there was a great outcry in Egypt, because there was not a house where there was not somebody dead. 31 And he called Moses and Aaron in the night and said “Off with you, get out from among my people, you and the sons of Israel too, and go worship Jehovah as you have been saying. 32 Take your flocks and herds too, as you said, and go; and bless me too.” 33 And the Egyptians insisted on sending the people out of the country in all haste, because they thought “We are all dead men”; 34 and the people took their dough up before it had had the yeast put in, taking their mixing-bowls wrapped up in their blankets on their shoulders. 35 And the sons of Israel did as Moses had said, and asked the Egyptians for articles of gold and silver and clothing, 36 and Jehovah gave the people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians and they handed them over; and they despoiled the Egyptians.
37 And the sons of Israel marched from Raʽmeses to Succoth, the men about six hundred thousand of foot, besides women and children; 38 and a great mass of drifters too went up with them, and sheep and goats and cows, an immense drove of stock. 39 And they baked the dough they had brought out of Egypt in flat matzoth, because it had not had any yeast put in because they were expelled from Egypt and could not delay, and they had not supplied themselves with provisions either.
40 And the stay of the sons of Israel in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years; 41 and at the end of four hundred and thirty years, this very day, all Jehovah’s armies came out of Egypt. 42 That was a watch-night of Jehovah’s for bringing them out of Egypt; this night is a watch-night to Jehovah for all the sons of Israel generation after generation.
43 And Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron “This is the rule for the passover: No foreigner shall eat of it. 44* But everyone who is any man’s slave, bought with money, you shall circumcise: then he shall eat of it. 45 Dependent and hired man shall not eat of it. 46 It shall be eaten in one house: you shall not take any of the meat outside the house; and no bone in it shall be broken. 47 All the congregation of Israel shall celebrate it; 48 and when an immigrant lives among you and is to celebrate a passover to Jehovah, he must have every male of his circumcised; then he shall be admitted to celebrate it, and shall be like the native-born; but nobody uncircumcised shall eat of it. 49 There shall be one ruling for the native and for the immigrant who lives among you.”
50 And all the sons of Israel did as Jehovah had commanded Moses and Aaron; so they did. 51 And this very day Jehovah brought the sons of Israel out of Egypt corps by corps.
13 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying 2 “Consecrate to me every firstborn, everyone who has started a womb among the sons of Israel, man and beast: mine he is.”
3 And Moses said to the people “Remember this day when you came out from Egypt, from the slave-quarters, because Jehovah brought you out of here by main force and you are not to eat raised bread. 4* Today you are going out, in the green-ear month; 5* and when Jehovah brings you to the country of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Hivvites and the Jebusites that he swore to your fathers to give you, a country that runs milk and honey, you shall present this service in this month: 6 seven days you shall eat matzoth, and on the seventh day shall be a feast to Jehovah. 7* Matzoth shall be eaten through the seven days, and you shall have nothing raised seen in all your territory. 8 And you shall tell your son on that day ‘For the sake of that that Jehovah did for me when I came out of Egypt’ 9 And you shall have it as a sign on your arm and a memento between your eyes, in order that you may have Jehovah’s instructions in your mouth, because Jehovah brought you out of Egypt with a strong hand. 10 And you shall keep this usage at the season for it year by year.
11 “And when Jehovah brings you into the Canaanite country as he swore to you and your fathers, and gives it to you, 12 you shall consign to Jehovah everyone that has started a womb; and every offspring of cattle of yours that has started a womb, the males, shall belong to Jehovah, 13 and every donkey that has started a womb you shall redeem with a sheep or goat, or if you do not redeem it you shall break its neck, and every human firstborn among your sons you shall redeem. 14 And when your son asks you tomorrow ‘What does this mean?’ you shall say to him ‘Jehovah brought us out of Egypt, out of the slave-quarters, by main force, 15 and when the Pharaoh behaved obstinately about letting us go Jehovah killed every firstborn among the Egyptians, both firstborn of men and firstborn of cattle; that is why I sacrifice to Jehovah every male that has started a womb and redeem every firstborn of my sons.’ 16 And you shall have it as a sign on your arm and as amulets between your eyes, because Jehovah brought you out of Egypt by main force.”
17* And when the Pharaoh let the people go God did not guide them by the road to the Philistine country (for that was the nearest), because God thought “The people might change their mind when they saw war, and go back to Egypt”; 18 but God took the people around by the wilderness road to the Red Sea.
And the sons of Israel went up under arms out of Egypt. 19 And Moses took Joseph’s bones with him, because he had sworn the sons of Israel to it, saying “God will take up your case and you shall carry my bones up from here with you.”
20 And they marched from Succoth and camped at Etham, on the edge of the wilderness. 21* And Jehovah went in front of them, by day in a pillar of cloud to guide them on the route and by night in a pillar of fire. 22 The pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, never left its place in front of the people.
14 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying 2 “Tell the sons of Israel to turn back and camp in front of Pi-Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Baal-Sephon: you shall camp opposite it, by the sea. 3 And the Pharaoh will say of the sons of Israel “They are wandering about the country at random; the wilderness shuts them in’; 4 and I will make the Pharaoh headstrong and he shall pursue you, and I will earn glory on the Pharaoh and all his troops, and the Egyptians shall find out that I am Jehovah”; and they did so.
5* And it was reported to the king of Egypt that the people had made off; and the Pharaoh and his officers reversed their attitude toward the people and said “What is this we have been doing, to let the Israelites go out of our service?” 6 and he hitched up his chariot and took his soldiery with him, 7 and took six hundred picked chariots and all the chariots in Egypt, and knights on all of them, 8 and Jehovah made the Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, headstrong, and he pursued the sons of Israel while the sons of Israel were going out with a high hand. 9 And the Egyptians pursued them, and overtook them camping by the sea, all the Pharaoh’s chariot-ponies and cavalry horses and his troops, by Pi-Hahiroth, in front of Baal-Sephon.
10 And as the Pharaoh drew near, the sons of Israel raised their eyes and found that the Egyptians were marching after them, and were much afraid; and the sons of Israel cried out to Jehovah, 11 and said to Moses “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you took us to die in the wilderness? what is this you have done to us, bringing us out of Egypt? 12 Is not this the very thing we told you in Egypt, ‘Let the matter drop and let us stay slaves to the Egyptians, because we are better off as slaves to the Egyptians than dying in the wilderness’?” 13 And Moses said to the people “Do not be afraid; stand your ground and see Jehovah’s succor that he is going to give you today; for, while you do see the Egyptians today, you are never to see them again. 14 Jehovah will fight for you, and you shall be quiet.”
15 And Jehovah said to Moses “What are you doing crying to me? give the sons of Israel the word to march, 16 and do you lift up your stick and stretch out your hand over the sea and split it apart for the sons of Israel to go into the middle of the sea on dry ground. 17 And I am going to make the Egyptians so headstrong that they will go in after them, and I will earn glory on the Pharaoh and all his troops, his chariots and cavalry, 18 and the Egyptians shall find out that I am Jehovah when I earn glory on the Pharaoh, his chariots, and his cavalry.”
19 And the Angel of God who was going before the Israelite host moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them 20* and came between the Egyptian host and the Israelite host; and there was clouding and darkening, and the night went past and the one had not come near the other all night. 21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Jehovah ran the sea off by a strong east wind all night and laid the sea dry, and the water split apart, 22 and the sons of Israel went into the middle of the sea on dry ground, with the water for a wall on their right and their left.
23 And the Egyptians pursued and went in after them, all the Pharaoh’s ponies, his chariots and his cavalry, into the middle of the sea. 24 And in the morning watch Jehovah showed himself looking toward the Egyptian army in a pillar of fire and cloud and threw the Egyptian army into confusion, 25 and clogged their chariot wheels so that they had heavy driving; and the Egyptians said “Let us get away from the Israelites, because Jehovah is fighting for them against the Egyptians.”
26 And Jehovah said to Moses “Stretch out your hand over the sea and have the water come back over the Egyptians, over their chariots and over their cavalry” 27 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea came back to its level as morning drew on, while the Egyptians in their flight rushed to meet it; and Jehovah tumbled the Egyptians about in the middle of the sea. 28 And the water came back and covered the chariots and the cavalry, all the Pharaoh’s forces that had followed them into the sea: there was not one left of them; 29 but the sons of Israel had gone on dry ground in the middle of the sea, with the water for a wall on their right and their left. 30 And Jehovah saved the Israelites that day out of the hands of the Egyptians, and the Israelites saw the Egyptians dead on the sea-beach. 31 And the Israelites saw the great feat Jehovah had done against the Egyptians, and the people feared Jehovah and trusted Jehovah and his servant Moses.
15 Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to Jehovah:
“Sing I Jehovah, for proudly, proudly did he;
pony and rider he shot into the sea.
2 My strength and hymn is Jehovah,
and he has been to me salvation;
This is my Deity, whose beauty I will tell,
my father’s God, whom I will exalt.
3 Jehovah is a man of war:
his name is Jehovah.
4 The Pharaoh’s chariots and troops
he hurled into the sea,
And the pick of his knights
are drowned in the Red Sea,
5 The deeps cover them,
they went down into the ooze like a stone.
6 Your right hand, Jehovah, is grand in strength;
your right hand, Jehovah, mauls an enemy;
7 And most proudly you demolish those who stand up against you
and send out your angry breath to consume them like stubble.
8 And by the breath of your nostrils water piled up,
liquid stood up like a heap,
deeps set solid in the heart of the sea.
9 An enemy said ‘I will pursue, will overtake,
will divide booty, my appetite shall be gorged with them,
I will bare my sword, my hands shall despoil them’;
10 You sent a puff of your wind, the sea covered them;
they sank in the vast water like a plummet.
11 Who among deities is like you, Jehovah?
who is like you, grand in holiness,
terrible in praises, doing wonders?
12 You stretched out your right hand and the earth swallowed them.
13 You guided in your friendliness the people you had brought off,
conducted them in your might to your sacred ground:
14 Peoples heard and were disquieted,
nervousness seized the inhabitants of Philistia;
15* Then the allufs of Edom were in consternation,
quaking seized the arels of Moab,
all the inhabitants of Canaan collapsed,
16 Terror and dread fell upon them,
at the greatness of your arm they were still as a stone,
Till your people passed, Jehovah,
till the people passed whom you had bought.
17 You would bring them in and plant them in your highland estate,
the abode you wrought for yourself, Jehovah,
the Lord’s sanctuary that your hands established.
18 Jehovah shall reign forever and ever.”
19 —because the Pharaoh’s ponies had gone into the sea with his chariots and cavalry, and Jehovah had brought the water of the sea back on them, but the sons of Israel had walked on dry ground in the middle of the sea.
20* And the prophetess Miriam, Aaron’s sister, took tambourine in hand, and all the women came out behind her with tambourine and dance. 21 And Miriam answered the men
“Sing Jehovah, for proudly, proudly did he;
pony and rider he shot into the sea.”
22 And Moses marched the Israelites away from the Red Sea, and they came into the wilderness of Shur; and they were three days in the wilderness and did not find water; 23 and they came to Marah and could not drink water out of Marah because it was bitter—that is why it is named Marah, “Bitterness.” 24 And the people complained against Moses and said “What are we to drink?” 25 and Moses cried to Jehovah, and Jehovah indicated a tree to him, and he threw it into the water and the water grew sweet.
There he set them a rule and law, and there he tested them; 26 and he said “If you obey your God Jehovah and give ear to his commandments and keep his rules, I will never lay on you any of the maladies I laid on Egypt; for I am Jehovah your Healer.”
27 And they came to Elim, and there there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees; and they camped there by the water.
16 And they marched from Elim, and all the sons of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which lies between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month from their coming out of Egypt. 2 And all the congregation of the sons of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, 3 and said to them “It would have been a good thing if we had died by Jehovah’s hand in Egypt when we sat by the pots of meat and ate all the bread we wanted to; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to have all this assembly die of starvation.”
4 And Jehovah said to Moses “Here, I am going to rain bread out of the sky for you, and the people shall go out and pick up each day’s supply on that day, so that I may test you to see whether you will go by my instructions or not; 5 but on the sixth day they shall lay in a provision of what they bring in, which shall be double what they pick up day by day.” 6 And Moses and Aaron said to all the sons of Israel “At evening you shall know it was Jehovah that brought you out of Egypt, 7 and at morning you shall see Jehovah’s glory, as he hears your complaints against Jehovah—what are we that you should complain against us?” 8 and Moses said “by Jehovah’s giving you in the evening meat to eat and in the morning bread to fill you full, as Jehovah hears your complaints that you are making against him—who are we? your complaints are not against us but against Jehovah.”
9 And Moses said to Aaron “Say to all the congregation of the sons of Israel ‘Come up before Jehovah, because he has heard your complaints.”’ 10 But while Aaron was speaking to all the congregation of the sons of Israel they turned round toward the wilderness and found that Jehovah’s glory had appeared in the cloud. 11 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying 12 “I have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel; tell them ‘In the evening hours you shall eat meat and in the morning you shall have a full meal of bread, and you shall know that I am your God Jehovah’”
13 And in the evening the quails came up and covered the camp; and in the morning there was a fall of dew around the camp, 14* and when the fall of dew evaporated they found overspreading the wilderness a thin flaky deposit, thin as hoarfrost on the ground. 15 And the sons of Israel saw it and said to each other “It is man” [this being a word in some language for what], because they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them “That is the bread Jehovah has given you for food. 16 This is the order Jehovah gives: pick it up in amounts proportional to each one’s eating; a ghomer per head, by count of persons, you shall each take for those in his house.” 17 And the sons of Israel did so, and picked it up, some more and some less; 18 and they measured it in a ghomer, and the one who had taken more had no surplus and the one who had taken less had no shortage; each had picked up in proportion to his eating.
19 And Moses said to them “Let nobody leave any of it over till morning.” 20 But they did not listen to Moses, and some left some of it over till morning, and it was all over worms and smelt badly; and Moses was incensed at them.
21 And they picked it up morning by morning, each in proportion to his eating, and then the sun grew hot and it melted away. 22 And on the sixth day they picked up double food, two ghomers apiece; and all the princes of the congregation came and reported it to Moses. 23 And he said to them “It is what Jehovah promised: tomorrow is sabbath rest, a sacred sabbath of Jehovah’s; bake what you are to bake and boil what you are to boil and lay the surplus by for keeping till morning.” 24 And they laid it by till morning as Moses commanded, and it did not smell badly and there were no worms in it. 25 And Moses said “Eat it today, because Jehovah has a sabbath today, today you will not find it on the countryside. 26 Six days you are to pick it up, but on the seventh day there is sabbath, there will not be any on it.”
27 And on the seventh day some of the people went out to pick up and did not find any. 28* And Jehovah said to Moses “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and instructions? 29 See, because Jehovah has given you the sabbath, therefore he is giving you two days’ bread on the sixth day; stay where you each are, let no one go away from his place on the seventh day.” 30 And the people kept sabbath on the seventh day.
31 And the house of Israel named it “manna”; and it was like white coriander seed, and its flavor was like crackers with honey. 32* And Moses said “This is the order Jehovah gives: a ghomerful of it to be kept generation after generation in order that your posterity may see the bread I fed you on in the wilderness when I brought you out of Egypt.” 33 And Moses said to Aaron “Take a vase and put a ghomerful of manna there and deposit it before Jehovah to be kept generation after generation.” 34* And Aaron did as Jehovah had commanded Moses, and deposited it before the congregation to be kept.
35 And the sons of Israel ate the manna forty years till they came to a settled country; they ate the manna till they came to the edge of Canaan. 36 And a ghomer is a tenth of a bushel.
17 And all the congregation of the sons of Israel marched from the wilderness of Sin stage by stage, by Jehovah’s direction, and camped at Rephidim; and there was no water for the people to drink. 2 And the people upbraided Moses and said “Give us water to drink”; and Moses said to them “What are you upbraiding me for? what are you trying out Jehovah for?” 3 And the people were thirsty for water there; and the people complained against Moses and said “What did you bring us up out of Egypt for, to have us and our children and our stock die of thirst?” 4 And Moses cried to Jehovah “What shall I do for this people? a little more and they will stone me.” 5 And Jehovah said to Moses “Go over before the people, and take with you some of the elders of Israel; and take in your hand your stick that you struck the Nile with, and go. 6 You will find me standing there in Horeb before you on the rock; and you shall strike on the rock, and there shall come out of it water which the people shall drink.” And Moses did so before the eyes of the elders of Israel. 7 And the place is named Massah, “Tryout,” and Meribah, “Upbraiding,” because of the upbraiding by the sons of Israel and because of their trying out Jehovah, asking “Is Jehovah among us or not?”
8 And the ʽAmalekites came and attacked Israel at Rephidim. 9* And Moses said to Joshuaʽ “Pick us out men and go out and attack the ʽAmalekites tomorrow; I will be standing on the hilltop with God’s stick in my hand.” 10 And Joshuaʽ did as Moses told him to, attacking the ʽAmalekites; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up on the hilltop. 11 And when Moses raised his hand the Israelites had the better; and when he put down his hand, the ʽAmalekites. 12 But Moses’s hands were heavy; and they took a stone and placed it under him, and he sat down on it, and Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on this side and one on that, and his hands were steady till the sun went down, 13 and Joshuaʽ slaughtered the ʽAmalekites and their company without quarter. 14 And Jehovah said to Moses “Write this in a book for a memorial, and plant it in Joshua‘’s ears, that I will obliterate the remembrance of ʽAmalek from under the heavens.” 15 And Moses built an altar and named it Jehovah-is-my-Banner, 16*** and said “Because there was a hand against Jehovah’s throne, Jehovah is at war with ʽAmalek from the remotest generations.”
18 And Ithro the priest of Midian, Moses’s father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for his people Israel, that Jehovah had brought the Israelites out of Egypt. 2* And Moses’s father-in-law Ithro took Moses’s wife Sipporah, after her separation, 3* and her two sons, of whom the one was named Gershom because he thought “I have been an immigrant in a foreign country,” 4** and the other Eliʽezer “because my father’s God stands my friend and has delivered me from the Pharaoh’s sword,” 5 and Moses’s father-in-law Ithro and his sons and his wife came to Moses in the wilderness where he was camping, God’s mountain; 6 and Moses was told “Here is your father-in-law Ithro coming to you, and your wife and her two sons with her”; 7* and Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and did reverence and kissed him, and they asked each other how they did, and he brought him to his tent. 8 And Moses told his father-in-law the whole story of what Jehovah had done to the Pharaoh and Egypt with reference to Israel, and all the hard experience they had had on the way, that Jehovah had delivered them from; 9 and Ithro was delighted at all the good things Jehovah had done for Israel whom he had delivered out of the hands of the Egyptians; 10 and Ithro said “Blessed be Jehovah, who has delivered you out of the hands of the Egyptians and of the Pharaoh. 11* Now I know that Jehovah is the god of gods, because in the thing that they were arrogant against them—” 12* And Moses’s father-in-law Ithro took a burnt-offering and sacrifices to God, and Aaron and some of the elders of Israel came to eat a meal with Moses’s father-in-law before God.
13 And on the next day Moses sat down to judge the people, and the people stood round Moses from morning till evening. 14 And Moses’s father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, and said “What is this that you are doing for the people? how is it you alone sit down and all the people stand round you from morning till evening?” 15 And Moses said to his father-in-law “Because the people come to me to inquire of God: 16 when they have a question they come to me, and I judge between man and man and inform them of God’s rules and instructions.” 17 And Moses’s father-in-law said to him “It is not a good thing you are doing. 18 Both you and this people you have with you will break down, because the business is too heavy a load for you, you will not be able to do it alone. 19 Now take my advice and have God with you: be you the people’s representative to God and bring questions to God, 20 and notify them of the rules and instructions, and acquaint them with the road they are to go in and the acts they are to do; 21 and do you single out from the people high-principled men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate jobbery, and appoint them over them as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens, 22* and let them judge the people at all times. And every large question they shall bring to you, and every small question they shall judge themselves; and they will relieve you and share your load. 23 If you do this thing and God gives you orders, you will be able to stand and all the people too will come safe to its place.”
24 And Moses listened to his father-in-law and did just as he said; 25 and Moses chose high-principled men out of all Israel and made them heads over the people, chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens, 26 and they judged the people at all times; a hard question they brought to Moses, but every small question they judged themselves. 27 And Moses let his father-in-law go, and he went to his own country.
19 At new moon of the third month of the coming of the sons of Israel out of Egypt, this day they came to the wilderness of Sinai. 2 And they marched from Rephidim and came to the wilderness of Sinai and camped in the wilderness; and the Israelites camped there before the mountain.
3 And Moses went up to God, and God called to him out of the mountain “You will say to the house of Jacob, and tell the sons of Israel, 4 You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. 5 And now if you obey me and keep my covenant you shall be my own special reserve out of all the nations—for all the earth is mine— 6 and I will have you for a kingdom of priests, a sacred nation. These are the words you shall speak to the sons of Israel.”
7 And Moses came and called the elders of the people and said before them all these things that Jehovah had charged him to. 8 And all the people answered together “We will do just as Jehovah has said”; and Moses took the people’s answer back to Jehovah.
9 And Jehovah said to Moses “I am going to come to you in thick cloud, for the sake of having the people hear when I speak with you, and believe in you too forever”; and Moses reported the people’s words to Jehovah, 10 and Jehovah said to Moses “Go to the people and hallow them today and tomorrow, and have them wash their cloaks 11 and be ready for day after tomorrow, because day after tomorrow Jehovah will come down on Mount Sinai before the eyes of all the people. 12* And set bounds for the people on all sides, telling them ‘Beware of going up on the mountain and of touching its edge; anyone who touches the mountain shall be put to death. 13 No hand shall touch him, but he shall be stoned or shot; whether beast or man, he shall not live.’ At the winding of the bugle they shall come up on the mountain.” 14 And Moses came down from the mountain to the people and hallowed the people, and they washed their cloaks; 15 and he said to the people “Be ready for day after tomorrow; do not come near a woman.”
16 And on the third day, when morning came, there were noises and lightnings and a heavy cloud over. the mountain, and a very powerful sound of a horn, and all the people in the camp were frightened. 17 And Moses brought the people out from the camp to meet God, and they took their stand at the bottom of the mountain. 18* And Mount Sinai was smoking all over because Jehovah had come down on it in fire, and the smoke from it went up like the smoke from a kiln; and all the people were greatly frightened. 19 And the sound of the horn grew more and more powerful, Moses speaking and God answering him with sound.
20 And Jehovah came down on Mount Sinai, on the summit of the mountain, and Jehovah called Moses to the summit of the mountain, and Moses went up. 21 And Jehovah said to Moses “Go down and warn the people, lest they should break through to Jehovah to see, and many of them fall; 22 and let the priests too who approach Jehovah hallow themselves for fear Jehovah should scathe them.” 23 And Moses said to Jehovah “The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, because you warned us yourself ‘Set bounds for the mountain and hallow it.’” 24 And Jehovah said to him “Go on down, and come up yourself and Aaron with you; but let the priests and the people not break through to come up to Jehovah, for fear Jehovah should scathe them.” 25 And Moses went down to the people and told them.
20 And God spoke all these words:
2 “I am your God Jehovah who brought you out of Egypt, out of the slave-quarters.
3 “You shall have no other gods to face me down.
4 “You shall not make yourself a statue nor any form in the skies above or on the earth beneath or in the water beneath the earth: 5 you shall not do reverence to them nor worship them; because I, your God Jehovah, am a jealous deity, visiting fathers’ guilt on children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren for those who hate me, 6* and befriending thousands for those who love me and keep my commandments.
7 “You shall not take the name of your God Jehovah in vain; for Jehovah will not acquit him who takes his name in vain.
8 “Mind the sabbath day, keeping it sacred. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath for your God Jehovah: you shall not do any work, you nor your son or daughter, your servant nor your beast nor your immigrant within your gates, 11 because for six days Jehovah was making the sky and the earth and the sea and everything in it, and he rested on the seventh day; for this reason Jehovah blessed the sabbath day and made it sacred.
12 “Honor your father and your mother, so that your time may be long on the soil your God Jehovah is giving you.
13 “You shall not murder.
14 “You shall not commit adultery.
15 “You shall not steal.
16 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
17 “You shall not desire your neighbor’s house: you shall not desire your neighbor’s wife nor his slave nor his cow nor his donkey nor anything of your neighbor’s.”
18* And all the people were seeing the noises and the bursts of fire and the sound of the horn and the mountain smoking; and the people were afraid, and swayed about and stood at a distance, 19 and said to Moses “Speak with us yourself and we will listen; but let God not speak with us, for fear we should die.” 20 And Moses said to the people “Do not be afraid, because it is for the sake of testing you that God has come, and for the sake of having you confronted with his fear, that you may not sin.” 21 And the people stood at a distance, and Moses approached the thick air where God was.
22 And Jehovah said to Moses “You are to say to the sons of Israel, You have seen that I have talked with you out of the sky. 23* You shall not make other gods with me; silver gods and golden gods you shall not make for yourselves. 24* An altar of earth you shall make me, and sacrifice on it your burnt-offerings and your welfare-sacrifices, your sheep and your cattle; in every place where I have my name commemorated I will come to you and bless you. 25* And if you make me a stone altar you shall not build it of dressed stones, because by having put your blade to it you would have profaned it. 26 And you shall not go up my altar by steps, that your nakedness may not be uncovered on it.
21 “And these are the laws you shall set before them:
2 “When you get a Hebrew male slave he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh he shall go free without paying anything. 3 If he came single he shall go single; if a married man, his wife shall go with him; 4 if his master gives him a wife and she bears him children, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go single. 5 And if the slave says ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go free,’ 6* his master shall take him to God and take him to the door or the jamb, and his master shall punch his ear with an awl, and he shall be slave to him permanently.
7 “But when a man sells his daughter for a slave she shall not go out as the male slaves do. 8* If she does not please her master who has appropriated her to himself, he shall let her be bought off; he shall not have authority to sell her to an alien people, when his blanket has been over her. 9 And if he appropriates her to his son he shall give her the treatment of daughters. 10 If he takes another he shall not cut short her meat, covering, and cohabitation. 11 And if he does not do these three things for her she shall go out gratis, without payment.
12 “One who strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death. 13 But in case he had no malice prepense and God brought him under his hand I will set a place for you to which he shall flee. 14 But when one high-handedly kills another by foul play you shall take him from my altar for death.
15 “And he who strikes his father or mother shall be put to death. 16* And he who steals a man, and sells him or he is found in his hands, shall be put to death. 17 And he who curses his father or mother shall be put to death.
18 “And when men are quarreling and one strikes the other with stone or fist and he does not die but takes to his bed, 19 if he gets up and walks outdoors on his staff the man who struck the blow shall be held innocent, only he shall pay for his lost time and his medical treatment.
20 “And when a man strikes his slave with a cudgel and he dies under his hand he shall be punished; 21 only if he lasts a day or two he shall not be punished, because he is his money.
22* “And when men are scuffling and run against a pregnant woman and she has a premature birth, but there is no bodily damage, he shall pay such fine as the woman’s husband fixes for him, and give it with arbitrators. 23 And if there is bodily damage he shall give life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.
26 “And when a man strikes his slave’s eye and spoils it he shall let him go free to make up for his eye. 27 And if he knocks out his slave’s tooth he shall let him go free to make up for his tooth.
28 “And when a bull gores a man or woman and he dies, the bull shall be stoned and its flesh not eaten, but the owner of the bull shall be held innocent. 29 But if it has already been a goring bull, and its owner is notified and does not take care of it, and it kills a man or woman, the bull is to be stoned and its owner too is to be put to death; 30 if a price for clearing him is fixed, he shall give ransom for his life at whatever rate is fixed for him. 31 In case it gores a son or daughter, the same law shall be followed. 32 If the bull gores a slave he shall give his master thirty shekels of silver and the bull shall be stoned.
33 “And when a man opens a cistern, or when a man digs a cistern and does not cover it, and a bull or donkey falls into it, 34 the owner of the cistern shall pay, shall reimburse its owner in cash, and shall have the dead animal.
35* “And when one man’s bull fights another’s and causes its death, they shall sell the live bull and divide the proceeds, and divide the dead bull also. 36 In case it was already known to be a goring bull, and its owner was not taking care of it, he shall pay bull for bull and have the dead one.
22* “When a man steals an animal and butchers it and sells it, he shall pay five for one of horned cattle and four for one of sheep or goats. 2 If the thief is caught breaking in and is struck dead, there is no bloodguilt on his account; 3 if the sun had risen on him, there is; he must pay—if he has not enough he is to be sold for his theft. 4* If the stolen property, of horned cattle or donkeys or sheep or goats, is found in his hands alive, he shall pay two for one.
5 “When a man is having a field or vineyard eaten down and lets out the cattle and they eat down in another field, he shall pay in the best produce of his own field or vineyard. 6 When a fire gets away into thorn-stalks and consumes grain in stacks or standing, or wild growth, the one who lighted it must pay for the burning.
7 “When a man gives another man money or articles to keep, and it is stolen out of the man’s house, if the thief is caught he shall pay double; 8 if the thief is not caught the owner of the house shall present himself to God as to whether he has not put his hand to the other man’s stock. 9 For every question of delinquency regarding bull or cow, donkey, sheep or goat, blanket, or any missing thing that is said to be identified, the case of both parties shall be brought to God: the one that God finds to be in the wrong shall pay double to the other.
10* “When a man gives another man an animal to keep, and it dies or breaks a bone or is taken by raiders, no one seeing it, 11 there shall be between them an oath by Jehovah as to whether he has not put his hand to the other man’s stock, and its owner shall receive it and he shall not pay. 12 But if it be stolen from him he shall pay the owner. 13 If it falls a prey to wild beasts he shall bring it as evidence; he shall not pay for the damage of wild beasts.
14 “And when a man borrows from another man, and it breaks a bone or dies, its owner not being with it, he must pay. 15 If its owner was with it, he shall not pay. If it was hired, it came for its hire.
16 “And when a man inveigles an unbetrothed maiden and lies with her, he must pay for her and marry her. 17 If her father refuses to give her to him he shall pay the price of a maiden in cash.
18 “You shall not let a witch remain alive.
19 “Anyone who lies with a beast shall be put to death.
20* “One who sacrifices to other gods shall die without quarter.
21 “And an immigrant you shall not ill-treat nor oppress, because you were immigrants in Egypt. 22 Any widow or orphan you shall not victimize; 23 if you do, if he cries out to me I shall hear his cry 24 and be angry and kill you in war, and your wives shall be widows and your children orphans.
25* “If you advance money to your neighbor in trouble you shall not be like a professional moneylender to him. You shall not charge him interest; 26 if you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pawn you shall return it to him by sunset, 27 because it is his only covering, it is his blanket for his skin; what is he to sleep in? and when he cries out to me I will listen, because I am kindly.
28 “You shall not talk scurrilously of God nor curse a prince in your people.
29 “You shall not be backward in delivering your fillings and your tricklings. You shall give me the firstborn of your sons. 30 You shall do the same with your horned cattle and your sheep and goats: seven days it shall be with its mother, and on the eighth day you shall give it to me.
31 “You shall be hallowed men of mine, and not eat flesh out on the range, killed by beasts; you shall throw it to the dogs.
23 “You shall not raise a baseless report.
“Do not join hands with a knave to become a witness for injustice.
2 “You shall not follow numbers into mischief, nor in a case at law give testimony leaning to the popular side so as to warp the decision.
3* “You shall not make too much of great man’s claim or poor man’s.
4 “When you encounter your enemy’s cow or donkey straying you must get it back to him.
5* “When you see lying down under its load a donkey belonging to a man who hates you, and you are hanging back from unloading it for him, you must help him unload.
6* “You shall not warp the law in your enemy’s case.
7 “You shall keep aloof from falsehood and not kill the innocent and the man who has right on his side, because I will never treat as in the right one who is in the wrong.
8 “And you shall not take a bribe, because a bribe blinds wide-awake men and upsets honest men’s business.
9 “And an immigrant you shall not oppress; you know an immigrant’s feelings because you were immigrants in Egypt.
10 “And for six years you shall sow your land and get in its produce, 11 but the seventh you shall leave it fallow and let it alone for the poor of your people to eat from, and what they leave the wild beasts shall eat. You shall do the same with your vineyards and your olive-trees.
12* “For six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall keep sabbath, in order that your ox and donkey may rest and that your slave and your immigrant may freshen up.
13 “And in everything that I tell you you shall be on your guard; and you shall not mention the names of other gods, they shall not be heard on your lips.
14 “Thrice a year you shall hold a feast to me. 15** The feast of matzoth you shall observe: for seven days you shall eat matzoth, as I have commanded you, at the regular date in the green-ear month, because in it you came out of Egypt,—and you shall not appear before me empty-handed,— 16** and the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of your crops that you sowed in the fields, and the feast of harvest-home when the year goes out, when you get in your crops from the fields. 17 Three times a year every male of yours shall appear before the Lord Jehovah.
18 “You shall not sacrifice the blood of my sacrifice on yeast bread. “The fat of my feast shall not stay over till morning.
19 “The first of the earliest cuttings from your land you shall bring to the house of your God Jehovah.
“You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.
20 “I am sending my Angel before you to guard you on the way and bring you to the place I have prepared. 21 Beware of offending him; obey him. Do not be disobedient, because he will not pardon your offenses, because my name is in him. 22 For if you obey him and do everything that I say, I will be enemy to your enemies and will assail those who assail you, 23* because my Angel will go before you and bring you in to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivvites and the Jebusites, and I will extirpate them. 24 You shall not do reverence to their gods nor worship them, nor do like their doings, for you are to demolish their altars and break their obelisks to pieces 25 and worship your God Jehovah, and he will bless your bread and your water and remove maladies from among you. 26 There shall never be a barren woman, or one whose births miscarry, in your country; I will make the number of your days full.
27 “I will send my terror before you and throw into confusion all the people among whom you are to go in, and I will give you the backs of all your enemies; 28 and I will send hornets before you which shall expel the Hivvites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites, from before you. 29 I will not expel them before you in one year, for fear the country should become a desolation and wild beasts should multiply in it; I will expel them before you 30 little by little till you breed and occupy the country. 31 And I will set your boundaries from the Red Sea to the Philistine Sea and from the wilderness to the River, because I will give the inhabitants of the country into your hands and you shall expel them before you. 32 You shall make no terms with them nor with their gods; 33 they shall not remain in your country, for fear they should make you sin against me because you would worship their gods, because they would be a snare to you.”
24 And to Moses he said “Come up to Jehovah, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and do reverence at a distance; 2 and let Moses alone approach Jehovah, but not they; and let the people not come up with him.”
3 And Moses came and told the people about all Jehovah’s words and all his laws, and all the people answered unanimously “All the things Jehovah has spoken of we will do.” 4 And Moses wrote down all Jehovah’s words, and the first thing in the morning he built an altar under the mountain, and twelve obelisks for the twelve tribes of Israel, 5 and sent the young men of the sons of Israel, who offered burnt-offerings and sacrificed steers as welfare-sacrifices to Jehovah. 6 And Moses took half the blood and put it in bowls, and half the blood he threw against the altar; 7 and he took the minutes of the covenant and read them in the hearing of the people, and they said “Everything that Jehovah spoke of we will do and obey.” 8 And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said “Here is the blood of the covenant Jehovah has made with you on all these terms.”
9 And Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, went up, 10 and they saw the God of Israel; and he had under his feet something like a sapphire tiling, like the very sky for purity; 11* and to the representatives of the sons of Israel he did not put out his hand; and they gazed on God and ate and drank.
12* And Jehovah said to Moses “Come up on the mountain to me and be there, and I will give you the stone tablets and the instruction and commandment that I have written down to instruct them.” 13* And Moses and his assistant Joshuaʽ rose and went up to God’s mountain; 14 and to the elders he said “Stay here till I come back to you; here you have with you Aaron and Hur; whoever has business may apply to them.” 15 And Moses went up the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain; 16 and Jehovah’s glory alighted on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days, and he called to Moses on the seventh day out of the midst of the cloud. 17 And the appearance of Jehovah’s glory was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in sight of the sons of Israel. 18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud and up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
25 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying 2 “Tell the sons of Israel to take a contribution for me; from every man whose heart moves him to generosity you shall take my contribution. 3 And this is the contribution you are to take from them: gold and silver and bronze 4 and violet and purple and scarlet and lawn and goats’ hair 5 and red morocco and sea-cow skins and acacia wood, 6 oil for the light, spices for the oil for anointing and for the aromatic incense, 7* beryls and stones for setting for the ephod and the pectoral. 8 And have them make me a sanctuary, and I will take up my abode among them. 9 Just as I show you the design of the tabernacle and of all its furnishings, so you shall make it.
10 “And they shall make an ark of acacia wood forty-five inches in length and twenty-seven inches in breadth and twenty-seven inches in depth. 11 And you shall gild it with pure gold, gild it inside and outside, and make a gold molding around it, 12 and cast four gold rings and put them on its four legs, two rings on one side and two on the other. 13 And you shall make poles of acacia wood and gild them, 14 and insert the poles in the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark by. 15 The poles shall be in the rings of the ark, they shall never be taken off from it. 16 And you shall put in the ark the Lessons I will give to you. 17 And you shall make a mercy-seat of pure gold forty-five inches in length and twenty-seven inches in breadth; 18 and you shall make two golden cherubs, make them of chased work, at the two ends of the mercy-seat, 19 and make one cherub at this end and one cherub at that end; you shall make the cherubs in one piece with the mercy-seat, at its two ends. 20 And the cherubs shall be stretching out their wings above, overarching the mercy-seat with their wings, their faces toward each other: the cherubs’ faces shall be toward the mercy-seat. 21 And you shall put the mercy-seat on top of the ark, and into the ark you shall put the Lessons I will give to you. 22 And I will be there to meet you, and will speak to you off the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubs on the Ark of the Lessons, telling you everything that I command you for the sons of Israel.
23 “And you shall make a table of acacia wood three feet in length and eighteen inches in breadth and twenty-seven inches in height, 24 and gild it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it. 25 And you shall make a three-inch border around it, and make a gold molding around its border, 26 and make four gold rings for it and put the rings on the four broadsides of its four legs: 27 the rings shall be close by the border, for eyes for the poles for carrying the table. 28 And you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and gild them, and the table shall be carried by them. 29 And you shall make its plates and its pans and its flagons and its chalices that libations are to be poured with, make them of pure gold. 30 And you shall put showbread on the table before me regularly.
31 “And you shall make a lampstand of pure gold: the lampstand shall be made of chased work; its base and its stem, its bowls, its bulbs, and its petals, shall be in one piece. 32* And there shall be six stems coming out of its sides, three lampstand-stems on one side and three lampstand-stems on the other; three almond-flower bowls on one stem, bulbs and petals, 33 and three almond-flower bowls on one stem, bulbs and petals, so for the six stems that come out of the lampstand; 34 and on the lampstand four almond-flower bowls, its bulbs and its petals; 35* and a bulb under the two stems, in one piece with it, and a bulb under the two stems, in one piece with it, and a bulb under the two stems, in one piece with it, for the six stems that come out of the lampstand. 36 Their bulbs and their stems shall be in one piece with it, all a single piece of chased work of pure gold. 37* And you shall make its lamps, seven of them, and set up its lamps and have it throw the light to its front side; 38 and its pincers and its firepans, pure gold. 39* You shall make it, with all these furnishings, of a hundredweight of pure gold. 40 And see that you make them by the design you are shown on the mountain.
26 “And you shall make the tabernacle in ten breadths; of spun-thread lawn and violet and purple and scarlet, cherubs in tapestry, you shall make them. 2 Each breadth shall be forty-two feet long and each six feet wide; all the breadths shall be of the same measure. 3 Five breadths shall be fastened to each other and five shall be fastened to each other; 4 and you shall make violet loops on the border of the side breadth in one set, and likewise on the border of the last breadth in the second set: 5 fifty loops you shall make on the first breadth, and fifty loops you shall make on the edge of the breadth in the second set, the loops to come opposite each other. 6 And you shall make fifty gold links and fasten the breadths to each other with the links, and have the tabernacle one piece.
7 “And you shall make breadths of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle: you shall make eleven of the breadths. 8 Each breadth shall be forty-five feet long and each six feet wide; the eleven breadths shall be of the same measure. 9 And you shall fasten together five breadths by themselves and six breadths by themselves; and you are to fold over the sixth breadth at the front of the tent. 10 And you shall make fifty loops on the border of the last breadth in a set, and fifty loops on the border of the breadth in the second set; 11 and you shall make fifty bronze links and insert the links in the loops and couple the tent and have it be one piece. 12 And the margin of surplus in the breadths of the tent, the extra half-breadth, shall hang down the back of the tent; 13 and the eighteen inches on each side from the extra length of the breadths of the tent shall hang down the sides of the tent on each side to cover it. 14 And you shall make a red morocco cover for the tent, and a sea-cow skin cover on top.
15 “And you shall make the frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing: 16 a frame shall be fifteen feet long, and each twenty-seven inches wide; 17* two sidepieces to each frame, braced one to the other; you shall do the same for all the frames of the tabernacle. 18 And you shall make the frames for the tabernacle, twenty frames for the right-hand face to the south, 19* and make forty silver plinths to go under the twenty frames, two plinths under each frame for its two sidepieces; 20 and for the second side of the tabernacle, the north face, twenty frames, 21 and forty silver plinths, two plinths under each frame. 22 And for the rear of the tabernacle, to the west, you shall make six frames; 23 and you shall make two frames for the corners of the tabernacle at the rear, 24* which shall be twin below and united at the top to the first ring: it shall be the same for both of them, both corners shall have them, 25* and there shall be eight frames and their silver plinths, sixteen plinths, two plinths under each frame.
26 “And you shall make bars of acacia wood, five bars for the frames of one face of the tabernacle 27 and five bars for the frames of the second face of the tabernacle and five bars for the frames of the rear of the tabernacle, to the west; 28 and the middle bar, at the middle of the frames, shall run through from end to end.
29 “And you shall gild the frames, and make their rings of gold as eyes for the bars, and gild the bars, 30 and set the tabernacle up in the fashion that you were shown on the mountain.
31* “And you shall make a veil of violet and purple and scarlet and spun-thread lawn; he shall make it with cherubs in tapestry. 32 And you shall put it on four gilded acacia pillars with gold hooks, on four silver plinths. 33 And you shall put the veil under the links, and take the ark of the Lessons in there, inside the veil; and you shall have the veil to mark off the holy place from the holiest of the holy. 34 And you shall put the veil over the ark of the Lessons in the holiest of the holy, 35 and set the table outside the veil and the lampstand opposite the table on the south side of the table, and put the table on the north side.
36 “And you shall make a screen for the entrance of the tent, of violet and purple and scarlet and spun-thread lawn, embroidered work, 37 and make five acacia pillars for the screen and gild them and give them gold hooks, and cast five bronze plinths for them.
27 “And you shall make the altar of acacia wood, seven and a half feet long and seven and a half wide—the altar is to be square—and four and a half feet high; 2 and make its horns on its four corners—the horns are to be in one piece with it—and plate it with bronze. 3 And you shall make its pots to carry off its ashes and its shovels and bowls and forks and firepans: all its furnishings you shall make in bronze. 4 And you shall make it a grating of bronze network, and make on the net four bronze rings on its four corners, 5 and put it underneath the rim of the altar, the net reaching halfway down the altar. 6 And you shall make poles for the altar, acacia-wood poles, and plate them with bronze. 7 And the poles shall be inserted in the rings, and the poles shall be on two sides of the altar when it is carried. 8 You shall make it hollow, of boards, as it was shown to you on the mountain; thus they shall do.
9 “And you shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the right-hand face toward the south, curtains for the court in spun-thread lawn, a hundred and fifty feet long for one face; 10 and its pillars, twenty, and their plinths, twenty, in bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their fillets in silver. 11* And the same for the north face, curtains a hundred and fifty long, and its pillars, twenty, and their plinths, twenty, in bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their fillets in silver. 12 And as breadth of the court, for the west face, seventy-five feet of curtains, their pillars ten and their plinths ten. 13 And as breadth of the court for the east side toward the sunrise seventy-five feet; 14 and twenty-two and a half feet of curtains for one side of the front, their pillars three and their plinths three, 15 and for the other side twenty-two and a half of curtains, their pillars three and their plinths three; 16 and for the gate of the court a screen of thirty feet of violet and purple and scarlet and spun-thread lawn embroidered, their pillars four and their plinths four. 17 All the pillars of the court on all sides shall be filleted with silver, their hooks silver and their plinths bronze. 18* The length of the court shall be a hundred and fifty feet and its breadth seventy-five, and its height seven and a half feet; and their plinths bronze. 19 As for all the tabernacle tools for all work about it, and all its tent-pegs and all the tent-pegs of the court, bronze.
20 “And do you give the order to the sons of Israel and take from them pure beaten olive oil for the light, to set up a lamp regularly. 21 In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil over the Lessons, Aaron and his sons shall set it out from evening till morning before Jehovah as a perpetual usage due them from the sons of Israel generation after generation.
28 “And do you bring near to yourself your brother Aaron and his sons with him from among the sons of Israel to install him as priest to me: Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons. 2 And you shall make sacred garments for your brother Aaron for dignity and magnificence. 3 And you shall speak to every artist whom I have filled with artistic inspiration, and they shall make Aaron’s garments to consecrate him, to install him as priest to me. 4 And these are the garments they shall make: a pectoral and an ephod and a robe and a cord-quilted tunic, a turban and a sash; and they shall make sacred garments for Aaron and his sons to install him as priest to me. 5 And they shall receive the gold and the violet and the purple and the scarlet and the lawn.
6 “And they shall make the ephod of gold, violet, and purple, scarlet and spun-thread lawn, in tapestry work. 7 It shall have two joining shoulder-pieces: it shall be joined on at both ends. 8 And the ephodage ribbon on it shall be in one piece with it, of the same work, gold, violet, and purple and scarlet and spun-thread lawn. 9* And you shall take the two stones, beryls, and engrave on them the names of Israel’s sons, 10 six of the names on one stone and the names of the other six on the other stone, in order of birth; 11 in lapidary work, in seal-engraving style, you shall engrave the two stones with the names of Israel’s sons. Surrounded with gold filigree you shall make them, 12 and place the two stones on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod as commemorative stones for the sons of Israel, and Aaron shall carry their names before Jehovah on his two shoulder-pieces for a commemoration.
13 “And you shall make pieces of gold filigree, 14 and two twisted cords of pure gold; you shall make them of ropework, and put the rope cords on the filigrees.
15* “And you shall make a pectoral of judgment: in tapestry work you shall make it, like the work of the ephod; of gold, violet, and purple and scarlet and spun-thread lawn, you shall make it. 16 It shall be square, double, nine inches long and nine wide, 17* and you shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of a sard, a chrysolite, and a rock-crystal the first row, 18 and the second row a garnet, a lapis lazuli, and a chalcedony, 19 and the third row a cairngorm, an agate, and an amethyst, 20* and the fourth row a yellow jasper, a beryl, and a green jasper; they shall be enclosed in gold filigree in their setting. 21 And the stones shall be for the names of the sons of Israel, twelve of them for their names; they shall be seal-engravings, each for its name, for twelve tribes.
22 “And you shall make for the pectoral twisted cords of ropework in pure gold; 23 and you shall make for the pectoral two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two edges of the pectoral, 24 and put the two gold ropes in the two rings on the edges of the pectoral; 25 and the two ends of the two ropes you shall put on the two filigrees, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, facing forward. 26 And you shall make two gold rings and place them on the two edges of the pectoral on its lip on the ephod side, inward; 27 and you shall make two gold rings and put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod low down in front close by its juncture, above the ephod-ribbon; 28 and they shall lace the pectoral on, from its rings to the rings of the ephod, with a violet cord, that it may be over the ephod-ribbon and the pectoral may not swing away from the ephod, 29 and Aaron may carry the names of the sons of Israel on his heart in the pectoral of judgment when he goes into the sanctuary, for a reminder before Jehovah always. 30 And you shall put in the pectoral of judgment the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be on Aaron’s heart when he goes in before Jehovah; and Aaron shall carry the judgment of the sons of Israel on his heart before Jehovah always.
31 “And you shall make the ephod-robe in solid violet. 32** And its head-hole shall be in the middle of it; the hole shall have a woven lip all round; it shall have a hole like that of a linen corselet, not slit. 33 And you shall make on its skirt pomegranates of violet and purple and scarlet, all round on its skirt, and golden bells between them all round, 34 a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, all round on the skirt of the robe; 35 and Aaron shall have it on him for officiating, and the sound of him shall be heard when he goes into the sanctuary before Jehovah and when he comes out, that he may not die.
36 “And you shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it in seal-engraving ‘Sacred to Jehovah,’ 37 and put it on a violet cord and let it be on the turban; it shall be in front of the turban, 38 and Aaron shall have it on his forehead; and Aaron shall carry the responsibility for the faults of the sacred things the sons of Israel consecrate, all their sacred gifts, and shall have it on his forehead always to win them acceptance before Jehovah.
39 “And you shall cord-quilt the tunic in lawn; and you shall make a turban in lawn; and a sash you shall make in embroidery. 40 And for Aaron’s sons you shall make tunics, and you shall make them sashes, and you shall make head-scarfs for them, for dignity and magnificence. 41 And you shall robe them, your brother Aaron and his sons with him, and anoint them and install them and consecrate them, and they shall be priests to me. 42 And make them linen drawers to cover their nudities; let them be from waist to thigh; 43 and let Aaron and his sons have them on when they go into the Tent of Meeting or approach the altar to officiate with sacred things, so as not to bear guilt and die; it is a perpetual usage for him and his descendants after him.
29 “And this is the form you shall use to consecrate them to be priests to me: take one steer of horned cattle and two faultless rams, 2* and matzoth and ritual-matzoth shortened with oil and sheet matzoth rubbed over with oil; you shall make them of wheat farina; 3 and put them in one basket, and present them in the basket, and the steer and the two rams. 4 And your brother Aaron and his sons you shall present at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and bathe them with water; 5 and you shall take the garments and put on Aaron the tunic and the ephod-robe and the ephod and the pectoral, and ephod him with the ephod-ribbon, 6 and place the turban on his head and put the sacred diadem on the turban; 7 and you shall take the anointing-oil and pour it on Aaron’s head and anoint him. 8 And you shall present his sons and put tunics on them, 9 and belt them with sash and tie head-scarfs for them, and they shall have it as a priesthood for a perpetual right.
“And you shall install Aaron and his sons. 10 And you shall present the steer before the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the steer’s head; 11 and you shall slaughter the steer before Jehovah at the door of the Tent of Meeting, 12 and you shall take some of the steer’s blood and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour all the blood at the base of the altar. 13 And you shall take all the fat that covers the entrails, and the appendix of the liver, and both kidneys and the fat on them, and burn them on the altar. 14 And the flesh of the steer and its skin and its dung you shall burn up outside the camp; it is a sin-offering. 15 And you shall take the first ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the ram’s head, 16 and you shall slaughter the ram and take its blood and throw it against the altar on all sides; 17 and you shall cut the ram in pieces, and wash its entrails and legs and put them on the pieces of it and on its head, 18 and burn all of the ram at the altar: it is a burnt-offering to Jehovah, it is a genial odor, a fire-offering to Jehovah. 19 And you shall take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the ram’s head, 20 and you shall slaughter the ram and take some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear and the lobes of his sons’ right ears and on their right thumbs and their right great toes, and throw the blood against the altar on all sides. 21 And you shall take some of the blood on the altar and some of the anointing oil and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments and on his sons and his sons’ garments with him, and they shall become sacred, he and his garments and his sons and his sons’ garments with him. 22 And you shall take of the ram the fat and the fat tail and the fat that covers the entrails and the appendix of the liver and both kidneys and the fat on them, and the right leg, because it is an installation ram, 23 and one biscuit and one ritual-cake of shortbread and one sheet-cake out of the basket of matzoth before Jehovah, 24 and lay all on the hands of Aaron and of his sons and wave it as a wave-offering before Jehovah, 25 and take it from their hands and burn it at the altar, besides the burnt-offering, for a genial odor before Jehovah; it is a fire-offering to Jehovah. 26 And you shall take the brisket from Aaron’s installation ram and wave it as a wave-offering before Jehovah, and you shall have it as your portion; 27 and you shall consecrate the wave-offering brisket and the contribution leg that are waved and contributed out of the installation ram, out of Aaron’s and out of that of his sons, 28 and Aaron and his sons shall have it as a perpetual right from the sons of Israel, because it is a contribution. And it shall be a contribution from the sons of Israel out of their welfare-sacrifices, their contribution to Jehovah.
29 “And Aaron’s sacred garments shall belong to his sons after him to be anointed and installed in. 30* The one of his sons who succeeds him as priest, who goes into the Tent of Meeting to officiate in the sanctuary, shall wear them seven days.
31 “And the installation ram you shall take and boil its flesh in a holy place, 32 and Aaron and his sons shall eat at the door of the Tent of Meeting the flesh of the ram and the bread in the basket. 33 And those shall eat them who were purged by them to install them and consecrate them; and no outsider shall eat, because they are sacred. 34 And if any of the installation flesh and the bread is left over till morning you shall burn up what is left over: it shall not be eaten, because it is sacred.
35* “And you shall do the same for Aaron and his sons, just as I have commanded you, seven days: you shall install them 36* and do a sinsteer a day for the purgation, and clear away sin from the altar by your purging it, and anoint it to consecrate it. 37* Seven days you shall purge the altar and consecrate it, and the altar shall become holiest of the holy: anything that touches the altar shall become sacred.
38 “And this is what you shall do on the altar: two yearling sheep a day regularly. 39 The first sheep you shall do at morning and the second sheep you shall do in the evening hours; 40 and a tenth of a bushel of farina stirred up with three pints of beaten oil, and a libation of three pints of wine, for the first sheep; 41 and the second sheep you shall do in the evening hours, do for it the same grain-offering and the same libation as in the morning, for a genial odor, a fire-offering to Jehovah, 42 a regular burnt-offering generation after generation at the door of the Tent of Meeting where I meet you to speak to you there; 43 and I will meet the sons of Israel there, and it shall be hallowed by my glory. 44 And I will hallow the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and Aaron and his sons I will hallow to be priests to me; 45 and I will take up my abode among the sons of Israel, and they shall have me for their God 46 and shall know that I am their God Jehovah who brought them out of Egypt when I Jehovah their God have my abode among them.
30 “And you shall make an altar for incense-burning: you shall make it of acacia wood, 2 eighteen inches long and eighteen wide—it is to be square—and three feet high, its horns in one piece with it, 3 and gild it with pure gold, its top and its walls all round and its horns, and make a gold molding around it, 4 and make two gold rings for it under its molding on its two sides, make them both sides of it, and let them be eyes for poles to carry it with; 5 and make the poles of acacia wood and gild them. 6 And put it before the veil that goes over the ark of the Lessons, before the mercy-seat over the Lessons, where I meet you. 7 And Aaron shall burn aromatic incense on it morning by morning, burning it when he trims the lamps, 8 and when Aaron sets up the lamps in the evening hours he shall burn it, as a regular incense before Jehovah generation after generation. 9 You shall not offer alien incense on it, nor burnt-offering nor grain-offering, nor pour a libation on it. 10 And Aaron shall purge its horns once a year; with part of the blood of the annual sin-offering of purgation it shall be purged generation after generation; it shall be holiest of the holy to Jehovah.”
11 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying 12 “When you take the census of the sons of Israel by their muster, they shall each give Jehovah composition-money for his life when they are mustered, and there shall not be any calamity among them at mustering them. 13 This they shall give, everyone that passes the muster, half a shekel of the sacred standard, twenty gerahs to a shekel: half a shekel as contribution to Jehovah. 14 Everyone that passes the muster, from twenty years old up, shall give Jehovah’s contribution: 15 the rich man shall not increase nor the poor man decrease the half-shekel, giving Jehovah’s contribution to compound for your lives. 16 And you shall take the money for the compounding from the sons of Israel and apply it to the service of the Tent of Meeting, and the sons of Israel shall have it as a memorial before Jehovah to compound for your lives.”
17 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying 18 “And you shall make a bronze laver, with its pedestal bronze, for washing, and put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water in; 19 and Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and feet out of it. 20 When they go into the Tent of Meeting they shall wash in water, so as not to die; or when they approach the altar to officiate in burning a fire-offering to Jehovah, 21 they shall wash their hands and feet so as not to die. It shall be a perpetual usage for him and his descendants generation after generation.”
22 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying 23 “And do you take first-class spices, free-flowing opobalsam two hundred ounces and spice-cinnamon half of it, one hundred, and spice-flag one hundred, 24* and cassia two hundred, by the sacred standard, and olive oil five quarts, 25 and make them into a sacred anointing-oil, a perfume scented by the perfumer’s art; it shall be a sacred anointing-oil. 26 And you shall anoint with it the Tent of Meeting, and the Ark of the Lessons, 27 and the table and all its vessels, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense, 28 and the altar of burnt-offering and all its vessels, and the laver and its pedestal, 29* and consecrate them; and they shall be holiest of the holy, everything that touches them shall become sacred. 30 And Aaron and his sons you shall anoint, and consecrate them to be priests to me. 31* And to the sons of Israel you shall speak, saying ‘You shall have this as a sacred anointing-oil generation after generation: 32* it shall never be poured on a human body, and you shall never make the like with the same proportions: it is sacred, you shall hold it sacred. 33 Anybody who compounds the like or who puts any of it on an alien object shall be cut off from his kinsfolk.”
34* And Jehovah said to Moses “Take aromatics, myrrh and onycha and aromatic galbanum and pure frankincense; part for part it shall be; 35 and make it into a perfume-incense, a work of the perfumer’s art, salted, pure, a sacred thing, 36 and powder it fine, and put some of it before the Lessons in the Tent of Meeting where I meet you; you shall hold it holiest of the holy. 37* And in the proportions of the incense you make you shall never make any for yourselves; you shall hold it sacred to Jehovah. 38 Anybody who makes the like to smell it shall be cut off from his kinsfolk.”
31 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying 2 “Look, I have called by name Besalel the son of Uri the son of Hur of the tribe of Judah, 3 and filled him with divine inspiration in art and taste and skill in every craft, 4 to invent designs and to execute them in gold and silver and bronze 5 and in gem-carving and wood-carving, to work in every craft. 6 And here I have put with him Oholiab the son of Ahisamac of the tribe of Dan, and have put talent in the heart of every artist, and they shall make everything that I have commanded you, 7 the Tent of Meeting and the ark of the Lessons and the mercy-seat over it and all the vessels of the Tent, 8 and the table and its vessels and the pure lampstand and all its furnishings, and the altar of incense, 9 and the altar of burnt-offering and all its furnishings, and the laver and its pedestal, 10* and the platted garments and the sacred garments for Priest Aaron, and his sons’ garments for priestly functions, 11 and the anointing-oil and the aromatic incense for the sanctuary; just as I commanded you they shall do.”
12 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying 13 “And do you tell the sons of Israel ‘Only you shall keep my sabbaths, because that is a token between me and you generation after generation, to know that I am Jehovah who consecrate you. 14 And you shall keep the sabbath, because it is a sacred thing of yours; one who profanes it shall be put to death, because whoever does work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his kinsfolk. 15 Six days there shall be work done, but on the seventh day is a sabbath, a sacred sabbath rest of Jehovah’s; whoever does work on the sabbath day shall be put to death.’ 16 And the sons of Israel shall keep the sabbaths, celebrating the sabbath generation after generation as a perpetual covenant. 17 Between me and the sons of Israel it is a token forever, because Jehovah was six days making the heavens and the earth and on the seventh day he left off and rested up.”
18 And he gave Moses, when he finished speaking to him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the Lessons, stone tablets written with God’s own finger.
32 And the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain; and the people assembled about Aaron and said to him “Get to work and make us gods that may go before us, because we do not know what has happened to this Moses, the man that brought us up out of Egypt.” 2* And Aaron said to them “Strip off the gold earrings your wives and children have in their ears and bring them to me.” 3 And all the people stripped off the gold earrings they had in their ears and brought them to Aaron; 4* and he took these from their hands and shaped it with a chisel and made it a cast-metal calf, and they said “These are your gods, Israel, that brought you up out of Egypt.” 5 And Aaron saw this and built an altar before it, and proclaimed “There is a feast to Jehovah tomorrow.” 6 And the first thing next morning they offered burnt-offerings and brought up welfare-sacrifices, and the people sat down to eat and drink and rose to play.
7 And Jehovah spoke to Moses: “Go down and go, because your people that you brought up out of Egypt have turned vicious, 8** they have gone off at once from the course I enjoined on them, they have made themselves a cast-metal calf and done reverence to it and sacrificed to it and said ‘These are your gods, Israel, that brought you up out of Egypt.’ 9 —— 10* Now let me be and let my anger break out at them, and I will exterminate them and make you a great-people.” 11 But Moses propitiated God and said “Jehovah, why should your anger break out against your people whom you have brought out of Egypt with great power and strong hand? 12 why should the Egyptians say ‘It was for mischief he brought them out, to kill them among the mountains and to exterminate them off the face of the earth’? Turn back from your anger and repent of the mischief to your people. 13 Remember for your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel what you swore to them by yourself and promised them, ‘I will make your descendants numerous as the stars in the sky, and all this country that I have mentioned I will give to your descendants and they shall occupy it forever.’” 14 And Jehovah repented of the mischief he had threatened to do to his people.
15 And Moses turned and went down off the mountain with the two tablets of the Lessons in his hands, tablets written on both faces: they were written on this aide and on that; and the tablets were God’s work, 16 and the writing was God’s writing, cut on the tablets. 17* And Joshuaʽ heard the sound of the people cheering, and said to Moses “There is a sound of fighting in the camp.” 18* But he said “It is no sound of voices in struggle nor of voices succumbing, what I hear is a sound of singing.” 19 And when he neared the camp and saw the calf and dancing Moses was angry, and threw the tablets out of his hands and smashed them under the mountain; 20 and he took the calf they had made and burned it up and ground it to a powder and sprinkled it on the water and had the sons of Israel drink it. 21 And Moses said to Aaron “What had this people done to you that you brought a great sin upon them?” 22 and Aaron said “Do not be angry, sir; you know this people is evil-disposed, 23 and they said to me ‘Make us gods that will go before us, because we do not know what has happened to this Moses, the man that brought us up out of Egypt.’ 24 And I said to them ‘Who has any gold? strip it off’; and they gave it to me, and I threw it in the fire, and this calf came out.”
25* And Moses saw the people were demoralized, because Aaron had demoralized them to be a butt among those who should stand up against them; 26 and Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said “Whoever is for Jehovah, come here to me!” and all the sons of Levi came there to him. 27 And he said to them “Says Israel’s God Jehovah, Put your swords at your sides; go back and forth from gate to gate in the camp and each kill his brother and friend and neighbor.” 28 And the sons of Levi did as Moses said, and there fell of the people on that day about three thousand men. 29* And Moses said “Do your devoir today for Jehovah, because it must be at the price of each man’s son and brother that you are to be given a blessing.”
30 And the next day Moses said to the people “You have committed a great sin; now I will go up to Jehovah, perhaps I may purge your sin.” 31 And Moses went back to Jehovah and said “Ah, this people have committed a great sin and made themselves gold gods. 32 But now if you forgive their sin—but if not, blot me out from your book that you have written.” 33 And Jehovah said to Moses “Whoever has sinned against me, him I will blot out from my book. 34 Now go, lead the people where I told you; here shall my Angel go before you; but on my day for punishing I will punish them for their sin.” 35 And Jehovah smote the people for their making the calf Aaron made.
33 And Jehovah spoke to Moses “Go on, go up from here, you and the people you have brought up out of Egypt, to the country of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, ‘I will give it to your descendants,’ 2* and I will send before you an Angel and expel the Canaanites, Amorites, and Hittites, and the Perizzites, Hivvites, and Jebusites; 3 to a country that runs milk and honey. For I will not go up among you, because you are a hard-necked people, so that I might exterminate you on the way.” 4 And the people heard this bad word, and mourned, and not a man put on his jewelry. 5 And Jehovah said to Moses “Say to the sons of Israel ‘You are a hard-necked people; going up among you for one moment I should end you; now lay off your jewelry and I will see what I will do for you’”; 6 and the sons of Israel laid off their jewelry from Mount Horeb on.
7** And Moses would take the tent and pitch it for him outside the camp, at a distance from the camp, and call it the Tent of Meeting; and everyone who was looking for Jehovah would go out to the Tent of Meeting outside the camp. 8 And when Moses went out to the Tent all the people would rise and take their stand at the doors of their tents and look after Moses till he went into the Tent. 9 And when Moses went into the Tent the pillar of cloud would come down and stand at the door of the Tent and talk with Moses; 10 and all the people would see the pillar of cloud standing at the door of the Tent, and all the people would rise and do reverence at the doors of their tents; 11 and Jehovah would talk with Moses face to face as a man talks with his friend. And he would go back to the camp, but his attendant Joshuaʽ the son of Nun, a young man, never budged from within the Tent.
12 And Moses said to Jehovah “See, you are saying to me ‘Lead this people up,’ and you have not made me acquainted with the one you will send with me; and you have said ‘I know you by name and you have my goodwill.’ 13 Now, if I have your goodwill, make known your paths to me that I may know you, so that I may have your goodwill. And observe that this nation is your own people.” 14 And he said “My presence shall go, and I will give you rest.” 15 And he said to him “If your presence does not go, do not send us up from here. 16* And by what is it to be known that I have your goodwill, I and your people? is it not by your going with us and our being distinguished, I and your people, from all the people on the face of the earth?” 17 And Jehovah said to Moses “This thing too that you speak of I will do, because you have my goodwill and I know you by name.”
18 And he said “Show me your glory.” 19 And he said “I will pass all my goodliness before you and proclaim the name of Jehovah before you, and be gracious to whom I am gracious to and merciful to whom I am merciful to.”20 And he said “You cannot see my face, because man does not see my face and live.” 21* And Jehovah said “Here I have a place in mind; and you shall take your stand on the rock, 22 and when my glory is passing by I will place you in the cavity of the rock and I will cover over you with my hand till I have gone past; 23 and I will take my hand away and you shall see my back, and my face not be seen.”
34 And Jehovah said to Moses “Carve yourself two stone tablets like the original ones, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the original tablets that you broke; 2 and be ready for morning, and come up in the morning on Mount Sinai and stand there for me on top of the mountain. 3* And nobody is to come up with you, nor anybody show himself anywhere on the mountain, nor the sheep and cattle feed on the side toward the mountain either.”
4 And Moses carved two stone tablets like the original ones, and the first thing in the morning he went up on Mount Sinai as Jehovah had commanded him to, and took the two stone tablets. 5 And Jehovah came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed the name of Jehovah; 6* and Jehovah passed by before him, and Jehovah proclaimed “Jehovah is a deity tenderhearted and kindly, patient and very friendly and loyal, 7* keeping friendship for thousands, pardoning guilt and crime and sin but not acquitting an offender, visiting fathers’ guilt on children and grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.” 8 And Moses quickly bowed down to the ground and did reverence, 9 and said “If I have your goodwill, my Lord, let my Lord go among us, because it is a hard-necked people but you will forgive our guilt and sin and have us for your own.”
10 And he said “Here I make a covenant: before the face of all your people I will do wonders that had never been created anywhere on earth nor in any nation, and all the people among whom you are shall see Jehovah’s work to be terrible, that I do together with you. 11 Keep what I command you today: here I am expelling before you the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Hivvites and the Jebusites; 12 beware that you do not make terms with the inhabitants of the country you are going in against, lest they should be a snare among you; 13 but you shall pull down their altars and break up their obelisks and cut down their asherahs, 14 because you are not to do reverence to another deity, for Jehovah’s name is Jealous; he is a jealous deity, 15 that you may not make terms with the inhabitants of the country, and they prostitute themselves to go after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and they invite you and you eat some of their sacrifice, 16 and you marry your sons to daughters of theirs and their daughters prostitute themselves to go after their gods and seduce your sons into going after their gods. 17 You shall not make yourself metal gods. 18* The feast of matzoth you shall keep: seven days you shall eat matzoth, as I commanded you, at the regular date in the green-ear month, because in the green-ear month you came out of Egypt. 19* Everyone that has started a womb belongs to me: of all your stock you shall sacrifice the male that starts, horned cattle and small cattle; 20* and a donkey that has started a womb you shall redeem with a sheep or goat, or if you do not redeem it you shall break its neck; every firstborn son of yours you shall redeem, and they shall not appear before me empty-handed. 21 Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall keep sabbath; in plowing and in harvest you shall keep sabbath. 22 And you shall celebrate the feast of weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest-home at the turn of the year. 23* Three times a year every male of yours shall appear before the Lord Jehovah the God of Israel; 24* for I will dispossess nations before you and widen your territories, and nobody shall desire your land when you go up to appear before your God Jehovah three times a year. 25 You shall not let the blood of my sacrifices run on yeast bread; nor shall the sacrifice of the passover feast stay over for morning. 26 The first of the earliest cuttings from your land you shall bring to the house of your God Jehovah. You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.”
27 And Jehovah said to Moses “Write down these words, because on these terms I make a covenant with you and with Israel.” 28 And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights, not eating bread nor drinking water; and he wrote on the tablets the terms of the covenant, the Ten Things.
29** And when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, Moses had the two tablets in his hands as he came down from the mountain, and Moses did not know that the skin of his face was luminous by his talking with him. 30 And Aaron and all the elders of Israel saw Moses and saw that the skin of his face was luminous, and were afraid to approach him. 31 And Moses called them, and Aaron and all the princes of the congregation came back to him, and Moses spoke to them. 32 And after that all the sons of Israel approached and he gave them all the orders of which Jehovah had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. 33 And Moses finished talking with them and put a veil over his face. 34 And when Moses went in before Jehovah to speak with him he would take the veil off till he came out; and he would come out and speak to the sons of Israel, telling them what he was commanded to, 35 and the sons of Israel would see Moses’s face was luminous, and Moses would put the veil back on his face till he went in to speak with him.
35 And Moses assembled all the congregation of the sons of Israel and said to them “These are the things Jehovah has commanded to do. 2 Six days you shall do work, but on the seventh day you shall have a sacred time of sabbath, a sabbath rest of Jehovah’s; everyone who does work on it shall be put to death. 3* You shall never light a fire in any of your domiciles on the sabbath day.”
4 And Moses said to all the congregation of the sons of Israel “This is the thing Jehovah has commanded: 5 Take from what you have on hand a contribution for Jehovah: everyone stirred to generosity by his heart shall bring it, Jehovah’s contribution in gold and silver and bronze 6 and violet and purple and scarlet and lawn and goats’ hair 7 and red morocco and sea-cow skins and acacia wood, 8 and oil for the light, and spices for the oil for anointing and for the aromatic incense, 9* and beryls and stones for setting for the ephod and the pectoral; 10 and let every artist among you come and make everything that Jehovah has commanded, 11 the tabernacle, its tent and its cover, its links and its frames, its barn, its pillars and its plinths, 12 the ark and its poles, the mercy-seat and the screening veil, 13* the table and its poles and all its furnishings, 14** and the lampstand for the light and all its furnishings and its lamps, 15 and the altar for the incense and its poles, and the oil for anointing and the aromatic incense, and the entrance-screen for the entrance of the tabernacle, 16 the altar for the burnt-offerings and its bronze grating, its poles and all its furnishings, the laver and its pedestal, 17 the curtains of the court, its pillars and its plinths, and the screen for the gate of the court, 18 the tent-pegs for the tabernacle and the tent-pegs for the court and their ropes, 19 the platted garments for serving in the holy place and the sacred garments for Priest Aaron and his sons’ garments for priestly functions.”
20 And all the congregation of the sons of Israel went out from before Moses; 21 and every man who had confidence in his powers came, and everyone whose spirit stirred him to give brought Jehovah’s contribution for the work of the Tent of Meeting and for all its service and for the sacred garments. 22*** And the men brought with the women: every generous-hearted one brought brooches and nose-rings and finger-rings and earrings and bangles, every kind of golden article, and whatever wave-offering of gold any man waved before Jehovah. 23 And every man in whose possession was to be found violet and purple and scarlet and lawn and goats’ hair and red morocco and sea-cow skins brought them; 24* everyone who made a contribution of silver and bronze brought Jehovah’s contribution; and everyone in whose possession was to be found acacia wood for any service in the work brought it. 25 And every woman with artistic gifts spun with her hands and brought yarn, the violet and the purple and the scarlet and the lawn; 26 and all the women who had confidence in their artistic powers spun the goats’ hair. 27* And the princes brought the beryls and the stones for setting for the ephod and the pectoral, 28 and the spice and the oil for the light and for the oil for anointing and for the aromatic incense. 29 Every man and woman whose hearts generously stirred them to bring for all the work which Jehovah had by Moses commanded should be done, the sons of Israel brought a voluntary offering to Jehovah.
30 And Moses said to the sons of Israel “Look, Jehovah has called by name Besalel the son of Uri the son of Hur of the tribe of Judah, 31 and filled him with divine inspiration in art and taste and skill and in every craft, 32 to invent designs and to execute them in gold and silver and bronze 33 and in gem-carving and wood-carving, to work in every artistic craft, 34 and has endowed him to give directions,—him and Oholiab the son of Ahisamac of the tribe of Dan. 35 He has filled them with artistic power for doing all work of craftsman and artist and embroiderer in violet and purple and scarlet and lawn and weaver, doers of all work and inventors of designs.
36 And Besalel and Oholiab, and every artist into whom Jehovah has put artistry and taste to know how to work, shall do all the work of the sacred service for everything that Jehovah has commanded.”
2* And Moses called Besalel and Oholiab and every artist into whose heart Jehovah had put artistry, everyone who had confidence in his powers, to attack the work and do it. 3 And they took from before Moses the contribution that the sons of Israel had brought for the work of the sacred service, to do it; and they were still bringing voluntary offerings morning by morning. 4 And all the artists who were doing the sacred work came from their several works that they were doing 5 and said to Moses “The people are bringing more than enough for the service of the work that Jehovah commanded should be done.” 6 And Moses gave orders, and they passed the cry through the camp “Let no man or woman do any more work for the sacred contribution,” and the people were checked from bringing. 7* And they had enough material for all the work, to do it and to leave some over.
8 And all the artists among those who did the work made the tabernacle in ten breadths; of spun-thread lawn and violet and purple and scarlet, cherubs in tapestry, they made them. 9 Each breadth was forty-two feet long and each six feet wide; all the breadths were of the same measure. 10 And he fastened together five breadths one to another and five breadths one to another, 11 and he made violet loops on the border of the side breadth in one set, likewise on the border of the last breadth in the second set: 12 fifty loops he made on the first breadth, and fifty loops he made on the edge of the breadth in the second set, the loops coming opposite each other. 13 And he made fifty gold links and fastened the breadths to each other with the links, so that the tabernacle was one piece.
14 And he made breadths of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle: he made eleven of the breadths. 15 Each breadth was forty-five feet long and each six feet wide; the eleven breadths were of the same measure. 16 And he fastened together five breadths by themselves and six breadths by themselves; and he made fifty loops on the border of the last breadth in a set, 17 and fifty loops he made on the border of the breadth in the second set. 18 And he made fifty bronze links to fasten the tent so that it should be one piece. 19 And he made a red morocco cover for the tent, and a sea-cow skin cover on top.
20 And he made the frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing: 21 a frame was fifteen feet long, and each twenty-seven inches wide; 22* two sidepieces to each frame, braced one to the other; he did the same for all the frames of the tabernacle. And he made the frames for the tabernacle, 23 twenty frames for the right-hand face to the south, 24* and made forty silver plinths to go under the twenty frames, two plinths under each frame for its two sidepieces; 25 and for the second side of the tabernacle, the north face, twenty frames, 26 and forty silver plinths, two plinths under each frame. 27 And for the rear of the tabernacle, to the west, he made six frames; 28 and he made two frames for the corners of the tabernacle at the rear, 29* which were twin below and united at the top to the first ring: it was the same for both of them, for both corners, 30 and it made eight frames and their silver plinths, sixteen plinths, two plinths under each frame.
31 And he made bars of acacia wood, five bars for the frames of one face of the tabernacle 32 and five bars for the frames of the second face of the tabernacle and five bars for the frames of the rear of the tabernacle, to the west; 33 and he made the middle bar to run through at the middle of the frames from end to end.
34 And he gilded the frames, and made their rings of gold as eyes for the bars, and gilded the bars.
35 And he made the veil of violet and purple and scarlet and spunthread lawn; he made it with cherubs in tapestry. 36 And he made four acacia pillars for it and gilded them, and gave them gold hooks; and he cast four silver plinths for them. 37 And he made a screen for the entrance of the tent, of violet and purple and scarlet and spun-thread lawn, embroidered work, 38 and its pillars, five of them, and their gold hooks, and gilded their tops, and their fillets, and gave them five bronze plinths.
37 And Besalel made the ark of acacia wood, forty-five inches in length and twenty-seven inches in breadth and twenty-seven inches in depth, 2 and gilded it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a gold molding around it, 3 and cast four gold rings for it to go on its four legs, two rings on one side and two on the other. 4 And he made poles of acacia wood and gilded them, 5 and inserted the poles in the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark by. 6 And he made a mercy-seat of pure gold forty-five inches in length and twenty-seven inches in breadth, 7 and made two gold cherubs, made them of chased work, at the two ends of the mercy-seat, 8 one cherub at this end and one cherub at that end; he made them in one piece with the mercy-seat, at its two ends. 9 And the cherubs were stretching out their wings above, overarching the mercy-seat with their wings, their faces toward each other: the cherubs’ faces were toward the mercy-seat.
10 And he made the table of acacia wood, three feet in length and eighteen inches in breadth and twenty-seven inches in height, 11 and gilded it with pure gold, and made a gold molding around it. 12 And he made a three-inch border around it, and made a gold molding around its border, 13 and cast four gold rings for it and put the rings on the four broadsides of its four legs: 14 the rings were close by the border, as eyes for the poles for carrying the table. 15 And he made the poles of acacia wood and gilded them, for carrying the table. 16 And he made the furnishings on the table, its plates and its pans and its chalices and its flagons that libations were to be poured with, of pure gold.
17 And he made the lampstand of pure gold: he made the lampstand of chased work; its base and its stem, its bowls, its bulbs, and its petals, were in one piece. 18* And there were six stems coming out of its sides, three lampstand-stems on one side and three lampstand-stems on the other; 19 three almond-flower bowls on one stem, bulbs and petals, and three almond-flower bowls on one stem, bulbs and petals, so for the six stems that came out of the lampstand; 20 and on the lampstand four almond-flower bowls, its bulbs and its petals; 21* and a bulb under the two stems, in one piece with it, and a bulb under the two stems, in one piece with it, and a bulb under the two stems, in one piece with it, for the six stems that came out of it. 22 Their bulbs and their stems were in one piece with it, all a single piece of chased work of pure gold. 23 And he made its lamps, seven of them, and its pincers and its firepans, pure gold. 24 He made it, and all its furnishings, of a hundred pounds of pure gold.
25 And he made the altar for incense-burning of acacia wood, eighteen inches long and eighteen wide, square, and three feet high, its horns in one piece with it, 26 and gilded it with pure gold, its top and its walls all round and its horns, and made a gold molding around it, 27 and made two gold rings for it under its molding on its two sides, both sides of it, for eyes for poles to carry it with; 28 and he made the poles of acacia wood and gilded them.
29 And he made the anointing-oil, sacred, and the aromatic incense, pure, a work of the perfumer’s art.
38 And he made the altar for the burnt-offerings of acacia wood, seven and a half feet long and seven and a half wide, square, and four and a half feet high; 2 and he made its horns on its four corners—the horns were in one piece with it—and plated it with bronze. 3 And he made all the furnishings of the altar, the pots and the shovels and the bowls and the forks and the firepans: all its furnishings he made in bronze. 4 And he made for the altar a grating of bronze network, underneath its rim, reaching halfway down; 5 and he cast four rings at the four corners of the bronze network, as eyes for the poles. 6 And he made the poles of acacia wood and plated them with bronze, 7 and inserted the poles in the rings on the sides of the altar, to carry it by. He made it hollow, of boards.
8 And he made the laver of bronze, and its pedestal of bronze, with the mirrors of the women on service who did duty at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
9 And he made the court: for the right-hand face toward the south, curtains for the court in spun-thread lawn for a hundred and fifty feet, 10 and their pillars, twenty, and their plinths, twenty, in bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their fillets in silver; 11 and for the north face a hundred and fifty feet, their pillars, twenty, and their plinths, twenty, in bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their fillets in silver; 12 and for the west face seventy-five feet of curtains, their pillars ten and their plinths ten, the hooks of the pillars and their fillets in silver; 13 and for the east side toward the sunrise seventy-five feet, 14 twenty-two and a half feet of curtains for one side of the front, their pillars three and their plinths three, 15 and for the other side; on this side and on that side of the gate of the court twenty-two and a half feet of curtains, their pillars three and their plinths three. 16 All the curtains of the court, all round, were spun-thread lawn, 17 and the plinths for the pillars bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their fillets silver and the casing of their tops silver, and themselves filleted with silver, all the pillars of the court.
18 And the screen of the gate of the court, embroidered work in violet and purple and scarlet and spun-thread lawn, thirty feet in length, and in height, breadthwise, seven and a half feet to match the curtains of the court; 19 and their pillars four and their plinths four in bronze, their hooks silver, and the casing of their tops and their fillets silver. 20 And all the tent-pegs for the tabernacle and for the court, all round, bronze.
21 These are the statistics of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the Lessons, taken at Moses’s direction by the work of the Levites under Ithamar the son of Priest Aaron. 22* Besalel the son of Uri the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything that Jehovah had given Moses the order for, 23* and with him Oholiab the son of Ahisamac, of the tribe of Dan, carver and tapestry-designer and embroiderer in violet and purple and scarlet and lawn. 24* All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work, of the sacred things, the gold of the wave-offering, amounted to twenty-nine hundredweight and seven hundred and thirty shekels of the sacred standard. 25 And the silver from the muster of the congregation was a hundred hundredweight and seventeen hundred and seventy-five shekels of the sacred standard: 26 a bekaʽ per capita, half a shekel of the sacred standard, for everyone that passed the muster from twenty years old up, for six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty. 27 And a hundred hundredweight of the silver went for casting the plinths of the sanctuary and of the veil, a hundred plinths to the hundred hundredweight, a hundredweight to a plinth; 28 and the seventeen hundred and seventy-five shekels he made into hooks for the pillars and cased their tops and filleted them with it. 29 And the bronze of the wave-offering was seventy hundredweight and twenty-four hundred shekels; 30 and he made with it the plinths of the door of the Tent of Meeting and the bronze altar and its bronze network and all the furnishings of the altar, 31 and the plinths of the court all round and the plinths of the gate of the court and all the tent-pegs of the tabernacle and all the tent-pegs of the court all round.
39 And part of the violet and purple and scarlet they made into platted garments for serving in the holy place, and they made Aaron’s sacred garments as Jehovah had commanded Moses. 2 And they made the ephod of gold, violet, and purple and scarlet and spun-thread lawn, 3 and beat out the sheets of gold and cut them up into threads to work into the violet and into the purple and into the scarlet and into the lawn in tapestry work. 4 They made joining shoulder-pieces for it; it was joined on at both ends. 5 And the ephodage ribbon on it was in one piece with it, of the same work, gold, violet, and purple and scarlet and spun-thread lawn, as Jehovah had commanded Moses. 6* And they made the two stones, beryls, surrounded with gold filigree, engraved in seal-engraving style with the names of Israel’s sons, 7 and placed them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod as commemorative stones for the sons of Israel, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
8 And they made the pectoral in tapestry work, like the work of the ephod, of gold, violet, and purple and scarlet and spun-thread lawn. 9* It was square; they made the pectoral double, nine inches long and nine wide, 10* and set in it four rows of stones: a row of a sard, a chrysolite, and a rock-crystal the first row, 11 and the second row a garnet, a lapis lazuli, and a chalcedony, 12 and the third row a cairngorm, an agate, and an amethyst, 13 and the fourth row a yellow jasper, a beryl, and a green jasper, surrounded with gold filigree in their setting: 14 the stones were for the names of the sons of Israel, twelve of them for their names, seal-engravings, each for its name, for twelve tribes.
15 And they made for the pectoral twisted cords of ropework in pure gold, 16 and made two pieces of gold filigree and two gold rings and put the two rings on the two edges of the pectoral 17 and put the two gold ropes in the two rings on the edges of the pectoral, 18 and the two ends of the two ropes they put on the two filigrees and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, facing forward. 19 And they made two gold rings and placed them on the two edges of the pectoral on its lip on the ephod side, inward, 20 and made two gold rings and put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod low down in front close by its juncture, above the ephod-ribbon, 21 and laced the pectoral on, from its rings to the rings of the ephod, with a violet cord, to have it over the ephod-ribbon and not have the pectoral swing away from the ephod, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
22 And they made the ephod-robe, woven, in solid violet. 23 And the neck of the robe was in the middle of it, like that of a linen corselet; the neck had a woven lip all round, not slit. 24* And they made on the skirt of the robe pomegranates of violet and purple and scarlet, in spun thread; 25 and they made bells of pure gold and put the bells between the pomegranates all round on the skirt of the robe, between the pomegranates, 26 a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, all round on the skirt of the robe, for officiating, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
27 And they made the tunics in lawn, woven, for Aaron and his sons, 28 and the turban in lawn, and the scarf headdresses in lawn, and the linen drawers in spun-thread lawn, 29 and the sash in spun-thread lawn and violet and purple and scarlet embroidery, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
30 And they made the plate for the sacred diadem of pure gold, and inscribed on it in seal-engraving letters “Sacred to Jehovah,” 31 and put it on a violet cord to put on the turban at the top, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
32 And all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished, and the sons of Israel did just as Jehovah had commanded Moses, just so. 33 And they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent and all its furnishings, its links, its frames, its bars and pillars and plinths, 34 and the red morocco cover and the sea-cow skin cover and the screening veil, 35 the ark of the Lessons and its poles and the mercy-seat, 36 the table with all its furnishings and the showbread, 37 the pure lampstand, its lamps, the lamps of the regular set, and all its furnishings and the oil for the light, 38 and the gold altar, and the oil for anointing, and the aromatic incense, and the screen for the door of the tent, 39 and the bronze altar and its bronze grating, its poles and all its furnishings, the laver and its pedestal, 40 the curtains for the court, its pillars and its plinths, and the screen for the gate of the court, its ropes and its tent-pegs, and all the tools for work about the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting; 41 the platted garments for serving in the holy place, the sacred garments for Priest Aaron and his sons’ garments for priestly service. 42 Just as Jehovah had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel had done all the work. 43 And Moses saw all the fabric and found they had made it as Jehovah had commanded, done just so; and Moses blessed them.
40 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying 2 “On the day of the first new moon, the first of the month, you shall set up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting. 3 And you shall place there the ark of the Lessons, and screen the ark with the veil, 4 and bring in the table and set it, and bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps, 5 and put the gold altar before the ark of the Lessons for incense, and put in place the screen of the door of the tabernacle, 6 and put the altar for the burnt-offering before the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, 7 and put the laver between the Tent of Meeting and the altar and put water there, 8 and put in place the court around it and put up the screen of the gate of the court, 9 and take the anointing-oil and anoint the tabernacle and everything in it and hallow it and all its furnishings and have it sacred, 10 and anoint the altar for the burnt-offering and all its furnishings 11 and hallow the altar and have the altar holiest of the holy, and anoint the laver and its pedestal and hallow it, 12 and bring Aaron and his sons near the door of the Tent of Meeting and bathe them with water, 13 and dress Aaron in the sacred garments and anoint him and hallow him and let him be priest to me, 14 and bring his sons near and dress them in tunics 15 and anoint them as you anointed their father and let them be priests to me, and let them have their anointing take effect for a perpetual priesthood generation after generation.”
16 And Moses did just as Jehovah had commanded him, did just so. 17 And on the day of the first new moon in the second year, on the first of the month, the tabernacle was set up. 18 And Moses set up the tabernacle and put down its plinths and placed its frames and put in its bars and set up its pillars, 19 and spread the tent over the tabernacle and laid the cover of the tent over it on top, as Jehovah had commanded Moses, 20 and took the Lessons and put them in the ark and placed the poles on the ark and put the mercy-seat on top of the ark, 21 and brought the ark into the tabernacle and put in place the screening veil and screened the ark of the Lessons, as Jehovah had commanded Moses. 22 And he put the table in the Tent of Meeting deep in at the side of the tabernacle on the north, outside the veil, 23 and set it with bread before Jehovah, as Jehovah had commanded Moses. 24 And he placed the lampstand in the Tent of Meeting opposite the table, deep in at the side of the tabernacle on the south, 25 and set up the lamps before Jehovah, as Jehovah had commanded Moses. 26 And he placed the gold altar in the Tent of Meeting before the veil, 27 and burned aromatic incense on it, as Jehovah had commanded Moses. 28 And he put the door-screen in place for the tabernacle, 29 and placed the altar for the burnt-offering at the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, and offered on it the burnt-offering and the grain-offering, as Jehovah had commanded Moses. 30 And he placed the laver between the Tent of Meeting and the altar and put water there for washing; 31 and Moses and Aaron would wash their hands and feet out of it 32 when they went into the Tent of Meeting, and when they approached the altar they would wash, as Jehovah had commanded Moses. 33 And he set up the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and put the screen at the gate of the court.
And Moses finished the work. 34 And the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and Jehovah’s glory filled the tabernacle; 35 and Moses could not go into the Tent of Meeting because the cloud had settled down on it and Jehovah’s glory had filled it. 36 And when the cloud lifted from the tabernacle the sons of Israel marched, throughout their marches, 37 and if the cloud did not lift they did not march till the day that it lifted. 38 For Jehovah’s cloud was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in it by night, before the eyes of all the house of Israel throughout their marches.
MARGINAL NOTES TO EXODUS
1:16 (while they are on the birthstool) Unc.
2:22 In Hebrew ger means emigrant, immigrant, and sham means there
2:25 Susp.; doubtful var. the slavery of the sons of Israel
3:12 The I is unemphatic in the Hebrew; conj. emphatic I instead of Because I
3:21 Lit. put favor to the people in the Egyptians’ eyes
3:22 Or borrow from her neighbor and her lodger articles
4:7 Lit. turned back like the rest of
4:11 Or is it not I, Jehovah?
4:20 Conj. son
4:31 Var. believed. And they heard that Jehovah
5:21 Lit. made the smell of us bad in the eyes of the Pharaoh and his officers
6:13 Var. to the sons of Israel and to the Pharaoh
7:19 Lit. throughout Egypt and in wood and in stone
8:4 Var. you and your people and all your officers Var. you and your officers and your people
8:17 Var. And they did so; and Aaron
8:18 Or to send out the mosquitoes
8:23 (redemption) Susp.
9:14 Codd. all my plagues to your heart and upon your officers and people
9:17 (thwarting) Unc.
9:23 (ran) Unc.
9:29 Var. the hail and the rain
11:1 (last part) Susp.
11:7 Unc.
12:4 Or rating of persons
12:17 Var. keep the commandment
12:18 Lit. In the first, on the
12:18 Lit. shall eat matzoth till the
12:24 Lit. this thing or this word
12:44 Or every slave, man bought with money
13:4 Or at the new moon of the greenear month
13:5 Or at this new moon
13:7 Var. nothing raised seen, nor any leaven seen, in
13:17 Or country because that was the nearest, because
13:21 Var. adds at end of verse to give them light, for going by day and by night
14:5 Var.* that the people were getting away
14:20 Var. darkening, and it lighted the night and the one did
15:15 Codd. the mighty (or rams or oaks) of Moab
15:20-21 Or dance, and Miriam sang to them
16:14 (flaky) Or granulated
16:28 Conj. And Moses said
16:32 Lit. a ghomerful of it for a deposit for your generations, in order that they may see
16:34 Lit. without the words And Aaron did
17:9 Var. Pick out men for yourself
17:16 Unc.; susp.
17:16 Or there is a hand
17:16 Or on Jehovah’s throne or toward Jehovah’s throne
18:2 Or her divorce
18:3 See note on chapter 2 [verse 22]
18:4 Eliʽezer means Deity-is-Help
18:4 Lit. is in my help and has delivered or is for my help and has delivered
18:7 Var. he came to his tent
18:11 Susp.; conj. that the words he delivered the people from under the hands of the Egyptians (which some copies have at the end of verse 10 with a conjunction) belong at the end of verse 11
18:12 Var. all the elders
18:22 Var.* you will get relief and they will share
19:12 Var. set bounds round the mountain, saying
19:18 Var. all the mountain shuddered (unc.) greatly
20:6 Conj.* the thousandth generation
20:18 Lit. the noises and the torches and the sound
20:23 Lit. without the words other gods Susp.
20:24 Var. all the place
20:25 Lit. you will have swung your blade on it and profaned it
21:6 Or to the gods (which according to some means the judges)
21:8 Lit. with his blanket on her
21:16 Var. puts verse 17 before verse 16
21:22 (end of verse) Susp.
21:35 Lit. and it dies
22:1 Lit. steals a bull or cow or sheep or goat
22:4 Lit. without for one
22:10 Lit. a donkey or bull or cow or sheep or goat or any animal
22:20 Var. One who sacrifices to gods shall die without quarter, except to Jehovah only.
22:25 Codd. my people in trouble (var. your brother in trouble)
23:3 Codd. lit. And a poor man you shall not decorate in his case (without mention of great man)
23:5 (last half) Unc.; susp.
23:6 Codd. your needy man’s case
23:12 Lit. your slave-woman’s son and your immigrant
23:15 Or regular date on the new moon of the green-ear month, because on it
23:15 Conj.* see my face emptyhanded
23:16 Lit. firstfruits of your works
23:16 Lit. get in your works
23:23 Var. adds the Girgashites after the Hivvites
24:11 (representatives) Unc.
24:12 Var. the stone tablets, the instructions
24:13 Var. rose, and Moses went up
25:7 (beryls) Unc.
25:32 Lit. And six stems
25:35 (stems, in one piece with it) Or stems out of it (three times)
25:37 Var. and he shall set up
25:39 Var. he shall
26:17 Or tenons
26:19 Or tenons
26:24 Lit. twin below and together they shall be entire at its head
26:31 Var. you shall make it
27:11 Lit. in length curtains a hundred and fifty long Var. curtains a hundred and fifty feet long
27:18 Conj. to omit last four words
28:9 (beryls) Unc.
28:15 Var. of an ephod
28:17-20 Unc.
28:20 (enclosed in gold filigree) Unc.
28:32 Lit. its hole shall have
28:32 Or it shall have it as at the hole of a linen corselet, not to tear
29:2 Var. omits and ritual-matzoth
29:30 Or officiate with the sacred things
29:35 Or commanded you: seven days you shall
29:36 (by your purging it) Or when you purge it
29:37 Or anyone that touches the altar shall be hallowed
30:24 (cassia) Unc.
30:29 Or everyone that touches them shall be hallowed
30:31 Var. This shall be a sacred anointing-oil for me
30:32 Lit. and in its weights you shall not make the like of it
30:34 Var. and galbanum, aromatics
30:37 Lit. weights
31:10 (platted) Unc.
32:2 Var. wives and daughters
32:4 Var. and said
32:8 Var. a calf
32:8 Var. adds verse 9, And Jehovah said to Moses “I see this people is a hard-necked people.
32:10 Lit. be hot at them
32:17 (cheering) Unc.; susp.
32:18 (singing) Susp.
32:25 Unc.
32:29 Or Install yourselves today for Jehovah
33:2 Var. who shall expel
33:7 Or a tent
33:7 Or and they called it
33:16 Var. all the peoples
33:21 Or a place by me; and
34:3 Or and they are not to pasture the sheep and cattle
34:6 Or before him and proclaimed “Jehovah, Jehovah, a deity
34:7 Conj.* for the thousandth generation
34:18 Or date on the new moon of the green-ear month, because on the new moon of
34:19 Codd. and all your stock you shall male, the one that starts of
34:20 Conj.* see my face emptyhanded
34:23 Conj.* see the face of
34:24 Conj.* (or codd.) see your God Jehovah’s face
34:29 Var. had the two tablets of the Lessons in his hands
34:29, 30 (Luminous) Lit. radiant
35:3 Var. adds I am Jehovah
35:9 (beryls) Unc.
35:13 Var. omits and its poles
35:14 Var. light and its
35:14 Var. omits and its lamps
35:22 Var. the men came with
35:22 (brooches, bangles) Unc.
35:22 Lit. every golden article, and every man who waved a waveoffering of gold before Jehovah
35:24 Lit. any work of the service
35:27 (beryls) Unc.
36:2 Lit. to attack the work to do it
36:7 Lit. the work turned out (or was) enough for them
36:22 Or tenons
36:24 Or tenons
36:29 Lit. twin below and together they were entire at its head
37:18 Lit. And six stems
37:21 (stems, in one piece with it) Or stems out of it (three times)
38:22 Lit. And Besalel
38:23 Or and designer
38:24 Lit. sacred things: the gold of the wave-offering amounted to
39:6 (beryls) Unc.
39:9 Var. and nine wide, double,
39:10-13 Unc.
39:24 Conj. to omit in spun thread