36“And you oshall offer a bull every day as a sin offering for atonement. pYou shall cleanse the altar when you make atonement for it, and you shall anoint it to sanctify it.
37“Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and sanctify it. And the altar shall be most holy. qWhatever touches the altar must be holy.
The Daily Offerings
(Num. 28:1–8)
38“Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: rtwo lambs of the first year, sday by day continually.
39“One lamb you shall offer tin the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer 2at twilight.
40“With the one lamb shall be one-tenth of an ephah of flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of pressed oil, and one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering.
41“And the other lamb you shall uoffer 3at twilight; and you shall offer with it the grain offering and the drink offering, as in the morning, for a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
42“This shall be va continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of meeting before the LORD, wwhere I will meet you to speak with you.
43“And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle xshall be sanctified by My glory.
44“So I will consecrate the tabernacle of meeting and the altar. I will also yconsecrate both Aaron and his sons to minister to Me as priests.
45z“I will dwell among the children of Israel and will abe their God.
46“And they shall know that bI am the LORD their God, who cbrought them up out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them. I am the LORD their God.
Exodus 30
The Altar of Incense
(Ex. 37:25–28)
1“You shall make aan altar to burn incense on; you shall make it of acacia wood.
2“A cubit shall be its length and a cubit its width—it shall be square—and two cubits shall be its height. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.
3“And you shall overlay its top, its sides all around, and its horns with pure gold; and you shall make for it a 1molding of gold all around.
4“Two gold rings you shall make for it, under the molding on both its sides. You shall place them on its two sides, and they will be holders for the poles with which to bear it.
5“You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
6“And you shall put it before the bveil that is before the ark of the Testimony, before the cmercy seat that is over the Testimony, where I will meet with you.
7“Aaron shall burn on it dsweet incense every morning; when ehe tends the lamps, he shall burn incense on it.
8“And when Aaron lights the lamps 2at twilight, he shall burn incense on it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.
9“You shall not offer fstrange incense on it, or a burnt offering, or a grain offering; nor shall you pour a drink offering on it.
10“And gAaron shall make atonement upon its horns once a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonement; once a year he shall make atonement upon it throughout your generations. It is most holy to the LORD.”
The Ransom Money
11Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
12h“When you take the census of the children of Israel for their number, then every man shall give ia3 ransom for himself to the LORD, when you number them, that there may be no jplague among them when you number them.
13k“This is what everyone among those who are numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary l(a shekel is twenty gerahs). mThe half-shekel shall be an offering to the LORD.
14“Everyone included among those who are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an 4offering to the LORD.
15“The nrich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when you give an offering to the LORD, to make atonement for yourselves.
16“And you shall take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and oshall 5appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of meeting, that it may be pa memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD, to make atonement for yourselves.”
The Bronze Laver
17Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
18q“You shall also make a 6laver of bronze, with its base also of bronze, for washing. You shall rput it between the tabernacle of meeting and the altar. And you shall put water in it,
19“for Aaron and his sons sshall wash their hands and their feet in water from it.
20“When they go into the tabernacle of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to the LORD, they shall wash with water, lest they die.
21“So they shall wash their hands and their feet, lest they die. And tit shall be a 7statute forever to them—to him and his descendants throughout their generations.”
The Holy Anointing Oil
(Ex. 37:29)
22Moreover the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
23“Also take for yourself uquality spices—five hundred shekels of liquid vmyrrh, half as much sweet-smelling cinnamon (two hundred and fifty shekels), two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet-smelling wcane,
24“five hundred shekels of xcassia, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a yhin of olive oil.
25“And you shall make from these a holy anointing oil, an ointment compounded according to the art of the perfumer. It shall be za holy anointing oil.
26a“With it you shall anoint the tabernacle of meeting and the ark of the Testimony;
27“the table and all its utensils, the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense;
28“the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the laver and its base.
29“You shall consecrate them, that they may be most holy; bwhatever touches them must be holy.
30c“And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister to Me as priests.
31“And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘This shall be a holy anointing oil to Me throughout your generations.
32‘It shall not be poured on man’s flesh; nor shall you make any other like it, according to its composition. dIt is holy, and it shall be holy to you.
33e‘Whoever 8compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on an outsider, fshall be 9cut off from his people.’ ”
The Incense
(Ex. 37:29)
34And the LORD said to Moses: g“Take sweet spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, and pure frankincense with these sweet spices; there shall be equal amounts of each.
35“You shall make of these an incense, a compound haccording to the art of the perfumer, salted, pure, and holy.
36“And you shall beat some of it very fine, and put some of it before the Testimony in the tabernacle of meeting iwhere I will meet with you. jIt shall be most holy to you.
37“But as for the incense which you shall make, kyou shall not make any for yourselves, according to its 10composition. It shall be to you holy for the LORD.
38l“Whoever makes any like it, to smell it, he shall be cut off from his people.”
Exodus 31
Artisans for Building the Tabernacle
(Ex. 35:30—36:1)
1Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
2a“See, I have called by name Bezalel the bson of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.
3“And I have cfilled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,
4“to design artistic works, to work in gold, in silver, in bronze,
5“in cutting jewels for setting, in carving wood, and to work in all manner of workmanship.
6“And I, indeed I, have appointed with him dAholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and I have put wisdom in the hearts of all the egifted artisans, that they may make all that I have commanded you:
7f“the tabernacle of meeting, gthe ark of the Testimony and ht
he mercy seat that is on it, and all the furniture of the tabernacle—
8i“the table and its utensils, jthe pure gold lampstand with all its utensils, the altar of incense,
9k“the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and lthe laver and its base—
10m“the 1garments of ministry, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, to minister as priests,
11n“and the anointing oil and osweet incense for the holy place. According to all that I have commanded you they shall do.”
The Sabbath Law
12And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
13“Speak also to the children of Israel, saying: p‘Surely My Sabbaths you shall keep, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the LORD who qsanctifies2 you.
14r‘You shall keep the Sabbath, therefore, for it is holy to you. Everyone who 3profanes it shall surely be put to death; for swhoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people.
15‘Work shall be done for tsix days, but the useventh is the Sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
16‘Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.
17‘It is va sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for win six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’ ”
18And when He had made an end of speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses xtwo tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.
Exodus 32
The Gold Calf
(Deut. 9:6–29)
1Now when the people saw that Moses adelayed coming down from the mountain, the people bgathered together to Aaron, and said to him, c“Come, make us 1gods that shall dgo before us; for as for this Moses, the man who ebrought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”
2And Aaron said to them, “Break off the fgolden earrings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”
3So all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.
4gAnd he received the gold from their hand, and he fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molded calf. Then they said, “This is your god, O Israel, that hbrought you out of the land of Egypt!”
5So when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made a iproclamation and said, “Tomorrow is a feast to the LORD.”
6Then they rose early on the next day, offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people jsat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
7And the LORD said to Moses, k“Go, get down! For your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt lhave corrupted themselves.
8“They have turned aside quickly out of the way which mI commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, n‘This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!’ ”
9And the LORD said to Moses, o“I have seen this people, and indeed it is a 2stiff-necked people!
10“Now therefore, plet Me alone, that qMy wrath may burn hot against them and I may 3consume them. And rI will make of you a great nation.”
11sThen Moses pleaded with 4the LORD his God, and said: “LORD, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
12t“Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, ‘He brought them out to harm them, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and urelent from this harm to Your people.
13“Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You vswore by Your own self, and said to them, w‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven; and all this land that I have spoken of I give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’ ”
14So the LORD xrelented from the harm which He said He would do to His people.
15And yMoses turned and went down from the mountain, and the two tablets of the Testimony were in his hand. The tablets were written on both sides; on the one side and on the other they were written.
16Now the ztablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God engraved on the tablets.
17And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is a noise of war in the camp.”
18But he said:
“It is not the noise of the shout of victory,
Nor the noise of the cry of defeat,
But the sound of singing I hear.”
19So it was, as soon as he came near the camp, that ahe saw the calf and the dancing. So Moses’ anger became hot, and he cast the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.
20bThen he took the calf which they had made, burned it in the fire, and ground it to powder; and he scattered it on the water and made the children of Israel drink it.
21And Moses said to Aaron, c“What did this people do to you that you have brought so great a sin upon them?”
22So Aaron said, “Do not let the anger of my lord become hot. dYou know the people, that they are set on evil.
23“For they said to me, ‘Make us gods that shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’
24“And I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them break it off.’ So they gave it to me, and I cast it into the fire, and this calf came out.”
25Now when Moses saw that the people were eunrestrained (for Aaron fhad not restrained them, to their shame among their enemies),
26then Moses stood in the entrance of the camp, and said, “Whoever is on the LORD’s side—come to me!” And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.
27And he said to them, “Thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘Let every man put his sword on his side, and go in and out from entrance to entrance throughout the camp, and glet every man kill his brother, every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.’ ”
28So the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And about three thousand men of the people fell that day.
29hThen Moses said, 5“Consecrate yourselves today to the LORD, that He may bestow on you a blessing this day, for every man has opposed his son and his brother.”
30Now it came to pass on the next day that Moses said to the people, i“You have committed a great sin. So now I will go up to the LORD; jperhaps I can kmake atonement for your sin.”
31Then Moses lreturned to the LORD and said, “Oh, these people have committed a great sin, and have mmade for themselves a god of gold!
32“Yet now, if You will forgive their sin—but if not, I pray, nblot me oout of Your book which You have written.”
33And the LORD said to Moses, p“Whoever has sinned against Me, I will qblot him out of My book.
34“Now therefore, go, lead the people to the place of which I have rspoken to you. sBehold, My Angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, tin the day when I uvisit for punishment, I will visit punishment upon them for their sin.”
35So the LORD plagued the people because of vwhat they did with the calf which Aaron made.
Exodus 33
The Command to Leave Sinai
1Then the LORD said to Moses, “Depart and go up from here, you aand the people whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, b‘To your descendants I will give it.’
2c“And I will send My Angel before you, dand I will drive out the Canaanite and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
3“Go up eto a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst
, lest fI 1consume you on the way, for you are a gstiff-necked2 people.”
4And when the people heard this bad news, hthey mourned, iand no one put on his ornaments.
5For the LORD had said to Moses, “Say to the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. I could come up into your midst in one moment and consume you. Now therefore, take off your 3ornaments, that I may jknow what to do to you.’ ”
6So the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by Mount Horeb.
Moses Meets with the LORD
7Moses took his tent and pitched it outside the camp, far from the camp, and kcalled it the tabernacle of meeting. And it came to pass that everyone who lsought the LORD went out to the tabernacle of meeting which was outside the camp.
8So it was, whenever Moses went out to the tabernacle, that all the people rose, and each man stood mat his tent door and watched Moses until he had gone into the tabernacle.
9And it came to pass, when Moses entered the tabernacle, that the pillar of cloud descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the LORD ntalked with Moses.
10All the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the tabernacle door, and all the people rose and oworshiped, each man in his tent door.
11So pthe LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but qhis servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle.
The Promise of God’s Presence
12Then Moses said to the LORD, “See, rYou say to me, ‘Bring up this people.’ But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, s‘I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight.’
13“Now therefore, I pray, tif I have found grace in Your sight, ushow me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is vYour people.”
14And He said, w“My Presence will go with you, and I will give you xrest.”
15Then he said to Him, y“If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here.
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