Exodus 1

   

    Now these are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt with Jacob; every man and his household: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher, and all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were 70 souls for Joseph was in Egypt already.

     And Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation. And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

     Now there rose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph. And he said to his people, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. Come, let’s deal wisely with them so they won’t multiply, and when war occurs, they join our enemies and fight against us, and leave the land.

     So they set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. 

     But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved (sickened with dread) because of the children of Israel. And the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with harshness. And they made their lives bitter with hard work, in clay, and in brick, and in all kinds of work in the field: all their work they made them do was with harshness.

     And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah. And he said, When you are midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthing stools; if it is a son, kill him: but if it is a daughter, let it live.

     But the midwives feared God and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them but saved the male children alive. 

     And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, Why have you done this, and saved the male children alive? And the midwives said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered before the midwives come to them.

     And God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied and grew very mighty.

     And because the midwives feared God, He made them houses (eternal dynasties in His heavenly kingdom).

     And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Throw every son that is born into the river, and keep every daughter alive.

 

 

Exodus 2

 

     And a man of the house of Levi went and took as his wife a daughter of Levi. And the woman conceived and bore a son: and when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him three months.

     And when she couldn’t hide him any longer, she took a basket made of papyrus and, and waterproofed it with tar, and put the child in it; and she laid it in the reeds by the river's bank.

     And his sister stood far off, to know what would happen to him.

     And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maid to get it. And when she opened it, she saw the child: and behold, the baby was crying. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.

     Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call a nurse for you of the Hebrew women, to nurse the child for you? 

     And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.

     And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Take this child, and nurse it for me, and I will give you wages. And the women took the child and nursed it.

     And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.

     And in the days when Moses was grown, he went to his brothers, and saw their burdens: and he saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers. And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

     And when he went out the second day, two men of the Hebrews were fighting together: and he said to the guilty one, Why are you striking your neighbor?

     And he said, Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian? And Moses was afraid, and said, Surely this thing is known.

     When Pharaoh heard about it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses ran from before Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.

     Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them and watered their flock.

     And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that you are come so soon today?

     And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and drew enough water for us, and watered the flock.

     And he said to his daughters, Where is he? Why did you leave the man? Call him that he may eat bread. 

     And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter. And she bore him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a foreign land.

     And after many days the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed because of their slavery, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the slavery.

     And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. And God saw the children of Israel, and God knew them.

 

Exodus 5

 

     And afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, The Lord God of Israel says, Send my people that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.

     And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should hear his voice send Israel? I don’t know the Lord, nor will I send Israel.

     And they said, The God of the Hebrews met with us: now let us go three days' journey into the desert and sacrifice to the Lord our God so He won’t fall on us with a plague, or with the sword.

     And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do you, Moses and Aaron, keep the people from their works? get back to your burdens.

     And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and you make them stop work. And that day Pharaoh commanded the slavedrivers of the people, and their overseers, saying, Don’t give the people any more straw to make bricks. Let them gather the straw themselves. But require from them the same number of bricks as before. They are idle, so they call saying, Let us go sacrifice to our God. Give the men more work to do so they won’t listen to lying words.

     And the slavedrivers of the people went out, and their overseers, and said to the people, Pharaoh says, I won’t give you straw. You go get straw where you can find it, but nothing will be reduced from your work.

     So the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw. And the slavedrivers rushed them saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

     And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's slavedrivers had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Why haven’t you fulfilled your task in making brick yesterday and today, as before?

     Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, Why are you treating your servants like this? No straw is given to your servants, and you tell us, Make brick: and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.

     But he said, You are idle, you are idle: so you say, Send us to sacrifice to the Lord. Go now and work; no straw will be given to you, but still make the same number of bricks.

     And the officers of the children of Israel saw they were in bad trouble, after it was said, You cannot decrease the number of bricks of your daily task.

     And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came from Pharaoh. And they said to them, The Lord look on you, and judge; because you have made us stink in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.

     And Moses returned to the Lord and said, Lord, why have you treated this people evilly? Why have You sent me? For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has done evil to this people; You haven’t delivered the people at all.

 

Exodus 3

   

    Now Moses was feeding the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb. 

     And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a thorn bush: and he looked and saw the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

     And Moses said, Now I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. 

     And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush and said, Moses, Moses. 

     And he said, I’m here.

     And He said, Don’t come close: take your shoes off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. He said, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. 

     And Moses hid his face for he was afraid to look at God. And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of My people in Egypt and have heard their cry from before their slavedrivers; for I know their sorrows. And I’ve come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, the Jebusites.

     Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me: and I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. Come now, and I will send you to Pharaoh, to bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.

     And Moses said to God, Who am I, that I could go to Pharaoh, and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt? And He said, I will certainly be with you; and this will be a sign to you, that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will serve God on this mountain.

     (They’d been serving the Egyptians 430 years. Now they’d be serving the Lord God, their Maker.)

     And Moses said to God, Look, when I come to the children of Israel, and say to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to you; and they say to me, What is His name? what shall I tell them?

     And God said to Moses, I Am That I Am: (intense, eternal self-existence) and He said, Say this to the children of Israel, I Am has sent me to you.

     And God said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, the Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you: this is My name forever, and this is My remembrance to all generations. (Always remember that I am the force, the power, the energy of all life.)

     Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say to them, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared to me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen what is done to you in Egypt. And I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.

     And they will hear your voice: and you will come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and say to him, The Lord God of the Hebrews has met with us: now please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, to worship the Lord our God.

     I’m sure that the king of Egypt won’t let you go, no, not by a mighty hand. And I will stretch out my hand, and strike Egypt with all My wonders that I will do in the midst of it: and after that he will let you go.

     And I will give this people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians: and when you go, you won’t go empty. But every woman will borrow from her neighbor, and of her that stays in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing: and you will put them on your sons, and on your daughters; and you will plunder the Egyptians.

Exodus 4

 

      Moses answered and said, They won’t believe me, or hear my voice: they will say, The Lord hasn’t appeared to you.

     And the Lord said to him, What is that in your hand? And he said, A rod.

     And he said, Throw it on the ground. And he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses ran from it.

     And the Lord said to Moses, Reach out your hand, and take it by the tail. And he reached out his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand, 'that they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.'

     And the Lord said again to him, Put your hand to your bosom. And he put his hand to his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous like snow.

     And he said, Put your hand to your bosom again. And he put his hand to his bosom again; and took it out of his bosom, and behold, it had returned as his other flesh.

     And if they will not believe you, or listen to the voice of the first sign, they will believe the voice of the latter sign.

     And if they won’t believe these two signs, or hear your voice, take water from the river, and pour it on the dry land, and the water you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land.

     And Moses said to the Lord, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, not before or since You have spoken to your servant: but I’m slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.

     And the Lord said to him, Who has made man's mouth? or who makes the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? Isn’t it I, the Lord? Now go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you are to say.

     And he said, O my Lord, send, please send someone else.

     And the anger of the Lord burned against Moses, and He said, Isn’t Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well. And he is coming to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. And you will speak to him and put words in his mouth: and I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what to do. And he will be your spokesman to the people. He will be for a mouth, and you will be to him instead of God.

     And take this rod in your hand, to do the signs. 

     And Moses went and returned to Jethro his, father in law and said to him, Let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see if they are still alive. 

     And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

     And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, Go, return to Egypt: for all the men are dead who sought your life.

     And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

     And the Lord said to Moses, When you go to return into Egypt, see that you do all those wonders before Pharaoh, that I have put in your hand: but I will harden his heart, that he will not let the people go.

     Say to Pharaoh, The Lord says, Israel is my son, my firstborn. And I say to you, Let my son go, that he may serve Me: and if you refuse to let him go, behold, I am about to kill your son, your firstborn.

     And on the way in the inn, the Lord met him, and sought to kill him. Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely, you are a bridegroom (law) of blood to me.

     (Circumcision was the sign of God’s covenant with His people, given in Genesis 17. Moses’ sons weren’t circumcised, so not under God’s covenant. It was supposed to be done to all males on the 8th day after birth.)

     So He let him go: then she said, You are bloody bridegroom because of the circumcision. 

     And the Lord said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.

     And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord who had sent him, and all the signs he had commanded him.

     And Moses and Aaron went and gathered all the elders of the children of Israel. And Aaron spoke all the words that the Lord had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people.

     And the people believed when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had saw their affliction. Then they bowed their heads and worshipped.

Exodus 6

 

     Then the Lord said to Moses, Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand he will send them, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.

     And God spoke to Moses, and said to him, I am the Lord: I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but I was not known to them by my name Jehovah (intense eternal self-existence).

     And I have established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they stayed a while, being foreigners.

     And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep them as slaves; and I have remembered My covenant.

     Therefore say to the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you out of their service, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm and with great judgments:

     And I will take you to Me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and you will know that I am the Lord your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

     And I will bring you into the land, I swore to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for a possession. I am the Lord.

     And Moses spoke this to the children of Israel: but they didn’t hear Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

     And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to send the children of Israel go out of his land.

     And Moses spoke before the Lord, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not listened to me; how then will Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?

     And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a command to the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

     These be the heads of their fathers' houses: The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these be the families of Reuben.

     And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of Simeon.

     And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were 137 years.

     The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families.

     And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were 133 years.

     And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these are the families of Levi according to their generations.

     And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister as wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were 137 years.

     And the sons of Izhar; Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.

     And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri.

     And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to wife; and she bore him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

     And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these are the families of the Korhites.

     And Eleazar Aaron's son took one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bore him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.

     These are the Aaron and Moses, to whom the Lord said, Bring the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies (God is at war against evil).

     These are those who spoke to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of Egypt: these are that Moses and Aaron. 

     And it happened on the day when the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, that the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, I am the Lord: speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say to you.

     And Moses said before the Lord, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how will Pharaoh listen to me?

Exodus 7

 

     And the Lord said to Moses, See, I have made you a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron your brother will be your prophet. You will say all that I command you: and Aaron your brother will speak to Pharaoh, to send the children of Israel out of his land. And I will harden Pharaoh's heart and multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.

     But Pharaoh will not hear you, so that I may lay My hand on Egypt, and bring out My armies, and My people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.

     And the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord, when I stretch forth My hand on Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.

     And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded them, they did it.

     And Moses was 80 years old, and Aaron 83 years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

     And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

When Pharaoh says to you, Show me a miracle: then say to Aaron, Take your staff, and throw it before Pharaoh, and it will become a dragon (first strongs translation).

     And Moses and Aaron went into Pharaoh, and they did as the Lord had commanded: and Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a dragon.

     Then Pharaoh called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they did the same thing with their secret arts.

     For each man threw down his staff, and they became dragons: but Aaron's staff swallowed up their staves.

     And He hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he didn’t listen to them, as the Lord had said.

     And the Lord said to Moses, Pharaoh's heart is great (against it), he refuses to let the people go.

     Go to Pharaoh in the morning; see, he is going out to the water and you stand by the river's bank opposite; and the staff that turned to a dragon take in your hand. And say to him, The Lord God of the Hebrews has sent me to you, saying, Send away My people that they may serve Me in the wilderness: and, behold, until now you won’t listen.

     The Lord says, In this you will know that I am the Lord: behold, I will strike the staff in my hand on the waters in the river, and they will be turned to blood. And the fish in the river will die, and the river will stink; and the Egyptians will be weary of drinking the water of the river.

     And the Lord spoke to Moses, Say to Aaron, Take your staff, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, on their streams, on their rivers, and on their ponds, and on all their pools of water, that they become blood; and that there will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in pots of wood, and in pots of stone.

     And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded; he lifted the staff and struck the waters in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters in the river were turned to blood.

     And the fish in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians couldn’t drink the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.

     And the magicians of Egypt did the same with their secret arts (occult practices): and Pharaoh's heart was strong (against) and he didn’t listen to them; as the Lord had said.

     And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he set his heart to this.

     And all the Egyptians dug around the river water to drink for they couldn’t drink of the water of the river. And seven days passed after the Lord had struck the river.

 

 

Exodus 8

 

     And the Lord spoke to Moses, Go, say to Pharaoh, The Lord says, Let my people go, that they may serve me. And if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will strike all your borders with frogs. And the river will bring forth frogs abundantly, that will go up and come into your house, and into your bedchamber, and on your bed, and into the house of your servants, and on your people, and into your ovens, and into your kneading troughs. And the frogs will come up both on you, and on your people, and on all your servants.

     And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Stretch out your hand with your staff over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt. And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.

     And the magicians did the same with their secret arts and brought frogs up on the land of Egypt.

     Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Pray to the Lord, that He may take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to the Lord.

     And Moses said to Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I pray for you, and for your servants, and for your people, to destroy the frogs from you and your houses, that they may remain only in the river?

     And he said, Tomorrow. And he said, Be it according to your word: that you may know that there is none like the Lord our God. And the frogs will depart from you, and from your houses, and from your servants, and from your people; they will remain in the river only.

     And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses called to the Lord because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh.

     And the Lord did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields. And they gathered them together on heaps: and the land stank.

     But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart, and didn’t listen to them, as the Lord had said.

     And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Stretch out your staff, and strike the dust of the ground, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

     And they did it. Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff, and struck the dust of the ground, and it became lice on man, and on animals; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

     And the magicians did so with their secrets arts to bring forth lice, but they couldn’t: so there were lice on man, and on animals. Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he wouldn’t listen to them; as the Lord had said.

     And the Lord said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; look, he’s coming out to the water; and say to him, The Lord says, Let My people go, that they may serve me. If you won’t let My people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you, and on your servants, and on your people, and in your houses: and the houses of the Egyptians will be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground where you are.

     And in that day I will separate the land of Goshen, where My people dwell, that no swarms of flies will be there; to the end you may know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth.

     And I will separate between My people and your people: tomorrow this sign will happen. 

     And the Lord did it; and a grievous swarm of flies came into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was ruined by the swarm of flies.

     And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go, sacrifice to your God in the land. And Moses said, It is not fitting to do that; for we will sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord our God: look, we will sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and won’t they stone us?

     We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, (60 miles) and sacrifice to the Lord our God, as He commands us.

     And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness; only don’t go very far: pray for me.

     And Moses said, Behold, I go out from you, and I will pray to the Lord that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow: but don’t let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.

     And Moses went out from Pharaoh and prayed to the Lord. And the Lord did according to the word of Moses; and He removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; there not one remained. And Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he wouldn’t let the people go.

 

Exodus 9

 

     Then the Lord said to Moses, Go to Pharaoh, and tell him, The Lord God of the Hebrews says, Send My people away, that they may serve Me. If you refuse to let them go, and still hold them strong, Behold, the hand of the Lord is going to be on your livestock in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the oxen, and on the sheep: there will be a very great plague.

     And the Lord will separate between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt: and nothing will die of all that is the children of Israel’s. And the Lord set a time, saying, Tomorrow the Lord will do this word in the land.

     And the Lord did that word on the next day, and all the animals of Egypt died: but of the animals of the children of Israel not one died. 

     And Pharaoh sent, and not one of the animals of the Israelites had died. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened (honor, glorify himself), and he didn’t send the people away. 

     And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron, Take handfuls of ashes from the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh. And it will become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and be boils breaking out into sores on man, and animal, throughout all the land of Egypt. And they took ashes from the furnace and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking out with sores on man, and on animals. 

     And the magicians couldn’t stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were on the magicians, and on all the Egyptians.

     And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he didn’t hear them; as the Lord had said to Moses. 

     And the Lord said to Moses, Rise early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, The Lord God of the Hebrews says, Send My people away, that they may serve me.

     For I will now send all my plagues on your heart, and on your servants, and on your people; so you will know there is none like me in all the earth. For now I will stretch out my hand and strike you and your people with pestilence; and you will be cut off from the earth.

     For this very cause I preserved you, to cause you to see My power, and that My name/person be told through all the earth. Are you still exalting yourself against My people, to not send them away? Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very great hail, such as has never been in Egypt since its foundation until now. So send now and gather your animals and all that you have in the field; for on every man and animal found in the field and not brought home, the hail will come down on them, and they will die.

     The ones that feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his animals flee into the houses. And he that didn’t take the word of the Lord to heart left his servants and his animals in the field.

     And the Lord said to Moses, Stretch your hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man, and on animal, and on every herb of the field throughout the land of Egypt.

     And Moses stretched his staff toward heaven: and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along the ground; and the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt. So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very great, like had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

     And the hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail struck every herb of the field and broke every tree of the field.

     Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail.

     And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned this time: the Lord is righteous, and I and my people are wicked. Intreat the Lord much that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail; and I will send you away. You won’t stay any longer.

     And Moses said to him, As I go out of the city, I will spread my hands to the Lord; and the thunder will stop, and there won’t be any more hail; so you will know that the earth is the Lord's.

     But I know that you and your servants still won’t fear the Lord God. 

     And the flax and the barley was struck down: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled. But the wheat and the rye weren’t struck: for they were not grown up.

     And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and spread his hands to the Lord: and the thunders and hail stopped, and the rain wasn’t poured on the earth. And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders stopped, he sinned more and hardened his heart, he and his servants. And the heart of Pharaoh was strong and he wouldn’t send the children of Israel away; as the Lord had said by Moses.

Exodus 10

 

     And the Lord said to Moses, Go to Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might show My signs before him so you may tell in the ears of you son, and of your son's son, what things I have did in Egypt, My signs I have done among them; that you may know that I am the Lord.

     And Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh, and said to him, The Lord God of the Hebrews says, How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Send My people away, that they may serve Me.

     If you refuse to send My people away, behold, tomorrow I will bring the locusts into your border and they will cover the face of the land, so one won’t be able to see the ground: and they will eat the rest of what escaped, that remained to you from the hail, and will eat every tree which grows for you out of the field.

     And they will fill your houses, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians. Your fathers, nor your fathers' fathers have never seen anything like this, from the day they were on the earth to this day. And he turned and went out from Pharaoh.

     And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long will this man be a snare to us? let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God: do you still not know that Egypt perishes?

     And Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh and he said to them, Go, serve the Lord your God: but who are they that will go?

     And Moses said, We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to the Lord.

     And he said to them, Let the Lord be so with you, as I let you go, and your little ones: watch out! for evil is before you. No. You men go and serve the Lord; for that’s what you desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.

     And the Lord said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come upon the land of Egypt and eat every herb of the land, all that the hail left.

     And Moses stretched his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

     And the locust went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt, very great. There have never been such locusts before them or after them. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left: no green thing remained in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

     Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron quickly; and he said, I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you. O please forgive my sin only this once, and beg the Lord your God, to take away from me this death only.

     And he went out from Pharaoh and prayed to the Lord. And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; not one locust remained in all the borders of Egypt.

     But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go. 

     And the Lord said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness that may be felt.

     And Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. They didn’t see each other, no one rose from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

     And Pharaoh called Moses, and said, Go, serve the Lord; only let your flocks and your herds stay: let your little ones also go with you.

     And Moses said, You must give us sacrifices and burnt offerings, to sacrifice to the Lord our God.

     Our livestock will go with us. Not a hoof will left behind for must we take it to serve the Lord our God; and we don’t know we must serve the Lord, until we come there.

     But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go. And Pharaoh said to him, Get away from me, never my face again for the day you see my face you will die.

     And Moses said, You said it, I will not see your face again.

 

Exodus 11

     

     And the Lord said to Moses, I will bring one more plague (blow) on Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will send you out. He will drive you out completely.

     Now speak in the ears of the people, and let every man ask of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels (articles) of silver and jewels of gold.

     And the Lord gave the people grace in the sight of the Egyptians. 

     Also, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.

     And Moses said, The Lord says, About midnight I will go out into the midst of Egypt and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the first born of Pharaoh that sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of animals. And there will be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, like there has never been or will be again.

     But against all the children of Israel not a dog will move his tongue, against man or animal, so that you will know that the Lord separates between the Egyptians and Israel.

     And all these your servants will come down to me, and bow to me, saying, Get out, and all the people that follow you: and after that, I will go out. And he went in fierce anger, fierce anger.

     And the Lord said to Moses, Pharaoh will not hear you; that My wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt. And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land.

Exodus 12

 

     And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying, This month will be to you the beginning of months: it will be the first month of the year to you.

     Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month every man take a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for a house: and if the household is too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to how much he eats, will make your count for the lamb.

     Your lamb is to be without blemish, a male of the first year: take it from the sheep, or from the goats. And keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it in the evening.

     And take of the blood and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, where they will eat it. And they are to eat the flesh that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread; and eat it with bitter herbs. Don’t eat it raw, or boiled with water, but roasted with fire; his head with his legs, and with its insides. And let nothing remain until the morning; if any remains until the morning burn it with fire.

     Eat it this way; with your clothes on your body, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and eat it quickly: it is the Lord's pass over. For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night and strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal; and I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt: I am the Lord. (Remember all the male babies the Egyptians killed over the 430 years of slavery.)

     The blood is to you for a sign on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague (blow, strike) won’t be on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.

     And this day will be to you for a memorial; and you will keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.

     Seven days you are to eat unleavened bread; even the first day take away all leaven out of your houses: for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul will be cut off from Israel.

     And in the first day there is to be a holy gathering, and in the seventh day there is to be a holy gathering; no kind of work is to be done in them, except what each man must eat, only do that.

     And you are to observe this, the feast of unleavened bread; for in that selfsame (CT bone, as Adam said, this now at last bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh – God taking Israel to Himself as bone of His bone, flesh of His flesh i.e. as man was originally made in His image.) day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore you are to observe this day in your generations by an ordinance forever.

     In the first month, on the 14th day of the month at evening, you are to eat unleavened bread, until the 21st day of the month at evening. Seven days there will be no leaven in your houses: for whosoever eats what is leavened, that soul will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a foreigner, or born in the land. Eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings eat unleavened bread.

     Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, Draw out and take a lamb according to your families, and kill the pass over. Take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and no one go out the door of his house until the morning.

     For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you. Observe this for an ordinance for you and your sons forever.

     And when you come to the land the Lord will give you, as He has promised, you are to keep this service. And when your children say to you, What does this service mean to you? Say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord's pass over, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.

     And the children of Israel went and did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron. They did it.

     And at midnight the Lord struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of animals.

     And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there wasn’t one dead.

     And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Get up, and get out from among my people, you and your children and the children of Israel; go, serve the Lord, as you have said.

     Also take your flocks and your herds, as you said, and be gone; and bless me also. 

     And the Egyptians strongly urged the people, to send them out of the land quickly; for they said, We are all dead men. 

     And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders. And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing: 

     And the Lord gave the people grace in the sight of the Egyptians, so they asked them what they required. And they plundered the Egyptians.

     And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children. And a mixed multitude went up with them; and flocks, and herds, and very much livestock.

     And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough that they brought out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not delay, and hadn’t prepared for themselves any food.

     Now the stay of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was 430 years. And at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, the exact day, all the hosts of the Lord went out of the land of Egypt.

     It is a night to be much observed to the Lord for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the Lord to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.

     And the Lord said to Moses, this is the ordinance of the Passover: no foreigner is to eat it. But every man's servant that is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then he will eat it. A foreigner and a hired servant is not to eat of it. Eat it in one house; don’t carry the flesh out to another house; and don’t break any of its bones. All the congregation of Israel is to keep it. 

     And when a foreigner stays with you and wants to keep the pass over to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he will be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person is to eat of it. 

     One law is to him that is homeborn, and to the foreigner that stays among you. So all the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron. They did it.

     And that exact day the Lord brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

Exodus 13

    

     And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Sanctify (set apart) to me all the firstborn, all that open the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of animal: it is Mine.

     And Moses said to the people, Remember this day, in which you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for by a strong hand the Lord brought you out from this: no leavened bread is to be eaten.

     This day you came out in the month Abib (mid March to mid April). And when the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, that He promised your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, keep this service in this month.

     Seven days you are to eat unleavened bread (leaven puffs up, illustrating pride-the cause of the fall of mankind), and on the seventh day will be a feast to the Lord. Unleavened bread is to be eaten seven days; and have no leavened bread with you, let there be none in all your borders.

     And show your son that day, saying, This is done because of what the Lord did to me when I came out of Egypt. And it will be a sign on your hand, and a reminder for your eyes, for the Lord's law is what you are to live by: for with a strong hand the Lord brought you out of Egypt. You are to keep this ordinance in its appointed from year to year. 

     And when the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as He swore to you and to your fathers, to give it to you, you are to set apart to the Lord all that open the womb, and every firstling that comes from an animal you have; the males will be the Lord's.

    And every firstborn of an ass redeem with a lamb; and if you won’t redeem it, then you are to break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among your children you are to redeem.

     And it when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What is this? say to him, By a strong hand the Lord brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage. And when Pharaoh was hardened to not let us go, the Lord killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of animals: so I sacrifice to the Lord all that open the womb, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem. And it will be a sign on your hand, and for frontlets between your eyes: for by strength of hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt.

     And when Pharaoh had let the people go, God didn’t lead them through the road of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Perhaps when the people see war they will change their mind and return to Egypt.

     God led the people around, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up armed in ranks of five going out of the land of Egypt.

     And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he (Joseph) had strongly sworn to the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and you will carry my bones away with you.

     And they took their journey from Succoth, and camped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.

     And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them in the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night. He didn’t take away the pillar of the cloud by day, or the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.

 

 

 

Exodus 14

 

    And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Tell the children of Israel, to turn and camp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, opposite Baalzephon: camp by the sea. For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are tangled in the land, the wilderness trapped them.

     And I will strengthen Pharaoh's heart, to follow them; and I will be honored on Pharaoh, and on all his army; so the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord. And they did it. 

 

     (God is not willing that any perish but that all turn back to Him.) 2 Peter 3:9

 

     The king of Egypt was told that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants turned against the people, and said, Why have we done this, to let Israel go from serving us? And he readied his chariot, and took his people with him: he took six hundred chosen chariots, all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.

     And the Lord strengthened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he chased after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with a high hand.

     But the Egyptians chased after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them camping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon.

     And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel looked up and saw the Egyptians marching after them and they were terrified, And the children of Israel cried out to the Lord.

     And they said to Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you done this to us, to bring us out of Egypt? Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, Let us alone, to serve the Egyptians? For it would better for us to serve the Egyptians, than to die in the wilderness.

     And Moses said to the people, Don’t fear! Stand still and see the deliverance of the Lord, that He will show you today: for the Egyptians you see today, you will never see again.

     The Lord will fight for you, and you will hold your peace.

     And the Lord said to Moses, Why cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to pull out. Lift your staff, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel will go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.

     And I, behold, I will strengthen the hearts of the Egyptians, and they will follow them: and I will get honor on Pharaoh, and on all his army, on his chariots, and on his horsemen.

     And the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord, when I am shown stronger than Pharaoh, or his chariots, and or his horsemen.

     And the angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them. And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one didn’t come near the other all night.

     And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground: and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.

     And the Egyptians chased, and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. 

     And in the morning watch the Lord looked into the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and made confusing noise among the army of the Egyptians, and took off their chariot wheels so they drove heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let’s run from the face of Israel; for the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians.

     And the Lord said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the sea, so the waters will come on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen.

     And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the Lord overthrew (CT shook out. That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it. Job 38:13) the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

     And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the army of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; not one remained. 

     But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.

     That’s how the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

     And Israel saw that great work that the Lord did on the Egyptians: and the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord, and his servant Moses.

 

Exodus 15

    

     Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the Lord, and spoke, saying, I will sing to the Lord, for He has triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider He has thrown into the sea.

     The Lord is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation: He is my God, and I will prepare Him a home, my father's God, and I will exalt (hold) Him.

     The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is His name. Pharaoh's chariots and his army He cast into the sea: his choice captains also are drowned in the Red sea. The depths have covered them: they sank to the bottom like a stone.

     Your right hand, O Lord, has become glorious in power: Your right hand, O Lord, has dashed in pieces the enemy. And in the greatness of Your excellency You have overthrown those that rose up against You: You sent out Your wrath. It consumed them as stubble.

     And with the blast of Your nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as a heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.

     The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the plunder. My lust will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword. My hand will destroy them.

     You blew with Your wind: the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

     Who is like You, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? You stretched out Your right hand. The earth swallowed them.

    You, in Your mercy led out the people that You redeemed: You guided them in Your strength to Your holy dwelling place. 

     The people will hear, and be afraid: sorrow will take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina. Then the dukes of Edom will be troubled; the mighty men of Moab, trembling will take hold of them; all the inhabitants of Canaan will melt away. Fear and dread will fall on them. By the greatness of Your arm they will be as still as a stone, until Your people pass over, O Lord, until the people pass over that You have purchased.

     You will bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance, in the place, O Lord, that You made for You to dwell in, in the sanctuary, O Lord, that Your hands established.

     The Lord will reign forever and ever.

     For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the Lord returned the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.

    And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing to the Lord, for He has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider He has thrown into the sea.

     So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness and found no water.

     And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: so its name was called Marah.

     And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What will we drink?

     And he cried to the Lord and the Lord showed him a tree, that when he threw it into the waters, the waters were made sweet (like the cross for us, He makes our bitter lives sweet with His love): there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them, and said, If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases on thee, which I brought on the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that heals you.

     And they came to Elim, where there were twelve wells of water, and seventy palm trees: and they camped there by the waters.

Exodus 16 

     

     And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.

     And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. And the children of Israel said to them, We wish to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we ate food to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

     Then the Lord said to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people will go out and gather a certain amount every day, that I may test them, to see if they will walk in My law, or not. And on the sixth day they are to prepare what they bring in, twice as much as they gather daily.

     And Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, At evening, then you will know that the Lord brought you out of the land of Egypt.

     And in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord, for He hears your murmurings against the Lord: who are we, that you murmur against us?

     And Moses said, The Lord will give you flesh to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to the full for the Lord hears your murmurings that you murmur against Him: who are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the Lord.

     And Moses spoke to Aaron, Say to all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the Lord: for He has heard your murmurings.

     And as Aaron spoke to the children of Israel they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud.

     And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak to them, saying, At evening you will eat flesh, and in the morning you will be filled with bread and you will know that I am the Lord your God.

     And at evening the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the camp.

     And when the dew that lay was gone, behold, on the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. 

     And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, Manna (what is it?), for they didn’t not what it was. And Moses said to them, This is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat.

     This is the thing the Lord has commanded, Gather it every man according to his eating, an omer (2-4 dry quarts) for every man, according to the number of your persons for every man in their tents. And the children of Israel did it, and gathered, some more, some less.

     And when they measured it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.

     And Moses said, Let no man leave any of it until morning. But they didn’t listen to Moses; some of them left part of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was angry with them.

     And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun grew hot, it melted. 

And on the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.

     And he said to them, This is that which the Lord  said, Tomorrow is the rest of the holy sabbath to the Lord: bake what you will bake today, and boil what you will boil. And what remains leave for you to be kept until the morning.

     And they laid it up until the morning, as Moses commanded: and it didn’t stink, or have any worm in it. And Moses said, Eat that today; for today is a sabbath to the Lord: today you won’t find it in the field.

     Six days  you are to gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath,  there will be none. 

     And some of the people went out some of the people on the seventh day to gather, and they found none.

     And the Lord said to Moses, How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and my laws? See, the Lord has given you the sabbath, so He gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days; every man stay in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. So the people rested on the seventh day.

     And the house of Israel called the name of it Manna (what is it?): and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

     And Moses said, This is the thing which the Lord commands, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread that I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.

     And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna in it, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept for your generations. As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.

     And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate manna, until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan. Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.

Exodus 17

 

    And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the Lord, and camped in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink. The people pleaded with Moses, and said, Give us water to drink. And Moses said to them, Why do you plead with me? Why do you test the Lord?

     And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured (CT lodged) against Moses, and said, Why have you brought us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our animals with thirst?

     And Moses cried to the Lord, saying, What shall I do to this people? They are almost ready to stone me.

     And the Lord said to Moses, Go before the people, and take with you the elders of Israel, and your staff, with which you struck the river, take it in your hand, and go.

     Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb; and you will strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

     And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the strife of the children of Israel, and because they tested the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us, or not?

     Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim (rest). And Moses said to Joshua, Choose men, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.

     So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. And when Moses held up his hand Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

     But Moses hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it; and Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

     Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

    And the Lord said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and put it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

     And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi (Jehovah is my banner). For he said, because the Lord has sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

 

     There is no peace, says the Lord, for the wicked. Isaiah 48:22

 

 

Exodus 18

     

     When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel His people, and that the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt, then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back, and her two sons; the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an traveler in a foreign land. And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.

     And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness, where he camped at the mountain of God.

     And he said to Moses, I, your father-in-law, Jethro (his abundance), come to you, and your wife, and her two sons with her.

     And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent.

     And Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the hardship that had come on them by the way, and how the Lord delivered them.

     And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness that the Lord had done to Israel, whom He had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.

     And Jethro said, Blessed be the Lord, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

     Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods: for in the thing in which they dealt proudly He was above them.

     And Jethro, Moses' father-in -law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. (These sacrifices all show the sign of God’s love through the promised Savior) and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.

     And the next day Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning to the evening.

     And when Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing thaty do to the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand by you from morning until evening?

     And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to enquire of God. When they have a matter, they come to me; and I judge between one and another, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.

     And Moses' father-in-law said to him, The thing you do isn’t good. You will surely wear away, you, and this people with you: for this is too great for you. You aren’t not able to do it alone.

     Now hear me, I will give you counsel, and God will be with you: You be for the people toward God, to bring their causes to God, and teach them ordinances and laws, and show them the way they must walk, and the work that they must do.

     You provide out of all the people able men, that fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness, and put them over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. Let them judge the people all the time: and only bring every great matter to you, but every small matter they will judge: so it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you.

     If you do this, and God command you so, then you will be able to stand, and this people will come to their place in peace. So Moses heard the voice of his father- in-law, and did all that he had said.

     And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. And they judged the people all the time: the hard (stiff necked) causes they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

     And Moses sent his father-in-law away; and he went his way to his own land.

Exodus 20

 

               And God spoke all these words, saying, I am the Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You will have no other gods but Me. You will not make to you any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 

               You will not bow down to them or serve them: for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, 

 

               (where there is no love, there is no jealousy. Also, God made everything good, good, and very good. The alternative to this command is being with the other one in the lake of fire forever.)

 

                visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those that hate me;

And showing mercy (chesed is grace) to thousands that love me, and keep My commandments. 

                 You will not take the name of the Lord your God in vain (use it for empty purposes); for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that takes his name in vain.

                 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days will serve, and do all your work, but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord your God: in it don’t do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your manservant, or your maidservant, or your cattle, or the foreigner that is within your gates:

                For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: so the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and set it apart as holy.

                Honour your father and your mother: that your days may be long on the land which the Lord your God gives you.

                Do not murder.

                Do not commit adultery.

                Do not steal.

                Do not bear false witness against your neighbor.

                Do not covet your neighbor's house, do not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is your neighbor's.

                All the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they shook, and stood afar off.

And they said to Moses, You speak with us, and we will hear: but don’t let God speak with us, so we not die.

               And Moses said to the people, Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that His fear may be before your faces, so you won’t sin.

               And the people stood far away, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

               And the Lord said to Moses, Say this to the children of Israel, You have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. So don’t make Me like gods of silver. Don’t make Me like gods of gold.

               Make Me and altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings, and your peace offerings, your sheep, and your oxen: in all places where I set My name to be remembered, I will come to you, and I will bless you.

              And if you make me an altar of stone, don’t build it of cut stone for if you lift your tool on it, you have polluted it.

              Don’t go up to My altar by steps, so your nakedness won’t be uncovered on it.

Exodus 19

     

     In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone out of the land of Egypt, that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. For they traveled from Rephidim and came to the desert of Sinai, and camped in the wilderness; and Israel camped there before the mountain.

     And Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him out of the mountain, saying, Say to the house of Jacob, tell the children of Israel, You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I lifted you on eagles' wings, and brought you to Myself.

     Now, if you will obey My voice, hear, and keep My covenant, then you will be a special treasure to Me above all people: for all the earth is Mine. You will be a kingdom of priests to Me, a holy nation. These are the words you are to say to the children of Israel.

     And Moses came, called for the elders of the people, and put all these words before their faces that the Lord commanded him. And all the people answered together, and said, All that the Lord has said we will do. 

     And Moses returned the words of the people to the Lord. And the Lord said to Moses, Look, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and believe you forever. And Moses told the words of the people to the Lord.

     And the Lord said to Moses, Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow: let them wash their clothes, and be ready on the third day: for the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.

    And you set a border around the people saying, Take keep yourselves from going up the mountain or touching its border. Whoever touches the mountain will die. Not a hand is to touch it, or he will surely be stoned: animal or man, it will not live.

     When the trumpet sounds long, they are to approach the mountain.

     And Moses went down from the mount to the people, and sanctified the people. They washed their clothes.

     And he said to the people, Be ready on the third day: don’t draw near your wives.

     And on the third day in the morning there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the voice of the trumpet exceedingly loud, so that all the people in the camp trembled.

     And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the lowest part of the mountain.

     And mount Sinai was all smoke because the Lord descended on it in fire: and its smoke rose as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

     And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.

     And the Lord came down on mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.

     And the Lord said to Moses, Go down, charge the people not to break through to the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish.

     And let the priests also, which come near to the Lord, sanctify themselves, so the Lord not break forth on them.

     And Moses said to the Lord, The people can’t come up to mount Sinai: for You charged us, saying, Set a boundary about the mount, and sanctify it.

     And the Lord said to him, Away, get down, and you will come up, you, and Aaron with you: but don’t let the priests and the people break through to come up to the Lord, so he not break forth on them.

     So Moses went down to the people, and spoke to them.

Exodus 21

     

     Now these are the judgments to set before them. If you buy a Hebrew servant, he will serve you six years and in the seventh he will go free for nothing. If he came in by himself, he will go out by himself: if he was married, then his wife will go out with him. If his master gave him a wife, and she has born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children are her master's, and he will go out by himself. And if the servant says plainly, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I won’t go out free, then his master is to bring him to the judges; he will bring him to the door, or the door post; and his master will bore his ear through with an aul; and he will serve him forever.

     And if a man sells his daughter to be a maidservant, she is not go out as the menservants do. If she doesn’t please her master, who has betrothed her to himself, then he is to let her be redeemed: he will have no power to sell her to a foreign nation, since he has dealt treacherously with her.

     And if he has betrothed her to his son, he is to treat her like a daughter.

     If a man takes another wife, he is not to diminish the provisions of the first wife, her food, her clothing, and her duty of marriage. And if he doesn’t do these three to her, then she may go out free without money.

     He that strikes a man, so that he dies, will be surely put to death. And if it is an accident, he didn’t lie in wait, but God delivered him into his hand; then I will appoint you a place where he can flee.

     But if a man comes in pride on his neighbor, to slays him with guile; you are to take him away from My altar to die.

     And he that strikes his father, or his mother, is surely to be put to death.

     And he that steals a man, and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he will surely be put to death. 

     And he that curses his father, or his mother, will surely be put to death.

     And if men strive together, and one strikes another with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is bedridden, if he rises again, and walk abroad on his staff, then he that struck is unpunished: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and cause him to be thoroughly healed.

     And if a man strikes his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he dies under his hand; he will be surely punished. But if he continues a day or two, he will not be punished: for he is his money.

     If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit departs from her, and yet no evil follows: he will surely be punished as the woman's husband requires; and he will pay as the judges determine. But if any evil follows, then give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. 

     And if a man strikes the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it is destroyed; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

     And if he strikes out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

     If an ox gores a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox is to be stoned, and his flesh is not to be eaten; but the owner of the ox will be innocent. But if the ox pushed with his horn in the past, and it was told to his owner, and didn’t keep him in, but he killed a man or a woman; the ox is to be stoned, and his owner also is to be put to death. If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he is to pay for whatever is set upon him. Whether he has gored a son, or a daughter, this judgment will be done to him.

     If the ox pushes a manservant or a maidservant (to death); he is to give their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox is to be stoned.

     And if a man opens a pit, or digs a pit, and doesn’t cover it, and an ox or an ass falls in it, the owner of the pit is to make it good, and give money to the owner of them; and the dead beast will be his.

     And if one man's ox hurt another's, so that he dies; then they are to sell the live ox, divide the money, and also divide the dead ox.

     Or if it is known that the ox pushed in time past, and his owner has not kept him in, he is to pay ox for ox; and the dead will be his.

Exodus 22

 

     If a man steals an ox, or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he is to restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

     If a thief is found breaking in, and is struck to death, shed no blood for him. If the sun rises on him, shed no blood for him for he should make full restitution. If he has nothing, then he is to be sold for his theft. If the theft is certainly found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, or ass, or sheep he is to restore double.

     If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and put in his animal there, feeding in another man's field, he will make restitution from the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard.

     If fire breaks out and catches in thorns, so that stacks of grain or standing grain or the field is consumed, he that kindled the fire will surely make restitution.

     If a man delivers to his neighbor money or stuff to keep and it is stolen out of the man's house, if the thief be found, let him pay double.If the thief isn’t found,

then the master of the house is to be brought to the judges, to see whether he has put his hand to his neighbor's goods.

     For all manner of trespass, for ox, for ass, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing which another challenges to be his, the cause of both parties is to come before the judges; and whom the judges condemn, he is to pay double to his neighbor.

    If a man delivers to his neighbor an ass, or ox, or a sheep, or any animal, to keep, and it dies, or is hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it, then an oath of the Lord is to be between them both, that he has not put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and the owner of it will accept at, and he will not make it good. 

     And if it is stolen from him, he will make restitution to its owner. If it is torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he will not make good what was torn.

     And if a man borrows anything from his neighbor, and it is hurt, or dies, the owner not being with it, he will surely make it good. But if its owner is with it, he shall not make it good: if it is a hired thing, it came for its hire.

     And if a man entices a maid that is not betrothed, and mates with her, he will surely endow her to be his wife. If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he is to pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

    You are not to allow a witch to live. (they are empowered by demons).

    Whoever mates with a beast is to surely be put to death. (demon-empowered).

    He that sacrifice to any god, except the Lord only, is to be utterly destroyed. (They are leading others to eternal death.)

    Don't make trouble for a foreigner, or oppress him for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

    Don't afflict any widow, or fatherless child. If you afflict them in any way, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry, and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives will be widows, and your children fatherless.

   If you lend money to any of My people that are poor by you, you are not to be a usurer, or charge him interest. If you take your neighbor's clothing as a pledge, return it to him before the sun goes down for that is his only covering, it is his clothing for his skin: what will he sleep in? And when he cries to Me, I will hear for I am gracious.

    Do not curse the gods or curse the ruler of your people.

    Don’t delay to offer the first of your ripe fruits, and of your liquors,

    The firstborn of your sons you are to dedicate to Me. And do the same with your oxen, and your sheep. It is to stay with its dam seven days and on the eighth day give it Me.

    You are to be holy men to Me: don’t eat any flesh that is torn by animals in the field. Throw it to the dogs.

 Exodus 23

 

     You are not to raise a false report. Don’t put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

     Don’t follow a multitude to do evil (a mob); or speak in a cause to follow many to bend judgment or honor a poor man in his cause (because he is poor).

     If you meet your enemy's ox or his ass going astray, surely bring it back to him again. If you see the ass of him that hates you lying under his burden, and wouldn’t help him, you are to surely help him.

     Don't turn the judgment of your poor in his cause.

     Keep far away a false matter; and don’t kill the innocent with the righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

    Take no gift (bribe), for the gift blinds the wise and overthrows the words of the righteous.

     Foreigner, you are not to oppress a foreigner: for you know the heart of a foreigner, seeing you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

     And six years you will sow your land, and gather in its fruits. But the seventh year let it rest and lie still, that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave the animals of the field will eat. Do the same with your vineyard, and with your olive yard.

     Six days do your work, and on the seventh day rest: that your ox and ass may rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the foreigner, may be refreshed.

     Keep all things that I have said to you.

     Do not mention of the name of other gods or let it be heard out of your mouth.

     Three times each year keep a feast to Me. Keep the feast of unleavened bread: (eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, in the appointed time of the month Abib; for in it you came out from Egypt: and none are to appear before me empty:

     And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of your labors (honoring the Source of all we enjoy), that you have sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when you have gathered in your labors out of the field.

     Three times in the year all your males are to appear before the Lord God.

     You are not to offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread or let the fat of My sacrifice remain until morning.

     Bring the first of the first fruits of your land into the house of the Lord your God. 

     Do not boil a kid (baby goat) in his mother's milk.

     Behold, I send an Angel before you, to keep you in the way, and to bring you into the place I have prepared.

     Observe him and obey his voice. Don’t provoke Him for He will not pardon your transgressions for My name/person is in Him.

     Obey His voice and do all that I say. Then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and beseige those who bind you.

      For My Angel will go before you, and bring you in unto the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.

     Do not bow down to their gods, or serve them, or do what they do: but utterly overthrow them and demolish their images.

     Serve the Lord your God, and He will bless your food and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you.

     None will cast their young, or be barren, in your land.

     I will fulfill the number of your days.

     I will send My fear before you and will destroy all the people to whom you come. I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

     And I will send hornets before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.

     I will not drive them out from before you in one year, so the land won’t become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against you.

     Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you are increased, and inherit the land.

     And I will set your boundary from the Red sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and you will drive them out before you.

     Make no covenant with them, or with their gods. They are not to dwell in your land, or they will make sin against Me: for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a noose to you.

Exodus 24

     

     And He said to Moses, Come up to the Lord, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship afar off. And Moses alone will come near the Lord: but they will not come near. The people won’t go up with him.

     And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, We will do all the words the Lord has said.

     And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

     And he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the Lord. And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

     And he took the book of the covenant and read in the ears of the people: and they said, All that the Lord has said will we do, and be obedient.

     And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord has made with you concerning all these words.

     Then Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up: And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under His feet a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as clear as the body of heaven.

     He didn’t lay a hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. (The blood of the sacrifices covered them with God’s promised Savior.) They saw God and ate and drank.

     And the Lord said to Moses, Come up to Me into the mountain, and be there: and I will give you tablets of stone, a law, and commandments that I have written; for you to teach them.

     And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mountain of God.

     And he said to the elders, Wait here for us, until we return to you: and look, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man has any problem, let him come to them.

     And Moses went up into the mountain, and a cloud covered the mountain.

     And the glory of the Lord dwelt on mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day He called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

     And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.

     And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, up into the mountain: and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

 

Exodus 25 

 

     The Lord said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites to make an offering to Me. Receive whatever offerings anyone wishes to give. These offerings are to be: gold, silver, and bronze; fine linen; blue, purple, and red wool; cloth made of goats' hair; rams' skin dyed red; fine leather; acacia wood; oil for the lamps; spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet-smelling incense; carnelians and other jewels to be set in the ephod of the High Priest and in his breast piece. 

     The people must make a sacred tent for Me, so that I may live among them. Make it and all its furnishings according to the plan that I will show you. 

     “Make a box out of acacia wood, 45 inches long, 27 inches wide, and 27 inches high. Cover it with pure gold inside and out and put a gold border all around it. Make four carrying rings of gold for it and attach them to its four legs, with two rings on each side. Make carrying poles of acacia wood and cover them with gold and put them through the rings on each side of the box. The poles are to be left in the rings and must not be taken out. Then put in the box the two stone tablets that I will give you, on which the commandments are written.

     “Make a lid of pure gold, 45 inches long and 27 inches wide. Make two winged cherubim of hammered gold, one for each end of the lid. Make them so that they form one piece with the lid. The winged cherubim are to face each other across the lid, and their outspread wings are to cover it. Put the two stone tablets inside the box and put the lid on top of it. 

     I will meet you there, and from above the lid between the two winged cherubim I will give you all my laws for the people of Israel.

     “Make a table out of acacia wood, 36 inches long, 18 inches wide, and 27 inches high. Cover it with pure gold and put a gold border around it. Make a rim 3 inches wide around it and a gold border around the rim. Make four carrying rings of gold for it and put them at the four corners, where the legs are. The rings to hold the poles for carrying the table are to be placed near the rim. Make the poles of acacia wood and cover them with gold.

     Make plates, cups, jars, and bowls to be used for the wine offerings. All of these are to be made of pure gold. The table is to be placed in front of the covenant box, and on the table there is always to be the sacred bread offered to Me.

     “Make a lampstand of pure gold. Make its base and its shaft of hammered gold; its decorative flowers, including buds and petals, are to form one piece with it. Six branches will extend from its sides, three from each side. Each of the six branches is to have three decorative flowers shaped like almond blossoms with buds and petals. The shaft of the lampstand is to have four decorative flowers shaped like almond blossoms with buds and petals. There is to be one bud below each of the three pairs of branches. The buds, the branches, and the lampstand are to be a single piece of pure hammered gold. Make seven lamps for the lampstand and set them up so that they shine toward the front. Make its tongs and trays of pure gold. Use seventy-five pounds of pure gold to make the lampstand and all this equipment.

     Take care to make them according to the plan that I showed you on the mountain.

Exodus 26 

 

     “Make the interior of the sacred tent, the tent of My Presence, out of ten pieces of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool. Embroider them with figures of winged cherubim. Make each piece the same size, 14 yards long and 2 yards wide. Sew five of them together in one set, and do the same with the other five.  Make loops of blue cloth on the edge of the outside piece in each set. Put fifty loops on the first piece of the first set and fifty loops matching them on the last piece of the second set. Make fifty gold hooks with which to join the two sets into one piece.

     “Make a cover for the tent out of eleven pieces of cloth made of goats' hair. Make them all the same size, 15 yards long and 2 yards wide. Sew five of them together in one set, and the other six in another set. Fold the sixth piece double over the front of the tent. Put fifty loops on the edge of the last piece of one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the other set. Make fifty bronze hooks and put them in the loops to join the two sets to form one cover. Hang the extra half piece over the back of the tent. The extra half yard on each side of the length is to hang over the sides of the tent to cover it.

     “Make two more coverings, one of rams' skin dyed red and the other of fine leather, to serve as the outer cover.

     “Make upright frames for the tent out of acacia wood. Each frame is to be 15 feet long and 27 inches wide, with two matching projections, so that the frames can be joined together. All the frames are to have these projections. Make twenty frames for the south side and forty silver bases to go under them, two bases under each frame to hold its two projections. Make twenty frames for the north side of the tent and forty silver bases, two under each frame. For the back of the tent on the west, make six frames, and two frames for the corners. These corner frames are to be joined at the bottom and connected all the way to the top. The two frames that form the two corners are to be made in this way. So there will be eight frames with their sixteen silver bases, two under each frame.

     “Make fifteen crossbars of acacia wood, five for the frames on one side of the tent, five for the frames on the other side, and five for the frames on the west end, at the back. The middle crossbar, set halfway up the frames, is to extend from one end of the tent to the other. Cover the frames with gold and fit them with gold rings to hold the crossbars, which are also to be covered with gold. Set up the tent according to the plan that I showed you on the mountain.

     “Make a curtain of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool. Embroider it with figures of winged cherubim. Hang it on four posts of acacia wood covered with gold, fitted with hooks, and set in four silver bases. Place the curtain under the row of hooks in the roof of the tent, and put the covenant box behind the curtain. It contains the two stone tablets.

     The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place. Put the lid on the covenant box. 

     Outside the Most Holy Place put the table against the north side of the tent and the lampstand against the south side.

     “For the entrance of the tent make a curtain of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool and decorated with embroidery. For this curtain make five posts of acacia wood covered with gold and fitted with gold hooks; make five bronze bases for these posts.

Exodus 27 

     

     “Make an altar out of acacia wood. It is to be square, 7½ feet long and 7½ feet wide, and it is to be 4½ feet high. Make projections at the top of the four corners. They are to form one piece with the altar, and the whole is to be covered with bronze.

   Make pans for the greasy ashes, and make shovels, bowls, hooks, and fire pans. All this equipment is to be made of bronze. Make a bronze grating and put four bronze carrying rings on its corners. Put the grating under the rim of the altar, so that it reaches halfway up the altar. 

     Make carrying poles of acacia wood, cover them with bronze, and put them in the rings on each side of the altar when it is carried. Make the altar out of boards and leave it hollow, according to the plan that I showed you on the mountain.

     “For the tent of My Presence make an enclosure out of fine linen curtains. On the south side the curtains are to be 50 yards long, supported by twenty bronze posts in twenty bronze bases, with hooks and rods made of silver. Make it the same on the north side of the enclosure. 

     On the west side there are to be curtains 25 yards long, with ten posts and ten bases. 

     On the east side, where the entrance is, the enclosure is also to be 25 yards wide. On each side of the entrance there are to be 7½ yards of curtains, with three posts and three bases. 

     For the entrance itself there is to be a curtain 10 yards long made of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool, and decorated with embroidery. It is to be supported by four posts in four bases. All the posts around the enclosure are to be connected with silver rods, and their hooks are to be made of silver and their bases of bronze. The enclosure is to be 50 yards long, 25 yards wide, and 2½ yards high. The curtains are to be made of fine linen and the bases of bronze.

     All the equipment that is used in the tent and all the pegs for the tent and for the enclosure are to be made of bronze.

     “Command the people of Israel to bring you the best olive oil for the lamp, so that it can be lit each evening and his sons are to set the lamp in the tent of My Presence outside the curtain that is in front of the covenant box. There, in My Presence, it is to burn from evening until morning. This command is to be kept forever by the Israelites and their descendants.

Exodus 28

 

     Take your brother Aaron and his sons, Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. Separate them from the people of Israel, so that they may serve Me as priests. Make priestly garments for your brother Aaron, to provide him with glory and beauty.

     Call all the skilled workers to whom I have given ability, and tell them to make Aaron's clothes, so that he may be dedicated as a priest in My service. Tell them to make a breastplate, a tunic, a robe, an embroidered shirt, a turban, and a sash. They are to make these priestly garments for your brother Aaron and his sons, so that they can serve me as priests. The skilled workers are to use blue, purple, and red wool, gold thread, and fine linen.

     “They are to make the tunic of blue, purple, and red wool, gold thread, and fine linen, decorated with embroidery. Two shoulder straps, by which it can be fastened, are to be attached to the sides. A finely woven belt made of the same materials is to be attached to the tunic to form one piece with it. 

     Take two carnelian stones and engrave on them the names of the twelve sons of Jacob, in the order of their birth, with six on one stone and six on the other. Have a skillful jeweler engrave on the two stones the names of the sons of Jacob, and mount the stones in gold settings. Put them on the shoulder straps of the tunic to represent the twelve tribes of Israel. 

     In this way Aaron will carry their names on his shoulders, so that I, the Lord, will always remember My people. 

     Make two gold settings and two chains of pure gold twisted like cords, and attach them to the settings.

     “Make a breastplate for the High Priest to use in determining God's will. It is to be made of the same materials as the tunic and with similar embroidery. It is to be square and folded double, 9 inches long and 9 inches wide. Mount four rows of precious stones on it; in the first row mount a ruby, a topaz, and a garnet; in the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond; in the third row, a turquoise, an agate, and an amethyst; and in the fourth row, a beryl, a carnelian, and a jasper. These are to be mounted in gold settings. Each of these twelve stones is to have engraved on it the name of one of the sons of Jacob, to represent the tribes of Israel. 

     For the breastplate make chains of pure gold, twisted like cords. Make two gold rings and attach them to the upper corners of the breastplate, and join the two gold cords to the two rings. Join the other two ends of the cords to the two settings, and attach them in front to the shoulder straps of the tunic. Then make two rings of gold and attach them to the lower corners of the breastplate on the inside edge next to the tunic. Make two more gold rings and attach them to the lower part of the front of the two shoulder straps of the tunic, near the seam and above the finely woven belt. Tie the rings of the breastplate to the rings of the tunic with a blue cord, so that the breastplate rests above the belt and doesn’t come loose.

     “When Aaron enters the Holy Place, he will wear this breastplate engraved with the names of the tribes of Israel, so that I, the Lord, will always remember My people. 

    Put the Urim and Thummim (lights and perfections) in the breastplate, so that Aaron will carry them when he comes into My holy Presence. At such times he must always wear this breastplate, so that he can determine my will for the people of Israel.

     “The robe that goes under the tunic is to be made entirely of blue wool with a hole for the head, and this hole is to be reinforced with a woven binding to keep it from tearing. 

     All around its lower hem put pomegranates of blue, purple, and red wool, alternating with gold bells. Aaron is to wear this robe when he serves as priest. When he comes into My Presence in the Holy Place or when he leaves it, the sound of the bells will be heard, and he will not be killed.

     “Make an ornament of pure gold and engrave on it ‘Dedicated to the Lord.’ Tie it to the front of the turban with a blue cord. Aaron is to wear it on his forehead, so that I, the Lord, will accept all the offerings that the Israelites dedicate to Me, even if the people commit some error in offering them.

     “Weave Aaron's shirt of fine linen and make a turban of fine linen and also a sash decorated with embroidery. “Make shirts, sashes, and caps for Aaron's sons, to provide them with glory and beauty.

     Put these clothes on your brother Aaron and his sons. Then ordain them and dedicate them by anointing them with olive oil, so that they may serve me as priests. Make linen shorts for them, reaching from the waist to the thighs, so that they will not expose themselves. Aaron and his sons must always wear them when they go into the tent of My Presence or approach the altar to serve as priests in the Holy Place, so that they will not be killed for exposing themselves. This is a permanent rule for Aaron and his descendants.

 

Exodus 29 

 

    "This is what you are to do to Aaron and his sons to dedicate them as priests to serve Me. Take one young bull and two rams without any defects. Use the best wheat flour, but no yeast, and make some bread with olive oil, some without it, and some in the form of thin cakes brushed with oil. Put them in a basket and offer them to Me when you sacrifice the bull and the two rams.

     “Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of My Presence, and have them take a ritual bath. Then dress Aaron in the priestly garments—the shirt, the robe that goes under the tunic, the tunic, the breastplate, and the belt. Put the turban on him and tie on it the sacred sign of dedication engraved ‘Dedicated to the Lord.’ Then take the anointing oil, pour it on his head, and anoint him.

     “Bring his sons and put shirts on them; put sashes around their waists and tie caps on their heads. That is how you are to ordain Aaron and his sons. They and their descendants are to serve Me as priests forever.

     “Bring the bull to the front of the tent of My Presence and tell Aaron and his sons to put their hands on its head. Kill the bull there in My holy Presence at the entrance of the tent. Take some of the bull's blood and with your finger put it on the projections of the altar. Then pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.

     Next, take all the fat which covers the internal organs, the best part of the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat on them, and burn them on the altar as an offering to me. But burn the bull's flesh, its skin, and its intestines outside the camp. This is an offering to take away the sins of the priests.

 

     (This represents all the perfections of Jesus being totally consumed by the wrath of God in our place.)

     “Take one of the rams and tell Aaron and his sons to put their hands on its head. Kill it and take its blood and throw it against all four sides of the altar. Cut the ram in pieces; wash its internal organs and its hind legs, and put them on top of the head and the other pieces. Burn the whole ram on the altar as a food offering. The obedience of His great love for Me by this pleases Me. 

 

     (This portrays all the bad of the human race going into the sacrifice, and all the good of the ‘holy, harmless, undefiled Son of God' going into the offerer-totally undoing all the evil of the fall and resulting horrors of mankind swept away by the infinite purity of His love.)

    “Take the other ram—the ram used for dedication—and tell Aaron and his sons to put their hands on its head. Kill it, and take some of its blood and put it on the lobes of the right ears of Aaron and his sons, on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet. Throw the rest of the blood against all four sides of the altar. Take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his clothes and on his sons and their clothes. He, his sons, and their clothes will then be dedicated to Me.

     “Cut away the ram's fat, the fat tail, the fat covering the internal organs, the best part of the liver, the two kidneys with the fat on them, and the right thigh. From the basket of bread which has been offered to Me, take one loaf of each kind: one loaf made with olive oil and one made without it and one thin cake. 

     Put all this food in the hands of Aaron and his sons and have them dedicate it to me as a special gift. Then take it from them and burn it on the altar, on top of the burnt offering, as a food offering to Me. The meaning of this offering pleases Me.

     “Take the breast of this ram and dedicate it to Me as a special gift. This part of the animal will be yours.

     “When a priest is ordained, the breast and the thigh of the ram being used for the ordination are to be dedicated to me as a special gift and set aside for the priests. It is My unchanging decision that when My people make their fellowship offerings, the breast and the thigh of the animal belong to the priests. This is the people's gift to Me, the Lord.

     “Aaron's priestly garments are to be handed on to his sons after his death, for them to wear when they are ordained. The son of Aaron who succeeds him as priest and who goes into the tent of My Presence to serve in the Holy Place is to wear these garments for seven days.

    “Take the meat of the ram used for the ordination of Aaron and his sons and boil it in a holy place. At the entrance of the tent of My Presence they are to eat it along with the bread left in the basket.

    (This represents us taking His love to our hearts.)

They shall eat what was used in the ritual of forgiveness at their ordination. Only priests may eat this food, because it is sacred. If some of the meat or some of the bread is not eaten by morning, it is to be burned; it is not to be eaten, for it is sacred.

     “Perform the rites of ordination for Aaron and his sons for seven days exactly as I have commanded you. Each day you must offer a bull as a sacrifice, so that sin may be forgiven. This will purify the altar. Then anoint it with olive oil to make it holy. Do this every day for seven days. Then the altar will be completely holy, and anyone or anything that touches the altar will be holy. 

     “Every day for all time to come, sacrifice on the altar two one-year-old lambs. Sacrifice one of the lambs in the morning and the other in the evening.  With the first lamb offer two pounds of fine wheat flour mixed with one quart of pure olive oil. Pour out one quart of wine as an offering. Sacrifice the second lamb in the evening, and offer with it the same amounts of flour, olive oil, and wine as in the morning. This is a food offering to Me, the Lord, and its meaning pleases me.

     For all time to come, this burnt offering is to be offered in My Presence at the entrance of the tent of My Presence. That is where I will meet My people and speak to you. There I will meet the people of Israel, and the dazzling light of My Presence will make the place holy.

     I will make the tent and the altar holy, and I will set Aaron and his sons apart to serve me as priests.

     I will live among the people of Israel, and I will be their God. They will know that I am the Lord their God who brought them out of Egypt so that I could live among them. I am the Lord their God.

Exodus 30

 

     “Make an altar out of acacia wood, for burning incense. It is to be square, 18 inches long and 18 inches wide, and it is to be 36 inches high. Its projections at the four corners are to form one piece with it. Cover its top, all four sides, and its projections with pure gold, and put a gold border around it. Make two gold carrying rings for it and attach them below the border on two sides to hold the poles with which it is to be carried. Make these poles of acacia wood and cover them with gold. Put this altar outside the curtain which hangs in front of the covenant box. That is the place where I will meet you.

    Every morning when Aaron comes to take care of the lamps, he is to burn sweet-smelling incense on it. He must do the same when he lights the lamps in the evening. This offering of incense is to continue without interruption for all time to come. Do not offer on this altar any forbidden incense, any animal offering, or any grain offering, and do not pour out any wine offering on it.  Once a year Aaron is to perform the ritual for purifying the altar by putting on its four projections the blood of the animal sacrificed for sin. This is to be done every year for all time to come. This altar is to be completely holy, dedicated to me, the Lord.

     The Lord said to Moses, When you take a census of the people of Israel, each man is to pay Me a price for his life, so that no disaster will come on him while the census is being taken. Everyone included in the census must pay the required amount of money, weighed according to the official standard. Everyone is pay this as an offering to Me. Everyone being counted in the census, that is, every man twenty years old or older, is to pay me this amount. The rich man is not to pay more, or the poor man less, when they pay this amount for their lives. Collect this money from the people of Israel and spend it for the upkeep of the tent of My Presence. This tax will be the payment for their lives, a covering for their souls, and I will remember to protect them.

     The Lord said to Moses, Make a bronze basin with a bronze base. Place it between the tent and the altar, and put water in it. Aaron and his sons are to use the water to wash their hands and feet before they go into the tent or approach the altar to offer the food offering. Then they will not be killed. They must wash their hands and feet, so that they will not die. This is a rule which they and their descendants are to observe forever.

     The Lord said to Moses, Take the finest spices—12 pounds of liquid myrrh, 6 pounds of sweet-smelling cinnamon, 6 pounds of sweet-smelling cane, and 12 pounds of cassia (all weighed according to the official standard). Add one gallon of olive oil, and make a sacred anointing oil, mixed like perfume. Use it to anoint the tent of My Presence, the covenant box, the table and all its utensils, the lampstand and its equipment, the altar for burning incense, the altar for burning offerings, together with all its equipment, and the washbasin with its base. Dedicate these things in this way, and they will be completely holy, and anyone or anything unclean that touches them will be harmed by the power of its holiness. 

     Then anoint Aaron and his sons, and ordain them as priests in My service. Say to the people of Israel, ‘This holy anointing oil is to be used in My service for all time to come. It must not be poured on ordinary men, and you must not use the same formula to make any mixture like it. It is holy, and you must treat it as holy. Whoever makes any like it or uses any of it on anyone who is not a priest will be cut off from My people.

     The Lord said to Moses, Take an equal part of each of the following sweet spices—stacte, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense. Use them to make incense, mixed like perfume. Add salt to keep it pure and holy. Beat part of it into a fine powder, take it into the tent of My Presence, and sprinkle it in front of the covenant box. Treat this incense as completely holy. Do not use the same formula to make any incense like it for yourselves. Treat it as a holy thing dedicated to Me. If anyone makes any like it for use as perfume, he will be cut off from My people.

Exodus 34

 

     The Lord said to Moses, Cut two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Get ready tomorrow morning and come up Mount Sinai to meet me there at the top. No one is to come up with you; no one is to be seen on any part of the mountain; and no sheep or cattle are to graze at the foot of the mountain.

     So Moses cut two more stone tablets, and early the next morning he carried them up Mount Sinai, just as the Lord had commanded.

     The Lord came down in a cloud, stood with him there, and pronounced his holy name, the Lord. The Lord then passed in front of him and called out, I, the Lord, am a God who is full of womb-deep love (for mankind who is made from His very being in His image) and grace, long-suffering, who shows great love and faithfulness.

     I keep grace for a thousand generations and forgive evil and sin; but I will not leave the guilty unpunished numbering the iniquity of the fathers to the children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation. (Grace for a thousand generations but punishment only for 3 or 4.)

     Moses quickly bowed to the ground and worshiped.

     He said, Lord, if I have found grace in your sight, Go among us. These people are stiff-necked, but forgive our evil and sin, and accept us as your own people.

     The Lord said to Moses, I now make a covenant with the people of Israel. In their presence I will do great things such as have never been done anywhere on earth among any of the nations. All the people will see what great things I, the Lord, can do, because I am going to do an awesome thing for you.

     Obey the laws that I am giving you today. I will drive out the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, as you advance.

     Do not make any treaties with the people of the country where you are going: this could be a noose for you. Tear down their altars, destroy their sacred pillars, and cut down their symbols of the goddess Asherah.

     Do not worship any other god, because I, the Lord, whose name is Jealous am a jealous God. (Where there is no love, there is no jealousy)

     Do not make any treaties with the people of the country, because when they worship their pagan gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you to join them, and you will be tempted to eat the food they offer to their gods.

    Your sons might marry those foreign women, who would lead them to be unfaithful to me and to worship their pagan gods (God alone is life. Worshipping others gods, breaks contact with God who is life.)

     Do not make gods of metal and worship them. Keep the feast of unleavened bread. As I commanded you, eat unleavened bread for seven days in the month of Abib, because it was in that month that you left Egypt.

    Every first-born son and first-born male domestic animal belongs to me, but you are to buy back every first-born donkey by offering a lamb in its place. If you do not buy it back, break its neck. Buy back every first-born son.

     No one is to appear before me without an offering.

     Six days do your work, but don’t work on the seventh day, even during plowing or harvest you are to rest. 

     Do the feast of weeks, and first fruits, and ingathering at the years end.

     Three times a year all the men come to worship me, the Lord, the God of Israel.

     After I have driven out the nations before you and enlarge your borders, no one will try to conquer your country during the three festivals.

     Don’t offer bread made with yeast when you sacrifice an animal to me. Don’t keep until the following morning any part of the animal killed at the passover feast.

     Each year bring to the house of the Lord the first grain that you harvest.

     Don’t cook a young sheep or goat in its mother's milk.

     The Lord said to Moses, Write these words, because these words are the covenant I am making with you and with Israel.

     Moses stayed there with the Lord forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

     When Moses went down from Mount Sinai carrying the Ten Commandments, his face was shining because he had been speaking with the Lord; but he didn’t know it.

     Aaron and all the people looked at Moses and saw that his face was shining, and they were afraid to go near him. But Moses called them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the community went to him, and Moses spoke with them.

     After that, all the people of Israel gathered around him, and Moses gave them all the laws that the Lord had given him on Mount Sinai.

      When Moses had finished speaking with them, he covered his face with a veil. Whenever Moses went into the tent of the Lord's Presence to speak to the Lord, he would take the veil off. When he came out, he would tell the people of Israel everything that he had been commanded to say, and they would see that his face was shining. Then he would put the veil back on until the next time he went to speak with the Lord.

Exodus 31

     

     The Lord said to Moses, I have chosen Bezalel, the son of Uri and grandson of Hur, from the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with My power. I have given him understanding, skill, and ability for every kind of artistic work, for planning skillful designs and working them in gold, silver, and bronze; for cutting jewels to be set; for carving wood; and for every other kind of artistic work. I have also selected Oholiab son of Ahisamach, from the tribe of Dan, to work with him. 

     I have also given great ability to all the other skilled workers, so that they can make everything I have commanded to be made: the tent of My Presence, the covenant box and its lid, all the furnishings of the tent, the table and its utensils, the lampstand of pure gold and all its equipment, the altar for burning incense, the altar for burnt offerings and all its equipment, the washbasin and its base, the holy priestly garments for Aaron and his sons to use when they serve as priests, the anointing oil, and the sweet-smelling incense for the Holy Place. In making all these things, they are to do exactly as I have commanded you.

     The Lord commanded Moses to tell the people of Israel, Keep the Sabbath, my day of rest, because it is a sign between you and Me for all time to come, to show that I, the Lord, have made you My own people. You must keep the day of rest, because it is sacred. Whoever does not keep it, but works on that day, is to be put to death. You have six days in which to do your work, but the seventh day is a solemn day of rest dedicated to Me. Whoever does any work on that day is to be put to death. The people of Israel are to keep this day as a sign of the covenant. It is a permanent sign between the people of Israel and Me, because I, the Lord, made heaven and earth in six days, and on the seventh day I rested and was refreshed.

     When God finished speaking to Moses on Mt. Sinai, He gave him the two stone tablets on which God himself had written the commandments.

Exodus 32

 

          When the people saw that Moses had not come down from the mountain but was staying there a long time, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, We do not know what has happened to this man Moses, who led us out of Egypt; so make us a godto lead us.

                     Aaron said to them, Take off the gold earrings your wives, your sons, and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me. So all the people took off their gold earrings and brought them to Aaron. He took the earrings, melted them, poured the gold into a mold, and made a gold bull-calf.

                    The people said, Israel, this is our god, who led us out of Egypt! Then Aaron built an altar in front of the gold bull-calf and announced, Tomorrow there will be a festival to honor the Lord.

                     Early the next morning they brought some animals to burn as sacrifices and others to eat as fellowship offerings. The people sat down to a feast, which turned into an orgy of drinking and sex.

                     The Lord said to Moses, “Hurry and go back down, because your people, whom you led out of Egypt, have sinned and rejected me. They have already left the way that I commanded them to follow; they have made a bull-calf out of melted gold and have worshiped it and offered sacrifices to it. They are saying that this is their god, who led them out of Egypt. I know how stubborn these people are. I am angry with them, and I am going to destroy them. Then I will make you and your descendants into a great nation.

                      But Moses pleaded with the Lord his God and said, Lord, why should you be so angry with your people, whom you rescued from Egypt with great might and power? Why should the Egyptians be able to say that You led your people out of Egypt, planning to kill them in the mountains and destroy them completely? Turn from this evil and don’t bring this disaster on Your people. 

                      Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Remember the solemn promise You made to them to give them as many descendants as there are stars in the sky and to give their descendants all that land you promised would be their possession forever.

                      So, the Lord turned from the evil he planned and didn’t bring on His people the disaster he had threatened.

                      Moses went back down the mountain, carrying the two stone tablets with the commandments written on both sides. God himself had made the tablets and had engraved the commandments on them.

Joshua heard the people shouting and said to Moses, I hear the sound of battle in the camp.

                      Moses said, That doesn't sound like a shout of victory or a cry of defeat. I hear the sound of singing. When Moses came close enough to the camp and saw the bull-calf and the people dancing, he became furious. At the foot of the mountain, he threw down the tablets he was carrying and broke them. He took the bull-calf they had made, melted it, ground it to fine powder, and mixed it with water. Then he made the people of Israel drink it. 

                     He said to Aaron, What did these people do, that you made them commit such a terrible sin? 

                      Aaron said, Don't be angry with me; you know how these people set on evil. They said to me, We don't know what has happened to this man Moses, who brought us out of Egypt; so make us a god to lead us. I asked them to bring me their gold ornaments, and those who had any took them off and gave them to me. I threw the ornaments into the fire and out came this bull-calf!

                     Moses saw that Aaron had let the people refused to stay from under God’s plan and protection before their enemies. So he stood at the gate of the camp and shouted, Everyone who is on the Lord's side come over here!” So all the Levites gathered around him, 27 and he said to them, The Lord God of Israel commands every one of you to put on your sword and go through the camp from this gate to the other and kill your brothers, your friends, and your neighbors. (Their idolatry leads others, including their children to eternal death.)

                    The Levites obeyed and killed about three thousand men that day. Moses said to the Levites, Today you have consecrated yourselves as priests in the service of the Lord by killing your sons and brothers, so the Lord has given you His blessing.

                    The next day Moses said to the people, You have committed a terrible sin. But now I will again go up the mountain to the Lord; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin. 

                    Moses then returned to the Lord and said, These people have committed a terrible sin. They have made a god out of gold and worshiped it.  Please forgive their sin; but if you won't, then remove my name from Your book.

                   The Lord answered, It is those who have sinned against Me whose names I will remove from My book. Now go, lead the people to the place I told you about. Remember that My angel will guide you, when I visit, I will visit their sin on them. So the Lord struck the people, because they had caused Aaron to make the gold bull-calf.

Exodus 33 

     

     The Lord said to Moses, Go from this place, you and the people you brought out of Egypt, and go to the land that I promised to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and to their descendants. I will send an angel to guide you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

     You are going to a rich and fertile land. But I will not go with you Myself, because you are a stiff-necked people, and I might consume you on the way.

     When the people heard this, they mourned and took off their jewels. For the Lord had commanded Moses to tell them, You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go with you even for a moment, I would consume you. Now take off your jewels and I will decide what to do with you. So the children of Israel stripped off their jewels by mount Horeb (Sinai).

     Whenever the people of Israel set up camp, Moses took the sacred tent and put it outside the camp. (it had been in the center). It was called the tent of the Lord's Presence, and anyone who wanted to consult the Lord would go out to it.

     When Moses went out to the sacred tent, the people would stand at the door of their tents and watch Moses until he entered it. After Moses had gone in, the pillar of cloud came down and stood at the door of the tent, and the Lord would speak to Moses from the cloud.

     When people saw the pillar of cloud at the door of the tent, they worshipped.

     The Lord spoke with Moses face-to-face, as one speaks with a friend. Then Moses returned to the camp. But his servant, Joshua, son of Nun, stayed in the Tent.

     Moses said to the Lord, You said, Bring these people to that land, but you didn’t tell me who you would send with me. You said you know me by name and have grace on me.  Now if I have found grace in your sight, show me the way, that I may know you and find grace in Your sight. And see that this nation is your people.

     The Lord said, I will go with you, and I will give you rest.

     Moses said, If you don’t go with us, don't carry us up from here. How will it be known that I and your people have found grace in Your sight if You don’t go with us? That’s what make us different from any other people on earth.

    The Lord said to Moses, I will do just as you have asked, for you have found grace in My sight and I know you.

     Then Moses said, Please show me Your glory. The Lord said, I will make all My goodness and all my essence pass before you and I will you show my sacred being. I am the Lord. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious and show love to whom I will show love.

      I will not let you see My face, because no one can see me and live, but here is a place beside Me where you can stand on a rock. When the dazzling light of My presence passes by, I will put you in an opening in the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed by. Then I will take My hand away, and you will see My back but not My face.

Exodus 35

 

     Moses called together the whole congregation of the people of Israel and said to them, This is what the Lord has commanded you to do. Six days do your work, but the seventh day is sacred, a solemn day of rest dedicated to me, the Lord. Anyone who does any work on that day is to be put to death. Don’t even light a fire in your homes on the Sabbath.

     Moses said to all the people of Israel, This is what the Lord has commanded: Take an offering to the Lord. Everyone who is willing, bring an offering of gold, silver, or bronze, fine linen of blue, purple, and red wool, cloth made of goats' hair, rams' skin dyed red, fine leather, acacia wood, oil for the lamps; spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet-smelling incense, carnelians and other jewels to be set in the High Priest's tunic and in his breastplate.

     All the wise hearted among you are to come and make everything that the Lord commanded: the tent, its covering and its outer covering, its hooks and its frames, its crossbars, its posts, and its bases, the covenant box, its poles, its lid, and its veil to cover it, the table, its poles, and all its equipment, the bread offered to God, the lampstand for the light and its equipment; the lamps with their oil, the altar for burning incense and its poles, the anointing oil, the sweet-smelling incense, the curtain for the entrance of the tent, the altar on which to burn offerings with its bronze grating attached, its poles, and all its equipment, the washbasin and its base, the curtains for the enclosure, its posts and bases; the curtain for the entrance of the enclosure, the tent pegs and ropes for the tent and the enclosure, and the holy garments when they serve in the Holy Place, the sacred clothes for Aaron the priest and for garments for his sons to minister in the priest’s office.

     All the people of Israel left the presence of Moses. And they came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whose spirit was willing, brought the Lord’s offering to the work of the sacred tent for all His service and for the holy garments.

     They came both men and women, everyone of a willing heart and brought everything needed for use in worship and for making the priestly garments. They brought decorative pins, earrings, rings, necklaces, and all kinds of gold jewelry and dedicated them to the Lord.

     Everyone who had fine linen; blue, purple, or red wool; cloth of goats' hair; rams' skin dyed red; or fine leather, brought it.  All who were able to contribute silver or bronze brought their offering for the Lord, and all who had acacia wood that could be used for any of the work brought it.

      All the wise hearted women brought fine linen thread and thread of blue, purple, and red wool, which they had made. They also made thread of goats' hair. The leaders brought carnelians and other jewels to be set in the tunic and the breastplate and spices and oil for the lamps, for the anointing oil, and for the sweet-smelling incense. All the people of Israel who were willing brought their offering to the Lord for the work which he had commanded Moses to do.

     Moses said to the children of Israel, The Lord has chosen Bezalel, the son of Uri and grandson of Hur from the tribe of Judah. God has filled him with his power and given him skill, ability, and understanding for every kind of artistic work, for planning skillful designs and working them in gold, silver, and bronze; for cutting jewels to be set; for carving wood; and for every other kind of artistic work.

     The Lord has given to him and to Oholiab son of Ahisamach, from the tribe of Dan, the ability to teach their crafts to others. He has given them skill in all kinds of work done by engravers, designers, and weavers of fine linen; blue, purple, and red wool and other cloth. They are able to do all kinds of work of skillful designs.

Exodus 36

 

 

     Bezalel worked, Oholiab, and all the other wise hearted men whom the Lord had given wisdom and understanding to know how to do everything needed for the sacred tent, just as the Lord had commanded.

     Moses called Bezalel, Oholiab, and all the other skilled men to whom the Lord had given ability and who were willing to help, and they received from him all the offerings which the Israelites had brought for constructing the sacred tent. But the people of Israel continued to bring Moses their offerings every morning. Then the skilled men who were doing the work told Moses, The people are bringing more than is needed for the work the Lord commanded to make. So Moses sent a command throughout the camp to make no more offerings for the sacred tent; so the people didn’t bring any more. For it was enough and more to make all the work.

     Every wise hearted man among them made the tent of the Lord's Presence. They made it out of ten pieces of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool and embroidered with figures of winged beings. Each piece was the same size, 14 yards long and 2 yards wide. They sewed five of them together in one set and did the same with the other five. They made loops of blue cloth on the edge of the outside piece in each set. They put fifty loops on the first piece of the first set and fifty loops matching them on the last piece of the second set. They made fifty gold hooks, to join the two sets into one piece.

     Then they made a cover for the tent out of eleven pieces of cloth made of goats' hair. They made them all the same size, 15 yards long and 2 yards wide. They sewed five of them together in one set and the other six in another set. They put fifty loops on the edge of the last piece of one set and fifty loops on the edge of the other set. They made fifty bronze hooks to join the two sets, forming one cover. 

     They made two more coverings, one of rams' skin dyed red and the other of fine leather, for an outer cover.

     They made upright frames of acacia wood for the tent. Each frame was 15 feet tall and 27 inches wide, with two matching projections, for the frames to be joined together. All the frames had these projections. They made twenty frames for the south side and forty silver bases to go under them, two bases under each frame to hold its two projections. They made twenty frames for the north side of the tent and forty silver bases, two under each frame.

     For the back of the tent, on the west, they made six frames and two frames for the corners. These corner frames were joined at the bottom and connected all the way to the top. The two frames that formed the two corners were made in this way. There were eight frames and sixteen silver bases, two under each frame.

     They made fifteen crossbars of acacia wood, five for the frames on one side of the tent, five for the frames on the other side, and five for the frames on the west end, at the back. 

     The middle crossbar, set halfway up the frames, extended from one end of the tent to the other. They covered the frames with gold and fitted them with gold rings to hold the crossbars, which were also covered with gold.

     They made a curtain of fine linen, woven with blue, purple, and red wool and embroidered it with figures of winged beings. They made four posts of acacia wood to hold the curtain, covered them with gold, and fitted them with gold hooks. Then they made four silver bases to hold the posts.

     For the entrance of the tent, they made a curtain of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool and decorated with embroidery. For this curtain they made five posts fitted with hooks, covered their tops and their rods with gold, and made five bronze bases for the posts.

Exodus 37

 

     Bezalel made the covenant box out of acacia wood, 45 inches long, 27 inches wide, and 27 inches high. He covered it with pure gold inside and out and put a gold border all around it. He made four carrying rings of gold for it and attached them to its four feet, with two rings on each side. He made carrying poles of acacia wood, covered them with gold, and put them through the rings on each side of the box. He made a lid of pure gold, 45 inches long and 27 inches wide. He made two four-winged beings of hammered gold, one for each end of the lid. He made them so that they formed one piece with the lid. The winged beings faced each other across the lid, and their outspread wings covered it.

     He made the table out of acacia wood, 36 inches long, 18 inches wide, and 27 inches high. He covered it with pure gold and put a gold border around it. He made a rim 3 inches wide around it and put a gold border around the rim. He made four carrying rings of gold for it and put them at the four corners, where the legs were. The rings to hold the poles for carrying the table were set near the rim. He made the poles of acacia wood and covered them with gold. He made the dishes of pure gold for the table: the plates, the cups, the jars, and the bowls to be used for the wine offering.

     He made the lampstand of pure gold. He made its base and its shaft of hammered gold, its decorative flowers, including buds and petals, formed one piece with it. Six branches extended from its sides, three from each side. Each of the six branches had three decorative flowers shaped like almond blossoms with buds and petals. The shaft of the lampstand had four decorative flowers shaped like almond blossoms with buds and petals. There was one bud below each of the three pairs of branches. The buds, the branches, and the lampstand were a single piece of pure hammered gold. He made seven lamps for the lampstand, and he made its tongs and trays of pure gold. He used seventy-five pounds of pure gold to make the lampstand and all its utensils.

     He made an altar out of acacia wood, for burning incense. It was square, 18 inches long and 18 inches wide, and it was 36 inches high. Its projections at the four corners formed one piece with it. He covered its top, all four sides, and its projections with pure gold and put a gold border around it. He made two gold carrying rings for it and attached them below the border on the two sides, to hold the poles with which it was to be carried. He made the poles of acacia wood and covered them with gold.

     He also made the sacred anointing oil and the pure sweet-smelling incense, mixed like perfume.

Exodus 38

 

     He made the altar for burning offerings, out of acacia wood. It was square, 7½ feet long and 7½ feet wide, and 4½ feet high. He made the projections at the top of the four corners formed as one piece with the altar. He covered it all with brass. He made all the utensils for the altar: the pans, the shovels, the bowls, the hooks, and the fire pans. All these utensils were made of brass. He made a brass grate and put it under the rim of the altar, so that it reached halfway up the altar. He made four carrying rings and put them on the four corners. He made carrying poles of acacia wood, covered them with brass, and put them in the rings on each side of the altar. He made the altar hollow with boards.

     He made the brass basin and its brass base out of the looking glasses belonging to the women fighting at the door of the tent of the Lord's Presence.

     He made the court for the tent of the Lord's Presence on the south side out of fine linen curtains 50 yards long, supported by twenty brass posts in twenty brass bases, with hooks of the pillars made of silver. The court for the north side was the same. On the west side the curtains were 25 yards long, with ten posts and ten bases and with hooks and pillars made of silver. 

     On the east side, where the entrance was, the court was 25 yards wide. On each side of the court were 7½ yards of curtains, with three posts and three bases. All the curtains around the enclosure were made of fine linen. The bases for the posts were made of brass, and the hooks, the pillars, and the covering of the tops of the posts were made of silver. All the posts around the court were connected with silver rods. The curtain for the entrance of the enclosure was made of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool and decorated with embroidery. It was 10 yards long and 7 feet high, like the curtains of the court. It was supported by four posts in four brass bases. Their hooks, the covering of their tops, and their pillars were made of silver. All the pegs for the tent and for the surrounding court were made of brass.

     The number of metals used in the tent of the Lord's Presence, where the two stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments were written, as commanded by Moses and counted by the Levites who worked under Ithamar son of Aaron the priest

And Bezalel, the son of Uri and grandson of Hur from the tribe of Judah, made everything that the Lord had commanded. His helper, Oholiab son of Ahisamach, from the tribe of Dan, was an engraver, a designer, and a weaver of fine linen and of blue, purple, and red wool.

     All the gold that had been dedicated to the Lord for the sacred tent weighed 2,195 pounds, weighed according to the official standard. The silver from the census of the community weighed 7,550 pounds, weighed according to the official standard. This amount, the total paid by all persons enrolled in the census, each one paying the required amount, weighed according to the official standard. 

     There were 603,550 men twenty years old or older enrolled in the census. Of the silver, 7,500 pounds were used to make the hundred bases for the sacred tent and for the curtain, 75 pounds for each base. With the remaining 50 pounds of silver Bezalel made the pillars, the hooks for the posts, and the covering for their tops. The brass which was dedicated to the Lord was 5,310 pounds. With it he made the bases for the door of the tent of the Lord's Presence, the brass altar with its brass grating, all the utensils for the altar, the bases for the surrounding court and for the door of the court, and all the pegs for the tent and the surrounding court.

Exodus 39

 

     Of the blue, purple, and red wool they made the sewn clothes the priests were to wear when they served in the Holy Place. They made the holy garments for Aaron, as the Lord commanded Moses.

     They made the tunic of fine linen; blue, purple, and red wool; and gold thread. They hammered out sheets of gold and cut them into thin strips to be worked into the fine linen and into the blue, purple, and red wool. They made two shoulder straps for the tunic and attached them to its sides, so that it could be fastened. The finely woven belt, made of the same materials, was attached to the tunic to form one piece, as the Lord had commanded Moses. They prepared the carnelians and set them in gold settings; they were engraved with the names of the twelve sons of Jacob. They put them on the shoulder straps of the tunic to represent the twelve tribes of Israel, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

     They made the breastplate of the same materials as the tunic and similar. It was square and folded double, 9 inches long and 9 inches wide. They set four rows of precious stones on it: in the first row they set a ruby, a topaz, and a garnet; in the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond; in the third row, a turquoise, an agate, and an amethyst; and in the fourth row, a beryl, a carnelian, and a jasper. These were set in gold settings. Each of the twelve stones had engraved on it the name of one of the sons of Jacob, in order to represent the twelve tribes of Israel. 

     For the breastplate they made chains of pure gold, twisted like cords. They made two gold settings and two gold rings and attached the two rings to the upper corners of the breastplate. They fastened the two gold cords to the two rings and joined the other two ends of the cords to the two settings and attached them in front to the shoulder straps of the tunic. They made two rings of gold and attached them to the lower corners of the breastplate, on the inside edge next to the tunic. They made two more gold rings and attached them to the lower part of the front of the two shoulder straps of the tunic, near the seam and above the finely woven belt. Just as the Lord had commanded Moses, they tied the rings of the breastplate to the rings of the tunic with a blue cord, so that the breastplate rested above the belt and did not come loose.

     The robe that goes under the ephod was made all of blue wool. The hole for the head was reinforced with a woven binding to keep it from tearing. All around its lower hem they put pomegranates of fine linen and of blue, purple, and red wool, alternating with bells of pure gold, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

     They made the coats for Aaron and his sons, and the turban, the caps, the linen pants, and the sash of fine linen and of blue, purple, and red wool, beautifully embroiders, as the Lord had commanded Moses. 

     They made the plate of the crown, the sacred sign of dedication, out of pure gold, and they engraved on it ‘Dedicated to the Lord.’ They tied it to the front of the turban with a blue cord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

     All the work on the tent of the Lord's presence was finally completed. The Israelites made everything just as the Lord had commanded Moses. They brought to Moses the tent and all its equipment, its hooks, its frames, its crossbars, its posts, and its bases; the covering of rams' skin dyed red; the covering of fine leather; the curtain; the covenant box containing the stone tablets, its poles, and its lid; the table and all its utensils, and the bread offered to God; the lampstand of pure gold, its lamps, all its utensils, and the oil for the lamps; the gold altar; the anointing oil; the sweet-smelling incense; the curtain for the entrance of the tent; the brass altar with its brass grating, its poles, and all its equipment; the washbasin and its base; the curtains for the court and its posts and bases; the curtain for the entrance of the court and its ropes; the tent pegs; all the equipment to be used in the tent; and the holy garments the priests were to wear in the Holy Place—the sacred clothes for Aaron the priest and for his sons. The Israelites had done all the work just as the Lord had commanded Moses. Moses examined everything and saw that they had made it all just as the Lord had commanded. And Moses blessed them.

 

Exodus 40

 

     The Lord said to Moses, On the first day of the first month set up the tent of the Lord's Presence. Put in it the covenant box containing the Ten Commandments and put the curtain in front of it. Bring in the table and arrange the utensils on it.

     Bring in the lampstand and set up the lamps on it. Put the gold altar for burning incense in front of the covenant box and hang the curtain at the entrance of the tent.

      Put in front of the tent the altar for burnt offerings. Put the washbasin between the tent and the altar and fill it with water. Put up the surrounding court and hang the curtain at its entrance.

     Anoint the tent with the sacred oil and all that is in it and it will be holy, and all that is in it will be holy. 

     Anoint the altar of the burnt offering and all its equipment and it will be holy. Anoint the washbasin and its base and sanctify it.

     Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of the congregation, and wash them with water. Put the holy garments on Aaron and anoint him to serve Me as priest.

     Bring his sons and put the coats on them. Then anoint them, as you anointed their father, to serve me in the priests office, anointing them to an everlasting priesthood.

     Moses did everything as the Lord had commanded.

     So on the first day of the first month of the second year after they left Egypt, the tent of the Lord's Presence was set up: Moses put down its bases, set up its frames, attached its crossbars, and put up its posts. He spread the covering over the tent and put the outer covering over it, just as the Lord had commanded.

     Then he took the two stone tablets and put them in the covenant box. He put the poles in the rings of the box and put the lid on it. Then he put the box in the tent and hung up the curtain/veil. In this way he screened off the covenant box, just as the Lord had commanded.

     He put the table in the tent, on the north side outside the curtain, and set the bread in order before the Lord offered, just as the Lord had commanded.

    He put the lampstand in the tent, on the south side, opposite the table, and there in the Lord's presence he lit the lamps, just as the Lord commanded. He put the gold altar in the tent, in front of the veil, and burned the sweet-smelling incense, as the Lord had commanded. He hung the curtain at the entrance of the tent, and in front of the curtain he put the altar for burnt offerings. On it he sacrificed the burnt offering and the grain offering, as the Lord had commanded.

     He put the washbasin between the tent and the altar and filled it with water.  Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and their feet there whenever they went into the tent or to the altar, as the Lord had commanded. 

     Moses set up the court around the tent and the altar and hung the curtain at the entrance of the court. Moses finished all the work.

     Then the cloud covered the tent and the glory of the Lord's Presence filled the tent. Moses could not go into the tent because the glory of the Lord dwelt there.

     The Israelites moved their camp to another place only when the cloud lifted from the tent. As long as the cloud stayed there, they didn’t move their camp.

     During all their wanderings they could see the cloud of the Lord's Presence over the tent during the day and a fire burning above it in the night.

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