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The sons of Israel came into Egypt with Jacob.
All of the descendants of Jacob were 70 in number.
A new king arose over Egypt, who did not care for the memory of Joseph.
The king of the Egyptians was afraid that the Israelites would continue to multiply, and if war would break out, they would join the Egyptians’ enemies, fight against them, and leave the land.
The taskmasters oppressed the Israelites with hard labor.
The more the Egyptians oppressed the Israelites, the more the Israelites increased in number and spread.
The king of Egypt told them that if the baby was male, then they must kill him.
The midwives feared God and so they did not do as the king of Egypt ordered them.
They said Hebrew women were vigorous and finished giving birth before a midwife came to them.
Pharaoh ordered all his people to throw every male Hebrew that is born into the river.
The woman of Levi hid her son for three months.
She sealed the papyrus basket with bitumen and pitch.
The baby’s sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.
Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river while her attendants walked along by the riverside.
The young girl went and got the child’s mother to nurse the child for Pharaoh’s daughter.
Pharaoh’s daughter named the child Moses.
Moses killed the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.
When two Hebrew men were fighting, Moses said to the one who was in the wrong, “Why are you hitting your companion?”
Pharaoh tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian.
Some shepherds came and tried to drive away the daughters of the priest of Midian.
When God heard the Israelites groaning, God called to mind his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Jethro, the priest of Midian, was Moses’ father-in-law.
The angel of Yahweh appeared to Moses in a flame of fire in a bush.
God called to Moses out of the bush.
God said, “Do not come any closer! Take off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you are standing is ground consecrated for my own purpose.”
Yahweh came down to free the Israelites from the Egyptians’ power and to bring them up from that land to a good, large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey.
Yahweh sent Moses to Pharaoh so that Moses would bring Yahweh’s people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.
The sign to Moses that Yahweh was sending him would be that when Moses had brought the people out of Egypt, he would worship Yahweh on this mountain.
When the Israelites would ask Moses what God’s name is, he should say, “I AM THAT I AM.”
The Israelites will go three days’ journey into the wilderness in order that they might sacrifice to Yahweh, their God.
The king of Egypt would not let the Israelites go unless his hand would be forced.
A staff was in Moses’ hand.
Moses’ staff became a snake when he threw it on the ground.
Moses should take the snake by the tail.
When Moses first brought his hand out from inside his robe, it was leprous.
Yahweh will be Moses’ mouth and teach him what to say.
When Aaron sees Moses, he will be glad in his heart.
Moses will be like God to Aaron.
Moses can return to Egypt, for all the men who were trying to take his life are dead.
Yahweh will harden Pharaoh’s heart so that Pharaoh will not let the people go.
Since Pharaoh has refused to let Yahweh’s firstborn son go, Yahweh will certainly kill Pharaoh’s firstborn son.
When they stopped for the night, Yahweh met Moses and tried to kill him.
Aaron met Moses at the mountain of God.
Aaron displayed the signs of Yahweh’s power in the sight of the people.
They should let Yahweh’s people go so they can have a festival for him in the wilderness.
The Israelites should go on a three-day journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to Yahweh their God so that he does not attack them with plague or with the sword.
Pharaoh gave a command to the people’s taskmasters and foremen to no longer give the Israelites straw to make bricks.
Although the Israelites must go and get straw wherever they can find it, their workload will not be reduced.
Pharaoh’s taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen, those same men whom they had put in charge of the workers.
It was the fault of Pharaoh’s own people that the Israelite foremen were beaten.
Moses and Aaron were standing outside the palace as they went away from Pharaoh.
Moses said the Lord caused trouble for the people of Israel.
Pharoah will let the people of Israel go because of Yahweh’s strong hand.
Yahweh appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty.
Yahweh has heard the groaning of the Israelites whom the Egyptians have enslaved, and he has called to mind his covenant.
Yahweh will give the land that he swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob to the Israelites as a possession.
Moses thinks Pharaoh will not listen to him because he is not good at speaking.
Kohath lived until he was 133 years old.
Amram married Jochebed, his father’s sister.
Elisheba bore Nadab and Abihu.
Aaron and Moses should bring out the Israelites from the land of Egypt by their groups of fighting men.
Yahweh has made Moses like a god to Pharaoh.
Yahweh will harden Pharaoh’s heart.
The Egyptians will know who Yahweh is when he reaches out with his hand on Egypt and brings out the Israelites from among them.
Moses’ staff will become a snake.
The staffs of Pharaoh’s wise men and sorcerers became snakes by their magic.
Moses should stand on the riverbank to meet Pharaoh.
The river will be turned to blood.
The Egyptians’ rivers, streams, pools and all their ponds and even the water in containers of wood and stone will be turned to blood.
Pharaoh’s heart was hardened.
The Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink.
If Pharaoh refused to let Yahweh’s people go, Yahweh would afflict all Pharaoh’s country with frogs.
The frogs will come up and go into Egyptians’ houses, bedrooms, and beds. They will go into their servants’ houses. They will go onto the people, into their ovens, and into their kneading bowls.
Aaron reached out with his hand over Egypt’s waters.
Moses gave Pharaoh the privilege of telling him when he should pray for Pharaoh, his servants, and his people so that the frogs may be removed from them and their houses and stay only in the river.
When Pharaoh saw that there was relief from the frogs, he hardened his heart and did not listen to Moses and Aaron.
All the dust on the ground became gnats throughout the whole land of Egypt.
The magicians were not able to produce lice.
The Egyptians’ houses will be full of swarms of flies, and even the ground on which they stand will be full of flies.
Yahweh would treat the land of Goshen differently, so that no swarms of flies would be there. This would happen so that Pharaoh would know that Yahweh is in the midst of this land.
The sacrifices the Israelites make to Yahweh their God are something disgusting to the Egyptians.
Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also.
Yahweh’s hand will be on the Egyptians’ cattle in the fields and on the horses, donkeys, camels, herds, and flocks.
Pharaoh’s heart was stubborn, so he did not let the people go.
Ashes from a furnace will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt.
The magicians could not resist Moses because of the blisters.
Yahweh did not attack Pharaoh and his people in order to show them His power, so that His name may be spread throughout all the earth.
Yahweh said that every man and animal that is in the field and is not brought home—the hail will come down on them, and they will die.
Those of Pharaoh’s servants who believed in Yahweh’s message hurried to bring their slaves and cattle into the houses.
Throughout all the land of Egypt, the hail struck everything in the fields, both people and animals. It struck every plant in the fields and broke every tree.
He said he has sinned this time. He said that Yahweh is righteous, and that he and his people are wicked.
The wheat and the spelt were not harmed, because they were later crops.
Yahweh hardened the hearts of Pharaoh and his servants to show these signs of his power among them. He also did this so that the Israelites might tell their children and grandchildren the things he has done.
Locusts will cover the surface of the ground so that no one will be able to see the earth.
Pharaoh said, “No! Go, just the men among you.”
The east wind brought the locusts.
Pharaoh said he has sinned against Yahweh, Moses’ God.
Not a single locust remained in all the territory of Egypt after Yahweh brought a very strong west wind.
During the three days of darkness, no one could see anyone else; no one left his home for three days.
Pharaoh said the flocks and herds must remain behind when the Israelites go to worship Yahweh.
Pharaoh said that on the day Moses would see his face, Moses would die.
Every Israelite man and woman should ask of his or her neighbor for jewels of silver and jewels of gold after the final plague.
Moses was very impressive in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants and the people of Egypt.
All the firstborn in the land of Egypt would die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the mill, and to all the firstborn of the animals.
There has never been such a great cry, nor ever will there be again.
On the tenth day of this month each family must take a lamb or young goat for themselves.
If the household is too small for a lamb, the man and his next door neighbor are to share a lamb or young goat so that the meat will be enough for the number of the people.
The whole assembly of Israel must kill these animals at twilight on the fourteenth day of this month.
They must eat it with bread made without yeast, along with bitter herbs.
They must not let any of it be left over until morning. They must burn whatever is left over in the morning.
When Yahweh sees the blood, he will pass over them, and the plague will not be on them.
Whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person must be cut off from Israel.
No work will be done on these days except the cooking for everyone to eat.
The Israelites must eat unleavened bread from twilight of the fourteenth day in the first month of the year until twilight of the twenty-first day of the month.
The Israelites should apply the blood in the basin to the top of the door frame and the two doorposts.
Yahweh will pass over someone’s door when he sees the blood on the top of the doorframe and on the two doorposts.
The Israelites were tell their children that their service was a sacrifice of Yahweh’s Passover, because Yahweh passed over the Israelites’ houses in Egypt when he attacked the Egyptians and rescued their households.
There was a great outcry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not someone dead.
The Israelites asked the Egyptians for jewels of silver, jewels of gold, and clothing.
The bread was without yeast because the Israelites had been driven out of Egypt and could not delay to prepare food.
They had been in Egypt 430 years.
No foreigner may share in eating the Passover.
If a foreigner lives with the Israelites and wants to observe the Passover for Yahweh, all his male relatives must be circumcised.
The firstborn were to be set apart to Yahweh.
The Israelites went out of Egypt in the month of Aviv.
This rescue will become reminders for the Israelites on their hands and reminders on their forehead so that Yahweh’s law may be in their speech.
Every firstborn donkey the Israelites must buy back with a lamb.
God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, for God said, “Perhaps the people will change their minds when they experience war and will then return to Egypt.”
Joseph had made the Israelites solemnly swear, “You must carry away my bones with you.”
By night he went in a pillar of fire to give them light. In this way they could travel by day and by night.
When the king of Egypt was told that the Israelites had fled, the minds of Pharaoh and his servants turned against the Israelites.
The Egyptians overtook the Israelites camping by the sea above Pi Hahiroth, before Baal Zephon.
They said it would have been better for them to work for the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.
Yahweh will fight for the Israelites, and they will only have to be quiet.
Yahweh will harden the Egyptians’ hearts so they will go after the Israelites.
The cloud was a dark cloud to the Egyptians, but it lit the night for the Israelites, so one side did not come near the other all night.
Yahweh drove the sea back by a strong east wind all that night.
In the early morning hours, Yahweh looked down on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and cloud.
Not one of Pharaoh’s soldiers survived crossing the sea.
When Israel saw the great power that Yahweh used against the Egyptians, the people honored Yahweh, and they trusted in Yahweh and in his servant Moses.
Yahweh has thrown the horse and its rider into the sea.
They went down into the depths like a stone.
By the breath of Yahweh’s nostrils the waters were piled up.
In his covenant faithfulness, Yahweh has led the people he has rescued. In his strength he has led them to the holy place where he lives.
The peoples will hear, and they will tremble.
Yahweh will bring the Israelites and plant them on the mountain of his inheritance, the place Yahweh has made to live in.
Miriam the prophetess and all the women played tambourines.
The Israelites could not drink the water at Marah because it was bitter.
Yahweh showed Moses a tree. Moses threw it into the water, and the water became sweet to drink.
The Wilderness of Sin is between Elim and Sinai.
They said Moses brought them out into this wilderness to kill their whole community with hunger.
The people will go out and gather a day’s portion every day so that Yahweh may test them to see whether or not they will walk in his law.
The Israelites will know Yahweh has brought them out from the land of Egypt when Yahweh gives them meat in the evening and bread in the morning to the full.
Yahweh’s glory appeared in the cloud.
The bread that Yahweh has given the Israelites to eat was small flakes as thin as frost.
When they measured it with an omer measure, those who had gathered much had nothing over, and those who had gathered little had no lack. Each person gathered enough to meet their need.
The bread from Yahweh that some of the Israelites left until morning bred worms and became foul.
On the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each person.
The bread of Yahweh that was set aside until the seventh day did not become foul, nor was there any worm in it.
When some of the people went out to gather manna on the seventh day, they found none.
Each of them must stay in his own place; no one must go out from his place on the seventh day.
Manna was food that was white like coriander seed, and its taste was like wafers with honey.
An omer of manna will be kept throughout the people’s generations so that their descendants might see the bread with which Yahweh fed them in the wilderness.
An omer of manna will be kept in a pot and stored beside the covenant decrees inside the ark.
The people of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to inhabited land.
There was no water for the people to drink, so the people blamed Moses for their situation and murmured against him.
Moses was afraid that the Israelites were ready to stone him.
Yahweh told Moses to strike the rock with his staff. Water would come out of the rock for the people to drink.
Moses stood on top of the hill with the staff of God in his hand.
While Moses was holding his hands up, Israel was winning. When he let his hands rest, Amalek would begin to win.
Aaron and Hur took a stone and put it under him for him to sit on. At the same time, Aaron and Hur held his hands up, one person on one side of him and the other person on the other side.
Yahweh told Moses to write about the battle in a book, because Yahweh will completely blot out the memory of Amalek from under the skies.
Jethro was the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law.
The sons of Moses were Gershom and Eliezer.
Moses was camped in the wilderness at the mountain of God when Jethro brought Moses’ sons and his wife to him.
He bowed down and kissed him.
Jethro rejoiced over all the good that Yahweh had done for Israel in that he had rescued them from the Egyptians’ power.
Jethro knew that Yahweh was greater than all the gods because when the Egyptians treated the Israelites arrogantly, God rescued his people.
Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat a meal before God with Moses’ father-in-law.
The people stood around Moses from morning until evening.
When they had a dispute, the people came to Moses to ask for God’s direction.
Jethro said that what Moses was doing was not very good because he would certainly wear himself out; the many people who came to him were a burden too heavy for him to carry alone.
Jethro told Moses to choose capable men from all the people, men who honor God, men of truth who hate unjust gain.
The capable men would judge the people in all routine cases, but the difficult cases they would bring to Moses. As for all the small cases, they could judge those themselves.
In the third month after the people of Israel had gone out from the land of Egypt, on the same day, they came to the wilderness of Sinai.
The Israelites must obediently listen to Yahweh’s voice and keep his covenant, then they would be his special possession from among all peoples.
Yahweh came to them in a thick cloud so that the people might hear when he spoke with them and might also believe Moses forever.
They were to consecrate themselves by preparing for Yahweh’s coming and by washing their garments.
Whoever touched the mountain would surely be put to death.
They were to stone or shoot the person who touched the mountain.
There were thunder and lightning bolts and a thick cloud on the mountain and the sound of a very loud trumpet, so all the people in the camp trembled.
The priests who come near to Yahweh should set themselves apart—prepare themselves for Yahweh’s coming—so that Yahweh would not attack them.
Only Aaron could come up the mountain with Moses.
They must have no other gods before him.
The Israelites must not make carved figures or bow down to them because Yahweh is a jealous God.
Yahweh punishes the ancestors’ wickedness by bringing punishment on their descendants to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate him.
They must not take the name of Yahweh their God in vain.
The Israelites must keep the Sabbath day holy and rest on it because Yahweh told them to set it apart for him.
The Israelites must not do any work, they, nor their son, nor their daughter, nor their male servant, nor their female servant, nor their cattle, nor the foreigner who is within their gates.
The Israelites must keep the Sabbath day holy and rest on it, for in six days Yahweh made the heavens, earth, and sea, and everything that is in them, and then rested on the seventh day.
The Israelites must honor their father and your mother so that they might live a long time in the land which Yahweh their God was giving them.
All the people saw the thundering and the lightning and heard the voice of the trumpet and saw the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled and stood far off.
They thought that if God spoke to them, they would die.
If they used their tools on the stone altar, they would defile it.
Moses must set the decrees before the Israelites.
If a master gave a servant a wife and she bore him sons or daughters, the wife and her children would belong to her master, and he must go free by himself.
If the servant would not go free, the master must bring him to a door or doorpost, and his master must bore his ear through with an awl. Then the servant would serve him for the rest of his life.
A master has no right to sell a female servant to a foreign people.
If a master’s son marries a female servant and then takes another wife for himself, he can not diminish her food, clothing, or her marital rights. But if he does not provide these three things for her, then she can go free without paying any money.
If the man killed someone by accident, Yahweh would appoint a place where he could flee.
Whoever acts contemptuously toward his father or his mother must surely be put to death.
If men fight and one hits the other with a stone or with his fist and the other is confined to his bed, the man who struck him must pay for the loss of his time.
If a man hits his male servant or his female servant with a staff, and if the servant lives for a day or two, the master must not be punished, for he will have suffered the loss of the servant.
If men fight together and hurt a pregnant woman so that she miscarries, but there is no other injury to her, then the guilty man must surely be fined if the woman’s husband demands it from him, and he must pay as the judges determine.
If there is serious injury, then the guilty man must give a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot, a burn for a burn, a wound for a wound, or a bruise for a bruise.
If a man hits the eye of his male servant or of his female servant and destroys it or if he knocks out a tooth of his male servant or female servant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.
If an ox had a habit of goring in the past, and its owner was warned but did not keep it in, and the ox kills a man or a woman, that ox must be stoned, and its owner also must be put to death.
If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it, the owner of the pit must repay the loss.
If one man’s ox hurts another man’s ox so that it dies, then they must sell the live ox and divide its price, and they must also divide the dead ox.
If the sun has risen before a thief breaks in, guilt for murder will attach to the person who kills him.
If a thief has nothing, then he must be sold for his theft.
If a man gives money or goods to his neighbor for safe keeping, and if it is stolen out of the man’s house, if the thief is found, that thief must pay double. But if the thief is not found, then the owner of the house must come before the judges to see whether he has put his own hand on his neighbor’s property.
If a man gives his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and if it dies or is hurt or is carried away without anyone seeing it, the other will make no restitution.
If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged, and if he sleeps with her, he must surely make her his wife by paying the bride wealth required for this.
The Israelites must not wrong a foreigner or oppress him, for they were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
If the Israelites mistreats them at all, and if they cry out to Yahweh, he will surely hear their cry. His anger will burn, and he will kill them with the sword; their wives will become widows, and their children will become fatherless.
If someone takes his neighbor’s garment in pledge, he must return it to him before the sun goes down.
The Israelites must not eat any meat that was torn by animals in the field. Instead, they must throw it to the dogs.
If the Israelites see the donkey of someone who hates them fallen to the ground under its load, they must not leave that person. They must surely help him with his donkey.
They should not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see, and perverts honest people’s words.
In the seventh year the Israelites should leave the fields unplowed and fallow so that the poor among their people may eat.
On the seventh day they must rest so that their ox and their donkey may have rest, and so that their female slave’s son and any foreigner may rest and be refreshed.
The Festival of Unleavened Bread was to be observed in the month of Aviv.
They came out of Egypt in the month of Aviv.
You must observe the Festival of Harvest with the first fruits of your labors when you sowed seed in the fields. Also you must observe the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year when you gather in your produce from the fields.
The fat from the sacrifices at Yahweh’s festivals must not remain all night until the morning.
If they provoke him, he will not pardon their transgressions.
They must completely overthrow them and smash their sacred stone pillars in pieces.
Yahweh would not drive them out in one year or the land would become abandoned, and the wild animals would become too many for them.
They must not live in the Israelites’ land, or they would make the Israelites sin against Yahweh.
Seventy elders should come up to worship Yahweh at a distance.
The 12 stones would represent the 12 tribes of Israel.
Moses took half of the blood of the oxen from the fellowship offerings to Yahweh and put it into basins; he splashed the other half onto the altar.
Yahweh made the covenant with the Israelites by sprinkling them with blood and giving them the promise with all the words.
Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders saw Yahweh.
Yahweh gave Moses the tablets of stone and the law and commandments that he had written so that Moses might teach them.
If anyone had a dispute, he should go to Aaron and Hur.
The appearance of Yahweh’s glory was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the Israelites.
The Israelites should take an offering from every person who is motivated by a willing heart.
The onyx stones and other precious stones were to be set for the ephod and breastpiece.
The Israelites would make Yahweh a sanctuary so that he might live among them.
He must cover it inside and out with pure gold.
He must put the poles into the rings on the box’es sides in order to carry the box.
The poles must remain in the rings of the box. They must not be taken from it.
The cherubim must face one another and look toward the center of the atonement lid.
Yahweh would speak with him from above the atonement lid, from between the two cherubim over the Box of the Testimony.
He must put a border of gold around the top of the table of acacia wood.
The rings must be attached to the frame to provide places for the poles in order to carry the table.
The dishes, spoons, pitchers, and bowls were to be used to pour out drink offerings.
Six branches must extend out from its sides—three branches must extend from one side, and three branches of the lampstand must extend from the other side.
On the lampstand itself, the central shaft, there must be four cups made like almond blossoms.
There must be a bulb under each pair of branches.
He must use one talent of pure gold to make the lampstand and its accessories.
Moses must have a very skilled craftsman make the Dwelling with ten curtains made from fine linen and blue, purple, and scarlet wool with the designs of cherubim.
He must make fifty loops on the first curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain in the second set so that the loops will be opposite to each other.
He must make curtains of goats’ hair for a tentlike covering over the Dwelling.
The overhanging part remaining from the tent’s curtains must hang at the back of the Dwelling.
There must be two projections called tenons in each board for joining the boards to each other.
There must be two bases under each board to be for its two tenons.
He must set up the Dwelling by following the plan God showed him on the mountain.
The curtain is to separate the Holy from the Holy of Holies.
The lampstand is opposite the table on the south side of the Dwelling.
He must make extensions of its four corners shaped like ox horns.
He must make all the utensils with bronze.
There must be hangings of fine twisted linen 100 cubits long on the south side of the courtyard.
All the equipment to be used in the Dwelling and all the tent pegs for the Dwelling and courtyard must be made of bronze.
Aaron and his sons must maintain the lamps from evening to morning before Yahweh. This requirement would be a lasting ordinance forever throughout the generations of the Israelite nation.
Aaron and his sons—Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar—would serve Yahweh as priests.
Craftsmen must use fine linen that is gold, blue, purple, and scarlet.
The names of Israel’s 12 sons must be engraved on two onyx stones.
The names of Israel’s twelve sons must be on the two onyx stones in the order of the sons’ births.
Aaron would carry their names on his two shoulders as a reminder to Yahweh.
The breastpiece for decision making must be square.
They must be mounted four rows of three each.
They must be mounted in gold settings.
He must attach the two golden chains to the two corners of the breastpiece.
He must tie the breastpiece by its rings to the ephod’s rings so that the breastplate might not separate from the ephod.
He must put in the breastpiece for decision-making the Urim and the Thummim.
The robe of the ephod must be made entirely of blue.
The robe is to be on Aaron when he serves so that the sound of its bells can be heard when he goes into the Holy Place before Yahweh and when he leaves. This is so that he does not die.
He would bear any guilt that might attach to the offering of the holy gifts that the Israelites consecrated by wearing the engraved plate on his turban.
He must make tunics, sashes, and headbands for the honor and splendor of Aaron’s sons.
The undergarments would cover from the waist to the thighs.
The following were to be brought to dedicate Aaron and his sons: one young bull and two rams without blemish, bread without yeast, and cakes without yeast mixed with oil, and wafers made with fine wheat flour without yeast rubbed with oil.
Moses must wash Aaron and his sons in water.
The work of the priesthood would belong to Aaron and his sons.
He must burn the fat that covers the inner parts and the covering of the liver and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, on the altar.
It would produce smoke with a sweet aroma for Yahweh.
He must put it on the tip of Aaron’s right ear, and on the tip of his sons’ right ears, on the thumb of their right hands, and on the great toe of their right feet. Then he must sprinkle blood against the altar on every side.
Moses was to sprinkle some of the blood from the altar and some of the anointing oil on Aaron, his sons and their garments.
The ram was for the priest’s consecration to Yahweh.
The breast of the offering that is raised high and the thigh of the offering that is presented must forever belong to Aaron and his descendants.
The next priest would come from among Aaron’s sons.
The ram for the consecration must be boiled in a holy place.
Whatever touches the altar will be the holy, the same as the altar.
He must offer one lamb in the morning and the other lamb at about sundown.
With the first lamb, a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of oil from pressed olives, and the fourth part of a hin of wine as a drink offering, must be offered.
The lambs had to be offered at the entrance to the Dwelling before Yahweh.
Yahweh would live among the Israelites and be their God.
The rings must be holders for poles to carry the altar.
Moses must put the incense altar before the curtain that is by the Box of the Testimony.
When Aaron lights the lamps again in the evening, he must burn incense on the incense altar. But no other incense must be offered on the incense altar.
Aaron must make atonement on the horns of the incense altar once a year.
Each person must give a ransom for his life to Yahweh so that there would be no plague among them when Moses counted them.
After Moses received the atonement money from the Israelites, he had to allocate it to the work of the Dwelling.
Moses must put it between the Dwelling and the altar.
When they go into the Dwelling or when they go near to the altar to serve Yahweh by burning an offering, they must wash with water.
The ingredients in holy anointing oil are 500 shekels of flowing myrrh, 250 shekels of sweet-smelling cinnamon, 250 shekels of sweet-smelling cane, 500 shekels of cassia, measured by the weight of the shekel of the sanctuary, and one hin of olive oil.
It must not be applied to people’s skin, nor must any oil like it with the same formula be made, because it is consecrated.
Whoever makes anything like it to use as a perfume must be cut off from his people.
Whoever makes anything like it to smell it must be cut off from his people.
Yahweh filled Bezalel with his spirit to give him wisdom, understanding, and knowledge for all kinds of craftsmanship, to make artistic designs and to work in gold, silver, and bronze; also to cut and set stones and to carve wood—to do all kinds of craftsmanship.
Yahweh put skill into the hearts of all who were wise so that they may make all that he commanded them.
Everyone who defiled the Sabbath must surely be put to death. Anyone who worked on the Sabbath must surely be cut off from his people.
The Sabbath would always be a sign between Yahweh and the Israelites, for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.
Yahweh gave Moses two tablets of covenant decrees written on by Yahweh’s own hand.
When the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and asked him to make an idol.
Aaron received the gold from them, fashioned it in a mold, and made it into a molded calf.
After the people offered burnt offerings and brought fellowship offerings, they sat down to eat and to drink, and then got up to carouse in wild celebration.
The people said the golden calf was the god who brought them up out of the land of Egypt.
Moses tried to calm down Yahweh his God.
Yahweh relented from the punishment that he had said he would inflict on his people.
The tablets were written on both their sides, on both the front and the back.
When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he thought there was the noise of combat in the camp.
He threw the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the bottom of the mountain.
Moses took the calf that the people had made, burned it, ground it to powder, and poured it into the water. Then he made the people of Israel drink it.
According to Aaron, the people gave him gold and he threw it into the fire, and out came the calf.
Aaron had let them get out of control.
When Moses commanded everyone on Yahweh’s side to come to him, all the Levites gathered around him.
The Levites did what Moses ordered, and about 3,000 men out of the people died.
They were placed into Yahweh’s service, for each of them acted against his brother.
Moses wanted Yahweh to blot him out of the book Yahweh had written if Yahweh would not forgive the people’s sin.
Yahweh sent a plague on the people because they had made the calf.
Yahweh would send an angel before Moses.
Yahweh would not go up with him, because they were a stubborn people. Yahweh might destroy them on the way.
They must take off their jewelry.
Whenever Moses entered the Dwelling, the pillar of cloud would come down and stand at the entrance, and Yahweh would speak with Moses.
Yahweh would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend.
Moses wanted Yahweh to show him his ways so that Moses might know him and continue to find favor in his sight.
It would be known that Moses found favor in Yahweh’s sight if Yahweh went with them so that they were different from all the other peoples that were on the surface of the earth.
Yahweh said he would be gracious to whom he would be gracious and that he would show mercy on whom he would show mercy.
Moses could not see Yahweh’s face, for no one could see him and live.
When Yahweh would take away his hand, Moses would see his back, but Yahweh’s face would not be seen.
Yahweh would write on the new tablets the words that were on the first tablets, the tablets that Moses broke.
No one besides Moses was allowed anywhere on the mountain.
When Yahweh came down in the cloud and stood with Moses, he pronounced the name “Yahweh.”
Yahweh would by no means clear the guilty.
Yahweh was about to make a covenant.
If they made a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where they were going, the inhabitants would become a trap among the Israelites.
They must worship no other god, for Yahweh, whose name is “Jealous,” is a jealous God.
If the Israelites ate some of the sacrifices of the inhabitants of the land, they would even take some of their daughters for their sons, and their daughters would commit adultery and go after their own gods, and they would make their sons commit adultery and go after their gods.
The Israelites must eat bread without yeast for seven days at the fixed time in the month of Aviv, for it was in the month of Aviv that the Israelites came out from Egypt.
If the Israelites did not buy back the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb, then they had to break its neck.
On the seventh day, the Israelites must rest. Even at plowing time and in harvest, they must rest.
All the men must appear before Yahweh three times every year.
No one would desire to invade the land and take it when the Israelites went up to appear before Yahweh three times every year.
They must bring the best of the first fruits from their fields to Yahweh’s house.
When Moses was with Yahweh for 40 days and nights, he did not eat any food nor drink any water.
When Aaron and the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face was shining, and they were afraid to come near him.
When Moses finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.
Whenever Moses went before Yahweh to speak with him, he would remove the veil.
They must not light a fire in any of their homes on the Sabbath day.
All who have a willing heart should take an offering for Yahweh.
All the tribes of Israel left and went away from Moses’ presence.
Everyone whose heart stirred him up and whom his spirit made willing came and brought an offering to Yahweh for the construction of the Dwelling.
Onyx stones and other gems were to be set into the ephod and the breastpiece.
Yahweh called by name on Bezalel, son of Uri, son of Hur, from the tribe of Judah.
Bezalel and Oholiab would work, as well as every wise-hearted person in whom Yahweh put skill and understanding to know how to build the sanctuary.
The people were still bringing freewill offerings every morning to Moses.
Moses instructed that no one in the camp should bring any more offerings for the construction of the sanctuary.
He made loops of blue along the outer edge of the end curtain of one set, and he did the same along the outer edge of the end curtain in the second set.
He made fifty gold clasps and joined the curtains together with them.
Bezalel made fifty bronze clasps to join the tentlike covering together so that it might be one.
There were two bases under each of the boards.
He made the crossbar in the center of the boards, that is, halfway up, to reach from end to end.
Bezalel covered the five pillars with gold.
Bezalel made the box of acacia wood.
He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the box in order to carry the ark.
The cherubim faced each another and looked toward the center of the atonement lid.
The dishes, spoons, the bowls, and pitchers to be used to pour out the offerings would be on the table.
Each branch had three cups made like almond blossoms, with a leafy base and a flower, and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, with a leafy base and a flower.
He made the lampstand and its accessories with one talent of pure gold.
A border of gold surrounded the incense altar.
Bezalel made the holy anointing oil and the pure fragrant incense.
The altar for burnt offerings was five cubits long and five cubits wide.
He made the altar hollow, out of planks.
The mirrors belonged to the women who served at the entrance to the Dwelling.
All the hangings around the courtyard were made of fine linen.
All the courtyard posts were covered with silver.
Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest, directed the Levites.
All the gold that was used for the project was 29 talents and 730 shekels, measured by the standard of the sanctuary shekel.
There were 603,550 men 20 years old and older counted in the census.
The waistband was from it, meaning made of one piece with the ephod.
Onyx stones were engraved with the names of Israel’s twelve sons.
There were four rows of precious stones on the breastpiece.
The braided chains connected the corners of the breastpiece to the two rings that were attached to the shoulder pieces of the ephod at its front.
They tied the breastpiece by its rings to the ephod’s rings with a blue cord so that it might be attached just above the ephod’s finely woven waistband. This was so that the breastpiece might not become detached from the ephod.
The robe of the ephod had an opening for the head in the middle.
They put the bells between the pomegranates all around on the bottom edge the robe.
They engraved “HOLY TO YAHWEH” on the plate of the holy crown of pure gold.
Moses examined all the work, and, behold, they had done it just as Yahweh had commanded.
On the first day of the first month of the new year, Moses must set up the Dwelling.
Moses must shield the box with the curtain.
Moses must put the large basin between the Dwelling and the altar.
Moses must anoint the bronze basin and its base to prepare it for service to Yahweh.
Moses put the testimony into the box.
Moses put the golden incense altar into the Dwelling in front of the curtain.
Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and their feet from the basin whenever they would go into the Dwelling and whenever they would go up to the altar.
Moses was not able to enter the Dwelling because the cloud had settled on it and because Yahweh’s glory filled the Dwelling.
Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Dwelling, the people of Israel would set out on their journey.