did so, and gathered, some more, some less. 18 And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack they gathered every man according to his 19 eating. And Moses said, Let no man leave 20 of it till the morning. Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was 21 wroth with them. And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating; and when the sun waxed hot, it melted. 22 22 And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses. 23 And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To-morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to-day, and seeth that ye will seeth; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept 24 until the morning. And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade; and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein. 25 And Moses said, Eat that to-day; for today is a sabbath unto the LORD: to-day 26 ye shall not find it in the field. Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be 27 none. And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh 28 day to gather, and they found none. And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and 29 my laws? See, because the LORD hath enjoined you to observe the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on 30 the seventh day. So the people rested on 31 the seventh day. And the Israelites called the name thereof Manna; and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. 32 32 And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you 33 forth from the land of Egypt. And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your 34 generations. As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Tes35 timony, to be kept. And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the bor36 ders of the land of Canaan. Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah. 17 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim; and there was no 2 water for the people to drink. Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD? 3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst? 4 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me. And the LORD 5 said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thy hand, and go. Behold, 6 I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. And he called the name of the place Mas- 7 sah [TEMPTATION], and Meribah [STRIFE], because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not? Then came Amalek, and fought with Is- 8 rael in Rephidim. And Moses said unto 9 Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to-morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand. So Joshua did as Moses had 10 said to him, and went to fight with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. And it came to pass, 11 when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. But Moses' hands were 12 heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. And Joshua dis- 13 comfited Amalek and his people, and smote them with the edge of the sword. And the 14 LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua; for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. And Moses built an altar, and 15 called the name of it JEHOVAH-nissi [THE LORD MY BANNER]: for he said, Be- 16 cause the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation. When Jethro, the priest of Midian, 18 Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt; he took Zipporah, 2 Moses' wife, after he had sent her back, and her two sons, (of which the name of 3 the one was Gershom [A STRANGER HERE]; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land: and the name of the other was 4 Eliezer [MY GOD IS MY HELP]; for the God of my father, said he, was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh,) and Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came 5 with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he was encamped by the great mountain and he said unto 6 Moses, I, thy father-in-law Jethro, am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her. And Moses went out to meet 7 his father-in-law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent. And Moses told his father-in-law all that 8 the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them. And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness 9 which the LORD had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians. And Jethro said, Blessed be 10 the LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyp11 tians. Now I know that the LORD is the greatest of all gods; for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them. 12 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aarou came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God. 13 myself. Now therefore, if ye will obey 3 And Moses came and called for the eld- 7 ers of the people, and laid before them all these words which the LORD commanded him. And all the people answered to- 8 gether, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD. And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people; and the people stood by Moses from the morning 14 unto the evening. And when Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I 9 doest to the people? why sittest thou thy- come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the self alone, and all the people stand by thee people may hear when I speak with thee, 15 from morning unto evening? And Moses and believe thee for ever. And Moses told said unto his father-in-law, Because the the words of the people unto the LORD. people come unto me to inquire of God: And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto 10 16 when they have a matter, they come unto the people, and sanctify them to-day and me; and I judge between one and another, to-morrow, and let them wash their clothes, and I make known to them the statutes of and be ready against the third day; for the 11 1: God, and his laws. And Moses' father-in-third day the LORD will come down in the law said unto him, The thing that thou sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. 18 doest is not good. Thou wilt surely wear And thou shalt set bounds about the 12 away, both thou, and this people that is mountain, and speak unto the people, saywith thee; for this thing is too heavy for ing, Take heed to yourselves that ye go thee; thou art not able to perform it thy- not up into the mount, or touch the border 19 self alone. Hearken now unto my voice, of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall I will give thee counsel, and God shall be be surely put to death: there shall not a 13 with thee: Be thou for the people to God- band touch him, but he shall surely be ward, that thou mayest bring the causes stoned, or thrust through; whether it be 20 unto God: and thou shalt teach them or- beast or man, it shall not live: when the dinances and laws, and shalt show them trumpet hath ceased, they shall come up the way wherein they must walk, and the to the mount. 21 work that they must do. Moreover, thou shalt provide out of all the people, able men, such as fear God; men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of 22 tens: and let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge; so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall 23 bear the burden with thee. If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace. 24 22 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said. 25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, 26 rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged them27 selves. And Moses let his father-in-law depart; and he went his way into his own land. 19 IN the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the 2 wilderness of Sinai. For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped be3 fore the mount. And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children 4 of Israel; Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I have borne you as on eagles' wings, and brought you unto And Moses went down from the mount 14 unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes. And he 15 said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not to your wives. And it came to pass on the third day in 16 the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people in the camp trembled. And Moses brought forth 17 the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. And mount Sinai was alto- 18 gether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. And when the voice of the trumpet waxed 19 louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice. And the LORD 20 came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up. And the LORD said unto Moses, 21 Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish. And let the priests also, 22 who come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them. And Moses said unto the 23 LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai; for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mountain, and sanctify it. And the LORD said unto him, 24 Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee; but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them. So Moses went down 25 from the mountain unto the people, and spake unto them. 20 Then God spake all these words, saying, I am the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the 3 house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under 5 the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I, the LORD thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation 6 of those who hate me, and showing mercy unto thousands of those who love me, and keep my commandments. 7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who taketh his name in vain. 8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it 9 holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do 10 all thy work, but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: on it thou shalt not do any work, neither thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy bondman, nor thy bondwoman, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy 11 stranger that is within thy gates; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and ceased the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Honour thy father and thy mother; that it may be well with thee, and that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his bondman, nor his bondwoman, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. And all the people heard the thunderings, and the noise of the trumpet, and saw the lightnings, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they re19 moved, and stood afar off. And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, 20 lest we die. And Moses said unto the people, Fear not; for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not. 21 22 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness, where God was. And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you 23 from heaven. Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto 24 you gods of gold. An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will 25 come unto thee, and I will bless thee. And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted 26 it. Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon. Now these are the judgments which thou 21 shalt set before them. If thou buy a Hebrew bondman, six years 2 he shall serve; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. If he came in by 3 himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. If his master have given him a 4 wife, and she have borne him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. And if the bondman shall plainly say, 5 I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: then his mas- 6 ter shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever. And if a man sell his daughter to be a 7 bondwoman, she shall not go out as the bondmen do. If she please not her mas- 8 ter, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. And if he have betrothed her 9 unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. If he take him 10 another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. And if he do not these three unto 11 her, then shall she go out free without money. He who smiteth a man, so that he die, 12 shall be surely put to death. And if a man 13 lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. But if a man come 14 presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die. And he 15 who smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. And he who stealeth a man, and selleth 16 him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. And he who curseth his father, or his 17 mother, shall surely be put to death. And if men strive together, and one 18 smite his neighbour with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed; if he rise again, and walk abroad 19 upon his staff, then shall he who smote lir be quit; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed. And if a man smite his bondman, or his 20 bondwoman, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. Not- 21 withstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished; for he is his money. If men strive, and hurt a woman with 22 child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow, he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. And if any 23 mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand 24 for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, 25 wound for wound, stripe for stripe. And if a man smite the eye of his bond- 26 man, or the eye of his bondwoman, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. And if he smite out his bondman's 27 tooth, or his bondwoman's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake. If an ox gore a man or a woman, so that 28 he or she die: then the ox shall be surely | stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; 20 but the owner of the ox shall be quit. But if the ox were wont to push with its horn in time past, and it hath been testified to its owner, and he hath not kept it in, but that it hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also 30 shall be put to death. If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid 31 upon him. Whether it have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this 32 judgment shall it be done unto him. If the ox shall push a bondman or a bondwoman; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. 35 And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox 36 also they shall divide. Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and its owner hath not kept it in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own. 22 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. 2 If a thief be found breaking in, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood 3 be shed for him. If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his 4 theft. If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double. 5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution. 6 if fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution. 7 If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be 8 found, let him pay double. If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his 9 neighbour's goods. For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour. 10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven 11 away, no man seeing it: then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make 12 it good. And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner 13 thereof. If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn. And if a man borrow aught of his neigh- 14 bour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good. But if the owner thereof 15 be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be a hired thing, it came for his hire. And if a man entice a virgin that is not 16 betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. If her father 17 utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. 18 Thou shalt not suffer a sorcerer to live. Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely 19 be put to death. He that sacrificeth unto any god, save 20 unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed. Thou shalt neither vex a sojourner, nor 21 oppress him for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt. Ye shall not afflict any 22 widow, or fatherless child. If thou afflict 23 them in any way, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; and my 24 wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. If thou lend money to any of my people 25 that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. If thou at all take thy 26 neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by the time that the sun goeth down; for that is his covering 27 only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious. Thou shalt not revile the judges, nor 28 curse the ruler of thy people. Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of 29 thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me. Likewise shalt thou do with thine 30 oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with its dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me. And ye shall be holy men unto me; 31 neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs. Thou shalt not receive a false report: 23 put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. Thou shalt not fol- 2 low a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to incline after many to wrest judgment: neither shalt thou 3 countenance even a poor man in his cause. If thou meet thine enemy's ox, or his 4 ass, or any other beast, going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. If thou see the ass of him who hateth thee 5 lying under its burden, and wouldest forbear to help it, thou shalt surely help it up. Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of 6 thy poor in his cause. Keep thee far from 7 a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not; for thou shalt not justify the wicked for gifts. And thou shalt take no gift; for the gift 8 blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. Also thou shalt not oppress a sojourner; 9 for ye know the heart of a sojourner, seeing ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt. And six years thou shalt sow thy land, 10 and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: but 11 121 the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still, that the poor of thy people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard. Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be 13 refreshed. And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth. 14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto 15 me in the year. Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me 16 empty :) and the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in thy field; and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the 17 field. Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the LORD your God. 18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the 19 morning. The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seeth a kid in its mother's milk. 20 20 Behold, I send mine Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. 21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. 22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and I will 23 afflict those who afflict thee. For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them 24 off. Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images. 25 And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from 26 the midst of thee. There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. 27 I will send the fear of me before thee, and will dismay all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine ene28 mies turn their backs unto thee. And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and 29 the Hittite, from before thee. I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee. 30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land. with their gods. They shall not dwell in 33 thy land, lest they make thee sin against me; for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee. And he said unto Moses, Come up unto 24 the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off. And Moses alone 2 shall come near the LORD; but they shall not come nigh, neither shall the people go up with him. And 4 And Moses came and told the people all 3 the words of the LORD, and all the judg ments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do. Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. And he sent young men of the 5 children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD. And Moses took half of 6 the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. And he took the book of the covenant, and 7 read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient. And Moses took 8 the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words. Then went up Moses and Aaron, Nadab 9 and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and they saw the God of Israel: 10 and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and as it were the heaven itself in its clearness. And 11 upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: but they saw God, and did eat and drink. And the LORD said unto Moses, Come 12 up to me into the mount, and be there; and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them. And Moses rose up, and his minister Jo- 13 shua: and Moses went up into the mount of God. And he said unto the elders, 14 Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them. And Moses went up into the mount, and 15 a cloud covered the mount: and the glory 16 of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. And the sight of 17 the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel. And Moses went 18 into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount; and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights. And the LORD spake unto Moses, say- 25 ing, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take the offering. And this is the 3 offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and copper, and blue, and pur- 4 ple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, and rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' 5 skins, and shittim wood, oil for the light, 6 spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense, onyx stones, and stones to be set in 7 the ephod, and in the breastplate. And 8 |