The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

And he heweth two tables of stone like the first, and Moses riseth early in the morning, and goeth up unto mount Sinai, as Jehovah commanded him, and he taketh in his hand two tables of stone.

And Jehovah cometh down in a cloud, and stationeth Himself with him there, and calleth in the Name of Jehovah,

and Jehovah passeth over before his face, and calleth: 'Jehovah, Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth,

keeping kindness for thousands, taking away iniquity, and transgression, and sin, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on children's children, on a third [generation], and on a fourth.'

And Moses hasteth, and boweth to the earth, and doth obeisance,

and saith, 'If, I pray Thee, I have found grace in Thine eyes, O my Lord, let my Lord, I pray Thee, go in our midst (for it [is] a stiff-necked people), and thou hast forgiven our iniquity and our sin, and hast inherited us.'

And He saith, 'Lo, I am making a covenant: before all thy people I do wonders, which have not been done in all the earth, or in any nation, and all the people in whose midst thou [art] have seen the work of Jehovah, for it [is] fearful that which I am doing with thee.

'Observe for thyself that which I am commanding thee to-day: lo, I am casting out from before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite;

take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land into which thou art going, lest it become a snare in thy midst;

for their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars ye shiver, and its shrines ye cut down;

for ye do not bow yourselves to another god — for Jehovah, whose name [is] Zealous, is a zealous God.

'Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land, and they have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have sacrificed to their gods, and [one] hath called to thee, and thou hast eaten of his sacrifice,

and thou hast taken of their daughters to thy sons, and their daughters have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have caused thy sons to go a-whoring after their gods;

a molten god thou dost not make to thyself.

'The feast of unleavened things thou dost keep; seven days thou dost eat unleavened things, as I have commanded thee, at an appointed time, the month of Abib: for in the month of Abib thou didst come out from Egypt.

'All opening a womb [are] Mine, and every firstling of thy cattle born a male, ox or sheep;

and the firstling of an ass thou dost ransom with a lamb; and if thou dost not ransom, then thou hast beheaded it; every first-born of thy sons thou dost ransom, and they do not appear before Me empty.

'Six days thou dost work, and on the seventh day thou dost rest; in ploughing-time and in harvest thou dost rest.

'And a feast of weeks thou dost observe for thyself; first-fruits of wheat-harvest; and the feast of in-gathering, at the revolution of the year.

'Three times in a year do all thy males appear before the Lord Jehovah, God of Israel;

for I dispossess nations from before thee, and have enlarged thy border, and no man doth desire thy land in thy going up to appear before Jehovah thy God three times in a year.

'Thou dost not slaughter with a fermented thing the blood of My sacrifice; and the sacrifice of the feast of the passover doth not remain till morning:

the first of the first-fruits of the land thou dost bring into the house of Jehovah thy God; thou dost not boil a kid in its mother's milk.'

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Write for thyself these words, for, according to the tenor of these words I have made with thee a covenant, and with Israel.'

And he is there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; bread he hath not eaten, and water he hath not drunk; and he writeth on the tables the matters of the covenant — the ten matters.

And it cometh to pass, when Moses is coming down from mount Sinai (and the two tables of the testimony [are] in the hand of Moses in his coming down from the mount), that Moses hath not known that the skin of his face hath shone in His speaking with him,

and Aaron seeth — all the sons of Israel also — Moses, and lo, the skin of his face hath shone, and they are afraid of coming nigh unto him.

And Moses calleth unto them, and Aaron and all the princes in the company return unto him, and Moses speaketh unto them;

and afterwards have all the sons of Israel come nigh, and he chargeth them with all that Jehovah hath spoken with him in mount Sinai.

And Moses finisheth speaking with them, and putteth on his face a vail;

and in the going in of Moses before Jehovah to speak with Him, he turneth aside the vail until his coming out; and he hath come out and hath spoken unto the sons of Israel that which he is commanded;

and the sons of Israel have seen the face of Moses that the skin of the face of Moses hath shone, and Moses hath put back the vail on his face until his going in to speak with Him.

And Moses assembleth all the company of the sons of Israel, and saith unto them, 'These [are] the things which Jehovah hath commanded — to do them:

Six days is work done, and on the seventh day there is to you a holy [day], a sabbath of rest to Jehovah; any who doeth work in it is put to death;

ye do not burn a fire in any of your dwellings on the sabbath-day.'

And Moses speaketh unto all the company of the sons of Israel, saying, 'This [is] the thing which Jehovah hath commanded, saying,

Take ye from among you a heave-offering to Jehovah; every one whose heart [is] willing doth bring it, — the heave-offering of Jehovah, — gold, and silver, and brass,

and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and linen, and goats' [hair],

and rams' skins made red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,

and oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil, and for the spice perfume,

and shoham stones, and stones for settings, for an ephod, and for a breastplate.

'And all the wise-hearted among you come in, and make all that Jehovah hath commanded:

'The tabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its hooks, and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets,

'The ark and its staves, the mercy-seat, and the vail of the covering,

'The table and its staves, and all its vessels, and the bread of the presence,

'And the candlestick for the light, and its vessels, and its lamps, and the oil for the light,

'And the altar of perfume, and its staves, and the anointing oil, and the spice perfume, and the covering of the opening at the opening of the tabernacle,

'The altar of burnt-offering and the brazen grate which it hath, its staves, and all its vessels, the laver and its base,

'The hangings of the court, its pillars, and their sockets, and the covering of the gate of the court,

'The pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords,

'The coloured garments, to do service in the sanctuary, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons to act as priest in.'

And all the company of the sons of Israel go out from the presence of Moses,

and they come in — every man whom his heart hath lifted up, and every one whom his spirit hath made willing — they have brought in the heave-offering of Jehovah for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments.

And they come in — the men with the women — every willing-hearted one — they have brought in nose-ring, and ear-ring, and seal-ring, and necklace, all golden goods, even every one who hath waved a wave-offering of gold to Jehovah.

And every man with whom hath been found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and linen, and goats' [hair], and rams' skins made red, and badgers' skins, have brought [them] in;

every one lifting up a heave-offering of silver and brass have brought in the heave-offering of Jehovah; and every one with whom hath been found shittim wood for any work of the service brought [it] in.

And every wise-hearted woman hath spun with her hands, and they bring in yarn, the blue, and the purple, the scarlet, and the linen;

and all the women whose heart hath lifted them up in wisdom, have spun the goats' [hair].

And the princes have brought in the shoham stones, and the stones for settings, for the ephod, and for the breastplate,

and the spices, and the oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the spice perfume;

every man and woman (whom their heart hath made willing to bring in for all the work which Jehovah commanded to be done by the hand of Moses) [of] the sons of Israel brought in a willing-offering to Jehovah.

And Moses saith unto the sons of Israel, 'See, Jehovah hath called by name Bezaleel, son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,

and He doth fill him [with] the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all work,

even to devise devices to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

and in graving of stones for settings, and in graving of wood to work in any work of design.

'And to direct He hath put in his heart, he and Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan;

He hath filled them with wisdom of heart to do every work, of engraver, and designer, and embroiderer (in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in linen), and weaver, who do any work, and of designers of designs.

And Bezaleel, and Aholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whom Jehovah hath given wisdom and understanding to know to do every work of the service of the sanctuary, have done according to all that Jehovah commanded.

And Moses calleth unto Bezaleel, and unto Aholiab, and unto every wise-hearted man in whose heart Jehovah hath given wisdom, every one whom his heart lifted up, to come near unto the work to do it.

And they take from before Moses all the heave-offering which the sons of Israel have brought in for the work of the service of the sanctuary to do it; and still they have brought in unto him a willing-offering morning by morning.

And all the wise men, who are doing all the work of the sanctuary, come each from his work which they are doing,

and speak unto Moses, saying, 'The people are multiplying to bring in more than sufficient for the service of the work which Jehovah commanded to make.'

And Moses commandeth, and they cause a voice to pass over through the camp, saying, 'Let not man or woman make any more work for the heave-offering of the sanctuary;' and the people are restrained from bringing,

and the work hath been sufficient for them, for all the work, to do it, and to leave.

And all the wise-hearted ones among the doers of the work make the tabernacle; ten curtains of twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, [with] cherubs, work of a designer, he hath made them.

The length of the one curtain [is] eight and twenty by the cubit, and the breadth of the one curtain four by the cubit; one measure [is] to all the curtains.

And he joineth the five curtains one unto another, and the [other] five curtains he hath joined one unto another;

and he maketh loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain, at the end, in the joining; so he hath made in the edge of the outmost curtain, in the joining of the second;

fifty loops he hath made in the one curtain, and fifty loops hath he made in the end of the curtain which [is] in the joining of the second; the loops are taking hold one on another.

And he maketh fifty hooks of gold, and joineth the curtains one unto another by the hooks, and the tabernacle is one.

And he maketh curtains of goats' [hair] for a tent over the tabernacle; eleven curtains he hath made them;

the length of the one curtain [is] thirty by the cubit, and the breadth of the one curtain [is] four cubits; one measure [is] to the eleven curtains;

and he joineth the five curtains apart, and the six curtains apart.

And he maketh fifty loops on the outer edge of the curtain, in the joining; and fifty loops he hath made on the edge of the curtain which is joining the second;

and he maketh fifty hooks of brass to join the tent — to be one;

and he maketh a covering for the tent of rams' skins made red, and a covering of badgers' skins above.

And he maketh the boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up;

ten cubits [is] the length of the [one] board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of the [one] board;

two handles [are] to the one board, joined one unto another; so he hath made for all the boards of the tabernacle.

And he maketh the boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward;

and forty sockets of silver he hath made under the twenty boards, two sockets under the one board for its two handles, and two sockets under the other board for its two handles.

And for the second side of the tabernacle, for the north side, he hath made twenty boards,

and their forty sockets of silver, two sockets under the one board, and two sockets under the other board;

and for the sides of the tabernacle, westward, hath he made six boards;

and two boards hath he made for the corners of the tabernacle, in the two sides;

and they have been twins below, and together they are twins at its head, at the one ring; so he hath done to both of them at the two corners;

and there have been eight boards; and their sockets of silver [are] sixteen sockets, two sockets under the one board.

And he maketh bars of shittim wood, five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

and five bars for the boards of the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle, for the sides westward;

and he maketh the middle bar to enter into the midst of the boards from end to end;