January 25
Exodus 23:20 —
26:37
20 “Here
I am sending an angel ahead of you to keep you on the road and to bring you into
the place that I have prepared.
21 Watch
yourself because of him and obey his voice. Do not behave rebelliously against
him, for he will not pardon YOUR transgression; because my name is within him.
22 However,
if you strictly obey his voice and really do all that I shall speak, then I
shall certainly be hostile to your enemies and harass those who harass you.
23 For
my angel will go ahead of you and will indeed bring you to the Amorites
and the Hittites and the Perizzites
and the Canaanites,
the Hivites and the Jebusites,
and I shall certainly efface them.
24 You
must not bow down to their gods or be induced to serve them, and you must not
make anything like their works, but you will without fail throw them down and
you will without fail break down their sacred pillars.
25 And
YOU must serve Jehovah YOUR God, and he will certainly bless your bread and your
water; and I shall indeed turn malady away from your midst.
26 Neither
a woman suffering an abortion nor a barren woman will exist in your land. I
shall make the number of your days full.
27 “And
I shall send the fright of me ahead of you, and I shall certainly throw into
confusion all the people among whom you come, and I shall indeed give the back
of the neck of all your enemies to you.
28 And
I will send the feeling of dejection ahead of you, and it will simply drive the
Hivites, the Canaanites
and the Hittites out from before you.
29 I
shall not drive them out from before you in one year, that the land may not
become a desolate waste and the wild beasts of the field really multiply against
you.
30 Little
by little I shall drive them out from before you, until you become fruitful and
really take possession of the land.
31 “And
I will fix your boundary from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines
and from the wilderness to the River; because I shall give into YOUR hand the
inhabitants of the land, and you will certainly drive them out from before
yourself.
32 You
are not to conclude a covenant with them or their gods.
33 They
should not dwell in your land, that they may not cause you to sin against me. In
case you should serve their gods, it would become a snare to you.”
24
And
to Moses he said: “Go up to Jehovah, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu
and seventy of the older men of Israel, and YOU must bow down from a distance.
2 And
Moses by himself must approach Jehovah; but they should not approach, and the
people should not go up with him.”
3 Then
Moses came and related to the people all the words of Jehovah and all the
judicial decisions, and all the people answered with one voice and said: “All
the words that Jehovah has spoken we are willing to do.”
4 Accordingly
Moses wrote down all the words of Jehovah. Then he got up early in the morning
and built at the foot of the mountain an altar and twelve pillars corresponding
with the twelve tribes of Israel.
5 After
that he sent young men of the sons of Israel and they offered up burnt offerings
and sacrificed bulls as sacrifices, as communion sacrifices to Jehovah.
6 Then
Moses took half the blood and put it in bowls, and half the blood he sprinkled
upon the altar.
7 Finally
he took the book of the covenant and read it in the ears of the people. Then
they said: “All that Jehovah has spoken we are willing to do and be obedient.”
8 So
Moses took the blood and sprinkled it upon the people and said: “Here is the
blood of the covenant that Jehovah has concluded with YOU as respects all these
words.”
9 And
Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu
and seventy of the older men of Israel proceeded to go up,
10 and
they got to see the God of Israel. And under his feet there was what seemed like
a work of sapphire flagstones and like the very heavens for purity.
11 And
he did not put out his hand against the distinguished men of the sons of Israel,
but they got a vision of the [true] God and ate and drank.
12 Jehovah
now said to Moses: “Come up to me in the mountain and stay there, as I want to
give you the stone tablets and the law and the commandment that I must write in
order to teach them.”
13 So
Moses and Joshua his minister got up and Moses went up into the mountain of the
[true] God.
14 But
to the older men he had said: “YOU wait for us in this place until we return to
YOU. And, look! Aaron and Hur are with YOU. Whoever has a case at law, let him
approach them.”
15 Thus
Moses went up into the mountain while the cloud was covering the mountain.
16 And
Jehovah’s glory continued to reside upon Mount Sinai, and the cloud continued
to cover it for six days. At length on the seventh day he called to Moses from
the midst of the cloud.
17 And
to the eyes of the sons of Israel the sight of Jehovah’s glory was like a
devouring fire on the mountaintop.
18 Then
Moses entered into the midst of the cloud and went on up the mountain. And Moses
continued in the mountain forty days and forty nights.
25
And
Jehovah proceeded to speak to Moses, saying:
2 “Speak
to the sons of Israel, that they may take up a contribution for me: From every
man whose heart incites him YOU people are to take up the contribution of mine.
3 And
this is the contribution that YOU are to take up from them: gold and silver and
copper,
4 and
blue thread, and wool dyed reddish purple, and coccus scarlet material, and fine
linen, and goat’s hair,
5 and
ram skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia wood;
6 oil
for the luminary, balsam oil for the anointing oil and for perfumed incense;
7 and
onyx stones and setting stones for the ephod and for the breastpiece.
8 And
they must make a sanctuary for me, as I must tabernacle in the midst of them.
9 According
to all that I am showing you as the pattern of the tabernacle and pattern of all
its furnishings, that is the way YOU are to make it.
10 “And
they must make an Ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits its length and a
cubit and a half its width and a cubit and a half its height.
11 And
you must overlay it with pure gold. Inside and outside you are to overlay it,
and you must make a border of gold round about upon it.
12 And
you must cast four rings of gold for it and put them above its four feet, with
two rings upon the one side of it and two rings upon its other side.
13 And
you must make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
14 And
you must put the poles through the rings upon the sides of the Ark in order to
carry the Ark with them.
15 In
the rings of the Ark the poles are to stay. They are not to be removed from it.
16 And
you must place in the Ark the testimony that I shall give you.
17 “And
you must make a cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits its length and a cubit
and a half its width.
18 And
you must make two cherubs of gold. Of hammered work you are to make them on both
ends of the cover.
19 And
make one cherub on this end and one cherub on that end. On the cover YOU are to
make the cherubs at its two ends.
20 And
the cherubs must be spreading out their two wings upward, screening over the
cover with their wings, with their faces one toward the other. Toward the cover
the faces of the cherubs should be.
21 And
you must place the cover above upon the Ark, and in the Ark you will place the
testimony that I shall give you.
22 And
I will present myself to you there and speak with you from above the cover, from
between the two cherubs that are upon the ark of the testimony, even all that I
shall command you for the sons of Israel.
23 “And
you must make a table of acacia wood, two cubits its length and a cubit its
width and a cubit and a half its height.
24 And
you must overlay it with pure gold, and you must make for it a border of gold
round about.
25 And
you must make for it a rim of a handbreadth round about, and you must make the
border of gold for its rim round about.
26 And
you must make for it four rings of gold and place the rings on the four corners
that are for the four feet.
27 The
rings should be close by the rim as supports for the poles to carry the table.
28 And
you must make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and they must
carry the table with them.
29 “And
you must make its dishes and its cups and its pitchers and its bowls with which
they will pour [libations]. You are to make them out of pure gold.
30 And
you must put the showbread upon the table before me constantly.
31 “And
you must make a lampstand of pure gold. Of hammered work the lampstand is to be
made. Its base, its branches, its cups, its knobs and its blossoms are to
proceed out from it.
32 And
six branches are running out from its sides, three branches of the lampstand
from its one side and three branches of the lampstand from its other side.
33 Three
cups shaped like flowers of almond are on the one set of branches, with knobs
and blossoms alternating, and three cups shaped like flowers of almond on the
other set of branches, with knobs and blossoms alternating. This is the way it
is with the six branches running out from the lampstand.
34 And
on the lampstand are four cups shaped like flowers of almond, with its knobs and
its blossoms alternating.
35 And
the knob under two branches is out of it and the knob under the two other
branches is out of it and the knob under two more branches is out of it, for the
six branches running out from the lampstand.
36 Their
knobs and their branches are to proceed out from it. All of it is one piece of
hammered work, of pure gold.
37 And
you must make seven lamps for it; and the lamps must be lit up, and they must
shine upon the area in front of it.
38 And
its snuffers and its fire holders are of pure gold.
39 Of
a talent of pure gold he should make it with all these utensils of it.
40 And
see that you make them after their pattern that was shown to you in the
mountain.
26
“And the tabernacle you are to make of ten tent cloths, of fine twisted linen
and blue thread and wool dyed reddish purple and coccus scarlet material. With
cherubs, the work of an embroiderer, you will make them.
2 The
length of each tent cloth is twenty-eight cubits and the width of each tent
cloth is four cubits. There is one measure for all the tent cloths.
3 Five
tent cloths are to form a series with the one joined to the other, and five tent
cloths a series with the one joined to the other.
4 And
you must make loops of blue thread upon the edge of the one tent cloth at the
end of the series; and you are to do the same upon the edge of the outermost
tent cloth at the other place of junction.
5 You
will make fifty loops on the one tent cloth, and fifty loops you will make on
the extremity of the tent cloth that is at the other place of junction, the
loops being opposite one to the other.
6 And
you must make fifty hooks of gold and join the tent cloths one to the other by
means of the hooks, and it must become one tabernacle.
7 “And
you must make cloths of goat’s hair for the tent upon the tabernacle. You will
make eleven tent cloths.
8 The
length of each tent cloth is thirty cubits, and the width of each tent cloth is
four cubits. There is one measure for the eleven tent cloths.
9 And
you must join five tent cloths by themselves and six tent cloths by themselves,
and you must fold double the sixth tent cloth at the forefront of the tent.
10 And
you must make fifty loops upon the edge of the one tent cloth, the outermost one
in the series, and fifty loops upon the edge of the tent cloth at the other
place of junction.
11 And
you must make fifty hooks of copper and put the hooks in the loops and join the
tent together, and it must become one.
12 And
what remains over of the cloths of the tent is an overhanging. Half of the tent
cloth that remains over is to hang over the back of the tabernacle.
13 And
the cubit on this side and the cubit on that side in what remains over in the
length of the cloths of the tent will serve as an overhanging on the sides of
the tabernacle, to cover it on this side and on that.
14 “And
you must make a covering for the tent of ram skins dyed red and a covering of
sealskins up on top.
15 “And
you must make the panel frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing on
end.
16 Ten
cubits is the length of a panel frame, and a cubit and a half is the width of
each panel frame.
17 Each
panel frame has two tenons joined one to the other. That is the way you will do
with all the panel frames of the tabernacle.
18 And
you must make the panel frames for the tabernacle, twenty panel frames for the
side toward the Negeb, to the south.
19 “And
you will make forty socket pedestals of silver under the twenty panel frames;
two socket pedestals under the one panel frame with its two tenons, and two
socket pedestals under the other panel frame with its two tenons.
20 And
for the other side of the tabernacle, the northern side, twenty panel frames,
21 and
their forty socket pedestals of silver, two socket pedestals under the one panel
frame and two socket pedestals under the other panel frame.
22 And
for the rear sections of the tabernacle to the west you will make six panel
frames.
23 And
you will make two panel frames as corner posts of the tabernacle on its two rear
sections.
24 And
they should be duplicates at the bottom, and together they should be duplicates
up to the top of each one at the first ring. That is the way it should be for
the two of them. They will serve as two corner posts.
25 And
there must be eight panel frames and their socket pedestals of silver, sixteen
pedestals, two socket pedestals under the one panel frame and two socket
pedestals under the other panel frame.
26 “And
you must make bars of acacia wood, five for the panel frames of the one side of
the tabernacle,
27 and
five bars for the panel frames of the other side of the tabernacle and five bars
for the panel frames of the side of the tabernacle for the two rear sections to
the west.
28 And
the middle bar at the center of the panel frames is running through from end to
end.
29 “And
you will overlay the panel frames with gold, and their rings you will make of
gold as supports for the bars; and you must overlay the bars with gold.
30 And
you must set up the tabernacle according to the plan of it that you have been
shown in the mountain.
31 “And
you must make a curtain of blue thread and wool dyed reddish purple and coccus
scarlet material and fine twisted linen. He will make it with cherubs, the work
of an embroiderer.
32 And
you must put it upon four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold. Their pegs are
of gold. They are upon four socket pedestals of silver.
33 And
you must put the curtain under the hooks and bring the ark of the testimony
there within the curtain; and the curtain must make a division for YOU between
the Holy and the Most Holy.
34 And
you must put the cover upon the ark of the testimony in the Most Holy.
35 “And
you must set the table outside the curtain, and the lampstand opposite the table
on the side of the tabernacle toward the south; and the table you will put on
the north side.
36 And
you must make a screen for the entrance of the tent of blue thread and wool dyed
reddish purple and coccus scarlet material and fine twisted linen, the work of a
weaver.
37 And
you must make for the screen five pillars of acacia and overlay them with gold.
Their pegs are of gold. And you must cast for them five socket pedestals of
copper.