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And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, 1stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight; 35) and thou shalt make 'of it 'incense,

a perfume after the art of the 'perfumer, seasoned with salt', pure and 36 holy and thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting!, where I will meet with thee: it shall (37) be unto you most holy. And the 'in

cense which thou shalt make, according to the composition thereof 'yel shall not make for yourselves: it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD. 38 °Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, he shall be cut off from his people.

311 And the LORD spake unto Moses, 2 saying, See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of 3 Hur, of the tribe of Judah: and I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of 4 workmanship, to devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, 5 and in brass, and in cutting of stones Ifor setting', and in carving of 'wood', to work in all manner of workmanship. 6 And I, behold, I have appointed' with him 'Oholiab', the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee: 7 °the 'tent' of 'meeting', and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy-seat that is thereupon, and all the furniture of 8 the Tent; and the table and its vessels, and the pure candlestick with all its vessels, and the altar of in9 cense; and the altar of burnt offering

with all its vessels', and the laver and 10 its base; and the finely wrought garments, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's 11) office; and the anointing oil, and Ithe incense of sweet spices for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do.

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And the LORD spake unto Moses, 13) saying, Speak thou also unto the

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children of Israel, saying, Verily ye shall keep my sabbaths: for it is ́a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD which sanctify 14 you. "Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that profaneth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 15 °Six days 'shall work be done; but on the seventh day' is 'a' sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to 16 death. "Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. 17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

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And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, the two tables of the testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God. 321 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down 'from' the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know! 2 not what is become of him. And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto 3 me. And all the people brake off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. 4 And he received it at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, land' made it a molten calf: and they said, "These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land 5 of Egypt. O And when Aaron saw 'this', he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To-morrow shall be a feast to the 6 LORD. And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings,

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and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

7 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest 'up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted them(8 selves: they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed unto it, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the 9 land of Egypt. And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: 10 now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will 11 make of thee a great nation. And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and 12 with a mighty hand? °Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, saying', For levil did he bring them 'forth', to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy 13 people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit 14 it for ever. And the LORD repented of the evil which he said he would' do unto his people.

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And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, with the two tables of the testimony in his hand; tables that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the 16 other were they written. °And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, li graven upon the tables. "And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp. 18 And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for

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1 Heb. whispering.

Heb. Fill your hand.

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being overcome: but the noise of 19 them that sing do I hear. °And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake 20 them beneath the mount. And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with' fire, and ground it to powder, and 'strewed' it upon the water, and made the children of Israel (21) drink of it. And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought a great 22 sin upon them? And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot thou knowest the people, that 23 they are set on 'evil. For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not 24 what is become of him. And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off; so they gave it me: 'and' I cast it into the fire, and 25 there came out this calf. And when Moses saw that the people were Ibroken loose; for Aaron had 'let' them loose for a 'derision among 26 their enemies: then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, 'Whoso is on the LORD'S side, let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto 27 him. And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Put ye every man his sword 'upon' his 'thigh', and go to and fro' from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every 28 man his neighbour. And the 'sons! of Levi did according to the word of Moses and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. (29 And Moses said, 2Consecrate your

selves to-day to the LORD, 3Ïyeaꞌ, every man against his son, and Allagainst his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day. (30 °And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin and now I will go up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make atonement for your 31 sin. And Moses returned unto the

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LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made 32 them gods of gold. Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book 33 which thou hast written. "And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I 34 blot out of my book. And now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit, 35 I will visit their sin upon them. And the LORD smote1 the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.

33 (1 And the LORD 'spake unto Moses, Depart, go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land of which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 2 Unto thy seed will I give it: and I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: 3 unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee 4 in the way. And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his orna(5 ments. And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: if I go up into the midst of thee Ifor one moment, I shall consume thee therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know 6 what to do unto thee. And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments from mount Horeb lonward'.

7 Now Moses used to take the Itent and to pitch it without the camp, afar off from the camp; and 'he called it, The 'tent' of 'meeting". And it came to pass, that every one which sought the LORD went out unto the tent of meeting", which was 8 without the camp. And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the iTent', that all the people rose up, and stood, every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was 9 gone into the Tent. And it came

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to pass, 'when' Moses entered into the Tent', the pillar of cloud' descended, and stood at the door of the Tent and the LORD spake with 10 Moses. And all the people saw the pillar of cloud' stand at the door of the Tent: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man at his 11 tent door. And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his Iminister Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the ¡Tent!.

12 And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace 13 in my sight. Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy ways!, that I may know thee, 'to the end that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people. And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up 16) hence. For wherein now shall it be known that I have found grace in thy sight, I and thy people? is it not in that thou goest with us, so that we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth?

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And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name. 18) And he said, Shew me, I 'pray' thee, 19) thy glory. And he said, I will make

all my goodness pass before thee, and will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew 20) mercy. And he said, Thou canst

not see my face for man shall 'not' 21 see me and live. And the LORD

said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon the rock: 22 and it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a cleft of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand until I have (23 passed by: and I will take away

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mine hand, and thou shalt see my back: but my face shall not be seen. 341 And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon Ithe tables the words that were onl the first tables, which thou brakest. 2 And be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me 3 on the top of the mount. And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor (4 herds feed before that mount. And

he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand two tables 5 of stone. And the LORD descended in the cloud, 1and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of 6 the LORD. And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, the LORD, 'a' God 'full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger', and plenteous' in 'mercy' and truth; 7 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation. 8 And Moses made haste, and bowed

his head toward the earth, and wor9 shipped. And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in the midst of us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inherit(10 ance. And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been wrought in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD, for it is a terrible 11 thing that I do with thee. °Observe

thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the 12 Hivite, and the Jebusite. Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a cove

1 Or, and he stood with him there, and called upon &c.

1 Or, Jehovah by name

nant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a 13 snare in the midst of thee: but ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their "pillars, and 'ye 14 shall cut down their Asherim: °for thou shalt worship no other god for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, 15 is a jealous God: lest thou make a

covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee and thou eat of his 16 sacrifice; and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after 17 their gods. Thou shalt make thee 18 no molten gods. The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time lappointed in the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from 19) Egypt. All that openeth the 'womb

is mine; and all thy cattle that is male, 'the firstlings of ox 'and' sheep. 20) And the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a "lamb: and if thou 'wilt not redeem 'it', then thou shalt break its neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty. 21 °Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in 'plowing time and in harvest thou shalt 22 rest. And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, even of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end. 23 Three times in the year shall all

Ithy males appear before the Lord (24 GOD, the God of Israel. For I will

cast out nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou goest up to appear before the LORD thy God three times in the year. 25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread'; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morn26 ing. The first of the firstfruits of thy ground thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in lits! 27 mother's milk. And the LORD said

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unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and 28 with Israel. And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten 1commandments.

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And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of the testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him. 30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were 31 afraid to come nigh him. And Moses

called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses 'spake 32 to them. And afterward all the

children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in 33 mount Sinai. And when Moses

had done speaking with them, he put 34 a veil on his face. But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that 35 which he was commanded; and the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone and Moses put the veil upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

35 1 And Moses 'assembled' all the con

gregation of the children of Israel,

and said unto them, These are the words which the LORD hath commanded, that ye should do them. 2 4Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you lan' holy day, a sabbath of 'solemn rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work therein shall be put to 3 death. "Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.

4 And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the 5) LORD commanded, saying, "Take ye

1 Heb. words.

Or, Isent forth beams! (Heb. horns)

from among you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, the LORD'S offering; gold, and silver, and brass; 6 and blue, and purple, and scarlet, 7 and fine linen, and goats' hair; and rams' skins dyed red, and 'sealskins', 8 and acacia wood; and oil for the light, and spices for the anointing 9 oil, and for the sweet incense; and onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate. 10 And let every wise hearted man'

among you come, and make all that 11 the LORD hath commanded; the taber

nacle, its tent, and its covering, lits clasps', and 'its' boards, 'its' bars, (12 'its' pillars, and its sockets; the

ark, and the staves thereof, the mercy13 seat, and the veil of the 'screen; the table, and its staves, and all its 14 vessels, and the "shewbread; the candlestick also for the light, and lits vessels, and its lamps, and the oil 15) for the light; and the altar of incense, and its staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the Iscreen for the door, at the door' of 16 the tabernacle; the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of brass, its staves, and all its vessels, the 17 laver and its base; the hangings of the court, the pillars thereof, and their sockets, and the screen' for 18 the gate of the court; the pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the 19 court, and their cords; the "finely wrought garments, for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.

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And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the (21 presence of Moses. And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and brought the LORD'S offering, for the work of the 'tent of Imeeting', and for all the service Ithereof, and for the holy garments. (22 °And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought brooches, and earrings, and signet-rings, and armlets', all jewels of gold; even every man that offered an offering of gold unto the

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4 See ch. xxxi. 15.

5 See ch. xxv. 2-7.

6 Or, Presence-bread 7 See ch. xxxi. 10.

8 Or, Inoserings\ 9 Or, Inecklaces

33 till. XXXV. 1 gathered.. shittim; 10 shall; 11 his.. his.. his 14 his furniture. . his.. with; 15 his

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