| Genesis 1:1 |
When God began to create heaven and earth— |
| Genesis 1:2 |
the earth being unformed and void, with darkness over the surface of the deep and a wind from God sweeping over the water— |
| Genesis 1:3 |
God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. |
| Genesis 1:4 |
God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness. |
| Genesis 1:5 |
God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, a first day. |
| Genesis 1:6 |
God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the water, that it may separate water from water.” |
| Genesis 1:7 |
God made the expanse, and it separated the water which was below the expanse from the water which was above the expanse. And it was so. |
| Genesis 1:8 |
God called the expanse Sky. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day. |
| Genesis 1:9 |
God said, “Let the water below the sky be gathered into one area, that the dry land may appear.” And it was so. |
| Genesis 1:10 |
God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering of waters He called Seas. And God saw that this was good. |
| Genesis 1:11 |
And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation: seed-bearing plants, fruit trees of every kind on earth that bear fruit with the seed in it.” And it was so. |
| Genesis 1:12 |
The earth brought forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants of every kind, and trees of every kind bearing fruit with the seed in it. And God saw that this was good. |
| Genesis 1:13 |
And there was evening and there was morning, a third day. |
| Genesis 1:14 |
God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate day from night; they shall serve as signs for the set times—the days and the years; |
| Genesis 1:15 |
and they shall serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth.” And it was so. |
| Genesis 1:16 |
God made the two great lights, the greater light to dominate the day and the lesser light to dominate the night, and the stars. |
| Genesis 1:17 |
And God set them in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth, |
| Genesis 1:18 |
to dominate the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that this was good. |
| Genesis 1:19 |
And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day. |
| Genesis 1:20 |
God said, “Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and birds that fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.” |
| Genesis 1:21 |
God created the great sea monsters, and all the living creatures of every kind that creep, which the waters brought forth in swarms, and all the winged birds of every kind. And God saw that this was good. |
| Genesis 1:22 |
God blessed them, saying, “Be fertile and increase, fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” |
| Genesis 1:23 |
And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. |
| Genesis 1:24 |
God said, “Let the earth bring forth every kind of living creature: cattle, creeping things, and wild beasts of every kind.” And it was so. |
| Genesis 1:25 |
God made wild beasts of every kind and cattle of every kind, and all kinds of creeping things of the earth. And God saw that this was good. |
| Genesis 1:26 |
And God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. They shall rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the cattle, the whole earth, and all the creeping things that creep on earth.” |
| Genesis 1:27 |
And God created man in His image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. |
| Genesis 1:28 |
God blessed them and God said to them, “Be fertile and increase, fill the earth and master it; and rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and all the living things that creep on earth.” |
| Genesis 1:29 |
God said, “See, I give you every seed-bearing plant that is upon all the earth, and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit; they shall be yours for food. |
| Genesis 1:30 |
And to all the animals on land, to all the birds of the sky, and to everything that creeps on earth, in which there is the breath of life, [I give] all the green plants for food.” And it was so. |
| Genesis 1:31 |
And God saw all that He had made, and found it very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. |
| Genesis 2:1 |
The heaven and the earth were finished, and all their array. |
| Genesis 2:2 |
On the seventh day God finished the work that He had been doing, and He ceased on the seventh day from all the work that He had done. |
| Genesis 2:3 |
And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because on it God ceased from all the work of creation that He had done. |
| Genesis 2:4* |
Such is the story of heaven and earth when they were created. |
| Genesis 5:1 |
This is the record of Adam’s line.—When God created man, He made him in the likeness of God; |
| Genesis 5:2 |
male and female He created them. And when they were created, He blessed them and called them Man.— |
| Genesis 5:3 |
When Adam had lived 130 years, he begot a son in his likeness after his image, and he named him Seth. |
| Genesis 5:4 |
After the birth of Seth, Adam lived 800 years and begot sons and daughters. |
| Genesis 5:5 |
All the days that Adam lived came to 930 years; then he died. |
| Genesis 5:6 |
When Seth had lived 105 years, he begot Enosh. |
| Genesis 5:7 |
After the birth of Enosh, Seth lived 807 years and begot sons and daughters. |
| Genesis 5:8 |
All the days of Seth came to 912 years; then he died. |
| Genesis 5:9 |
When Enosh had lived 90 years, he begot Kenan. |
| Genesis 5:10 |
After the birth of Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years and begot sons and daughters. |
| Genesis 5:11 |
All the days of Enosh came to 905 years; then he died. |
| Genesis 5:12 |
When Kenan had lived 70 years, he begot Mahalalel. |
| Genesis 5:13 |
After the birth of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years and begot sons and daughters. |
| Genesis 5:14 |
All the days of Kenan came to 910 years; then he died. |
| Genesis 5:15 |
When Mahalalel had lived 65 years, he begot Jared. |
| Genesis 5:16 |
After the birth of Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years and begot sons and daughters. |
| Genesis 5:17 |
All the days of Mahalalel came to 895 years; then he died. |
| Genesis 5:18 |
When Jared had lived 162 years, he begot Enoch. |
| Genesis 5:19 |
After the birth of Enoch, Jared lived 800 years and begot sons and daughters. |
| Genesis 5:20 |
All the days of Jared came to 962 years; then he died. |
| Genesis 5:21 |
When Enoch had lived 65 years, he begot Methuselah. |
| Genesis 5:22 |
After the birth of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years; and he begot sons and daughters. |
| Genesis 5:23 |
All the days of Enoch came to 365 years. |
| Genesis 5:24 |
Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, for God took him. |
| Genesis 5:25 |
When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he begot Lamech. |
| Genesis 5:26 |
After the birth of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and begot sons and daughters. |
| Genesis 5:27 |
All the days of Methuselah came to 969 years; then he died. |
| Genesis 5:28 |
When Lamech had lived 182 years, he begot a son. |
| Genesis 5:29 |
And he named him Noah, saying, “This one will provide us relief from our work and from the toil of our hands, out of the very soil which the LORD placed under a curse.” |
| Genesis 5:30 |
After the birth of Noah, Lamech lived 595 years and begot sons and daughters. |
| Genesis 5:31 |
All the days of Lamech came to 777 years; then he died. |
| Genesis 5:32 |
When Noah had lived 500 years, Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth. |
| Genesis 6:9* |
This is the line of Noah. Noah walked with God. |
| Genesis 6:10 |
Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. |
| Genesis 6:11 |
The earth became corrupt before God; the earth was filled with lawlessness. |
| Genesis 6:12 |
When God saw how corrupt the earth was, for all flesh had corrupted its ways on earth, |
| Genesis 6:13 |
God said to Noah, “I have decided to put an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with lawlessness because of them: I am about to destroy them with the earth. |
| Genesis 6:14 |
Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; make it an ark with compartments, and cover it inside and out with pitch. |
| Genesis 6:15 |
This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. |
| Genesis 6:16 |
Make an opening for daylight in the ark, and terminate it within a cubit of the top. Put the entrance to the ark in its side; make it with bottom, second, and third decks. |
| Genesis 6:17 |
“For My part, I am about to bring the Flood—waters upon the earth—to destroy all flesh under the sky in which there is breath of life; everything on earth shall perish. |
| Genesis 6:18 |
But I will establish My covenant with you, and you shall enter the ark, with your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives. |
| Genesis 6:19 |
And of all that lives, of all flesh, you shall take two of each into the ark to keep alive with you; they shall be male and female. |
| Genesis 6:20 |
From birds of every kind, cattle of every kind, every kind of creeping thing on earth, two of each shall come to you to stay alive. |
| Genesis 6:21 |
For your part, take of everything that is eaten and store it away, to serve as food for you and for them.” |
| Genesis 6:22 |
Noah did so; just as God commanded him, so he did. |
| Genesis 7:6 |
Noah was six hundred years old when the Flood came, waters upon the earth. |
| Genesis 7:7 |
Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the Flood. |
| Genesis 7:11 |
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day/All the fountains of the great deep burst apart,/And the floodgates of the sky broke open. |
| Genesis 7:13 |
That same day Noah and Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, went into the ark, with Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons— |
| Genesis 7:14 |
they and all beasts of every kind, all cattle of every kind, all creatures of every kind that creep on the earth, and all birds of every kind, every bird, every winged thing. |
| Genesis 7:15 |
They came to Noah into the ark, two each of all flesh in which there was breath of life. |
| Genesis 7:16 |
Thus they that entered comprised male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him. And the LORD shut him in. |
| Genesis 7:17 |
The Flood continued forty days on the earth, and the waters increased and raised the ark so that it rose above the earth. |
| Genesis 7:18 |
The waters swelled and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark drifted upon the waters. |
| Genesis 7:19 |
When the waters had swelled much more upon the earth, all the highest mountains everywhere under the sky were covered. |
| Genesis 7:20 |
Fifteen cubits higher did the waters swell, as the mountains were covered. |
| Genesis 7:21 |
And all flesh that stirred on earth perished—birds, cattle, beasts, and all the things that swarmed upon the earth, and all mankind. |
| Genesis 7:22 |
All in whose nostrils was the merest breath of life, all that was on dry land, died. |
| Genesis 7:24 |
And when the waters had swelled on the earth one hundred and fifty days, |
| Genesis 8:1 |
God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark, and God caused a wind to blow across the earth, and the waters subsided. |
| Genesis 8:2 |
The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were stopped up, and the rain from the sky was held back; |
| Genesis 8:3 |
the waters then receded steadily from the earth. At the end of one hundred and fifty days the waters diminished, |
| Genesis 8:4 |
so that in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. |
| Genesis 8:5 |
The waters went on diminishing until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible. |
| Genesis 8:6 |
At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made |
| Genesis 8:7 |
and sent out the raven; it went to and fro until the waters had dried up from the earth. |
| Genesis 8:13 |
In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the waters began to dry from the earth; and when Noah removed the covering of the ark, he saw that the surface of the ground was drying. |
| Genesis 8:14 |
And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. |
| Genesis 8:15 |
God spoke to Noah, saying, |
| Genesis 8:16 |
“Come out of the ark, together with your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives. |
| Genesis 8:17 |
Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds, animals, and everything that creeps on earth; and let them swarm on the earth and be fertile and increase on earth.” |
| Genesis 8:18 |
So Noah came out, together with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives. |
| Genesis 8:19 |
Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that stirs on earth came out of the ark by families. |
| Genesis 9:1 |
God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fertile and increase, and fill the earth. |
| Genesis 9:2 |
The fear and the dread of you shall be upon all the beasts of the earth and upon all the birds of the sky—everything with which the earth is astir—and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hand. |
| Genesis 9:3 |
Every creature that lives shall be yours to eat; as with the green grasses, I give you all these. |
| Genesis 9:4 |
You must not, however, eat flesh with its life-blood in it. |
| Genesis 9:5 |
But for your own life-blood I will require a reckoning: I will require it of every beast; of man, too, will I require a reckoning for human life, of every man for that of his fellow man! |
| Genesis 9:6 |
Whoever sheds the blood of man,/By man shall his blood be shed;/For in His image/Did God make man. |
| Genesis 9:7 |
Be fertile, then, and increase; abound on the earth and increase on it.” |
| Genesis 9:8 |
And God said to Noah and to his sons with him, |
| Genesis 9:9 |
“I now establish My covenant with you and your offspring to come, |
| Genesis 9:10 |
and with every living thing that is with you—birds, cattle, and every wild beast as well—all that have come out of the ark, every living thing on earth. |
| Genesis 9:11 |
I will maintain My covenant with you: never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” |
| Genesis 9:12 |
God further said, “This is the sign that I set for the covenant between Me and you, and every living creature with you, for all ages to come. |
| Genesis 9:13 |
I have set My bow in the clouds, and it shall serve as a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. |
| Genesis 9:14 |
When I bring clouds over the earth, and the bow appears in the clouds, |
| Genesis 9:15 |
I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature among all flesh, so that the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. |
| Genesis 9:16 |
When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures, all flesh that is on earth. |
| Genesis 9:17 |
That,” God said to Noah, “shall be the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and all flesh that is on earth.” |
| Genesis 9:28 |
Noah lived after the Flood 350 years. |
| Genesis 9:29 |
And all the days of Noah came to 950 years; then he died. |
| Genesis 10:1* |
These are the lines of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah |
| Genesis 10:2 |
The descendants of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. |
| Genesis 10:3 |
The descendants of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. |
| Genesis 10:4 |
The descendants of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, the Kittim and the Dodanim. |
| Genesis 10:5 |
From these the maritime nations branched out. [These are the descendants of Japheth] by their lands—each with its language—their clans and their nations. |
| Genesis 10:6 |
The descendants of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. |
| Genesis 10:7 |
The descendants of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The descendants of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. |
| Genesis 10:20 |
These are the descendants of Ham, according to their clans and languages, by their lands and nations. |
| Genesis 10:22 |
The descendants of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. |
| Genesis 10:23 |
The descendants of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. |
| Genesis 10:31 |
These are the descendants of Shem according to their clans and languages, by their lands, according to their nations. |
| Genesis 10:32 |
These are the groupings of Noah’s descendants, according to their origins, by their nations; and from these the nations branched out over the earth after the Flood. |
| Genesis 11:10 |
This is the line of Shem. Shem was 100 years old when he begot Arpachshad, two years after the Flood. |
| Genesis 11:11 |
After the birth of Arpachshad, Shem lived 500 years and begot sons and daughters. |
| Genesis 11:12 |
When Arpachshad had lived 35 years, he begot Shelah. |
| Genesis 11:13 |
After the birth of Shelah, Arpachshad lived 403 years and begot sons and daughters. |
| Genesis 11:14 |
When Shelah had lived 30 years, he begot Eber. |
| Genesis 11:15 |
After the birth of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and begot sons and daughters. |
| Genesis 11:16 |
When Eber had lived 34 years, he begot Peleg. |
| Genesis 11:17 |
After the birth of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and begot sons and daughters. |
| Genesis 11:18 |
When Peleg had lived 30 years, he begot Reu. |
| Genesis 11:19 |
After the birth of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and begot sons and daughters. |
| Genesis 11:20 |
When Reu had lived 32 years, he begot Serug. |
| Genesis 11:21 |
After the birth of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and begot sons and daughters. |
| Genesis 11:22 |
When Serug had lived 30 years, he begot Nahor. |
| Genesis 11:23 |
After the birth of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and begot sons and daughters. |
| Genesis 11:24 |
When Nahor had lived 29 years, he begot Terah. |
| Genesis 11:25 |
After the birth of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and begot sons and daughters. |
| Genesis 11:26 |
When Terah had lived 70 years, he begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. |
| Genesis 11:27 |
Now this is the line of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot. |
| Genesis 11:28 |
Haran died in the lifetime of his father Terah, in his native land, Ur of the Chaldeans. |
| Genesis 11:31 |
Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan; but when they had come as far as Haran, they settled there. |
| Genesis 11:32 |
The days of Terah came to 205 years; and Terah died in Haran. |
| Genesis 12:4* |
Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. |
| Genesis 12:5 |
Abram took his wife Sarai and his brother’s son Lot, and all the wealth that they had amassed, and the persons that they had acquired in Haran; and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they arrived in the land of Canaan, |
| Genesis 13:6 |
so that the land could not support them staying together; for their possessions were so great that they could not remain together. |
| Genesis 13:12* |
Abram remained in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled in the cities of the Plain |
| Genesis 16:1 |
Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. She had an Egyptian maidservant whose name was Hagar. |
| Genesis 16:3 |
So Sarai, Abram’s wife, took her maid, Hagar the Egyptian—after Abram had dwelt in the land of Canaan ten years—and gave her to her husband Abram as concubine. |
| Genesis 16:15 |
Hagar bore a son to Abram, and Abram gave the son that Hagar bore him the name Ishmael. |
| Genesis 16:16 |
Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram. |
| Genesis 17:1 |
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am El Shaddai. Walk in My ways and be blameless. |
| Genesis 17:2 |
I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will make you exceedingly numerous.” |
| Genesis 17:3 |
Abram threw himself on his face; and God spoke to him further, |
| Genesis 17:4 |
“As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You shall be the father of a multitude of nations. |
| Genesis 17:5 |
And you shall no longer be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I make you the father of a multitude of nations. |
| Genesis 17:6 |
I will make you exceedingly fertile, and make nations of you; and kings shall come forth from you. |
| Genesis 17:7 |
I will maintain My covenant between Me and you, and your offspring to come, as an everlasting covenant throughout the ages, to be God to you and to your offspring to come. |
| Genesis 17:8 |
I assign the land you sojourn in to you and your offspring to come, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting holding. I will be their God.” |
| Genesis 17:9 |
God further said to Abraham, “As for you, you and your offspring to come throughout the ages shall keep My covenant. |
| Genesis 17:10 |
Such shall be the covenant between Me and you and your offspring to follow which you shall keep: every male among you shall be circumcised. |
| Genesis 17:11 |
You shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and that shall be the sign of the covenant between Me and you. |
| Genesis 17:12 |
And throughout the generations, every male among you shall be circumcised at the age of eight days. As for the homeborn slave and the one bought from an outsider who is not of your offspring, |
| Genesis 17:13 |
they must be circumcised, homeborn and purchased alike. Thus shall My covenant be marked in your flesh as an everlasting pact. |
| Genesis 17:14 |
And if any male who is uncircumcised fails to circumcise the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his kin; he has broken My covenant.” |
| Genesis 17:15 |
And God said to Abraham, “As for your wife Sarai, you shall not call her Sarai, but her name shall be Sarah. |
| Genesis 17:16 |
I will bless her; indeed, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she shall give rise to nations; rulers of peoples shall issue from her.” |
| Genesis 17:17 |
Abraham threw himself on his face and laughed, as he said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man a hundred years old, or can Sarah bear a child at ninety?” |
| Genesis 17:18 |
And Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live by Your favor!” |
| Genesis 17:19 |
God said, “Nevertheless, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall name him Isaac; and I will maintain My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring to come. |
| Genesis 17:20 |
As for Ishmael, I have heeded you. I hereby bless him. I will make him fertile and exceedingly numerous. He shall be the father of twelve chieftains, and I will make of him a great nation. |
| Genesis 17:21 |
But My covenant I will maintain with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this season next year.” |
| Genesis 17:22 |
And when He was done speaking with him, God was gone from Abraham. |
| Genesis 17:23 |
Then Abraham took his son Ishmael, and all his homeborn slaves and all those he had bought, every male in Abraham’s household, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins on that very day, as God had spoken to him. |
| Genesis 17:24 |
Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin, |
| Genesis 17:25 |
and his son Ishmael was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. |
| Genesis 17:26 |
Thus Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on that very day; |
| Genesis 17:27 |
and all his household, his homeborn slaves and those that had been bought from outsiders, were circumcised with him. |
| Genesis 19:29 |
Thus it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain and annihilated the cities where Lot dwelt, God was mindful of Abraham and removed Lot from the midst of the upheaval. |
| Genesis 21:2 |
Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken. |
| Genesis 21:3 |
Abraham gave his newborn son, whom Sarah had borne him, the name of Isaac. |
| Genesis 21:4 |
And when his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him. |
| Genesis 21:5 |
Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. |
| Genesis 23:1 |
Sarah’s lifetime—the span of Sarah’s life—came to one hundred and twenty-seven years. |
| Genesis 23:2 |
Sarah died in Kiriath-arba—now Hebron—in the land of Canaan; and Abraham proceeded to mourn for Sarah and to bewail her. |
| Genesis 23:3 |
Then Abraham rose from beside his dead, and spoke to the Hittites, saying, |
| Genesis 23:4 |
“I am a resident alien among you; sell me a burial site among you, that I may remove my dead for burial.” |
| Genesis 23:5 |
And the Hittites replied to Abraham, saying to him, |
| Genesis 23:6 |
“Hear us, my lord: you are the elect of God among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our burial places; none of us will withhold his burial place from you for burying your dead.” |
| Genesis 23:7 |
Thereupon Abraham bowed low to the people of the land, the Hittites, |
| Genesis 23:8 |
and he said to them, “If it is your wish that I remove my dead for burial, you must agree to intercede for me with Ephron son of Zohar. |
| Genesis 23:9 |
Let him sell me the cave of Machpelah that he owns, which is at the edge of his land. Let him sell it to me, at the full price, for a burial site in your midst.” |
| Genesis 23:10 |
Ephron was present among the Hittites; so Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites, all who entered the gate of his town, saying, |
| Genesis 23:11 |
“No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field and I give you the cave that is in it; I give it to you in the presence of my people. Bury your dead.” |
| Genesis 23:12 |
Then Abraham bowed low before the people of the land, |
| Genesis 23:13 |
and spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying, “If only you would hear me out! Let me pay the price of the land; accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there.” |
| Genesis 23:14 |
And Ephron replied to Abraham, saying to him, |
| Genesis 23:15 |
“My lord, do hear me! A piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver—what is that between you and me? Go and bury your dead.” |
| Genesis 23:16 |
Abraham accepted Ephron’s terms. Abraham paid out to Ephron the money that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites—four hundred shekels of silver at the going merchants’ rate. |
| Genesis 23:17 |
So Ephron’s land in Machpelah, near Mamre—the field with its cave and all the trees anywhere within the confines of that field—passed |
| Genesis 23:18 |
to Abraham as his possession, in the presence of the Hittites, of all who entered the gate of his town. |
| Genesis 23:19 |
And then Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre—now Hebron—in the land of Canaan. |
| Genesis 23:20 |
Thus the field with its cave passed from the Hittites to Abraham, as a burial site. |
| Genesis 25:7 |
This was the total span of Abraham’s life: one hundred and seventy-five years. |
| Genesis 25:8 |
And Abraham breathed his last, dying at a good ripe age, old and contented; and he was gathered to his kin. |
| Genesis 25:9 |
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite, facing Mamre, |
| Genesis 25:10 |
the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites; there Abraham was buried, and Sarah his wife. |
| Genesis 25:11* |
After the death of Abraham, God blessed his son Isaac. |
| Genesis 25:12 |
This is the line of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s slave, bore to Abraham. |
| Genesis 25:13 |
These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, in the order of their birth: Nebaioth, the first-born of Ishmael, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, |
| Genesis 25:14 |
Mishma, Dumah, Massa, |
| Genesis 25:15 |
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedmah. |
| Genesis 25:16 |
These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names by their villages and by their encampments: twelve chieftains of as many tribes.— |
| Genesis 25:17 |
These were the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred and thirty-seven years; then he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his kin.— |
| Genesis 25:18 |
They dwelt from Havilah, by Shur, which is close to Egypt, all the way to Asshur; they camped alongside all their kinsmen. |
| Genesis 25:19 |
This is the story of Isaac, son of Abraham. Abraham begot Isaac. |
| Genesis 25:20 |
Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, sister of Laban the Aramean. |
| Genesis 25:26* |
Isaac was sixty years old when they were born. |
| Genesis 26:13 |
and the man grew richer and richer until he was very wealthy: |
| Genesis 26:14 |
he acquired flocks and herds, and a large household, so that the Philistines envied him. |
| Genesis 26:15 |
And the Philistines stopped up all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham, filling them with earth. |
| Genesis 26:18 |
Isaac dug anew the wells which had been dug in the days of his father Abraham and which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham’s death; and he gave them the same names that his father had given them. |
| Genesis 26:34 |
When Esau was forty years old, he took to wife Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite; |
| Genesis 26:35 |
and they were a source of bitterness to Isaac and Rebekah./ |
| Genesis 27:46 |
Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am disgusted with my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob marries a Hittite woman like these, from among the native women, what good will life be to me?” |
| Genesis 28:1 |
So Isaac sent for Jacob and blessed him. He instructed him, saying, “You shall not take a wife from among the Canaanite women. |
| Genesis 28:2 |
Up, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and take a wife there from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. |
| Genesis 28:3 |
May El Shaddai bless you, make you fertile and numerous, so that you become an assembly of peoples. |
| Genesis 28:4 |
May He grant the blessing of Abraham to you and your offspring, that you may possess the land where you are sojourning, which God assigned to Abraham.” |
| Genesis 28:5 |
Then Isaac sent Jacob off, and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban the son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, mother of Jacob and Esau. |
| Genesis 28:6 |
When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there, charging him, as he blessed him, “You shall not take a wife from among the Canaanite women,” |
| Genesis 28:7 |
and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram, |
| Genesis 28:8 |
Esau realized that the Canaanite women displeased his father Isaac. |
| Genesis 28:9 |
So Esau went to Ishmael and took to wife, in addition to the wives he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, sister of Nebaioth. |
| Genesis 30:43 |
So the man grew exceedingly prosperous, and came to own large flocks, maidservants and menservants, camels and asses. |
| Genesis 31:17 |
Thereupon Jacob put his children and wives on camels; |
| Genesis 31:18 |
and he drove off all his livestock and all the wealth that he had amassed, the livestock in his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan. |
| Genesis 33:18* |
[Jacob came to [Luz], (which is in the land of Canaan) when he was coming from Paddan Aram and he settled in front of the city.] |
| Genesis 35:9 |
God appeared again to Jacob on his arrival from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him. |
| Genesis 35:10 |
God said to him,/“You whose name is Jacob,/You shall be called Jacob no more,/But Israel shall be your name.”/Thus He named him Israel. |
| Genesis 35:11 |
And God said to him,/“I am El Shaddai./Be fertile and increase;/A nation, yea an assembly of nations,/Shall descend from you./Kings shall issue from your loins. |
| Genesis 35:12 |
The land that I assigned to Abraham and Isaac/I assign to you;/And to your offspring to come/Will I assign the land.” |
| Genesis 35:13 |
God parted from him at the spot where He had spoken to him; |
| Genesis 35:15 |
Jacob gave the site, where God had spoken to him, the name of Bethel. |
| Genesis 35:16* |
They set out from Bethel; but when they were still some distance short of Ephrath, |
| Genesis 35:19* |
[Rachel died.] She was buried on the road to Ephrath—now Bethlehem. |
| Genesis 35:22* |
Now the sons of Jacob were twelve in number. |
| Genesis 35:23 |
The sons of Leah: Reuben—Jacob’s first-born—Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. |
| Genesis 35:24 |
The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. |
| Genesis 35:25 |
The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s maid: Dan and Naphtali. |
| Genesis 35:26 |
And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s maid: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram. |
| Genesis 35:27 |
And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba—now Hebron—where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned. |
| Genesis 35:28 |
Isaac was a hundred and eighty years old |
| Genesis 35:29 |
when he breathed his last and died. He was gathered to his kin in ripe old age; and he was buried by his sons Esau and Jacob. |
| Genesis 36:1 |
This is the line of Esau—that is, Edom. |
| Genesis 36:2 |
Esau took his wives from among the Canaanite women—Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah daughter of Anah daughter of Zibeon the Hivite— |
| Genesis 36:3 |
and also Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth. |
| Genesis 36:4 |
Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz; Basemath bore Reuel; |
| Genesis 36:5 |
and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. Those were the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan. |
| Genesis 36:6 |
Esau took his wives, his sons and daughters, and all the members of his household, his cattle and all his livestock, and all the property that he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to another land because of his brother Jacob. |
| Genesis 36:7 |
For their possessions were too many for them to dwell together, and the land where they sojourned could not support them because of their livestock. |
| Genesis 36:8 |
So Esau settled in the hill country of Seir—Esau being Edom. |
| Genesis 36:9 |
This, then, is the line of Esau, the ancestor of the Edomites, in the hill country of Seir. |
| Genesis 36:10 |
These are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz, the son of Esau’s wife Adah; Reuel, the son of Esau’s wife Basemath. |
| Genesis 36:11 |
The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz. |
| Genesis 36:12 |
Timna was a concubine of Esau’s son Eliphaz; she bore Amalek to Eliphaz. Those were the descendants of Esau’s wife Adah. |
| Genesis 36:13 |
And these were the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. Those were the descendants of Esau’s wife Basemath. |
| Genesis 36:14 |
And these were the sons of Esau’s wife Oholibamah, daughter of Anah daughter of Zibeon: she bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. |
| Genesis 36:15 |
These are the clans of the children of Esau. The descendants of Esau’s first-born Eliphaz: the clans Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz, |
| Genesis 36:16 |
Korah, Gatam, and Amalek; these are the clans of Eliphaz in the land of Edom. Those are the descendants of Adah. |
| Genesis 36:17 |
And these are the descendants of Esau’s son Reuel: the clans Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah; these are the clans of Reuel in the land of Edom. Those are the descendants of Esau’s wife Basemath. |
| Genesis 36:18 |
And these are the descendants of Esau’s wife Oholibamah: the clans Jeush, Jalam, and Korah; these are the clans of Esau’s wife Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah. |
| Genesis 36:19 |
Those were the sons of Esau—that is, Edom—and those are their clans. |
| Genesis 36:20 |
These were the sons of Seir the Horite, who were settled in the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, |
| Genesis 36:21 |
Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. Those are the clans of the Horites, the descendants of Seir, in the land of Edom. |
| Genesis 36:22 |
The sons of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan’s sister was Timna. |
| Genesis 36:23 |
The sons of Shobal were these: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam. |
| Genesis 36:24 |
The sons of Zibeon were these: Aiah in the wilderness while pasturing the asses of his father Zibeon. |
| Genesis 36:25 |
The children of Anah were these: Dishon and Anah’s daughter Oholibamah. |
| Genesis 36:26 |
The sons of Dishon were these: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran. |
| Genesis 36:27 |
The sons of Ezer were these: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan. |
| Genesis 36:28 |
And the sons of Dishan were these: Uz and Aran. |
| Genesis 36:29 |
These are the clans of the Horites: the clans Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, |
| Genesis 36:30 |
Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. Those are the clans of the Horites, clan by clan, in the land of Seir. |
| Genesis 36:31 |
These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites. |
| Genesis 36:32 |
Bela son of Beor reigned in Edom, and the name of his city was Dinhabah. |
| Genesis 36:33 |
When Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah, from Bozrah, succeeded him as king. |
| Genesis 36:34 |
When Jobab died, Husham of the land of the Temanites succeeded him as king. |
| Genesis 36:35 |
When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated the Midianites in the country of Moab, succeeded him as king; the name of his city was Avith. |
| Genesis 36:36 |
When Hadad died, Samlah of Masrekah succeeded him as king. |
| Genesis 36:37 |
When Samlah died, Saul of Rehoboth-on-the-river succeeded him as king. |
| Genesis 36:38 |
When Saul died, Baal-hanan son of Achbor succeeded him as king. |
| Genesis 36:39 |
And when Baal-hanan son of Achbor died, Hadar succeeded him as king; the name of his city was Pau, and his wife’s name was Mehetabel daughter of Matred daughter of Me-zahab. |
| Genesis 36:40 |
These are the names of the clans of Esau, each with its families and locality, name by name: the clans Timna, Alvah, Jetheth, |
| Genesis 36:41 |
Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, |
| Genesis 36:42 |
Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, |
| Genesis 36:43 |
Magdiel, and Iram. Those are the clans of Edom—that is, of Esau, father of the Edomites—by their settlements in the land which they hold. |
| Genesis 37:1 |
Now Jacob was settled in the land where his father had sojourned, the land of Canaan. |
| Genesis 37:2* |
This, then, is the line of Jacob: |
| Genesis 41:45 |
Pharaoh then gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him for a wife Asenath daughter of Poti-phera, priest of On. Thus Joseph emerged in charge of the land of Egypt.— |
| Genesis 41:46* |
Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. |
| Genesis 41:54* |
There was famine in all lands, but throughout the land of Egypt there was bread. |
| Genesis 46:6 |
and they took along their livestock and the wealth that they had amassed in the land of Canaan. Thus Jacob and all his offspring with him came to Egypt: |
| Genesis 46:7 |
he brought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons, his daughters and granddaughters—all his offspring. |
| Genesis 46:8 |
These are the names of the Israelites, Jacob and his descendants, who came to Egypt./Jacob’s first-born Reuben; |
| Genesis 46:9 |
Reuben’s sons: Enoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. |
| Genesis 46:10 |
Simeon’s sons: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Saul the son of a Canaanite woman. |
| Genesis 46:11 |
Levi’s sons: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. |
| Genesis 46:12 |
Judah’s sons: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah—but Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan; and Perez’s sons were Hezron and Hamul. |
| Genesis 46:13 |
Issachar’s sons: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron. |
| Genesis 46:14 |
Zebulun’s sons: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. |
| Genesis 46:15 |
Those were the sons whom Leah bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, in addition to his daughter Dinah. Persons in all, male and female: 33. |
| Genesis 46:16 |
Gad’s sons: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli. |
| Genesis 46:17 |
Asher’s sons: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah, and their sister Serah. Beriah’s sons: Heber and Malchiel. |
| Genesis 46:18 |
These were the descendants of Zilpah, whom Laban had given to his daughter Leah. These she bore to Jacob—16 persons. |
| Genesis 46:19 |
The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin. |
| Genesis 46:20 |
To Joseph were born in the land of Egypt Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath daughter of Poti-phera priest of On bore to him. |
| Genesis 46:21 |
Benjamin’s sons: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard. |
| Genesis 46:22 |
These were the descendants of Rachel who were born to Jacob—14 persons in all. |
| Genesis 46:23 |
Dan’s son: Hushim. |
| Genesis 46:24 |
Naphtali’s sons: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem. |
| Genesis 46:25 |
These were the descendants of Bilhah, whom Laban had given to his daughter Rachel. These she bore to Jacob—7 persons in all. |
| Genesis 46:26 |
All the persons belonging to Jacob who came to Egypt—his own issue, aside from the wives of Jacob’s sons—all these persons numbered 66. |
| Genesis 46:27 |
And Joseph’s sons who were born to him in Egypt were two in number. Thus the total of Jacob’s household who came to Egypt was seventy persons. |
| Genesis 47:6* |
the land of Egypt is open before you: settle your father and your brothers in the best part of the land; |
| Genesis 47:7 |
Joseph then brought his father Jacob and presented him to Pharaoh; and Jacob greeted Pharaoh. |
| Genesis 47:8 |
Pharaoh asked Jacob, “How many are the years of your life?” |
| Genesis 47:9 |
And Jacob answered Pharaoh, “The years of my sojourn [on earth] are one hundred and thirty. Few and hard have been the years of my life, nor do they come up to the life spans of my fathers during their sojourns.” |
| Genesis 47:10 |
Then Jacob bade Pharaoh farewell, and left Pharaoh’s presence. |
| Genesis 47:11 |
So Joseph settled his father and his brothers, giving them holdings in the choicest part of the land of Egypt, in the region of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. |
| Genesis 47:27 |
Thus Israel settled in the country of Egypt, in the region of Goshen; they acquired holdings in it, and were fertile and increased greatly. |
| Genesis 47:28 |
Jacob lived seventeen years in the land of Egypt, so that the span of Jacob’s life came to one hundred and forty-seven years. |
| Genesis 48:3 |
And Jacob said to Joseph, “El Shaddai appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and He blessed me, |
| Genesis 48:4 |
and said to me, ‘I will make you fertile and numerous, making of you a community of peoples; and I will assign this land to your offspring to come for an everlasting possession.’ |
| Genesis 48:5 |
Now, your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, shall be mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine no less than Reuben and Simeon. |
| Genesis 48:6 |
But progeny born to you after them shall be yours; they shall be recorded instead of their brothers in their inheritance. |
| Genesis 48:7 |
I [do this because], when I was returning from Paddan, Rachel died, to my sorrow, while I was journeying in the land of Canaan, when still some distance short of Ephrath; and I buried her there on the road to Ephrath”—now Bethlehem. |
| Genesis 48:20 |
So he blessed them that day, saying, “By you shall Israel invoke blessings, saying: God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.” Thus he put Ephraim before Manasseh. |
| Genesis 50:12 |
Thus his sons did for him as he had instructed them. |
| Genesis 50:13 |
His sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, the field near Mamre, which Abraham had bought for a burial site from Ephron the Hittite. |
| Genesis 50:14* |
Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers |
| Genesis 50:22* |
Joseph lived one hundred and ten years. |
| Genesis 50:26* |
[and then Joseph died.] |
| Exodus 1:1 |
These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each coming with his household: |
| Exodus 1:2 |
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; |
| Exodus 1:3 |
Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin; |
| Exodus 1:4 |
Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. |
| Exodus 1:5 |
The total number of persons that were of Jacob’s issue came to seventy, Joseph being already in Egypt. |
| Exodus 1:7 |
But the Israelites were fertile and prolific; they multiplied and increased very greatly, so that the land was filled with them. |
| Exodus 1:13 |
The Egyptians ruthlessly imposed upon the Israelites |
| Exodus 1:14 |
the various labors that they made them perform. Ruthlessly they made life bitter for them with harsh labor at mortar and bricks and with all sorts of tasks in the field. |
| Exodus 2:23* |
The Israelites were groaning under the bondage and cried out; and their cry for help from the bondage rose up to God. |
| Exodus 2:24 |
God heard their moaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. |
| Exodus 2:25 |
God looked upon the Israelites, and God took notice of them. |
| Exodus 6:2 |
God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the LORD. |
| Exodus 6:3 |
I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai, but I did not make Myself known to them by My name יהוה. |
| Exodus 6:4 |
I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners. |
| Exodus 6:5 |
I have now heard the moaning of the Israelites because the Egyptians are holding them in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant. |
| Exodus 6:6 |
Say, therefore, to the Israelite people: I am the LORD. I will free you from the labors of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and through extraordinary chastisements. |
| Exodus 6:7 |
And I will take you to be My people, and I will be your God. And you shall know that I, the LORD, am your God who freed you from the labors of the Egyptians. |
| Exodus 6:8 |
I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you for a possession, I the LORD.” |
| Exodus 6:9 |
But when Moses told this to the Israelites, they would not listen to Moses, their spirits crushed by cruel bondage. |
| Exodus 6:10 |
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, |
| Exodus 6:11 |
“Go and tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites depart from his land.” |
| Exodus 6:12 |
But Moses appealed to the LORD, saying, “The Israelites would not listen to me; how then should Pharaoh heed me, a man of impeded speech!” |
| Exodus 6:13 |
So the LORD spoke to both Moses and Aaron in regard to the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt, instructing them to deliver the Israelites from the land of Egypt. |
| Exodus 6:14 |
The following are the heads of their respective clans./The sons of Reuben, Israel’s first-born: Enoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi; those are the families of Reuben. |
| Exodus 6:15 |
The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Saul the son of a Canaanite woman; those are the families of Simeon. |
| Exodus 6:16 |
These are the names of Levi’s sons by their lineage: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; and the span of Levi’s life was 137 years. |
| Exodus 6:17 |
The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, by their families. |
| Exodus 6:18 |
The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel; and the span of Kohath’s life was 133 years. |
| Exodus 6:19 |
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their lineage. |
| Exodus 6:20 |
Amram took to wife his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses; and the span of Amram’s life was 137 years. |
| Exodus 6:21 |
The sons of Izhar: Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri. |
| Exodus 6:22 |
The sons of Uzziel: Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri. |
| Exodus 6:23 |
Aaron took to wife Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. |
| Exodus 6:24 |
The sons of Korah: Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph. Those are the families of the Korahites. |
| Exodus 6:25 |
And Aaron’s son Eleazar took to wife one of Putiel’s daughters, and she bore him Phinehas. Those are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites by their families. |
| Exodus 6:26 |
It is the same Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said, “Bring forth the Israelites from the land of Egypt, troop by troop.” |
| Exodus 6:27 |
It was they who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt to free the Israelites from the Egyptians; these are the same Moses and Aaron. |
| Exodus 6:28 |
For when the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt |
| Exodus 6:29 |
and the LORD said to Moses, “I am the LORD; speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I will tell you,” |
| Exodus 6:30 |
Moses appealed to the LORD, saying, “See, I am of impeded speech; how then should Pharaoh heed me!” |
| Exodus 7:1 |
The LORD replied to Moses, “See, I place you in the role of God to Pharaoh, with your brother Aaron as your prophet. |
| Exodus 7:2 |
You shall repeat all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall speak to Pharaoh to let the Israelites depart from his land. |
| Exodus 7:3 |
But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, that I may multiply My signs and marvels in the land of Egypt. |
| Exodus 7:4 |
When Pharaoh does not heed you, I will lay My hand upon Egypt and deliver My ranks, My people the Israelites, from the land of Egypt with extraordinary chastisements. |
| Exodus 7:5 |
And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out My hand over Egypt and bring out the Israelites from their midst.” |
| Exodus 7:6 |
This Moses and Aaron did; as the LORD commanded them, so they did. |
| Exodus 7:7 |
Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three, when they made their demand on Pharaoh. |
| Exodus 7:8 |
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, |
| Exodus 7:9 |
“When Pharaoh speaks to you and says, ‘Produce your marvel,’ you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your rod and cast it down before Pharaoh.’ It shall turn into a serpent.” |
| Exodus 7:10 |
So Moses and Aaron came before Pharaoh and did just as the LORD had commanded: Aaron cast down his rod in the presence of Pharaoh and his courtiers, and it turned into a serpent. |
| Exodus 7:11 |
Then Pharaoh, for his part, summoned the wise men and the sorcerers; and the Egyptian magicians, in turn, did the same with their spells; |
| Exodus 7:12 |
each cast down his rod, and they turned into serpents. But Aaron’s rod swallowed their rods. |
| Exodus 7:13 |
Yet Pharaoh’s heart stiffened and he did not heed them, as the LORD had said. |
| Exodus 7:19 |
And the LORD said to Moses, “Say to Aaron: Take your rod and hold out your arm over the waters of Egypt—its rivers, its canals, its ponds, all its bodies of water—that they may turn to blood; there shall be blood throughout the land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and stone.” |
| Exodus 7:20* |
Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD commanded: |
| Exodus 7:22 |
But when the Egyptian magicians did the same with their spells, Pharaoh’s heart stiffened and he did not heed them—as the LORD had spoken. |
| Exodus 8:1 |
And the LORD said to Moses, “Say to Aaron: Hold out your arm with the rod over the rivers, the canals, and the ponds, and bring up the frogs on the land of Egypt.” |
| Exodus 8:2 |
Aaron held out his arm over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt. |
| Exodus 8:3 |
But the magicians did the same with their spells, and brought frogs upon the land of Egypt. |
| Exodus 8:11* |
[Pharaoh became stubborn and did not listen to them, just as Yahweh had said.] |
| Exodus 8:12 |
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Say to Aaron: Hold out your rod and strike the dust of the earth, and it shall turn to lice throughout the land of Egypt.” |
| Exodus 8:13 |
And they did so. Aaron held out his arm with the rod and struck the dust of the earth, and vermin came upon man and beast; all the dust of the earth turned to lice throughout the land of Egypt. |
| Exodus 8:14 |
The magicians did the like with their spells to produce lice, but they could not. The vermin remained upon man and beast; |
| Exodus 8:15 |
and the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God!” But Pharaoh’s heart stiffened and he would not heed them, as the LORD had spoken. |
| Exodus 9:8 |
Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Each of you take handfuls of soot from the kiln, and let Moses throw it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh. |
| Exodus 9:9 |
It shall become a fine dust all over the land of Egypt, and cause an inflammation breaking out in boils on man and beast throughout the land of Egypt.” |
| Exodus 9:10 |
So they took soot of the kiln and appeared before Pharaoh; Moses threw it toward the sky, and it caused an inflammation breaking out in boils on man and beast. |
| Exodus 9:11 |
The magicians were unable to confront Moses because of the inflammation, for the inflammation afflicted the magicians as well as all the other Egyptians. |
| Exodus 9:12 |
But the LORD stiffened the heart of Pharaoh, and he would not heed them, just as the LORD had told Moses. |
| Exodus 9:22 |
The LORD said to Moses, “Hold out your arm toward the sky that hail may fall on all the land of Egypt, upon man and beast and all the grasses of the field in the land of Egypt.” |
| Exodus 9:23* |
[Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky] |
| Exodus 9:24* |
[and there was hail and lightning in the midst of the hail.] |
| Exodus 9:25 |
Throughout the land of Egypt the hail struck down all that were in the open, both man and beast; the hail also struck down all the grasses of the field and shattered all the trees of the field. |
| Exodus 9:31 |
Now the flax and barley were ruined, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud; |
| Exodus 9:32 |
but the wheat and the emmer were not hurt, for they ripen late.— |
| Exodus 9:35 |
So Pharaoh’s heart stiffened and he would not let the Israelites go, just as the LORD had foretold through Moses. |
| Exodus 10:12 |
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Hold out your arm over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come upon the land of Egypt and eat up all the grasses in the land, whatever the hail has left.” |
| Exodus 10:13* |
[So Moses stretched out his hand over the land of Egypt] |
| Exodus 10:14* |
Locusts invaded all the land of Egypt |
| Exodus 10:15* |
and they ate up all the grasses of the field and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left, so that nothing green was left, of tree or grass of the field, in all the land of Egypt. |
| Exodus 10:20 |
But the LORD stiffened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go. |
| Exodus 10:21 |
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Hold out your arm toward the sky that there may be darkness upon the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be touched.” |
| Exodus 10:22 |
Moses held out his arm toward the sky and thick darkness descended upon all the land of Egypt for three days. |
| Exodus 10:23 |
People could not see one another, and for three days no one could get up from where he was; but all the Israelites enjoyed light in their dwellings. |
| Exodus 10:27 |
But the LORD stiffened Pharaoh’s heart and he would not agree to let them go. |
| Exodus 11:9 |
Now the LORD had said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not heed you, in order that My marvels may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.” |
| Exodus 11:10 |
Moses and Aaron had performed all these marvels before Pharaoh, but the LORD had stiffened the heart of Pharaoh so that he would not let the Israelites go from his land. |
| Exodus 12:1 |
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: |
| Exodus 12:2 |
This month shall mark for you the beginning of the months; it shall be the first of the months of the year for you. |
| Exodus 12:3 |
Speak to the whole community of Israel and say that on the tenth of this month each of them shall take a lamb to a family, a lamb to a household. |
| Exodus 12:4 |
But if the household is too small for a lamb, let him share one with a neighbor who dwells nearby, in proportion to the number of persons: you shall contribute for the lamb according to what each household will eat. |
| Exodus 12:5 |
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a yearling male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. |
| Exodus 12:6 |
You shall keep watch over it until the fourteenth day of this month; and all the assembled congregation of the Israelites shall slaughter it at twilight. |
| Exodus 12:7 |
They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they are to eat it. |
| Exodus 12:8 |
They shall eat the flesh that same night; they shall eat it roasted over the fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs. |
| Exodus 12:9 |
Do not eat any of it raw, or cooked in any way with water, but roasted—head, legs, and entrails—over the fire. |
| Exodus 12:10 |
You shall not leave any of it over until morning; if any of it is left until morning, you shall burn it. |
| Exodus 12:11 |
This is how you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it hurriedly: it is a passover offering to the LORD. |
| Exodus 12:12 |
For that night I will go through the land of Egypt and strike down every first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and I will mete out punishments to all the gods of Egypt, I the LORD. |
| Exodus 12:13 |
And the blood on the houses where you are staying shall be a sign for you: when I see the blood I will pass over you, so that no plague will destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. |
| Exodus 12:14 |
This day shall be to you one of remembrance: you shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD throughout the ages; you shall celebrate it as an institution for all time. |
| Exodus 12:15 |
Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; on the very first day you shall remove leaven from your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day to the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. |
| Exodus 12:16 |
You shall celebrate a sacred occasion on the first day, and a sacred occasion on the seventh day; no work at all shall be done on them; only what every person is to eat, that alone may be prepared for you. |
| Exodus 12:17 |
You shall observe the [Feast of] Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your ranks out of the land of Egypt; you shall observe this day throughout the ages as an institution for all time. |
| Exodus 12:18 |
In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. |
| Exodus 12:19 |
No leaven shall be found in your houses for seven days. For whoever eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the community of Israel, whether he is a stranger or a citizen of the country. |
| Exodus 12:20 |
You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your settlements you shall eat unleavened bread. |
| Exodus 12:21* |
and [he] said to them, “Go, pick out lambs for your families, and slaughter the passover offering. |
| Exodus 12:22 |
Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and to the two doorposts. None of you shall go outside the door of his house until morning. |
| Exodus 12:23 |
For when the LORD goes through to smite the Egyptians, He will see the blood on the lintel and the two doorposts, and the LORD will pass over<i></i> the door and not let the Destroyer enter and smite your home. |
| Exodus 12:24 |
“You shall observe this as an institution for all time, for you and for your descendants. |
| Exodus 12:25 |
And when you enter the land that the LORD will give you, as He has promised, you shall observe this rite. |
| Exodus 12:26 |
And when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this rite?’ |
| Exodus 12:27* |
you shall say, ‘It is the passover sacrifice to the LORD, because He passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, but saved our houses.’” |
| Exodus 12:28 |
And the Israelites went and did so; just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. |
| Exodus 12:37* |
The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, |
| Exodus 12:40 |
The length of time that the Israelites lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years; |
| Exodus 12:41 |
at the end of the four hundred and thirtieth year, to the very day, all the ranks of the LORD departed from the land of Egypt. |
| Exodus 12:42 |
That was for the LORD a night of vigil to bring them out of the land of Egypt; that same night is the LORD’s, one of vigil for all the children of Israel throughout the ages. |
| Exodus 12:43 |
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron: This is the law of the passover offering: No foreigner shall eat of it. |
| Exodus 12:44 |
But any slave a man has bought may eat of it once he has been circumcised. |
| Exodus 12:45 |
No bound or hired laborer shall eat of it. |
| Exodus 12:46 |
It shall be eaten in one house: you shall not take any of the flesh outside the house; nor shall you break a bone of it. |
| Exodus 12:47 |
The whole community of Israel shall offer it. |
| Exodus 12:48 |
If a stranger who dwells with you would offer the passover to the LORD, all his males must be circumcised; then he shall be admitted to offer it; he shall then be as a citizen of the country. But no uncircumcised person may eat of it. |
| Exodus 12:49 |
There shall be one law for the citizen and for the stranger who dwells among you. |
| Exodus 12:50 |
And all the Israelites did so; as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. |
| Exodus 12:51 |
That very day the LORD freed the Israelites from the land of Egypt, troop by troop. |
| Exodus 13:1 |
The LORD spoke further to Moses, saying, |
| Exodus 13:2 |
“Consecrate to Me every first-born; man and beast, the first issue of every womb among the Israelites is Mine.” |
| Exodus 13:3 |
And Moses said to the people,/“Remember this day, on which you went free from Egypt, the house of bondage, how the LORD freed you from it with a mighty hand: no leavened bread shall be eaten. |
| Exodus 13:4 |
You go free on this day, in the month of Abib. |
| Exodus 13:5 |
So, when the LORD has brought you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall observe in this month the following practice: |
| Exodus 13:6 |
“Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a festival of the LORD. |
| Exodus 13:7 |
Throughout the seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten; no leavened bread shall be found with you, and no leaven shall be found in all your territory. |
| Exodus 13:8 |
And you shall explain to your child on that day, ‘It is because of what the LORD did for me when I went free from Egypt.’ |
| Exodus 13:9 |
“And this shall serve you as a sign on your hand and as a reminder on your forehead—in order that the Teaching of the LORD may be in your mouth—that with a mighty hand the LORD freed you from Egypt. |
| Exodus 13:10 |
You shall keep this institution at its set time from year to year. |
| Exodus 13:11 |
“And when the LORD has brought you into the land of the Canaanites, as He swore to you and to your fathers, and has given it to you, |
| Exodus 13:12 |
you shall set apart for the LORD every first issue of the womb: every male firstling that your cattle drop shall be the LORD’s. |
| Exodus 13:13 |
But every firstling ass you shall redeem with a sheep; if you do not redeem it, you must break its neck. And you must redeem every first-born male among your children. |
| Exodus 13:14 |
And when, in time to come, your child asks you, saying, ‘What does this mean?’ you shall reply, ‘It was with a mighty hand that the LORD brought us out from Egypt, the house of bondage. |
| Exodus 13:15 |
When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD slew every first-born in the land of Egypt, the first-born of both man and beast. Therefore I sacrifice to the LORD every first male issue of the womb, but redeem every male first-born among my children.’ |
| Exodus 13:16 |
“And so it shall be as a sign upon your hand and as a symbol on your forehead that with a mighty hand the LORD freed us from Egypt.” |
| Exodus 13:20 |
They set out from Succoth, and encamped at Etham, at the edge of the wilderness. |
| Exodus 14:1 |
The LORD said to Moses: |
| Exodus 14:2 |
Tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal-zephon; you shall encamp facing it, by the sea. |
| Exodus 14:3 |
Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, “They are astray in the land; the wilderness has closed in on them.” |
| Exodus 14:4 |
Then I will stiffen Pharaoh’s heart and he will pursue them, that I may gain glory through Pharaoh and all his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD./And they did so. |
| Exodus 14:8 |
The LORD stiffened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he gave chase to the Israelites. As the Israelites were departing defiantly, |
| Exodus 14:9 |
the Egyptians gave chase to them, and all the chariot horses of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his warriors overtook them encamped by the sea, near Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon. |
| Exodus 14:15 |
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why do you cry out to Me? Tell the Israelites to go forward. |
| Exodus 14:16 |
And you lift up your rod and hold out your arm over the sea and split it, so that the Israelites may march into the sea on dry ground. |
| Exodus 14:17 |
And I will stiffen the hearts of the Egyptians so that they go in after them; and I will gain glory through Pharaoh and all his warriors, his chariots, and his horsemen. |
| Exodus 14:18 |
Let the Egyptians know that I am the LORD, when I gain glory through Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.” |
| Exodus 14:21* |
[So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea and split the waters.] |
| Exodus 14:22 |
and the Israelites went into the sea on dry ground, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left. |
| Exodus 14:23 |
The Egyptians came in pursuit after them into the sea, all of Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and horsemen. |
| Exodus 14:26 |
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Hold out your arm over the sea, that the waters may come back upon the Egyptians and upon their chariots and upon their horsemen.” |
| Exodus 14:27* |
[Moses once again stretched out his hand over the sea,] |
| Exodus 14:28 |
The waters turned back and covered the chariots and the horsemen—Pharaoh’s entire army that followed them into the sea; not one of them remained. |
| Exodus 14:29 |
But the Israelites had marched through the sea on dry ground, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left. |
| Exodus 15:22* |
they traveled three days in the wilderness and found no water. |
| Exodus 15:27 |
And they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there beside the water. |
| Exodus 16:1 |
Setting out from Elim, the whole Israelite community came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departure from the land of Egypt. |
| Exodus 16:2 |
In the wilderness, the whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. |
| Exodus 16:3 |
The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots, when we ate our fill of bread! For you have brought us out into this wilderness to starve this whole congregation to death.” |
| Exodus 16:6 |
So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “By evening you shall know it was the LORD who brought you out from the land of Egypt; |
| Exodus 16:7 |
and in the morning you shall behold the Presence of the LORD, because He has heard your grumblings against the LORD. For who are we that you should grumble against us? |
| Exodus 16:8 |
Since it is the LORD,” Moses continued, “who will give you flesh to eat in the evening and bread in the morning to the full, because the LORD has heard the grumblings you utter against Him, what is our part? Your grumbling is not against us, but against the LORD!” |
| Exodus 16:9 |
Then Moses said to Aaron, “Say to the whole Israelite community: Advance toward the LORD, for He has heard your grumbling.” |
| Exodus 16:10 |
And as Aaron spoke to the whole Israelite community, they turned toward the wilderness, and there, in a cloud, appeared the Presence of the LORD. |
| Exodus 16:11 |
The LORD spoke to Moses: |
| Exodus 16:12 |
“I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Speak to them and say: By evening you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall have your fill of bread; and you shall know that I the LORD am your God.” |
| Exodus 16:13 |
In the evening quail appeared and covered the camp; in the morning there was a fall of dew about the camp. |
| Exodus 16:14 |
When the fall of dew lifted, there, over the surface of the wilderness, lay a fine and flaky substance, as fine as frost on the ground. |
| Exodus 16:15 |
When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?”—for they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “That is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat. |
| Exodus 16:16 |
This is what the LORD has commanded: Gather as much of it as each of you requires to eat, an <i>omer</i> to a person for as many of you as there are; each of you shall fetch for those in his tent.” |
| Exodus 16:17 |
The Israelites did so, some gathering much, some little. |
| Exodus 16:18 |
But when they measured it by the <i>omer</i>, he who had gathered much had no excess, and he who had gathered little had no deficiency: they had gathered as much as they needed to eat. |
| Exodus 16:19 |
And Moses said to them, “Let no one leave any of it over until morning.” |
| Exodus 16:20 |
But they paid no attention to Moses; some of them left of it until morning, and it became infested with maggots and stank. And Moses was angry with them. |
| Exodus 16:21 |
So they gathered it every morning, each as much as he needed to eat; for when the sun grew hot, it would melt. |
| Exodus 16:22 |
On the sixth day they gathered double the amount of food, two <i>omer</i>s for each; and when all the chieftains of the community came and told Moses, |
| Exodus 16:23 |
he said to them, “This is what the LORD meant: Tomorrow is a day of rest, a holy sabbath of the LORD. Bake what you would bake and boil what you would boil; and all that is left put aside to be kept until morning.” |
| Exodus 16:24 |
So they put it aside until morning, as Moses had ordered; and it did not turn foul, and there were no maggots in it. |
| Exodus 16:25 |
Then Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a sabbath of the LORD; you will not find it today on the plain. |
| Exodus 16:31 |
The house of Israel named it manna; in honey. |
| Exodus 16:32 |
Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: Let one <i>omer</i> of it be kept throughout the ages, in order that they may see the bread that I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out from the land of Egypt.” |
| Exodus 16:33 |
And Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar, put one <i>omer</i> of manna in it, and place it before the LORD, to be kept throughout the ages.” |
| Exodus 16:34 |
As the LORD had commanded Moses, Aaron placed it before the Pact, to be kept. |
| Exodus 16:35 |
And the Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a settled land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan. |
| Exodus 16:36 |
The <i>omer</i> is a tenth of an <i>ephah</i>. |
| Exodus 17:1* |
From the wilderness of Sin the whole Israelite community continued by stages as the LORD would command. |
| Exodus 19:1 |
On the third new moon after the Israelites had gone forth from the land of Egypt, on that very day, they entered the wilderness of Sinai. |
| Exodus 19:2* |
[and they set up camp there.] |
| Exodus 24:15* |
[A cloud covered the mountain,] |
| Exodus 24:16 |
The Presence of the LORD abode on Mount Sinai, and the cloud hid it for six days. On the seventh day He called to Moses from the midst of the cloud. |
| Exodus 24:17 |
Now the Presence of the LORD appeared in the sight of the Israelites as a consuming fire on the top of the mountain. |
| Exodus 24:18* |
Moses went inside the cloud and ascended the mountain; |
| Exodus 25:1 |
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying: |
| Exodus 25:2 |
Tell the Israelite people to bring Me gifts; you shall accept gifts for Me from every person whose heart so moves him. |
| Exodus 25:3 |
And these are the gifts that you shall accept from them: gold, silver, and copper; |
| Exodus 25:4 |
blue, purple, and crimson yarns, fine linen, goats’ hair; |
| Exodus 25:5 |
tanned ram skins, skins, and acacia wood; |
| Exodus 25:6 |
oil for lighting, spices for the anointing oil and for the aromatic incense; |
| Exodus 25:7 |
lapis lazuli and other stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece. |
| Exodus 25:8 |
And let them make Me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them. |
| Exodus 25:9 |
Exactly as I show you—the pattern of the Tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings—so shall you make it. |
| Exodus 25:10 |
They shall make an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high. |
| Exodus 25:11 |
Overlay it with pure gold—overlay it inside and out—and make upon it a gold molding round about. |
| Exodus 25:12 |
Cast four gold rings for it, to be attached to its four feet, two rings on one of its side walls and two on the other. |
| Exodus 25:13 |
Make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold; |
| Exodus 25:14 |
then insert the poles into the rings on the side walls of the ark, for carrying the ark. |
| Exodus 25:15 |
The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark: they shall not be removed from it. |
| Exodus 25:16 |
And deposit in the Ark [the tablets of] the Pact which I will give you. |
| Exodus 25:17 |
You shall make a cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. |
| Exodus 25:18 |
Make two cherubim of gold—make them of hammered work—at the two ends of the cover. |
| Exodus 25:19 |
Make one cherub at one end and the other cherub at the other end; of one piece with the cover shall you make the cherubim at its two ends. |
| Exodus 25:20 |
The cherubim shall have their wings spread out above, shielding the cover with their wings. They shall confront each other, the faces of the cherubim being turned toward the cover. |
| Exodus 25:21 |
Place the cover on top of the Ark, after depositing inside the Ark the Pact that I will give you. |
| Exodus 25:22 |
There I will meet with you, and I will impart to you—from above the cover, from between the two cherubim that are on top of the Ark of the Pact—all that I will command you concerning the Israelite people. |
| Exodus 25:23 |
You shall make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long, one cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high. |
| Exodus 25:24 |
Overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it. |
| Exodus 25:25 |
Make a rim of a hand’s breadth around it, and make a gold molding for its rim round about. |
| Exodus 25:26 |
Make four gold rings for it, and attach the rings to the four corners at its four legs. |
| Exodus 25:27 |
The rings shall be next to the rim, as holders for poles to carry the table. |
| Exodus 25:28 |
Make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold; by these the table shall be carried. |
| Exodus 25:29 |
Make its bowls, ladles, jars and jugs with which to offer libations; make them of pure gold. |
| Exodus 25:30 |
And on the table you shall set the bread of display, to be before Me always. |
| Exodus 25:31 |
You shall make a lampstand of pure gold; the lampstand shall be made of hammered work; its base and its shaft, its cups, calyxes, and petals shall be of one piece. |
| Exodus 25:32 |
Six branches shall issue from its sides; three branches from one side of the lampstand and three branches from the other side of the lampstand. |
| Exodus 25:33 |
On one branch there shall be three cups shaped like almond-blossoms, each with calyx and petals, and on the next branch there shall be three cups shaped like almond-blossoms, each with calyx and petals; so for all six branches issuing from the lampstand. |
| Exodus 25:34 |
And on the lampstand itself there shall be four cups shaped like almond-blossoms, each with calyx and petals: |
| Exodus 25:35 |
a calyx, of one piece with it, under a pair of branches; and a calyx, of one piece with it, under the second pair of branches, and a calyx, of one piece with it, under the last pair of branches; so for all six branches issuing from the lampstand. |
| Exodus 25:36 |
Their calyxes and their stems shall be of one piece with it, the whole of it a single hammered piece of pure gold. |
| Exodus 25:37 |
Make its seven lamps—the lamps shall be so mounted as to give the light on its front side— |
| Exodus 25:38 |
and its tongs and fire pans of pure gold. |
| Exodus 25:39 |
It shall be made, with all these furnishings, out of a talent of pure gold. |
| Exodus 25:40 |
Note well, and follow the patterns for them that are being shown you on the mountain. |
| Exodus 26:1 |
As for the tabernacle, make it of ten strips of cloth; make these of fine twisted linen, of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, with a design of cherubim worked into them. |
| Exodus 26:2 |
The length of each cloth shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each cloth shall be four cubits, all the cloths to have the same measurements. |
| Exodus 26:3 |
Five of the cloths shall be joined to one another, and the other five cloths shall be joined to one another. |
| Exodus 26:4 |
Make loops of blue wool on the edge of the outermost cloth of the one set; and do likewise on the edge of the outermost cloth of the other set: |
| Exodus 26:5 |
make fifty loops on the one cloth, and fifty loops on the edge of the end cloth of the other set, the loops to be opposite one another. |
| Exodus 26:6 |
And make fifty gold clasps, and couple the cloths to one another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle becomes one whole. |
| Exodus 26:7 |
You shall then make cloths of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; make the cloths eleven in number. |
| Exodus 26:8 |
The length of each cloth shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each cloth shall be four cubits, the eleven cloths to have the same measurements. |
| Exodus 26:9 |
Join five of the cloths by themselves, and the other six cloths by themselves; and fold over the sixth cloth at the front of the tent. |
| Exodus 26:10 |
Make fifty loops on the edge of the outermost cloth of the one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the cloth of the other set. |
| Exodus 26:11 |
Make fifty copper clasps, and fit the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together so that it becomes one whole. |
| Exodus 26:12 |
As for the overlapping excess of the cloths of the tent, the extra half-cloth shall overlap the back of the tabernacle, |
| Exodus 26:13 |
while the extra cubit at either end of each length of tent cloth shall hang down to the bottom of the two sides of the Tabernacle and cover it. |
| Exodus 26:14 |
And make for the tent a covering of tanned ram skins, and a covering of dolphin skins above. |
| Exodus 26:15 |
You shall make the planks for the Tabernacle of acacia wood, upright. |
| Exodus 26:16 |
The length of each plank shall be ten cubits and the width of each plank a cubit and a half. |
| Exodus 26:17 |
Each plank shall have two tenons, parallel to each other; do the same with all the planks of the Tabernacle. |
| Exodus 26:18 |
Of the planks of the Tabernacle, make twenty planks on the south side: |
| Exodus 26:19 |
making forty silver sockets under the twenty planks, two sockets under the one plank for its two tenons and two sockets under each following plank for its two tenons; |
| Exodus 26:20 |
and for the other side wall of the Tabernacle, on the north side, twenty planks, |
| Exodus 26:21 |
with their forty silver sockets, two sockets under the one plank and two sockets under each following plank. |
| Exodus 26:22 |
And for the rear of the Tabernacle, to the west, make six planks; |
| Exodus 26:23 |
and make two planks for the corners of the Tabernacle at the rear. |
| Exodus 26:24 |
They shall match at the bottom, and terminate alike at the top inside one ring; thus shall it be with both of them: they shall form the two corners. |
| Exodus 26:25 |
Thus there shall be eight planks with their sockets of silver: sixteen sockets, two sockets under the first plank, and two sockets under each of the other planks. |
| Exodus 26:26 |
You shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the planks of the one side wall of the Tabernacle, |
| Exodus 26:27 |
five bars for the planks of the other side wall of the Tabernacle, and five bars for the planks of the wall of the Tabernacle at the rear to the west. |
| Exodus 26:28 |
The center bar halfway up the planks shall run from end to end. |
| Exodus 26:29 |
Overlay the planks with gold, and make their rings of gold, as holders for the bars; and overlay the bars with gold. |
| Exodus 26:30 |
Then set up the Tabernacle according to the manner of it that you were shown on the mountain. |
| Exodus 26:31 |
You shall make a curtain of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and fine twisted linen; it shall have a design of cherubim worked into it. |
| Exodus 26:32 |
Hang it upon four posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold and having hooks of gold, [set] in four sockets of silver. |
| Exodus 26:33 |
Hang the curtain under the clasps, and carry the Ark of the Pact there, behind the curtain, so that the curtain shall serve you as a partition between the Holy and the Holy of Holies. |
| Exodus 26:34 |
Place the cover upon the Ark of the Pact in the Holy of Holies. |
| Exodus 26:35 |
Place the table outside the curtain, and the lampstand by the south wall of the Tabernacle opposite the table, which is to be placed by the north wall. |
| Exodus 26:36 |
You shall make a screen for the entrance of the Tent, of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and fine twisted linen, done in embroidery. |
| Exodus 26:37 |
Make five posts of acacia wood for the screen and overlay them with gold—their hooks being of gold—and cast for them five sockets of copper. |
| Exodus 27:1 |
You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide—the altar is to be square—and three cubits high. |
| Exodus 27:2 |
Make its horns on the four corners, the horns to be of one piece with it; and overlay it with copper. |
| Exodus 27:3 |
Make the pails for removing its ashes, as well as its scrapers, basins, flesh hooks, and fire pans—make all its utensils of copper. |
| Exodus 27:4 |
Make for it a grating of meshwork in copper; and on the mesh make four copper rings at its four corners. |
| Exodus 27:5 |
Set the mesh below, under the ledge of the altar, so that it extends to the middle of the altar. |
| Exodus 27:6 |
And make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with copper. |
| Exodus 27:7 |
The poles shall be inserted into the rings, so that the poles remain on the two sides of the altar when it is carried. |
| Exodus 27:8 |
Make it hollow, of boards. As you were shown on the mountain, so shall they be made. |
| Exodus 27:9 |
You shall make the enclosure of the Tabernacle:/On the south side, a hundred cubits of hangings of fine twisted linen for the length of the enclosure on that side— |
| Exodus 27:10 |
with its twenty posts and their twenty sockets of copper, the hooks and bands of the posts to be of silver. |
| Exodus 27:11 |
Again a hundred cubits of hangings for its length along the north side—with its twenty posts and their twenty sockets of copper, the hooks and bands of the posts to be of silver. |
| Exodus 27:12 |
For the width of the enclosure, on the west side, fifty cubits of hangings, with their ten posts and their ten sockets. |
| Exodus 27:13 |
For the width of the enclosure on the front, or east side, fifty cubits: |
| Exodus 27:14 |
fifteen cubits of hangings on the one flank, with their three posts and their three sockets; |
| Exodus 27:15 |
fifteen cubits of hangings on the other flank, with their three posts and their three sockets; |
| Exodus 27:16 |
and for the gate of the enclosure, a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and fine twisted linen, done in embroidery, with their four posts and their four sockets. |
| Exodus 27:17 |
All the posts round the enclosure shall be banded with silver and their hooks shall be of silver; their sockets shall be of copper. |
| Exodus 27:18 |
The length of the enclosure shall be a hundred cubits, and the width fifty throughout; and the height five cubits—[with hangings] of fine twisted linen. The sockets shall be of copper: |
| Exodus 27:19 |
all the utensils of the Tabernacle, for all its service, as well as all its pegs and all the pegs of the court, shall be of copper. |
| Exodus 27:20 |
You shall further instruct the Israelites to bring you clear oil of beaten olives for lighting, for kindling lamps regularly. |
| Exodus 27:21 |
Aaron and his sons shall set them up in the Tent of Meeting, outside the curtain which is over [the Ark of] the Pact, [to burn] from evening to morning before the LORD. It shall be a due from the Israelites for all time, throughout the ages. |
| Exodus 28:1 |
You shall bring forward your brother Aaron, with his sons, from among the Israelites, to serve Me as priests: Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron. |
| Exodus 28:2 |
Make sacral vestments for your brother Aaron, for dignity and adornment. |
| Exodus 28:3 |
Next you shall instruct all who are skillful, whom I have endowed with the gift of skill, to make Aaron’s vestments, for consecrating him to serve Me as priest. |
| Exodus 28:4 |
These are the vestments they are to make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a fringed tunic, a headdress, and a sash. They shall make those sacral vestments for your brother Aaron and his sons, for priestly service to Me; |
| Exodus 28:5 |
they, therefore, shall receive the gold, the blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and the fine linen. |
| Exodus 28:6 |
They shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and of fine twisted linen, worked into designs. |
| Exodus 28:7 |
It shall have two shoulder-pieces attached; they shall be attached at its two ends. |
| Exodus 28:8 |
And the decorated band that is upon it shall be made like it, of one piece with it: of gold, of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and of fine twisted linen. |
| Exodus 28:9 |
Then take two lazuli stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel: |
| Exodus 28:10 |
six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the remaining six on the other stone, in the order of their birth. |
| Exodus 28:11 |
On the two stones you shall make seal engravings—the work of a lapidary—of the names of the sons of Israel. Having bordered them with frames of gold, |
| Exodus 28:12 |
attach the two stones to the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, as stones for remembrance of the Israelite people, whose names Aaron shall carry upon his two shoulder-pieces for remembrance before the LORD. |
| Exodus 28:13 |
Then make frames of gold |
| Exodus 28:14 |
and two chains of pure gold; braid these like corded work, and fasten the corded chains to the frames. |
| Exodus 28:15 |
You shall make a breastpiece of decision, worked into a design; make it in the style of the ephod: make it of gold, of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and of fine twisted linen. |
| Exodus 28:16 |
It shall be square and doubled, a span in length and a span in width. |
| Exodus 28:17 |
Set in it mounted stones, in four rows of stones. The first row shall be a row of carnelian, chrysolite, and emerald; |
| Exodus 28:18 |
the second row: a turquoise, a sapphire, and an amethyst; |
| Exodus 28:19 |
the third row: a jacinth, an agate, and a crystal; |
| Exodus 28:20 |
and the fourth row: a beryl, a lapis lazuli, and a jasper. They shall be framed with gold in their mountings. |
| Exodus 28:21 |
The stones shall correspond [in number] to the names of the sons of Israel: twelve, corresponding to their names. They shall be engraved like seals, each with its name, for the twelve tribes. |
| Exodus 28:22 |
On the breastpiece make braided chains of corded work in pure gold. |
| Exodus 28:23 |
Make two rings of gold on the breastpiece, and fasten the two rings at the two ends of the breastpiece, |
| Exodus 28:24 |
attaching the two golden cords to the two rings at the ends of the breastpiece. |
| Exodus 28:25 |
Then fasten the two ends of the cords to the two frames, which you shall attach to the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, at the front. |
| Exodus 28:26 |
Make two rings of gold and attach them to the two ends of the breastpiece, at its inner edge, which faces the ephod. |
| Exodus 28:27 |
And make two other rings of gold and fasten them on the front of the ephod, low on the two shoulder-pieces, close to its seam above the decorated band. |
| Exodus 28:28 |
The breastpiece shall be held in place by a cord of blue from its rings to the rings of the ephod, so that the breastpiece rests on the decorated band and does not come loose from the ephod. |
| Exodus 28:29 |
Aaron shall carry the names of the sons of Israel on the breastpiece of decision over his heart, when he enters the sanctuary, for remembrance before the LORD at all times. |
| Exodus 28:30 |
Inside the breastpiece of decision you shall place the Urim and Thummim, so that they are over Aaron’s heart when he comes before the LORD. Thus Aaron shall carry the instrument of decision for the Israelites over his heart before the LORD at all times. |
| Exodus 28:31 |
You shall make the robe of the ephod of pure blue. |
| Exodus 28:32 |
The opening for the head shall be in the middle of it; the opening shall have a binding of woven work round about—it shall be like the opening of a coat of mail—so that it does not tear. |
| Exodus 28:33 |
On its hem make pomegranates of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, all around the hem, with bells of gold between them all around: |
| Exodus 28:34 |
a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, all around the hem of the robe. |
| Exodus 28:35 |
Aaron shall wear it while officiating, so that the sound of it is heard when he comes into the sanctuary before the LORD and when he goes out—that he may not die. |
| Exodus 28:36 |
You shall make a frontlet of pure gold and engrave on it the seal inscription: “Holy to the LORD.” |
| Exodus 28:37 |
Suspend it on a cord of blue, so that it may remain on the headdress; it shall remain on the front of the headdress. |
| Exodus 28:38 |
It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, that Aaron may take away any sin arising from the holy things that the Israelites consecrate, from any of their sacred donations; it shall be on his forehead at all times, to win acceptance for them before the LORD. |
| Exodus 28:39 |
You shall make the fringed tunic of fine linen./You shall make the headdress of fine linen./You shall make the sash of embroidered work. |
| Exodus 28:40 |
And for Aaron’s sons also you shall make tunics, and make sashes for them, and make turbans for them, for dignity and adornment. |
| Exodus 28:41 |
Put these on your brother Aaron and on his sons as well; anoint them, and ordain them and consecrate them to serve Me as priests. |
| Exodus 28:42 |
You shall also make for them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; they shall extend from the hips to the thighs. |
| Exodus 28:43 |
They shall be worn by Aaron and his sons when they enter the Tent of Meeting or when they approach the altar to officiate in the sanctuary, so that they do not incur punishment and die. It shall be a law for all time for him and for his offspring to come./ |
| Exodus 29:1 |
This is what you shall do to them in consecrating them to serve Me as priests: Take a young bull of the herd and two rams without blemish; |
| Exodus 29:2 |
also unleavened bread, unleavened cakes with oil mixed in, and unleavened wafers spread with oil—make these of choice wheat flour. |
| Exodus 29:3 |
Place these in one basket and present them in the basket, along with the bull and the two rams. |
| Exodus 29:4 |
Lead Aaron and his sons up to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and wash them with water. |
| Exodus 29:5 |
Then take the vestments, and clothe Aaron with the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastpiece, and gird him with the decorated band of the ephod. |
| Exodus 29:6 |
Put the headdress on his head, and place the holy diadem upon the headdress. |
| Exodus 29:7 |
Take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him. |
| Exodus 29:8 |
Then bring his sons forward; clothe them with tunics |
| Exodus 29:9 |
and wind turbans upon them. And gird both Aaron and his sons with sashes. And so they shall have priesthood as their right for all time./You shall then ordain Aaron and his sons. |
| Exodus 29:10 |
Lead the bull up to the front of the Tent of Meeting, and let Aaron and his sons lay their hands upon the head of the bull. |
| Exodus 29:11 |
Slaughter the bull before the LORD, at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, |
| Exodus 29:12 |
and take some of the bull’s blood and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; then pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. |
| Exodus 29:13 |
Take all the fat that covers the entrails, the protuberance on the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat on them, and turn them into smoke upon the altar. |
| Exodus 29:14 |
The rest of the flesh of the bull, its hide, and its dung shall be put to the fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering. |
| Exodus 29:15 |
Next take the one ram, and let Aaron and his sons lay their hands upon the ram’s head. |
| Exodus 29:16 |
Slaughter the ram, and take its blood and dash it against all sides of the altar. |
| Exodus 29:17 |
Cut up the ram into sections, wash its entrails and legs, and put them with its quarters and its head. |
| Exodus 29:18 |
Turn all of the ram into smoke upon the altar. It is a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the LORD. |
| Exodus 29:19 |
Then take the other ram, and let Aaron and his sons lay their hands upon the ram’s head. |
| Exodus 29:20 |
Slaughter the ram, and take some of its blood and put it on the ridge of Aaron’s right ear and on the ridges of his sons’ right ears, and on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet; and dash the rest of the blood against every side of the altar round about. |
| Exodus 29:21 |
Take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil and sprinkle upon Aaron and his vestments, and also upon his sons and his sons’ vestments. Thus shall he and his vestments be holy, as well as his sons and his sons’ vestments. |
| Exodus 29:22 |
You shall take from the ram the fat parts—the broad tail, the fat that covers the entrails, the protuberance on the liver, the two kidneys with the fat on them—and the right thigh; for this is a ram of ordination. |
| Exodus 29:23 |
Add one flat loaf of bread, one cake of oil bread, and one wafer, from the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD. |
| Exodus 29:24 |
Place all these on the palms of Aaron and his sons, and offer them as an elevation offering before the LORD. |
| Exodus 29:25 |
Take them from their hands and turn them into smoke upon the altar with the burnt offering, as a pleasing odor before the LORD; it is an offering by fire to the LORD. |
| Exodus 29:26 |
Then take the breast of Aaron’s ram of ordination and offer it as an elevation offering before the LORD; it shall be your portion. |
| Exodus 29:27 |
You shall consecrate the breast that was offered as an elevation offering and the thigh that was offered as a gift offering from the ram of ordination—from that which was Aaron’s and from that which was his sons’— |
| Exodus 29:28 |
and those parts shall be a due for all time from the Israelites to Aaron and his descendants. For they are a gift; and so shall they be a gift from the Israelites, their gift to the LORD out of their sacrifices of well-being. |
| Exodus 29:29 |
The sacral vestments of Aaron shall pass on to his sons after him, for them to be anointed and ordained in. |
| Exodus 29:30 |
He among his sons who becomes priest in his stead, who enters the Tent of Meeting to officiate within the sanctuary, shall wear them seven days. |
| Exodus 29:31 |
You shall take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in the sacred precinct; |
| Exodus 29:32 |
and Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. |
| Exodus 29:33 |
These things shall be eaten only by those for whom expiation was made with them when they were ordained and consecrated; they may not be eaten by a layman, for they are holy. |
| Exodus 29:34 |
And if any of the flesh of ordination, or any of the bread, is left until morning, you shall put what is left to the fire; it shall not be eaten, for it is holy. |
| Exodus 29:35 |
Thus you shall do to Aaron and his sons, just as I have commanded you. You shall ordain them through seven days, |
| Exodus 29:36 |
and each day you shall prepare a bull as a sin offering for expiation; you shall purge the altar by performing purification upon it, and you shall anoint it to consecrate it. |
| Exodus 29:37 |
Seven days you shall perform purification for the altar to consecrate it, and the altar shall become most holy; whatever touches the altar shall become consecrated. |
| Exodus 29:38 |
Now this is what you shall offer upon the altar: two yearling lambs each day, regularly. |
| Exodus 29:39 |
You shall offer the one lamb in the morning, and you shall offer the other lamb at twilight. |
| Exodus 29:40 |
There shall be a tenth of a measure of choice flour with a quarter of a <i>hin</i> of beaten oil mixed in, and a libation of a quarter <i>hin</i> of wine for one lamb; |
| Exodus 29:41 |
and you shall offer the other lamb at twilight, repeating with it the meal offering of the morning with its libation—an offering by fire for a pleasing odor to the LORD, |
| Exodus 29:42 |
a regular burnt offering throughout the generations, at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting before the LORD./For there I will meet with you, and there I will speak with you, |
| Exodus 29:43 |
and there I will meet with the Israelites, and it shall be sanctified by My Presence. |
| Exodus 29:44 |
I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and I will consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve Me as priests. |
| Exodus 29:45 |
I will abide among the Israelites, and I will be their God. |
| Exodus 29:46 |
And they shall know that I the LORD am their God, who brought them out from the land of Egypt that I might abide among them, I the LORD their God. |
| Exodus 30:1 |
You shall make an altar for burning incense; make it of acacia wood. |
| Exodus 30:2 |
It shall be a cubit long and a cubit wide—it shall be square—and two cubits high, its horns of one piece with it. |
| Exodus 30:3 |
Overlay it with pure gold: its top, its sides round about, and its horns; and make a gold molding for it round about. |
| Exodus 30:4 |
And make two gold rings for it under its molding; make them on its two side walls, on opposite sides. They shall serve as holders for poles with which to carry it. |
| Exodus 30:5 |
Make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. |
| Exodus 30:6 |
Place it in front of the curtain that is over the Ark of the Pact—in front of the cover that is over the Pact—where I will meet with you. |
| Exodus 30:7 |
On it Aaron shall burn aromatic incense: he shall burn it every morning when he tends the lamps, |
| Exodus 30:8 |
and Aaron shall burn it at twilight when he lights the lamps—a regular incense offering before the LORD throughout the ages. |
| Exodus 30:9 |
You shall not offer alien incense on it, or a burnt offering or a meal offering; neither shall you pour a libation on it. |
| Exodus 30:10 |
Once a year Aaron shall perform purification upon its horns with blood of the sin offering of purification; purification shall be performed upon it once a year throughout the ages. It is most holy to the LORD. |
| Exodus 30:11 |
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying: |
| Exodus 30:12 |
When you take a census of the Israelite people according to their enrollment, each shall pay the LORD a ransom for himself on being enrolled, that no plague may come upon them through their being enrolled. |
| Exodus 30:13 |
This is what everyone who is entered in the records shall pay: a half-shekel by the sanctuary weight—twenty <i>gerah</i>s to the shekel—a half-shekel as an offering to the LORD. |
| Exodus 30:14 |
Everyone who is entered in the records, from the age of twenty years up, shall give the LORD’s offering: |
| Exodus 30:15 |
the rich shall not pay more and the poor shall not pay less than half a shekel when giving the LORD’s offering as expiation for your persons. |
| Exodus 30:16 |
You shall take the expiation money from the Israelites and assign it to the service of the Tent of Meeting; it shall serve the Israelites as a reminder before the LORD, as expiation for your persons. |
| Exodus 30:17 |
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying: |
| Exodus 30:18 |
Make a laver of copper and a stand of copper for it, for washing; and place it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar. Put water in it, |
| Exodus 30:19 |
and let Aaron and his sons wash their hands and feet [in water drawn] from it. |
| Exodus 30:20 |
When they enter the Tent of Meeting they shall wash with water, that they may not die; or when they approach the altar to serve, to turn into smoke an offering by fire to the LORD, |
| Exodus 30:21 |
they shall wash their hands and feet, that they may not die. It shall be a law for all time for them—for him and his offspring—throughout the ages. |
| Exodus 30:22 |
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying: |
| Exodus 30:23 |
Next take choice spices: five hundred weight of solidified myrrh, half as much—two hundred and fifty—of fragrant cinnamon, two hundred and fifty of aromatic cane, |
| Exodus 30:24 |
five hundred—by the sanctuary weight—of cassia, and a <i>hin</i> of olive oil. |
| Exodus 30:25 |
Make of this a sacred anointing oil, a compound of ingredients expertly blended, to serve as sacred anointing oil. |
| Exodus 30:26 |
With it anoint the Tent of Meeting, the Ark of the Pact, |
| Exodus 30:27 |
the table and all its utensils, the lampstand and all its fittings, the altar of incense, |
| Exodus 30:28 |
the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the laver and its stand. |
| Exodus 30:29 |
Thus you shall consecrate them so that they may be most holy; whatever touches them shall be consecrated. |
| Exodus 30:30 |
You shall also anoint Aaron and his sons, consecrating them to serve Me as priests. |
| Exodus 30:31 |
And speak to the Israelite people, as follows: This shall be an anointing oil sacred to Me throughout the ages. |
| Exodus 30:32 |
It must not be rubbed on any person’s body, and you must not make anything like it in the same proportions; it is sacred, to be held sacred by you. |
| Exodus 30:33 |
Whoever compounds its like, or puts any of it on a layman, shall be cut off from his kin. |
| Exodus 30:34 |
And the LORD said to Moses: Take the herbs stacte, onycha, and galbanum—these herbs together with pure frankincense; let there be an equal part of each. |
| Exodus 30:35 |
Make them into incense, a compound expertly blended, refined, pure, sacred. |
| Exodus 30:36 |
Beat some of it into powder, and put some before the Pact in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you; it shall be most holy to you. |
| Exodus 30:37 |
But when you make this incense, you must not make any in the same proportions for yourselves; it shall be held by you sacred to the LORD. |
| Exodus 30:38 |
Whoever makes any like it, to smell of it, shall be cut off from his kin. |
| Exodus 31:1 |
The LORD spoke to Moses: |
| Exodus 31:2 |
See, I have singled out by name Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. |
| Exodus 31:3 |
I have endowed him with a divine spirit of skill, ability, and knowledge in every kind of craft; |
| Exodus 31:4 |
to make designs for work in gold, silver, and copper, |
| Exodus 31:5 |
to cut stones for setting and to carve wood—to work in every kind of craft. |
| Exodus 31:6 |
Moreover, I have assigned to him Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and I have also granted skill to all who are skillful, that they may make everything that I have commanded you: |
| Exodus 31:7 |
the Tent of Meeting, the Ark for the Pact and the cover upon it, and all the furnishings of the Tent; |
| Exodus 31:8 |
the table and its utensils, the pure lampstand and all its fittings, and the altar of incense; |
| Exodus 31:9 |
the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the laver and its stand; |
| Exodus 31:10 |
the service vestments, the sacral vestments of Aaron the priest and the vestments of his sons, for their service as priests; |
| Exodus 31:11 |
as well as the anointing oil and the aromatic incense for the sanctuary. Just as I have commanded you, they shall do. |
| Exodus 31:12 |
And the LORD said to Moses: |
| Exodus 31:13 |
Speak to the Israelite people and say: Nevertheless, you must keep My sabbaths, for this is a sign between Me and you throughout the ages, that you may know that I the LORD have consecrated you. |
| Exodus 31:14 |
You shall keep the sabbath, for it is holy for you. He who profanes it shall be put to death: whoever does work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his kin. |
| Exodus 31:15 |
Six days may work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD; whoever does work on the sabbath day shall be put to death. |
| Exodus 31:16 |
The Israelite people shall keep the sabbath, observing the sabbath throughout the ages as a covenant for all time: |
| Exodus 31:17 |
it shall be a sign for all time between Me and the people of Israel. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day He ceased from work and was refreshed. |
| Exodus 31:18* |
[When he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave Moses the Pact.] |
| Exodus 34:29 |
So Moses came down from Mount Sinai. And as Moses came down from the mountain bearing the two tablets of the Pact, Moses was not aware that the skin of his face was radiant, since he had spoken with Him. |
| Exodus 34:30 |
Aaron and all the Israelites saw that the skin of Moses’ face was radiant; and they shrank from coming near him. |
| Exodus 34:31 |
But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the chieftains in the assembly returned to him, and Moses spoke to them. |
| Exodus 34:32 |
Afterward all the Israelites came near, and he instructed them concerning all that the LORD had imparted to him on Mount Sinai. |
| Exodus 34:33 |
And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face. |
| Exodus 34:34 |
Whenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with Him, he would leave the veil off until he came out; and when he came out and told the Israelites what he had been commanded, |
| Exodus 34:35 |
the Israelites would see how radiant the skin of Moses’ face was. Moses would then put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with Him. |
| Exodus 35:1 |
Moses then convoked the whole Israelite community and said to them:/These are the things that the LORD has commanded you to do: |
| Exodus 35:2 |
On six days work may be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death. |
| Exodus 35:3 |
You shall kindle no fire throughout your settlements on the sabbath day. |
| Exodus 35:4 |
Moses said further to the whole community of Israelites:/This is what the LORD has commanded: |
| Exodus 35:5 |
Take from among you gifts to the LORD; everyone whose heart so moves him shall bring them—gifts for the LORD: gold, silver, and copper; |
| Exodus 35:6 |
blue, purple, and crimson yarns, fine linen, and goats’ hair; |
| Exodus 35:7 |
tanned ram skins, dolphin skins, and acacia wood; |
| Exodus 35:8 |
oil for lighting, spices for the anointing oil and for the aromatic incense; |
| Exodus 35:9 |
lapis lazuli and other stones for setting, for the ephod and the breastpiece. |
| Exodus 35:10 |
And let all among you who are skilled come and make all that the LORD has commanded: |
| Exodus 35:11 |
the Tabernacle, its tent and its covering, its clasps and its planks, its bars, its posts, and its sockets; |
| Exodus 35:12 |
the ark and its poles, the cover, and the curtain for the screen; |
| Exodus 35:13 |
the table, and its poles and all its utensils; and the bread of display; |
| Exodus 35:14 |
the lampstand for lighting, its furnishings and its lamps, and the oil for lighting; |
| Exodus 35:15 |
the altar of incense and its poles; the anointing oil and the aromatic incense; and the entrance screen for the entrance of the Tabernacle; |
| Exodus 35:16 |
the altar of burnt offering, its copper grating, its poles, and all its furnishings; the laver and its stand; |
| Exodus 35:17 |
the hangings of the enclosure, its posts and its sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court; |
| Exodus 35:18 |
the pegs for the Tabernacle, the pegs for the enclosure, and their cords; |
| Exodus 35:19 |
the service vestments for officiating in the sanctuary, the sacral vestments of Aaron the priest and the vestments of his sons for priestly service. |
| Exodus 35:20 |
So the whole community of the Israelites left Moses’ presence. |
| Exodus 35:21 |
And everyone who excelled in ability and everyone whose spirit moved him came, bringing to the LORD his offering for the work of the Tent of Meeting and for all its service and for the sacral vestments. |
| Exodus 35:22 |
Men and women, all whose hearts moved them, all who would make an elevation offering of gold to the LORD, came bringing brooches, earrings, rings, and pendants—gold objects of all kinds. |
| Exodus 35:23 |
And everyone who had in his possession blue, purple, and crimson yarns, fine linen, goats’ hair, tanned ram skins, and dolphin skins, brought them; |
| Exodus 35:24 |
everyone who would make gifts of silver or copper brought them as gifts for the LORD; and everyone who had in his possession acacia wood for any work of the service brought that. |
| Exodus 35:25 |
And all the skilled women spun with their own hands, and brought what they had spun, in blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and in fine linen. |
| Exodus 35:26 |
And all the women who excelled in that skill spun the goats’ hair. |
| Exodus 35:27 |
And the chieftains brought lapis lazuli and other stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece; |
| Exodus 35:28 |
and spices and oil for lighting, for the anointing oil, and for the aromatic incense. |
| Exodus 35:29 |
Thus the Israelites, all the men and women whose hearts moved them to bring anything for the work that the LORD, through Moses, had commanded to be done, brought it as a freewill offering to the LORD. |
| Exodus 35:30 |
And Moses said to the Israelites: See, the LORD has singled out by name Bezalel, son of Uri son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. |
| Exodus 35:31 |
He has endowed him with a divine spirit of skill, ability, and knowledge in every kind of craft |
| Exodus 35:32 |
and has inspired him to make designs for work in gold, silver, and copper, |
| Exodus 35:33 |
to cut stones for setting and to carve wood—to work in every kind of designer’s craft— |
| Exodus 35:34 |
and to give directions. He and Oholiab son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan |
| Exodus 35:35 |
have been endowed with the skill to do any work—of the carver, the designer, the embroiderer in blue, purple, crimson yarns, and in fine linen, and of the weaver—as workers in all crafts and as makers of designs. |
| Exodus 36:1 |
Let, then, Bezalel and Oholiab and all the skilled persons whom the LORD has endowed with skill and ability to perform expertly all the tasks connected with the service of the sanctuary carry out all that the LORD has commanded. |
| Exodus 36:2 |
Moses then called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every skilled person whom the LORD had endowed with skill, everyone who excelled in ability, to undertake the task and carry it out. |
| Exodus 36:3 |
They took over from Moses all the gifts that the Israelites had brought, to carry out the tasks connected with the service of the sanctuary. But when these continued to bring freewill offerings to him morning after morning, |
| Exodus 36:4 |
all the artisans who were engaged in the tasks of the sanctuary came, each from the task upon which he was engaged, |
| Exodus 36:5 |
and said to Moses, “The people are bringing more than is needed for the tasks entailed in the work that the LORD has commanded to be done.” |
| Exodus 36:6 |
Moses thereupon had this proclamation made throughout the camp: “Let no man or woman make further effort toward gifts for the sanctuary!” So the people stopped bringing: |
| Exodus 36:7 |
their efforts had been more than enough for all the tasks to be done. |
| Exodus 36:8 |
Then all the skilled among those engaged in the work made the tabernacle of ten strips of cloth, which they made of fine twisted linen, blue, purple, and crimson yarns; into these they worked a design of cherubim. |
| Exodus 36:9 |
The length of each cloth was twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each cloth was four cubits, all cloths having the same measurements. |
| Exodus 36:10 |
They joined five of the cloths to one another, and they joined the other five cloths to one another. |
| Exodus 36:11 |
They made loops of blue wool on the edge of the outermost cloth of the one set, and did the same on the edge of the outermost cloth of the other set: |
| Exodus 36:12 |
they made fifty loops on the one cloth, and they made fifty loops on the edge of the end cloth of the other set, the loops being opposite one another. |
| Exodus 36:13 |
And they made fifty gold clasps and coupled the units to one another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle became one whole. |
| Exodus 36:14 |
They made cloths of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; they made the cloths eleven in number. |
| Exodus 36:15 |
The length of each cloth was thirty cubits, and the width of each cloth was four cubits, the eleven cloths having the same measurements. |
| Exodus 36:16 |
They joined five of the cloths by themselves, and the other six cloths by themselves. |
| Exodus 36:17 |
They made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost cloth of the one set, and they made fifty loops on the edge of the end cloth of the other set. |
| Exodus 36:18 |
They made fifty copper clasps to couple the tent together so that it might become one whole. |
| Exodus 36:19 |
And they made a covering of tanned ram skins for the tent, and a covering of dolphin skins above. |
| Exodus 36:20 |
They made the planks for the Tabernacle of acacia wood, upright. |
| Exodus 36:21 |
The length of each plank was ten cubits, the width of each plank a cubit and a half. |
| Exodus 36:22 |
Each plank had two tenons, parallel to each other; they did the same with all the planks of the Tabernacle. |
| Exodus 36:23 |
Of the planks of the Tabernacle, they made twenty planks for the south side, |
| Exodus 36:24 |
making forty silver sockets under the twenty planks, two sockets under one plank for its two tenons and two sockets under each following plank for its two tenons; |
| Exodus 36:25 |
and for the other side wall of the Tabernacle, the north side, twenty planks, |
| Exodus 36:26 |
with their forty silver sockets, two sockets under one plank and two sockets under each following plank. |
| Exodus 36:27 |
And for the rear of the Tabernacle, to the west, they made six planks; |
| Exodus 36:28 |
and they made two planks for the corners of the Tabernacle at the rear. |
| Exodus 36:29 |
They matched at the bottom, but terminated as one at the top into one ring; they did so with both of them at the two corners. |
| Exodus 36:30 |
Thus there were eight planks with their sockets of silver: sixteen sockets, two under each plank. |
| Exodus 36:31 |
They made bars of acacia wood, five for the planks of the one side wall of the Tabernacle, |
| Exodus 36:32 |
five bars for the planks of the other side wall of the Tabernacle, and five bars for the planks of the wall of the Tabernacle at the rear, to the west; |
| Exodus 36:33 |
they made the center bar to run, halfway up the planks, from end to end. |
| Exodus 36:34 |
They overlaid the planks with gold, and made their rings of gold, as holders for the bars; and they overlaid the bars with gold. |
| Exodus 36:35 |
They made the curtain of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and fine twisted linen, working into it a design of cherubim. |
| Exodus 36:36 |
They made for it four posts of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold, with their hooks of gold; and they cast for them four silver sockets. |
| Exodus 36:37 |
They made the screen for the entrance of the Tent, of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and fine twisted linen, done in embroidery; |
| Exodus 36:38 |
and five posts for it with their hooks. They overlaid their tops and their bands with gold; but the five sockets were of copper. |
| Exodus 37:1 |
Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high. |
| Exodus 37:2 |
He overlaid it with pure gold, inside and out; and he made a gold molding for it round about. |
| Exodus 37:3 |
He cast four gold rings for it, for its four feet: two rings on one of its side walls and two rings on the other. |
| Exodus 37:4 |
He made poles of acacia wood, overlaid them with gold, |
| Exodus 37:5 |
and inserted the poles into the rings on the side walls of the ark for carrying the ark. |
| Exodus 37:6 |
He made a cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. |
| Exodus 37:7 |
He made two cherubim of gold; he made them of hammered work, at the two ends of the cover: |
| Exodus 37:8 |
one cherub at one end and the other cherub at the other end; he made the cherubim of one piece with the cover, at its two ends. |
| Exodus 37:9 |
The cherubim had their wings spread out above, shielding the cover with their wings. They faced each other; the faces of the cherubim were turned toward the cover. |
| Exodus 37:10 |
He made the table of acacia wood, two cubits long, one cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high; |
| Exodus 37:11 |
he overlaid it with pure gold and made a gold molding around it. |
| Exodus 37:12 |
He made a rim of a hand’s breadth around it and made a gold molding for its rim round about. |
| Exodus 37:13 |
He cast four gold rings for it and attached the rings to the four corners at its four legs. |
| Exodus 37:14 |
The rings were next to the rim, as holders for the poles to carry the table. |
| Exodus 37:15 |
He made the poles of acacia wood for carrying the table, and overlaid them with gold. |
| Exodus 37:16 |
The utensils that were to be upon the table—its bowls, ladles, jugs, and jars with which to offer libations—he made of pure gold. |
| Exodus 37:17 |
He made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand—its base and its shaft—of hammered work; its cups, calyxes, and petals were of one piece with it. |
| Exodus 37:18 |
Six branches issued from its sides: three branches from one side of the lampstand, and three branches from the other side of the lampstand. |
| Exodus 37:19 |
There were three cups shaped like almond-blossoms, each with calyx and petals, on one branch; and there were three cups shaped like almond-blossoms, each with calyx and petals, on the next branch; so for all six branches issuing from the lampstand. |
| Exodus 37:20 |
On the lampstand itself there were four cups shaped like almond-blossoms, each with calyx and petals: |
| Exodus 37:21 |
a calyx, of one piece with it, under a pair of branches; and a calyx, of one piece with it, under the second pair of branches; and a calyx, of one piece with it, under the last pair of branches; so for all six branches issuing from it. |
| Exodus 37:22 |
Their calyxes and their stems were of one piece with it, the whole of it a single hammered piece of pure gold. |
| Exodus 37:23 |
He made its seven lamps, its tongs, and its fire pans of pure gold. |
| Exodus 37:24 |
He made it and all its furnishings out of a talent of pure gold. |
| Exodus 37:25 |
He made the incense altar of acacia wood, a cubit long and a cubit wide—square—and two cubits high; its horns were of one piece with it. |
| Exodus 37:26 |
He overlaid it with pure gold: its top, its sides round about, and its horns; and he made a gold molding for it round about. |
| Exodus 37:27 |
He made two gold rings for it under its molding, on its two walls—on opposite sides—as holders for the poles with which to carry it. |
| Exodus 37:28 |
He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold. |
| Exodus 37:29 |
He prepared the sacred anointing oil and the pure aromatic incense, expertly blended. |
| Exodus 38:1 |
He made the altar for burnt offering of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide—square—and three cubits high. |
| Exodus 38:2 |
He made horns for it on its four corners, the horns being of one piece with it; and he overlaid it with copper. |
| Exodus 38:3 |
He made all the utensils of the altar—the pails, the scrapers, the basins, the flesh hooks, and the fire pans; he made all these utensils of copper. |
| Exodus 38:4 |
He made for the altar a grating of meshwork in copper, extending below, under its ledge, to its middle. |
| Exodus 38:5 |
He cast four rings, at the four corners of the copper grating, as holders for the poles. |
| Exodus 38:6 |
He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with copper; |
| Exodus 38:7 |
and he inserted the poles into the rings on the side walls of the altar, to carry it by them. He made it hollow, of boards. |
| Exodus 38:8 |
He made the laver of copper and its stand of copper, from the mirrors of the women who performed tasks at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. |
| Exodus 38:9 |
He made the enclosure:/On the south side, a hundred cubits of hangings of fine twisted linen for the enclosure— |
| Exodus 38:10 |
with their twenty posts and their twenty sockets of copper, the hooks and bands of the posts being silver. |
| Exodus 38:11 |
On the north side, a hundred cubits—with their twenty posts and their twenty sockets of copper, the hooks and bands of the posts being silver. |
| Exodus 38:12 |
On the west side, fifty cubits of hangings—with their ten posts and their ten sockets, the hooks and bands of the posts being silver. |
| Exodus 38:13 |
And on the front side, to the east, fifty cubits: |
| Exodus 38:14 |
fifteen cubits of hangings on the one flank, with their three posts and their three sockets, |
| Exodus 38:15 |
and fifteen cubits of hangings on the other flank—on each side of the gate of the enclosure—with their three posts and their three sockets. |
| Exodus 38:16 |
All the hangings around the enclosure were of fine twisted linen. |
| Exodus 38:17 |
The sockets for the posts were of copper, the hooks and bands of the posts were of silver, the overlay of their tops was of silver; all the posts of the enclosure were banded with silver.— |
| Exodus 38:18 |
The screen of the gate of the enclosure, done in embroidery, was of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and fine twisted linen. It was twenty cubits long. Its height—or width—was five cubits, like that of the hangings of the enclosure. |
| Exodus 38:19 |
The posts were four; their four sockets were of copper, their hooks of silver; and the overlay of their tops was of silver, as were also their bands.— |
| Exodus 38:20 |
All the pegs of the Tabernacle and of the enclosure round about were of copper. |
| Exodus 38:21 |
These are the records of the Tabernacle, the Tabernacle of the Pact, which were drawn up at Moses’ bidding—the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest. |
| Exodus 38:22 |
Now Bezalel, son of Uri son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, had made all that the LORD had commanded Moses; |
| Exodus 38:23 |
at his side was Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, carver and designer, and embroiderer in blue, purple, and crimson yarns and in fine linen. |
| Exodus 38:24 |
All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary—the elevation offering of gold—came to 29 talents and 730 shekels by the sanctuary weight. |
| Exodus 38:25 |
The silver of those of the community who were recorded came to 100 talents and 1,775 shekels by the sanctuary weight: |
| Exodus 38:26 |
a half-shekel a head, half a shekel by the sanctuary weight, for each one who was entered in the records, from the age of twenty years up, 603,550 men. |
| Exodus 38:27 |
The 100 talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary and the sockets for the curtain, 100 sockets to the 100 talents, a talent a socket. |
| Exodus 38:28 |
And of the 1,775 shekels he made hooks for the posts, overlay for their tops, and bands around them. |
| Exodus 38:29 |
The copper from the elevation offering came to 70 talents and 2,400 shekels. |
| Exodus 38:30 |
Of it he made the sockets for the entrance of the Tent of Meeting; the copper altar and its copper grating and all the utensils of the altar; |
| Exodus 38:31 |
the sockets of the enclosure round about and the sockets of the gate of the enclosure; and all the pegs of the Tabernacle and all the pegs of the enclosure round about. |
| Exodus 39:1 |
Of the blue, purple, and crimson yarns they also made the service vestments for officiating in the sanctuary; they made Aaron’s sacral vestments—as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
| Exodus 39:2 |
The ephod was made of gold, blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and fine twisted linen. |
| Exodus 39:3 |
They hammered out sheets of gold and cut threads to be worked into designs among the blue, the purple, and the crimson yarns, and the fine linen. |
| Exodus 39:4 |
They made for it attaching shoulder-pieces; they were attached at its two ends. |
| Exodus 39:5 |
The decorated band that was upon it was made like it, of one piece with it; of gold, blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and fine twisted linen—as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
| Exodus 39:6 |
They bordered the lazuli stones with frames of gold, engraved with seal engravings of the names of the sons of Israel. |
| Exodus 39:7 |
They were set on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, as stones of remembrance for the Israelites—as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
| Exodus 39:8 |
The breastpiece was made in the style of the ephod: of gold, blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and fine twisted linen. |
| Exodus 39:9 |
It was square; they made the breastpiece doubled—a span in length and a span in width, doubled. |
| Exodus 39:10 |
They set in it four rows of stones. The first row was a row of carnelian, chrysolite, and emerald; |
| Exodus 39:11 |
the second row: a turquoise, a sapphire, and an amethyst; |
| Exodus 39:12 |
the third row: a jacinth, an agate, and a crystal; |
| Exodus 39:13 |
and the fourth row: a beryl, a lapis lazuli, and a jasper. They were encircled in their mountings with frames of gold. |
| Exodus 39:14 |
The stones corresponded [in number] to the names of the sons of Israel: twelve, corresponding to their names; engraved like seals, each with its name, for the twelve tribes. |
| Exodus 39:15 |
On the breastpiece they made braided chains of corded work in pure gold. |
| Exodus 39:16 |
They made two frames of gold and two rings of gold, and fastened the two rings at the two ends of the breastpiece, |
| Exodus 39:17 |
attaching the two golden cords to the two rings at the ends of the breastpiece. |
| Exodus 39:18 |
They then fastened the two ends of the cords to the two frames, attaching them to the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, at the front. |
| Exodus 39:19 |
They made two rings of gold and attached them to the two ends of the breastpiece, at its inner edge, which faced the ephod. |
| Exodus 39:20 |
They made two other rings of gold and fastened them on the front of the ephod, low on the two shoulder-pieces, close to its seam above the decorated band. |
| Exodus 39:21 |
The breastpiece was held in place by a cord of blue from its rings to the rings of the ephod, so that the breastpiece rested on the decorated band and did not come loose from the ephod—as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
| Exodus 39:22 |
The robe for the ephod was made of woven work, of pure blue. |
| Exodus 39:23 |
The opening of the robe, in the middle of it, was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around the opening, so that it would not tear. |
| Exodus 39:24 |
On the hem of the robe they made pomegranates of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, twisted. |
| Exodus 39:25 |
They also made bells of pure gold, and attached the bells between the pomegranates, all around the hem of the robe, between the pomegranates: |
| Exodus 39:26 |
a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, all around the hem of the robe for officiating in—as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
| Exodus 39:27 |
They made the tunics of fine linen, of woven work, for Aaron and his sons; |
| Exodus 39:28 |
and the headdress of fine linen, and the decorated turbans of fine linen, and the linen breeches of fine twisted linen; |
| Exodus 39:29 |
and sashes of fine twisted linen, blue, purple, and crimson yarns, done in embroidery—as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
| Exodus 39:30 |
They made the frontlet for the holy diadem of pure gold, and incised upon it the seal inscription: “Holy to the LORD.” |
| Exodus 39:31 |
They attached to it a cord of blue to fix it upon the headdress above—as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
| Exodus 39:32 |
Thus was completed all the work of the Tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting. The Israelites did so; just as the LORD had commanded Moses, so they did. |
| Exodus 39:33 |
Then they brought the Tabernacle to Moses, with the Tent and all its furnishings: its clasps, its planks, its bars, its posts, and its sockets; |
| Exodus 39:34 |
the covering of tanned ram skins, the covering of dolphin skins, and the curtain for the screen; |
| Exodus 39:35 |
the Ark of the Pact and its poles, and the cover; |
| Exodus 39:36 |
the table and all its utensils, and the bread of display; |
| Exodus 39:37 |
the pure lampstand, its lamps—lamps in due order—and all its fittings, and the oil for lighting; |
| Exodus 39:38 |
the altar of gold, the oil for anointing, the aromatic incense, and the screen for the entrance of the Tent; |
| Exodus 39:39 |
the copper altar with its copper grating, its poles and all its utensils, and the laver and its stand; |
| Exodus 39:40 |
the hangings of the enclosure, its posts and its sockets, the screen for the gate of the enclosure, its cords and its pegs—all the furnishings for the service of the Tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting; |
| Exodus 39:41 |
the service vestments for officiating in the sanctuary, the sacral vestments of Aaron the priest, and the vestments of his sons for priestly service. |
| Exodus 39:42 |
Just as the LORD had commanded Moses, so the Israelites had done all the work. |
| Exodus 39:43 |
And when Moses saw that they had performed all the tasks—as the LORD had commanded, so they had done—Moses blessed them. |
| Exodus 40:1 |
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: |
| Exodus 40:2 |
On the first day of the first month you shall set up the Tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting. |
| Exodus 40:3 |
Place there the Ark of the Pact, and screen off the ark with the curtain. |
| Exodus 40:4 |
Bring in the table and lay out its due setting; bring in the lampstand and light its lamps; |
| Exodus 40:5 |
and place the gold altar of incense before the Ark of the Pact. Then put up the screen for the entrance of the Tabernacle. |
| Exodus 40:6 |
You shall place the altar of burnt offering before the entrance of the Tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting. |
| Exodus 40:7 |
Place the laver between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water in it. |
| Exodus 40:8 |
Set up the enclosure round about, and put in place the screen for the gate of the enclosure. |
| Exodus 40:9 |
You shall take the anointing oil and anoint the Tabernacle and all that is in it to consecrate it and all its furnishings, so that it shall be holy. |
| Exodus 40:10 |
Then anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils to consecrate the altar, so that the altar shall be most holy. |
| Exodus 40:11 |
And anoint the laver and its stand to consecrate it. |
| Exodus 40:12 |
You shall bring Aaron and his sons forward to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting and wash them with the water. |
| Exodus 40:13 |
Put the sacral vestments on Aaron, and anoint him and consecrate him, that he may serve Me as priest. |
| Exodus 40:14 |
Then bring his sons forward, put tunics on them, |
| Exodus 40:15 |
and anoint them as you have anointed their father, that they may serve Me as priests. This their anointing shall serve them for everlasting priesthood throughout the ages. |
| Exodus 40:16 |
This Moses did; just as the LORD had commanded him, so he did. |
| Exodus 40:17 |
In the first month of the second year, on the first of the month, the Tabernacle was set up. |
| Exodus 40:18 |
Moses set up the Tabernacle, placing its sockets, setting up its planks, inserting its bars, and erecting its posts. |
| Exodus 40:19 |
He spread the tent over the Tabernacle, placing the covering of the tent on top of it—just as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
| Exodus 40:20 |
He took the Pact and placed it in the ark; he fixed the poles to the ark, placed the cover on top of the ark, |
| Exodus 40:21 |
and brought the ark inside the Tabernacle. Then he put up the curtain for screening, and screened off the Ark of the Pact—just as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
| Exodus 40:22 |
He placed the table in the Tent of Meeting, outside the curtain, on the north side of the Tabernacle. |
| Exodus 40:23 |
Upon it he laid out the setting of bread before the LORD—as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
| Exodus 40:24 |
He placed the lampstand in the Tent of Meeting opposite the table, on the south side of the Tabernacle. |
| Exodus 40:25 |
And he lit the lamps before the LORD—as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
| Exodus 40:26 |
He placed the altar of gold in the Tent of Meeting, before the curtain. |
| Exodus 40:27 |
On it he burned aromatic incense—as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
| Exodus 40:28 |
Then he put up the screen for the entrance of the Tabernacle. |
| Exodus 40:29 |
At the entrance of the Tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting he placed the altar of burnt offering. On it he offered up the burnt offering and the meal offering—as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
| Exodus 40:30 |
He placed the laver between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water in it for washing. |
| Exodus 40:31 |
From it Moses and Aaron and his sons would wash their hands and feet; |
| Exodus 40:32 |
they washed when they entered the Tent of Meeting and when they approached the altar—as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
| Exodus 40:33 |
And he set up the enclosure around the Tabernacle and the altar, and put up the screen for the gate of the enclosure./When Moses had finished the work, |
| Exodus 40:34 |
the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the Presence of the LORD filled the Tabernacle. |
| Exodus 40:35 |
Moses could not enter the Tent of Meeting, because the cloud had settled upon it and the Presence of the LORD filled the Tabernacle. |
| Exodus 40:36 |
When the cloud lifted from the Tabernacle, the Israelites would set out, on their various journeys; |
| Exodus 40:37 |
but if the cloud did not lift, they would not set out until such time as it did lift. |
| Exodus 40:38 |
For over the Tabernacle a cloud of the LORD rested by day, and fire would appear in it by night, in the view of all the house of Israel throughout their journeys./ |