1:1 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into
 Egypt; every man and his family came with Jacob.
1:2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;
1:3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;
1:4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
1:5 All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons: and Joseph
 had come to Egypt before them.
1:6 Then Joseph came to his end, and all his brothers, and all
 that generation.
1:7 And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very
 greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.
1:8 Now a new king came to power in Egypt, who had no knowledge
 of Joseph.
1:9 And he said to his people, See, the people of Israel are
 greater in number and in power than we are:
1:10 Let us take care for fear that their numbers may become
 even greater, and if there is a war, they may be joined with
 those who are against us, and make an attack on us, and go up
 out of the land.
1:11 So they put overseers of forced work over them, in order to
 make their strength less by the weight of their work. And they
 made store-towns for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.
1:12 But the more cruel they were to them, the more their number
 increased, till all the land was full of them. And the children
 of Israel were hated by the Egyptians.
1:13 And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to
 do:
1:14 And made their lives bitter with hard work, making
 building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in
 the fields under the hardest conditions.
1:15 And the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew women who gave
 help at the time of childbirth (the name of the one was
 Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah),
1:16 When you are looking after the Hebrew women in childbirth,
 if it is a son you are to put him to death; but if it is a
 daughter, she may go on living.
1:17 But the women had the fear of God, and did not do as the
 king of Egypt said, but let the male children go on living.
1:18 And the king of Egypt sent for the women, and said to them,
 Why have you done this, and let the male children go on living?
1:19 And they said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not
 like the Egyptian women, for they are strong, and the birth
 takes place before we come to them.
1:20 And the blessing of God was on these women: and the people
 were increased in number and became very strong.
1:21 And because the women who took care of the Hebrew mothers
 had the fear of God, he gave them families.
1:22 And Pharaoh gave orders to all his people, saying, Every
 son who comes to birth is to be put into the river, but every
 daughter may go on living.
2:1 Now a man of the house of Levi took as his wife a daughter
 of Levi.
2:2 And she became with child and gave birth to a Son; and when
 she saw that he was a beautiful child, she kept him secretly
 for three months.
2:3 And when she was no longer able to keep him secret, she made
 him a basket out of the stems of water-plants, pasting sticky
 earth over it to keep the water out; and placing the baby in it
 she put it among the plants by the edge of the Nile.
2:4 And his sister took her place at a distance to see what
 would become of him.
2:5 Now Pharaoh's daughter came down to the Nile to take a bath,
 while her women were walking by the riverside; and she saw the
 basket among the river-plants, and sent her servant-girl to get
 it.
2:6 And opening it, she saw the child, and he was crying. And
 she had pity on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews'
 children.
2:7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, May I go and get
 you one of the Hebrew women to give him the breast?
2:8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the girl went
 and got the child's mother.
2:9 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Take the child away and
 give it milk for me, and I will give you payment. And the woman
 took the child and gave it milk at her breast.
2:10 And when the child was older, she took him to Pharaoh's
 daughter and he became her son, and she gave him the name
 Moses, Because, she said, I took him out of the water.
2:11 Now when Moses had become a man, one day he went out to his
 people and saw how hard their work was; and he saw an Egyptian
 giving blows to a Hebrew, one of his people.
2:12 And turning this way and that, and seeing no one, he put
 the Egyptian to death, covering his body with sand.
2:13 And he went out the day after and saw two of the Hebrews
 fighting: and he said to him who was in the wrong, Why are you
 fighting your brother?
2:14 And he said, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? are
 you going to put me to death as you did the Egyptian? And Moses
 was in fear, and said, It is clear that the thing has come to
 light.
2:15 Now when Pharaoh had news of this, he would have put Moses
 to death. But Moses went in flight from Pharaoh into the land
 of Midian: and he took his seat by a water-spring.
2:16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came
 to get water for their father's flock.
2:17 And the keepers of the sheep came up and were driving them
 away; but Moses got up and came to their help, watering their
 flock for them.
2:18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is
 it that you have come back so quickly today?
2:19 And they said, An Egyptian came to our help against the
 keepers of sheep and got water for us and gave it to the flock.
2:20 And he said to his daughters, Where is he? why have you let
 the man go? make him come in and give him a meal.
2:21 And Moses was happy to go on living with the man; and he
 gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses.
2:22 And she gave birth to a son, to whom he gave the name
 Gershom: for he said, I have been living in a strange land.
2:23 Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end:
 and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the
 weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears
 of God.
2:24 And at the sound of their weeping the agreement which God
 had made with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob came to his mind.
2:25 And God's eyes were turned to the children of Israel and he
 gave them the knowledge of himself.
3:1 Now Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his
 father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he took the flock to
 the back of the waste land and came to Horeb, the mountain of
 God.
3:2 And the angel of the Lord was seen by him in a flame of fire
 coming out of a thorn-tree: and he saw that the tree was on
 fire, but it was not burned up.
3:3 And Moses said, I will go and see this strange thing, why
 the tree is not burned up,
3:4 And when the Lord saw him turning to one side to see, God
 said his name out of the tree, crying, Moses, Moses. And he
 said, Here am I.
3:5 And he said, Do not come near: take off your shoes from your
 feet, for the place where you are is holy.
3:6 And he said, I am the God of your fathers, the God of
 Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses kept
 his face covered for fear of looking on God.
3:7 And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in
 Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to
 my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows;
3:8 And I have come down to take them out of the hands of the
 Egyptians, guiding them out of that land into a good land and
 wide, into a land flowing with milk and honey; into the place
 of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the
 Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
3:9 For now, truly, the cry of the children of Israel has come
 to me, and I have seen the cruel behaviour of the Egyptians to
 them.
3:10 Come, then, and I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you may
 take my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.
3:11 And Moses said to God, Who am I to go to Pharaoh and take
 the children of Israel out of Egypt?
3:12 And he said, Truly I will be with you; and this will be the
 sign to you that I have sent you: when you have taken the
 children of Israel out of Egypt, you will give worship to God
 on this mountain.
3:13 And Moses said to God, When I come to the children of
 Israel and say to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to
 you: and they say to me, What is his name? what am I to say to
 them?
3:14 And God said to him, I AM WHAT I AM: and he said, Say to
 the children of Israel, I AM has sent me to you.
3:15 And God went on to say to Moses, Say to the children of
 Israel, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham,
 of Isaac, and of Jacob, has sent me to you: this is my name for
 ever, and this is my sign to all generations.
3:16 Go and get together the chiefs of the children of Israel,
 and say to them, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of
 Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has been seen by me, and has
 said, Truly I have taken up your cause, because of what is done
 to you in Egypt;
3:17 And I have said, I will take you up out of the sorrows of
 Egypt into the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the
 Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, into
 a land flowing with milk and honey.
3:18 And they will give ear to your voice: and you, with the
 chiefs of Israel, will go to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and
 say to him, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has come to us:
 let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make
 an offering to the Lord our God.
3:19 And I am certain that the king of Egypt will not let you go
 without being forced.
3:20 But I will put out my hand and overcome Egypt with all the
 wonders which I will do among them: and after that he will let
 you go.
3:21 And I will give this people grace in the eyes of the
 Egyptians, so that when you go out you will go out with your
 hands full.
3:22 For every woman will get from her neighbour and from the
 woman living in her house, ornaments of silver and gold, and
 clothing; and you will put them on your sons and your
 daughters; you will take the best of their goods from the
 Egyptians.
4:1 And Moses, answering, said, It is certain that they will not
 have faith in me or give ear to my voice; for they will say,
 You have not seen the Lord.
4:2 And the Lord said to him, What is that in your hand? And he
 said, A rod.
4:3 And he said, Put it down on the earth. And he put it down on
 the earth and it became a snake; and Moses went running from
 it.
4:4 And the Lord said to Moses, Put out your hand and take it by
 the tail: (and he put out his hand and took a grip of it and it
 became a rod in his hand:)
4:5 So that they may be certain that the Lord, the God of their
 fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has been
 seen by you.
4:6 Then the Lord said to him again, Put your hand inside your
 clothing. And he put his hand inside his robe: and when he took
 it out it was like the hand of a leper, as white as snow.
4:7 And he said, Put your hand inside your robe again. (And he
 put his hand into his robe again, and when he took it out he
 saw that it had become like his other flesh.)
4:8 And if they do not have faith in you or give ear to the
 voice of the first sign, they will have faith in the second
 sign.
4:9 And if they have no faith even in these two signs and will
 not give ear to your voice, then you are to take the water of
 the Nile and put it on the dry land: and the water you take out
 of the river will become blood on the dry land.
4:10 And Moses said to the Lord, O Lord, I am not a man of
 words; I have never been so, and am not now, even after what
 you have said to your servant: for talking is hard for me, and
 I am slow of tongue.
4:11 And the Lord said to him, Who has made man's mouth? who
 takes away a man's voice or hearing, or makes him seeing or
 blind? Is it not I, the Lord?
4:12 So go now, and I will be with your mouth, teaching you what
 to say.
4:13 And he said, O Lord, send, if you will, by the hand of
 anyone whom it seems good to you to send.
4:14 And the Lord was angry with Moses, and said, Is there not
 Aaron, your brother, the Levite? To my knowledge he is good at
 talking. And now he is coming out to you: and when he sees you
 he will be glad in his heart.
4:15 Let him give ear to your voice, and you will put my words
 in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and with his,
 teaching you what you have to do.
4:16 And he will do the talking for you to the people: he will
 be to you as a mouth and you will be to him as God.
4:17 And take in your hand this rod with which you will do the
 signs.
4:18 And Moses went back to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said
 to him, Let me go back now to my relations in Egypt and see if
 they are still living. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
4:19 And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, Go back to Egypt, for
 all the men are dead who were attempting to take your life.
4:20 And Moses took his wife and his sons and put them on an ass
 and went back to the land of Egypt: and he took the rod of God
 in his hand.
4:21 And the Lord said to Moses, When you go back to Egypt, see
 that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have given
 you power to do: but I will make his heart hard and he will not
 let the people go.
4:22 And you are to say to Pharaoh, The Lord says, Israel is the
 first of my sons:
4:23 And I said to you, Let my son go, so that he may give me
 worship; and you did not let him go: so now I will put the
 first of your sons to death.
4:24 Now on the journey, at the night's resting-place, the Lord
 came in his way and would have put him to death.
4:25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cutting off the skin
 of her son's private parts, and touching his feet with it, she
 said, Truly you are a husband of blood to me.
4:26 So he let him go. Then she said, You are a husband of blood
 because of the circumcision.
4:27 And the Lord said to Aaron, Go into the waste land and you
 will see Moses. So he went and came across Moses at the
 mountain of God, and gave him a kiss.
4:28 And Moses gave Aaron an account of all the words of the
 Lord which he had sent him to say, and of all the signs which
 he had given him orders to do.
4:29 Then Moses and Aaron went and got together all the chiefs
 of the children of Israel:
4:30 And Aaron said to them all the words the Lord had said to
 Moses, and did the signs before all the people.
4:31 And the people had faith in them; and hearing that the Lord
 had taken up the cause of the children of Israel and had seen
 their troubles, with bent heads they gave him worship.
5:1 And after that, Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and said,
 The Lord, the God of Israel, says, Let my people go so that
 they may keep a feast to me in the waste land.
5:2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, to whose voice I am to
 give ear and let Israel go? I have no knowledge of the Lord and
 I will not let Israel go.
5:3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews has come to us: let us
 then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an
 offering to the Lord our God, so that he may not send death on
 us by disease or the sword.
5:4 And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do you, Moses and
 Aaron, take the people away from their work? get back to your
 work.
5:5 And Pharaoh said, Truly, the people of the land are
 increasing in number, and you are keeping them back from their
 work.
5:6 The same day Pharaoh gave orders to the overseers and those
 who were responsible for the work, saying,
5:7 Give these men no more dry stems for their brick-making as
 you have been doing; let them go and get the material for
 themselves.
5:8 But see that they make the same number of bricks as before,
 and no less: for they have no love for work; and so they are
 crying out and saying, Let us go and make an offering to our
 God.
5:9 Give the men harder work, and see that they do it; let them
 not give attention to false words.
5:10 And the overseers of the people and their responsible men
 went out and said to the people, Pharaoh says, I will give you
 no more dry stems.
5:11 Go yourselves and get dry stems wherever you are able; for
 your work is not to be any less.
5:12 So the people were sent in all directions through the land
 of Egypt to get dry grass for stems.
5:13 And the overseers went on driving them and saying, Do your
 full day's work as before when there were dry stems for you.
5:14 And the responsible men of the children of Israel, whom
 Pharaoh's overseers had put over them, were given blows, and
 they said to them, Why have you not done your regular work, in
 making bricks as before?
5:15 Then the responsible men of the children of Israel came to
 Pharaoh, protesting and saying, Why are you acting in this way
 to your servants?
5:16 They give us no dry stems and they say to us, Make bricks:
 and they give your servants blows; but it is your people who
 are in the wrong.
5:17 But he said, You have no love for work: that is why you
 say, Let us go and make an offering to the Lord.
5:18 Go now, get back to your work; no dry stems will be given
 to you, but you are to make the full number of bricks.
5:19 Then the responsible men of the children of Israel saw that
 they were purposing evil when they said, The number of bricks
 which you have to make every day will be no less than before.
5:20 And they came face to face with Moses and Aaron, who were
 in their way when they came out from Pharaoh:
5:21 And they said to them, May the Lord take note of you and be
 your judge; for you have given Pharaoh and his servants a bad
 opinion of us, putting a sword in their hands for our
 destruction.
5:22 And Moses went back to the Lord and said, Lord, why have
 you done evil to this people? why have you sent me?
5:23 For from the time when I came to Pharaoh to put your words
 before him, he has done evil to this people, and you have given
 them no help.
6:1 And the Lord said to Moses, Now you will see what I am about
 to do to Pharaoh; for by a strong hand he will be forced to let
 them go, driving them out of his land because of my
 outstretched arm.
6:2 And God said to Moses, I am Yahweh:
6:3 I let myself be seen by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God,
 the Ruler of all; but they had no knowledge of my name Yahweh.
6:4 And I made an agreement with them, to give them the land of
 Canaan, the land of their wanderings.
6:5 And truly my ears are open to the cry of the children of
 Israel whom the Egyptians keep under their yoke; and I have
 kept in mind my agreement.
6:6 Say then to the children of Israel, I am Yahweh, and I will
 take you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians, and make you
 safe from their power, and will make you free by the strength
 of my arm after great punishments.
6:7 And I will take you to be my people and I will be your God;
 and you will be certain that I am the Lord your God, who takes
 you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
6:8 And I will be your guide into the land which I made an oath
 to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it
 to you for your heritage: I am Yahweh.
6:9 And Moses said these words to the children of Israel, but
 they gave no attention to him, because of the grief of their
 spirit and the cruel weight of their work.
6:10 And the Lord said to Moses,
6:11 Go in and say to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, that he is to let
 the children of Israel go out of his land.
6:12 And Moses, answering the Lord, said, See, the children of
 Israel will not give ear to me; how then will Pharaoh give ear
 to me, whose lips are unclean?
6:13 And the word of the Lord came to Moses and Aaron, with
 orders for the children of Israel and for Pharaoh, king of
 Egypt, to take the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
6:14 These are the heads of their fathers' families: the sons of
 Reuben the oldest son of Israel: Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and
 Carmi: these are the families of Reuben.
6:15 And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and
 Jachin and Zohar and Shaul, the son of a woman of Canaan: these
 are the families of Simeon.
6:16 And these are the names of the sons of Levi in the order of
 their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari: and the years
 of Levi's life were a hundred and thirty-seven.
6:17 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, in the order of
 their families.
6:18 And the sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and
 Uzziel: and the years of Kohath's life were a hundred and
 thirty-three.
6:19 And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi: these are the
 families of the Levites, in the order of their generations.
6:20 And Amram took Jochebed, his father's sister, as wife; and
 she gave birth to Aaron and Moses: and the years of Amram's
 life were a hundred and thirty-seven.
6:21 And the sons of Izhar: Korah and Nepheg and Zichri.
6:22 And the sons of Uzziel: Mishael and Elzaphan and Sithri.
6:23 And Aaron took as his wife Elisheba, the daughter of
 Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon; and she gave birth to Nadab
 and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
6:24 And the sons of Korah: Assir and Elkanah and Abiasaph:
 these are the families of the Korahites.
6:25 And Eleazar, Aaron's son, took as his wife one of the
 daughters of Putiel; and she gave birth to Phinehas. These are
 the heads of the families of the Levites, in the order of their
 families.
6:26 These are the same Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said,
 Take the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt in their
 armies.
6:27 These are the men who gave orders to Pharaoh to let the
 children of Israel go out of Egypt: these are the same Moses
 and Aaron.
6:28 And on the day when the word of the Lord came to Moses in
 the land of Egypt,
6:29 The Lord said to Moses, I am the Lord: say to Pharaoh, king
 of Egypt, everything I am saying to you.
6:30 And Moses said to the Lord, My lips are unclean; how is it
 possible that Pharaoh will give me a hearing?
7:1 And the Lord said to Moses, See I have made you a god to
 Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet.
7:2 Say whatever I give you orders to say: and Aaron your
 brother will give word to Pharaoh to let the children of Israel
 go out of his land.
7:3 And I will make Pharaoh's heart hard, and my signs and
 wonders will be increased in the land of Egypt.
7:4 But Pharaoh will not give ear to you, and I will put my hand
 on Egypt, and take my armies, my people, the children of
 Israel, out of Egypt, after great punishments.
7:5 And the Egyptians will see that I am the Lord, when my hand
 is stretched out over Egypt, and I take the children of Israel
 out from among them.
7:6 And Moses and Aaron did so: as the Lord gave them orders, so
 they did.
7:7 And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years
 old, when they gave the Lord's word to Pharaoh.
7:8 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
7:9 If Pharaoh says to you, Let me see a wonder: then say to
 Aaron, Take your rod and put it down on the earth before
 Pharaoh so that it may become a snake.
7:10 Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and they did as the
 Lord had said: and Aaron put his rod down on the earth before
 Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a snake.
7:11 Then Pharaoh sent for the wise men and the wonder-workers,
 and they, the wonder-workers of Egypt, did the same with their
 secret arts.
7:12 For every one of them put down his rod on the earth, and
 they became snakes: but Aaron's rod made a meal of their rods.
7:13 But Pharaoh's heart was made hard, and he did not give ear
 to them, as the Lord had said.
7:14 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Pharaoh's heart is
 unchanged; he will not let the people go.
7:15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning; when he goes out to the
 water, you will be waiting for him by the edge of the Nile,
 with the rod which was turned into a snake in your hand;
7:16 And say to him, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent
 me to you, saying, Let my people go so that they may give me
 worship in the waste land; but up to now you have not given ear
 to his words.
7:17 So the Lord says, By this you may be certain that I am the
 Lord; see, by the touch of this rod in my hand the waters of
 the Nile will be turned to blood;
7:18 And the fish in the Nile will come to destruction, and the
 river will send up a bad smell, and the Egyptians will not be
 able, for disgust, to make use of the water of the Nile for
 drinking.
7:19 And the Lord said, Say to Aaron, Let the rod in your hand
 be stretched out over the waters of Egypt, and over the rivers
 and the streams and the pools, and over every stretch of water,
 so that they may be turned to blood; and there will be blood
 through all the land of Egypt, in vessels of wood and in
 vessels of stone.
7:20 And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had said; and when his
 rod had been lifted up and stretched out over the waters of the
 Nile before the eyes of Pharaoh and his servants, all the water
 in the Nile was turned to blood;
7:21 And the fish in the Nile came to destruction, and a bad
 smell went up from the river, and the Egyptians were not able
 to make use of the water of the Nile for drinking; and there
 was blood through all the land of Egypt.
7:22 And the wonder-workers of Egypt did the same with their
 secret arts: but Pharaoh's heart was made hard, and he would
 not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.
7:23 Then Pharaoh went into his house, and did not take even
 this to heart.
7:24 And all the Egyptians made holes round about the Nile to
 get drinking-water, for they were not able to make use of the
 Nile water.
7:25 And seven days went past, after the Lord had put his hand
 on the Nile.
8:1 And this is what the Lord said to Moses: Go to Pharaoh and
 say to him, The Lord says, Let my people go so that they may
 give me worship.
8:2 And if you will not let them go, see, I will send frogs into
 every part of your land:
8:3 The Nile will be full of frogs, and they will come up into
 your house and into your bedrooms and on your bed, and into the
 houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens
 and into your bread-basins.
8:4 The frogs will come up over you and your people and all your
 servants.
8:5 And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Let the rod in
 your hand be stretched out over the streams and the waterways
 and the pools, causing frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.
8:6 And when Aaron put out his hand over the waters of Egypt,
 the frogs came up and all the land of Egypt was covered with
 them.
8:7 And the wonder-workers did the same with their secret arts,
 making frogs come up over the land of Egypt.
8:8 Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said, Make prayer
 to the Lord that he will take away these frogs from me and my
 people; and I will let the people go and make their offering to
 the Lord.
8:9 And Moses said, I will let you have the honour of saying
 when I am to make prayer for you and your servants and your
 people, that the frogs may be sent away from you and your
 houses, and be only in the Nile.
8:10 And he said, By tomorrow. And he said, Let it be as you
 say: so that you may see that there is no other like the Lord
 our God.
8:11 And the frogs will be gone from you and from your houses
 and from your servants and from your people and will be only in
 the Nile.
8:12 Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh; and Moses made
 prayer to the Lord about the frogs which he had sent on
 Pharaoh.
8:13 And the Lord did as Moses said; and there was an end of all
 the frogs in the houses and in the open spaces and in the
 fields.
8:14 And they put them together in masses, and a bad smell went
 up from the land.
8:15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was peace for a time, he
 made his heart hard and did not give ear to them, as the Lord
 had said.
8:16 And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Let your rod be
 stretched out over the dust of the earth so that it may become
 insects through all the land of Egypt.
8:17 And they did so; and Aaron, stretching out the rod in his
 hand, gave a touch to the dust of the earth, and insects came
 on man and on beast; all the dust of the earth was changed into
 insects through all the land of Egypt.
8:18 And the wonder-workers with their secret arts, attempting
 to make insects, were unable to do so: and there were insects
 on man and on beast.
8:19 Then the wonder-workers said to Pharaoh, This is the finger
 of God: but Pharaoh's heart was hard, and he did not give ear
 to them, as the Lord had said.
8:20 And the Lord said to Moses, Get up early in the morning and
 take your place before Pharaoh when he comes out to the water;
 and say to him, This is what the Lord says: Let my people go to
 give me worship.
8:21 For if you do not let my people go, see, I will send clouds
 of flies on you and on your servants and on your people and
 into their houses; and the houses of the Egyptians and the land
 where they are will be full of flies.
8:22 And at that time I will make a division between your land
 and the land of Goshen where my people are, and no flies will
 be there; so that you may see that I am the Lord over all the
 earth.
8:23 And I will put a division between my people and your
 people; tomorrow this sign will be seen.
8:24 And the Lord did so; and great clouds of flies came into
 the house of Pharaoh and into his servants' houses, and all the
 land of Egypt was made waste because of the flies.
8:25 And Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said, Go and make
 your offering to your God here in the land.
8:26 And Moses said, It is not right to do so; for we make our
 offerings of that to which the Egyptians give worship; and if
 we do so before their eyes, certainly we will be stoned.
8:27 But we will go three days' journey into the waste land and
 make an offering to the Lord our God as he may give us orders.
8:28 Then Pharaoh said, I will let you go to make an offering to
 the Lord your God in the waste land; but do not go very far
 away, and make prayer for me.
8:29 And Moses said, When I go out from you I will make prayer
 to the Lord that the cloud of flies may go away from Pharaoh
 and from his people and from his servants tomorrow: only let
 Pharaoh no longer by deceit keep back the people from making
 their offering to the Lord.
8:30 Then Moses went out from Pharaoh and made prayer to the
 Lord.
8:31 And the Lord did as Moses said, and took away the cloud of
 flies from Pharaoh and from his servants and from his people;
 not one was to be seen.
8:32 But again Pharaoh made his heart hard and did not let the
 people go.
9:1 Then the Lord said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh and say to
 him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let
 my people go so that they may give me worship.
9:2 For if you will not let them go, but still keep them in your
 power,
9:3 Then the hand of the Lord will put on your cattle in the
 field, on the horses and the asses and the camels, on the herds
 and the flocks, a very evil disease.
9:4 And the Lord will make a division between the cattle of
 Israel and the cattle of Egypt; there will be no loss of any of
 the cattle of Israel.
9:5 And the time was fixed by the Lord, and he said, Tomorrow
 the Lord will do this thing in the land.
9:6 And on the day after, the Lord did as he had said, causing
 the death of all the cattle of Egypt, but there was no loss of
 any of the cattle of Israel.
9:7 And Pharaoh sent and got word that there was no loss of any
 of the cattle of Israel. But the heart of Pharaoh was hard and
 he did not let the people go.
9:8 And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron, Take in your hand a
 little dust from the fire and let Moses send it in a shower up
 to heaven before the eyes of Pharaoh.
9:9 And it will become small dust over all the land of Egypt,
 and will be a skin-disease bursting out in wounds on man and
 beast through all the land of Egypt.
9:10 So they took some dust from the fire, and placing
 themselves before Pharaoh, Moses sent it out in a shower up to
 heaven; and it became a skin-disease bursting out on man and on
 beast.
9:11 And the wonder-workers were not able to take their places
 before Moses, because of the disease; for the disease was on
 the wonder-workers and on all the Egyptians.
9:12 And the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he would not
 give ear to them, as the Lord had said.
9:13 And the Lord said to Moses, Get up early in the morning and
 take your place before Pharaoh, and say to him, This is what
 the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go so
 that they may give me worship.
9:14 For this time I will send all my punishments on yourself
 and on your servants and on your people; so that you may see
 that there is no other like me in all the earth.
9:15 For if I had put the full weight of my hand on you and your
 people, you would have been cut off from the earth:
9:16 But, for this very reason, I have kept you from
 destruction, to make clear to you my power, and so that my name
 may be honoured through all the earth.
9:17 Are you still uplifted in pride against my people so that
 you will not let them go?
9:18 Truly, tomorrow about this time I will send down an
 ice-storm, such as never was in Egypt from its earliest days
 till now.
9:19 Then send quickly and get in your cattle and all you have
 from the fields; for if any man or beast in the field has not
 been put under cover, the ice-storm will come down on them with
 destruction.
9:20 Then everyone among the servants of Pharaoh who had the
 fear of the Lord, made his servants and his cattle come quickly
 into the house:
9:21 And he who gave no attention to the word of the Lord, kept
 his servants and his cattle in the field.
9:22 And the Lord said to Moses, Now let your hand be stretched
 out to heaven so that there may be an ice-storm on all the land
 of Egypt, on man and on beast and on every plant of the field
 through all the land of Egypt.
9:23 And Moses put out his rod to heaven: and the Lord sent
 thunder, and an ice-storm, and fire running down on the earth;
 the Lord sent an ice-storm on the land of Egypt.
9:24 So there was an ice-storm with fire running through it,
 coming down with great force, such as never was in all the land
 of Egypt from the time when it became a nation.
9:25 And through all the land of Egypt the ice-storm came down
 on everything which was in the fields, on man and on beast; and
 every green plant was crushed and every tree of the field
 broken.
9:26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel
 were, there was no ice-storm.
9:27 Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I
 have done evil this time: the Lord is upright, and I and my
 people are sinners.
9:28 Make prayer to the Lord; for there has been enough of these
 thunderings of God and this ice-storm; and I will let you go
 and will keep you no longer.
9:29 And Moses said, When I am gone outside the town, my hands
 will be stretched out to the Lord; the thunders and the
 ice-storm will come to an end, so that you may see that the
 earth is the Lord's.
9:30 But as for you and your servants, I am certain that even
 now the fear of the Lord God will not be in your hearts.
9:31 And the flax and the barley were damaged, for the barley
 was almost ready to be cut and the flax was in flower.
9:32 But the rest of the grain-plants were undamaged, for they
 had not come up.
9:33 So Moses went out of the town, and stretching out his hands
 made prayer to God: and the thunders and the ice-storm came to
 an end; and the fall of rain was stopped.
9:34 But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the ice-storm and
 the thunders were ended, he went on sinning, and made his heart
 hard, he and his servants.
9:35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hard, and he did not let the
 people go, as the Lord had said by the mouth of Moses.
10:1 And the Lord said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh: for I have
 made his heart and the hearts of his servants hard, so that I
 may let my signs be seen among them:
10:2 And so that you may be able to give to your son and to your
 son's son the story of my wonders in Egypt, and the signs which
 I have done among them; so that you may see that I am the Lord.
10:3 Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him,
 This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long
 will you be lifted up in your pride before me? let my people go
 so that they may give me worship.
10:4 For if you will not let my people go, tomorrow I will send
 locusts into your land:
10:5 And the face of the earth will be covered with them, so
 that you will not be able to see the earth: and they will be
 the destruction of everything which up to now has not been
 damaged, everything which was not crushed by the ice-storm, and
 every tree still living in your fields.
10:6 And your houses will be full of them, and the houses of
 your servants and of all the Egyptians; it will be worse than
 anything your fathers have seen or their fathers, from the day
 when they were living on the earth till this day. And so he
 went out from Pharaoh.
10:7 And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long is this man to
 be the cause of evil to us? let the men go so that they may
 give worship to the Lord their God: are you not awake to
 Egypt's danger?
10:8 Then Moses and Aaron came in again before Pharaoh: and he
 said to them, Go and give worship to the Lord your God: but
 which of you are going?
10:9 And Moses said, We will go with our young and our old, with
 our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds; for
 we are to keep a feast to the Lord.
10:10 And he said to them, May the Lord be with you, if I will
 let you and your little ones go! take care, for your purpose
 clearly is evil.
10:11 Not so; but let your males go and give worship to the
 Lord, as your desire is. This he said, driving them out from
 before him.
10:12 And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out
 over the land of Egypt so that the locusts may come up on the
 land for the destruction of every green plant in the land, even
 everything untouched by the ice-storm.
10:13 And Moses' rod was stretched out over the land of Egypt,
 and the Lord sent an east wind over the land all that day and
 all the night; and in the morning the locusts came up with the
 east wind.
10:14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt,
 resting on every part of the land, in very great numbers; such
 an army of locusts had never been seen before, and never will
 be again.
10:15 For all the face of the earth was covered with them, so
 that the land was black; and every green plant and all the
 fruit of the trees which was untouched by the ice-storm they
 took for food: not one green thing, no plant or tree, was to be
 seen in all the land of Egypt.
10:16 Then Pharaoh quickly sent for Moses and Aaron, and said, I
 have done evil against the Lord your God and against you.
10:17 Let me now have forgiveness for my sin this time only, and
 make prayer to the Lord your God that he will take away from me
 this death only.
10:18 So he went out from Pharaoh and made prayer to the Lord.
10:19 And the Lord sent a very strong west wind, which took up
 the locusts, driving them into the Red Sea; not one locust was
 to be seen in any part of Egypt.
10:20 But the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he did not let
 the children of Israel go.
10:21 And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out
 to heaven, and all the land of Egypt will be dark, so that men
 will be feeling their way about in the dark.
10:22 And when Moses' hand was stretched out, dark night came
 over all the land of Egypt for three days;
10:23 They were not able to see one another, and no one got up
 from his place for three days: but where the children of Israel
 were living it was light.
10:24 Then Pharaoh sent for Moses, and said, Go and give worship
 to the Lord; only let your flocks and your herds be kept here:
 your little ones may go with you.
10:25 But Moses said, You will have to let us take burned
 offerings to put before the Lord our God.
10:26 So our cattle will have to go with us, not one may be kept
 back; for they are needed for the worship of the Lord our God;
 we have no knowledge what offering we have to give till we come
 to the place.
10:27 But the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he would not
 let them go.
10:28 And Pharaoh said to him, Go away from me, take care that
 you come not again before me; for the day when you see my face
 again will be your last.
10:29 And Moses said, You say truly; I will not see your face
 again.
11:1 And the Lord said to Moses, I will send one more punishment
 on Pharaoh and on Egypt; after that he will let you go; and
 when he does let you go, he will not keep one of you back, but
 will send you out by force.
11:2 So go now and give orders to the people that every man and
 every woman is to get from his or her neighbour ornaments of
 silver and of gold.
11:3 And the Lord gave the people grace in the eyes of the
 Egyptians. For the man Moses was highly honoured in the land of
 Egypt, by Pharaoh's servants and the people.
11:4 And Moses said, This is what the Lord says: About the
 middle of the night I will go out through Egypt:
11:5 And death will come to every mother's first male child in
 all the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of
 power, to the child of the servant-girl crushing the grain; and
 the first births of all the cattle.
11:6 And there will be a great cry through all the land of
 Egypt, such as never has been or will be again.
11:7 But against the children of Israel, man or beast, not so
 much as the tongue of a dog will be moved: so that you may see
 how the Lord makes a division between Israel and the Egyptians.
11:8 And all these your servants will come to me, going down on
 their faces before me and saying, Go out, and all your people
 with you: and after that I will go out. And he went away from
 Pharaoh burning with wrath.
11:9 And the Lord said to Moses, Pharaoh will not give ear to
 you, so that my wonders may be increased in the land of Egypt.
11:10 All these wonders Moses and Aaron did before Pharaoh: but
 the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he did not let the
 children of Israel go out of his land.
12:1 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
12:2 Let this month be to you the first of months, the first
 month of the year.
12:3 Say to all the children of Israel when they are come
 together, In the tenth day of this month every man is to take a
 lamb, by the number of their fathers' families, a lamb for
 every family:
12:4 And if the lamb is more than enough for the family, let
 that family and its nearest neighbour have a lamb between them,
 taking into account the number of persons and how much food is
 needed for every man.
12:5 Let your lamb be without a mark, a male in its first year:
 you may take it from among the sheep or the goats:
12:6 Keep it till the fourteenth day of the same month, when
 everyone who is of the children of Israel is to put it to death
 between sundown and dark.
12:7 Then take some of the blood and put it on the two sides of
 the door and over the door of the house where the meal is to be
 taken.
12:8 And let your food that night be the flesh of the lamb,
 cooked with fire in the oven, together with unleavened bread
 and bitter-tasting plants.
12:9 Do not take it uncooked or cooked with boiling water, but
 let it be cooked in the oven; its head with its legs and its
 inside parts.
12:10 Do not keep any of it till the morning; anything which is
 not used is to be burned with fire.
12:11 And take your meal dressed as if for a journey, with your
 shoes on your feet and your sticks in your hands: take it
 quickly: it is the Lord's Passover.
12:12 For on that night I will go through the land of Egypt,
 sending death on every first male child, of man and of beast,
 and judging all the gods of Egypt: I am the Lord.
12:13 And the blood will be a sign on the houses where you are:
 when I see the blood I will go over you, and no evil will come
 on you for your destruction, when my hand is on the land of
 Egypt.
12:14 And this day is to be kept in your memories: you are to
 keep it as a feast to the Lord through all your generations, as
 an order for ever.
12:15 For seven days let your food be unleavened bread; from the
 first day no leaven is to be seen in your houses: whoever takes
 bread with leaven in it, from the first till the seventh day,
 will be cut off from Israel.
12:16 And on the first day there is to be a holy meeting and on
 the seventh day a holy meeting; no sort of work may be done on
 those days but only to make ready what is necessary for
 everyone's food.
12:17 So keep the feast of unleavened bread; for on this very
 day I have taken your armies out of the land of Egypt: this
 day, then, is to be kept through all your generations by an
 order for ever.
12:18 In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth
 day, let your food be unleavened bread till the evening of the
 twenty-first day of the month.
12:19 For seven days no leaven is to be seen in your houses: for
 whoever takes bread which is leavened will be cut off from the
 people of Israel, if he is from another country or if he is an
 Israelite by birth.
12:20 Take nothing which has leaven in it; wherever you are
 living let your food be unleavened cakes.
12:21 Then Moses sent for the chiefs of Israel, and said to
 them, See that lambs are marked out for yourselves and your
 families, and let the Passover lamb be put to death.
12:22 And take some hyssop and put it in the blood in the basin,
 touching the two sides and the top of the doorway with the
 blood from the basin; and let not one of you go out of his
 house till the morning.
12:23 For the Lord will go through the land, sending death on
 the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the two sides and
 the top of the door, the Lord will go over your door and will
 not let death come in for your destruction.
12:24 And you are to keep this as an order to you and to your
 sons for ever.
12:25 And when you come into the land which the Lord will make
 yours, as he gave his word, you are to keep this act of
 worship.
12:26 And when your children say to you, What is the reason of
 this act of worship?
12:27 Then you will say, This is the offering of the Lord's
 Passover; for he went over the houses of the children of Israel
 in Egypt, when he sent death on the Egyptians, and kept our
 families safe. And the people gave worship with bent heads.
12:28 And the children of Israel went and did so; as the Lord
 had given orders to Moses and Aaron, so they did.
12:29 And in the middle of the night the Lord sent death on
 every first male child in the land of Egypt, from the child of
 Pharaoh on his seat of power to the child of the prisoner in
 the prison; and the first births of all the cattle.
12:30 Then Pharaoh got up in the night, he and all his servants
 and all the Egyptians; and a great cry went up from Egypt; for
 there was not a house where someone was not dead.
12:31 And he sent for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Get up
 and go out from among my people, you and the children of
 Israel; go and give worship to the Lord as you have said.
12:32 And take your flocks and your herds as you have said, and
 be gone; and give me your blessing.
12:33 And the Egyptians were forcing the people on, to get them
 out of the land quickly; for they said, We are all dead men.
12:34 And the people took their bread-paste before it was
 leavened, putting their basins in their clothing on their
 backs.
12:35 And the children of Israel had done as Moses had said; and
 they got from the Egyptians ornaments of silver and of gold,
 and clothing:
12:36 And the Lord had given the people grace in the eyes of the
 Egyptians so that they gave them whatever was requested. So
 they took away all their goods from the Egyptians.
12:37 And the children of Israel made the journey from Rameses
 to Succoth; there were about six hundred thousand men on foot,
 as well as children.
12:38 And a mixed band of people went with them; and flocks and
 herds in great numbers.
12:39 And they made unleavened cakes from the paste which they
 had taken out of Egypt; it was not leavened, for they had been
 sent out of Egypt so quickly, that they had no time to make any
 food ready.
12:40 Now the children of Israel had been living in Egypt for
 four hundred and thirty years.
12:41 And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, to the
 very day, all the armies of the Lord went out of the land of
 Egypt.
12:42 It is a watch-night before the Lord who took them out of
 the land of Egypt: this same night is a watch-night to the Lord
 for all the children of Israel, through all their generations.
12:43 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, This is the law of
 the Passover: no man who is not an Israelite is to take of it:
12:44 But every man's servant, whom he has got for money, may
 take of it, when he has had circumcision.
12:45 A man from a strange country living among you, and a
 servant working for payment, may not take part in it.
12:46 It is to be taken in one house; not a bit of the flesh is
 to be taken out of the house, and no bone of it may be broken.
12:47 All Israel is to keep the feast.
12:48 And if a man from another country is living with you, and
 has a desire to keep the Passover to the Lord, let all the
 males of his family undergo circumcision, and then let him come
 near and keep it; for he will then be as one of your people;
 but no one without circumcision may keep it.
12:49 The law is the same for him who is an Israelite by birth
 and for the man from a strange country who is living with you.
12:50 So the children of Israel did as the Lord gave orders to
 Moses and Aaron.
12:51 And on that very day the Lord took the children of Israel
 out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
13:1 And the Lord said to Moses,
13:2 Let the first male child of every mother among the children
 of Israel be kept holy for me, even the first male birth among
 man or beast; for it is mine.
13:3 And Moses said to the people, Let this day, on which you
 came out of Egypt, out of your prison-house, be kept for ever
 in memory; for by the strength of his hand the Lord has taken
 you out from this place; let no leavened bread be used.
13:4 On this day, in the month Abib, you are going out.
13:5 And it will be that, when the Lord takes you into the land
 of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Hivite
 and the Jebusite, the land which he made an oath to your
 fathers that he would give you, a land flowing with milk and
 honey, you will do this act of worship in this month.
13:6 For seven days let your food be unleavened cakes; and on
 the seventh day there is to be a feast to the Lord.
13:7 Unleavened cakes are to be your food through all the seven
 days; let no leavened bread be seen among you, or any leaven,
 in any part of your land.
13:8 And you will say to your son in that day, It is because of
 what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.
13:9 And this will be for a sign to you on your hand and for a
 mark on your brow, so that the law of the Lord may be in your
 mouth: for with a strong hand the Lord took you out of Egypt.
13:10 So let this order be kept, at the right time, from year to
 year.
13:11 And when the Lord takes you into the land of Canaan, as he
 made his oath to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,
13:12 You are to put on one side for the Lord every mother's
 first male child, the first-fruit of her body, and the first
 young one of every beast; every male is holy to the Lord.
13:13 And for the young of an ass you may give a lamb in
 payment, or if you will not make payment for it, its neck is to
 be broken; but for all the first sons among your children, let
 payment be made.
13:14 And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the
 reason for this? say to him, By the strength of his hand the
 Lord took us out of Egypt, out of the prison-house:
13:15 And when Pharaoh made his heart hard and would not let us
 go, the Lord sent death on all the first sons in Egypt, of man
 and of beast: and so every first male who comes to birth is
 offered to the Lord; but for all the first of my sons I give a
 price.
13:16 And this will be for a sign on your hand and for a mark on
 your brow: for by the strength of his hand the Lord took us out
 of Egypt.
13:17 Now after Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not take
 them through the land of the Philistines, though that was near:
 for God said, If the people see war, they may have a change of
 heart and go back to Egypt.
13:18 But God took the people round by the waste land near the
 Red Sea: and the children of Israel went up in fighting order
 out of the land of Egypt.
13:19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph
 had made the children of Israel take an oath, saying, God will
 certainly keep you in mind; and you are to take my bones away
 with you.
13:20 Then they went on their journey from Succoth, and put up
 their tents in Etham at the edge of the waste land.
13:21 And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud,
 guiding them on their way; and by night in a pillar of fire to
 give them light: so that they were able to go on day and night:
13:22 The pillar of cloud went ever before them by day, and the
 pillar of fire by night.
14:1 And the Lord said to Moses,
14:2 Give orders to the children of Israel to go back and put up
 their tents before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, in
 front of Baal-zephon, opposite to which you are to put up your
 tents by the sea.
14:3 And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are
 wandering without direction, they are shut in by the waste
 land.
14:4 And I will make Pharaoh's heart hard, and he will come
 after them and I will be honoured over Pharaoh and all his
 army, so that the Egyptians may see that I am the Lord. And
 they did so.
14:5 And word came to Pharaoh of the flight of the people: and
 the feeling of Pharaoh and of his servants about the people was
 changed, and they said, Why have we let Israel go, so that they
 will do no more work for us?
14:6 So he had his war-carriage made ready and took his people
 with him:
14:7 And he took six hundred carriages, all the carriages of
 Egypt, and captains over all of them.
14:8 And the Lord made the heart of Pharaoh hard, and he went
 after the children of Israel: for the children of Israel had
 gone out without fear.
14:9 But the Egyptians went after them, all the horses and
 carriages of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and
 overtook them in their tents by the sea, by Pihahiroth, before
 Baal-zephon.
14:10 And when Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel,
 lifting up their eyes, saw the Egyptians coming after them, and
 were full of fear; and their cry went up to God.
14:11 And they said to Moses, Was there no resting-place for the
 dead in Egypt, that you have taken us away to come to our death
 in the waste land? why have you taken us out of Egypt?
14:12 Did we not say to you in Egypt, Let us be as we are,
 working for the Egyptians? for it is better to be the servants
 of the Egyptians than to come to our death in the waste land.
14:13 But Moses said, Keep where you are and have no fear; now
 you will see the salvation of the Lord which he will give you
 today; for the Egyptians whom you see today you will never see
 again.
14:14 The Lord will make war for you, you have only to keep
 quiet.
14:15 And the Lord said to Moses, Why are you crying out to me?
 give the children of Israel the order to go forward.
14:16 And let your rod be lifted up and your hand stretched out
 over the sea, and it will be parted in two; and the children of
 Israel will go through on dry land.
14:17 And I will make the heart of the Egyptians hard, and they
 will go in after them: and I will be honoured over Pharaoh and
 over his army, his war-carriages, and his horsemen.
14:18 And the Egyptians will see that I am the Lord, when I get
 honour over Pharaoh and his war-carriages and his horsemen.
14:19 Then the angel of God, who had been before the tents of
 Israel, took his place at their back; and the pillar of cloud,
 moving from before them, came to rest at their back:
14:20 And it came between the army of Egypt and the army of
 Israel; and there was a dark cloud between them, and they went
 on through the night; but the one army came no nearer to the
 other all the night.
14:21 And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, the
 Lord with a strong east wind made the sea go back all night,
 and the waters were parted in two and the sea became dry land.
14:22 And the children of Israel went through the sea on dry
 land: and the waters were a wall on their right side and on
 their left.
14:23 Then the Egyptians went after them into the middle of the
 sea, all Pharaoh's horses and his war-carriages and his
 horsemen.
14:24 And in the morning watch, the Lord, looking out on the
 armies of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, sent
 trouble on the army of the Egyptians;
14:25 And made the wheels of their war-carriages stiff, so that
 they had hard work driving them: so the Egyptians said, Let us
 go in flight from before the face of Israel, for the Lord is
 fighting for them against the Egyptians.
14:26 And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out
 over the sea, and the waters will come back again on the
 Egyptians, and on their war-carriages and on their horsemen.
14:27 And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, at
 dawn the sea came flowing back, meeting the Egyptians in their
 flight, and the Lord sent destruction on the Egyptians in the
 middle of the sea.
14:28 And the waters came back, covering the war-carriages and
 the horsemen and all the army of Pharaoh which went after them
 into the middle of the sea; not one of them was to be seen.
14:29 But the children of Israel went through the sea walking on
 dry land, and the waters were a wall on their right side and on
 their left.
14:30 So that day the Lord gave Israel salvation from the hands
 of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the
 sea's edge.
14:31 And Israel saw the great work which the Lord had done
 against the Egyptians, and the fear of the Lord came on the
 people and they had faith in the Lord and in his servant Moses.
15:1 Then Moses and the children of Israel made this song to the
 Lord, and said, I will make a song to the Lord, for he is
 lifted up in glory: the horse and the horseman he has sent down
 into the sea.
15:2 The Lord is my strength and my strong helper, he has become
 my salvation: he is my God and I will give him praise; my
 father's God and I will give him glory.
15:3 The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name.
15:4 Pharaoh's war-carriages and his army he has sent down into
 the sea: the best of his captains have gone down into the Red
 Sea.
15:5 They were covered by the deep waters: like a stone they
 went down under the waves.
15:6 Full of glory, O Lord, is the power of your right hand; by
 your right hand those who came against you are broken.
15:7 When you are lifted up in power, all those who come against
 you are crushed: when you send out your wrath, they are burned
 up like dry grass.
15:8 By your breath the waves were massed together, the flowing
 waters were lifted up like a pillar; the deep waters became
 solid in the heart of the sea.
15:9 Egypt said, I will go after them, I will overtake, I will
 make division of their goods: my desire will have its way with
 them; my sword will be uncovered, my hand will send destruction
 on them.
15:10 You sent your wind and the sea came over them: they went
 down like lead into the great waters.
15:11 Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? who is like you,
 in holy glory, to be praised with fear, doing wonders?
15:12 When your right hand was stretched out, the mouth of the
 earth was open for them.
15:13 In your mercy you went before the people whom you have
 made yours; guiding them in your strength to your holy place.
15:14 Hearing of you the peoples were shaking in fear: the
 people of Philistia were gripped with pain.
15:15 The chiefs of Edom were troubled in heart; the strong men
 of Moab were in the grip of fear: all the people of Canaan
 became like water.
15:16 Fear and grief came on them; by the strength of your arm
 they were turned to stone; till your people went over, O Lord,
 till the people went over whom you have made yours.
15:17 You will take them in, planting them in the mountain of
 your heritage, the place, O Lord, where you have made your
 house, the holy place, O Lord, the building of your hands.
15:18 The Lord is King for ever and ever.
15:19 For the horses of Pharaoh, with his war-carriages and his
 horsemen, went into the sea, and the Lord sent the waters of
 the sea back over them; but the children of Israel went through
 the sea on dry land.
15:20 And Miriam, the woman prophet, the sister of Aaron, took
 an instrument of music in her hand; and all the women went
 after her with music and dances.
15:21 And Miriam, answering, said, Make a song to the Lord, for
 he is lifted up in glory; the horse and the horseman he has
 sent into the sea.
15:22 Then Moses took Israel forward from the Red Sea, and they
 went out into the waste land of Shur; and for three days they
 were in the waste land where there was no water.
15:23 And when they came to Marah, the water was no good for
 drinking, for the waters of Marah were bitter, which is why it
 was named Marah.
15:24 And the people, crying out against Moses, said, What are
 we to have for drink?
15:25 And in answer to his prayer, the Lord made him see a tree,
 and when he put it into the water, the water was made sweet.
 There he gave them a law and an order, testing them;
15:26 And he said, If with all your heart you will give
 attention to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is
 right in his eyes, giving ear to his orders and keeping his
 laws, I will not put on you any of the diseases which I put on
 the Egyptians: for I am the Lord your life-giver.
15:27 And they came to Elim where there were twelve
 water-springs and seventy palm-trees: and they put up their
 tents there by the waters.
16:1 And they went on their way from Elim, and all the children
 of Israel came into the waste land of Sin, which is between
 Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after
 they went out of the land of Egypt.
16:2 And all the children of Israel were crying out against
 Moses and Aaron in the waste land:
16:3 And the children of Israel said to them, It would have been
 better for the Lord to have put us to death in the land of
 Egypt, where we were seated by the flesh-pots and had bread
 enough for our needs; for you have taken us out to this waste
 of sand, to put all this people to death through need of food.
16:4 Then the Lord said to Moses, See, I will send down bread
 from heaven for you; and the people will go out every day and
 get enough for the day's needs; so that I may put them to the
 test to see if they will keep my laws or not.
16:5 And on the sixth day they are to make ready what they get
 in, and it will be twice as much as they get on the other days.
16:6 And Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel,
 This evening it will be clear to you that it is the Lord who
 has taken you out of the land of Egypt:
16:7 And in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord; for
 your angry words against the Lord have come to his ears: and
 what are we that you are crying out against us?
16:8 And Moses said, The Lord will give you meat for your food
 at evening, and in the morning bread in full measure; for your
 outcry against the Lord has come to his ears: for what are we?
 your outcry is not against us but against the Lord.
16:9 And Moses said to Aaron, Say to all the people of Israel,
 Come near before the Lord for he has given ear to your outcry.
16:10 And while Aaron was talking to the children of Israel,
 their eyes were turned in the direction of the waste land, and
 they saw the glory of the Lord shining in the cloud.
16:11 And the Lord said to Moses,
16:12 The outcry of the children of Israel has come to my ears:
 say to them now, At nightfall you will have meat for your food,
 and in the morning bread in full measure; and you will see that
 I am the Lord your God.
16:13 And it came about that in the evening little birds came up
 and the place was covered with them: and in the morning there
 was dew all round about the tents.
16:14 And when the dew was gone, on the face of the earth was a
 small round thing, like small drops of ice on the earth.
16:15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one
 another, What is it? for they had no idea what it was. And
 Moses said to them, It is the bread which the Lord has given
 you for your food.
16:16 This is what the Lord has said, Let every man take up as
 much as he has need of; at the rate of one omer for every
 person, let every man take as much as is needed for his family.
16:17 And the children of Israel did so, and some took more and
 some less.
16:18 And when it was measured, he who had taken up much had
 nothing over, and he who had little had enough; every man had
 taken what he was able to make use of.
16:19 And Moses said to them, Let nothing be kept till the
 morning.
16:20 But they gave no attention to Moses, and some of them kept
 it till the morning and there were worms in it and it had an
 evil smell: and Moses was angry with them.
16:21 And they took it up morning by morning, every man as he
 had need: and when the sun was high it was gone.
16:22 And on the sixth day they took up twice as much of the
 bread, two omers for every person: and all the rulers of the
 people gave Moses word of it.
16:23 And he said, This is what the Lord has said, Tomorrow is a
 day of rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord: what has to be cooked
 may be cooked; and what is over, put on one side to be kept
 till the morning.
16:24 And they kept it till the morning as Moses had said: and
 no smell came from it, and it had no worms.
16:25 And Moses said, Make your meal today of what you have, for
 this day is a Sabbath to the Lord: today you will not get any
 in the fields.
16:26 For six days you will get it, but on the seventh day, the
 Sabbath, there will not be any.
16:27 But still on the seventh day some of the people went out
 to get it, and there was not any.
16:28 And the Lord said to Moses, How long will you go against
 my orders and my laws?
16:29 See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, he gives
 you on the sixth day bread enough for two days; let every man
 keep where he is; let no man go out of his place on the seventh
 day.
16:30 So the people took their rest on the seventh day.
16:31 And this bread was named manna by Israel: it was white,
 like a grain seed, and its taste was like cakes made with
 honey.
16:32 And Moses said, This is the order which the Lord has
 given: Let one omer of it be kept for future generations, so
 that they may see the bread which I gave you for your food in
 the waste land, when I took you out from the land of Egypt.
16:33 And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot and put one omer of
 manna in it, and put it away before the Lord, to be kept for
 future generations.
16:34 So Aaron put it away in front of the holy chest to be
 kept, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.
16:35 And the children of Israel had manna for their food for
 forty years, till they came to a land with people in it, till
 they came to the edge of the land of Canaan.
16:36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
17:1 And the children of Israel went on from the waste land of
 Sin, by stages as the Lord gave them orders, and put up their
 tents in Rephidim: and there was no drinking-water for the
 people.
17:2 So the people were angry with Moses, and said, Give us
 water for drinking. And Moses said, Why are you angry with me?
 and why do you put God to the test?
17:3 And the people were in great need of water; and they made
 an outcry against Moses, and said, Why have you taken us out of
 Egypt to send death on us and our children and our cattle
 through need of water?
17:4 And Moses, crying out to the Lord, said, What am I to do to
 this people? they are almost ready to put me to death by
 stoning.
17:5 And the Lord said to Moses, Go on before the people, and
 take some of the chiefs of Israel with you, and take in your
 hand the rod which was stretched out over the Nile, and go.
17:6 See, I will take my place before you on the rock in Horeb;
 and when you give the rock a blow, water will come out of it,
 and the people will have drink. And Moses did so before the
 eyes of the chiefs of Israel.
17:7 And he gave that place the name Massah and Meribah, because
 the children of Israel were angry, and because they put the
 Lord to the test, saying, Is the Lord with us or not?
17:8 Then Amalek came and made war on Israel in Rephidim.
17:9 And Moses said to Joshua, Get together a band of men for us
 and go out, make war on Amalek: tomorrow I will take my place
 on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand.
17:10 So Joshua did as Moses said to him, and went to war with
 Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the
 hill.
17:11 Now while Moses' hand was lifted up, Israel was the
 stronger: but when he let his hand go down, Amalek became the
 stronger.
17:12 But Moses' hands became tired; so they put a stone under
 him and he took his seat on it, Aaron and Hur supporting his
 hands, one on one side and one on the other; so his hands were
 kept up without falling till the sun went down.
17:13 And Joshua overcame Amalek and his people with the sword.
17:14 And the Lord said to Moses, Make a record of this in a
 book, so that it may be kept in memory, and say it again in the
 ears of Joshua: that all memory of Amalek is to be completely
 uprooted from the earth.
17:15 Then Moses put up an altar and gave it the name of
 Yahweh-nissi:
17:16 For he said, The Lord has taken his oath that there will
 be war with Amalek from generation to generation.
18:1 Now news came to Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses'
 father-in-law, of all God had done for Moses and for Israel his
 people, and how the Lord had taken Israel out of Egypt.
18:2 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses'
 wife, after he had sent her away,
18:3 And her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom, for he
 said, I have been living in a strange land:
18:4 And the name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, The God
 of my father was my help, and kept me safe from the sword of
 Pharaoh:
18:5 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and
 his wife to where Moses had put up his tent in the waste land,
 by the mountain of God.
18:6 And he said to Moses, I, your father-in-law, have come to
 you, with your wife and your two sons.
18:7 And Moses went out to his father-in-law, and went down on
 his face before him and gave him a kiss; and they said to one
 another, Are you well? and they came into the tent.
18:8 And Moses gave his father-in-law an account of all the Lord
 had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians because of Israel, and
 of all the troubles which had come on them by the way, and how
 the Lord had given them salvation.
18:9 And Jethro was glad because the Lord had been good to
 Israel, freeing them from the power of the Egyptians.
18:10 And Jethro said, Praise be to the Lord, who has taken you
 out of the hand of Pharaoh and out of the hand of the
 Egyptians; freeing the people from the yoke of the Egyptians.
18:11 Now I am certain that the Lord is greater than all gods,
 for he has overcome them in their pride.
18:12 Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, made a burned offering
 to God: and Aaron came, with the chiefs of Israel, and had a
 meal with Moses' father-in-law, before God.
18:13 Now on the day after, Moses took his seat to give
 decisions for the people: and the people were waiting before
 Moses from morning till evening.
18:14 And when Moses' father-in-law saw all he was doing, he
 said, What is this you are doing for the people? why are you
 seated here by yourself, with all the people waiting before you
 from morning till evening?
18:15 And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people
 come to me to get directions from God:
18:16 And if they have any question between themselves, they
 come to me, and I am judge between a man and his neighbour, and
 I give them the orders and laws of God.
18:17 And Moses' father-in-law said to him, What you are doing
 is not good.
18:18 Your strength and that of the people will be completely
 used up: this work is more than you are able to do by yourself.
18:19 Give ear now to my suggestion, and may God be with you:
 you are to be the people's representative before God, taking
 their causes to him:
18:20 Teaching them his rules and his laws, guiding them in the
 way they have to go, and making clear to them the work they
 have to do.
18:21 But for the rest, take from among the people able men,
 such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly
 made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands,
 captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens;
18:22 And let them be judges in the causes of the people at all
 times: and let them put before you all important questions, but
 in small things let them give decisions themselves: in this
 way, it will be less hard for you, and they will take the
 weight off you.
18:23 If you do this, and God gives approval, then you will be
 able to go on without weariness, and all this people will go to
 their tents in peace.
18:24 So Moses took note of the words of his father-in-law, and
 did as he had said.
18:25 And he made selection of able men out of all Israel, and
 made them heads over the people, captains of thousands,
 captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens.
18:26 And they were judges in the causes of the people at all
 times: the hard questions they put before Moses; but on every
 small point they gave decisions themselves.
18:27 And Moses let his father-in-law go away, and he went back
 to his land.
19:1 In the third month after the children of Israel went out
 from Egypt, on the same day, they came into the waste land of
 Sinai.
19:2 And when they had gone away from Rephidim and had come into
 the waste land of Sinai, they put up their tents in the waste
 land before the mountain: there Israel put up its tents.
19:3 And Moses went up to God, and the voice of the Lord came to
 him from the mountain, saying, Say to the family of Jacob, and
 give word to the children of Israel:
19:4 You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I took
 you, as on eagles' wings, guiding you to myself.
19:5 If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my
 agreement, you will be my special property out of all the
 peoples: for all the earth is mine:
19:6 And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy
 nation. These are the words which you are to say to the
 children of Israel.
19:7 And Moses came and sent for the chiefs of the people and
 put before them all these words which the Lord had given him
 orders to say.
19:8 And all the people, answering together, said, Whatever the
 Lord has said we will do. And Moses took back to the Lord the
 words of the people.
19:9 And the Lord said to Moses, See, I will come to you in a
 thick cloud, so that what I say to you may come to the ears of
 the people and they may have belief in you for ever. And Moses
 gave the Lord word of what the people had said.
19:10 And the Lord said to Moses, Go to the people and make them
 holy today and tomorrow, and let their clothing be washed.
19:11 And by the third day let them be ready: for on the third
 day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai, before the eyes of
 all the people.
19:12 And let limits be marked out for the people round the
 mountain, and say to them, Take care not to go up the mountain
 or near the sides of it: whoever puts his foot on the mountain
 will certainly come to his death:
19:13 He is not to be touched by a hand, but is to be stoned or
 have an arrow put through him; man or beast, he is to be put to
 death: at the long sounding of a horn they may come up to the
 mountain.
19:14 Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and
 made the people holy; and their clothing was washed.
19:15 And he said to the people, Be ready by the third day: do
 not come near a woman.
19:16 And when morning came on the third day, there were
 thunders and flames and a thick cloud on the mountain, and a
 horn sounding very loud; and all the people in the tents were
 shaking with fear.
19:17 And Moses made the people come out of their tents and take
 their places before God; and they came to the foot of the
 mountain,
19:18 And all the mountain of Sinai was smoking, for the Lord
 had come down on it in fire: and the smoke of it went up like
 the smoke of a great burning; and all the mountain was shaking.
19:19 And when the sound of the horn became louder and louder,
 Moses' words were answered by the voice of God.
19:20 Then the Lord came down on to Mount Sinai, to the top of
 the mountain, and the Lord sent for Moses to come up to the top
 of the mountain, and Moses went up.
19:21 And the Lord said to Moses, Go down and give the people
 orders to keep back, for fear that a great number of them,
 forcing their way through to see the Lord, may come to
 destruction.
19:22 And let the priests who come near to the Lord make
 themselves holy, for fear that the Lord may come on them
 suddenly.
19:23 And Moses said to the Lord, The people will not be able to
 come up the mountain, for you gave us orders to put limits
 round the mountain, marking it out and making it holy.
19:24 And the Lord said to him, Go down, and you and Aaron may
 come up; but let not the priests and the people make their way
 through to the Lord, or he will come on them suddenly.
19:25 So Moses went down to the people and said this to them.
20:1 And God said all these words:
20:2 I am the Lord your God who took you out of the land of
 Egypt, out of the prison-house.
20:3 You are to have no other gods but me.
20:4 You are not to make an image or picture of anything in
 heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:
20:5 You may not go down on your faces before them or give them
 worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give
 his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the
 children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and
 fourth generation of my haters;
20:6 And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on
 those who have love for me and keep my laws.
20:7 You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God
 for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips
 for an evil purpose will be judged a sinner by the Lord
20:8 Keep in memory the Sabbath and let it be a holy day.
20:9 On six days do all your work:
20:10 But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on
 that day you are to do no work, you or your son or your
 daughter, your man-servant or your woman-servant, your cattle
 or the man from a strange country who is living among you:
20:11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the
 sea, and everything in them, and he took his rest on the
 seventh day: for this reason the Lord has given his blessing to
 the seventh day and made it holy.
20:12 Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that
 your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is
 giving you.
20:13 Do not put anyone to death without cause.
20:14 Do not be false to the married relation.
20:15 Do not take the property of another.
20:16 Do not give false witness against your neighbour.
20:17 Let not your desire be turned to your neighbour's house,
 or his wife or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox
 or his ass or anything which is his.
20:18 And all the people were watching the thunderings and the
 flames and the sound of the horn and the mountain smoking; and
 when they saw it, they kept far off, shaking with fear.
20:19 And they said to Moses, To your words we will give ear,
 but let not the voice of God come to our ears, for fear death
 may come on us.
20:20 And Moses said to the people, Have no fear: for God has
 come to put you to the test, so that fearing him you may be
 kept from sin.
20:21 And the people kept their places far off, but Moses went
 near to the dark cloud where God was.
20:22 And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel,
 You yourselves have seen that my voice has come to you from
 heaven
20:23 Gods of silver and gods of gold you are not to make for
 yourselves.
20:24 Make for me an altar of earth, offering on it your burned
 offerings and your peace-offerings, your sheep and your oxen:
 in every place where I have put the memory of my name, I will
 come to you and give you my blessing.
20:25 And if you make me an altar of stone do not make it of cut
 stones: for the touch of an instrument will make it unclean.
20:26 And do not go up by steps to my altar, for fear that your
 bodies may be seen uncovered.
21:1 Now these are the laws which you are to put before them.
21:2 If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your
 servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let
 him go free without payment.
21:3 If he comes to you by himself, let him go away by himself:
 if he is married, let his wife go away with him.
21:4 If his master gives him a wife, and he gets sons or
 daughters by her, the wife and her children will be the
 property of the master, and the servant is to go away by
 himself.
21:5 But if the servant says clearly, My master and my wife and
 children are dear to me; I have no desire to be free:
21:6 Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house,
 and at the door, or at its framework, he is to make a hole in
 his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his
 servant for ever.
21:7 And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a
 servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do.
21:8 If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for
 himself, let a payment be made for her so that she may go free;
 her master has no power to get a price for her and send her to
 a strange land, because he has been false to her.
21:9 And if he gives her to his son, he is to do everything for
 her as if she was his daughter.
21:10 And if he takes another woman, her food and clothing and
 her married rights are not to be less.
21:11 And if he does not do these three things for her, she has
 the right to go free without payment.
21:12 He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to
 death.
21:13 But if he had no evil purpose against him, and God gave
 him into his hand, I will give you a place to which he may go
 in flight.
21:14 But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose,
 to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my
 altar and put him to death.
21:15 Any man who gives a blow to his father or his mother is
 certainly to be put to death.
21:16 Any man who gets another into his power in order to get a
 price for him is to be put to death, if you take him in the
 act.
21:17 Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to
 death.
21:18 If, in a fight, one man gives another a blow with a stone,
 or with the shut hand, not causing his death, but making him
 keep in bed;
21:19 If he is able to get up again and go about with a stick,
 the other will be let off; only he will have to give him
 payment for the loss of his time, and see that he is cared for
 till he is well.
21:20 If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows
 with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo
 punishment.
21:21 But, at the same time, if the servant goes on living for a
 day or two, the master is not to get punishment, for the
 servant is his property.
21:22 If men, while fighting, do damage to a woman with child,
 causing the loss of the child, but no other evil comes to her,
 the man will have to make payment up to the amount fixed by her
 husband, in agreement with the decision of the judges.
21:23 But if damage comes to her, let life be given in payment
 for life,
21:24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for
 foot,
21:25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, blow for blow.
21:26 If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow
 in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free
 on account of the damage to his eye.
21:27 Or if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow, he will
 let him go free on account of his tooth.
21:28 If an ox comes to be the cause of death to a man or a
 woman, the ox is to be stoned, and its flesh may not be used
 for food; but the owner will not be judged responsible.
21:29 But if the ox has frequently done such damage in the past,
 and the owner has had word of it and has not kept it under
 control, so that it has been the cause of the death of a man or
 woman, not only is the ox to be stoned, but its owner is to be
 put to death.
21:30 If a price is put on his life, let him make payment of
 whatever price is fixed.
21:31 If the death of a son or of a daughter has been caused,
 the punishment is to be in agreement with this rule.
21:32 If the death of a man-servant or of a woman-servant is
 caused by the ox, the owner is to give their master thirty
 shekels of silver, and the ox is to be stoned.
21:33 If a man makes a hole in the earth without covering it up,
 and an ox or an ass dropping into it comes to its death;
21:34 The owner of the hole is responsible; he will have to make
 payment to their owner, but the dead beast will be his.
21:35 And if one man's ox does damage to another man's ox,
 causing its death, then the living ox is to be exchanged for
 money, and division made of the price of it, and of the price
 of the dead one.
21:36 But if it is common knowledge that the ox has frequently
 done such damage in the past, and its owner has not kept it
 under control, he will have to give ox for ox; and the dead
 beast will be his.
22:1 If a man takes without right another man's ox or his sheep,
 and puts it to death or gets a price for it, he is to give five
 oxen for an ox, or four sheep for a sheep, in payment: the
 thief will have to make payment for what he has taken; if he
 has no money, he himself will have to be exchanged for money,
 so that payment may be made.
22:2 If a thief is taken in the act of forcing his way into a
 house, and his death is caused by a blow, the owner of the
 house is not responsible for his blood.
22:3 But if it is after dawn, he will be responsible.
22:4 If he still has what he had taken, whatever it is, ox or
 ass or sheep, he is to give twice its value.
22:5 If a man makes a fire in a field or a vine-garden, and lets
 the fire do damage to another man's field, he is to give of the
 best produce of his field or his vine-garden to make up for it.
22:6 If there is a fire and the flames get to the thorns at the
 edge of the field, causing destruction of the cut grain or of
 the living grain, or of the field, he who made the fire will
 have to make up for the damage.
22:7 If a man puts money or goods in the care of his neighbour
 to keep for him, and it is taken from the man's house, if they
 get the thief, he will have to make payment of twice the value.
22:8 If they do not get the thief, let the master of the house
 come before the judges and take an oath that he has not put his
 hand on his neighbour's goods.
22:9 In any question about an ox or an ass or a sheep or
 clothing, or about the loss of any property which anyone says
 is his, let the two sides put their cause before God; and he
 who is judged to be in the wrong is to make payment to his
 neighbour of twice the value.
22:10 If a man puts an ass or an ox or a sheep or any beast into
 the keeping of his neighbour, and it comes to death or is
 damaged or is taken away, without any person seeing it:
22:11 If he takes his oath before the Lord that he has not put
 his hand to his neighbour's goods, the owner is to take his
 word for it and he will not have to make payment for it.
22:12 But if it is taken from him by a thief, he is to make up
 for the loss of it to its owner.
22:13 But if it has been damaged by a beast, and he is able to
 make this clear, he will not have to make payment for what was
 damaged.
22:14 If a man gets from his neighbour the use of one of his
 beasts, and it is damaged or put to death when the owner is not
 with it, he will certainly have to make payment for the loss.
22:15 If the owner is with it, he will not have to make payment:
 if he gave money for the use of it, the loss is covered by the
 payment.
22:16 If a man takes a virgin, who has not given her word to
 another man, and has connection with her, he will have to give
 a bride-price for her to be his wife.
22:17 If her father will not give her to him on any account, he
 will have to give the regular payment for virgins.
22:18 Any woman using unnatural powers or secret arts is to be
 put to death.
22:19 Any man who has sex connection with a beast is to be put
 to death.
22:20 Complete destruction will come on any man who makes
 offerings to any other god but the Lord.
22:21 Do no wrong to a man from a strange country, and do not be
 hard on him; for you yourselves were living in a strange
 country, in the land of Egypt.
22:22 Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is
 dead.
22:23 If you are cruel to them in any way, and their cry comes
 up to me, I will certainly give ear;
22:24 And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with
 the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children
 without fathers.
22:25 If you let any of the poor among my people have the use of
 your money, do not be a hard creditor to him, and do not take
 interest.
22:26 If ever you take your neighbour's clothing in exchange for
 the use of your money, let him have it back before the sun goes
 down:
22:27 For it is the only thing he has for covering his skin;
 what is he to go to sleep in? and when his cry comes up to me,
 I will give ear, for my mercy is great.
22:28 You may not say evil of the judges, or put a curse on the
 ruler of your people.
22:29 Do not keep back your offerings from the wealth of your
 grain and your vines. The first of your sons you are to give to
 me.
22:30 In the same way with your oxen and your sheep: for seven
 days let the young one be with its mother; on the eighth day
 give it to me.
22:31 You are to be holy men to me: the flesh of no animal whose
 death has been caused by the beasts of the field may be used
 for your food; it is to be given to the dogs.
23:1 Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an
 agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness.
23:2 Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give
 the support of your words to a wrong decision:
23:3 But, on the other hand, do not be turned from what is right
 in order to give support to a poor man's cause.
23:4 If you come across the ox or the ass of one who is no
 friend to you wandering from its way, you are to take it back
 to him.
23:5 If you see the ass of one who has no love for you bent down
 to the earth under the weight which is put on it, you are to
 come to its help, even against your desire.
23:6 Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.
23:7 Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let the
 upright or him who has done no wrong be put to death: for I
 will make the evil-doer responsible for his sin.
23:8 Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those
 who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright
 false.
23:9 Do not be hard on the man from a strange country who is
 living among you; for you have had experience of the feelings
 of one who is far from the land of his birth, because you
 yourselves were living in Egypt, in a strange land.
23:10 For six years put seed into your fields and get in the
 increase;
23:11 But in the seventh year let the land have a rest and be
 unplanted; so that the poor may have food from it: and let the
 beasts of the field take the rest. Do the same with your
 vine-gardens and your olive-trees.
23:12 For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the
 Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may have rest, together
 with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land
 living among you.
23:13 Take note of all these things which I have said to you,
 and let not the names of other gods come into your minds or
 from your lips.
23:14 Three times in the year you are to keep a feast to me.
23:15 You are to keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven
 days let your bread be without leaven, as I gave you orders, at
 the regular time in the month Abib (for in it you came out of
 Egypt); and let no one come before me without an offering:
23:16 And the feast of the grain-cutting, the first-fruits of
 your planted fields: and the feast at the start of the year,
 when you have got in all the fruit from your fields.
23:17 Three times in the year let all your males come before the
 Lord God.
23:18 Do not give the blood of my offering with leavened bread;
 and do not let the fat of my feast be kept all night till the
 morning.
23:19 The best of the first-fruits of your land are to be taken
 into the house of the Lord your God. The young goat is not to
 be cooked in its mother's milk.
23:20 See, I am sending an angel before you, to keep you on your
 way and to be your guide into the place which I have made ready
 for you.
23:21 Give attention to him and give ear to his voice; do not go
 against him; for your wrongdoing will not be overlooked by him,
 because my name is in him.
23:22 But if you truly give ear to his voice, and do whatever I
 say, then I will be against those who are against you, fighting
 those who are fighting you.
23:23 And my angel will go before you, guiding you into the land
 of the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the
 Canaanite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, and they will be cut
 off by my hand.
23:24 Do not go down on your faces and give worship to their
 gods, or do as they do; but overcome them completely, and let
 their pillars be broken down.
23:25 And give worship to the Lord your God, who will send his
 blessing on your bread and on your water; and I will take all
 disease away from among you.
23:26 All your animals will give birth without loss, not one
 will be without young in all your land; I will give you a full
 measure of life.
23:27 I will send my fear before you, putting to flight all the
 people to whom you come; all those who are against you will go
 in flight, turning their backs before you.
23:28 I will send hornets before you, driving out the Hivite and
 the Canaanite and the Hittite before your face.
23:29 I will not send them all out in one year, for fear that
 their land may become waste, and the beasts of the field be
 increased overmuch against you.
23:30 Little by little I will send them away before you, till
 your numbers are increased and you take up your heritage in the
 land.
23:31 I will let the limits of your land be from the Red Sea to
 the sea of the Philistines, and from the waste land to the
 river Euphrates: for I will give the people of those lands into
 your power; and you will send them out before you.
23:32 Make no agreement with them or with their gods.
23:33 Let them not go on living in your land, or they will make
 you do evil against me: for if you give worship to their gods,
 it will certainly be a cause of sin to you.
24:1 And he said to Moses, Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron,
 and Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the chiefs of Israel; and
 give me worship from a distance.
24:2 And Moses only may come near to the Lord; but the others
 are not to come near, and the people may not come up with them.
24:3 Then Moses came and put before the people all the words of
 the Lord and his laws: and all the people, answering with one
 voice, said, Whatever the Lord has said we will do.
24:4 Then Moses put down in writing all the words of the Lord,
 and he got up early in the morning and made an altar at the
 foot of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes
 of Israel.
24:5 And he sent some of the young men of the children of Israel
 to make burned offerings and peace-offerings of oxen to the
 Lord.
24:6 And Moses took half the blood and put it in basins;
 draining out half of the blood over the altar.
24:7 And he took the book of the agreement, reading it in the
 hearing of the people: and they said, Everything which the Lord
 has said we will do, and we will keep his laws.
24:8 Then Moses took the blood and let it come on the people,
 and said, This blood is the sign of the agreement which the
 Lord has made with you in these words.
24:9 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the
 chiefs of Israel went up:
24:10 And they saw the God of Israel; and under his feet there
 was, as it seemed, a jewelled floor, clear as the heavens.
24:11 And he put not his hand on the chiefs of the children of
 Israel: they saw God, and took food and drink.
24:12 And the Lord said to Moses, Come up to me on the mountain,
 and take your place there: and I will give you the stones on
 which I have put in writing the law and the orders, so that you
 may give the people knowledge of them.
24:13 Then Moses and Joshua his servant got up; and Moses went
 up into the mountain of God.
24:14 And he said to the chiefs, Keep your places here till we
 come back to you: Aaron and Hur are with you; if anyone has any
 cause let him go to them.
24:15 And Moses went up into the mountain, and it was covered by
 the cloud.
24:16 And the glory of the Lord was resting on Mount Sinai, and
 the cloud was over it for six days; and on the seventh day he
 said Moses' name out of the cloud.
24:17 And the glory of the Lord was like a flame on the top of
 the mountain before the eyes of the children of Israel.
24:18 And Moses went up the mountain, into the cloud, and was
 there for forty days and forty nights.
25:1 And the Lord said to Moses,
25:2 Say to the children of Israel that they are to make me an
 offering; from every man who has the impulse in his heart take
 an offering for me.
25:3 And this is the offering you are to take from them: gold
 and silver and brass;
25:4 And blue and purple and red, and the best linen, and goats'
 hair;
25:5 And sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard wood;
25:6 Oil for the light, spices for the sweet-smelling oil, sweet
 perfumes for burning;
25:7 Beryls and stones of value to be put on the ephod and on
 the priest's bag.
25:8 And let them make me a holy place, so that I may be ever
 present among them.
25:9 Make the House and everything in it from the designs which
 I will give you.
25:10 And they are to make an ark of hard wood; two and a half
 cubits long, and a cubit and a half wide and high.
25:11 It is to be plated inside and out with the best gold, with
 an edge of gold all round it
25:12 And make four rings of gold for it, to be fixed on its
 four feet, two rings on one side of it and two on the other.
25:13 And make rods of the same wood, plating them with gold.
25:14 And put the rods through the rings at the sides of the
 ark, for lifting it.
25:15 The rods are to be kept in the rings, and never taken out.
25:16 Inside the ark you are to put the record which I will give
 you.
25:17 And you are to make a cover of the best gold, two and a
 half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
25:18 And at the two ends of the cover you are to make two
 winged ones of hammered gold,
25:19 One at one end and one at the other; the winged ones are
 to be part of the cover.
25:20 And their wings are to be outstretched over the cover, and
 the winged ones are to be opposite one another, facing the
 cover.
25:21 And put the cover over the ark, and in the ark the record
 which I will give you.
25:22 And there, between the two winged ones on the cover of the
 ark, I will come to you, face to face, and make clear to you
 all the orders I have to give you for the children of Israel.
25:23 And you are to make a table of the same wood, two cubits
 long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high,
25:24 Plated with the best gold, with a gold edge all round it;
25:25 And make a frame all round it, as wide as a man's hand,
 with a gold edge to the frame.
25:26 And make four gold rings and put them at the four angles,
 on the four feet of the table;
25:27 The rings are to be fixed under the frame to take the rods
 with which the table is to be lifted.
25:28 Make rods of the same wood, plated with gold, for lifting
 the table.
25:29 And make the table-vessels, the spoons and the cups and
 the basins for liquids, all of the best gold.
25:30 And on the table at all times you are to keep my holy
 bread.
25:31 And you are to make a support for lights, of the best
 gold; its base and its pillar are to be of hammered gold; its
 cups, its buds, and its flowers are to be made of the same
 metal.
25:32 It is to have six branches coming out from its sides;
 three branches from one side and three from the other.
25:33 Every branch having three cups made like almond flowers,
 every cup with a bud and a flower, on all the branches.
25:34 And on the pillar, four cups like almond flowers, every
 one with its bud and its flower:
25:35 And under every two branches a bud, made with the branch,
 for all the six branches of it.
25:36 The buds and the branches are to be made of the same
 metal; all together one complete work of hammered gold.
25:37 Then you are to make its seven vessels for the lights,
 putting them in their place so that they give light in front of
 it.
25:38 And the instruments and trays for use with it are all to
 be of the best gold.
25:39 A talent of gold will be needed for it, with all these
 vessels.
25:40 And see that you make them from the design which you saw
 on the mountain.
26:1 And you are to make a House for me, with ten curtains of
 the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of
 winged ones by a good workman.
26:2 Every curtain is to be twenty-eight cubits long and four
 cubits wide, all of the same measure.
26:3 Five curtains are to be joined together, and the other five
 are to be joined together.
26:4 And you are to put twists of blue cord on the edge of the
 outside curtain of the first group of five, and on the edge of
 the outside curtain of the second group of five;
26:5 Fifty twists on one curtain and fifty on the other, the
 twists to be opposite one another.
26:6 Then make fifty gold hooks, joining the curtains together
 by the hooks, and in this way the House will be made.
26:7 And you are to make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over
 the House, eleven curtains.
26:8 Every curtain is to be thirty cubits long and four cubits
 wide, all of the same measure.
26:9 Five of these curtains are to be joined together, and the
 other six are to be joined together, the sixth being folded
 over to make a hanging in front of the tent.
26:10 And you are to put fifty twists of cord on the edge of the
 outside curtain of one group, and fifty twists on the edge of
 the outside curtain of the other group.
26:11 Then make fifty brass hooks and put the hooks into the
 twists, joining the tent together to make it one.
26:12 And the folded part which is over of the curtains of the
 tent, the half-curtain which is folded back, will be hanging
 down over the back of the House.
26:13 And the cubit which is over of the ten curtains at the
 sides will be hanging over the two sides of the House as a
 cover.
26:14 And then you are to make a cover for the tent, of
 sheepskins coloured red, and a cover of leather over that.
26:15 And you are to make upright boards of hard wood for the
 House.
26:16 Every board is to be ten cubits high and a cubit and a
 half wide.
26:17 Every board is to be joined to the one nearest to it by
 two tongues, and so for every board in the House.
26:18 These are the boards needed for the house; twenty boards
 for the south side,
26:19 With forty silver bases under the twenty boards, two bases
 under every board to take its tongues.
26:20 And twenty boards for the second side of the house on the
 north,
26:21 With their forty silver bases, two under every board.
26:22 And six boards for the back of the House on the west,
26:23 With two boards for the angles of the House at the back.
26:24 The two are to be joined together at the base and at the
 top to one ring, forming the two angles.
26:25 So there are to be eight boards, with their sixteen silver
 bases, two bases under every board.
26:26 And make rods of the same wood, five for the boards on the
 one side,
26:27 And five for the boards on the other side of the House,
 and five for the west side of the House at the back.
26:28 And the middle rod is to go through the rings of all the
 boards from end to end.
26:29 And the boards are to be plated with gold, having gold
 rings for the rods to go through: and the rods are to be plated
 with gold.
26:30 And you are to make the House from the design which you
 saw on the mountain.
26:31 And you are to make a veil of the best linen, blue and
 purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good
 workman:
26:32 Hanging it by gold hooks from four pillars of wood, plated
 with gold and fixed in silver bases.
26:33 And you are to put up the veil under the hooks, and put
 inside it the ark of the law: the veil is to be a division
 between the holy place and the most holy.
26:34 You are to put the cover on the ark of the law, inside the
 most holy place.
26:35 And outside the veil you are to put the table, and the
 support for the lights opposite the table on the south side of
 the House; and the table is to be on the north side.
26:36 And you are to make a curtain for the doorway of the Tent,
 of the best linen with needlework of blue and purple and red.
26:37 And make five pillars for the curtain, of hard wood plated
 with gold; their hooks are to be of gold and their bases of
 brass
27:1 And make an altar of hard wood, a square altar, five cubits
 long, five cubits wide and three cubits high.
27:2 Put horns at the four angles of it, made of the same,
 plating it all with brass.
27:3 And make all its vessels, the baskets for taking away the
 dust of the fire, the spades and basins and meat-hooks and
 fire-trays, of brass.
27:4 And make a network of brass, with four brass rings at its
 four angles.
27:5 And put the network under the shelf round the altar so that
 the net comes half-way up the altar.
27:6 And make rods for the altar, of hard wood, plated with
 brass.
27:7 And put the rods through the rings at the two opposite
 sides of the altar, for lifting it.
27:8 The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it
 from the design which you saw on the mountain.
27:9 And let there be an open space round the House, with
 hangings for its south side of the best linen, a hundred cubits
 long.
27:10 Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases are to be of
 brass; the hooks of the pillars and their bands are to be of
 silver.
27:11 And on the north side in the same way, hangings a hundred
 cubits long, with twenty pillars of brass on bases of brass;
 their hooks and their bands are to be of silver.
27:12 And for the open space on the west side, the hangings are
 to be fifty cubits wide, with ten pillars and ten bases;
27:13 And on the east side the space is to be fifty cubits wide.
27:14 On the one side of the doorway will be hangings fifteen
 cubits long, with three pillars and three bases;
27:15 And on the other side, hangings fifteen cubits long, with
 three pillars and three bases.
27:16 And across the doorway, a veil of twenty cubits of the
 best linen, made of needlework of blue and purple and red, with
 four pillars and four bases.
27:17 All the pillars round the open space are to have silver
 bands, with hooks of silver and bases of brass.
27:18 The open space is to be a hundred cubits long, fifty
 cubits wide, with sides five cubits high, curtained with the
 best linen, with bases of brass.
27:19 All the instruments for the work of the House, and all its
 nails, and the nails of the open space are to be of brass.
27:20 Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clear
 olive oil for the lights, so that a light may be burning there
 at all times.
27:21 Let Aaron and his sons put this in order, evening and
 morning, before the Lord, inside the Tent of meeting, outside
 the veil which is before the ark; this is to be an order for
 ever, from generation to generation, to be kept by the children
 of Israel.
28:1 Now let Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, come
 near from among the children of Israel, so that they may be my
 priests, even Aaron, and Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar,
 his sons.
28:2 And make holy robes for Aaron your brother, so that he may
 be clothed with glory and honour.
28:3 Give orders to all the wise-hearted workmen, whom I have
 made full of the spirit of wisdom, to make robes for Aaron, so
 that he may be made holy as my priest.
28:4 This is what they are to make: a priest's bag, an ephod,
 and a robe, and a coat of coloured needlework, a head-dress,
 and a linen band; they are to make holy robes for Aaron your
 brother and for his sons, so that they may do the work of
 priests for me.
28:5 They are to take the gold and blue and purple and red and
 the best linen,
28:6 And make the ephod of gold and blue and purple and red and
 the best linen, the work of a designer.
28:7 It is to have two bands stitched to it at the top of the
 arms, joining it together.
28:8 And the beautifully worked band, which goes on it, is to be
 of the same work and the same material, of gold and blue and
 purple and red and twisted linen-work.
28:9 You are to take two beryl stones, on which the names of the
 children of Israel are to be cut:
28:10 Six names on the one stone and six on the other, in the
 order of their birth.
28:11 With the work of a jeweller, like the cutting of a stamp,
 the names of the children of Israel are to be cut on them, and
 they are to be fixed in twisted frames of gold.
28:12 And the two stones are to be placed on the ephod, over the
 arm-holes, to be stones of memory for the children of Israel:
 Aaron will have their names on his arms when he goes in before
 the Lord, to keep the Lord in mind of them.
28:13 And you are to make twisted frames of gold;
28:14 And two chains of the best gold, twisted like cords; and
 have the chains fixed on to the frames.
28:15 And make a priest's bag for giving decisions, designed
 like the ephod, made of gold and blue and purple and red and
 the best linen.
28:16 It is to be square, folded in two, a hand-stretch long and
 a hand-stretch wide.
28:17 And on it you are to put four lines of jewels; the first
 line is to be a cornelian, a chrysolite, and an emerald;
28:18 The second, a ruby, a sapphire, and an onyx;
28:19 The third, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
28:20 The fourth, a topaz, a beryl, and a jasper; they are to be
 fixed in twisted frames of gold.
28:21 The jewels are to be twelve in number, for the names of
 the children of Israel; every jewel having the name of one of
 the twelve tribes cut on it as on a stamp.
28:22 And you are to make two chains of gold, twisted like
 cords, to be fixed to the priest's bag.
28:23 And put two gold rings on the two ends of the bag.
28:24 Put the two gold chains on the two rings at the ends of
 the bag;
28:25 Joining the other ends of the chains to the gold frames
 and putting them on the front of the ephod, at the top of the
 arms.
28:26 Then make two gold rings and put them on the lower ends of
 the bag, at the edge of it on the inner side nearest to the
 ephod.
28:27 And make two more gold rings and put them on the front of
 the ephod at the top of the arms, at the join, over the worked
 band:
28:28 So that the rings on the bag may be fixed to the rings of
 the ephod by a blue cord and on to the band of the ephod, so
 that the bag may not come loose from the ephod.
28:29 And so Aaron will have the names of the children of Israel
 on the priest's bag over his heart whenever he goes into the
 holy place, to keep the memory of them before the Lord.
28:30 And in the bag you are to put the Urim and Thummim, so
 that they may be on Aaron's heart whenever he goes in before
 the Lord; and Aaron may have the power of making decisions for
 the children of Israel before the Lord at all times.
28:31 The robe which goes with the ephod is to be made all of
 blue;
28:32 With a hole at the top, in the middle of it; the hole is
 to be edged with a band to make it strong like the hole in the
 coat of a fighting-man, so that it may not be broken open.
28:33 And round the skirts of it put fruits in blue and purple
 and red, with bells of gold between;
28:34 A gold bell and a fruit in turn all round the skirts of
 the robe.
28:35 Aaron is to put it on for his holy work; and the sound of
 it will be clear, when he goes into the holy place before the
 Lord, and when he comes out, keeping him safe from death.
28:36 You are to make a plate of the best gold, cutting on it,
 as on a stamp, these words: HOLY TO THE LORD.
28:37 Put a blue cord on it and put it on the front of the
 twisted head-dress:
28:38 And it will be over Aaron's brow, so that Aaron will be
 responsible for any error in all the holy offerings made by the
 children of Israel; it will be on his brow at all times, so
 that their offerings may be pleasing to the Lord.
28:39 The coat is to be made of the best linen, worked in
 squares; and you are to make a head-dress of linen, and a linen
 band worked in needlework.
28:40 And for Aaron's sons you are to make coats, and bands, and
 head-dresses, so that they may be clothed with glory and
 honour.
28:41 These you are to put on Aaron, your brother, and on his
 sons, putting oil on them, separating them and making them
 holy, to do the work of priests to me.
28:42 And you are to make them linen trousers, covering their
 bodies from the middle to the knee;
28:43 Aaron and his sons are to put these on whenever they go
 into the Tent of meeting or come near the altar, when they are
 doing the work of the holy place, so that they may be free from
 any sin causing death: this is to be an order for him and his
 seed after him for ever.
29:1 This is what you are to do to make them holy, to do the
 work of priests to me: Take one young ox and two male sheep,
 without any mark on them,
29:2 And unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mixed with oil,
 and thin unleavened cakes on which oil has been put, made of
 the best bread-meal;
29:3 Put these in a basket and take them, with the ox and the
 two sheep.
29:4 And let Aaron and his sons come to the door of the Tent of
 meeting, and there let them be washed with water.
29:5 Take the robes, and put the coat and the dress and the
 ephod and the priest's bag on Aaron; put the band of needlework
 round him,
29:6 And let the head-dress be placed on his head and the holy
 crown on the head-dress.
29:7 Then take the oil and put it on his head.
29:8 And take his sons and put their robes on them;
29:9 And put the linen bands round Aaron and his sons, and the
 head-dresses on them, to make them priests by my order for
 ever: so you are to make Aaron and his sons holy to me.
29:10 Then let the ox be taken in front of the Tent of meeting:
 and let Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head.
29:11 And you are to put the ox to death before the Lord at the
 door of the Tent of meeting.
29:12 Then take some of the blood of the ox, and put it on the
 horns of the altar with your finger, draining out all the rest
 of the blood at the base of the altar.
29:13 And take all the fat covering the inside of the ox, and
 the fat joining the liver and the two kidneys with the fat
 round them, and let them be burned on the altar;
29:14 But the flesh of the ox and its skin and its waste parts
 are to be burned outside the circle of the tents, for it is a
 sin-offering.
29:15 Then take one of the sheep, and let Aaron and his sons put
 their hands on its head.
29:16 Then let it be put to death, so that the sides of the
 altar are marked with its blood.
29:17 Then the sheep is to be cut up into its parts, and after
 washing its legs and its inside parts, you are to put them with
 the parts and the head,
29:18 And let them all be burned on the altar as a burned
 offering to the Lord: a sweet smell, an offering made by fire
 to the Lord.
29:19 Then take the other sheep; and after Aaron and his sons
 have put their hands on its head,
29:20 You are to put the sheep to death, and take some of its
 blood and put it on the point of Aaron's right ear, and of the
 right ears of his sons, and on the thumbs of their right hands
 and the great toes of their right feet, dropping the rest of
 the blood on the sides of the altar.
29:21 Then take some of the blood on the altar, and the oil, and
 put it on Aaron and his robes and on his sons and on their
 robes, so that he and his robes and his sons and their robes
 may be made holy.
29:22 Then take the fat of the sheep, the fat tail, the fat
 covering the insides, and the fat joining the liver and the two
 kidneys with the fat round them, and the right leg; for by the
 offering of this sheep they are to be marked out as priests:
29:23 And take one bit of bread and one cake of oiled bread and
 one thin cake out of the basket of unleavened bread which is
 before the Lord:
29:24 And put them all on the hands of Aaron and of his sons, to
 be waved for a wave offering before the Lord.
29:25 Then take them from their hands, and let them be burned on
 the burned offering on the altar, a sweet smell before the
 Lord, an offering made by fire to the Lord.
29:26 Then take the breast of Aaron's sheep, waving it before
 the Lord; and it is to be your part of the offering.
29:27 So you are to make holy the breast of the sheep which is
 waved and the leg which is lifted up on high, that is, of the
 sheep which is offered for Aaron and his sons;
29:28 And it will be their part as a right for ever from the
 children of Israel, it is a special offering from the children
 of Israel, made from their peace-offerings, a special offering
 lifted up to the Lord.
29:29 And Aaron's holy robes will be used by his sons after him;
 they will put them on when they are made priests.
29:30 For seven days the son who becomes priest in his place
 will put them on when he comes into the Tent of meeting to do
 the work of the holy place.
29:31 Then take the sheep of the wave offering and let its flesh
 be cooked in water in a holy place.
29:32 And let Aaron and his sons make a meal of it, with the
 bread in the basket, at the door of the Tent of meeting.
29:33 All those things which were used as offerings to take away
 sin, and to make them holy to be priests, they may have for
 food: but no one who is not a priest may have them, for they
 are holy food.
29:34 And if any of the flesh of the offering or of the bread is
 over till the morning, let it be burned with fire; it is not to
 be used for food, for it is holy.
29:35 All these things you are to do to Aaron and his sons as I
 have given you orders: for seven days the work of making them
 priests is to go on.
29:36 Every day an ox is to be offered as a sin-offering, to
 take away sins: and by this offering on it, you will make the
 altar clean from sin; and you are to put oil on it and make it
 holy.
29:37 For seven days you are to make offerings for the altar and
 make it holy, so that it may become completely holy, and
 anything touching it will become holy.
29:38 Now this is the offering which you are to make on the
 altar: two lambs in their first year, every day regularly.
29:39 One lamb is to be offered in the morning and the other in
 the evening:
29:40 And with the one lamb, a tenth part of an ephah of the
 best meal, mixed with a fourth part of a hin of clear oil; and
 the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.
29:41 And the other lamb is to be offered in the evening, and
 with it the same meal offering and drink offering, for a sweet
 smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.
29:42 This is to be a regular burned offering made from
 generation to generation, at the door of the Tent of meeting
 before the Lord, where I will come face to face with you and
 have talk with you.
29:43 There I will come face to face with the children of
 Israel, and the Tent will be made holy by my glory
29:44 I will make holy the Tent of meeting and the altar: and
 Aaron and his sons I will make holy, to be my priests
29:45 Among the children of Israel I will make my living-place,
 and I will be their God.
29:46 And they will see that I am the Lord their God, who took
 them out of the land of Egypt, so that I might be ever with
 them: I am the Lord their God.
30:1 And you are to make an altar for the burning of perfume; of
 hard wood let it be made.
30:2 The altar is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide,
 and two cubits high, and its horns are to be made of the same.
30:3 It is to be plated with the best gold, the top of it and
 the sides and the horns, with an edging of gold all round it.
30:4 Under the edge on the two opposite sides, you are to make
 two gold rings, to take the rods for lifting it.
30:5 And make these rods of the same wood, plating them with
 gold.
30:6 And let it be placed in front of the veil before the ark of
 the law, before the cover which is over the law, where I will
 come face to face with you.
30:7 And on this altar sweet spices are to be burned by Aaron
 every morning when he sees to the lights.
30:8 And every evening, when he puts the lights up in their
 places, the spices are to be burned, a sweet-smelling smoke
 going up before the Lord from generation to generation for
 ever.
30:9 No strange perfume, no burned offering or meal offering,
 and no drink offering is to be offered on it.
30:10 And once every year Aaron is to make its horns clean: with
 the blood of the sin-offering he is to make it clean once every
 year from generation to generation: it is most holy to the
 Lord.
30:11 And the Lord said to Moses,
30:12 When you are taking the number of the children of Israel,
 let every man who is numbered give to the Lord a price for his
 life, so that no disease may come on them when they are
 numbered.
30:13 And this is what they are to give; let every man who is
 numbered give half a shekel, by the scale of the holy place:
 (the shekel being valued at twenty gerahs:) this money is an
 offering to the Lord.
30:14 Everyone who is numbered, from twenty years old and over,
 is to give an offering to the Lord.
30:15 The man of wealth is to give no more and the poor man no
 less than the half-shekel of silver, when the offering is made
 to the Lord as the price for your lives.
30:16 And you are to take this money from the children of Israel
 to be used for the work of the Tent of meeting, to keep the
 memory of the children of Israel before the Lord and to be the
 price of your lives.
30:17 And the Lord said to Moses,
30:18 You are to make a brass washing-vessel, with a brass base;
 and put it between the Tent of meeting and the altar, with
 water in it;
30:19 That it may be used by Aaron and his sons for washing
 their hands and feet;
30:20 Whenever they go into the Tent of meeting they are to be
 washed with water, to keep them from death; and whenever they
 come near to do the work of the altar, or to make an offering
 by fire to the Lord,
30:21 Their hands and feet are to be washed. so that they may be
 safe from death: this is an order to them for ever; to him and
 his seed from generation to generation.
30:22 And the Lord said to Moses,
30:23 Take the best spices, five hundred shekels' weight of
 liquid myrrh, and of sweet cinnamon half as much, that is, two
 hundred and fifty shekels, and two hundred and fifty shekels of
 sweet calamus,
30:24 And of cassia, five hundred shekels' weight measured by
 the scale of the holy place, and of olive oil a hin:
30:25 And make these into a holy oil, a perfume made by the art
 of the perfume-maker; it is to be a holy oil.
30:26 This oil is to be put on the Tent of meeting, and on the
 ark of the law,
30:27 And on the table and all its vessels, and on the support
 for the lights, with its vessels, and on the altar for burning
 spices,
30:28 And on the altar of burned offerings with its vessels, and
 on the washing-vessel and its base.
30:29 And you are to make them most holy; anything touching them
 will become holy.
30:30 And put the oil on Aaron and his sons, making them holy to
 do the work of priests to me.
30:31 And say to the children of Israel, This is to be the
 Lord's holy oil, from generation to generation.
30:32 It is not to be used for man's flesh, and no other is to
 be made like it: holy it is, and you are to keep it holy.
30:33 Whoever makes any like it, or puts it on one who is not a
 priest, will be cut off from his people.
30:34 And the Lord said to Moses, Take sweet spices, stacte and
 onycha and galbanum, with the best frankincense, in equal
 weights;
30:35 And make from them a perfume, such as is made by the art
 of the perfume-maker, mixed with salt, and clean and holy.
30:36 And put some of it, crushed very small, in front of the
 ark in the Tent of meeting, where I will come face to face with
 you; it is to be most holy.
30:37 You are not to make any perfume like it for yourselves: it
 is to be kept holy to the Lord.
30:38 Whoever makes any like it, for its sweet smell, will be
 cut off from his people.
31:1 And the Lord said to Moses,
31:2 I have made selection of Bezalel, the son of Uri, by name,
 the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:
31:3 And I have given him the spirit of God and made him wise
 and full of knowledge and expert in every sort of handwork,
31:4 To do all sorts of delicate work in gold and silver and
 brass;
31:5 In cutting stones for framing, and to do every form of
 woodwork.
31:6 And I have made selection of Oholiab with him, the son of
 Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all who
 are wise I have put the knowledge to make whatever I have given
 you orders to have made;
31:7 The Tent of meeting, and the ark of the law, and the cover
 which is on it, and all the things for the tent,
31:8 And the table with its vessels, and the holy light-support
 with all its vessels, and the altar for the burning of spices,
31:9 And the altar of burned offerings with all its vessels, and
 the washing-vessel with its base,
31:10 And the robes of needlework, the holy robes for Aaron and
 for his sons, for their use when acting as priests,
31:11 And the holy oil, and the perfume of sweet spices for the
 holy place; they will do whatever I have given you orders to
 have done.
31:12 And the Lord said to Moses,
31:13 Say to the children of Israel that they are to keep my
 Sabbaths; for the Sabbath day is a sign between me and you
 through all your generations; so that you may see that I am the
 Lord who makes you holy.
31:14 So you are to keep the Sabbath as a holy day; and anyone
 not honouring it will certainly be put to death: whoever does
 any work on that day will be cut off from his people.
31:15 Six days may work be done, but the seventh day is a
 Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any
 work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death.
31:16 And the children of Israel are to keep the Sabbath holy,
 from generation to generation, by an eternal agreement.
31:17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for
 ever; because in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and
 on the seventh day he took his rest and had pleasure in it.
31:18 And when his talk with Moses on Mount Sinai was ended, he
 gave him the two stones of the law, two stones on which was the
 writing made by the finger of God.
32:1 And when the people saw that Moses was a long time coming
 down from the mountain, they all came to Aaron and said to him,
 Come, make us a god to go before us: as for this Moses, who
 took us up out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has
 become of him.
32:2 Then Aaron said to them, Take off the gold rings which are
 in the ears of your wives and your sons and your daughters, and
 give them to me.
32:3 And all the people took the gold rings from their ears and
 gave them to Aaron.
32:4 And he took the gold from them and, hammering it with an
 instrument, he made it into the metal image of a young ox: and
 they said, This is your god, O Israel, who took you out of the
 land of Egypt.
32:5 And when Aaron saw this, he made an altar before it, and
 made a public statement, saying, Tomorrow there will be a feast
 to the Lord.
32:6 So early on the day after they got up and made burned
 offerings and peace-offerings; and took their seats at the
 feast, and then gave themselves to pleasure.
32:7 And the Lord said to Moses, Go down quickly; for your
 people, whom you took out of the land of Egypt, are turned to
 evil ways;
32:8 Even now they are turned away from the rule I gave them,
 and have made themselves a metal ox and given worship to it and
 offerings, saying, This is your god, O Israel, who took you up
 out of the land of Egypt.
32:9 And the Lord said to Moses, I have been watching this
 people, and I see that they are a stiff-necked people.
32:10 Now do not get in my way, for my wrath is burning against
 them; I will send destruction on them, but of you I will make a
 great nation.
32:11 But Moses made prayer to God, saying, Lord, why is your
 wrath burning against your people whom you took out of the land
 of Egypt, with great power and with the strength of your hand?
32:12 Why let the Egyptians say, He took them out to an evil
 fate, to put them to death on the mountains, cutting them off
 from the earth? Let your wrath be turned away from them, and
 send not this evil on your people.
32:13 Have in mind Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to
 whom you gave your oath, saying, I will make your seed like the
 stars of heaven in number, and all this land will I give to
 your seed, as I said, to be their heritage for ever.
32:14 So the Lord let himself be turned from his purpose of
 sending punishment on his people.
32:15 Then Moses came down the mountain with the two stones of
 the law in his hand; the stones had writing on their two sides,
 on the front and on the back.
32:16 The stones were the work of God, and the writing was the
 writing of God, cut on the stones.
32:17 Now when the noise and the voices of the people came to
 the ears of Joshua, he said to Moses, There is a noise of war
 in the tents.
32:18 And Moses said, It is not the voice of men who are
 overcoming in the fight, or the cry of those who have been
 overcome; it is the sound of songs which comes to my ear.
32:19 And when he came near the tents he saw the image of the
 ox, and the people dancing; and in his wrath Moses let the
 stones go from his hands, and they were broken at the foot of
 the mountain.
32:20 And he took the ox which they had made, burning it in the
 fire and crushing it to powder, and he put it in the water and
 made the children of Israel take a drink of it.
32:21 And Moses said to Aaron, What did the people do to you
 that you let this great sin come on them?
32:22 And Aaron said, Let not my lord be angry; you have seen
 how the purposes of this people are evil.
32:23 For they said to me, Make us a god to go before us: as for
 this Moses, who took us up out of the land of Egypt, we have no
 idea what has come to him.
32:24 Then I said to them, Whoever has any gold, let him take it
 off; so they gave it to me, and I put it in the fire, and this
 image of an ox came out.
32:25 And Moses saw that the people were out of control, for
 Aaron had let them loose to their shame before their haters:
32:26 Then Moses took his place at the way into the tents, and
 said, Whoever is on the Lord's side, let him come to me. And
 all the sons of Levi came together to him.
32:27 And he said to them, This is the word of the Lord, the God
 of Israel: Let every man take his sword at his side, and go
 from one end of the tents to the other, putting to death his
 brother and his friend and his neighbour.
32:28 And the sons of Levi did as Moses said; and about three
 thousand of the people were put to death that day.
32:29 And Moses said, You have made yourselves priests to the
 Lord this day; for every one of you has made the offering of
 his son and his brother; the blessing of the Lord is on you
 this day.
32:30 And on the day after, Moses said to the people, Great has
 been your sin: but I will go up to the Lord, and see if I may
 get forgiveness for your sin.
32:31 Then Moses went back to the Lord and said, This people has
 done a great sin, making themselves a god of gold;
32:32 But now, if you will give them forgiveness--but if not,
 let my name be taken out of your book.
32:33 And the Lord said to Moses, Whoever has done evil against
 me will be taken out of my book.
32:34 But now, go, take the people into that place of which I
 have given you word; see, my angel will go before you: but when
 the time of my judging has come, I will send punishment on them
 for their sin.
32:35 And the Lord sent punishment on the people because they
 gave worship to the ox which Aaron made.
33:1 And the Lord said to Moses, Go forward from this place, you
 and the people whom you have taken up out of the land of Egypt,
 to that land about which I made an oath to Abraham, Isaac, and
 Jacob, saying, To your seed will I give it.
33:2 And I will send an angel before you, driving out the
 Canaanite and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and
 the Hivite and the Jebusite:
33:3 Go up to that land flowing with milk and honey; but I will
 not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, for
 fear that I send destruction on you while you are on the way.
33:4 Hearing this bad news the people were full of grief, and no
 one put on his ornaments.
33:5 And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel,
 You are a stiff-necked people: if I come among you, even for a
 minute, I will send destruction on you; so take off all your
 ornaments, so that I may see what to do with you.
33:6 So the children of Israel took off their ornaments at Mount
 Horeb, and did not put them on again.
33:7 Now it was Moses' way to put up the Tent of meeting outside
 the tent-circle, at some distance away; giving it the name of
 The Tent of meeting. And everyone desiring to make his prayer
 to the Lord went to the Tent of meeting outside the
 tent-circle.
33:8 And whenever Moses went out to the Tent of meeting, all the
 people got up and everyone went to the door of his tent,
 looking after Moses till he went inside the Tent.
33:9 And whenever Moses went into the Tent, the pillar of cloud
 came down, and took its place by the door of the Tent, as long
 as the Lord was talking with Moses.
33:10 And all the people saw the cloud at the door of the Tent,
 and they went down on their faces, everyone at the door of his
 tent.
33:11 And the Lord had talk with Moses face to face, as a man
 may have talk with his friend. And when Moses came back to the
 tents, his servant, the young man Joshua, the son of Nun, did
 not come away from the Tent.
33:12 And Moses said to the Lord, See, you say to me, Be this
 people's guide on their journey, but you have not made clear to
 me whom you will send with me. But you have said, I have
 knowledge of you by name, and you have grace in my eyes.
33:13 If then I have grace in your eyes, let me see your ways,
 so that I may have knowledge of you and be certain of your
 grace; and my prayer is that you will keep in mind that this
 nation is your people.
33:14 And he said, I myself will go with you and give you rest.
33:15 And Moses said, If you yourself are not going with us, do
 not send us on from here.
33:16 For is not the fact of your going with us the sign that I
 and this people have grace in your eyes, so that we, that is, I
 and your people, are separate from all other people on the face
 of the earth?
33:17 And the Lord said to Moses, I will do as you say: for you
 have grace in my eyes, and I have knowledge of you by your
 name.
33:18 And Moses said, O Lord, let me see your glory.
33:19 And he said, I will make all the light of my being come
 before you, and will make clear to you what I am; I will be
 kind to those to whom I will be kind, and have mercy on those
 on whom I will have mercy.
33:20 But it is not possible for you to see my face, for no man
 may see me and still go on living.
33:21 And the Lord said, See, there is a place near me, and you
 may take your place on the rock:
33:22 And when my glory goes by, I will put you in a hole in the
 rock, covering you with my hand till I have gone past:
33:23 Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back:
 but my face is not to be seen.
34:1 And the Lord said to Moses, Make two other stones like the
 first two; and I will put on them the words which were on the
 first stones, which were broken by you.
34:2 And be ready by the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai,
 and come before me there in the morning, on the top of the
 mountain.
34:3 No one is to come up with you, and let no man be seen
 anywhere on the mountain; let no flocks or herds come near to
 get their food at its foot.
34:4 So Moses got two stones cut like the first; and early in
 the morning he went up Mount Sinai, as the Lord had said, with
 the two stones in his hand.
34:5 And the Lord came down in the cloud and took his place by
 the side of Moses, and Moses gave worship to the name of the
 Lord.
34:6 And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord,
 the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great
 in mercy and faith;
34:7 Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing
 and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send
 punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on
 their children's children to the third and fourth generation.
34:8 Then Moses quickly went down on his face in worship.
34:9 And he said, If now I have grace in your eyes, let the Lord
 go among us, for this is a stiff-necked people, and give us
 forgiveness for our wrongdoing and our sin, and take us for
 your heritage.
34:10 And the Lord said, See, this is what I will undertake:
 before the eyes of your people I will do wonders, such as have
 not been done in all the earth or in any nation: and all your
 people will see the work of the Lord, for what I am about to do
 for you is greatly to be feared.
34:11 Take care to do the orders which I give you today; I will
 send out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the
 Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
34:12 But take care, and do not make any agreement with the
 people of the land where you are going, for it will be a cause
 of sin to you.
34:13 But their altars are to be overturned and their pillars
 broken and their images cut down:
34:14 For you are to be worshippers of no other god: for the
 Lord is a God who will not give his honour to another.
34:15 So see that you make no agreement with the people of the
 land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their
 offerings, or be guests at their feasts,
34:16 Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their
 daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your
 sons take part with them.
34:17 Make for yourselves no gods of metal.
34:18 Keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days your
 food is to be bread without leaven, as I gave you orders, at
 the regular time in the month Abib; for in that month you came
 out of Egypt.
34:19 Every first male child is mine; the first male birth of
 your cattle, the first male of every ox and sheep.
34:20 A lamb may be given in payment for the young of an ass,
 but if you will not make payment for it, its neck will have to
 be broken. For all the first of your sons you are to make
 payment. No one is to come before me without an offering.
34:21 Six days let work be done, but on the seventh day take
 your rest: at ploughing time and at the grain-cutting you are
 to have a day for rest.
34:22 And you are to keep the feast of weeks when you get in the
 first-fruits of the grain, and the feast at the turn of the
 year when you take in the produce of your fields.
34:23 Three times in the year let all your males come before the
 Lord, the God of Israel.
34:24 For I will send out the nations before you and make wide
 the limits of your land; and no man will make an attempt to
 take your land while you go up to give worship to the Lord,
 three times in the year.
34:25 No leaven is to be offered with the blood of my offering,
 and the offering of the Passover feast may not be kept till the
 morning.
34:26 Take the first-fruits of your land as an offering to the
 house of the Lord your God. Let not the young goat be cooked in
 its mother's milk
34:27 And the Lord said to Moses, Put all these words in
 writing; for on them is based the agreement which I will make
 with you.
34:28 And for forty days and forty nights Moses was there with
 the Lord, and in that time he had no food or drink. And he put
 in writing on the stones the words of the agreement, the ten
 rules of the law.
34:29 Now when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two
 stones in his hand, he was not conscious that his face was
 shining because of his talk with God.
34:30 But when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses,
 and the shining of his face, they would not come near him for
 fear.
34:31 Then Moses sent for them; and Aaron, with the chiefs of
 the people, came to him; and Moses had talk with them.
34:32 And later, all the children of Israel came near, and he
 gave them all the orders which the Lord had given him on Mount
 Sinai.
34:33 And at the end of his talk with them, Moses put a veil
 over his face.
34:34 But whenever Moses went in before the Lord to have talk
 with him, he took off the veil till he came out. And whenever
 he came out he said to the children of Israel what he had been
 ordered to say;
34:35 And the children of Israel saw that the face of Moses was
 shining: so Moses put the veil over his face again till he went
 to the Lord.
35:1 And Moses sent for all the children of Israel to come
 together, and said to them, This is what the Lord has said and
 these are his orders.
35:2 Six days let work be done, but the seventh day is to be a
 holy day to you, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord; whoever does
 any work on that day is to be put to death.
35:3 No fire is to be lighted in any of your houses on the
 Sabbath day.
35:4 And Moses said to all the meeting of the children of
 Israel, This is the order which the Lord has given:
35:5 Take from among you an offering to the Lord; everyone who
 has the impulse in his heart, let him give his offering to the
 Lord; gold and silver and brass;
35:6 And blue and purple and red and the best linen and goats'
 hair,
35:7 And sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard wood,
35:8 And oil for the lights, and spices for the holy oil and for
 the sweet perfumes for burning.
35:9 And beryls and jewels to be cut for the ephod and for the
 priest's bag.
35:10 And let every wise-hearted man among you come and make
 whatever has been ordered by the Lord;
35:11 The House and its tent and its cover, its hooks and its
 boards, its rods and its pillars and its bases;
35:12 The ark with its cover and its rods and the veil hanging
 before it;
35:13 The table and its rods and all its vessels, and the holy
 bread;
35:14 And the support for the lights, with its vessels and its
 lights and the oil for the light;
35:15 And the altar for burning spices, with its rods, and the
 holy oil and the sweet perfume, and the curtain for the door,
 at the door of the House;
35:16 The altar of burned offerings, with its network of brass,
 its rods, and all its vessels, the washing-vessel and its base;
35:17 The hangings for the open space, its pillars and their
 bases, and the curtain for the doorway;
35:18 The nails for the House, and the nails for the open space
 and their cords;
35:19 The robes of needlework for the work of the holy place,
 the holy robes for Aaron the priest, and the robes for his sons
 when acting as priests.
35:20 And all the children of Israel went away from Moses.
35:21 And everyone whose heart was moved, everyone who was
 guided by the impulse of his spirit, came with his offering for
 the Lord, for whatever was needed for the Tent of meeting and
 its work and for the holy robes.
35:22 They came, men and women, all who were ready to give, and
 gave pins and nose-rings and finger-rings and neck-ornaments,
 all of gold; everyone gave an offering of gold to the Lord.
35:23 And everyone who had blue and purple and red and the best
 linen and goats' hair and sheepskins coloured red and leather,
 gave them.
35:24 Everyone who had silver and brass gave an offering of them
 to the Lord; and everyone who had hard wood, such as was needed
 for the work, gave it.
35:25 And all the women who were expert with their hands, made
 cloth, and gave the work of their hands, blue and purple and
 red and the best linen.
35:26 And those women who had the knowledge, made the goats'
 hair into cloth.
35:27 And the rulers gave the beryls and the cut jewels for the
 ephod and the priest's bag;
35:28 And the spice and the oil for the light, and the holy oil
 and the sweet perfumes.
35:29 The children of Israel, every man and woman, from the
 impulse of their hearts, gave their offerings freely to the
 Lord for the work which the Lord had given Moses orders to have
 done.
35:30 And Moses said to the children of Israel, See, the Lord
 has made selection of Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur,
 of the tribe of Judah;
35:31 And he has made him full of the spirit of God, in all
 wisdom and knowledge and art of every sort;
35:32 As an expert designer of beautiful things, working in gold
 and silver and brass;
35:33 Trained in the cutting of stones and the ornamenting of
 wood and in every sort of handwork.
35:34 And he has given to him, and to Oholiab, the son of
 Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, the power of training others.
35:35 To them he has given knowledge of all the arts of the
 handworker, of the designer, and the expert workman; of the
 maker of needlework in blue and purple and red and the best
 linen, and of the maker of cloth; in all the arts of the
 designer and the trained workman they are expert.
36:1 So let Bezalel and Oholiab get to work, with every
 wise-hearted man to whom the Lord has given wisdom and
 knowledge, to do whatever is necessary for the ordering of the
 holy place, as the Lord has given orders.
36:2 Then Moses sent for Bezalel and Oholiab, and for all the
 wise-hearted men to whom the Lord had given wisdom, even
 everyone who was moved by the impulse of his heart to come and
 take part in the work:
36:3 And they took from Moses all the offerings which the
 children of Israel had given for the building of the holy
 place. And still they went on giving him more free offerings
 every morning.
36:4 Then the wise men, who were doing all the work of the holy
 place, came from their work;
36:5 And said to Moses, The people are giving much more than is
 needed for the work which the Lord has given us orders to do.
36:6 So Moses made an order and had it given out through all the
 tents, saying, Let no man or woman make any more offerings for
 the holy place. So the people were kept from giving more.
36:7 For the material they had was enough and more than enough
 for all the work which had to be done.
36:8 Then all the expert workmen among them made the House with
 its ten curtains; of the best linen, blue and purple and red,
 they made them, with winged ones worked by expert designers.
36:9 Every curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits
 wide, all of the same measure.
36:10 And five curtains were joined together, and the other five
 curtains were joined together.
36:11 And they put twists of blue cord on the edge of the
 outside curtain of the first group, and in the same way on the
 outside curtain of the second group.
36:12 Fifty twists on the one curtain and fifty on the edge of
 the curtain of the other group; the twists being opposite to
 one another.
36:13 And they made fifty hooks of gold, joining the curtains
 one to another with the hooks; and so the House was made.
36:14 And they made curtains of goats' hair for the tent; eleven
 curtains were made.
36:15 Every curtain was thirty cubits long and four cubits wide,
 all of the same measure.
36:16 Five curtains were joined together to make one group, and
 six curtains were joined together to make the other group.
36:17 And they put fifty twists of cord on the edge of the
 outside curtain of the first group, and fifty twists on the
 edge of the outside curtain of the second group,
36:18 And fifty hooks of brass for joining them together to make
 the tent.
36:19 And they made a cover of sheepskins coloured red, to go
 over the tent, and a cover of leather over that.
36:20 And for the uprights of the House they made boards of hard
 wood.
36:21 The boards were ten cubits long and one cubit and a half
 wide.
36:22 Every board had two tongues fixed into it; all the boards
 were made in this way.
36:23 They made twenty boards for the south side of the House:
36:24 And for these twenty boards, forty silver bases, two bases
 under every board, to take its tongues.
36:25 And for the second side of the House, on the north, they
 made twenty boards,
36:26 With their forty silver bases, two bases for every board.
36:27 And for the west side of the House, at the back, they made
 six boards,
36:28 And two boards for the angles at the back.
36:29 These were joined together at the base and at the top to
 one ring, so forming the two angles.
36:30 So there were eight boards with sixteen bases of silver,
 two bases under every board.
36:31 And they made rods of hard wood; five for the boards on
 one side of the House,
36:32 And five for the boards on the other side of the House,
 and five for the boards at the back, on the west.
36:33 The middle rod was made to go right through the rings of
 all the boards from one end to the other.
36:34 All the boards were plated with gold, and the rings
 through which the rods went were of gold, and the rods were
 plated with gold.
36:35 And he made the veil of the best linen, blue and purple
 and red, worked with winged ones designed by expert workmen.
36:36 And they made four pillars for it of hard wood plated with
 gold: they had hooks of gold and four silver bases.
36:37 And they made a curtain for the door of the tent, of the
 best linen with needlework of blue and purple and red;
36:38 And five pillars for the curtain, with their hooks; the
 heads of the pillars were of gold and they were circled with
 bands of gold; and their five bases were of brass.
37:1 And Bezalel made the ark of hard wood, two and a half
 cubits long, a cubit and a half wide and a cubit and a half
 high;
37:2 Plating it inside and out with the best gold, and putting
 an edge of gold all round it.
37:3 And he made four gold rings for its four angles, two on one
 side and two on the other,
37:4 And rods of the same wood plated with gold.
37:5 These rods he put in the rings at the sides of the ark, for
 lifting it.
37:6 And he made the cover all of gold, two and a half cubits
 long and a cubit and a half wide.
37:7 And he made two winged ones, hammered out of one bit of
 gold, for the two ends of the cover;
37:8 Placing one at one end and one at the other; the winged
 ones were part of the cover.
37:9 And their wings were stretched out over the cover; the
 faces of the winged ones were opposite one another and facing
 the cover.
37:10 And he made the table of hard wood, two cubits long, a
 cubit wide and a cubit and a half high;
37:11 Plating it with the best gold and putting a gold edge all
 round it.
37:12 And he made a frame all round it about as wide as a man's
 hand, edged with gold all round.
37:13 And he made four gold rings, and put the rings at the
 angles of its four feet.
37:14 The rings were fixed under the frame to take the rods with
 which the table was to be lifted.
37:15 The rods for lifting the table he made of hard wood plated
 with gold.
37:16 And all the table-vessels, the plates and spoons and
 basins and the cups for liquids, he made of the best gold.
37:17 Then he made the support for the lights, all of the best
 gold; its base and its pillar were of hammered gold; its cups
 and buds and flowers were all made out of the same metal:
37:18 It had six branches coming out from its sides, three from
 one side and three from the other;
37:19 Every branch having three cups made like almond flowers,
 every cup with a bud and a flower on all the branches;
37:20 And on its pillar, four cups like almond flowers, every
 one with its bud and its flower;
37:21 And under every two branches a bud, made with the branch,
 for all six branches of it.
37:22 The buds and the branches were made of the same metal, all
 together one complete work of the best hammered gold.
37:23 And he made the seven vessels for the lights, and all the
 necessary instruments for it, of gold.
37:24 A talent of the best gold was used for the making of it
 and its vessels.
37:25 And he made the altar for the burning of spices, using the
 same hard wood; it was square, a cubit long and a cubit wide
 and two cubits high; the horns made of the same.
37:26 The top and the sides and the horns were all plated with
 the best gold; and he put an edge of gold all round it.
37:27 And he made two gold rings, placing them on the two
 opposite sides under the edge, to take the rods for lifting it.
37:28 The rods he made of the same hard wood, plating them with
 gold.
37:29 And he made the holy oil and the perfume of sweet spices
 for burning, after the art of the perfume-maker.
38:1 The altar of burned offerings he made of hard wood; a
 square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three
 cubits high,
38:2 And he put horns at its four angles made of the same,
 plating it all with brass;
38:3 And brass was used for all the vessels of the altar, the
 baskets and the spades, the basins and the meat-hooks and the
 fire-trays; all the vessels he made of brass
38:4 And he made a network of brass for the altar, under the
 frame round it, stretching half-way up;
38:5 And four rings for the four angles of this network, to take
 the rods.
38:6 The rods he made of hard wood plated with brass.
38:7 He put the rods through the rings at the opposite sides of
 the altar for lifting it; he made the altar hollow, boarded in
 with wood.
38:8 And he made the washing-vessel of brass on a brass base,
 using the polished brass looking-glasses given by the women who
 did work at the doors of the Tent of meeting.
38:9 To make the open space, he put hangings on the south side,
 of the best linen, a hundred cubits long:
38:10 Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were brass;
 and the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver.
38:11 And for the north side. hangings a hundred cubits long, on
 twenty brass pillars in brass bases, with silver hooks and
 bands.
38:12 And on the west side, hangings fifty cubits long, on ten
 pillars in ten bases, with silver bands.
38:13 And on the east side, the open space was fifty cubits
 long.
38:14 The hangings on one side of the doorway were fifteen
 cubits long, on three pillars with their three bases;
38:15 And the same on the other side of the doorway; on this
 side and on that the hangings were fifteen cubits long, on
 three pillars with their three bases.
38:16 All the hangings were of the best linen.
38:17 And the bases of the pillars were of brass; their hooks
 and the bands round the tops of them were of silver; all the
 pillars were ringed with silver.
38:18 And the curtain for the doorway of the open space was of
 the best linen, with designs of blue and purple and red in
 needlework; it was twenty cubits long and five cubits high, to
 go with the hangings round the sides.
38:19 There were four pillars with their bases, all of brass,
 the hooks being of silver, and their tops and their bands being
 covered with silver.
38:20 All the nails used for the House and the open space round
 it were of brass.
38:21 This is the price of the making of the House, even the
 House of witness, as it was valued by the word of Moses, for
 the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar, the son
 of Aaron the priest.
38:22 Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of
 Judah, made everything as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
38:23 And with him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the
 tribe of Dan; a designer and a trained workman, expert in
 needlework of blue and purple and red and the best linen.
38:24 The gold used for all the different work done for the holy
 place, the gold which was given, was twenty-nine talents, and
 seven hundred and thirty shekels in weight, by the scale of the
 holy place.
38:25 And the silver given by those who were numbered of the
 people was a hundred talents, and a thousand, seven hundred and
 seventy-five shekels in weight, by the scale of the holy place.
38:26 A beka, that is, half a shekel by the holy scale, for
 everyone who was numbered; there were six hundred and three
 thousand, five hundred and fifty men of twenty years old and
 over.
38:27 Of this silver, a hundred talents was used for making the
 bases of the pillars of the holy place and of the veil; a
 talent for every base.
38:28 And a thousand, seven hundred and seventy-five shekels of
 silver was used to make the hooks for the pillars, and for
 plating the tops of the pillars and for making their bands.
38:29 The brass which was given was seventy talents, two
 thousand four hundred shekels;
38:30 From it he made the bases of the doorway of the Tent of
 meeting and the brass altar and the network for it and all the
 vessels for the altar,
38:31 And the bases for the open space all round and for its
 doorway, and all the nails for the House and for the open
 space.
39:1 And from the needlework of blue and purple and red they
 made the robes used for the work of the holy place, and the
 holy robes for Aaron, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
39:2 The ephod he made of gold and blue and purple and red and
 the best linen;
39:3 Hammering the gold into thin plates and cutting it into
 wires to be worked into the blue and the purple and the red and
 the linen by the designer.
39:4 And they made two bands for joining its edges together at
 the top of the arms.
39:5 And the beautifully worked band which went on it was of the
 same design and the same material, worked in gold and blue and
 purple and red and twisted linen-work, as the Lord gave orders
 to Moses.
39:6 Then they made the beryl stones, fixed in twisted frames of
 gold and cut like the cutting of a stamp, with the names of the
 children of Israel.
39:7 These he put on the ephod, over the arm-holes, to be stones
 of memory for the children of Israel, as the Lord had said to
 Moses.
39:8 The priest's bag was designed like the ephod, of the best
 linen worked with gold and blue and purple and red.
39:9 It was square and folded in two, as long and as wide as the
 stretch of a man's hand;
39:10 And on it they put four lines of stones: in the first line
 was a carnelian, a chrysolite, and an emerald;
39:11 In the second, a ruby, a sapphire, and an onyx;
39:12 In the third, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
39:13 In the fourth, a topaz, a beryl, and a jasper; they were
 fixed in twisted frames of gold.
39:14 There were twelve stones for the twelve tribes of Israel;
 on every one the name of one of the tribes of Israel was cut,
 like the cutting of a stamp.
39:15 And on the bag they put gold chains, twisted like cords.
39:16 And they made two gold frames and two gold rings, the
 rings being fixed to the ends of the priest's bag;
39:17 And they put the two twisted chains on the two rings at
 the ends of the priest's bag;
39:18 And the other two ends of the chains were joined to the
 two frames and fixed to the front of the ephod over the
 arm-holes.
39:19 And they made two rings of gold and put them on the two
 lower ends of the bag, on the inner side nearest to the ephod.
39:20 And two other gold rings were put on the front of the
 ephod, over the arm-holes, at the join, and over the worked
 band.
39:21 And the rings on the bag were fixed to the rings of the
 ephod by a blue cord, keeping it in place over the band, so
 that the bag might not get loose, as the Lord gave orders to
 Moses.
39:22 The robe which went with the ephod was made all of blue;
39:23 With a hole at the top in the middle, like the hole in the
 coat of a fighting-man, edged with a band to make it strong.
39:24 The skirts of the robe were worked all round with fruits
 in blue and purple and red made of twisted linen.
39:25 And between the fruits all round the skirt they put gold
 bells, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.
39:26 All round the skirt of the robe were bells and fruits in
 turn.
39:27 The coats for Aaron and his sons they made of the best
 linen;
39:28 And the twisted head-dress for Aaron, and beautiful
 head-dresses of linen, and linen trousers,
39:29 And a linen band worked with a design of blue and purple
 and red, as the Lord had said to Moses.
39:30 The plate for the holy crown was made of the best gold,
 and on it were cut these words, HOLY TO THE LORD.
39:31 It was fixed to the head-dress by a blue cord, as the Lord
 had given orders to Moses.
39:32 So all the work on the House of the Tent of meeting was
 done; as the Lord had given orders to Moses, so the children of
 Israel did it.
39:33 Then they took the House to Moses, the tent with all the
 things for it; its hooks, its boards, its rods, its pillars,
 and its bases;
39:34 The outer cover of sheepskins coloured red, and the cover
 of leather, and the veil for the doorway;
39:35 The ark of the law, with its rods and its cover;
39:36 The table, with all its vessels and the holy bread;
39:37 The support for the lights, with the vessels for the
 lights to be put in their places on it, and all its vessels,
 and the oil for the lights;
39:38 And the gold altar, and the holy oil, and the sweet
 perfume for burning, and the curtain for the doorway of the
 tent;
39:39 And the brass altar, with its network of brass, and its
 rods and all its vessels, and the washing-vessel and its base;
39:40 The hangings for the open space, with the pillars and
 their bases, and the curtain for the doorway, and the cords and
 nails, and all the instruments necessary for the work of the
 House of the Tent of meeting;
39:41 The robes for use in the holy place, and the holy robes
 for Aaron and his sons when acting as priests.
39:42 The children of Israel did everything as the Lord had
 given orders to Moses.
39:43 Then Moses, when he saw all their work and saw that they
 had done everything as the Lord had said, gave them his
 blessing.
40:1 And the Lord said to Moses,
40:2 On the first day of the first month you are to put up the
 House of the Tent of meeting.
40:3 And inside it put the ark of the law, hanging the veil
 before it.
40:4 And put the table inside, placing all the things on it in
 order; and put in the support for the lights, and let its
 lights be burning.
40:5 And put the gold altar for burning perfumes in front of the
 ark of the law, hanging the curtain over the doorway of the
 House.
40:6 And put the altar of burned offerings before the doorway of
 the House of the Tent of meeting.
40:7 And let the washing-vessel, with water in it, be put
 between the Tent of meeting and the altar.
40:8 And put up the hangings forming the open space all round
 it, with the curtain over its doorway.
40:9 And take the holy oil and put it on the House and
 everything in it, and make it and everything in it holy:
40:10 And put oil on the altar of burned offering, and make it
 and all its vessels holy; this altar is to be most holy.
40:11 And put oil on the washing-vessel and its base, and make
 them holy.
40:12 Then let Aaron and his sons come to the door of the Tent
 of meeting; and after washing them with water,
40:13 You are to put on Aaron the holy robes; and you are to put
 oil on him, and make him holy, so that he may be my priest.
40:14 And take his sons with him and put coats on them;
40:15 And put oil on them as you did on their father, so that
 they may be my priests: the putting on of oil will make them
 priests for ever, from generation to generation.
40:16 And Moses did this; as the Lord gave him orders, so he
 did.
40:17 So on the first day of the first month in the second year
 the House was put up.
40:18 Moses put up the House; placing its bases in position and
 lifting up its uprights, putting in the rods and planting the
 pillars in their places;
40:19 Stretching the outer tent over it, and covering it, as the
 Lord had given him orders.
40:20 And he took the law and put it inside the ark, and put the
 rods at its side and the cover over it;
40:21 And he took the ark into the House, hanging up the veil
 before it as the Lord had given him orders.
40:22 And he put the table in the Tent of meeting, on the north
 side outside the veil.
40:23 And he put the bread on it in order before the Lord, as
 the Lord had said.
40:24 The support for the lights he put in the Tent of meeting,
 opposite the table, on the south side:
40:25 Lighting the lights before the Lord, as the Lord had given
 him orders.
40:26 And he put the gold altar in the Tent of meeting, in front
 of the veil:
40:27 Burning sweet perfumes on it, as the Lord had given him
 orders.
40:28 And he put up the curtain at the doorway of the House.
40:29 And at the door of the House of the Tent of meeting, he
 put the altar of burned offerings, offering on it the burned
 offering and the meal offering, as the Lord had given him
 orders.
40:30 And between the altar and the Tent of meeting he put the
 vessel with water in it for washing.
40:31 In it the hands and feet of Moses and Aaron and his sons
 were washed,
40:32 Whenever they went into the Tent of meeting, and when they
 came near the altar, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
40:33 And he put up the hangings forming the open space round
 the House and the altar, and put the curtain over the doorway.
 So Moses made the work complete.
40:34 Then the cloud came down covering the Tent of meeting, and
 the House was full of the glory of the Lord;
40:35 So that Moses was not able to go into the Tent of meeting,
 because the cloud was resting on it, and the House was full of
 the glory of the Lord.
40:36 And whenever the cloud was taken up from the House, the
 children of Israel went forward on their journey:
40:37 But while the cloud was there, they made no move till it
 was taken up.
40:38 For the cloud of the Lord was resting on the House by day,
 and at night there was fire in the cloud, before the eyes of
 all the people of Israel, and so it was through all their
 journeys.
