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Of slander and fulse witness. EXODUS.

An angel promised. 25 If thou lend money to any of my the son of thy handmaid, and the stranpeople that is poor by thee, thou shalt not ger, may be refreshed. be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou 13 And in all things that I have said lay upon him usury. unto you, be circumspect. and make no

26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's mention of the name of other gods, neiraiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it ther let it be heard out of thy mouth. unto him by that the sun goeth down:

14 Three times thou shalt keep a

27 For that is his covering only, it is his feast unto me in the year. raiment for his skin: wherein shall he 15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleasleep? and it shall come to pass, when he vened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am bread seven days, as I commanded thee, gracious. in the time appointed of the month Abib; 28 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor for in it thou camest out from Egypt: curse the ruler of thy people. and none shall appear before me empty:) 29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the 16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfirst of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: fruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown the first-born of thy sons shalt thou give in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou

unto me.

30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine hast gathered in thy labours out of the oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it field. shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.

31 And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.

CHAP. XXIII.

THOU shalt not raise a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the LORD God.

18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread: neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.

19 The first of the first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to 20 Behold, I send an Angel before

do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: 3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.

6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not for I will not justify the wicked.

8 And thou shalt take no gift; for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

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 an adversary unto thine adversaries.

23 For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off.

24 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

9 Also thou shalt not oppress a stran- God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy ger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, water; and I will take sickness away from seeing ye were strangers in the land of the midst of thee.

Egypt.

26 There shall nothing cast their young,

10 And six years thou shalt sow thy nor be barren, in thy land: the number land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: of thy days I will fulfil.

11 But the seventh year thou shalt let 27 I will send my fear before thee, and it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy will destroy all the people to whom thou people may eat; and what they leave the shalt come, and I will make all thine enebeasts of the field shall eat. In like man-mies turn their backs unto thee. ner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and 28 And I will send hornets before thee, with thy cliveyard. which shall drive out the Hivite, the Ca

12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, naanite, and the Hittite from before thee. and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: 29 I will not drive them out from bethat thine ox and thine ass may rest, and fore thee in one year; lest the land be

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Moses builds an altar.

CHAP. XXIV, XXV. Offering for the tabernacle.

come desolate, and the beast of the field have written; that thou mayest teach them.
multiply against thee.
13 And Moses rose up, and his minis-
30 By little and little I will drive ter Joshua: and Moses went up into the
them out from before thee, until thou be mount of God.
increased, and inherit the land.

14 And he said unto the elders, Tar

31 And I will set thy bounds from the ry ye here for us, until we come again uuRed sea even unto the sea of the Philis- to you: and behold, Aaron and Hur ars tines, and from the desert unto the river: with you: if any man have any matters for I will deliver the inhabitants of the to do, let him come unto them.

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he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off.

15 And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.

16 And the glory 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. 17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.

18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

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CHAP. XXV.

ND the LORD spake unto Moses, say-
ing,

2 And Moses alone shall come near the
LORD: but they shall not come nigh;
neither shall the people go up with him.
31 And Moses came and told the peo-
ple all the words of the Lord, and all the 2 Speak unto the children of Israel,
that they bring me an offering of every
man that giveth it willingly with his heart

judgments: and all the people answered
with one voice, and said, All the words
which the LORD hath said will we do. ye shall take my offering.
41 And

Moses wrote all the words of

the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

3 And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass, 4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet. and fine linen, and goats' hair,

5 And rams' skinsdyed red, and badg

5 And he sent young men of the chil-ers' skins, and shittim-wood, dren of Israel, which offered burnt-offer- 6 Oil for the light, spices for anointing ings, and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen oil, and for sweet incense,

unto the LORD.

6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

7 Onyx-stones, and stones to be set in

the ephod, and in the breast-plate.

8 And let them make me a sanctuary;

that I may dwell among them.

7 And he took the book of the cove9 According to all that I shew thee, nant, and read in the audience of the peo- after the pattern of the tabernacle, and ple: and they said, All that the LORD the pattern of all the instruments thereof, hath said will we do, and be obedient. even so shall ye make it.

8 And Moses took the blood, and sprink- 10 And they shall make an ark of led it on the people, and said, Behold the shittim-wood: two cubits and a half shall blood of the covenant, which the LORD be the length thereof, and a cubit and a hath made with you concerning all these half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and

words.

a half the height thereof.

9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, 11 And thou shalt overlay it with pure Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the el-gold, within and without shalt thou overders of Israel: lay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of

10 And they saw the God of Israel: gold round about.
and there was under his feet as it were a 12 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold
paved work of a sapphire-stone, and as it for it, and put them in the four corners
were the body of heaven in his clearness. thereof; and two rings shall be in the one
11 And upon the nobles of the chil- side of it, and two rings in the other side
dren of Israel he laid not his hand: also of it.

they saw God, and did eat and drink. 13 And thou shalt make staves of shittim.
12 And the LORD said unto Moses, wood, and overlay them with gold..
Come up to me into the mount, and be 14 And thou shalt put the staves into
there: and I will give thee tables of stone, the rings by the sides of the ark, that
and a law, and commandments which I the ark may be borne with them.

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The form of the mercy-seat:

EXODUS. The candlestick-the curtains.

15 The staves shall be in the rings of dlestick out of the one side, and three the ark: they shall not be taken from it. branches of the candlestick out of the 16 And thou shalt put into the ark the other side :

testimony which I shall give thee.

33 Three bowls made like unto al

17 And thou shalt make a mercy-seat monds, with a knop and a flower in one of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall branch; and three bowls made like albe the length thereof, and a cubit and a monds in the other branch, with a knop balf the breadth thereof. and a flower: so in the six branches that

18 And thou shalt make two cherubims come out of the candlestick. of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make 34 And in the candlestick shall be four them, in the two ends of the mercy-seat. bowls made like unto almonds, with their

19 And make one cherub on the one end, knops and their flowers. and the other cherub on the other end: 35 And there shall be a knop under two even of the mercy-seat shall ye make the branches of the same, and a knop under cherubims on the two ends thereof.

two branches of the same, and a knop un

20 And the cherubims shall stretch forth der two branches of the same, according their wings on high, covering the mercy- to the six branches that proceed out of the seat with their wings, and their faces shall candlestick.

look one to another; toward the mercy36 Their knops and their branches seat shall the faces of the cherubims be. shall be of the same all of it shall be one

above upon the ark; and in the ark thou 21 And thou shalt put the mercy-seat shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.

22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.

beaten work of pure gold.

37 And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.

38 And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.

39 Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.

40 And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in

23 Thou shalt also make a table of the mount. shittim-wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth bit the thereof, and a cubit and thereof.

CHAP. XXVI.

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MOREOVER, thou shalt make the te twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work

24 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold shalt thou make them. round about.

2 The length of one curtain shall be 25 And thou shalt make unto it a bor-eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth der of a hand-breadth round about, and of one curtain four cubits: and every one thou shalt make a golden crown to the of the curtains shall have one measure. border thereof round about.

26 And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.

27 Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table.

3 The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another. 4 And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of

28 And thou shalt make the staves of another curtain, in the coupling of the seshittim-wood, and overlay them with gold, cond. that the table may be borne with them. 5 Fifty loops shalt thou make in the

29 And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover with al: of pure gold shalt thou make them.

one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another.

30 And thou shalt set upon the table 6 And thou shalt make fifty taches of shew-bread before me always. gold, and couple the curtains together 31 And thou shalt make a candle- with the taches: and it shall be one tastick of gold: of beaten work gold the candlestick be made: shall bernacle. his shaft, and 7 And thou shalt make curtains of his branches, his bowls, his knops, and goats' hair to be a covering upon the tahis flowers, shall be of the same.

32 And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the can

bernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make. 8 The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain

The voards of the tabernacle. CHAP. XXVII. The altar of burnt-offering.

four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall

be all of one measure.

27 And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle,

9 And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by them- for the two sides westward. selves, and shalt double the sixth curtain 28 And the middle bar in the midst of in the fore-front of the tabernacle. the boards shall reach from end to end.

10 And thou shalt make fifty loops on 29 And thou shalt overlay the boards the edge of the one curtain that is outmost with gold, and make their rings of gold in the cou coupling, and fifty loops in the edge for places for the bars: and thou shalt of the curtain which coupleth the second. overlay the bars with gold.

11 And thou shalt make fifty taches of 30 And thou shalt rear up the tabernabrass, and put the taches into the loops, and cle according to the fashion thereof which couple the tent together, that it may be one. was shewed thee in the mount.

12 And the remnant that remaineth of 31 And thou shalt make a vail ef blue, the curtains of the tent, the half curtain and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined that remaineth, shall hang over the back-linen of cunning work: with cherubims side of the tabernacle.

13 And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.

shall it be made.

32 And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim-wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold upon the four sockets of silver.

33 And thou shalt hang up the vail un-
der the taches, that thou mayest bring in

14 And thou shalt make a covering thither within the vail the ark of the tes-
for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and timony: and the vail shall divide unto
a covering above of badgers' skins.
you between the holy place and the most

15 And thou shalt make boards for

holy.

the tabernacle of shittim-wood standing up. 34 And thou shalt put the mercy-seat

16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the

breadth of one board.

upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place. 35 And thou shalt set the table without 17 Two tenons shall there be in one the vail, and the candlestick over against board, set in order one against another: the table on the side of the tabernacle tothus shalt thou make for all the boards of ward the south: and thou shalt put the tathe tabernacle.

ble on the north side.

18 And thou shalt make the boards for 36 And thou shalt make a hanging the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south for the door of the tent, of blue, and purside southward. ple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, 19 And thou shalt make forty sockets wrought with needle-work. of silver under the twenty boards: two 37 And thou shalt make for the hanging sockets under one board for his two tenons, five pillars of shittim-wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets

and two sockets under another board for

his two tenons.

CHAP. XXVII.

20 And for the second side of the taber- of brass for them. nacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards.

21 And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two

sockets under another board.

ND thou shalt make an altar of shittim

A wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be four-square: and the height thereof shall be three cubits. 22 And for the sides of the tabernacle 2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upwestward thou shalt make six boards. on the four corners thereof: his horns shall 23 And two boards shalt thou make for be of the same and thou shalt overlay it the corners of the tabernacle in the twosides. with brass.

24 And they shall be coupled together 3 And thou shalt make his pans to receive beneath, and they shall be coupled toge- his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, ther above the head of it unto one ring: and his flesh-hooks, and his fire-pans: all thus shall it be for them both; they shall the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.

be for the two corners.

4 And thou shalt make for it a grate of

25 And they shall be eight boards, and net-work of brass; rass; and upon the net shalt their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; thou make four brazen rings in the four two sockets under one board, and two corners thereof.

sockets under another board.

26 And thou shalt make bars of shittimwood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabemacle,

5 And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar. 6 And thou shalt make staves for the 69

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The court of the tabernacle.

EXODUS.

Holy garments described. altar, staves of shittim-wood, and overlay | Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and them with brass.

Ithamar, Aaron's sons.

7 And the staves shall be put into the 2 And thou shalt make holy garments rings, and the staves shall be upon the two for Aaron thy brother, for glory and for sides of the altar, to bear it.

8 Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

beauty.
3 And thou shalt speak unto all that are
wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the
spirit of wisdom, that they may make

9 And thou shalt make the court of Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he the tabernacle: for the south side south- may minister unto me in the priest's office. ward there shall be hangings for the court 4 And these are the garments which of fine twined linen of a hundred cubits they shall make; a breast-plate, and an long for one side : ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make

10 And the twenty pillars thereof and mi their twenty sockets shall be of brass: the holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.

his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.

5 And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen. 6 And they shall make the ephod of

11 And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of a hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass: the gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

fine twined linen, with cunning work.

12 And for the breadth of the court on 7 It shall have the two shoulder-pieces

the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillarsten, and their sockets ten. 13 And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.

14 The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three,

and their sockets three.

15 And on the other side shall be hangings, fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.

16 And for the gate of the court shall be a hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needle-work: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.

thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together.

8 And the curious girdle of the ephod which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine

twined linen.

9 And thou shalt take two onyx-stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:

10 Six of their names on one stone, and the other six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.

11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.

17 All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver: their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass. 18 The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass. and Aaron shall bear their names before

19 All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.

12 And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel:

the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.

13 And thou shalt make ouches of gold; 14 And two chains of pure gold at the

20 And thou shalt command the chil-ends; of wreathen work shalt thou make dren of Israel, that they bring thee pure them, and fasten the wreathen chains to oil-olive beaten for the light, to cause the the ouches.

lamp to burn always.

15 And thou shalt make the breast

21 In the tabernacle of the congrega- plate of judgment with cunning work; tion without the vail, which is before the after the work of the ephod thou shalt testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, it from evening to morning before the and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen LORD: It shall be a statute for ever unto shalt thou make it.

their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

16 Four-square it shall be, being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.

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CHAP. XXVIII.

ND take thou unto thee Aaron thy
brother, and is sons with him, from

17 And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones; the first

among the children of Israel, that he may row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carminister unto me in the priest's office, even buncle: this shall be the first row.

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