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One day ,
when Moses had grown up ,
he went out to his people and looked on their burdens ;
and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew ,
one of his people .
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He looked this way and that ,
and seeing no one he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand .
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When he went out the next day ,
behold ,
two Hebrews were struggling together ;
and he said to the man that did the wrong , "
Why do you strike your fellow ?"
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He answered , "
Who made you a prince and a judge over us ?
Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian ?"
Then Moses was afraid ,
and thought , "
Surely the thing is known ."
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When Pharaoh heard of it ,
he sought to kill Moses .
But Moses fled from Pharaoh ,
and stayed in the land of Mid '
ian ;
and he sat down by a well .
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Now the priest of Mid '
ian had seven daughters ;
and they came and drew water ,
and filled the troughs to water their father '
s flock .
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The shepherds came and drove them away ;
but Moses stood up and helped them ,
and watered their flock .
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When they came to their father Reu '
el ,
he said , "
How is it that you have come so soon today ?"
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They said , "
An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds ,
and even drew water for us and watered the flock ."
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He said to his daughters , "
And where is he ?
Why have you left the man ?
Call him ,
that he may eat bread ."
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And Moses was content to dwell with the man ,
and he gave Moses his daughter Zippo '
rah .
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She bore a son ,
and he called his name Gershom ;
for he said , "
I have been a sojourner in a foreign land ."
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In the course of those many days the king of Egypt died .
And the people of Israel groaned under their bondage ,
and cried out for help ,
and their cry under bondage came up to God .
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And God heard their groaning ,
and God remembered his covenant with Abraham ,
with Isaac ,
and with Jacob .
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And God saw the people of Israel ,
and God knew their condition .
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And God spoke all these words ,
saying ,
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I am the LORD your God ,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt ,
out of the house of bondage .
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You shall have no other gods before me .
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You shall not make for yourself a graven image ,
or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above ,
or that is in the earth beneath ,
or that is in the water under the earth ;
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you shall not bow down to them or serve them ;
for I the LORD your God am a jealous God ,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me ,
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but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments .
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You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain ;
for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain .
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Remember the sabbath day ,
to keep it holy .
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Six days you shall labor ,
and do all your work ;
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but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God ;
in it you shall not do any work ,
you ,
or your son ,
or your daughter ,
your manservant ,
or your maidservant ,
or your cattle ,
or the sojourner who is within your gates ;
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for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth ,
the sea ,
and all that is in them ,
and rested the seventh day ;
therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it .
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Honor your father and your mother ,
that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you .
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You shall not kill .
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You shall not commit adultery .
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You shall not steal .
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You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor .
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You shall not covet your neighbor '
s house ;
you shall not covet your neighbor '
s wife ,
or his manservant ,
or his maidservant ,
or his ox ,
or his ass ,
or anything that is your neighbor '
s ."
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Now when all the people perceived the thunderings and the lightnings and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking ,
the people were afraid and trembled ;
and they stood afar off ,
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and said to Moses , "
You speak to us ,
and we will hear ;
but let not God speak to us ,
lest we die ."
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And Moses said to the people , "
Do not fear ;
for God has come to prove you ,
and that the fear of him may be before your eyes ,
that you may not sin ."
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And the people stood afar off ,
while Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was .
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And the LORD said to Moses , "
Thus you shall say to the people of Israel : `
You have seen for yourselves that I have talked with you from heaven .
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You shall not make gods of silver to be with me ,
nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold .
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An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings ,
your sheep and your oxen ;
in every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you and bless you .
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And if you make me an altar of stone ,
you shall not build it of hewn stones ;
for if you wield your tool upon it you profane it .
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And you shall not go up by steps to my altar ,
that your nakedness be not exposed on it .'
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Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them .
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When you buy a Hebrew slave ,
he shall serve six years ,
and in the seventh he shall go out free ,
for nothing .
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If he comes in single ,
he shall go out single ;
if he comes in married ,
then his wife shall go out with him .
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If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters ,
the wife and her children shall be her master '
s and he shall go out alone .
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But if the slave plainly says , `
I love my master ,
my wife ,
and my children ;
I will not go out free ,'
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then his master shall bring him to God ,
and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost ;
and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl ;
and he shall serve him for life .
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When a man sells his daughter as a slave ,
she shall not go out as the male slaves do .
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If she does not please her master ,
who has designated her for himself ,
then he shall let her be redeemed ;
he shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people ,
since he has dealt faithlessly with her .
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If he designates her for his son ,
he shall deal with her as with a daughter .
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If he takes another wife to himself ,
he shall not diminish her food ,
her clothing ,
or her marital rights .
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And if he does not do these three things for her ,
she shall go out for nothing ,
without payment of money .
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Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death .
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But if he did not lie in wait for him ,
but God let him fall into his hand ,
then I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee .
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But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him treacherously ,
you shall take him from my altar ,
that he may die .
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Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death .
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Whoever steals a man ,
whether he sells him or is found in possession of him ,
shall be put to death .
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Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death .
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When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist and the man does not die but keeps his bed ,
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then if the man rises again and walks abroad with his staff ,
he that struck him shall be clear ;
only he shall pay for the loss of his time ,
and shall have him thoroughly healed .
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When a man strikes his slave ,
male or female ,
with a rod and the slave dies under his hand ,
he shall be punished .
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But if the slave survives a day or two ,
he is not to be punished ;
for the slave is his money .
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When men strive together ,
and hurt a woman with child ,
so that there is a miscarriage ,
and yet no harm follows ,
the one who hurt her shall be fined ,
according as the woman '
s husband shall lay upon him ;
and he shall pay as the judges determine .
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If any harm follows ,
then you shall give life for life ,
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eye for eye ,
tooth for tooth ,
hand for hand ,
foot for foot ,
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burn for burn ,
wound for wound ,
stripe for stripe .
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When a man strikes the eye of his slave ,
male or female ,
and destroys it ,
he shall let the slave go free for the eye '
s sake .
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If he knocks out the tooth of his slave ,
male or female ,
he shall let the slave go free for the tooth '
s sake .
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When an ox gores a man or a woman to death ,
the ox shall be stoned ,
and its flesh shall not be eaten ;
but the owner of the ox shall be clear .
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But if the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past ,
and its owner has been warned but has not kept it in ,
and it kills a man or a woman ,
the ox shall be stoned ,
and its owner also shall be put to death .
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If a ransom is laid on him ,
then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid upon him .
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If it gores a man '
s son or daughter ,
he shall be dealt with according to this same rule .
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If the ox gores a slave ,
male or female ,
the owner shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver ,
and the ox shall be stoned .
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When a man leaves a pit open ,
or when a man digs a pit and does not cover it ,
and an ox or an ass falls into it ,
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the owner of the pit shall make it good ;
he shall give money to its owner ,
and the dead beast shall be his .
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When one man '
s ox hurts another '
s ,
so that it dies ,
then they shall sell the live ox and divide the price of it ;
and the dead beast also they shall divide .
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Or if it is known that the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past ,
and its owner has not kept it in ,
he shall pay ox for ox ,
and the dead beast shall be his .
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If a man steals an ox or a sheep ,
and kills it or sells it ,
he shall pay five oxen for an ox ,
and four sheep for a sheep .
He shall make restitution ;
if he has nothing ,
then he shall If the stolen beast is found alive in his possession ,
whether it is an ox or an ass or a sheep , "
If a thief is found breaking in ,
and is struck so that he dies ,
there shall be no bloodguilt for him ;
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but if the sun has risen upon him ,
there shall be "
When a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over ,
or lets his beast loose and it feeds in another man '
s field ,
he shall make restitution from the best in his own field and in his own vineyard .
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When fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed ,
he that kindled the fire shall make full restitution .
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If a man delivers to his neighbor money or goods to keep ,
and it is stolen out of the man '
s house ,
then ,
if the thief is found ,
he shall pay double .
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If the thief is not found ,
the owner of the house shall come near to God ,
to show whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor '
s goods .
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For every breach of trust ,
whether it is for ox ,
for ass ,
for sheep ,
for clothing ,
or for any kind of lost thing ,
of which one says , `
This is it ,'
the case of both parties shall come before God ;
he whom God shall condemn shall pay double to his neighbor .
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If a man delivers to his neighbor an ass or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep ,
and it dies or is hurt or is driven away ,
without any one seeing it ,
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an oath by the LORD shall be between them both to see whether he has not put his hand to his neighbor '
s property ;
and the owner shall accept the oath ,
and he shall not make restitution .
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But if it is stolen from him ,
he shall make restitution to its owner .
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If it is torn by beasts ,
let him bring it as evidence ;
he shall not make restitution for what has been torn .
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If a man borrows anything of his neighbor ,
and it is hurt or dies ,
the owner not being with it ,
he shall make full restitution .
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If the owner was with it ,
he shall not make restitution ;
if it was hired ,
it came for its hire .
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If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed ,
and lies with her ,
he shall give the marriage present for her ,
and make her his wife .
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If her father utterly refuses to give her to him ,
he shall pay money equivalent to the marriage present for virgins .
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You shall not permit a sorceress to live .
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Whoever lies with a beast shall be put to death .
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Whoever sacrifices to any god ,
save to the LORD only ,
shall be utterly destroyed .
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You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him ,
for you were strangers in the land of Egypt .
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You shall not afflict any widow or orphan .
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If you do afflict them ,
and they cry out to me ,
I will surely hear their cry ;
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and my wrath will burn ,
and I will kill you with the sword ,
and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless .
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If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor ,
you shall not be to him as a creditor ,
and you shall not exact interest from him .
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If ever you take your neighbor '
s garment in pledge ,
you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down ;
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for that is his only covering ,
it is his mantle for his body ;
in what else shall he sleep ?
And if he cries to me ,
I will hear ,
for I am compassionate .
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You shall not revile God ,
nor curse a ruler of your people .
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You shall not delay to offer from the fulness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses . "
The first-born of your sons you shall give to me .
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You shall do likewise with your oxen and with your sheep :
seven days it shall be with its dam ;
on the eighth day you shall give it to me .
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You shall be men consecrated to me ;
therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by beasts in the field ;
you shall cast it to the dogs .
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You shall not utter a false report .
You shall not join hands with a wicked man ,
to be a malicious witness .
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You shall not follow a multitude to do evil ;
nor shall you bear witness in a suit ,
turning aside after a multitude ,
so as to pervert justice ;
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nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his suit .
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If you meet your enemy '
s ox or his ass going astray ,
you shall bring it back to him .
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If you see the ass of one who hates you lying under its burden ,
you shall refrain from leaving him with it ,
you shall help him to lift it up .
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You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his suit .
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Keep far from a false charge ,
and do not slay the innocent and righteous ,
for I will not acquit the wicked .
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And you shall take no bribe ,
for a bribe blinds the officials ,
and subverts the cause of those who are in the right .
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You shall not oppress a stranger ;
you know the heart of a stranger ,
for you were strangers in the land of Egypt .
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For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield ;
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but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow ,
that the poor of your people may eat ;
and what they leave the wild beasts may eat .
You shall do likewise with your vineyard ,
and with your olive orchard .
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Six days you shall do your work ,
but on the seventh day you shall rest ;
that your ox and your ass may have rest ,
and the son of your bondmaid ,
and the alien ,
may be refreshed .
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Take heed to all that I have said to you ;
and make no mention of the names of other gods ,
nor let such be heard out of your mouth .
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Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me .
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You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread ;
as I commanded you ,
you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib ,
for in it you came out of Egypt .
None shall appear before me empty-handed .
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You shall keep the feast of harvest ,
of the first fruits of your labor ,
of what you sow in the field .
You shall keep the feast of ingathering at the end of the year ,
when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor .
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Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord GOD .
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You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread ,
or let the fat of my feast remain until the morning .
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The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God . "
You shall not boil a kid in its mother '
s milk .
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Behold ,
I send an angel before you ,
to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place which I have prepared .
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Give heed to him and hearken to his voice ,
do not rebel against him ,
for he will not pardon your transgression ;
for my name is in him .
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But if you hearken attentively to his voice and do all that I say ,
then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries .
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When my angel goes before you ,
and brings you in to the Amorites ,
and the Hittites ,
and the Per '
izzites ,
and the Canaanites ,
the Hivites ,
and the Jeb '
usites ,
and I blot them out ,
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you shall not bow down to their gods ,
nor serve them ,
nor do according to their works ,
but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces .
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You shall serve the LORD your God ,
and I will bless your bread and your water ;
and I will take sickness away from the midst of you .
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None shall cast her young or be barren in your land ;
I will fulfil the number of your days .
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I will send my terror before you ,
and will throw into confusion all the people against whom you shall come ,
and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you .
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And I will send hornets before you ,
which shall drive out Hivite ,
Canaanite ,
and Hittite from before you .
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I will not drive them out from before you in one year ,
lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you .
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Little by little I will drive them out from before you ,
until you are increased and possess the land .
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And I will set your bounds from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines ,
and from the wilderness to the Euphra '
tes ;
for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand ,
and you shall drive them out before you .
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You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods .
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They shall not dwell in your land ,
lest they make you sin against me ;
for if you serve their gods ,
it will surely be a snare to you ."
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And he said to Moses , "
Come up to the LORD ,
you and Aaron ,
Nadab ,
and Abi '
hu ,
and seventy of the elders of Israel ,
and worship afar off .
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Moses alone shall come near to the LORD ;
but the others shall not come near ,
and the people shall not come up with him ."
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Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the ordinances ;
and all the people answered with one voice ,
and said , "
All the words which the LORD has spoken we will do ."
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And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD .
And he rose early in the morning ,
and built an altar at the foot of the mountain ,
and twelve pillars ,
according to the twelve tribes of Israel .
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And he sent young men of the people of Israel ,
who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the LORD .
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And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins ,
and half of the blood he threw against the altar .
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Then he took the book of the covenant ,
and read it in the hearing of the people ;
and they said , "
All that the LORD has spoken we will do ,
and we will be obedient ."
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And Moses took the blood and threw it upon the people ,
and said , "
Behold the blood of the covenant which the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words ."
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Then Moses and Aaron ,
Nadab ,
and Abi '
hu ,
and seventy of the elders of Israel went up ,
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and they saw the God of Israel ;
and there was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone ,
like the very heaven for clearness .
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And he did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel ;
they beheld God ,
and ate and drank .
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The LORD said to Moses , "
Come up to me on the mountain ,
and wait there ;
and I will give you the tables of stone ,
with the law and the commandment ,
which I have written for their instruction ."
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So Moses rose with his servant Joshua ,
and Moses went up into the mountain of God .
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And he said to the elders , "
Tarry here for us ,
until we come to you again ;
and ,
behold ,
Aaron and Hur are with you ;
whoever has a cause ,
let him go to them ."
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Then Moses went up on the mountain ,
and the cloud covered the mountain .
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The glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai ,
and the cloud covered it six days ;
and on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud .
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Now the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel .
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And Moses entered the cloud ,
and went up on the mountain .
And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights .
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The LORD said to Moses ,
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Speak to the people of Israel ,
that they take for me an offering ;
from every man whose heart makes him willing you shall receive the offering for me .
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And this is the offering which you shall receive from them :
gold ,
silver ,
and bronze ,
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blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen ,
goats '
hair ,
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tanned rams '
skins ,
goatskins ,
acacia wood ,
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oil for the lamps ,
spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense ,
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onyx stones ,
and stones for setting ,
for the ephod and for the breastpiece .
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And let them make me a sanctuary ,
that I may dwell in their midst .
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According to all that I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle ,
and of all its furniture ,
so you shall make it .
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They shall make an ark of acacia wood ;
two cubits and a half shall be its length ,
a cubit and a half its breadth ,
and a cubit and a half its height .
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And you shall overlay it with pure gold ,
within and without shall you overlay it ,
and you shall make upon it a molding of gold round about .
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And you shall cast four rings of gold for it and put them on its four feet ,
two rings on the one side of it ,
and two rings on the other side of it .
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You shall make poles of acacia wood ,
and overlay them with gold .
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And you shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark ,
to carry the ark by them .
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The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark ;
they shall not be taken from it .
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And you shall put into the ark the testimony which I shall give you .
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Then you shall make a mercy seat of pure gold ;
two cubits and a half shall be its length ,
and a cubit and a half its breadth .
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And you shall make two cherubim of gold ;
of hammered work shall you make them ,
on the two ends of the mercy seat .
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Make one cherub on the one end ,
and one cherub on the other end ;
of one piece with the mercy seat shall you make the cherubim on its two ends .
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The cherubim shall spread out their wings above ,
overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings ,
their faces one to another ;
toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be .
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And you shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark ;
and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you .
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There I will meet with you ,
and from above the mercy seat ,
from between the two cherubim that are upon the ark of the testimony ,
I will speak with you of all that I will give you in commandment for the people of Israel .
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And you shall make a table of acacia wood ;
two cubits shall be its length ,
a cubit its breadth ,
and a cubit and a half its height .
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You shall overlay it with pure gold ,
and make a molding of gold around it .
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And you shall make around it a frame a handbreadth wide ,
and a molding of gold around the frame .
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And you shall make for it four rings of gold ,
and fasten the rings to the four corners at its four legs .
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Close to the frame the rings shall lie ,
as holders for the poles to carry the table .
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You shall make the poles of acacia wood ,
and overlay them with gold ,
and the table shall be carried with these .
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And you shall make its plates and dishes for incense ,
and its flagons and bowls with which to pour libations ;
of pure gold you shall make them .
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And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me always .
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And you shall make a lampstand of pure gold .
The base and the shaft of the lampstand shall be made of hammered work ;
its cups ,
its capitals ,
and its flowers shall be of one piece with it ;
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and there shall be six branches going out of its sides ,
three branches of the lampstand out of one side of it and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it ;
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three cups made like almonds ,
each with capital and flower ,
on one branch ,
and three cups made like almonds ,
each with capital and flower ,
on the other branch--so for the six branches going out of the lampstand ;
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and on the lampstand itself four cups made like almonds ,
with their capitals and flowers ,
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and a capital of one piece with it under each pair of the six branches going out from the lampstand .
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Their capitals and their branches shall be of one piece with it ,
the whole of it one piece of hammered work of pure gold .
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And you shall make the seven lamps for it ;
and the lamps shall be set up so as to give light upon the space in front of it .
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Its snuffers and their trays shall be of pure gold .
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Of a talent of pure gold shall it be made ,
with all these utensils .
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And see that you make them after the pattern for them ,
which is being shown you on the mountain .
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Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet stuff ;
with cherubim skilfully worked shall you make them .
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The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits ,
and the breadth of each curtain four cubits ;
all the curtains shall have one measure .
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Five curtains shall be coupled to one another ;
and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another .
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And you shall make loops of blue on the edge of the outmost curtain in the first set ;
and likewise you shall make loops on the edge of the outmost curtain in the second set .
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Fifty loops you shall make on the one curtain ,
and fifty loops you shall make on the edge of the curtain that is in the second set ;
the loops shall be opposite one another .
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And you shall make fifty clasps of gold ,
and couple the curtains one to the other with the clasps ,
that the tabernacle may be one whole .
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You shall also make curtains of goats '
hair for a tent over the tabernacle ;
eleven curtains shall you make .
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The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits ,
and the breadth of each curtain four cubits ;
the eleven curtains shall have the same measure .
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And you shall couple five curtains by themselves ,
and six curtains by themselves ,
and the sixth curtain you shall double over at the front of the tent .
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And you shall make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outmost in one set ,
and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which is outmost in the second set .
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And you shall make fifty clasps of bronze ,
and put the clasps into the loops ,
and couple the tent together that it may be one whole .
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And the part that remains of the curtains of the tent ,
the half curtain that remains ,
shall hang over the back of the tabernacle .
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And the cubit on the one side ,
and the cubit on the other side ,
of what remains in the length of the curtains of the tent shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle ,
on this side and that side ,
to cover it .
*
And you shall make for the tent a covering of tanned rams '
skins and goatskins .
* "
And you shall make upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood .
*
Ten cubits shall be the length of a frame ,
and a cubit and a half the breadth of each frame .
*
There shall be two tenons in each frame ,
for fitting together ;
so shall you do for all the frames of the tabernacle .
*
You shall make the frames for the tabernacle :
twenty frames for the south side ;
*
and forty bases of silver you shall make under the twenty frames ,
two bases under one frame for its two tenons ,
and two bases under another frame for its two tenons ;
*
and for the second side of the tabernacle ,
on the north side twenty frames ,
*
and their forty bases of silver ,
two bases under one frame ,
and two bases under another frame ;
*
and for the rear of the tabernacle westward you shall make six frames .
*
And you shall make two frames for corners of the tabernacle in the rear ;
*
they shall be separate beneath ,
but joined at the top ,
at the first ring ;
thus shall it be with both of them ;
they shall form the two corners .
*
And there shall be eight frames ,
with their bases of silver ,
sixteen bases ;
two bases under one frame ,
and two bases under another frame .
* "
And you shall make bars of acacia wood ,
five for the frames of the one side of the tabernacle ,
*
and five bars for the frames of the other side of the tabernacle ,
and five bars for the frames of the side of the tabernacle at the rear westward .
*
The middle bar ,
halfway up the frames ,
shall pass through from end to end .
*
You shall overlay the frames with gold ,
and shall make their rings of gold for holders for the bars ;
and you shall overlay the bars with gold .
*
And you shall erect the tabernacle according to the plan for it which has been shown you on the mountain .
* "
And you shall make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen ;
in skilled work shall it be made ,
with cherubim ;
*
and you shall hang it upon four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold ,
with hooks of gold ,
upon four bases of silver .
*
And you shall hang the veil from the clasps ,
and bring the ark of the testimony in thither within the veil ;
and the veil shall separate for you the holy place from the most holy .
*
You shall put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place .
*
And you shall set the table outside the veil ,
and the lampstand on the south side of the tabernacle opposite the table ;
and you shall put the table on the north side .
* "
And you shall make a screen for the door of the tent ,
of blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen ,
embroidered with needlework .
*
And you shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia ,
and overlay them with gold ;
their hooks shall be of gold ,
and you shall cast five bases of bronze for them .
* "
You shall make the altar of acacia wood ,
five cubits long and five cubits broad ;
the altar shall be square ,
and its height shall be three cubits .
*
And you shall make horns for it on its four corners ;
its horns shall be of one piece with it ,
and you shall overlay it with bronze .
*
You shall make pots for it to receive its ashes ,
and shovels and basins and forks and firepans ;
all its utensils you shall make of bronze .
*
You shall also make for it a grating ,
a network of bronze ;
and upon the net you shall make four bronze rings at its four corners .
*
And you shall set it under the ledge of the altar so that the net shall extend halfway down the altar .
*
And you shall make poles for the altar ,
poles of acacia wood ,
and overlay them with bronze ;
*
and the poles shall be put through the rings ,
so that the poles shall be upon the two sides of the altar ,
when it is carried .
*
You shall make it hollow ,
with boards ;
as it has been shown you on the mountain ,
so shall it be made .
* "
You shall make the court of the tabernacle .
On the south side the court shall have hangings of fine twined linen a hundred cubits long for one side ;
*
their pillars shall be twenty and their bases twenty ,
of bronze ,
but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver .
*
And likewise for its length on the north side there shall be hangings a hundred cubits long ,
their pillars twenty and their bases twenty ,
of bronze ,
but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver .
*
And for the breadth of the court on the west side there shall be hangings for fifty cubits ,
with ten pillars and ten bases .
*
The breadth of the court on the front to the east shall be fifty cubits .
*
The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits ,
with three pillars and three bases .
*
On the other side the hangings shall be fifteen cubits ,
with three pillars and three bases .
*
For the gate of the court there shall be a screen twenty cubits long ,
of blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen ,
embroidered with needlework ;
it shall have four pillars and with them four bases .
*
All the pillars around the court shall be filleted with silver ;
their hooks shall be of silver ,
and their bases of bronze .
*
The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits ,
the breadth fifty ,
and the height five cubits ,
with hangings of fine twined linen and bases of bronze .
*
All the utensils of the tabernacle for every use ,
and all its pegs and all the pegs of the court ,
shall be of bronze .
* "
And you shall command the people of Israel that they bring to you pure beaten olive oil for the light ,
that a lamp may be set up to burn continually .
*
In the tent of meeting ,
outside the veil which is before the testimony ,
Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening to morning before the LORD .
It shall be a statute for ever to be observed throughout their generations by the people of Israel .
* "
Then bring near to you Aaron your brother ,
and his sons with him ,
from among the people of Israel ,
to serve me as priests--Aaron and Aaron '
s sons ,
Nadab and Abi '
hu ,
Elea '
zar and Ith '
amar .
*
And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother ,
for glory and for beauty .
*
And you shall speak to all who have ability ,
whom I have endowed with an able mind ,
that they make Aaron '
s garments to consecrate him for my priesthood .
*
These are the garments which they shall make :
a breastpiece ,
an ephod ,
a robe ,
a coat of checker work ,
a turban ,
and a girdle ;
they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons to serve me as priests .
* "
They shall receive gold ,
blue and purple and scarlet stuff ,
and fine twined linen .
*
And they shall make the ephod of gold ,
of blue and purple and scarlet stuff ,
and of fine twined linen ,
skilfully worked .
*
It shall have two shoulder-pieces attached to its two edges ,
that it may be joined together .
*
And the skilfully woven band upon it ,
to gird it on ,
shall be of the same workmanship and materials ,
of gold ,
blue and purple and scarlet stuff ,
and fine twined linen .
*
And you shall take two onyx stones ,
and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel ,
*
six of their names on the one stone ,
and the names of the remaining six on the other stone ,
in the order of their birth .
*
As a jeweler engraves signets ,
so shall you engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel ;
you shall enclose them in settings of gold filigree .
*
And you shall set the two stones upon the shoulder-pieces of the ephod ,
as stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel ;
and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for remembrance .
*
And you shall make settings of gold filigree ,
*
and two chains of pure gold ,
twisted like cords ;
and you shall attach the corded chains to the settings .
* "
And you shall make a breastpiece of judgment ,
in skilled work ;
like the work of the ephod you shall make it ;
of gold ,
blue and purple and scarlet stuff ,
and fine twined linen shall you make it .
*
It shall be square and double ,
a span its length and a span its breadth .
*
And you shall set in it four rows of stones .
A row of sardius ,
topaz ,
and carbuncle shall be the first row ;
*
and the second row an emerald ,
a sapphire ,
and a diamond ;
*
and the third row a jacinth ,
an agate ,
and an amethyst ;
*
and the fourth row a beryl ,
an onyx ,
and a jasper ;
they shall be set in gold filigree .
*
There shall be twelve stones with their names according to the names of the sons of Israel ;
they shall be like signets ,
each engraved with its name ,
for the twelve tribes .
*
And you shall make for the breastpiece twisted chains like cords ,
of pure gold ;
*
and you shall make for the breastpiece two rings of gold ,
and put the two rings on the two edges of the breastpiece .
*
And you shall put the two cords of gold in the two rings at the edges of the breastpiece ;
*
the two ends of the two cords you shall attach to the two settings of filigree ,
and so attach it in front to the shoulder-pieces of the ephod .
*
And you shall make two rings of gold ,
and put them at the two ends of the breastpiece ,
on its inside edge next to the ephod .
*
And you shall make two rings of gold ,
and attach them in front to the lower part of the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod ,
at its joining above the skilfully woven band of the ephod .
*
And they shall bind the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue ,
that it may lie upon the skilfully woven band of the ephod ,
and that the breastpiece shall not come loose from the ephod .
*
So Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breastpiece of judgment upon his heart ,
when he goes into the holy place ,
to bring them to continual remembrance before the LORD .
*
And in the breastpiece of judgment you shall put the Urim and the Thummim ,
and they shall be upon Aaron '
s heart ,
when he goes in before the LORD ;
thus Aaron shall bear the judgment of the people of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually .
* "
And you shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue .
*
It shall have in it an opening for the head ,
with a woven binding around the opening ,
like the opening in a garment ,
that it may not be torn .
*
On its skirts you shall make pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet stuff ,
around its skirts ,
with bells of gold between them ,
*
a golden bell and a pomegranate ,
a golden bell and a pomegranate ,
round about on the skirts of the robe .
*
And it shall be upon Aaron when he ministers ,
and its sound shall be heard when he goes into the holy place before the LORD ,
and when he comes out ,
lest he die .
* "
And you shall make a plate of pure gold ,
and engrave on it ,
like the engraving of a signet , `
Holy to the LORD .'
*
And you shall fasten it on the turban by a lace of blue ;
it shall be on the front of the turban .
*
It shall be upon Aaron '
s forehead ,
and Aaron shall take upon himself any guilt incurred in the holy offering which the people of Israel hallow as their holy gifts ;
it shall always be upon his forehead ,
that they may be accepted before the LORD .
* "
And you shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen ,
and you shall make a turban of fine linen ,
and you shall make a girdle embroidered with needlework .
* "
And for Aaron '
s sons you shall make coats and girdles and caps ;
you shall make them for glory and beauty .
*
And you shall put them upon Aaron your brother ,
and upon his sons with him ,
and shall anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them ,
that they may serve me as priests .
*
And you shall make for them linen breeches to cover their naked flesh ;
from the loins to the thighs they shall reach ;
*
and they shall be upon Aaron ,
and upon his sons ,
when they go into the tent of meeting ,
or when they come near the altar to minister in the holy place ;
lest they bring guilt upon themselves and die .
This shall be a perpetual statute for him and for his descendants after him .
* "
Now this is what you shall do to them to consecrate them ,
that they may serve me as priests .
Take one young bull and two rams without blemish ,
*
and unleavened bread ,
unleavened cakes mixed with oil ,
and unleavened wafers spread with oil .
You shall make them of fine wheat flour .
*
And you shall put them in one basket and bring them in the basket ,
and bring the bull and the two rams .
*
You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting ,
and wash them with water .
*
And you shall take the garments ,
and put on Aaron the coat and the robe of the ephod ,
and the ephod ,
and the breastpiece ,
and gird him with the skilfully woven band of the ephod ;
*
and you shall set the turban on his head ,
and put the holy crown upon the turban .
*
And you shall take the anointing oil ,
and pour it on his head and anoint him .
*
Then you shall bring his sons ,
and put coats on them ,
*
and you shall gird them with girdles and bind caps on them ;
and the priesthood shall be theirs by a perpetual statute .
Thus you shall ordain Aaron and his sons .
* "
Then you shall bring the bull before the tent of meeting .
Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the bull ,
*
and you shall kill the bull before the LORD ,
at the door of the tent of meeting ,
*
and shall take part of the blood of the bull and put it upon the horns of the altar with your finger ,
and the rest of the blood you shall pour out at the base of the altar .
*
And you shall take all the fat that covers the entrails ,
and the appendage of the liver ,
and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them ,
and burn them upon the altar .
*
But the flesh of the bull ,
and its skin ,
and its dung ,
you shall burn with fire outside the camp ;
it is a sin offering .
* "
Then you shall take one of the rams ,
and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram ,
*
and you shall slaughter the ram ,
and shall take its blood and throw it against the altar round about .
*
Then you shall cut the ram into pieces ,
and wash its entrails and its legs ,
and put them with its pieces and its head ,
*
and burn the whole ram upon the altar ;
it is a burnt offering to the LORD ;
it is a pleasing odor ,
an offering by fire to the LORD .
* "
You shall take the other ram ;
and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram ,
*
and you shall kill the ram ,
and take part of its blood and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron and upon the tips of the right ears of his sons ,
and upon the thumbs of their right hands ,
and upon the great toes of their right feet ,
and throw the rest of the blood against the altar round about .
*
Then you shall take part of the blood that is on the altar ,
and of the anointing oil ,
and sprinkle it upon Aaron and his garments ,
and upon his sons and his sons '
garments with him ;
and he and his garments shall be holy ,
and his sons and his sons '
garments with him .
* "
You shall also take the fat of the ram ,
and the fat tail ,
and the fat that covers the entrails ,
and the appendage of the liver ,
and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them ,
and the right thigh (
for it is a ram of ordination ),
*
and one loaf of bread ,
and one cake of bread with oil ,
and one wafer ,
out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD ;
*
and you shall put all these in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons ,
and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD .
*
Then you shall take them from their hands ,
and burn them on the altar in addition to the burnt offering ,
as a pleasing odor before the LORD ;
it is an offering by fire to the LORD .
* "
And you shall take the breast of the ram of Aaron '
s ordination and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD ;
and it shall be your portion .
*
And you shall consecrate the breast of the wave offering ,
and the thigh of the priests '
portion ,
which is waved ,
and which is offered from the ram of ordination ,
since it is for Aaron and for his sons .
*
It shall be for Aaron and his sons as a perpetual due from the people of Israel ,
for it is the priests '
portion to be offered by the people of Israel from their peace offerings ;
it is their offering to the LORD .
* "
The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him ,
to be anointed in them and ordained in them .
*
The son who is priest in his place shall wear them seven days ,
when he comes into the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place .
* "
You shall take the ram of ordination ,
and boil its flesh in a holy place ;
*
and Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket ,
at the door of the tent of meeting .
*
They shall eat those things with which atonement was made ,
to ordain and consecrate them ,
but an outsider shall not eat of them ,
because they are holy .
*
And if any of the flesh for the ordination ,
or of the bread ,
remain until the morning ,
then you shall burn the remainder with fire ;
it shall not be eaten ,
because it is holy .
* "
Thus you shall do to Aaron and to his sons ,
according to all that I have commanded you ;
through seven days shall you ordain them ,
*
and every day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement .
Also you shall offer a sin offering for the altar ,
when you make atonement for it ,
and shall anoint it ,
to consecrate it .
*
Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar ,
and consecrate it ,
and the altar shall be most holy ;
whatever touches the altar shall become holy .
* "
Now this is what you shall offer upon the altar :
two lambs a year old day by day continually .
*
One lamb you shall offer in the morning ,
and the other lamb you shall offer in the evening ;
*
and with the first lamb a tenth measure of fine flour mingled with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil ,
and a fourth of a hin of wine for a libation .
*
And the other lamb you shall offer in the evening ,
and shall offer with it a cereal offering and its libation ,
as in the morning ,
for a pleasing odor ,
an offering by fire to the LORD .
*
It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tent of meeting before the LORD ,
where I will meet with you ,
to speak there to you .
*
There I will meet with the people of Israel ,
and it shall be sanctified by my glory ;
*
I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar ;
Aaron also and his sons I will consecrate ,
to serve me as priests .
*
And I will dwell among the people of Israel ,
and will be their God .
*
And they shall know that I am the LORD their God ,
who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them ;
I am the LORD their God .