Exodus

Exodus 22:20

“He who sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh only, shall be utterly destroyed.

Exodus 22:21

“You shall not wrong an alien, neither shall you oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 22:22

“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

Exodus 22:23

If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

Exodus 22:24

and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Exodus 22:25

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.

Exodus 22:26

If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,

Exodus 22:27

for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

Exodus 22:28

“You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

Exodus 22:29

“You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. “You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me.

Exodus 22:30

You shall do likewise with your cattle and with your sheep. Seven days it shall be with its mother, then on the eighth day you shall give it to me.

Exodus 22:31

“You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs.

Exodus 23:1

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

Exodus 23:2

“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;

Exodus 23:3

neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.

Exodus 23:4

“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.

Exodus 23:5

If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him, you shall surely help him with it.

Exodus 23:6

“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

Exodus 23:7

“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

Exodus 23:8

“You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

Exodus 23:9

“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 23:10

“For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase,

Exodus 23:11

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 animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

Exodus 23:12

“Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.

Exodus 23:13

“Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don’t invoke the name of other gods, neither let them be heard out of your mouth.

Exodus 23:14

“You shall observe a feast to me three times a year.

Exodus 23:15

You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out from Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty.

Exodus 23:16

And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field: and the feast of harvest, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.

Exodus 23:17

Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.

Exodus 23:18

“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning.

Exodus 23:19

The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Exodus 23:20

“Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.

Exodus 23:21

Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.

Exodus 23:22

But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.

Exodus 23:23

For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.

Exodus 23:24

You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.

Exodus 23:25

You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst.

Exodus 23:26

No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

Exodus 23:27

I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

Exodus 23:28

I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.

Exodus 23:29

I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you.

Exodus 23:30

Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land.

Exodus 23:31

I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.

Exodus 23:32

You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

Exodus 23:33

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.”

Exodus 24:1

He said to Moses, “Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.

Exodus 24:2

Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near, neither shall the people go up with him.”

Exodus 24:3

Moses came and told the people all the words of Yahweh, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, “All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do.”

Exodus 24:4

Moses wrote all the words of Yahweh, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

Exodus 24:5

He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to Yahweh.

Exodus 24:6

Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

Exodus 24:7

He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, “All that Yahweh has spoken will we do, and be obedient.”

Exodus 24:8

Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words.”

Exodus 24:9

Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.

Exodus 24:10

They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.

Exodus 24:11

He didn’t lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.

Exodus 24:12

Yahweh said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the tables of stone with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them.”

Exodus 24:13

Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain.

Exodus 24:14

He said to the elders, “Wait here for us, until we come again to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them.”

Exodus 24:15

Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

Exodus 24:16

The glory of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

Exodus 24:17

The appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.

Exodus 24:18

Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Exodus 25:1

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Exodus 25:2

“Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.

Exodus 25:3

This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, brass,

Exodus 25:4

blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair,

Exodus 25:5

rams’ skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,

Exodus 25:6

oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,

Exodus 25:7

onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.

Exodus 25:8

Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.

Exodus 25:9

According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it.

Exodus 25:10

“They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.

Exodus 25:11

You shall overlay it with pure gold. You shall overlay it inside and outside, and you shall make a gold molding around it.

Exodus 25:12

You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.

Exodus 25:13

You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

Exodus 25:14

You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.

Exodus 25:15

The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken from it.

Exodus 25:16

You shall put the testimony which I shall give you into the ark.

Exodus 25:17

You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.

Exodus 25:18

You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.

Exodus 25:19

Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat.

Exodus 25:20

The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.

Exodus 25:21

You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you.

Exodus 25:22

There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for the children of Israel.

Exodus 25:23

“You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth, and one and a half cubits its height.

Exodus 25:24

You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.

Exodus 25:25

You shall make a rim of a handbreadth around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it.

Exodus 25:26

You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet.

Exodus 25:27

the rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table.

Exodus 25:28

You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.

Exodus 25:29

You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with. You shall make them of pure gold.

Exodus 25:30

You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.

Exodus 25:31

“You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. Of hammered work shall the lampstand be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it.

Exodus 25:32

There shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side;

Exodus 25:33

three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the lampstand;

Exodus 25:34

and in the lampstand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;

Exodus 25:35

and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the lampstand.

Exodus 25:36

Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it one beaten work of pure gold.

Exodus 25:37

You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.