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4 To devise cunning works, to work in ear-rings which were in their ears, and gold, and in silver, and in brass, brought them unto Aaror.

5 And in cutting of stones to set them, and 4 And he received them at their hand, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had of workmanship. made it a molten calf: and they said, These 6 And I, behold, I have given with him be tay gods, O Israel, which brought thee up Aholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of out of the land of Egypt. Dan; and in the hearts of all that are wise- 5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar hearted I have put wisdom, that they may before it; and Aaron mi de proclamation, make all that I have commanded thee; and said, To-morrow is a feast to the LORD. 7 The tabernacle of the congregation, and 6 And they rose up early on the morrow, the ark of the testimony, and the mercy-seat and offered burnt-offerings, and brought hat is thereupon, and all the furniture of the peace-offerings: and the people sat down to tabernacle, eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

8 And the table and his furniture, and the pure candlestick with all his furniture, and the altar of incense,

9 And the altar of burnt-offering with all his furniture, and the laver and his foot,

10 And the clothes of service, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office,

71 And the LORD said into Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:

8 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 thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

11 And the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do. 9 And the LORD said unto Moses, I have 12¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, say-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 may consume them and I will make of thee a great nation.

ing, 13 Speak thou also unto the children of Is rael,saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you through-I out your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you. 119 And Moses besought the LORDhisGod, 14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot for it is holy unto you: every one that de-against thy people, which thou hast brought fileth it shall surely be put to death; for forth out of the land of Egypt with great whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul power, and with a mighty hand? shall be cut off from among his people. 12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak,

15 Six days may work be done; but in the and say, For mischief did he bring them out, seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the to stay them in the mountains, and to conLORD whosoever doeth any work in the sab-sume them from the face of the earth? Turn bath-day, he shall surely be put to death. from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this 16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall evil against thy people.

keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, throughout their generations, for a perpetua! thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multi

Covenant.

17 It is a sign between me and the chil-ply your seed as the stars of heaven; and all dren of Israel for ever: for in six days the his land that I have spoken of will I give unLORD made heaven and earth, and on the to your seed,and they shall inherit it for ever. seventh day he rested, and was refreshed. 14 And the LORD repented of the evil 18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had which he thought to do unto his people. made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God. CHAP. XXXII.

AND when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of 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 wot not what is become of him.

2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden ear-rings which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.

3 And all the people brake off the golden

151 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables are e written on both their sides; on the one side

and on the other were they written,

16 And the tables were the work of God; and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.

17 And when Joshua heard the noise of th 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 being overcome; but the noise of them that sing do I hear.

19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the

2 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;

ci, and the dancing: and Moses' anger Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, d hot, and he cast the tables out of his Unto thy seed will I give it : i>eas, and brake them beneath the mount. :D And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and groundit to powder, and strewed it upon the water, And made the children of Israel drink of it. 21 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?

And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.

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3 Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee, for thou art a stiff-necked people; lest I consume thee in the way.

4 And when the people heard these ev tidings, they mourned; and no man did pu on him his ornaments.

23 For they said unto me, Make us gods 5 For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say which shall go before us: for as for this Mo- unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiff ses, the man that brought us up out of the necked people; I will come up into the midst land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of thee in a moment, and consume thee; of him. therefore now put off thy ornaments from 21 And I said unto them, Whosoever hath thee, that I may know what to do unto thee. any gold, let them break it off. So they 6 And the children of Israel stripped themgave it ine: then I cast it into the fire, and selves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb. there came out this calf. 7 And Moses took the tabernacle, and

25% And when Moses saw that the people pitched it without the camp, afar off from the were naked, (for Aaron had made them na-camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the ked unto their shame among their enemies,) Congregation. And it came to pass, that

Then Mossood in gate of the every one which sought the LORD went out and said no is on LORD's side? unto the tabernacle of the congregation, let him come unto me. And all the sons of which was without the camp. Levi gathered themselves together unto him. 8 And it came to pass, when Moses went 27 And he said unto them, Thus saith the out unto the tabernacle, that all the people LORDGod of Israel, Put every man his sword rose up, and stood every man at his tentby his side, and go in and out from gate to door, and looked after Moses, until he was gate throughout the camp, and slay every gone into the tabernacle. man his brother, and every man his com- 9 And it came to pass, as Moses entered panion, and every man his neighbour. into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar de23 And the children of Levi did according scended, and stood at the door of the taberto the word of Moses: and there fell of the nacle, and the LORD talked with Moses. people that day about three thousand men. 10 And all the people saw the cloudy pil29 For Moses had said, Consecrate your-lar stand at the tabernacle-door: and all the selves to-day to the LORD, even every man people rose up and worshipped, every man in upon his son, and upon his brother; that he his tent-door.

mey bestow upon you a blessing this day. 11 And the LORD spake unto Moses face 30 And it came to pass on the morrow, to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sin-And he turned again into the camp; but his ned a great sin: and now I will go up unto servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young the LORD; peradventure I shall make an man, departed not out of the tabernacle. atonement for your sin.

31 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold!

32 Yet now, if thou wilt, forgive their sin: and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.

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 in my sight.

13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have 33 And the LORD said unto Moses, Whoso- found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy ever hath sinned against me, him will I blot way, that I may know thee, that I may find out of my book. grace in thy sight; and consider that this 34 Therefore now go, lead the people un-nation is thy people. to the place of which have spoken unto thee. Behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them.

35 And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf which Aaron made. CHAP. XXXIII.

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ND the LORD said unto Moses, Depart,

14 And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.

15 And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.

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16 For wherein shall it be known here that and thy people have found grace in thy sight? Is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the

which thou hast brought up out of the land 17 And the LORD said unto Moses, I will ot Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for

thou hast found grace in my sight, and know thee by name.

18 And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.

thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make 19 Aud he said, I will make all my good-a covenant with the inhabitants of the land ness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in name of the LORD before thee; and will be the midst of thee.

gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will 13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy. their images, and cut down their groves. 14 For thou shalt worship no other god; for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:"

20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face for there shall no man see me, and live. 21 And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock: 15 Lest thou make a covenant with the ia22 And it shall come to pass, while my glory habitants of the land, and they go a whoring passeth by, that I will put thee in a cleft of efter their gods, and do sacrifice unto their the rock, and will cover thee with my hand gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his while I pass by: sacrifice;

23 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts; but my face shall not be seen.

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3 And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.

4 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 the two tables of stone.

5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.

16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy song, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and inake thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

18 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib for in the au Abib thou camest out from gypt.

19 All that openeth the matrix is mine: and every firstiing among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.

20 But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the first-born of thy sous 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 earing-time and in harvest thou shalt rest. 22

And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the first-fruits of wheat-harvest,and the feast of ingathering at the year's end. 23 Thrice in the year shall all your men6 And the LORD passed by before him, and children appear before the LORD God, the proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, God of Israel.

merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and 24 For I will cast out the nations before abundant in goodness and truth, thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall

7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving any man desire thy land, when thou shalt iniquity, and transgression, and sin, and that go up to appear before the LORD thy God will by no means clear the guilty; visiting thrice in the year.

the iniquity of the others upon the children, 25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my and upon the children's children, unto the sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacri third and to the fourth generation. fice of the feast of the passover be left unto

81 And Moses made haste, and bowed his the morning. head toward the earth, and worshipped.

26 The first of the first-fruits of thy land 9 And he said, If now I have found grace thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD in thy sight, of LORD, let my Lord, I pray thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his thee go among us, (for it is a stiff-necked mother's miik.

people,) and pardon our iniquity and our sin, 27 And the LORD sud unto Moses, Write and take us for thine inheritance. thon these words: for after the tenor of

10 And he said, Behold, I make a cove-these words I have nude a covenant with nant; before all thy people I will do marvels, thee and with Israel.

such as have not been done in all the earth, 26 And he was there with the LORD forty nor in any nation; and all the people among days and forty nights; he did neither eat which then art shall see the work of the bread, nor drink water: and He wrote upon LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do the tables the words of the covenant, the ten with thee. commandments.

11 Observe thou that which I command 29 ¶ And it came to pss, when Moses came thee this day, behold, I drive out before'down from mount Sinai with the two tables

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of testimony in Moses' hand, (when he came and the hanging for the door at the entering down from the mount,) that Moses wist not in of the tabernacle;

that the skin of his fuce shone while He talk- 16 The altar of burnt-offering, with his ed with him brasen-gate, his staves, and all his vessels; the laver and his foot;

30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone: and they were afraid to come nigh him. 31 And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him and Moses talked with them.

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

33 And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.

34 But when Moses went in before the LORD, to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which be was commanded.

35 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with Him.

CHAP. XXXV.

AND Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said unto them, These are the words which the LORD bath commanded, that ye should do them.

2 Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death. 3 Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.

41 And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD commanded, saying,

5 Take ye from among you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever is of a willing beart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and silver, and brass,

6 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,

7 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim-wood,

8 And oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for ti:e sweet incense, 9 And onyx-stores, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.

10 And every wise-hearted among you shall come, and make all that the LORD hath commanded;

17 The hangings of the court, his pillars, and their sockets, and the hanging for the door of the court;

18 The pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords;

19 The clothes of service, to do service in the holy place; the holy garments for Aar ɔn the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.

20 And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses,

21 And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought the LORD'S offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments.

22 And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought bracelets, and ear-rings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered, offered an offering of gold unto the LORD.

23 And every man with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, and red skins of rams, and badgers' skins, brought them.

24 Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brasa, brought the LORD's offering: and every man with whom was found shittimwood, for any work of the service, brought it.

25 And all the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen.

26 And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom, spun goats' hair.

27 And the rulers brought onyx-stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;

28 And spice, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.

29 The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring, for all manner of work which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand c Moses.

30 And Moses said unto the children o. Israel, See, the LORD hath called by name 11 The tabernacle, his tent, and his cover-Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of ing, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his the tribe of Judah : pillars, and his sockets;

31 And he hath filled him with the spirit 12 The ark, and the staves thereof, with of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and the mercy-seat, and the vail of the covering; in knowledge, and in all manner of work13 The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the shew-bread;

14 The candlestick also for the light, and his furniture, and his lamps, with the oil for the light;

15 And the incense-altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense,

manship;

32 And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

33 And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.

34 And he hath put in his heart that he

may teach, both he and Aholiab the son of bits, and four cubits was the breadth of org Ahisamacli, of the tribe of Dan, curtain: the eleven curtains were of one size.

35 Then hath be filled with wisdom of 16 And he coupled five curtains by them heart, to work all manner of work, of the selves, and six curtains by themselves. engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, ia blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.

CHAP. XXXVI.

17 And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the cur tain which coupleth the second.

18 And he made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one. rams' skins dyed red, and a covering 19 And he made a covering for the tent o badgers' skins above that.

Tunde very wise-hearted man, in whom HEN wrought Bezaleel the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for 20 T And he made boards for the taberna the service of the sanctuary, according to all cle of shittim-wood, standing up. that the LORD had commanded. 21 The length of a board was ten cubits, 2 And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart half. the LORD had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it.

22 One board had two tenons, equally dis tant one from another; thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

3 And they received of Moses all the offer- 23 And he made boards for the tabernacle ing which the children of Israel had brought twenty boards for the south side, southward for the work of the service of the sanctuary, 24 And forty sockets of silver he made un to make it withal. And they brought yet der the twenty boards: two sockets unde unto him free-offerings every morning. one board for his two tenons, and two sock 41 And all the wise men, that wrought ets under another board for his two tenons. all the work of the sanctuary, came every 25 And for the other side of the taberna man from his work which they made; cle, which is toward the north corner, he made twenty boards,

5 And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work which the LORD commanded to make.

26 And their forty sockets of silver: twe sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

27 And for the sides of the tabernacle

6 And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout westward he made six boards, the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.

28 And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.

7 For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.

29 And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the

corners.

8 And every wise-hearted man, among 30 And there were eight boards, and their them that wrought the work of the taberna-sockets were sixteen sockets of silver, under cle, made ten curtains of fine twined linen, every board two sockets. end blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them.

31 And he made bars of shittim-wood five for the boards of the one side of the ta bernacle,

9 The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain 32 And five bars for the boards of the four cubits: the curtains were all of one size. other side of the tabernacle, and five bart 10 And he coupled the five curtains one for the boards of the tabernacle for the sider unto another; and the other five curtains he westward. coupled one unto another.

11 And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain, from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost sile of another cartain, in the coupling of the second.

12 Fifty loops made he In one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain which was in the coupling of the second: the loops held one curtain to another.

33 And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other.

34 And he overlaid the boards with gold, and inade their rings of gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

351 And he made a vail of blue, and pur ple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.

36 And he made thereunto four pillars of 13 And he made fifty taches of gold, and shittim-wood, and overlaid them with gold coupled the curtains one unto another with their books were of gold; and he cast for the taches: so it became one tabernacle. them four sockets of silver. 14 ¶ And he made curtains of goats' hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven cur-bernacle-door of blue, and purple, and sear tains he made them. let, and fine twined linen, of needle-work. 38 And the five pillars of it with thei

15 The length of one curtain was thirty cu

37 And he made an hanging for the ta

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