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16“For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, zexcept You go with us? So we ashall be separate, Your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth.”
17So the LORD said to Moses, b“I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name.”
18And he said, “Please, show me cYour glory.”
19Then He said, “I will make all My dgoodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you. eI will be gracious to whom I will be fgracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.”
20But He said, “You cannot see My face; for gno man shall see Me, and live.”
21And the LORD said, “Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock.
22“So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you hin the cleft of the rock, and will icover you with My hand while I pass by.
23“Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall jnot be seen.”
Exodus 34
Moses Makes New Tablets
(Deut. 10:1–5)
1And the LORD said to Moses, a“Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and bI will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke.
2“So be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself to Me there con the top of the mountain.
3“And no man shall dcome up with you, and let no man be seen throughout all the mountain; let neither flocks nor herds feed before that mountain.”
4So he cut two tablets of stone like the first ones. Then Moses rose early in the morning and went up Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him; and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.
5Now the LORD descended in the ecloud and stood with him there, and fproclaimed the name of the LORD.
6And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD gGod, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in hgoodness and itruth,
7j“keeping mercy for thousands, kforgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, lby no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
8So Moses made haste and mbowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.
9Then he said, “If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, nlet my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a ostiff-necked1 people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as pYour inheritance.”
The Covenant Renewed
(Ex. 23:14–19; Deut. 7:1–6; 16:1–17)
10And He said: “Behold, qI make a covenant. Before all your people I will rdo 2marvels such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD. For it is san awesome thing that I will do with you.
11t“Observe what I command you this day. Behold, uI am driving out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
12v“Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst.
13“But you shall wdestroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and xcut down their wooden images
14“(for you shall worship yno other god, for the LORD, whose zname is Jealous, is a ajealous God),
15“lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they bplay the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them cinvites you and you deat of his sacrifice,
16“and you take of ehis daughters for your sons, and his daughters fplay the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.
17g“You shall make no molded gods for yourselves.
18“The Feast of hUnleavened Bread you shall keep. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, in the appointed time of the month of Abib; for in the imonth of Abib you came out from Egypt.
19j“All 3that open the womb are Mine, and every male firstborn among your livestock, whether ox or sheep.
20“But kthe firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb. And if you will not redeem him, then you shall break his neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And none shall appear before Me lempty-handed.
21m“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
22“And you shall observe the Feast of Weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end.
23n“Three times in the year all your men shall appear before the Lord, the LORD God of Israel.
24“For I will ocast out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither will any man covet your land when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year.
25“You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leaven, pnor shall the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover be left until morning.
26q“The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
27Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write rthese words, for according to the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
28sSo he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And tHe wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the 4Ten Commandments.
The Shining Face of Moses
29Now it was so, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai (and the utwo tablets of the Testimony were in Moses’ hand when he came down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that vthe skin of his face shone while he talked with Him.
30So when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.
31Then Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses talked with them.
32Afterward all the children of Israel came near, wand he gave them as commandments all that the LORD had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.
33And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put xa veil on his face.
34But ywhenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with Him, he would take the veil off until he came out; and he would come out and speak to the children of Israel whatever he had been commanded.
35And whenever the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone, then Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with Him.
Exodus 35
Sabbath Regulations
1Then Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said to them, a“These are the words which the LORD has commanded you to do:
2“Work shall be done for bsix days, but the seventh day shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to cdeath.
3d“You shall kindle no fire throughout your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”
Offerings for the Tabernacle
(Ex. 25:1–9; 39:32–43)
4And Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, e“This is the thing which the LORD commanded, saying:
5‘Take from among you an offering to the LORD. fWhoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it as an offering to the LORD: ggold, silver, and bronze;
6h‘blue, purple, and scarlet thread, fine linen, and igoats’ hair;
7‘ram skins dyed red, badger skins, and acacia wood;
8‘oil for the light, jand spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense;
9‘onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod and in the breastplate.
Articles of the Tabernacle
10k‘All who are gifted artisans among you sha
ll come and make all that the LORD has commanded:
11l‘the tabernacle, its tent, its covering, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;
12m‘the ark and its poles, with the mercy seat, and the veil of the covering;
13‘the ntable and its poles, all its utensils, oand the showbread;
14‘also pthe lampstand for the light, its utensils, its lamps, and the oil for the light;
15q‘the incense altar, its poles, rthe anointing oil, sthe sweet incense, and the screen for the door at the entrance of the tabernacle;
16t‘the altar of burnt offering with its bronze grating, its poles, all its utensils, and the laver and its base;
17u‘the hangings of the court, its pillars, their sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court;
18‘the pegs of the tabernacle, the pegs of the court, and their cords;
19v‘the 1garments of ministry, for ministering in the holy place—the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, to minister as priests.’ ”
The Tabernacle Offerings Presented
20And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.
21Then everyone came wwhose heart 2was stirred, and everyone whose spirit was willing, and they xbrought the LORD’s offering for the work of the tabernacle of meeting, for all its service, and for the holy garments.
22They came, both men and women, as many as had a willing heart, and brought yearrings and nose rings, rings and necklaces, all zjewelry of gold, that is, every man who made an offering of gold to the LORD.
23And aevery man, with whom was found blue, purple, and scarlet thread, fine linen, and goats’ hair, red skins of rams, and 3badger skins, brought them.
24Everyone who offered an offering of silver or bronze brought the LORD’s offering. And everyone with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it.
25All the women who were bgifted artisans spun yarn with their hands, and brought what they had spun, of blue, purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.
26And all the women whose hearts 4stirred with wisdom spun yarn of goats’ hair.
27cThe rulers brought onyx stones, and the stones to be set in the ephod and in the breastplate,
28and dspices and oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.
29The children of Israel brought a efreewill offering to the LORD, all the men and women whose hearts were willing to bring material for all kinds of work which the LORD, by the hand of Moses, had commanded to be done.
The Artisans Called by God
(Ex. 31:1–11)
30And Moses said to the children of Israel, “See, fthe LORD has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;
31“and He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom and understanding, in knowledge and all manner of workmanship,
32“to design artistic works, to work in gold and silver and bronze,
33“in cutting jewels for setting, in carving wood, and to work in all manner of artistic workmanship.
34“And He has put in his heart the ability to teach, in him and gAholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.
35“He has hfilled them with skill to do all manner of work of the engraver and the designer and the tapestry maker, in blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine linen, and of the weaver—those who do every work and those who design artistic works.
Exodus 36
Building the Tabernacle
1“And Bezalel and Aholiab, and every agifted artisan in whom the LORD has put wisdom and understanding, to know how to do all manner of work for the service of the bsanctuary,1 shall do according to all that the LORD has commanded.”
The People Give More than Enough
2Then Moses called Bezalel and Aholiab, and every gifted artisan in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, everyone cwhose heart 2was stirred, to come and do the work.
3And they received from Moses all the doffering which the children of Israel ehad brought for the work of the service of making the sanctuary. So they continued bringing to him freewill offerings every morning.
4Then all the craftsmen who were doing all the work of the sanctuary came, each from the work he was doing,
5and they spoke to Moses, saying, f“The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work which the LORD commanded us to do.”
6So Moses gave a commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, “Let neither man nor woman do any more work for the offering of the sanctuary.” And the people were restrained from bringing,
7for the material they had was sufficient for all the work to be done—indeed too gmuch.
Building the Tabernacle
(Ex. 26:1–37)
8hThen all the gifted artisans among them who worked on the tabernacle made ten curtains woven of fine linen, and of blue, purple, and scarlet thread; with artistic designs of cherubim they made them.
9The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; the curtains were all the same size.
10And he coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another.
11He made loops of blue yarn on the edge of the curtain on the selvedge of one set; likewise he did on the outer edge of the other curtain of the second set.
12iFifty loops he made on one curtain, and fifty loops he made on the edge of the curtain on the end of the second set; the loops held one curtain to another.
13And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains to one another with the clasps, that it might be one tabernacle.
14jHe made curtains of goats’ hair for the tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven curtains.
15The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; the eleven curtains were the same size.
16He coupled five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves.
17And he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in one set, and fifty loops he made on the edge of the curtain of the second set.
18He also made fifty bronze clasps to couple the tent together, that it might be one.
19kThen he made a covering for the tent of ram skins dyed red, and a covering of 3badger skins above that.
20For the tabernacle lhe made boards of acacia wood, standing upright.
21The length of each board was ten cubits, and the width of each board a cubit and a half.
22Each board had two 4tenons mfor binding one to another. Thus he made for all the boards of the tabernacle.
23And he made boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side.
24Forty sockets of silver he made to go under the twenty boards: two sockets under each of the boards for its two tenons.
25And for the other side of the tabernacle, the north side, he made twenty boards
26and their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under each of the boards.
27For the west side of the tabernacle he made six boards.
28He also made two boards for the two back corners of the tabernacle.
29And they were coupled at the bottom and 5coupled together at the top by one ring. Thus he made both of them for the two corners.
30So there were eight boards and their sockets—sixteen sockets of silver—two sockets under each of the boards.
31And he made nbars of acacia wood: five for the boards on one side of the tabernacle,
32five bars for the boards on the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle on the far side westward.
33And he made the middle bar to pass through the boards from one end to the other.
34He overlaid the boards with gold, made their rings of gold to be holders for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
35And he made oa veil of blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen; it was worked with an
artistic design of cherubim.
36He made for it four pillars of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, with their hooks of gold; and he cast four sockets of silver for them.
37He also made a pscreen for the tabernacle door, of blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen, made by a 6weaver,
38and its five pillars with their hooks. And he overlaid their capitals and their rings with gold, but their five sockets were bronze.
Exodus 37
Making the Ark of the Testimony
(Ex. 25:10–22)
1Then aBezalel made bthe ark of acacia wood; two and a half cubits was its length, a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height.
2He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold all around it.
3And he cast for it four rings of gold to be set in its four corners: two rings on one side, and two rings on the other side of it.
4He made poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.
5And he put the poles into the rings at the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.
6He also made the cmercy seat of pure gold; two and a half cubits was its length and a cubit and a half its width.
7He made two cherubim of beaten gold; he made them of one piece at the two ends of the mercy seat:
8one cherub at one end on this side, and the other cherub at the other end on that side. He made the cherubim at the two ends of one piece with the mercy seat.
9The cherubim spread out their wings above, and covered the dmercy seat with their wings. They faced one another; the faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.
Making the Table for the Showbread
(Ex. 25:23–30)
10He made ethe table of acacia wood; two cubits was its length, a cubit its width, and a cubit and a half its height.
11And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made a molding of gold all around it.
12Also he made a frame of a handbreadth all around it, and made a molding of gold for the frame all around it.
13And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings on the four corners that were at its four legs.
14The rings were close to the frame, as holders for the poles to bear the table.