3:1   –   Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and

he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness.., came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

3:2   –   There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush.

Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up.

3:4   –  When the LORD - saw that he had gone over to look, God - called to him from within the

bush, “Moses! Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am.”

3:5   –  “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are

standing is holy ground.”

3:6   –  Then he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and

the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.

3:7 -      The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering.

3:8   –  So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them 

 up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

            3:10  –  Now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”

            3:13 –    Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your

fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ What shall I tell them?”

            3:14 –   God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘

I AM has sent me to you.’”

 4:1 –    Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say The LORD did

 not appear to you’?”

            4:2 –     Then the LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?” “A staff,” he replied

            4:3 –     The LORD said, “Throw it on the ground.” Moses threw it on the ground and it became

 a snake, and he ran from it.

4:4 –     Then the LORD said to him, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail.” So Moses

reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand.

4:5 –     “This,” said the LORD, “is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their

Fathers - the God of Abraham, God of Isaac and God of Jacob - has appeared to you.”

4:19 –  Now the LORD had said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all those who wanted

 to kill you are dead.”
4:21 –   The LORD said to Moses, “When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before

Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you the power to do. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.

4:22 –   Then say to Pharaoh, ‘This is what the LORD says: ISRAEL IS MY FIRSTBORN SON,  

4:23 -   and I told you, “Let my son go, so he may worship me.” But you refused to let him go; so I will kill your firstborn     son.’”

           4:24 -    At a lodging place on the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him

           4:25 -    But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it.

“Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.

4:26 -   So the LORD let him alone. (At that time she said “bridegroom of blood,” referring to

 circumcision.

4:29 -    Moses and Aaron brought together all the elders of the Israelites,
           4:30 -    and Aaron told them everything the LORD had said to Moses. He also performed the

  signs before the people,

4:31 -    and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD was concerned about them and

  had seen their misery, they bowed down and worshiped.

5:1 -      Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God

 of Israel, says: ‘Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival to me in the wilderness.’”

5:2 -     Pharaoh said, “Who is the LORD, that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know

 the LORD and I will not let Israel go.”

5:20 -   When they left Pharaoh, they found Moses and Aaron waiting to meet them,

5:21 -    and they said, “May the LORD look on you and judge you! You have made us obnoxious to Pharaoh and his     

             officials and have put a sword in their hand to kill us.

5:22 -    Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Why, Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Is this why     you  sent me?

5:23 -    Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people, and you have not     rescued your people at all.”

6:2 -     God also said to Moses, “I am the LORD.

6:3 -     I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as El-Shaddai—‘God Almighty’—but I did not reveal my   name,  Yahweh, to them.

6:4 -     I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they

 resided as foreigners.

6:5 -    Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving,

 and I have remembered my covenant.

6:6 -    “Therefore, say to the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the

yoke of the Egyptians. I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.

6:7 -    I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.

6:8 -    And I will bring you to the land I swore with uplifted hand to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD.’”

            6:28 -   Now when the LORD spoke to Moses in Egypt,
            6:29 -   he said to him, “I am the LORD. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt everything I tell you.”

7:2 -     You are to say everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of   his country.

            7:3 -      But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt,

            7:4 -      he will not listen to you.

7:6 -      Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD commanded them.
7:7 -      Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh

            7:8 -      The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

            7:9 -      “When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ then say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and

   throw it down before Pharaoh,’ and it will become a snake.”

7:10 -    So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD commanded. Aaron 

  threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake.

7:11 -    Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians also did

 the same things by their secret arts:

7:12 -    Each one threw down his staff and it became a snake. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.

7:13 -    Yet Pharaoh’s heart became hard and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had

  said.

7:15 -    Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he goes out to the river. Confront him on the bank of the Nile, and take in your    hand the staff that was changed into a snake.

7:16 -   Then say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to say to you: Let my

people go, so that they may worship me in the wilderness.

7:17 -  This is what the LORD says: By this you will know that I am the LORD: With the staff that

is in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will be changed into blood.

7:18 -  The fish in the Nile will die, and the river will stink; the Egyptians will not be able to drink

its water.’”

7:20 -  Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded. He raised his staff in the

 presence of Pharaoh and his officials and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was changed into blood.

7:21 -   The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink

 its water. Blood was everywhere in Egypt.

7:22 -   But the Egyptian magicians did the same things by their secret arts, and Pharaoh’s heart became hard; he would    not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.

            7:23 -  Instead, he turned and went into his palace, and did not take even this to heart.

8:1 -      Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the LORD

  says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me.

            8:2 -      If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country.

8:5 -      Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the

  streams and canals and ponds, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.’”  

8:6 -     So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and

  covered the land.

            8:7 -    But the magicians did the same things by their secret arts; they also made frogs come up

 on the land of Egypt.

 8:16 -   Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of

 the ground,’ and throughout the land of Egypt the dust will become gnats.”

 8:21 -   If you do not let my people go, I will send swarms of flies on you and your officials, on your people and into your    houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies; even the ground will be covered with them.

 8:24 -   And the LORD did this. Dense swarms of flies poured into Pharaoh’s palace and into the houses of his officials;       throughout Egypt the land was ruined by the flies.

 8:25 -   Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God here in the land.”

 8:26 -  But Moses said, “That would not be right. The sacrifices we offer the LORD our God would be detestable to the       Egyptians. And if we offer sacrifices that are detestable in their eyes, will they not stone us?

 8:27 -   We must take three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the LORD our God, as he commands us

 8:28 -    Pharaoh said, “I will let you go to offer sacrifices to the LORD your God in the wilderness, but you must not go       very far. Now pray for me.”

 8:30 -   Then Moses left Pharaoh and prayed to the LORD,

 8:31 -    and the LORD did what Moses asked. The flies left Pharaoh and his officials and his people; not a fly remained.

            8:32 -    But this time also Pharaoh hardened his heart and would not let the people go.

 9:1 -      Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go 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 worship me.”

            9:2 -     If you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them back,

 9:3 -    the hand of the LORD will bring a terrible plague on your livestock in the field—on your horses, donkeys and    camels and on your cattle, sheep and goats.

9:8 -     Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of soot from a furnace and

 have Moses toss it into the air in the presence of Pharaoh

9:9 -     It will become fine dust over the whole land of Egypt, and festering boils will break out on people and animals   throughout the land.”

9:10 -   So they took soot from a furnace and stood before Pharaoh. Moses tossed it into the air,

  and festering boils broke out on people and animals.

9:11 -    The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils that were on them and on all the Egyptians

           9:12 -    But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart and he would not listen to Moses and Aaron,

  just as the LORD had said to Moses.

9:17 -    You still set yourself against my people and will not let them go.

           9:18 -    Therefore, at this time tomorrow I will send the worst hailstorm that has ever fallen on

  Egypt, from the day it was founded till now.

            9:19 -   Give an order now to bring your livestock and everything you have in the field to a place

  of shelter, because the hail will fall on every person and animal that has not been brought in and is still out in         the  field, and they will die.’”

10:3 -    So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “This is what the LORD, the God

of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they may worship me.

            10:4 -    If you refuse to let them go, I will bring locusts into your country tomorrow.

            10:5 -    They will cover the face of the ground so that it cannot be seen. They will devour what

  little you have left after the hail, including every tree that is growing in your fields.

10:7 -    Pharaoh’s officials said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may   worship the LORD their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is ruined?”

10:12 -  And the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over Egypt so that locusts swarm over the land and devour   everything growing in the fields, everything left by the hail.”

10:13 -  So Moses stretched out his staff over Egypt, and the LORD made an east wind blow across the land all that day   and all that night. By morning the wind had brought the locusts;

10:15 -  They covered all the ground until it was black. They devoured all that was left after the hail—everything growing   in the fields and the fruit on the trees. Nothing green remained on tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.

10:17 -  Now forgive my sin once more and pray to the LORD your God to take this deadly plague

 away from me.”

            10:18 -  Moses then left Pharaoh and prayed to the LORD.

            10:19 -  And the LORD changed the wind to a very strong west wind, which caught up the locusts

  and carried them into the Red Sea. Not a locust was left anywhere in Egypt.

11:1 -    Now the LORD had said to Moses, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here, and when he does, he will drive you out completely.

11:2 -    Tell the people that men and women alike are to ask their neighbors for articles of silver and gold.”

11:4 -    So Moses said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt.

11:5 -    Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the female slave, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well.

11:9 -    The LORD had said to Moses, “Pharaoh will refuse to listen to you—so that my wonders may be multiplied in   Egypt.” 

11:10 -  Moses and Aaron performed all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go out of his country.

12:1 -    The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt,

            12:2 -    This Month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month

  of the year to you.

12:3 -   Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family,   one for each household

12:6 -    Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the

community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.

12:7 -    Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the

doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.

12:8 -    That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs,

and bread made without yeast.

12:9 -    Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire—with the head, legs and internal organs.

12:10 -  Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it.

12:11 -  This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in   your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.

12:12 -  “On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I   will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.

12:14 -  “This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the   LORD—a lasting ordinance.

12:15 -  For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.

12:16 -  On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you do.

12:17 -  “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of   Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.

12:23 -  When the LORD goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of   the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit THE DESTROYER to enter your houses     and strike you down.

12:26 -  And when your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’

12:27 -  then tell them, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.’”

Then the people bowed down and worshiped

12:30 -  Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt,        for there was not a house without someone dead

12:35 -  The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing.

13:1 -    The LORD said to Moses,

            13:2 -    “Consecrate to me every firstborn male. The first offspring of every womb among the

  Israelites belongs to me, whether human or animal.”

13:4 -    Today, in the month of Aviv, you are leaving.

            13:5 -    When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites

  and Jebusites—the land he swore to your ancestors to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you are to      observe this ceremony in this month:

13:6 -    For seven days eat bread made without yeast and on the seventh day hold a festival to

  the LORD.                                                                                                   

13:11 -  “After the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites and gives it to you, as he

promised on oath to you and your ancestors,

13:12 -  you are to give over to the LORD the first offspring of every womb. All the firstborn males of your livestock belong to the LORD.

13:13 -  Redeem with a lamb every firstborn donkey, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck.

Redeem every firstborn among your sons

13:14 -  “In days to come, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ say to him, ‘With a

mighty hand  , out of the land of slavery.

13:15 -  When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed the firstborn of both

people and animals in Egypt. This is why I sacrifice to the LORD the first male offspring of every womb and redeem each of my firstborn sons.’

14:1 -    Then the LORD said to Moses,

14:2 -    Tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp near Pi Hahiroth

14:4 -    And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them.

14:5 -    When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about        them and said, “What have we done? We have let the Israelites go

14:9 -    The Egyptians—all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots, horsemen and troops—pursued the Israelites and overtook          them as they camped by the sea near Pi Hahiroth, opposite Baal Zephon.

14:10 -  As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the LORD.

14:15 -  Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on.

14:16 -  Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.

14:17 -  I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. And I will gain glory through Pharaoh and all his army, through his chariots and his horsemen.

14:21 -  Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided,

14:22 -  and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.

14:23 -  The Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and horsemen

followed them into the sea.

14:26 -  Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters

may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen.”

14:27 -  Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea went back to its

place. The Egyptians were fleeing toward it, and the LORD swept them into the sea.

14:28 -  The water flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of

Pharaoh that had followed the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.

14:29 -  But the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right

and on their left.

14:30 -  That day the LORD saved Israel from the hands of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the 

Egyptians lying dead on the shore.

15:1 -    Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: “I will sing to the LORD, for

he is highly exalted. Both horse and driver he has hurled into the sea.

15:2 -    “The LORD is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation. He is my God, 

and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

            15:3 -    The LORD is a warrior; the LORD is his name

15:13 -  In your unfailing love you will lead the people you have redeemed. In your strength 

 you will guide them to your holy dwelling

15:22 -  Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea and they went into the Desert of Shur. For three

 days they traveled in the desert without finding water.     

15:23 -  When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter. (That is

  why the place is called Marah.)

            15:24 -  So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”

            15:25 -  Then Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a piece of wood. He

  threw it into the water, and the water became fit to drink. There the LORD issued a ruling and instruction for          them and put them to the test.

15:26 -  He said, “If you listen carefully to the LORD your God and do what is right in his eyes, if

 you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, who heals you.”

16:2 -    In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron.

16:3 -    The Israelites said to them… in Egypt! There we

sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.”

16:4 -    Then the LORD said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people

are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions

16:11 -  The LORD said to Moses,

16:12 -  “I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will    be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.’”

16:13 -  That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of

 dew around the camp.

16:14 -  When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared on the desert floor.

16:15 -  When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread the LORD has given you to eat.

16:16 -  This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Everyone is to gather as much as they need. Take an omer for each   person you have in your tent.’”

16:35 -  The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was settled; they ate manna until they   reached the border of Canaan.

17:1 -    The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin, traveling from place to place as the LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.

17:2 -    So they quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses replied, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the LORD to the test?”

17:3 -    But the people were thirsty for water there, and they grumbled against Moses. They said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”

17:4 -    Then Moses cried out to the LORD, “What am I to do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”

17:5 -    The LORD answered Moses, “Go out in front of the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.

17:6 -    I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

17:7 -    And he called the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the LORD saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”

18:1 -    Now Jethro, the priest of Midian and father-in-law of Moses, heard of everything God had

 done for Moses and for his people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.

18:6 -   Jethro had sent word to him, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your

 wife and her two sons.”

            18:7 -    So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. They

greeted each other and then went into the tent.

18:8 -    Moses told his father-in-law about everything the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the

Egyptians for Israel’s sake and about all the hardships they had met along the way and how the LORD had saved them.

18:9 -    Jethro was delighted to hear about all the good things the LORD had done for Israel in

rescuing them from the hand of the Egyptians.

18:10 -  He said, “Praise be to the LORD, who rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians and of Pharaoh, and who rescued the people from the hand of the Egyptians.

18:12 –  Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and other sacrifices to God,

and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a meal with Moses’ father-in-law in the presence of God.

18:13 – The next day Moses took his seat to serve as judge for the people, and they stood

around him from morning till evening.

18:14 -  …Why do you alone sit as judge, while all these people stand around you from morning till evening?”

18:15 -  Moses answered him, “Because the people come to me to seek God’s will.

18:16 -  Whenever they have a dispute, it is brought to me, and I decide between the parties and

inform them of God’s decrees and instructions.”

            18:17-   Moses’ father-in-law replied, “What you are doing is not good

18:19 –  Listen now to me and I will give you some advice, and may God be with you. You must

  be the people’s representative before God and bring their disputes to him.

18:20 –  Teach them his decrees and instructions, and show them the way they are to live and

 how they are to behave.

18:21 – But select capable men from all the people—men who fear God, trustworthy men who

 hate dishonest gain—and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.

18:22 –  Have them serve as judges for the people at all times, but have them bring every difficult case to you; the simple    cases they can decide themselves. That will make your load lighter, because they will share it with you.

18:23 -  If you do this and God so commands, you will be able to stand the strain, and all these

 people will go home satisfied.”

            18:24 -  Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he said.

18:25 -  He chose capable men from all Israel and made them leaders of the people, officials over

 thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.

18:26 -  They served as judges for the people at all times. The difficult cases they brought to

 Moses, but the simple ones they decided themselves.

            18:27 -  Then Moses sent his father-in-law on his way, and Jethro returned to his own country

19:1 -    On the first day of the third month after the Israelites left Egypt—on that very day—they

came to the Desert of Sinai.

19:3 -    Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain and said, “This is what you are to say to the descendants of Jacob and what you are to tell the people of Israel:

19:5 -    Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine,

19:6 -    you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.”

20:1 -    And God spoke all these words:

20:2 -    “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

20:3 -    “You shall have no other gods before me.         

20:4 -    “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.

20:5 -    You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

20:6 -    but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

20:7 -    “You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.

20:8 -    “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.

20:10 -  but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God.

20:11 -  For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

20:12 -  “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you

20:13 -  “You shall not murder.

20:14 -  “You shall not commit adultery.

20:15 -  “You shall not steal.

20:16 -  “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

20:17 -  “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or  

  his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

20:20 -  Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. God has come to test you, so that the fear of God will be with you to keep you from sinning.”

20:21 -  The people remained at a distance, while Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.

20:22 -  Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites this: ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you from heaven:

20:23 -  Do not make any gods to be alongside me; do not make for yourselves gods of silver or gods of gold.

20:24 -  “’Make an altar of earth for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your sheep and goats and your cattle. Wherever I cause my name to be honored, I will come to you and bless you.

20:25 -  If you make an altar of stones for me, do not build it with dressed stones, for you will defile it if you use a tool on it.

20:26 -  And do not go up to my altar on steps, or your private parts may be exposed.’

21:1 -    These are the LAWs you are to set before them:

21:2 -    If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall GO  FREE, without paying anything.

21:3 -    If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him.

21:4 -    If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.

21:5 -    “But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,’

21:6 -    then his master must take him before the judges. He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life:

21:7 -    If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do.

21:8 -    If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her.

21:9 -    If he selects her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter.

21:10 -  If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights.

21:11 -  If he does not provide her with these three things, she is to GO FREE, without any payment of money.

21:12 -  “Anyone who strikes a person with a fatal blow is to be put to death.

21:13 -  However, if it is not done intentionally, but God lets it happen, they are to flee to a place I will designate.

21:14 -  But if anyone schemes and kills someone deliberately, that person is to be taken from my altar and put to death.

21:15 -  “Anyone who attacks their father or mother is to be put to death.

21:16 -  “Anyone who kidnaps someone is to be put to death, w

whether the victim has been sold or is still in the kidnapper’s possession.

21:17 -  “Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.

21:18 -  “If people quarrel and one person hits another with a stone or with their fist and the victim does not die but is   confined to bed,

21:19 -  the one who struck the blow will not be held liable if the other can get up and walk around outside with a staff;   however, the guilty party must pay the injured person for any loss of time and see that the victim is completely   healed.

21:20 -  “Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result,

21:21 -  but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave

 is their property.

21:22 -  “If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious                 injury,  the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows.

21:23 -  But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life,

21:24 -  eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

21:25 -  burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

21:26 -  “An owner who hits a male or female slave in the eye and destroys it must let the slave GO FREE to compensate      for the eye.

21:27 -  And an owner who knocks out the tooth of a male or female slave must let the slave

GO FREE to compensate for the tooth.

21:28 -  “If a bull gores a man or woman to death, the bull is to be stoned to death, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the bull will not be held responsible.

           21:29 -  If, however, the bull has had the habit of goring and the owner has been warned but has not kept it penned up

                        and it kills a man or woman, the bull is to be stoned and its owner also is to be put to death.

21:30 -  However, if payment is demanded, the owner may redeem his life by the payment of whatever is demanded.

21:31 -  This law also applies if the bull gores a son or daughter.

21:32 -  If the bull gores a male or female slave, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver to the master of the slave,          and  the bull is to be stoned to death.

21:33 -  “If anyone uncovers a pit or digs one and fails to cover it and an ox or a donkey falls in it,

21:34 -  the one who opened the pit must pay the owner for the loss and take the dead animal in exchange.

21:35 -  “If anyone’s bull injures someone else’s bull and it dies, the two parties are to sell the live one and divide both the money and the dead animal equally.

21:36 -  However, if it was known that the bull had the habit of goring, yet the owner did not keep it penned up, the owner must pay, animal for animal, and take the dead animal in exchange.

22:1 -  “Whoever steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it must pay back five head of cattle for the ox and four   sheep for the sheep

22:2 -    “If a thief is caught breaking in at night and is struck a fatal blow, the defender is not guilty of bloodshed;

22:3 -    but if it happens after sunrise, the defender is guilty of bloodshed. “Anyone who steals must certainly make restitution, but if they have nothing, they must be sold to pay for their theft.

22:4 -    If the stolen animal is found alive in their possession—whether ox or donkey or sheep—they must pay back double.

22:5 -    “If anyone grazes their livestock in a field or vineyard and lets them stray and they graze in someone else’s field, the offender must make restitution from the best of their own field or vineyard.

22:6 -   “If a fire breaks out and spreads into thorn-bushes so that it burns shocks of grain or standing grain or the whole field, the one who started the fire must make restitution.

22:7 -   “If anyone gives a neighbor silver or goods for safekeeping and they are stolen from the neighbor’s house, the   thief, if caught, must pay back double.

22:8 -  But if the thief is not found, the owner of the house must appear before the judges, and they must determine   whether the owner of the house has laid hands on the other person’s property.

22:9 -  In all cases of illegal possession of an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any other lost property about which somebody says, ‘This is mine,’ both parties are to bring their cases before the judges. The one whom the judges declare guilty must pay back double.

22:10 -  “If anyone gives a donkey, an ox, a sheep or any other animal to their neighbor for safekeeping and it dies or is   injured or is taken away while no one is looking,

22:11 -  the issue between them will be settled by the taking of an oath before the LORD that the neighbor did not lay   hands on the other person’s property. The owner is to accept this, and no restitution is required.

22:12 -  But if the animal was stolen from the neighbor, restitution must be made to the owner.

22:13 -  If it was torn to pieces by a wild animal, the neighbor shall bring in the remains as evidence and shall not be   required to pay for the torn animal.

22:14 -  “If anyone borrows an animal from their neighbor and it is injured or dies while the owner is not present, they   must make restitution.

22:15 -  But if the owner is with the animal, the borrower will not have to pay. If the animal was hired, the money paid for  the hire covers the loss.

22:16 -  “If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged to be married and sleeps with her, he must pay the bride-price,           and she shall be his wife.

22:17 -    If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he must still pay the bride-price for virgins.

22:18 -  “Do not allow a sorceress to live.

22:19 -  “Anyone who has sexual relations with an animal is to be put to death.

22:20 -  “Whoever sacrifices to any god other than the LORD must be destroyed.

22:21 -  “Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.

22:22 -  “Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless.

22:23 -   If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry.

22:24 -  My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children         fatherless.

22:25 -  “If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not treat it like a business deal; charge no       interest.

22:26 -  If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, return it by sunset,

22:27 -  because that cloak is the only covering your neighbor has. What else can they sleep in? When they cry out to           me,  I will hear, for I am compassionate.

22:28 -  “Do not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people

22:29 -  “Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats. “You Must Give Me the Firstborn of Your Sons.

22:30 -  Do the same with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but give them to     me on the eighth day.

22:31 -  “You are to be my holy people. So do not eat the meat of an animal torn by wild beasts; throw it to the dogs.

23:1 -    “Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness.

23:2 -    “Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding     with the crowd,

23:3 -    and do not show favoritism to a poor person in a lawsuit.

23:4 -    “If you come across your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to return it.

23:5 -    If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you         help them with it.

23:6 -    “Do not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

23:7 -    Have nothing to do with a false charge and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not               acquit the guilty.

23:8 -    “Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the innocent.

23:9 -    “Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in        Egypt.

23:10 -  “For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the crops,

23:11 -    but during the seventh year let the land lie unplowed and unused. Then the poor among your people may get   food from it, and the wild animals may eat what is left. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.

“Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. “Celebrate the Festival of   Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.

23:12 -  “Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your

  donkey may rest, and so that the slave born in your household and the foreigner living among you may be                refreshed.

23:13 -  “Be careful to do everything I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods; do not let them be heard     on your lips.

23:14 -  “Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me.

23:15 -  “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you.    Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt. “No one is to                appear  before me empty-handed.

23:16 -  “Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. “Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.

23:17 -  “Three times a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign LORD.

23:18 -  “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast. “The fat of my festival                    offerings  must not be kept until morning.

23:19 - “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. “Do not cook a young goat in its    mother’s milk.

23:20 -  “See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have                  prepared.

23:21 -  Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since    my Name is in him.

23:22 -  If you listen carefully to what he says and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and will oppose        those who oppose you.

23:23 -  My angel will go ahead of you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites,               Hivites and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out.

23:24 -  Do not bow down before their gods or worship them or follow their practices. You must demolish them and             break their sacred stones to pieces.

23:25 -  Worship the LORD your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from             among you,

23:26 -  and none will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will give you a full life span.

23:27 -  “I will send my terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your           enemies turn their backs and run.

23:28 -  I will send the hornet ahead of you to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.

23:29 -  But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals too       numerous for you.

23:30 -  Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have increased enough to take possession of the land.

23:31 -  “I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the desert to the Euphrates       River. I will give into your hands the people who live in the land, and you will drive them out before you.

23:32 -  Do not make a covenant with them or with their gods.

23:33 -  Do not let them live in your land or they will cause you to sin against me, because the worship of their gods will    certainly be a snare to you.”

24:1 -    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the              elders of Israel. You are to worship at a distance,

 24:2 -   But Moses alone is to approach the LORD; the others must not come near. And the people may not come up with  him.”

24:3 -    When Moses went and told the people all the LORD’s words and laws, they responded with one voice, “Everything the LORD has said we will do.”

24:4 -    Moses then wrote down everything the LORD had said. He got up early the next morning and built an altar at        the  foot of the mountain and set up twelve stone pillars representing the twelve tribes of Israel.

24:5 -    Then he sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as fellowship             offerings to the LORD.

24:6 -    Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he splashed against the altar.

24:7 -    Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They responded, “We will do everything the         LORD has said; we will obey.”

24:8 -    Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD     has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

24:9 -    Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel went up

24:10 -  and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of lapis lazuli, as bright blue as        the sky.

24:11 -  But God did not raise his hand against these leaders of the Israelites; they saw God, and they ate and drank.

24:12 -  The LORD said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of                stone  with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”

24:13 -  Then Moses set out with Joshua his aide, and Moses went up on the mountain of God.

24:14 -  He said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we come back to you. Aaron and Hur are with you, and anyone             involved in a dispute can go to them.”

24:15 -  When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it,

24:16 -  and the glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered the mountain, and on the      seventh day the LORD called to Moses from within the cloud.

24:17 -  To the Israelites the glory of the LORD looked like a consuming fire on top of the mountain.

24:18 -  Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. And he stayed on the mountain forty days                and  forty nights.

25:1 -    The LORD said to Moses,

25:2 -    “Tell the Israelites to bring me an offering. You are to receive the offering for me from everyone whose heart           prompts them to give.

25:3 -    These are the offerings you are to receive from them: gold, silver and bronze;

25:4 -    blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen; goat hair;

25:5 -    ram skins dyed red and another type of durable leather; acacia wood;

25:8 -    “Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them.

25:9 -    Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you.

25:10 -  “Have them make an ark of acacia wood —two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a         half high.

25:11 -  Overlay it with pure gold, both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it.

25:12 -  Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other.

25:13 -  Then make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

25:16 -  Then put in the ark the tablets of the covenant law, which I will give you.

25:17 -  “Make an atonement cover of pure gold—two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

25:18 -  And make two cherubim out of hammered gold at the ends of the cover

25:19 – Make one cherub on one end and the second cherub on the other; make the cherubim of one piece with the           cover, at the two ends.

25:23 -  “Make a table of acacia wood —two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high.

25:24 -  Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding around it.

25:28 -  Make the poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold and carry the table with them.

25;29 -  And make its plates and dishes of pure gold, as well as its pitchers and bowls for the pouring out of offerings.

25:30 – Put the bread of the Presence on this table to be before me at all times.

25:37 -  Then make its seven lamps and set them up on it so that they light the space in front of it.

25:38 -  Its wick trimmers and trays are to be of pure gold.

26:1 -   “Make the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue, purple and scarlet yarn, with cherubim        woven into them by a skilled worker.

26:15 -  “Make upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.

26:26 -  “Also make crossbars of acacia wood: five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,

26:27 -  “Make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen, with cherubim woven into it by a s             skilled  worker.

26:32 -  Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases.

26:33 -  Hang the curtain from the clasps and place the ark of the covenant law behind the curtain. The curtain will             separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.

26:34 -  Put the atonement cover on the ark of the covenant law in the Most Holy Place. 

26:37 -  Make gold hooks for this curtain and five posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold. And cast five bronze bases for     them.

27:1 -    “Build an altar of acacia wood, three cubits high; it is to be square, five cubits long and five cubits wide.

27:6 -    Make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze.

27:7 -    The poles are to be inserted into the rings so they will be on two sides of the altar when it is carried.

27:21 -  In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law, Aaron and his sons are to   keep the lamps burning before the LORD from evening till morning. This is to be a lasting ordinance among the   Israelites for the generations to come.

28:2 -  Make sacred garments for your brother Aaron to give him dignity and honor.

28:3 -  Tell all the skilled workers to whom I have given wisdom in such matters that they are to make garments for Aaron, for his consecration, so he may serve me as priest.

28:4 -  These are the garments they are to make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a woven tunic, a turban and a sash. They are to make these sacred garments for your brother Aaron and his sons, so they may serve me as priests.

28:5 -  Have them use gold, and blue, purple and scarlet yarn, and fine linen

28:6 -   “Make the ephod of gold, and of blue, purple and scarlet yarn, and of finely twisted linen—the work of skilled     hands.

28:7 -   It is to have two shoulder pieces attached to two of its corners, so it can be fastened.

28:8 -   Its skillfully woven waistband is to be like it—of one piece with the ephod and made with gold, and with blue, purple and scarlet yarn, and with finely twisted linen

28:43 -  Aaron and his sons must wear them whenever they enter the tent of meeting or approach the altar to minister in the Holy Place, so that they will not incur guilt and die. “This is to be a lasting ordinance for Aaron and his descendants

29:1 -    “This is what you are to do to consecrate them, so they may serve me as priests: Take a young bull and two rams     without defect.

29:2 -    And from the finest wheat flour make round loaves without yeast, thick loaves without yeast and with olive oil        mixed in, and thin loaves without yeast and brushed with olive oil.

29:3 -    Put them in a basket and present them along with the bull and the two rams.

29:4 -    Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of meeting and wash them with water.

29:5 -    Take the garments and dress Aaron with the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod itself and the breastpiece.       Fasten the ephod on him by its skillfully woven waistband.

29:6 -    Put the turban on his head and attach the sacred emblem to the turban.

29:7 -    Take the anointing oil and anoint him by pouring it on his head.

29:8 -    Bring his sons and dress them in tunics

29:9 -    and fasten caps on them. Then tie sashes on Aaron and his sons. The priesthood is theirs by a lasting ordinance.    “Then you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.

29:10 -  “Bring the bull to the front of the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head. 

29:11 -   Slaughter it in the LORD’s presence at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

29:12 -  Take some of the bull’s blood and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour out the rest of it at       the base of the altar.

29:13 -  Then take all the fat on the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with the fat on them, and    burn them on the altar.

29:14 -  But burn the bull’s flesh and its hide and its intestines outside the camp.

  It is a sin offering.

29:15 -  “Take one of the rams,  and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head.

29:16 -  Slaughter it and take the blood and splash it against the sides of the altar

29:17 -  Cut the ram into pieces and wash the internal organs and the legs, putting them with the head and the other          pieces.

29:18 -  Then burn the entire ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma, a food offering                presented to the LORD.

29:19 -  “Take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head.

29;20 -  Slaughter it, take some of its blood and put it on the lobes of the right ears of Aaron and his sons, on the                 thumbs  of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet.

    Then splash blood against the sides of the altar.

29:21 -  And take some blood from the altar and some of the anointing oil and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments and    on his sons and their garments.

  Then he and his sons and their garments will be consecrated.

29:22 -  “Take from this ram the fat, the fat tail, the fat on the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver, both kidneys          with the fat on them, and the right thigh.

  (This is the ram for the ordination.)

29:23 -  From the basket of bread made without yeast, which is before the LORD, take one round loaf, one thick loaf             with  olive oil mixed in, and one thin loaf.

29:24 -  Put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons and have them wave them before the LORD as a wave offering.

29:25 -  Then take them from their hands and burn them on the altar along with the burnt offering for a pleasing aroma     to the LORD, a food offering presented to the LORD.

29:26 -  After you take the breast of the ram for Aaron’s ordination, wave them before the LORD as a wave offering, and       it will be your share.

29:27 -  “Consecrate those parts of the ordination ram that belong to Aaron and his sons: the breast that was waved and     the thigh that was presented.

29:28 -  This is always to be the perpetual share from the Israelites for Aaron and his sons. It is the contribution the             Israelites are to make to the LORD from their fellowship offerings.

29:29 -  “Aaron’s sacred garments will belong to his descendants so that they can be anointed and ordained in them.

29:30 -  The son who succeeds him as priest and comes to the tent of meeting to minister in the Holy Place is to wear         them seven days.

29:31 -  “Take the ram for the ordination and cook the meat in a sacred place.

29:32 -  At the entrance to The tent of meeting, Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is        in the basket.

29:33 -  They are to eat these offerings by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. But no one     else may eat them, because they are sacred.

29:34 -  And if any of the meat of the ordination ram or any bread is left over till morning, burn it up. It must not be             eaten, because it is sacred.

29:35 -  “Do for Aaron and his sons everything I have commanded you, taking seven days to ordain them.

29:36 -  Sacrifice a bull each day as a sin offering to make atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and         anoint it to consecrate it.

29:37 -  For seven days make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will be most holy, and whatever         touches it will be holy.

29:38 -  This is what you are to offer on the altar regularly each day: two lambs a year old.

29:39 -  Offer one in the morning and the other at twilight.

29:40 -  With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil from pressed      olives, and a quarter of a hin of wine as a drink offering

29:41 -   Sacrifice the other lamb at twilight with the same grain offering and its drink offering as in the morning—a              pleasing aroma, a food offering presented to the LORD.

29:42 -  “For the generations to come this burnt offering is to be made regularly at the entrance to the tent of meeting,       before the LORD. There I will meet you and speak to you;

29:43 –  there also I will meet with the Israelites, and the place will be consecrated by my glory.

29:44 -  “So I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar and will consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve me as             priests.

29:45 -  Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God.

29:46 -  They will know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them out of Egypt so that I might dwell among               them.  I am the LORD their God.

30:1  -   “Make an altar of acacia wood for burning incense.

30:2 -    It is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high —its horns of one piece with it.           

30:3 -    Overlay the top and all the sides and the horns with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.

39:4 -    Make two gold rings for the altar below the molding—two on each of the opposite sides—to hold the poles used     to carry it.

30:5 -    Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

30:6 -    Put the altar in front of the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law—before the atonement cover that is    over the tablets of the covenant law—where I will meet with you.

30:7 -    “Aaron must burn fragrant incense on the altar every morning when he tends the lamps.           

30:8 -    He must burn incense again when he lights the lamps at twilight so incense will burn regularly before the LORD    for the generations to come

30:9 -    Do not offer on this altar any other incense or any burnt offering or grain offering, and do not pour a drink              offering on it.

30:10 -  Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on its horns. This annual atonement must be made with the blood of       the atoning sin offering for the generations to come. It is most holy to the LORD.”

30:11 -  Then the LORD said to Moses,

30:12 -  “When you take a census of the Israelites to count them, each one must pay the LORD a ransom for his life at          the  time he is counted. Then no plague will come on them when you number them.

30:14 -  All who cross over, those twenty years old or more, are to give an offering to the LORD.  

30:15 -  The rich are not to give more than a half shekel and the poor are not to give less when you make the offering to     the LORD to atone for your lives.

30:16 -  Receive the atonement money from the Israelites and use it for the service of the tent of meeting. It will be a           memorial for the Israelites before the LORD, making atonement for your lives.”

30:20 -  Whenever they enter the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water so that they will not die. Also, when they       approach the altar to minister by presenting a food offering to the LORD,

30:21 -  They shall wash their hands and feet so that they will not die. This is to be a lasting ordinance for Aaron and his       descendants for the generations to come.”

30:22 -  Then the LORD said to Moses,

30:23 -  “Take the following fine spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half as much (that is, 250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant calamus,

30:24 -  500 shekels of cassia—all according to the sanctuary shekel—and a hin of olive oil.

30:25 -  Make these into a sacred anointing oil, a Fragrant Blend, the work of a perfumer.

   It will be the sacred anointing oil.

30:26 -  Then use it to anoint the tent of meeting, the Ark of the Covenant Law,

30:27 -  the table and all its articles, the lampstand and its accessories, the altar of incense,

30:28 -  the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the basin with its stand.

30:29 -  You shall consecrate them so they will be most holy, and whatever touches them will be holy.

30:30 –  “Anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them so they may serve me as priests

30:31 -    Say to the Israelites, ‘This is to be my sacred anointing oil for the generations to come.

30:32 -   Do Not pour it on anyone else’s body and Do Not make any other oil using the same formula. IT IS SACRED, and      you are to consider it sacred.

30:33 -  Whoever makes perfume like it and puts it on anyone other than a priest must be cut off from their people.’”

30:34 -  Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take fragrant spices—gum resin, onycha and galbanum—and pure frankincense,     all in equal amounts,

30:35 -  and make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer. It is to be salted and pure and sacred.

30:36 –  Grind some of it to powder and place it in front of the ark of the covenant law in the tent of meeting, where I         will meet with you. It shall be most holy to you.

30:37 -  Do not make any incense with this formula for yourselves; consider it holy to the LORD.

30:38 -  Whoever makes incense like it to enjoy its fragrance must be cut off from their people.”

31:13 -  “Say to the Israelites, ‘You must observe my Sabbaths. This will be a sign between me and you for the                   

             generations  to come, so you may know that I am the LORD, who makes you holy.

31:14 -  ’Observe the Sabbath, because it is holy to you. Anyone who desecrates it is to be put to death; those who do any   work on that day must be cut off from their people.

31:18 -  When the LORD finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant law, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.

32:1 -   When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron   and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt,  

32:2 -    Aaron answered them, “Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing,        and bring them to me.”

32:3 -    So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron.

32:4 -    He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then    they said, “These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”

32:5 -    When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of the calf and announced, “Tomorrow there will be a festival to       the LORD.”

32:6 -    So the next day the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings.                     Afterward they sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.

32:7 -    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have                   become  corrupt

32:8 -    They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the     shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, who       brought you up out of Egypt.’

32:9 -    “I have seen these people,” the LORD said to Moses, “and they are a stiff-necked people.

32:10 -   Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. Then I will make you     into a great nation.”

32:11 -  But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God. “LORD,” he said, “why should your anger burn against your            people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?

32:12 -  Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains          and to wipe them off the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster on            your  people.

32:13 -  Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: ‘I will make your              descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them,      and it will be their inheritance forever.’”

32:14 -  Then the LORD relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.

32:15 -  Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands. They were          inscribed on both sides, front and back.

32:16 -  The tablets were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

32:17 -  When Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting, he said to Moses, “There is the sound of war in the camp.”

32:18 -  Moses replied: “It is not the sound of victory, it is not the sound of defeat; it is the sound of singing that I hear.”

32:19 -  When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets    out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain.

32:20 -  And he took the calf the people had made and burned it in the fire; then he ground it to powder, scattered it on    the water and made the Israelites drink it.

32:21 -  He said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, that you led them into such great sin?”

32;22 -  “Do not be angry, my lord,”... “You know how prone these people are to evil.

32:23 -  They said to me, ‘Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt,      we don’t know what has happened to him.’

32:24 -  So I told them, ‘Whoever has any gold jewelry, take it off.’ Then they gave me the gold, and I threw it into the           fire,   and out came this calf!”

32:25 -  Moses saw that the people were running wild and that Aaron had let them get out of control and so become a         laughingstock to their enemies.

32:26 -  So he stood at the entrance to the camp and said, “Whoever is for the LORD, come to me.” And all the Levites         rallied to him.

32:27 -  Then he said to them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Each man strap a sword to his side. Go          back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor.’”

32:28 -  The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people died.

32:29 -  Then Moses said, “You have been set apart to the LORD today, for you were against your own sons and                     brothers,  and he has blessed you this day.”

32:30 -The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. But now I will go up to the LORD;                perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”

32:31 -  So Moses went back to the LORD and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made    themselves gods of gold.

32:32 -  So Moses went back to the LORD and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made themselves gods of gold.

32:33 -  The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book.

32:34 -  Now go, lead the people to the place I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. However, when the time comes     for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.”

32:35 -  And the LORD struck the people with a plague because of what they did with the calf Aaron had made.

33:1 -    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of Egypt, and go up to        the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’

33:2 -    I will send an angel before you and drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

33:3 -    Go up to the land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people     and I might destroy you on the way.”

33:4 -    When the people heard these distressing words, they began to mourn and no one put on any ornaments.

33:5 -    For the LORD had said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go with you even     for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments and I will decide what to do with you.’”

33:6 -    So the Israelites stripped off their ornaments at Mount Horeb

33:7 -    Now Moses used to take a tent and pitch it outside the camp some distance away, calling it the “tent of                    meeting.”  Anyone inquiring of the LORD would go to the tent of meeting outside the camp.

33:8 -    And whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people rose and stood at the entrances to their tents,                  watching Moses until he entered the tent.

33:9 -    As Moses went into the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and stay at the entrance, while the LORD            spoke with Moses.

33:10 -  Whenever the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance to the tent, they all stood and worshiped,      each at the entrance to their tent.

33:11 -  The LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp,   but his young aide Joshua son of Nun did not leave the tent.

33:12 -  Moses said to the LORD, “You have been telling me, ‘Lead these people,’ but you have not let me know whom you   will send with me. You have said, ‘I know you by name and you have found favor with me.’

33:13 -  If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favor with you.   Remember that this nation is your people.”

33:14 -  The LORD replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

33:15 -  Then Moses said to him, “If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here.

33:16 -  How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us? What else will   distinguish me and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth?”

33:17 -  And the LORD said to Moses, “I will do the very thing you have asked, because I am pleased with you and I know   you by name.”

33:18 -  Then Moses said, “Now show me your glory.”

33:19 -  And the LORD said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the LORD,     in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have        compassion.

33:20 -  But,” he said, “you cannot see my face,  .”

33:21 -  Then the LORD said, “There is a place near me where you may stand on a rock.

33:22 -  When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by.

33:23 -  Then I will remove my hand and you will see my back; but my face must not be seen.”

34:1 -   The LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

34:2 -   Be ready in the morning, and then come up on Mount Sinai. Present yourself to me there on top of the mountain.

34:3 -    No one is to come with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain; not even the flocks and herds may graze in        front of the mountain.”

           34:4 -    early in the morning, as the LORD had commanded him; and he carried the two stone tablets in his hands.

34:5 -    Then the LORD came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the LORD.

34:6 -    And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow     to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness,

34:7 -    maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty              unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth                generation.”

34:8 -    Moses bowed to the ground at once and worshiped.

34:9 -    “Lord,” he said, “if I have found favor in your eyes, then let the Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked         people, forgive our wickedness and our sin, and take us as your inheritance.”

3410 -   Then the LORD said: “I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before   done in any nation in all the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the LORD, will do for you.

34:11 -  Obey what I command you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites,   Hivites  and Jebusites.

34:12 -  Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare              among you.

34:13 -  Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.

34:14 -  Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

34:15 -  “Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute themselves to their           gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices.

34:16 -  And when you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons and those daughters prostitute                        themselves   to their gods, they will lead your sons to do the same.

34:17 -  “Do not make any idols.

34:18 -  “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you.    Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt.

34:19 -  “The first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock.

34:20 -  Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem all your firstborn    sons. “No one is to appear before me empty-handed.

34:21 -  “Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you   must rest.

34:22 -  “Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the      turn of the year.

34:23 -  Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign LORD, the God of Israel.

34:24 -  I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up   three times each year to appear before the LORD your God.

34:25 -  “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the   sacrifice from the Passover Festival remain until morning.

34:26 -  “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. “Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

34:27 -  Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a   covenant with you and with Israel.”

34:28 -  Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he   wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

34:29 -  When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands, he was not   aware that his face was radiant because he had spoken with the LORD.

34:30 -  When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, his face was radiant, and they were afraid to come near him.

34:31 -  But Moses called to them; so Aaron and all the leaders of the community came back to him, and he spoke to   them.

34-32 - Afterward all the Israelites came near him, and he gave them all the commands the LORD had given him on            Mount Sinai.

34:33 -  When Moses finished speaking to them, he put a veil over his face.

34:34 -  But whenever he entered the LORD’s presence to speak with him, he removed the veil until he came out. And         when he came out and told the Israelites what he had been commanded,

34:35 -  they saw that his face was radiant. Then Moses would put the veil back over his face until  he went in to speak         with the LORD.

36:19 -  Then they made for the tent a covering of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of the other durable             leather.

36:20 -  They made upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.

36:21 -  Each frame was ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide,

36:22 -  with two projections set parallel to each other. They made all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.

36:30 -  So there were eight frames and sixteen silver bases—two under each frame.

36:31 -  They also made crossbars of acacia wood: five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,

36:32 -  five for those on the other side, and five for the frames on the west, at the far end of the tabernacle.

36:33 -  They made the center crossbar so that it extended from end to end at the middle of the frames.

36:35 -  They made the curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen, with cherubim woven into it by       skilled worker.

36:36 -  They made four posts of acacia wood for it and overlaid them with gold. They made gold hooks for them and           cast their four silver bases.

37:4 -    Then he made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.

37:5 -    And he inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry it.

37:9 -    The cherubim had their wings spread upward, overshadowing the cover with them. The cherubim faced each        other, looking toward the cover.

37:10 -  They made the table of acacia wood —two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high.

37:11 -  Then they overlaid it with pure gold and made a gold molding around it.

37:15 -  The poles for carrying the table were made of acacia wood and were overlaid with gold.

37:25 -  They made the altar of incense out of acacia wood. It was square, a cubit long and a cubit wide and two cubits        high —its horns of one piece with it.

37:28 -  They made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.

37:29 -  They also made the sacred anointing oil and the pure, fragrant incense—the work of a perfumer.

38:1 -    They built the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood, three cubits high; it was square, five cubits long and five          cubits wide.

38:5 -    They cast bronze rings to hold the poles for the four corners of the bronze grating.

38:6 -    They made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze.

38:7 -    They inserted the poles into the rings so they would be on the sides of the altar for carrying it. They made it           hollow, out of boards.

40:1 -    Then the LORD said to Moses:

40:2 -    “Set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, on the first day of the first month.

40 3 -    Place the ark of the covenant law in it and shield the ark with the curtain.

40:4 -    Bring in the table and set out what belongs on it. Then bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps.

40:5 -    Place the gold altar of incense in front of the ark of the covenant law and put the curtain at the entrance to the       tabernacle.

40:6 -    “Place the altar of burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting;

40:7 -    place the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it.

40:8 -    Set up the courtyard around it and put the curtain at the entrance to the courtyard.

40:9 -    “Take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and everything in it; consecrate it and all its furnishings, and it     will be holy.

40:10 -  Then anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils; consecrate the altar, and it will be most holy.

40:12 -  “Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of meeting and wash them with water.

40:13 -  Then dress Aaron in the sacred garments, anoint him and consecrate him so he may serve me as priest.

40:14 -  Bring his sons and dress them in tunics.

40:15 -  Anoint them just as you anointed their father, so they may serve me as priests. Their anointing will be to a              priesthood that will continue throughout their generations.”

40:16 -  Moses did everything just as the LORD commanded him

40:17 -  So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month in the second year.

40:18 -  When Moses set up the tabernacle, he put the bases in place, erected the frames, inserted the crossbars and set    up the posts.

40:19 -  Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering over the tent, as the LORD commanded him.

40:20 -  He took the tablets of the covenant law and placed them in the ark, attached the poles to the ark and put the        atonement cover over it.

40:21 -  Then he brought the ark into the tabernacle and hung the shielding curtain and shielded the ark of the covenant    law, as the LORD commanded him.

40:22 -  Moses placed the table in the tent of meeting on the north side of the tabernacle outside the curtain

40:23 -  and set out the bread on it before the LORD, as the LORD commanded him.

40:24 -  He placed the lampstand in the tent of meeting opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle

40:26 -  Moses placed the gold altar in the tent of meeting in front of the curtain

40:27 -  and burned fragrant incense on it, as the LORD commanded him.

40:28 -  Then he put up the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.

40:29 -  He set the altar of burnt offering near the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, and offered on it             burnt offerings and grain offerings, as the LORD commanded him.

40:30 -  He placed the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing,

40:31 -  and Moses and Aaron and his sons used it to wash their hands and feet.

40:32 -  They washed whenever they entered the tent of meeting or approached the altar, as the LORD commanded             Moses.

40:33 -  Then Moses set up the courtyard around the tabernacle and altar and put up the curtain at the entrance to the       courtyard. And so Moses finished the work.

40:34 -  Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

40:35 -  Moses could not enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of the LORD filled       the tabernacle.

40:36 -  In all the travels of the Israelites, whenever the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle, they would set out;

40:37 -  but if the cloud did not lift, they did not set out—until the day it lifted

40:38 -  So the cloud of the LORD was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all         the Israelites during all their travels.